Azure Capital Partners, which was established in 2000, is an early stage
venture capital
Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to start-up company, startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth poten ...
firm that invests in the information technology industry using an investment research approach to venture capital investing. Azure Capital Partners was founded by Mike Kwatinetz, Paul Ferris, Paul Weinstein, and Cameron Lester.
The firm's portfolio includes TopTier,
VMware
VMware, Inc. is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture.
VMware's desktop software ru ...
,
World Wide Packets, and VAPPS and more recently,
BlogHer,
BroadLight
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,
Calix,
Chairish
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History
T ...
, Cooking.com,
Convercent,
Coraid, Cyan Optics, Education.com, ezRez Software (Switchfly), Fonality, K2 (SourceCode),
Knowledge Adventure
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, Medsphere, NeoNova,
Phanfare, PSS Systems, Rooftop Comedy, SilkRoad Tech, SlideRocket, The Bouqs,
TravelMuse, TripIt, and
Zend Technologies
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The company w ...
.
In October 2008, the company sold
Bill Me Later to eBay for $945 million. In 2009, Azure Capital was listed as one of the top 100 global venture capital firms in the
Red Herring magazine.
Management
* Paul Ferris, Mike Kwatinetz and Paul Weinstein - Founders
* Andrea Drager - Principal
* Lisa McNamara - Chief Financial Officer
* Dan Park - CEO of Toronto-based clutch
See also
*
List of venture capital firms
*
Operating partner
References
External links
Company Website
Private equity firms of the United States
Venture capital firms of the United States
Financial services companies based in California
Companies based in San Francisco
Financial services companies established in 2000
2000 establishments in California
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