Rusnano also acts as a fund of funds, with joint funds with Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Pangea and Domain Associates.
"I'm now spending 90% of my time with my existing portfolio companies, " says Warren Packard of Internet-backer Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
Among the speakers: AOL founder Steve Case, Draper Fisher Jurvetson venture investor Tim Draper and Square and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey.
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GreatPoint raised its first round of venture finance in 2005 from previous Perlman backers, including Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Advanced Technology Ventures.
"I'm now spending 90% of my time with my existing portfolio companies, " says Warren Packard of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, an Internet backer.
Of course, there were top-notch venture firms in the Box.net round, such as Bessemer Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth.
Five partners of Draper Fisher Jurvetson gathered in their small, glassed-in conference room to hear a new business pitch at 8:30 one morning last spring.
Steve Jurveetson from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a VC investor in SpaceX spoke about the need to come up not only with great ideas, but great opportunities.
Two weeks ago I was at the Network CEO Forum his venture fund, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, puts on and there were over 150 CEOs from around the globe.
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Existing investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Andreessen Horowitz also participated.
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Over the next few years his firm, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, landed such hits as Hotmail and Kana Software, although it missed investing in still-bigger hits Ebay, Amazon and Yahoo.
Not long after, the company caught the eye of venture capitalists at Draper Fisher Jurvetson who were looking for an easy and secure way to share information with their portfolio companies.
These investors include Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Lotus Development founder Mitch Kapor, Angel investor Dave McClure, and a scion of the Bechtel family whom Fuentes knew from business school.
Also realizing Tesla IPO windfalls are the elite of Silicon Valley venture capital: the Westly Group (whose principal, Steve Westly, is an Obama campaign bundler), Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and VantagePoint Venture Partners.
With a seed round that large, there are not surprisingly an army of investors, including funds such as Thomvest Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Yuri Milner, Phenomenon Ventures, TMT Investments, DominateFund and FundersClub.
Tim Draper, namesake of the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, came to Wayne State University in Michigan today for Techonomy: Detroit , where he gave a talk on the next generation of entrepreneurs.
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After Alberto Herrera , chief executive of fledgling wireless-sensor network company Medida , pitched his firm to a panel of four top-tier Silicon Valley venture capitalists--in front of a standing-room-only crowd of some 350 people-- Josh Stein of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson was so impressed that he asked Herrera to set up a meeting.
It landed VC funding from Draper, Fisher Jurvetson and others and was growing like mad.
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In fact there are only a couple of VCs, such as Greylock and Draper, Fisher and Jurvetson that have social entrepreneurship on their radar.
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