Large investors include Bessemer Venture Partners, with 22.1%, Elevation Partners with 22.1% and Benchmark Capital with 15.7%.
One of Palm's largest investors is Elevation Partners, a private equity outfit co-founded by Bono, U2's lead singer.
In 2004 he launched private-equity firm Elevation Partners with co-founders including U2's Bono.
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Full disclosure: Elevation Partners, which holds a 25% stake in Palm, is also a shareholder in our parent company, Forbes Media.
New ownership (Elevation Partners, which also owns a stake in Forbes Media) may author a revival, or it could be too late.
Roger McNamee, founding partner of the Palm-rescuing investment firm Elevation Partners, has had some interesting things to say about what to expect from the Pre.
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Whilst some funds, such as Providence Equity Partners and Elevation Partners, have long focused on media, some of the big, generalist funds have lately been hiring expertise.
Elevation Partners was launched in June by Roger McNamee, formerly of Silver Lake, and Bono, a rock star, to seek out deals in the media and entertainment industry.
Top shareholders are Bessemer Venture Partners with 22.5%, Elevation Partners (which is an investor in FORBES) with 22.4%, Benchmark Capital with 16.2% and Max Levchin with 13.8% and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman with 11.1%.
Elevation Partners, which holds a large minority stake in Forbes, was also active in the year-long search, with Ted Meisel and Bret Pearlman, who hold seats on the Forbes board, helping to vet candidates.
We recently announced that Elevation Partners, a private equity firm, has become a minority shareholder in a newly formed company, Forbes Media, now the publisher of this magazine, Forbes.com and our other media properties.
Major shareholders are Bessemer Venture Partners with 22.1% voting power, Elevation Partners (which is an investor in FORBES) with 22.0%, Benchmark Capital with 15.9% and Max Levchin with 13.5% and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman with 11.1%.
One further factor was essential in helping DST to gatecrash the party of the handful of private-equity funds, such as Elevation Partners, TCV and Silver Lake Partners, which typically provide successful American internet firms with additional cash.
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PalmSource was acquired by Access Systems, and renamed itself ACCESS. Private equity firm Elevation Partners bought a stake in Palm Inc (they also own a share of Forbes Media) and then eventually Palm was sold in its entirety to Hewlett-Packard.
Despite his vast following and torrents of media attention, Limbaugh, 59, gets trumped by an unlikely array of household names on our poll, including Dr. Mehmet Oz, Steven Spielberg and even U2 frontman and international do-gooder Bono (who also owns a stake in Forbes through Elevation Partners).
In a move that could be described as "totally unsurprising, " Palm shareholders have approved the much-discussed partial sale of the company to a private equity firm called Elevation Partners (of which Bono is a member), and also a change in the board of director's makeup.
The six partners in Elevation have unique backgrounds in entertainment, media, technology and finance.
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