HWVP founders include John Hummer and Ann Winblad. The firm was an early investor in Napster, the first popular file trading service, and wedding portal theknot.com. In 2001, several of the company's investments ended in company bankruptcies or closures, including Pets.com, Homes.com, eHow, and Rival Networks. In 2006, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners settled a lawsuit brought by EMI Group and Universal Music Group after Napster's bankruptcy.
Timeline
Funded Companies
Aria Systems is a San Francisco-based software company.
A user generated content, revenue-sharing website founded in 2006
Insidesales.com is a company designing and develops sales automation platforms.
InMage Systems is a software company founded by Kumar Malavalli, Srihari Kumar and Sam Inala.
Company
Scalent Systems is a company founded by Chandy Nilakantan.
Five9 Inc. is an enterprise software company founded by John Sung Kim.
Intellitactics is an enterprise software company.
Strobe is a company founded by Charles Jolley.
Replay Solutions is a Redwood City, California-based software company.
Moxie Software is a Sunnyvale, California-based company.
Associated investment funds
People
Ann Winbald
Founding Partner
Ingrid Chiavacci
Chief Financial Officer
John Hummer
Seattle Partner
Lars Leckie
Managing Director
Mitchell Kertzman
Managing Director
Steve Kishi
Managing Director
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Companies
6connect
AlphaRank
Amberdata
Aria
AspireIQ
FusionStorm
insidesales.com
Kiip
NeuVector
Optimine
Peerlyst
Sonatype
TidalScale