Hummer Winblad Venture Partners is a venture capital firm which was founded in 1989 and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm invests in early-stage enterprise software firms based in the United States.
From their earliest funds focused on the shift away from mainframes to client/server computing, through the commodity-driven cloud data centers, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners have remained true to their software-only roots. Through their deep understanding of the technology landscape, they have helped drive companies to success by supporting those at the forefront of disruptive advances in the software industry.
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.
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Funded Companies
Aria Systems is a San Francisco-based software company.
A user generated content, revenue-sharing website founded in 2006
PLUMgrid is a Santa Clara, California-based web hosting service company founded by Sushil Singh.
Sonatype is a Fulton, Maryland-based cybersecurity company helping enterprises get precise intelligence about open source components and software security.
Insidesales.com is a company designing and develops sales automation platforms.
InMage Systems is a San Jose, California-based software company founded by Kumar Malavalli, Srihari Kumar and Sam Inala.
Company
SlideRocket is a San Francisco-based company.
Five9 Inc. is a San Ramon, California-based enterprise software company founded by John Sung Kim.
Scalent Systems is a company founded by Chandy Nilakantan.
Intellitactics is an enterprise software company.
Replay Solutions is a Redwood City, California-based software company.
Strobe is a company founded by Charles Jolley.
Elastra is a San Francisco-based enterprise software company.
Moxie Software is a Sunnyvale, California-based company.
NuoDB is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company.
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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
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Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
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Special Projects & Business Development at Golden, Founder - Seed-DB. - 6
Axel Fehr
Machine learning engineer with a master's degree in electrical engineering and information technology.
