Institutional Venture Partners is a venture capital firm in California that focuses on technology and media companies. Founded 1980 in Menlo Park, California, United States by Reid Dennis, it invests in late stage ventures, private equity, series B-D, and secondary markets. Its portfolio companies include Ksher, HashiCorp, Lyra Health, Zendesk, and Klarna. As of April 2020, IVP has made 286 investments. Their most recent investment was on March 16, 2020, when HashiCorp raised $175M. IVP has had 97 exits, the most notable of which include GitHub, Business Insider, and Twitter. The company has raised six funds, their latest being IVP XVI. This fund was announced on September 26, 2017 and raised a total of $1.5B.
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DropboxDropbox is a file sharing and productivity startup created by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi in 2007.
San Francisco
KlarnaKlarna is a financial technology company providing e-commerce payment solutions for merchants and shoppers.
Stockholm
Stockholm County
CoinbaseCoinbase is a digital asset exchange company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It operates exchanges of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, and Litecoin.
TransferWiseA company that offers money transfers services.
London
Tala (company)A financial technology company with a mobile application to manage personal loans. It was founded in 2011 and has headquarters in Santa Monica, California.
Bangalore
Dar es Salaam
Manila
Mexico City
Mumbai
Nairobi
Santa Monica, California
Casper (company)Casper is a memory-foam mattress retailer.
New York City
GrammarlyA web application for checking spelling, grammar, and plagiarism.
FleetmaticsA public limited company
Dublin
IndiegogoIndiegogo is a web-based crowdfunding platform founded by Danae Ringelmann, Salva Rubin, Eric Schell in 2008, that is headquartered San Francisco, California.
Buddy Media is a social media marketing platform.
NgmocoNgmoco is a San Francisco-based company founded by Neil Young.
One Kings Lane is an e-commerce company founded by Alison G Pincus.
Varolii
Seattle
Zynga
DiscordDiscord is a company providing voice, video and text chat application designed for gamers.
MarkMonitorMarkMonitor is a San Francisco-based enterprise software company.
Supercell (video game company)Finnish mobile game company
Finland
Helsinki
Gaia Interactive
ZipRecruiterZipRecruiter provides an online employment marketplace that connects employers and job seekers through mobile, web and e-mail services.
HipmunkHipmunk provides a travel search and booking platform. It participated in the S10 cohort of Y Combinator.
PindropPindrop is an Atlanta-based company founded by Paul Judge.
Atlanta
Business Insider
New York
YextA New York City technology company offering a knowledge management platform.
Sumo LogicA log management and analytics service
Redwood City, California
KloutAssociated investment funds
Menlo Park, CaliforniaPeople
Aaron Vermut
Investor
Albert Cheng
Employee
Bill Tai
Employee
Bryan Hsu
Employee
Carey Lai
Employee
Cyriac Roeding
Investor
Daniel Barney
Employee
Dennis Phelps
Employee
Gina Bauman
Employee
James Newell
Employee
Jordan Kong
Employee
Jules Maltz
Employee
Lisa Prasadi
Employee
Louise Ireland
Employee
Michael Lazerow
Advisor
Naomi Assaraf
Employee
Parsa Saljoughian
Employee
Reid W. Dennis
Founder
Richard Kerby
Employee
Sarah Feldman
Employee
Shiyan Koh
Employee
Somesh Dash
Employee
Steven Fan
Employee
Thomas Loverro
Employee
Todd C. Chaffee.
Founder
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