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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Funded Companies
Robinhood is a Palo Alto, California-based financial technology company founded in 2013. They offer free stock and equity trading and commission-free crypto-trading.
Coinbase is a digital asset exchange company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It operates exchanges of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, and Litecoin.
Dropbox is a file sharing and productivity startup created by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi in 2007.
Klarna is a financial technology company providing e-commerce payment solutions for merchants and shoppers.
TransferWise is a company that offers money transfers services founded by Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus.
A financial technology company with a mobile application to manage personal loan. Founded in 2011 and has headquarters in Santa Monica, California.
A web application for checking spelling, grammar, and plagiarism.
Indiegogo is a web-based crowdfunding platform founded by Danae Ringelmann, Salva Rubin, Eric Schell in 2008, that is headquartered San Francisco, California.
Discord is a company providing voice, video and text chat application designed for gamers.
Pindrop is a cybersecurity company developing voice security and authentication solutions.
MarkMonitor is a San Francisco-based enterprise software company.
ZipRecruiter provides an online employment marketplace that connects employers and job seekers through mobile, web and e-mail services.
Hipmunk provides a travel search and booking platform. It participated in the S10 cohort of Y Combinator.
A company offering a cloud-based and wi-fi enabled recording camera.
A New York City technology company offering a knowledge management platform.
Associated investment funds
People
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
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
Aiven
Attentive
Checkr
Grammarly
HashiCorp
Lyra Health
Tala