Pinnacle Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on providing debt and equity financing to growing companies. The firm was founded in 2002 and is based in Menlo Park, California. Pinnacle Ventures focuses investments across information technology, clean technology and healthcare sectors. They work to be flexible in their financing alternatives to provide many capital solutions to their portfolio companies, which Pinnacle Ventures feels will help their portfolio companies achieve success.
Pinnacle Ventures' investments include CloudPay, Tala Security, TeleStax, Inksedge, Boost Media, TinyCo, true[x] media, Fab, ViajaNet and Cobalt Technologies.
Their exited investments include Pandora, Chegg, Gilt, Kabam, Fab, Aquantia, Videology, Boost Media, true[x] media, TinyCo, OpsClarity, SpaceOAR, TriVascular, BuyWithMe, Kovio, Mascoma, Zipcar and Gemin X Pharmaceuticals.
Timeline
Funded Companies
Nextdoor is a company providing a private communications platform for neighborhoods.It was founded in 2011 and is located in San Francisco, California.
Boost Media is a San Francisco-based company using crowdsourcing and market testing to help businesses find effective words and images for marketing campaigns.
A biotechnology company making advanced bioconversion products.
Silver Peak Systems is a Santa Clara, California-based software company.
Aquantia Corporation is a Milpitas, California-based company.
Flixster is a San Francisco-based company founded by Joe Greenstein.
A company focused on development and manufacture of products for endovascular aortic repair
A company developing and manufacturing pharmaceuticals products
A biopharmaceutical company focused on developing combination prescription medicines
Augmenix is a Bedford, Massachusetts-based healthcare company.
Associated investment funds
People
Arun Ramamoorthy
Partner
Donal D. Delaney
Chief Financial Officer
Kenneth Pelowski
Founder and Managing Partner
Robert N. Savoie
Partner and COO
Ted Wilson
Principal
