Silicon Valley Bank is an investment bank in California that focuses on technology, life science, cleantech, venture capital, private equity, and premium wine businesses. Founded 1983 in Santa Clara, California, United States, it invests in debt, early stage ventures, late stage ventures, private equity, series B, debt financing, series A, post-IPO debt, and seed rounds. Its portfolio companies include Symend, GoExpedi, Glofox, FreeWire Technologies, FORM, AcuityAds, Weee!, Proxy, Pager, and Fastforward.ai. As of June 2020, Silicon Valley Bank has made 601 investments. The company has had 206 exits, the most notable of which include Draper Esprit, Vonage, and Teladoc. Silicon Valley Bank has raised three funds, their latest being Silicon Valley Bank III.
Silicon Valley Bank offers online and banking services, payments, deposits and fraud prevention services. In addition, the company offers investments and asset management services, credit solutions and commercial card programs and strategic advisory services, such as deal sourcing, benchmarking, strategic valuations and transaction support.
Silicon Valley Bank has 330 monthly app downloads. The most popular apps downloaded are SVB Mobile Banking-Commercial, SVB Private Bank, and SVB Wealth Advisory.
Timeline
Funded Companies
A DNA synthesis company using a next-generation silicon-based technology platform.
Bolt Threads is a biotechnology company that makes high performance fabrics and materials using biology.
Fireeye, inc. is a Milpitas, California-based publicly listed network security company.
Zendesk is a customer service software company developing solutions for customer relationships and customer service founded in 2007 by Morten Primdahl.
Directly is a San Francisco-based developer of artificial intelligence systems of customer experience and chatbots founded by Antony Brydon, Jean Tessier and Jeff Patterson.
D2L is a provider of elearning solutions founded by John Baker that uses the Brightspace learning management platform.
Fabric Insurance is a Brooklyn-based digital insurance broker.
NerdWallet is a San Francisco-based provider of financial information, offering consumers personalized advice to help them make money decisions.
AiCure is an advanced data analytics company that uses artificial intelligence to understand how patients respond to treatments.
Auth0 is an authentication and authorization service for application developers.
A company using RNA to diagnose disease and to develop biomarkers that predict treatment outcomes. Cofactor is founded by Jarret Glasscock.
A biotechnology company offering a genomics platform supporting scientific research into life sciences such as oncology, immunology, and neuroscience.
An electronic manufacturing company with a focus on high-resolution LIDAR sensors. It was founded in 2015 and is located in San Francisco, California.
A company offering a software platform for the commercial real estate industry that is leveraging big data and machine learning.
A company offering an online platform for small and medium-sized businesses to gain access to financial products.
An insurance technology company offering car insurance.
A New York City-based educational technology and artificial intelligence company founded in 2008 by Jose Ferreira.
Neuromod is a medical device company formed to advance the science of bi-modal neuromodulation.
A software company offering a business to business subscription management platform.
A startup accelerator focusing on commercializing technologies developed in research facilities
eVestment, a Nasdaq company, is an Atlanta-based provider of institutional investment data, analytics and market intelligence covering public and private markets.
Tally Technologies is a San Francisco-based financial services company.
Associated investment funds
People
Andrew Hoang
Employee
Bharat Bhate
Employee
Charlotte Torres
Employee
Chris Kirschke
Employee
David Mort
Employee
Edward Shenderovich
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Eileen Nolan
Employee
Eric Benhamou
Employee
Jacob Laufer
Employee
Jason Mok
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Jim Marshall
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Jim Rutter
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John Karakelle
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Kathleen Ward
Employee
Ken Loveless
Employee
Lauren McLaughlin
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Liam Fairbairn
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Mark Lau
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Michael Burke
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Mike Ball
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Nick de Porcel
Employee
Nicole Staple
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Rohan Shah
Employee
Ron Sherman
Employee
Samir Kaji
Employee
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
AcuityAds
Fastforward.ai
FORM
FreeWire Technologies
Glofox
GoExpedi
Pager
Proxy
Symend
Weee!