Alloy Ventures
Encyclopedia
Alloy Ventures is a private equity
firm focusing on early-stage venture capital
investments in Life Sciences
, Information Technology
and Cleantech companies. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California
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, Doug Kelly and Tony Di Bona took on the management of the three institutional venture capital funds of Asset Management, dating back to 1982. the firm has six general partners managing five subsequent funds with commitments in excess of $1 billion.
, Xangati, Vivotech
, Pacific Biosciences
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Private equity
Private equity, in finance, is an asset class consisting of equity securities in operating companies that are not publicly traded on a stock exchange....
firm focusing on early-stage venture capital
Venture capital
Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...
investments in Life Sciences
Life sciences
The life sciences comprise the fields of science that involve the scientific study of living organisms, like plants, animals, and human beings. While biology remains the centerpiece of the life sciences, technological advances in molecular biology and biotechnology have led to a burgeoning of...
, Information Technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
and Cleantech companies. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States. The city shares its borders with East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park. It is...
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Founding / history
Alloy Ventures was founded in 1996 when Craig TaylorCraig Taylor, John ShochJohn Shoch
John F. Shoch is an American computer scientist and venture capitalist who made significant contributions to the development of computer networking while at Xerox PARC, in particular to the development of the PARC Universal Protocol , an important predecessor of TCP/IP.His contributions were...
, Doug Kelly and Tony Di Bona took on the management of the three institutional venture capital funds of Asset Management, dating back to 1982. the firm has six general partners managing five subsequent funds with commitments in excess of $1 billion.
Selected investments
The firm's portfolio includes investments, among others, in YouSendItYouSendIt
YouSendIt is a Web-based secure digital file delivery company, which lets users securely send, receive and track files on demand. It is an alternative to sending large e-mail attachments, using FTP, and sending CDs or DVDs or tape or USB flash drive via Sneakernet...
, Xangati, Vivotech
Vivotech
ViVOtech is a company which produces software and hardware for the Near Field Communication mobile payment and promotion market. Founded in 2001, it is based out of Santa Clara, California...
, Pacific Biosciences
Pacific Biosciences
Pacific Biosciences is a biotechnology company founded in 2004 that develops and manufactures systems for gene sequencing and some novel real time biological observation. They describe their platform as single molecule real time sequencing , based on the properties of zero-mode waveguides...
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External links
- Alloy Ventures (company website)
- List of Alloy Ventures Investments on CrunchBase
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