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Sevin Rosen Funds (SRF) is a venture capital
Venture capital

Venture capital is a type of private equity capital typically provided to early-stage, high-potential, Growth investing companies in the interest of generating a return through an eventual realization event such as an IPO or mergers and acquisitions of the company....
 firm that was established in 1980 by L. J. Sevin and Ben Rosen. SRF was involved in the financing of Citrix, Cypress Semiconductor
Cypress Semiconductor

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation is a Silicon Valley-based semiconductor design and manufacturing company founded by T. J. Rodgers and others from Advanced Micro Devices....
, Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts is an international video game developer, marketer, video game publisher and distributor of video games. Established in 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers responsible for its games....
, Lotus Development Corporation, Silicon Graphics
Silicon Graphics

Silicon Graphics, Inc. is a company manufacturer high-performance computing solutions, including computer hardware and computer software. SGI was founded by James H....
, and Vitesse. SRF's first major success was its 1982 investment in Compaq
Compaq

Compaq Computer Corporation was an United States personal computer company founded in 1982, and is now a brand name of Hewlett-Packard Company....
 which went public shortly thereafter.

Entrepreneurs supported by SRF include: Dennis Mudd (Slacker), James Sabry (Cytokinetics), Dave Vucina (Wayport), Michael Baum (Splunk), Nick Gault (XenSource), and Ivan Koon YouSendIt
YouSendIt

YouSendIt is a web-based pseudo-Software as a service digital content delivery service provided by YouSendIt, Inc. It lets users send, receive and track files on-demand....
.

This fund has shut down West Coast operations.








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Sevin Rosen Funds (SRF) is a venture capital
Venture capital

Venture capital is a type of private equity capital typically provided to early-stage, high-potential, Growth investing companies in the interest of generating a return through an eventual realization event such as an IPO or mergers and acquisitions of the company....
 firm that was established in 1980 by L. J. Sevin and Ben Rosen. SRF was involved in the financing of Citrix, Cypress Semiconductor
Cypress Semiconductor

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation is a Silicon Valley-based semiconductor design and manufacturing company founded by T. J. Rodgers and others from Advanced Micro Devices....
, Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts is an international video game developer, marketer, video game publisher and distributor of video games. Established in 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers responsible for its games....
, Lotus Development Corporation, Silicon Graphics
Silicon Graphics

Silicon Graphics, Inc. is a company manufacturer high-performance computing solutions, including computer hardware and computer software. SGI was founded by James H....
, and Vitesse. SRF's first major success was its 1982 investment in Compaq
Compaq

Compaq Computer Corporation was an United States personal computer company founded in 1982, and is now a brand name of Hewlett-Packard Company....
 which went public shortly thereafter.

Entrepreneurs supported by SRF include: Dennis Mudd (Slacker), James Sabry (Cytokinetics), Dave Vucina (Wayport), Michael Baum (Splunk), Nick Gault (XenSource), and Ivan Koon YouSendIt
YouSendIt

YouSendIt is a web-based pseudo-Software as a service digital content delivery service provided by YouSendIt, Inc. It lets users send, receive and track files on-demand....
.

This fund has shut down West Coast operations.

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