CRESCENDO VENTURES | www.crescendoventures.com
Crescendo Ventures is a global venture capital firm that provides early-stage funding and growth resources to high-potential companies in the communications and enterprise infrastructure industries. By collaborating with entrepreneurial teams to grow market-leading companies, Crescendo Ventures uses its industry expertise, team-based development model and global network to help high-growth companies achieve their full potential. Founded in 1993, Crescendo Ventures manages more than $1 billion from its headquarters in Palo Alto, California and offices in Minneapolis and London.


DYNAFUND VENTURES | www.dynafundventures.com
DynaFund Ventures is an early-stage information technology venture capital firm. It manages a $220 million venture capital fund. Representative companies in DynaFundís portfolio include Luminous Networks, Troika Networks, Multibeam Systems, and NuTool. DynaFundís Limited Partners include leading Asian and U.S. investment institutions such as China Development Industrial Bank, Horsley Bridge Partners, Kwang Hwa Investments, and Sun America; major global companies such as ACER and Sun Hung Kai Properties, Ltd.; and successful entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.


MORGAN STANLEY VENTURE PARTNERS | www.msvp.com
Morgan Stanley Venture Partners is the venture capital affiliate of Morgan Stanley, the global financial services firm. Morgan Stanley Venture Partners manages a group of private equity funds that invest in high-growth companies, concentrating on healthcare and information technology industries. Since its inception in 1986, Morgan Stanley Venture Partners has managed over $1 billion of capital commitments and has invested in over 140 emerging growth companies.


OERLIKON | www.oerlikon.com
Oerlikon Optics possesses a comprehensive know-how in optical thin films, glass processing, lithography and optical subassembly production. Moreover, through successful integration of the U.K. laser specialist Exitech, Oerlikon Optics has now also become a leading supplier of laser processing systems for industrial microfabrication. Oerlikon is a global company with Swiss roots, a 100-year tradition, and over 19,000 employees at 170 locations in 35 countries.


VANGUARD VENTURES | www.vanguardventures.com
Vanguard Ventures specializes in seed and early stage technology investments. The partners, Dan Eilers, Jack Gill, Hugh Rienhoff, Larry Schwerin, Don Wood, and Bob Ulrich, each have extensive and successful backgrounds as technologists, operating executives, CEOs of public and private companies, entrepreneurs, and venture capital investors. With $500 million under management, and offices in Palo Alto, California and Houston, Texas, the firmís portfolio is comprised of investments in communications, life sciences, and information technology. Vanguard Ventures has funded more than 115 startups, 30 of which have grown to become major corporate successes. Vanguard ranks among the top performing venture capital firms.