Approva Investors
Sierra Ventures
Sierra Ventures, founded in 1982, is a private venture capital firm focusing its investments in Information Technology companies. Our current investments include companies based in the United States, Canada, China and India. We work with entrepreneurs and management teams to originate and build new companies into large, profitable businesses.
Sierra Ventures manages nine venture capital partnerships, which together have more than $1.5 billion of committed capital.
Our Limited Partners include established financial institutions, university endowments, and pension funds. They also include prominent individual investors, most of whom are founders, chief executive officers, or board members of major publicly traded technology companies.
The Managing Directors that oversee Sierra Ventures have diverse and complementary backgrounds and skills with extensive management, technical, and venture capital investing experience. We have all served in executive capacities during our careers with successful private and public companies in the software, telecommunications, and internet related industries.
Novak Biddle Venture Partners
Novak Biddle Venture Partners was established in 1997 to provide equity financing and assistance to the management of young, information technology companies. NBVP is backed by a number of the country’s most prestigious limited partners, and has over $580 million under management. We seek investment opportunities where the combination of ideas, dollars, experience, and relationships can create long-term, sustainable value. While we believe that the vast majority of business plans we receive have many of the makings of viable companies, we are looking for additional key features in the businesses in which we invest.
New Enterprise Associations
Founded in 1978, NEA has grown to ten partnerships managing $6 billion of capital. NEA is a classic venture capital investor, concentrating on early stage companies in the areas of information technology and medical and life sciences. The firm typically invests in 20 to 30 new companies each year, and traditionally supports their companies through multiple rounds of financing.
Columbia Capital
Columbia Capital is a premier venture capital franchise in wireless, broadband, media, and enterprise information technology investing. Since our formation in 1989, we have taken a sector-focused approach to investing, and have funded over 120 companies in our core markets. Our sector focus allows us to regularly identify disruptive emerging companies and to recognize and build value throughout a company’s lifecycle – from early stage investments, to large growth stage financings and special situations.