Crosslink Capital
Company type | Private |
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Industry | Venture capital |
Founded | 1989 |
Founder | Seymour Franklin Kaufman[1] Michael Joseph Stark[2] |
Headquarters | 2 Embarcadero Center Suite 2200 San Francisco, California 94111 , |
Total assets | US$2,000,000,000 |
Website | www |
Crosslink Capital is a leading early-stage venture capital firm with an asset management business that continues into the public equity market for fast-growing companies. The firm has over $2.0B assets under management that it invests in consumer and enterprise businesses. Crosslink Capital was founded in 1989 and has offices in San Francisco, California and Woodside, California.
History
Crosslink traces its roots to 1989 with the formation of its first venture capital find within Robertson, Stephens. Michael Stark and Sy Kaufman were the general partners of the fund and ran a distinct investment team. In January of 1999, Crosslink was formed when the management team completed a management buyout and began operating as an independent organization named Crosslink Capital. All funds and relevant employees were transferred to Crosslink at that time.
Investments
Crosslink Capital prefers to partner with companies in venture capital at the earliest stages across all sectors. Crosslink invests in both private and public companies. Some of Crosslink’s investments include:
- Ancestry.com (exited)
- Pandora Radio (exited)
- Coupa[3] (exited)
- Equinix (exited)
- BuildingConnected[4] (exited)
- Bleacher Report[5] (exited)
- Virage Logic[6] (exited)
- ServiceMax[7] (exited)
- Vungle[8] (exited)
- Casper[9]
- Postmates[10]
- Chime[11]
- Molekule[12]
- Verodin[13]
- Descartes Labs[14]
- Weave[15]
References
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- ^ "Crosslink Capital Taps David Courtney as Chief Operating Officer". Reuters. 2013-01-31. Retrieved 2013-09-29.
- ^ Hesseldahl, Arik (2015-06-01). "Cloud Startup Coupa Lands $80 Million Round at $1 Billion-Plus Valuation". Recode. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
- ^ BuildingConnected. "BuildingConnected Raises $8.5 Million To Modernize Construction Communication". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
- ^ "Bleacher Report Raises $10.5M; Now Fifth Largest Sports Site". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
- ^ "Virage Logic Raises $10m in Investment Round". eetimes. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
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- ^ "Crosslink Capital Portfolio Companies". crunchbase. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
- ^ "Chime lands $8M and launches its debit rewards mobile app for millenials". VentureBeat. 2014-11-05. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
- ^ "Crosslink Capital leads $10.1 mln round for Molekule". PE Hub. 2017-07-19. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
- ^ "FireEye Acquires Security Instrumentation Leader Verodin". www.businesswire.com. 2019-05-28. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
- ^ "Deep-Learning, Image-Analysis Startup Descartes Labs Raises $3.3M After Spinning Out Of Los Alamos National Lab". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
- ^ Wilhelm, Alex (2018-12-06). "Weave Picks Up $37.5M As The Utah Scene Stays Hot". Crunchbase News. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
- ^ Miller, Ron (2018-08-23). "Armory lands $10M Series A to bring continuous delivery to enterprise masses". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-01-26.