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New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Founded in 1978, NEA manages $5 billion of capital and has financed hundreds of successful entrepreneurial companies including Silicon Graphics, Ascend Telecommunications, UUNet Technologies, TiVo, WebEx, and many more. MailFrontier Board Member: Stewart Alsop As a former general partner of NEA, Stewart Alsop invests in early stage companies developing technologies and services for broadband networks and rich media. Prior to NEA, he was Editor in Chief of InfoWorld. He also published PC Letter, a fortnightly newsletter for computer industry insiders, and produced the Agenda and Demo conferences for executives of companies in the computer industry. Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) Rated one of the Top 100 companies most likely to change the world by Red Herring, Draper Fisher Jurvetson has closed on over $1.3 billion in venture funds. Successes include Hotmail, Preview Travel, TRADEX, Digital Impact, and others. MailFrontier Board Member: Timothy C. Draper Founder and Managing Director of DFJ, Tim Draper’s original suggestion of “viral marketing” was vital to the success of Hotmail and Four11. Other successes included Parametric Technologies, GoTo.com, RedGate, and more. Menlo Ventures Since its inception in 1976, Menlo Ventures has organized and managed nine venture funds with over $2.7 billion under management. Prior successes include Hotmail Corporation, Zymark, Netlabs and Infoseek Corp. MailFrontier Board Member: Sonja Hoel As Managing Director of Menlo Ventures, Sonja also sits on the boards of Acme Packet, nCircle Network Security, and iS3. Her prior investments and board seats include AssureNet Pathways, acquired by Symantec (SYMC); Eloquent (ELOQ); F5 Networks (FFIV); Priority Call, acquired by LHS Group; Recourse Technologies, acquired by Symantec (SYMC); and Vermeer Technologies, acquired by Microsoft (MFST). |
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