JA

Joel Alsfine

Partner

HM

Howard M. Berk

Partner

JE

Jonathan Esfandi

Partner and Portfolio Manager of European Opportunity Funds

Glenn Fuhrman

Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus

Victor Hwang

MD

ML

Marcello Liguori

Partner

MR

Marc R. Lisker

Partner

DL

Douglas Londal

Partner

CP

Coburn Packard

Partner

JP

John Phelan

Co-Founder and CIO

RP

Robert Platek

Partner

BR

Brendan Rogers

Partner

JS

John Sauter

Partner

BS

Barry Sholem

Partner

CW

Chris Workman

Partner and Head of MSD’s Partnership Investments Group

44 past transactions

Pipe

Series A in 2021
Pipe Technologies Inc develops financing platform for SaaS companies. Its suite of products allows companies with recurring revenues to unlock their deferred cash flows and invest in growth without taking any dilution. The company offers non-dilutive financing through an instant cash advance against the full annual value of software subscriptions. It turns MRR (monthly recurring revenue) into ARR (annual recurring revenue). The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Walnut, California.

Internet Brands

Venture Round in 1999
Since launching in 1998 as CarsDirect.com, Internet Brands has grown to become a fully integrated online media and client services organization focused on four high-value vertical categories: Automotive, Health, Legal and Home / Travel. The company’s award-winning consumer websites lead their categories and serve more than 100 million monthly visitors, while a full range of web presence offerings has established deep, long-term relationships with SMB and enterprise clients. Internet Brands’ powerful, propriety operating platform provides the flexibility and scalability to fuel the company’s continued growth.

Airtable

Series F in 2021
Airtable is a cloud-based software company that blends a traditional spreadsheet with a database. It brings the database out of the realm of power users and into the mainstream, creating a new type of flexible but sophisticated productivity tool that anyone can use. Airtable gives end-users the ability to create and share their own workflows for everything from managing an editorial calendar to planning a major event. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Novalux

Series C in 2000
Novalux develops, manufactures, and distributes laser systems. The company offers Novalux Extended Cavity Surface Emitting Laser, a surface-emitting semiconductor laser. Its products are used in various applications, such as projection display, specialty lighting, neon sign alternative lighting, and automotive lighting. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. As of January 8, 2008, Novalux, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Arasor International Limited.

PaperExchange.com

Seed Round in 2000
PaperExchange.comSM is a leading global e-commerce marketplace for the pulp and paper industry with more than 4,500 corporate members and over 6,500 individual members, spread out over more than 80 countries. PaperExchange.com's members have completed transactions in all major grades of paper, and have made PaperExchange.com one of the world's most frequented sites in the pulp and paper industry. Not only has the Company shown consistent and rapid growth in terms of bidding activity, completed transactions, tons of product posted, and number of registered members, but the Company's site activity, as measured by user sessions, reached dramatically higher new all-time records in each consecutive quarter of 1999. PaperExchange.com is open for business 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Company is located in the central Back Bay area of Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Nutrisystem

Post in 2020
Nutrisystem makes weight loss easier than ever! And with over 130 perfectly portioned entrees and snacks on the menu, youre sure to find all of your favorites.

Fanatics, Inc.

Venture Round in 2022
Fanatics, Inc., a vertical commerce company, designs, manufactures, distributes, and retails licensed sports merchandise internationally. It offers sports apparel. It offers its products through its online, mobile, and physical stores. Fanatics, Inc. was formerly known as Football Fanatics, Inc. and changed its name to Fanatics, Inc. in June 2011. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Jacksonville, Florida with additional offices in San Mateo, California; and Manchester, United Kingdom. As of June 17, 2011, Fanatics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Kynetic L.L.C.

ŌURA

Venture Round in 2022
Oura is a pioneering sleep performance platform, focused on improving sleep that leads to a better life. The Oura Ring and app gives users daily feedback to improve their health, allowing users to better understand their body and reach their goals. Oura Health OyLtd. is a health technology company founded in Oulu, Finland in 2013. In 2018, the company received the Red Dot Awards for communications design and product design. Backed by world-class investors, leaders, champions, and creators, Oura Health is based in Oulu & Helsinki, Finland, and San Francisco, California.

RxCentric

Series B in 2000
RxCentric is an e-health business-to-business company linking physicians' drug information and education needs with a targeted, online.

ŌURA

Series C in 2021
Oura is a pioneering sleep performance platform, focused on improving sleep that leads to a better life. The Oura Ring and app gives users daily feedback to improve their health, allowing users to better understand their body and reach their goals. Oura Health OyLtd. is a health technology company founded in Oulu, Finland in 2013. In 2018, the company received the Red Dot Awards for communications design and product design. Backed by world-class investors, leaders, champions, and creators, Oura Health is based in Oulu & Helsinki, Finland, and San Francisco, California.

Cue Health Inc.

Private Equity Round in 2021
Cue is a revolutionary device for tracking health information at the molecular level. For the first time, consumers can track 5 key health and lifestyle indicators: inflammation, vitamin D, fertility, influenza, and testosterone in just minutes, at home. Cue sends the data via Bluetooth 4.0 to the user's smartphone, where the free Cue app reveals the interplay of activity, food, and sleep shaping the user at a molecular level.

Dataminr

Series F in 2021
Dataminr is an AI platform that detects the earliest signs of high-impact events and emerging risks from publicly available information. It discovers, distills, and delivers alerts from the increasingly diverse and complex landscape of publicly available information including social media, blogs, information sensors, and the dark web, ensuring that businesses have the knowledge they need to act with confidence.

Garage Technology Ventures

Venture Round in 2000
GARAGE TECHNOLOGY VENTURES is a seed-stage and early-stage venture capital fund. They invest in entrepreneurial teams seeking to transform big ideas into game-changing companies. They invest in unproven teams attacking unproven markets with unproven solutions. They not interested in teams creating the nth solution to the same old problem nor companies trying to improve things by only 10 or 20 percent.

Propel Software

Series B in 2000
Propel Software is an Internet company. It develops internet acceleration and network optimization solutions for wireless carriers and internet service providers globally. The company offers Propel Accelerator, a client-server software that speeds up Web browsing, email, and file downloads by using compression, caching, and connection optimization for wireless, low-speed broadband, and dial-up Internet access. It is a hosted solution that also blocks unwanted in-page advertising. Propel Software was founded in 1999 in San Jose, California.

Cloudera

Series F in 2014
Cloudera delivers an Enterprise Data Cloud for any data, anywhere, from the Edge to AI.Cloudera was founded in 2008 by some of the brightest minds at Silicon Valley’s leading companies, including Google (Christophe Bisciglia), Yahoo! (Amr Awadallah), Oracle (Mike Olson), and Facebook (Jeff Hammerbacher). Doug Cutting, co-creator of Hadoop, joined the company in 2009 as Chief Architect and remains in that role. Today, Cloudera has more than 1,600 employees. They have offices in 24 countries around the globe, with their headquarters in Palo Alto, California.

CiDRA Holdings LLC

Venture Round in 2000
CiDRA Holdings LLC develops instrumentation solutions for measurement, monitoring, and control applications. The company offers flow and entrained air measurement, entrained air measurement, and grind management products. It serves minerals processing, concrete, oil sands, power generation, dredging, and water/wastewater. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Wallingford, Connecticut.

Gusto

Series C in 2018
Gusto develops web-based payroll solution for small- and medium-sized businesses. It operates an online platform that provides payroll, benefits, human resource, and integration services for employers and employees in the United States. Gusto offers health benefits and workers’ compensation benefits that include medical insurance, commuter benefits, and 401(k) contributions as well as workers’ compensation insurance plans, time tracking and integration services, and access to employees for processing payroll from web-enabled devices such as smartphones and tablets. It also provides access to employees and contractors to browse their previous pay stubs, review their payroll forms, verify their personal details, and statistics about their pay, tax payments and federal forms filing services, and security and support services. Gusto serves startups, coffee shops, doctors, creative agencies, lawyers, and boutiques. Edward Kim, Joshua Reeves, and Tomer London founded ZenPayRoll in 2011 that became Gusto, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California with an additional office in Denver in Colorado.

NGINX

Series B in 2013
NGINX now part of F5 is the company behind the popular open-source project. It offers a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications. Together with F5, our combined solution bridges the gap between NetOps and DevOps, with multi-cloud application services that span from code to customer. NGINX was incorporated in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Corero Network Security

Series D in 2000
Corero Network Security plc develops, markets, and sells network security products and services for the protection from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks worldwide. It offers Corero SmartWall Threat Defense System family of products that provide protection against various cyber-attacks, including network and application layer, DDoS, volumetric, and multi-vector attacks. The company offers SmartWall network threat defense appliances for the mitigation of DDoS attacks; SmartWall network bypass appliances for network connectivity; SmartWall Service Portal that enables real-time DDoS mitigation to be delivered as-a-service; SecureWatch Analytics, a Web-based security analytics portal that delivers dashboards; and SmartWall Central Management Server that offers various options for managing, configuring, and monitoring SmartWall appliances. In addition, it offers monitoring and maintenance services, and managed services. Corero Network Security plc provides its solutions for service providers, hosting providers and datacenters, digital enterprises, and managed security service providers. The company was formerly known as Corero plc and changed its name to Corero Network Security plc in June 2011. Corero Network Security plc was incorporated in 1991 and is based in Uxbridge, the United Kingdom.

Guru

Seed Round in 2015
Guru Technologies, Inc. operates a Google Chrome Web browser extension that connects user’s business applications and creates context-specific suggestions for their teams. Its solutions allow groups to ask a question to an entire group; make comments to everyone in the group; and distribute knowledge verification to the group. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Allegis Corporation

Venture Round in 2000
Allegis Corporation is a leading Partner Relationship Management firm that develops e-business solutions.

The Bulldog Group

Venture Round in 2000
Bulldog provided enterprise media management and digital asset management solutions to the broadcast, film and animation industries.

Guru

Series B in 2018
Guru Technologies, Inc. operates a Google Chrome Web browser extension that connects user’s business applications and creates context-specific suggestions for their teams. Its solutions allow groups to ask a question to an entire group; make comments to everyone in the group; and distribute knowledge verification to the group. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

ŌURA

Series A in 2018
Oura is a pioneering sleep performance platform, focused on improving sleep that leads to a better life. The Oura Ring and app gives users daily feedback to improve their health, allowing users to better understand their body and reach their goals. Oura Health OyLtd. is a health technology company founded in Oulu, Finland in 2013. In 2018, the company received the Red Dot Awards for communications design and product design. Backed by world-class investors, leaders, champions, and creators, Oura Health is based in Oulu & Helsinki, Finland, and San Francisco, California.

Ubicom

Venture Round in 2000
Ubicom develops communications and media processor (CMP) and software platforms that address the unique demands of real-time interactive applications and multimedia content delivery in the digital home. The company provides optimized system-level solutions to OEMs for a wide range of products including wireless routers, access points, VoIP gateways, streaming media devices, print servers and other network devices. Ubicom's unique multithreaded processor design, real-time operating system, and application-level solutions combine to ensure a high-quality user experience with unprecedented ease of use. Ubicom is a venture-backed, privately held company with corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.

Big Switch Networks Inc.

Venture Round in 2017
Big Switch Networks is the Cloud-First Networking company, bringing public cloud-style networking and hybrid cloud consistency to organizations around the world. The company provides data center switching, monitoring, visibility and security solutions for on-premises enterprise cloud, public cloud and multi-cloud environments that enable companies of all sizes to dramatically increase operational efficiency, increase business agility, and reduce networking costs. Big Switch was founded in 2010, with roots in the original Stanford research team that invented software-defined networking. Big Switch has strategic partnerships with Dell EMC, HPE and Edgecore, delivering innovative software on industry-standard open networking hardware. Since its founding the company has been an active member and contributor to multiple open source communities. Big Switch Networks is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with a dedicated presence across more than 25 countries. To learn more: www.bigswitch.com

Eagle Eye Networks, Inc.

Series B in 2014
Eagle Eye Networks is an online provider of cloud video surveillance incorporating both cloud and on-premise recording. The company also provides AI Analytics, Big Data analytics, and Business Operations Optimization, and other more standard analytics in its platform for video surveillance. Eagle Eye provides a fully-open, robust, and restful API for access to video and integration of analytics and other business processes with video. Its video surveillance products offer secure recording, transmission storage, camera management, mobile viewing, and alerts from a cloud-managed platform that provides organizations with time-based data structures used for indexing, search, retrieval, and analysis of the live and archived video.

I-many

Series B in 2000
I-many provides software and Internet-based solutions and related professional services that allow our clients to negotiate and manage complex contract purchasing arrangements which facilitate business-to-business e-commerce.

NGINX

Series A in 2011
NGINX now part of F5 is the company behind the popular open-source project. It offers a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications. Together with F5, our combined solution bridges the gap between NetOps and DevOps, with multi-cloud application services that span from code to customer. NGINX was incorporated in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

CarsDirect.com, Inc.

Venture Round in 1999
CarsDirect.com, Inc. provides online car buying services in the United States. It provides new and used automobiles, and related products and services. The company offers passenger cars, luxury cars, sports utility vehicles, trucks, and vans. It also offers auto loans, vehicle service contracts, anti-theft products, credit reports, VIN check, auto repair directory, and audio guide services. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in El Segundo, California. CarsDirect.com, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Internet Brands, Inc.

Waypoint Leasing Services

Private Equity Round in 2013
Waypoint Leasing is a global helicopter leasing company founded in 2013 to provide financing solutions to helicopter operators worldwide. Headquartered in Limerick, Ireland, Waypoint differentiates itself with a senior management team possessing direct helicopter operating and helicopter leasing experience. Their deep operational background translates directly to a passion for rotary-wing aviation and a commitment to building long-lasting partnerships.

RxCentric

Series D in 2002
RxCentric is an e-health business-to-business company linking physicians' drug information and education needs with a targeted, online.

CCC Network Systems

Venture Round in 2000
CCC Network Systems is the leading supplier of state-of-the-art Network Operation Centers and Internet/Corporate Data Centers. They provide a complete end-to-end solution - from design consultancy, through to installation and implementation, together with full project management services - from design conception to completion. CCC has the technology, services and experience to meet all your Network Operation and Data Center needs. That's why so many of the world's premier companies rely on us to meet their light-up and uptime targets, and lower their cost of ownership.

Acorns Grow, Inc.

Series E in 2019
Acorns is a finance company that allows individuals to round up purchases and automatically invest the change. It allows customers to automatically invest in a low-cost, diversified portfolio of exchange-traded funds offered by some asset managers including Vanguard and BlackRock. Acorns was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

DoubleTwist

Series D in 2000
In December 1999, Pangea Systems became DoubleTwist, Inc. - a new application service provider (ASP)/ Internet company devoted to empowering life scientists. The change reflects a new focus on this Internet portal. DoubleTwist.com integrates powerful tools and data behind automated research agents that retrieve and interpret data based on the user's scientific questions. The company's traditional data warehousing and mining software power the site, enabling life science research through an easy-to-use interface on the Web. DoubleTwist has established a talented and experienced development team of scientific and technical personnel dedicated to building software solutions that address the biological data management needs of life scientists. DoubleTwist's scientific team is comprised of leading experts in their respective fields of biochemistry, molecular biology, protein chemistry, bioinformatics, computer science and computational biology. They come to DoubleTwist from world-renowned institutions, including Stanford University, UCLA, UC Berkeley, UCSF, University of Pennsylvania, Sandoz Pharmaceutical, Onyx Pharmaceutical, Incyte, Molecular Simulations, Molecular Dynamics, Roche and Glaxo Wellcome. The company's software engineers have extensive experience in commercial-grade software systems, with particular expertise in relational database and object-oriented development. They come to DoubleTwist from some of the industry's most successful companies, including Apple, Oracle and IBM.

Kobalt Music Group, Ltd.

Series B in 2013
Business Services, Nec, Nsk

Cadence Network

Venture Round in 2000
Cadence Network, Inc. specializes in helping companies manage energy costs and their carbon footprints. Cadence delivers comprehensive utility, telecommunications and lease facility expense management to more than 150 multiple-site businesses nationwide. At work in more than 350,000 locations, Cadence Network is a founding member of the Carbon Management Council, an ENERGY STARÂ:registered: Partner of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and a proud supporter of The Arbor Day Foundation.

Bandspeed

Venture Round in 2001
Bandspeed provides combined silicon-software solutions that dramatically simplify the deployment and ongoing management of enterprise wireless LANs, thereby lowering the total cost of ownership. Bandspeed's RF management solution offers the superior physical layer performance that enterprises require, plus the flexibility of a software implementation that enables OEMs and ODMs to rapidly create new services. Utilizing omni-directional or spatial division multiple access (SDMA) platforms, the Bandspeed solution enables cost-effective indoor, campus and outdoor wireless LANs with continuous automated management features that ensure unsurpassed network efficiency and user satisfaction.

Guru

Series A in 2017
Guru Technologies, Inc. operates a Google Chrome Web browser extension that connects user’s business applications and creates context-specific suggestions for their teams. Its solutions allow groups to ask a question to an entire group; make comments to everyone in the group; and distribute knowledge verification to the group. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Guru

Series C in 2020
Guru Technologies, Inc. operates a Google Chrome Web browser extension that connects user’s business applications and creates context-specific suggestions for their teams. Its solutions allow groups to ask a question to an entire group; make comments to everyone in the group; and distribute knowledge verification to the group. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Kobalt Music Group, Ltd.

Series D in 2017
Business Services, Nec, Nsk

Agillion, Inc.

Venture Round in 1999
Agillion enables companies to provide customers with a level of service they've never encountered online—or anywhere else. By creating Agillion CustomerPagesSM—custom, password-protected Web sites that are accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week—you can: Let your customers place and check on the status of orders, alert you to problems, retrieve documents you're collaborating on together, write you a note, download a product catalog, etc. Capture customer information in real-time and securely store it in a central database that your Team can access from any web browser. Focus on your top customers by receiving reminders and important alerts about their activity.
SparkCognition Government Systems (SGS) is the world’s first full-spectrum artificial intelligence company devoted entirely to government and national defense. By developing and operationalizing next-generation AI-powered systems, SGS enables government organizations to meet the needs of their most pressing national security missions.