Crosslink Capital
Crosslink Capital (founded 1989) is a venture capital firm with an asset management business that continues into the public equity market for fast-growing companies. Crosslink Capital has over $3.0 billion in assets under management that it invests in consumer and enterprise businesses.[3]
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 |
History
Crosslink traces its roots to 1989 with the formation of its first venture capital fund within Robertson, Stephens. Michael Stark and Sy Kaufman were the general partners of the fund and ran a distinct investment team. In January 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[4] (exited)
- Equinix (exited)
- BuildingConnected[5] (exited)
- Bleacher Report[6] (exited)
- Virage Logic[7] (exited)
- ServiceMax (exited)
- Vungle Inc.[8] (exited)
- Casper[9]
- Postmates
- Chime[10]
- Molekule[11]
- Verodin[12]
- Descartes Labs[13]
- Weave
- Venturebeat
- Armory[14]
References
- "CrossLink Capital, Inc.: CEO and Executives - Businessweek". Investing.businessweek.com. Archived from the original on September 29, 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-29.
- "Crosslink Capital Taps David Courtney as Chief Operating Officer". Reuters. 2013-01-31. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2013-09-29.
- "Homepage". www.crosslinkcapital.com. 25 August 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
- Hesseldahl, Arik (2015-06-01). "Cloud Startup Coupa Lands $80 Million Round at $1 Billion-Plus Valuation". Recode. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
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- "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.
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