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Divergent Ventures

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STAGE We have participated in all stages of venture investing. Our preferred initial investment point is in the first professional round. We will consider seed stage investments and we reserve capital for participating in follow on rounds.

THEMES Infrastructure, Communications, Software, Services: We have over 30 years of experience building products and services and investing in companies that provide the technical building blocks that today’s networks and information systems are built upon.

GEOGRAPHY Early Stage investing is well served by being accessible and available. We have found that time zones make it much more difficult to deliver on the promise of close involvement. We have successfully invested across the country, but are focusing our current efforts on the west coast.

The Managing Directors are Kevin Ober and Rob Shurtleff, both highly experienced and successful early-stage investors. The firm invests in early-stage companies, with an emphasis on software, internet infrastructure and information technology enabled services.

Our experience has taught us the importance of being closely involved with the companies we invest in, partnering with management to help overcome the many challenges faced by early-stage companies.

In addition to investment capital, we actively work with our portfolio company management teams and potitial investment management teams to refine their plans, introduce them to potential customers, employees and investors.

Milestones

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  Divergent Ventures invested in SpaceCurve. (2/14/12)
  Posted 2/14/12 at 6:13pm via finsmes.com
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  Divergent Ventures invested in FlashSoft. (6/28/11)
  Posted 6/28/11 at 3:59am via businesswire.com
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  Divergent Ventures invested in Iron.io. (12/7/11)
  Posted 12/5/11 at 4:41pm via techcrunch.com
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  Divergent Ventures invested in Piston Cloud Computing. (6/21/11)
  Posted 7/11/11 at 2:12pm via gigaom.com
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  Divergent Ventures invested in SpaceCurve. (8/26/10)
  Posted 8/27/10 at 3:30am via finsmes.com
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  Divergent Ventures invested in SpaceCurve. (8/26/10)
  Posted 8/27/10 at 3:30am via finsmes.com
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  Divergent Ventures invested in RNA Networks. (2/3/09)
  Posted 2/3/09 at 9:32am via techflash.com
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  Divergent Ventures invested in Pliant Technology. (2/20/08)
  Posted 12/7/09 at 3:03pm via silicontap.com
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  Divergent Ventures invested in Pliant Technology. (1/5/10)
  Posted 1/5/10 at 3:46pm via venturebeat.com
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  Divergent Ventures invested in Pliant Technology. (3/30/09)
  Posted 3/31/09 at 10:58am via bizjournals.com

Investments

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1. SpaceCurve Raises $2.7m in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
2. Cloud Application Services Company Iron.io Raises $1.4 Million Seed Round From Baseline (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. FlashSoft Secures $3 Million in First Round of Funding to Deliver Flash Virtualization Software to Enterprise IT (businesswire.com) [edit]
4. OpenStack gets a startup seeking to commercialize the code (gigaom.com) [edit]
5. SpaceCurve Raises $1.1M in Venture Capital (finsmes.com) [edit]
6. SpaceCurve Raises $1.1M in Venture Capital (finsmes.com) [edit]
7. Pliant catches $27.3M for enterprise flash drives (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
8. Pliant Tech Raises $15 Million (sanjose.bizjournals.com) [edit]
9. RNA Networks nails $7 million (techflash.com) [edit]
10. Pliant Gets $8M For SSD Drives (silicontap.com) [edit]