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Websitehcp.com
Bloghcp.com/blog
Phone650-687-3800
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Employees
Founded7/88

Funds

Total$700M
2007 "Consumer" Fund, 7/07 $300M
Highland Capital Partners VIII Limited Partnership, 11/09 $400M

Offices

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Highland Capital Partners

Highland Capital Partners was founded with the mission of helping great people build great companies. For twenty years, the firm has taken a sector-focused approach to investing in exceptional seed through later stage growth companies in the communications, consumer, digital media, healthcare and information technology markets. Highland actively seeks to provide the right mix of strategic guidance, hands-on leadership and deep industry domain expertise for helping entrepreneurs and their teams become market-leading organizations.

With over $3 billion of committed capital and offices in Boston, Silicon Valley, Shanghai and Geneva, Highland has invested in and worked to create such firms as Ask Jeeves, Avid Technology, CheckFree, Conor Medsystems, Continental Cable, Helicos BioSciences, lululemon athletica, Lycos, MapQuest, Ocular Networks, Odyssey Healthcare, Quigo, Starent Networks, Sybase, Telica and VistaPrint.

Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
picoChip 11/09Series E$20M8
InXpo 9/09Series A$9M1
Zoove 9/09Series C$13M3
Pervasis Therapeutics 8/09Series C$17.4M3
Complete Genomics 8/09Series D$45M6
Beijing NetentSec 8/09Series B$3M2
Biosyntech 8/09Unattributed$1.4M4
SCVNGR 8/09Series A$750k1
FanSnap 8/09Series B$5.2M3
iPierian 7/09Unattributed$11.5M3
Hyperion Therapeutics 6/09Series C$60M3
Hangout Industries 5/09Series B$4M2
StyleFeeder 5/09Unattributed$500k1
Glasses Direct 4/09Series B£10M3
iZumi Bio 4/09Series A$20M2
Autoquake.com 4/09Series C£4M1
RedBrick Health 4/09Series C$15M4
Quattro Wireless 3/09Series C$10M2
Ocarina Networks 2/09Series B$20M3
Virtual Computer 1/09Series B$15M3
Beijing Viva Information Technology 1/09Series A$10M2
StreamBase Systems 1/09Series D$6M5
ExaGrid Systems, Inc. 12/08Series D$12M3
Cash4Gold 12/08Series A$15M2
Digg 9/08Series C$28.7M4
Paragon Lake 7/08Series A$5.8M2
Bullhorn 5/08Series D$26M5
AutoQuake 5/08Series B$11.9M2
CHiL Semiconductor 5/08Series C$16.7M4
QD Vision 4/08Series C$9M3
Turbine 4/08Series C$40M5
Imprivata 4/08Series C$15M4
Autoquake.com 4/08Series B£6M1
CafeMom 3/08Series B$12M2
StyleFeeder 1/08Series A$2M2
Bit9 10/07Series C$10M4
Casero 10/07Series B$5.8M3
Quattro Wireless 9/07Series B$12.3M2
Hyperion Therapeutics 9/07Series B$40M4
StyleFeeder 9/07Seed$1M2
CafeMom 8/07Series A$5M2
Metacafe 8/07Series C$30M4
Photobox 7/07Series B$5M3
Going 7/07Series A$5M2
Quattro Wireless 5/07Series A$6M1
Amp’d Mobile 3/07Series E$107M11
Hangout Industries 3/07Series A$6M2
Vertica Systems 2/07Series B$16.5M4
MokaFive 2007Series B$15M2
Qihoo 11/06Series B$25M6
PA Semi 4/06Series C$50M3
Coremetrics 3/06Series D$31M3
Photobox 7/05Series A2
Innovative Silicon 6/05Series B$16M4
Turbine 5/05Series B$30M4
ExaGrid Systems, Inc. 3/05Series B$13.5M2
Casero 12/04Series A$7.5M2
Quigo 3/04Series A$5M1
Innovative Silicon 3/04Series A$6M3
Gotuit Media 12/02Series A$6M1
Navic Networks 2/01Series C$20M4
Navic Networks 6/00Series B$20M3
Answers Corporation 5/00Series D$28M3
Ask.com 3/99Series A$25M2
Vertica Systems Series A$7M2

Videos

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Highland Capital - AlwaysOn Conference, VatortV

Added: 6/1/09

Sources

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  15. Stylefeeder Raises $500K (xconomy.com) [edit]
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