U.S. Venture Partners

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U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) has helped build great companies for nearly three decades. Since its inception in 1981, USVP has invested more than $2.4 billion in over 420 companies. Throughout, USVP’s partners have worked diligently and consistently with early-stage companies, many of which have become industry leaders.

The USVP team consists of accomplished venture investors, former CEOs, senior executives and technology company founders that span four generations of high-technology venture investing. This engenders a perspective on business cycles, “hot” market trends, technology evolution and revolution that is not present among all early-stage investors. Together, they have more than 300 years of operating experience and nearly 200 years of investment expertise. Founding partner Bill Bowes, who has 50 years of venture investment experience, was also the founder of Amgen, a $70 billion pharmaceutical company.

Their investment interests include components, software, systems, services, and life sciences. Areas of current focus include semiconductors, software as a service, networking solutions for storage, wireless data, the Internet version 2.0, biomedical devices and new drugs with profound social benefits.

Milestones

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  U.S. Venture Partners invested in Intransa. (11/12/09)
  Posted 11/16/09 at 6:16am
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  U.S. Venture Partners invested in Dilithium Networks. (10/27/09)
  Posted 10/28/09 at 9:19pm
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  U.S. Venture Partners invested in Bio Pure Technology. (9/3/09)
  Posted 9/7/09 at 1:47am
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  U.S. Venture Partners invested in Inspire Medical Systems. (6/29/09)
  Posted 6/29/09 at 12:44pm
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  U.S. Venture Partners invested in Superprotonic. (1/8/09)
  Posted 8/24/09 at 7:32pm
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  U.S. Venture Partners invested in Solyndra. (12/08)
  Posted 5/18/09 at 1:31pm
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  U.S. Venture Partners invested in Intransa. (10/21/08)
  Posted 7/29/09 at 5:39am
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  U.S. Venture Partners invested in Kleer. (3/25/08)
  Posted 1/7/09 at 8:54pm
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  U.S. Venture Partners invested in Kilopass. (2/28/08)
  Posted 1/8/09 at 8:34pm
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  U.S. Venture Partners invested in Right90. (7/07)
  Posted 12/29/08 at 4:26pm
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  U.S. Venture Partners invested in Sanarus Medical. (2/20/07)
  Posted 9/15/09 at 7:25am
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  U.S. Venture Partners invested in M-Factor. (2007)
  Posted 1/25/09 at 4:25pm
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  U.S. Venture Partners invested in Intermolecular. (9/20/06)
  Posted 9/9/09 at 7:01am
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  U.S. Venture Partners invested in Kleer.
  Posted 1/7/09 at 8:56pm

Investments

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1. Intransa raises $1.5M for Ethernet storage (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
2. Dilithium lands $10.9M for wireless multimedia systems (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
3. Israel’s BPT Raises $12M For Clean Water Technology (cleantechbrief.com) [edit]
4. Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.: Series B $17M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
5. Superprotonic Garners $8,000,000 Series C Round (xconomy.com) [edit]
6. Solyndra Series E Financing Tops $200M (sustainablebusiness.com) [edit]
7. Intransa gets $15M for video surveillance storage (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
8. Wow! Kleer Gets $28M Of Funding In Series B Round (And Deserves It) (informationweek.com) [edit]
9. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
10. Right90, Web-based sales forecasting company, raises $12M more (venturebeat.com) [edit]
11. Sanuras, breat tumor device company raises $15M (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
12. M-Factor raises $10.1M for marketing analysis software (venturebeat.com) [edit]
13. Intermolecular, a secretive nanotech company, raises $27.62M (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
14. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]