Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) is a US based private equity

Private equity

Private equity, in finance, is an asset class consisting of equity securities in operating companies that are not publicly traded on a stock exchange....

 investment firm focusing on later-stage venture capital

Venture capital

Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...

 and growth equity investments. IVP is one of the oldest venture capital firms on Sand Hill Road

Sand Hill Road

Sand Hill Road is a road in Menlo Park, California, notable for its concentration of venture capital companies. Its significance as a symbol of private equity in the United States may be compared to that of Wall Street in the stock market...

 founded by Reid W. Dennis in 1980.

The firm manages over $2.9 billion in committed capital, including its 13th and latest fund which IVP closed at $750 million in September of 2010. http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/institutional-venture-announces-750-million-fund/

Investments

IVP has invested in more than 300 companies since its inception, including ArcSight

ArcSight

ArcSight, an HP company, was founded in 2000 and is a technology company that provides security information and event management solutions. ArcSight headquarters are located in Cupertino, California, USA, with sales offices around the globe including the United States, the United Kingdom, France,...

 (ARST), Ask Jeeves (IACI), Aspect Communications (ASPT), @Road

@Road

@Road is an American company offering "Mobile Resource Management" services to its customers, using GPS, wireless, voice and Internet technologies to deliver Software as a Service to manage fleet vehicles, dispatchers and mobile professionals. @Road is headquartered in Fremont, California...

 (ARDI), Business.com

Business.com

Business.com is a business search engine and web directory and pay per click advertising network. It includes Work.com, a business-to-business community publishing platform where experts share advice on common business topics in the form of how-to guides....

 (RHD), Clarify (CLFY), ComScore

ComScore

comScore is a Internet marketing research company providing marketing data and services to many of the Internet's largest businesses. comScore tracks all internet data on its surveyed computers in order to study online behavior....

 (SCOR), Concur Technologies

Concur Technologies

Concur Technologies is a provider of software solutions that automate employee spending management. Its headquarters is in Redmond, Washington, U.S.A.-Current status:More than 10,000 clients in over 90 countries use Concur’s solutions...

 (CNQR), Danger

Danger (company)

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 (MSFT), Digital River

Digital River

Digital River is a U.S. e-commerce outsourcing company. The company’s platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud management, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, reporting and strategic marketing services...

 (DRIV), Form Factor (FORM), Foundry Networks

Foundry Networks

Foundry Networks, Inc. was a networking hardware vendor selling high-end Ethernet switches and routers. The company was founded in 1996 by Bobby R. Johnson, Jr. and was headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA...

 (FDRY), Juniper Networks

Juniper Networks

Juniper Networks is an information technology and computer networking products multinational company, founded in 1996. It is head quartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. The company designs and sells high-performance Internet Protocol network products and services...

 (JNPR), LSI Corporation

LSI Corporation

LSI Corporation is an electronics company based in Milpitas, California that designs semiconductors and software that accelerate storage and networking in datacenters and mobile networks.-History:...

 (LSI), Mobile 365 (SY), MySQL

MySQL

MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...

 (JAVA), Netflix

Netflix

Netflix, Inc., is an American provider of on-demand internet streaming media in the United States, Canada, and Latin America and flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States. The company was established in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California...

 (NFLX), Polycom

Polycom

Polycom is a multinational corporation with approximately 3,200 employees worldwide and an annual revenue of approximately $1.2 billion in 2010. The company manufactures and sells telepresence and voice communications solutions.-Company History 1990:...

 (PLCM), Quigo

Quigo

Quigo Technologies, Inc. was a privately owned search engine marketing company headquartered in New York City. Founded in Israel in 2000 by Yaron Galai and Oded Itzhak, it developed proprietary search solutions for the online contextual advertising it offered through its two products: AdSonar and...

 (TWX), Seagate Technology

Seagate Technology

Seagate Technology is one of the world's largest manufacturers of hard disk drives. Incorporated in 1978 as Shugart Technology, Seagate is currently incorporated in Dublin, Ireland and has its principal executive offices in Scotts Valley, California, United States.-1970s:On November 1, 1979...

 (STX), Spiceworks

Spiceworks

Spiceworks is a software development company headquartered in Austin, Texas. It was formed in early 2006 by Scott Abel, Jay Hallberg, Greg Kattawar, and Francis Sullivan to provide a Facebook-like community integrated with a free ad-supported IT systems management, inventory, and help desk...

 (Privately-owned), Synchronoss (SNCR), TiVo

TiVo

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 (TIVO), Websense

Websense

Websense is a San Diego-based company specializing in Web security gateway software. It enables clients to block access to chosen categories of websites.-History:Websense was founded by Phil Trubey in 1994...

 (WBSN) and Zynga.

IVP invested in Twitter

Twitter

Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...

 in February 2009.

IVP invested in FleetMatics, the leading software provider of GPS-based fleet management systems, in December 2010.

External links

• IVP (website)
• Crunchbase entry