Sevin Rosen Funds

Sevin Rosen Funds (SRF) is a Texas-based[1][2] venture capital firm, and was[3] one of the leading investors on the US West Coast,[4] and was established in 1981[5] by L. J. Sevin, a former Texas Instruments engineer,[6] and Ben Rosen. SRF was involved in the financing of Citrix, Cypress Semiconductor, Electronic Arts,[2] Lotus Development Corporation,[7] Silicon Graphics, Ciena Corporation[8] and Vitesse Semiconductor.[6][9] SRF's first major success was its 1982 investment in Compaq which went public shortly thereafter.[10][11]

Sevin Rosen Funds
Private
FoundedDallas (1981)
HeadquartersDallas, Texas
Key people
L. J. Sevin, Co-founder
Benjamin M. Rosen, Co-founder
Websitewww.srfunds.com

Entrepreneurs supported by SRF include: Dennis Mudd (Slacker), James Sabry (Cytokinetics), Dave Vucina (Wayport), Michael Baum (entrepreneur) (Splunk), Nick Gault (XenSource), and Ranjith Kumaran (YouSendIt).

West Coast

This fund has shut down West Coast operations.

Investments

Its investments include Alder Biopharmaceuticals, Capstone Turbine, Ciena,[8] Citrix Systems, Compaq, Cyrix, Cytokinetics, Electronic Arts, NetLogic Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, and Splunk.[12]

Community

The company founded and funded an award that gives recognition to "innovative technical achievement with potential for entrepreneurial success" at Berkeley[13] and a grant for "membership in Austin Technology Incubator."[14]

References
  1. "Sevin Rosen Funds".
  2. Anupreeta Das (January 4, 2008). "Sevin Rosen venture capital partners splitting up". Reuters. which is known for backing huge successes like Compaq Computer Corp and Electronic Arts
  3. Miguel Helft (October 7, 2006). "A Kink in Venture Capital's Gold Chain". The New York Times.
  4. Andrew Zacharakis, William D. Bygrave (2019). Entrepreneurship. John Wiley & Sons. p. 336. ISBN 978-1-119-56322-8.
  5. Leonard Sloane (September 28, 1981). "New Venure Capital Firm is formed". The New York Times.
  6. "BusinessDallas: The 16th Floor". D Magazine (Dallas).
  7. Esther Dyson (October 13, 1997). "The Accidental 'Techie'". Newsweek. pp. 79–86. Ben Rosen .. Lotus founder Mitch Kapor ..funding for
  8. Candace Carlisle (July 13, 2004). "The 'Big D's' biggest VC: Jon Bayless on the hunt for $150M". BizJournals (Dallas Business Journal).
  9. Quote: The best stories ... millions of dollars in venture capital .. builders of Compaq and Convex Computer, Mostek and Cypress Semiconductor, CIENA, Intecom, and dozens of other successful technology companies.
  10. Essentials of managerial finance. Dryden Press. 1987. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-030-09967-0.
  11. Tim Kellis (2007). Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage. Sevin-Rosen's most famous investment was in providing the seed capital to Compaq Computer for manufacturing the first laptop PC in the early 80s
  12. "SRFUNDS.COM". www.srfunds.com. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
  13. "Student Award: Sevin Rosen Funds Award for Innovation".
  14. "Sevin Rosen Funds sponsors grant program". January 17, 2006.



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