Mary Denten

Scale Venture Partners focuses on investments in the technology and healthcare sectors. Within the technology sector, the firm focuses on software-as-a-service (SaaS), media, marketing, digital services and business computing. Their healthcare investments focus on repurposed drugs, drug/device combinations and diabesity. Scale Venture Partners seeks to invest in companies that already have some indications of future market traction, such as a validated concept, some early customers and/or early revenues. The firm typically serves as the lead or co-lead investor in all their deals. Investments range from $5 million to $15 million. If there are no existing institutional investors, the firm will help a company form a syndicate of quality investors. Scale Venture Partners requires a seat on their portfolio companies' boards of directors.

Global Catalyst LLC is an active manager which invests in companies located in the U, China, Israel and Japan. The firm follows of manufacturing, financing and technology sectors. It provides financing for early stage investments.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) focuses on investments in the life sciences, biodefense, green technology, information technology and companies with new technologies related to the iPhone and iPod touchpad platform.The firm's information technology investments focus on the consumer, enterprise, semiconductors, security and communications industries. They invest primarily in early-stage ventures that are incubating new companies with proven entrepreneurs and good ideas.KPCB's life sciences investments include medical devices, drugs, vaccines, personalized medicine, diagnostics and healthcare information technology and services. Their pandemic and biodefense investment initiative focuses on investments in companies with innovations in disease surveillance, rapid diagnostics, new vaccine technology, portable and less expensive manufacturing of vaccines and new antiviral drugs.The firm's iFund invests in market-changing ideas and products that extend the iPhone and iPod touch platform. The Fund invests across all sizes and stages. KPCB targets investments in companies that are developing applications, services and components. Their specific areas of interest include: location-based services, social networking, eCommerce (including advertising and payments), communication and entertainment.