|
|
Office Locations:
|
855A Santa Cruz Avenue
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Phone: 650-854-6100
Fax: 650-618-8745
| | |
|
|
|
|
|
Business Services
Communications & Networking
Energy & Clean Tech
Information Technology
Media & Digital Media
|
|
|
|
Bridgescale Partners is a Menlo Park-based venture capital firm providing expansion capital to U.S.-based later-stage technology companies. The firm has invested in more than 100 private companies of which 25 achieved an IPO and more than 50 exited through an M&A. This list includes category leaders such as Atheros, CNET, FormFactor, Geocities, ONI Systems, Pivotal Technologies, Quantum Effects Design, SupportSoft and Sycamore Networks. The firm is active across a broad range of information technology, media and communication sectors based on the core investment themes for growth: Broadband enabled services, Digital Media Convergence, Software as a Service, Communication Infrastructure, Mobility and Clean Energy. In addition, Bridgescale has advised on more than 35 M&A and financing transactions representing more than $25 billion in transaction value. Bridgescale's strategy is to invest $3 million to $8 million into category leading mid to late stage companies in what is generally their final round before achieving profitability.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Investment Firm Key
VC = Venture Capital
PE = Private Equity
A = Angel
I = Incubator
MB = Merchant Bank
VD = Venture Debt
FI = Family Investment Office
FOF = Fund of Funds
ED = Economic Development Office
TT = Technology Transfer Office
CVC = Corporate Venture Capital
SEC = Secondary Purchaser
HF = Hedge Fund/Mutual Fund
|
|
| COMPANY STAGE | REVENUE |
| Venture Capital | |
Seed Stage
(includes "pre-seed," or
concept stage) | No Revenue |
| Early Stage | Minimal
Revenue |
Growth Stage
(also called Mid-stage) | $2M-$7M |
Expansion Stage
(also called Late-stage) | $7M and greater |
| Private Equity | |
| Lower Middle Market | $10M-$249M |
| Middle Market | $250M-$499M |
| Upper Middle Market | $500M-$1B |
| Large Cap | >$1B |
|
|
|
|
|
