Investors

Index Ventures

Index Ventures (www.indexventures.com) is a leading European venture capital firm active in technology venture investing since 1996. The firm is dedicated to helping top entrepreneurial teams in the Information Technology and Life Science sectors build their companies into market defining global leaders. The firm has offices in Geneva, London and Jersey and focuses its investment activity primarily on Europe and Israel. Investments include Betfair (the world's largest betting exchange); Skype (the pioneering communications company, recently acquired by eBay); MySQL (the world's most popular open source database); SecureWave (a worldwide leader in endpoint security) and Zend (the PHP company).

Venrock Associates

Venrock Associates (www.venrock.com) was founded as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller Family and today continues a six-decade tradition of funding entrepreneurs and establishing successful, enduring companies. Venrock was formed in 1969 to build upon the successful investing activities of the Rockefeller Family that began in the late 1930s, when Laurance Rockefeller pioneered early-stage venture financing. Today, having invested more than $1.8 billion in more than 400 companies over the past 36 years, Venrock is one of the most established venture firms in the United States, with investment returns that place it among a small number of premier organizations that have achieved consistently superior performance.