Venture Fund Member Profile
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Since 1988, we have taken a sector focused and stage diversified approach to investing in exceptional companies. We invest in seed, early and growth stage companies in the information technology, communications and healthcare markets. Highland is almost always the first institutional investor in the companies we back.
Our investment team has over a century of combined experience in venture capital. We know that great companies are not built in a day; a long term focus on core strengths is the key to building a successful enterprise. We take an active lead role in the companies we back and serve on the boards of directors of over 90% of our portfolio companies. However, we contribute well beyond board participation and continually seek and deliver competitive advantage to the teams that we back.
At Highland we work hard to build value in each of our companies. That value is reflected in our track record, our organizational structure, our team-oriented approach and in the way that we operate every day.
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Gaurav Tewari Principal Highland Capital Partners |
Gaurav is a Principal at Highland focusing on the internet, digital media, mobile, online marketing and financial services sectors. Gaurav represents Highland on the boards of StyleFeeder, Affine Systems and Top Ten Media. In addition, he currently is or has been actively involved with Highland's investments in Navic Networks (acquired by Microsoft), CMI Marketing, Gotuit, GlobalStreams, Vibe Solutions and Coremetrics.
Prior to joining Highland Capital Partners, Gaurav was a Corporate Strategy Manager at Microsoft Corporation, where he worked with the executive team to define and implement corporate-wide growth opportunities via organic initiatives and acquisitions. Before Microsoft, Gaurav was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, where he led strategic projects for Fortune 100 companies across a number of verticals, including high tech, financial services, healthcare and energy. At McKinsey, Gaurav extensively advised senior management on investments and divestitures, operational improvement and organizational initiatives, and in developing and executing technology strategies and roadmaps.
Gaurav’s other experiences include working within product management at Microsoft (.NET initiative), within software engineering at IBM and as an investment professional at Mission Ventures.
Gaurav holds 7 US technology patents. He has authored 9 published works of research and has spoken at various conferences about location-aware mobile-commerce technologies and business models.
Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.Eng., Computer Science
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, M.B.A. (Ford Fellow, Palmer Scholar)
Representative Investments
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NameMedia NameMedia leads the direct navigation market, with primary traffic from more than 20 million unique visitors each month. The company has developed a network of more than 90 vertical portals that deliver targeted results to consumers in categories that include travel, finance, autos, dating, health, real estate, shopping, technology and many more.
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GlobalStreams GlobalStreams is a provider of video communications hardware and software which has enabled businesses and institutions to communicate more effectively using television-quality video to create powerful messages while lowering their production costs. GlobalStreams’ flagship product, GlobeCaster, is an all-in-one solution for high-quality broadcasting and is ideal for a wide variety of programming. GlobeCaster provides A/V professionals and content producers in many industries with customized tools and technology that enable cost-effective live, and post-produced, content. GlobeCaster supports all major video formats as well as standard Internet streaming formats. |
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ExaGrid Systems Located in Westborough, Massachusetts, ExaGrid is the leader in Cost-effective Disk-based Data Protection solutions. ExaGrid is a cost effective, scalable disk-based backup solution that is ideal for mid-market and small enterprise companies looking to quickly eliminate the hassles of tape backup while reducing their existing backup windows. ExaGrid works in conjunction with existing backup applications, and combines high quality SATA drives with compression and byte-level delta data reduction to deliver fast and reliable backups and restores. |
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Coremetrics Coremetrics provides hosted Web analytics and precision marketing solutions. The company’s flagship product, Coremetrics 2005, is the industry’s only Web analytics platform that captures and stores all customer and visitor clickstream activity to build LIVE (Lifetime Individual Visitor Experience) Profiles that serve as the foundation for all successful e-business initiatives. With Coremetrics 2005, online marketers, IT managers, and e-commerce executives are able to attract and convert high-value visitors, increase customer lifetime value, and create a multichannel view of customer behavior.
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Gaurav participated in the FundingPost event: Boston Early-Stage Angel and Venture Event
on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 in MA, Sponsored by Bingham McCutchen LLP
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