Venture Fund Member Profile
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InterWest Partners is a leading diversified venture capital firm currently investing InterWest IX, a $600 million fund. Investing since 1979, we build long-term relationships with entrepreneurs and portfolio companies. Our experienced partners, who bring together deep domain knowledge in information technology and life sciences, have established a proven track record of identifying, validating and backing emerging trends and technologies. With more than $2B capital under management, we take a long-term, collaborative approach to venture funding, providing early stage and ongoing capital, management coaching and access to a broad network of resources. InterWest invests an average of about $7 - 15 million over the span of our involvement with each company in our portfolio. We invest in companies through the full range of venture investment stages, and investments may be staged over several rounds of financing. Although we generally begin our involvement in the early stages of a company's development, we pursue attractive opportunities based on their individual merits rather than their investment stage.
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Khaled Nasr
Partner
InterWest Partners |
Khaled Nasr focuses on investments in the data center and communications sectors, including systems, software and semiconductors. Since joining InterWest, Nasr has led investments and joined the board of Terawave Communications, a leading passive optical networking (PON) systems provider, and Gear6, a provider of storage acceleration appliances to enterprise data centers.
From 2000 through 2005, Nasr was investing in information technology companies for Alta Partners. Prior to that, Nasr spent 16 years with start-ups in the networking and telecommunications industries. Nasr was president and chief executive officer of FlowWise Networks. He also served as general manager and vice president at Ipsilon Networks, the IP switching pioneer. Prior to Ipsilon, Nasr served as chief operating officer at Advanced Computer Communications (ACC), a leading manufacturer of access routers and remote access servers, and as vice president of marketing and services with Premisys Communications, a leading provider of Integrated Access solutions. From 1987 to 1992, Nasr served as vice president of network services with Newbridge Networks. Nasr sits on the board of directors of Netli, Xelerated, Aegis Lightwave and RedShift Systems.
Nasr holds B.A. and M.A. in mathematics and social and political sciences from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.
Representative Investments
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Gear6 Gear6's centralized caching solutions address the widening performance gap between increasingly powerful servers and lagging mechanical storage devices, delivering scalable and transparent storage acceleration to mainstream enterprises. Gear6 solutions accelerate existing storage infrastructure for real time performance, eliminate bottlenecks, and guarantee transaction response times. Gear6 is based in Mountain View, California. |
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Terawave is a leading provider of GPON access solutions for telecom and cable service providers, federal, and municipal networks worldwide. Terawave systems provide converged data, voice, and video services in over 90 customer networks on 5 continents. Terawave is based in Hayward, California. |
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RedShift Systems Corp. is a pioneer in enabling low-cost, high-performance thermal imaging solutions for mass-market applications. The RedShift Thermal Light ValveTM technology enables high-quality thermal imaging capability in a wide variety of products for the video surveillance and security, fire-fighting, and automotive markets. RedShift is based in Woburn, MA. |
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Akamai solutions help you grow your online business, not your IT infrastructure. Our managed services give you instant global reach and consistent performance worldwide. Accelerate your Web-based applications and dynamically-generated content while providing fast and flawless media and software delivery. |
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