Venture Fund Member Profile
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Hummer Winblad Venture Partners was founded in 1989 as the first venture capital fund to invest exclusively in software companies. Through our history, we’ve had the opportunity to invest in the pioneers and leaders of several generations of software applications, architectures, delivery methods and business models.
We’ve helped entrepreneurs build companies in desktop software, embedded systems, client-server, distributed network computing, internet, and software as a service.
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Lars Leckie
Principal
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners |
Lars is a Principal at Hummer Winblad and has played a key role in the firm’s investments in Aria Systems (SaaS billing and customer management) and vKernel (Virtualization Infrastructure).
Prior to joining Hummer Winblad Venture Partners in 2006, Lars was involved in founding and operational roles at start-up companies. He was a co-founder of AutoFarm (now Novariant), a company focused on GPS and robotics. Lars was in charge of strategy, product marketing, business development and building the sales team across three continents. Lars has also been involved with the founding team of SportBug, a GPS and Internet fitness company. While Lars spends less time programming now, he started his technical career coding and hacking computer games. He is the holder of several US patents.
Lars is an avid sailor and a former member of the Canadian Sailing Team. He represented Canada sailing Snipes in the Pan American Games as well as other international events.
Lars has a Masters of Science (Engineering) from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of business. He also holds an Engineering Physics degree from Queen’s University (with Honors).
Representative Investments
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Tizor offers the first datacenter appliance solution for Activity Auditing of business applications. Tizor appliances offer a common and transparent platform to answer the question: “what do users do to critical data within key applications such as databases, fileservers, and application servers?” without impacting the performance of servers. Tizor solutions can audit activities for compliance regulations ranging from SOX, PCI, HIPAA, 1386, as well as provide auditing for business activities such as BPO. Founded by former Bell Labs researchers, Tizor has patent- pending technologies including industry’s first approach to detect and protect against identity & information theft activities from data servers. |
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Elastra provides software for designing, deploying, and managing complete application systems in public and private cloud computing environments. Our products simplify and automate the complex processes associated with database and application infrastructure design, deployment and management, while elastically-scaling sophisticated application systems up and down based on computing need. For companies building applications ELASTRA removes the cost, complexity and resource-drain of owning, scaling and managing databases, middleware and the underlying infrastructure, and allows customers to realize the true value of cloud computing.
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MuleSource is the leading provider of open source service oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure software. Founded by the creators of the Mule project, the world’s most reliable and widely used open source enterprise service bus (ESB) and integration platform, MuleSource delivers enterprise class software, support and services to the thousands of organizations that have downloaded the open source project worldwide. |
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GNi is a leading provider of customer-centric managed services that extend customers’ infrastructure while dramatically reducing their total cost of ownership (TCO). GNi provides the expertise, resources and solutions to meet and exceed customers’ unique onsite and off-site requirements. Services include wired and wireless connectivity, world-class network security, disaster recovery, comprehensive server management and hosting, networking operations and management, and network consulting. GNi’s unique P.O.W.E.R. (Process Organized with Efficient Resources) methodology delivers consistent levels of excellence for efficiently managing peak loads and guaranteeing uptime. |
Lars participated in the FundingPost event: Silicon Valley Venture Capital Conference
on Thursday, March 5, 2009 in CA, Sponsored by FundingPost
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