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. Our earliest portfolio companies started shipping software on floppy disks and today we’re investors in pioneering companies in on-demand computing. We’ve seen everything from shrink-wrap licenses to enterprise-wide "big deals" to subscription pricing; from direct sales to highly-leveraged channel strategies.
In other words, because software is all we do, we bring tremendous value to highly talented people who want to build great software companies. We hope our website tells you a lot about us, but please feel free to contact any of us directly.
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Ann Winblad
Managing Director and co-founder
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners |
Ann Winblad is the co-founder and a Managing Director of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. She is a well-known and respected software industry entrepreneur and technology leader. Her background and over 30 years of experience in the software industry have been chronicled in many national business and trade publications.
Ann began her career as a systems programmer at the Federal Reserve Bank. In 1976 Ann co-founded Open Systems, Inc., a top selling accounting software company, with a $500 investment. She operated Open Systems profitably for six years and then sold it for over $15 million. Prior to co-founding Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Ann served as a strategy consultant for prestigious clients such as IBM, Microsoft, Price Waterhouse, and numerous start-ups. In addition, Ann has co-authored the book Object-Oriented Software and has written articles for numerous publications. Ann received a BA in mathematics and in business administration from the College of St. Catherine, as well as an MA in education and international economics from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota. Ann also has an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of St. Thomas.
Ann has served as a Director of numerous start-up and public companies and currently serves as a director of Voltage Security, Krillion, Mulesource and Star Analytics. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of St. Thomas. Ann is an advisor to numerous entrepreneur groups, as well as co-chair of SD Forum.
Representative Investments
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Krillion delivers actionable local search; local search that enables consumers to find and buy products offline, from a physical store. Krillion’s mission is to transform the way ready-to-buy consumers find and buy national brands, locally. Based on the patent-pending Krillion Localization Engine™, Krillion search results provide highly accurate local commerce results. These results bridge the “last mile” of commerce and turn online researchers into offline buyers.
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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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Star Analytics provides enterprise software solutions to automate the integration and sharing of data for business analysis and financial reporting. Star Analytics’ flagship product, Star Integration Server (SIS), enables corporations to derive greater value from their business intelligence and data warehousing investments. Star Integration Server automates the laborious and costly task of integrating data from disparate financial systems for analysis and reporting using a wide range of open standard front-end reporting tools. Star Integration Server provides rapid, seamless, automated extraction of data from proprietary OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) data sources and applications. The data is transformed from multidimensional into relational structures, and consolidated into relational databases that maintain a single source of financial data. SIS is fully deployed in Fortune 1000 accounts across industries. |
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Voltage Security Voltage Security, Inc., an enterprise security company provides secure business communication and enterprise data protection solutions. Voltage’s information encryption solutions, based on next generation cryptography, provide encryption that just works for protecting valuable, regulated and sensitive information persistently and based on policy. Voltage delivers power, simplicity and the low total cost of ownership through the use of award-winning Voltage Identity-Based Encryption™ (IBE). Voltage Security offerings include Voltage SecureMail™, the Voltage Data Protection System™ and the Voltage Security Network™ (VSN), a Security as a Service (SaaS) solution for the extended business network. |
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