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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Prashant Shah
Managing Director
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners |
Prashant Shah, Managing Director, joined Hummer Winblad in December 2000. He has been instrumental in many investments including Baynote, Bridgestream, Cenzic, InMage, Jareva Technologies, Krillion, Scalent, SyncVoice, Tizor and Voltage Security. He also observes a number of these boards. In addition, Prashant is an active Charter Member of TiE Silicon Valley, where he is Chair of the Software SIG; and a member of the Board of Trustees for Astia.
Prior to Hummer Winblad, Prashant spent many years defining and launching high tech products. His background spans all seven layers of the OSI stack with product management roles at enCommerce (acquired by Entrust), Cypress Semiconductor and AT&T. Prashant received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Representative Investments
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Baynote, Inc. is the leader in recommendations and social search. The Baynote Collective Intelligence Platform drives multichannel product and content recommendations as an on-demand software-as-a-service(SaaS) on business websites. Baynote allows businesses to deploy peer-driven recommendations, social search and other services across multiple channels while also providing a single point of measurement, testing and control. The Collective Intelligence Platform is able to identify and leverage the virtual communities of like-minded site visitors to ultimately improve user engagement and lift online revenue by 50-200 percent. Baynote delivers millions of recommendations each day for more than 120 eCommerce, media and enterprise customers, including Motorola, NASA, The Knot and US Appliance. |
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Scalent Systems understands the core issues facing enterprise IT today. Their focus is on Network-Aware Just-In-Time Server Repurposing, for Business Continuity and IT Consolidation. They enable customers to repurpose or failover entire farms of servers on the fly, by continuously controlling not only what boots on every server, but also the associated I/O topologies - LAN and SAN. |
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Cenzic provides products that discover and assess known and unknown security vulnerabilities in both networks and enterprise applications. Based on a patent-pending testing methodology, Cenzic products can be used during application development, deployment, or operation. |
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InMage Systems was founded to improve upon previous business continuity measures that relied on decades-old approaches. Their mission is to ensure that business-critical data is always available, locally and/or at remote sites, in a cost-effective, scalable, non-disruptive and future-proof manner. The company’s innovative, patent-pending products and solutions provide cost-effective local replication of critical data, automated failover, Continuous Data Protection, secondary site replication and more. InMage pioneered both the concept and the implementation of event-based recovery. InMage was co-founded by acknowledged storage visionary Kumar Malavalli, who co-founded Brocade Communications and brought the notion of SAN to datacenters everywhere. |
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