Venture Fund Member Profile
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Since our founding in 1976, we have worked with strong entrepreneurial teams to build long lasting companies in emerging markets. Today, we continue to employ a strategy that has worked for over 30 years in making us one of the most successful and respected venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. Investment ideas come to us from varied sources, from our previous entrepreneurs to our own research in different areas of technology. We select the best teams and ideas and build a long-term relationship with entrepreneurs to turn those ideas into commercial reality.
We invest in all areas of information technology, from companies developing communication products, to semiconductors, to storage solutions, to mobile applications, to consumer related Internet sites. While we are also interested in services companies, we look for a technological advantage that will enable high growth, high profit margins and operating leverage.
To build a big and exciting company, you have to serve a big and exciting market. Whether it's a large existing market the company intends to disrupt, or an emerging market the company is creating, we must have confidence that the addressable market will be large enough to support, in short order, a $100 million per year revenue company after achieving realistic market share.
We are a true multi-stage venture fund, writing our first check to companies from the seed stage to pre-IPO. We are happy to lead the Series A, putting the first money in, helping build the team, and then supporting the company in subsequent rounds throughout their growth. If it's a great company and our opportunity to invest occurs later in its life, that's fine too. Our large fund allows the flexibility to make a bigger investment at a later stage and still play a very active role.
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Sonja Hoel Perkins
Managing Director
Menlo Ventures |
Sonja joined Menlo Ventures in 1994. Prior to Menlo Ventures, she was in business development for Symantec Corporation and was an investment analyst for TA Associates. Sonja focuses primarily on software, communications and Internet investments. Her recent investments and board seats include: Asempra, Big Tent, GreenNote, Jobfox, nCircle, Q1 Labs and Solidcore. Her prior investments and board seats include: Acme Packet (APKT); AssureNet Pathways, acquired by Symantec (SYMC); Eloquent (ELOQ); F5 Networks (FFIV); MailFrontier, acquired by SonicWALL (SNWL); Optical Solutions, acquired by Calix; PassMark Security, acquired by RSA Security (formerly RSAS and now a subsidiary of EMC Corporation); Priority Call, acquired by LHS Group; Recourse Technologies, acquired by Symantec (SYMC); and Vermeer Technologies, acquired by Microsoft (MFST). Sonja is a graduate of the University of Virginia (B.S. in Commerce) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration (M.B.A.). She serves as a director of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists (WAVC), the Foundation Board of the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
Representative Investments
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Hotmail brought email to everyone by creating the world’s best webmail. |
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F5 Networks load balancing solutions for server management and reliable Internet content delivery. |
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Cavium Networks started by speeding up security, and will finish by building Silicon Valley’s next major semiconductor company. |
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3Par created Utility Storage to meet 21st-century data center storage demands. |
Sonja participated in the FundingPost event: Silicon Valley Angel & Venture Conference
on July 21, 2009 in CA, Sponsored by Bingham McCutchen LLP
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