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Venrock (portmanteau of Venture and Rockefeller) is a venture capital firm formed in 1969 to build upon the successful investing activities of the Rockefeller family that began in the late 1930s. It has offices in Palo Alto, California , New York City , and Boston, Massachusetts .
History [ edit ]
Venture capitalist Laurance S. Rockefeller (1910–2004) was the fourth of the six children of John D. Rockefeller Jr. In January 1946 he formed Rockefeller Brothers, Inc., one of the first postwar venture-capital operations, starting with a capitalization of $1.5 million. There were eight partners in all, the five brothers and their sister, Abby, and two non-family members, Harper Woodward and MIT scientist, Ted Walkowicz. In 1969, the firm became known as Venrock.[1] aerospace , electronics, high temperature physics, composite materials , optics , lasers , data processing , thermionics , and nuclear power .[citation needed
Venrock closed its seventh fund in July 2014 with 8 partners and its eighth fund in January 2017 with 15 partners, each fund totalling $450 million.[2] [3]
Investments [ edit ]
Venrock invested more than $2.5 billion in more than 440 companies, resulting in 125 initial public offerings .[citation needed Venrock focuses its investments on early-stage and start-up companies in information technology, healthcare and emerging technologies. These include: Intel , Apple , AppNexus , Astranis , StrataCom , Check Point Software , Dapper Labs, DoubleClick , 3Com Corporation , Mosaic , PGP , Itek , Digex , Interos,[4] Phoenix , Second Rotation (gazelle) , RedSeal, CTERA Networks , and Juno Therapeutics . It also has a significant venture in the nascent nanotechnology field, with early funding of Nanosys and the nanotech division of Du Pont .[5] BioTime .[6] [7]
In the healthcare sector with partners such as Bryan Roberts, Venrock has invested in athenahealth , Grand Rounds, HealthSouth Corporation , MedPartners, Inc. , Castlight Health , Caliper Technologies Corporation, Centocor , Geron ,[8] senolytic startup UNITY Biotechnology ,[9] Illumina , Millennium Pharmaceuticals , Sirna Therapeutics , and Sugen.[citation needed
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References [ edit ]
^ Dolan, Kerry A. "How Venrock Is Reinventing Itself" . Forbes . Retrieved 2017-12-06 .
^ Interos (2020-03-12). "Interos Raises $17.5M from Venrock and Kleiner Perkins to Grow Third-Party Risk Management Platform" (Press release). GlobeNewswire News Room. Retrieved 2021-08-16 .
^ Feder, Barnaby J. (March 15, 2004). "TECHNOLOGY; Bashful vs. Brash in the New Field of Nanotech" . The New York Times . Retrieved May 2, 2017 .
^ "SEC Schedule 13G, filed Feb. 17, 1999" .
^ "Bloomberg Link speaker profile" . Archived from the original on 2013-08-03.
^ "SEC Schedule 13G, filed Feb. 17, 1999" .
^ Timmerman, Luke (27 October 2016). "Arch, Fidelity, Bezos Bet $116M On Startup To Fight Diseases Of Aging" . Forbes . Retrieved 2 January 2017 .
Further reading [ edit ]
Harr, John Ensor, and Peter J. Johnson. The Rockefeller Century: Three Generations of America's Greatest Family . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons , 1988.
Winks, Robin W. Laurance S. Rockefeller: Catalyst for Conservation . New York: Island Press, 1997.
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