In future it may look to add tourist bodies to further expand its partner roster and affiliate pipeline.
KPCB has assembled a partner roster with a particularly healthy number of females in leadership positions — Aileen Lee, Juliet deBaubigny, Beth Seidenberg, and Mary Meeker are among its current senior investment team.
Just look at the typical exhibition conference partner roster; it's usually a real bun fight over who's going to grab platinum partner sponsor status and who's going to get their logo on the show lanyards.
The accelerator's partner roster has also grown considerably in the past year and now includes Aberdare Ventures, Accel Partners, Fenwick & West, GE, Genentech, Harvard Medical School, Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic, NEA, Qualcomm Life, Silicon Valley Bank and UnitedHealth Group — to name a few.
The startup said that its next release, which is coming soon, will expand its partner roster further, and the team has been in full force at I/O wooing developers.
This week, the Caucus Room, a steakhouse, opens in downtown Washington at Ninth and D Streets N.W. under 65 partners whose rosters of political connections, high-tech interests, and in some cases both, are longer than a Manhattan wine list.
Early-stage venture firm Benchmark has added a sixth general partner to its roster: 35-year-old Scott Belsky, a former Goldman Sachs associate who went on to cofound the New York company Behance, an online platform for graphic designers, illustrators, photographers, web designers, and art directors to showcase their skills.
Matrix Partners, the 38-year-old, early-stage venture capital firm, has just added a 10th general partner to its roster: Hardi Meybaum, an Estonian entrepreneur who sold his computer-aided design company to GrabCAD to the 3D printing giant Stratasys for a reported $100 million in cash and stock roughly a year ago.
Early-stage venture firm Benchmark has added a sixth general partner to its roster: 35-year-old Scott Belsky, a former Goldman Sachs associate who went on to cofound the New York company Behance, an online platform for graphic designers, illustrators, photographers, web designers, and art directors to showcase their skills.
The firm also added partner talent to its roster this year, including bringing on former CrunchFund partner (and my former colleague) MG Siegler to its investment team as a general partner and promoting Andy Wheeler and Blake Byers, to general partners.
