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Azure Capital Partners
Company type
Venture Capital
Industry
Private Equity
Founded
2000
Founder
Paul Ferris Mike Kwatinetz Paul Weinstein
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
AUM
$750M
Number of employees
9
Website
www.azurecap.com
Azure Capital Partners, which was established in 2000, is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in the information technology industry using an investment research approach to venture capital investing.[1] Azure Capital Partners was founded by Mike Kwatinetz, Paul Ferris, Paul Weinstein, and Cameron Lester.
The firm's portfolio includes TopTier,[2] VMware,[3] World Wide Packets,[4] and VAPPS[5] and more recently, BlogHer, BroadLight,[6] Calix, Chairish,[7] Cooking.com, Convercent, Coraid, Cyan Optics, Education.com, ezRez Software (Switchfly), Fonality, K2 (SourceCode), Knowledge Adventure, Medsphere, NeoNova, Phanfare, PSS Systems, Rooftop Comedy, SilkRoad Tech, SlideRocket, The Bouqs, TravelMuse, TripIt, and Zend Technologies.
In October 2008, the company sold Bill Me Later to eBay for $945 million.[8] In 2009, Azure Capital was listed as one of the top 100 global venture capital firms in the Red Herring magazine.[9]
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