Hyper9 is fortunate to have a highly qualified board of directors. A combination of visionaries, domain experts, seasoned executives and
experienced guides, the Hyper9 board keeps us looking beyond the horizon to meet
our long term goals.
Since its inception in 1977, Matrix Partners has been dedicated to helping outstanding
entrepreneurs build successful companies. Our mission is helping our founders and
management teams build the next great companies of tomorrow and often entire new
industries. We bring the collective resources of the Partnership to each investment,
giving you, the entrepreneur, access to all of our experience. Our approach sets
us apart from most other venture firms and is the reason why so many of our successful
entrepreneurs, when starting their next company, return to Matrix first. This approach
has propelled Matrix Partners to be the most successful venture firm in the United
States during the last ten years with its last three partnerships having record-setting
returns.
Silverton Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas.
The firm focuses on Austin-based companies and invests in outstanding entrepreneurs
who are committed to attacking growth markets with proprietary products or services.
The principals of Silverton Partners have over two decades of venture experience,
having started investing in Austin in 1984.
Venrock is a premier venture capital firm with offices in Palo Alto, New York, Cambridge,
MA, and Israel. Originally established as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller
family, Venrock continues an eight-decade tradition of partnering with entrepreneurs
to establish successful, enduring companies. Having invested $2.3 billion in 430
companies resulting in 124 IPOs and 126 M&A exits over the past 40 years, Venrock's
investment returns place it among the top tier venture capital firms that have achieved
consistently superior performance. With a primary focus on technology, healthcare,
and energy, portfolio companies have included Apple Computer, Centocor, Check Point
Software, DoubleClick, Gilead Sciences, Idec Pharmaceuticals, Illumina, Intel, Millennium
Pharmaceuticals, Sirna Therapeutics, and StrataCom.
Maples Investments is a Silicon Valley based, early-stage micro-fund focused on
start-ups that fundamentally disrupt existing large markets or create new market
categories. The firm currently works with business-focused companies such as Demandforce,
Egnyte, Hyper9, Solarwinds, Spiceworks, and YuMe Networks, as well as consumer-focused
companies such as Aggregate Knowledge, digg, IMVU, Kongregate, ngmoco, and Twitter.
