chambers . matrix partners type private ownership industry venture capital predecessor hellman ferri investment associates 1977 to 1982 founded 1977 founder paul ferri headquarters palo alto california united states total assets 2.4 billion 1 website www.matrixpartners.com matrix partners is a us based private equity investment firm focusing on venture capital investments . the firm invests in seed and early stage companies in the united states and india particularly in the software communications semiconductors data storage internet or wireless sectors . the firm has offices in cambridge massachusetts palo alto california mumbai india and beijing china . matrix partners is not connected with matrix private equity partners llp or matrix securities which are part of matrix group a uk financial services business based in london . 2 contents 1 history 2 investments 3 references 4 external links history edit tracing its roots to 1977 matrix was an active player in the development of the venture capital industry in the 1980s . the firm s direct predecessor hellman ferri investment associates 1977 to 1982 was founded by paul j. ferri and warren hellman founder of san francisco based private equity firm hellman & friedman . among the firm s notable investments matrix partners was an early stage investor in apple inc. arrowpoint communications digium jboss justfab psinet sandisk silverstream software theladders.com sonus networks tivoli software tollbridge technologies veritas software vermeer technologies incorporated and xilinx . in 1985 matrix raised its first institutional private equity fund . since then matrix has raised nine funds with total investor commitments of 2.4 billion . in 2001 matrix partners completed fundraising for matrix partners vii a 1 billion venture capital fund . 3 in 2006 matrix raised matrix partners viii fund with 445 million of investor commitments . 4 in 2006 matrix also raised a separate 150 million india fund . 5 6 in july 2009 matrix partners raised matrix ix fund with 600m . 7 investments edit since 1977 matrix has invested in apple computer alteon websystems and office club . 8 its current portfolio includes companies such as ambarella kinnek justfab 9 gilt groupe sqrrl billfloat inc mitro grownout 10 and canva . 11 12 13 references edit capital raised since inception matrix group website 1bn fund for matrix partners . altassets 2001 matrix makes plans for 445m fund . matrix partners raises funds for its new fund matrix partners viii . private equity week 2006 matrix partners closes india fund on 150m . altassets 2006 . matrix closes new india fund . new york times 2006 http www.matrixpartners.com site press detail 343 matrix partners about us . https www.crunchbase.com organization justfabulous cutler kim mai sep 5 2013 . get your friends co workers out of password remembering hell with matrix backed mitro . techcrunch . why matrix . canva investors . http venturebeat.com 2010 07 14 billfloat bills it s different this time . san francisco chronicle matrix partners david skok profits again ; this time from tabblo . the deal 2007 matrix partners profile . the funded early mozilla leader leaves matrix partners to rejoin the entrepreneurial ranks . cnet 2008 external links edit official website v t e private equity and venture capital investment firms investment strategy venture growth mezzanine secondaries leveraged buyout history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s investors angel investor corporate venture capital commercial bank crowdfunding institutional investor insurance company investment bank endowment family office fund of funds high net worth individual merchant bank pension fund sovereign wealth fund private equity firms venture capital firms portfolio companies retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title matrix partners & oldid 724874045 categories venture capital firms of the united statescompanies established in 1977 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 june 2016 at 02 38 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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