venture capital industry venture capital founded 2000 headquarters san francisco california total assets 750m number of employees 9 website www.azurecap.com azure capital partners founded 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 2009 azure capital was listed as one of the top 100 global venture capital firms in the red herring magazine 8 and in october 2008 the company sold bill me later to ebay for 945 million . 9 see also edit list of venture capital firms operating partner venture resources references edit west coast vcs east coast rules . businessweek . april 3 2006 . retrieved 5 may 2010 . sap press release . emc press release . ciena press release . citrix systems works the exit . nytimes.com . november 14 2008 . http money.msn.com top stocks post.aspx post 84b81590 848b 4f08 a14e 5e98068a60b9 chairish raises 3.2 m in seed funding . red herring 100 global vcs . after big win venture capitalist says buy . nytimes.com . october 8 2008 . archived from the original on 7 june 2010 . retrieved 5 may 2010 . external links edit company website azure capital partners at crunchbase v t e private equity and venture capital basic investment types buyout venture mezzanine growth secondaries equity co investment 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 terms and concepts buyout financial sponsor management buyout divisional buyout buy sell agreement leveraged recapitalization dividend recapitalization venture angel investor business incubator post money valuation pre money valuation seed money startup company venture capital financing venture debt venture round structure private equity firms and funds limited partnership limited liability company carried interest management fee publicly traded private equity business development company venture capital trust private investment in public equity pipe pledge fund investors corporations institutional investors pension funds insurance companies fund of funds endowments foundations investment banks merchant banks commercial banks high net worth individuals family offices sovereign wealth funds crowdfunding related financial terms aum cap table capital call capital commitment capital structure distribution waterfall ebitda envy ratio high yield debt ipo irr leverage liquidation preference m & a pme taxation of private equity and hedge funds undercapitalization vintage year private equity and venture capital investors private equity firms venture capital firms angel investors portfolio companies this article about a private equity or venture capital firm based in the united states is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article about a financial services corporation of the united states is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title azure capital partners & oldid 743697846 categories venture capital firms of the united statesprivate equity firms of the united statescompanies established in 2000companies based in san franciscounited states private equity firm stubsunited states financial services company stubshidden categories all stub articles 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 10 october 2016 at 19 36 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view