york city new york united states products venture capital total assets 1.5 billion 1 website www.rre.com rre ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investments across several disciplines including software internet mobile financial services consumer and enterprise hardware and other related technologies primarily within the united states and especially in and around new york . the firm was founded in 1994 . history edit rre ventures has provided 1.5 billion of venture capital financing for over 225 companies . 1 among the firm s notable investments are avant betaworks braintree broadsoft business insider buzzfeed cyota concur extricity emachines giga information group goldpocket icrossing kroll bond ratings loudeye makerbot massive messageone metapath netcentives nexsan numberfire ondeck proofpoint quirky qpass recyclebank revolution money rubric smartpay screamingmedia taleo taqua telocity thesquarefoot vastera vine vocera watchguard weddingchannel whiptail and wisdomtree investments . the firm s founders include james d. robinson iv a venture capitalist and entrepreneur previously with jp morgan chase and hambrecht & quist stuart j. ellman a former investment banker at dillon read and morgan stanley and a professor at columbia business school and james d. robinson iii former chairman & ceo of american express former chairman of bristol myers squibb and 40 year director of the coca cola company . the firm has a group of fortune 500 executives and entrepreneurs as senior advisors including larry bossidy former chairman & ceo of honeywell and allied signal ; cathie black former chair hearst magazines former ceo newspaper association of america ; david coulter former ceo bankamerica corporation ; michael eskew former chairman & ceo ups ; john j. mack former chairman & ceo morgan stanley ; shelly lazarus former chairman & ceo of ogilvy & mather ; ted leonsis former vice chairman & president aol ; sam nunn former us senator from georgia ; ric duques former chairman & ceo of first data ; and strauss zelnick owner of zelnick media and chairman & ceo take two interactive . public data indicate the firm s primary outside investors include pension funds endowments public corporations and other private investors . the firm is one of the largest most active early mid stage venture capital firms in new york . 2 references edit a b rre ventures website about us exclusive the most active venture capital firms in h1 2014 silicon valley new york & massachusetts . cb insights . july 15 2014 . external links edit rre ventures company website rre ventures on twitter 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 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 financial services corporation of the united states is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e 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 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title rre ventures & oldid 740285801 categories venture capital firms of the united statescompanies established in 1994private equity firms of the united statescompanies based in new york cityprivately held companies based in new york cityunited states financial services company stubsunited states private equity firm stubshidden categories twitter username different from wikidataall 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 italiano edit links this page was last modified on 20 september 2016 at 04 13 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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