capital founded 2003 founder joe horowitz headquarters 505 hamilton ave palo alto california usa area served united states key people joe horowitz tom mawhinney jeb miller michael mullany services financing website www.iconventures.com icon ventures is an american venture capital firm located in palo alto california united states . contents 1 history 2 business description 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit icon ventures was founded by joe horowitz in 2003 in palo alto california under the name jafco ventures . the company rebranded as icon ventures in january 2015 . 1 until 2014 its capital was exclusively provided by jafco a japanese investment fund . 2 in march 2014 icon raised a 260m fund from a diversified group of investors . 3 business description edit icon ventures has historically funded early stage and growth stage investments in private technology based businesses . 4 significant technology companies that it has backed include fireeye 5 palo alto networks 6 tune 7 aster data 8 and proofpoint . 9 icon ventures fund i is currently listed as the 6th best performing fund of recent times in the sub 250m category by pitchbook . 10 see also edit venture capital references edit gage deborah january 26 2015 . jafco rebrands as icon ventures . wall street journal . gage deborah november 22 2013 . three s a charm hat trick for jafco ventures . wall street journal . gage deborah april 10 2014 . fresh from exits jafco ventures raises 260m fifth fund adds lps . wall street journal . icon ventures website . march 15 2015 . acohido byron september 24 2013 . investores lured by fireeyes likely explosive growth . usa today . kuchler hannah february 20 2014 . google backs two more cyber security start ups . financial times . http adexchanger.com mobile tune plans to pimp out its product team with 27 million in series b kincaid jason september 22 2010 . aster data raises another 30 million to help manage big data . techcrunch . proofpoint raises 28m . new york times . february 28 2008 . the top sub 250m vc funds . pitchbook . may 16 2016 . external links edit icon ventures homepage 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 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title icon ventures & oldid 724471841 categories companies established in 2003privately held companies based in californiacompanies based in palo alto californiaventure capital firms of the united states 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 9 june 2016 at 13 29 . 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