equity founded 1996 headquarters palo alto california united states key people craig taylor john shoch doug kelly md tony di bona ammar hanafi michael hunkapiller dan rubin products venture capital website www.alloyventures.com alloy ventures is a private equity firm focusing on early stage 1 venture capital investments in life sciences information technology and cleantech companies . 2 the company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in palo alto california . 3 contents 1 history 2 selected investments 3 general information 4 references 5 external links history edit alloy ventures was founded in 1996 when craig taylor 4 john shoch doug kelly and tony di bona took on the management of the three institutional venture capital funds of asset management 5 dating back to 1982 . as of april 2011 update the firm has six general partners managing five subsequent funds with commitments in excess of 1 billion . 6 selected investments edit the firm s portfolio includes investments in hightail mavenir and pacific biosciences . in life sciences alloy invests in three sub sectors medical devices laboratory instrumentation and diagnostics . in information technology alloy invests in four sub sectors software systems mobile and semiconductors in cleantech alloy invests primarily in solar and biotech fields employing semiconductor technology but the clean technology field is expanding fast and alloy recognizes a critical need to create companies involved in these fields . citation needed general information edit early stage investing is primarily the focus of alloy ventures . however companies in their late stage could receive funding as well . typically this happens when alloy identifies a synergistic fit with one of their other portfolio companies or if one of alloy s partners can provide specific expertise about the investment . alloy helps coach entrepreneurs through the drafting of business plans hiring of teams and hammer ing out the nitty gritty that s needed to build a company from scratch . from there alloy s extensive network of associates and business partners can further assist the young company to get off the ground . 7 references edit joch alan 2001 . how to find money online an internet based capital guide for entrepreneurs . mcgraw hill . p. 41 . isbn 0 07 136060 3 . us firms krg capital partners and alloy ventures close funds above target . altassets . 7 may 2002 . 3d collaborative software maker qwaq gets 7m . san jose business journal . 26 november 2007 . bunker ted 7 october 2002 . capital focus ; biotechs are kept waiting by missed appointments . boston herald . boston herald . fund closes at 300mil . private equity week . 13 may 2002 . alloy ventures closes 368m fund . san francisco business times . 10 october 2005 . http www.alloyventures.com aboutus working with alloy.html external links edit alloy ventures company website company profile at crunchbase list of alloy ventures investments on crunchbase cleaner light sources and electric rides in an unsettled market a biotech company called fluidigm is about to go public retrevo raises 8m more for aggregation of consumer electronics information infineta raises 15m to help bandwidth hungry businesses 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 is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title alloy ventures & oldid 732831476 categories venture capital firms of the united statescompanies established in 1996companies based in palo alto californiaprivate equity firms of the united statesprivate equity firm stubshidden categories articles containing potentially dated statements from april 2011all articles containing potentially dated statementsall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from august 2016all 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 3 august 2016 at 14 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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