Lithium is funded by leading venture capital firms Emergence Capital Partners, Shasta Ventures, and Benchmark Capital.
Emergence Capital Partners
is a leading venture capital firm focused on early and growth-stage technology-enabled services (TES) investing. Their mission is to help build market-leading, successful businesses in partnership with great entrepreneurs. Emergence partners have funded and helped build over 25 TES companies, more than any other early stage venture firm. Having assessed thousands of companies in the TES sector, Emergence has developed significant expertise and resources focused on critical factors of success in their market. Their focus and team-based approach allow them to create unique value for their service-based portfolio companies.
“ We understand how successful service businesses differ from product businesses and can help service-based startups with the critical success factors at each stage of their growth. ”
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Shasta Ventures
is a venture capital firm focused on helping build technology enabled companies that offer unique products and services to their customers. It's accomplished partners, drawn from NEA, Battery Ventures and Trinity Ventures have been early investors in numerous successful online consumer services businesses, including: Blue Nile, Baby Center and NextCard. Shasta Ventures is located in Menlo Park, CA and manages over $400 million. www.shastaventures.com.
“ At Shasta Ventures, we believe the most exciting innovations are happening in technology-enabled businesses serving consumers and enterprises. ”
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Benchmark Capital
, a leading international venture capital firm, was founded in 1995 to help talented entrepreneurs with original ideas build successful technology companies. Benchmark's general partners take a team-oriented, labor-intensive approach to venture investing to deliver a superior level of service to the firm's portfolio companies. Benchmark's portfolio includes high-profile start-ups like Bebo, Infinera, MySQL, OpenTable, Second Life, Tellme, Yelp, and Zillow, and franchise companies such as eBay, Juniper Networks and Red Hat. Managing more than $3.5 billion in committed venture capital, Benchmark has offices in Silicon Valley, Europe and Israel
“ When we created Benchmark, we created a new kind of venture firm - one that's based on teamwork, superior service to entrepreneurs and an intense dedication to building technology companies of lasting value. ”
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