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Since 1976, we have invested ten successful funds. We are currently making new investments from our eleventh fund, BAY XI, and follow-on investments from our tenth fund, BAY X. The $290M BAY XI fund was raised January 2006, and as of January 2009, $100M had been invested.

COMPANY CO-INVESTORS BUSINESS
Advanced Power Sequoia, Redpoint Efficient steam turbines for energy production
Envia Redpoint Energy storage
OncoMed USVP, Morgenthaler Cancer therapeutics
SpringSource Benchmark Capital, Accel Partners Open source software for mission-critical enterprise applications
DynaTrace Bain Capital Continuous performance management for business-critical Java and .NET applications
Eventful Draper Fisher Jurvetson World's largest database of live events
Cornerstone On Demand Bessemer SaaS for HR, learning and performance mgmt
Interact911 Foundation Capital Public safety systems
Elastra Amazon.com, Hummer Winblad Designing and managing apps in public and private clouds
PurePlay Ron Conway Online consumer gaming
LiveMedia Draper Fisher Jurvetson Out of home advertising network in India
Daptiv Kennet SaaS for collaboration and project management services
ParAccel Mohr Davidow, Walden Intl. Data warehousing appliance
Corefino Opus Capital SaaS for finance
Guidewire Software USVP, Battery
Ventures
Transaction and policy systems for insurance companies
Eloqua JMI Equity, Bessemer SaaS for marketing automation
Like.com Menlo Ventures, Blue Run Ventures, Crosslink Capital Visual-similarity-based shopping search engine
M-Factor Norwest, USVP SaaS for marketing ROI analytics
Tealeaf Foundation Capital, Chase Capital Partners, Matrix Partners Optimization of transaction fulfillment for ecommerce retailers
Zenprise Mayfield, Shasta, Blackberry Fund Automatic troubleshooting of Microsoft Exchange and mobile email
Lumension Security
(Patchlink)
BAVP, GIC Management of patches, upgrades, security across the enterprise for all major products and OS's
Xactly Rembrandt Ventures, Outlook Ventures, Alloy Ventures, European Founders Fund SaaS for precise fine-grained salesforce incentives and compensation
AMEC Redpoint, Walden, Interwest, Lightspeed, Goldman Sachs, Shangai Venture Capital Semiconductor manufacturing equipment in China
Akros Silicon USVP, Levensohn Venture Partners Power over Ethernet

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COMPANY CO-INVESTORS BUSINESS
Yapta First Round Capital, Voyager Capital Travel ecommerce
FantasyBook None Fantasy sports app network; acquired by Citizen Sports
DeliveryEdge Angels Aggregation of last mile logistics
Teach the People None Facebook app network
Triggit Reid Hoffman, Joi Ito, Guy Kawasaki, Russ Siegelman Internet ad network intermediation
SocialPicks Jim Young (HotorNot.com), Michael Birch (Bebo) Finance, content aggregation, performance tracking
Sales-i None Upsell recommendations
Buddy Media Softbank, GreyCroft, European Founders Fund, James Altucher, Mark Pincus, Peter Thiel Facebook apps as the ad unit
G2One None Open source; acquired by SpringSource
Cake Financial Alsop-Louie Partners, KPG Ventures Analytics for public market investors
LendingClub Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan Partners Peer to peer lending
Finestrella Angels, Shanda Bahles (El Dorado Ventures) Consumer credit in Mexico
Jambool Hitforge, Charles River Ventures (CRV) Facebook virtual currency
Vaxart Sand Hill Angels Flu vaccines
Marketocracy Formative Ventures Wisdom of crowds applied to money management
Dropcam Bessemer Venture Partners, Mitch Kapor Cloud services for home and other surveillance video