Company Profile for Telos Venture Partners.Business Editors --(BUSINESS WIRE) Telos Venture Partners, founded in 1996, is a leading early-stage venture capital firm located in the heart of Silicon Valley. Telos focuses its investments in software, semiconductor, and communication systems companies seeking first or second round financings. We look for well-protected technology and innovative business models with great potential to create disruption disruption /dis·rup·tion/ (dis-rup´shun) a morphologic defect resulting from the extrinsic breakdown of, or interference with, a developmental process. in existing markets. We typically invest $1-3 million in the first financing round in which we participate and $4-6 million over the lifetime of a company. Most of our investments are located in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern , with Telos participating as a lead or co-lead investor and holding a seat on a company's Board of Directors. Computing computing - computer and communications technologies Noun 1. communications technology - the activity of designing and constructing and maintaining communication systems engineering, technology - the practical application of science to commerce or industry continue to converge con·verge v. con·verged, con·verg·ing, con·verg·es v.intr. 1. a. To tend toward or approach an intersecting point: lines that converge. b. , fueled by ever-advancing integrated circuit integrated circuit (IC), electronic circuit built on a semiconductor substrate, usually one of single-crystal silicon. The circuit, often called a chip, is packaged in a hermetically sealed case or a nonhermetic plastic capsule, with leads extending from it for complexity. This convergence continually creates exciting new product categories. Capitalizing on these opportunities, however, requires careful planning and flawless execution. The Telos team believes in value-added investing and offers their considerable operating experience in business model fundamentals, sales and marketing, product development and organization development to a portfolio company's management team. We truly enjoy working collaboratively with entrepreneurial teams in refining refining, any of various processes for separating impurities from crude or semifinished materials. It includes the finer processes of metallurgy, the fractional distillation of petroleum into its commercial products, and the purifying of cane, beet, and maple sugar the business strategies and tactics that guide the development of their businesses.
Company: Telos Venture Partners
Headquarters Address: 835 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Main Telephone: 650-251-1850
Website: www.telosvp.com
Type of Organization: Limited Partnership
Industry: Venture Capital firm
Key Executives: Managing General Partner: Bruce R. Bourbon
Principal: Jonathan B. Barek
Public Relations
Contact: Shari M. Rooney
Phone: 650-251-1855
Email: srooney@telosvp.com
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