The Emergence team has a proven track record of founding, investing and actively shaping over 50 portfolio companies. Our partners bring more than 25 years of venture experience as well as 25-plus years operating and entrepreneurial experience from established, blue-chip firms such as Venrock Associates, US Venture Partners, St. Paul Venture Capital, IBM and Salesforce.com. Over a dozen of our companies have had successful IPO's, such as Salesforce.com, DoubleClick, Ask Jeeves, aQuantive, NetPerceptions, Lexar Media, and Visual Networks and are now leaders in their respective industries. Many others have been acquired by leading companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Lycos, Amazon, and Siebel. As entrepreneurs ourselves, we appreciate what it means to have deep passion for an opportunity, to bootstrap and creatively finance it, and recruit a founding team. We have founded many companies, helped them raise significant venture financing, and successfully realize the value we helped to create.