Sequoia Capital is the venture investor behind well-known Internet brands such as Yahoo!, Google and PayPal. Outside of the Internet space, Sequoia was also a key venture investor in the early stages of Cisco, Apple and Oracle. The companies funded by Sequoia Capital now account for about 10 percent of the value of NASDAQ. View press release.

Greylock Partners is one of the world’s leading early-stage venture capital firms. For 40 years, Greylock has teamed with entrepreneurs to fund and help build several hundred successful companies in the US, Israel and Europe. Companies Greylock has funded include DoubleClick, Phone.com (now OpenWave), Red Hat, Ascend Communications, Legato, Continental Cable, Internet Security Systems, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Tellabs, Trilogy, and Sungard. View press release.

Bessemer Venture Partners is the oldest venture capital practice in the United States and manages more than a billion dollars of venture funds, carrying on a tradition of hands-on, active venture investing that started in 1911. More than 100 Bessemer companies have gone public, including American Superconductor, Ciena, Gartner Group, Ingersoll Rand, International Paper, Maxim, Parametric, Perseptive Biosystems, Staples, VeriSign and W.R. Grace. BVP is located in Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Bangalore. View press release.

European Founders Fund focuses on early stage internet and wireless technologies and is a highly selective investment company run by brothers Marc, Oliver and Alexander Samwer. The Samwer brothers founded alando (which became eBay Germany), and Jamba! (today part of News Corp). The Internet companies they created have achieved combined sales of more than 1 billion EUR. With EFF, the Samwers are focused on investing in young technology companies, including European market leaders Leadpoint and LokaListen, to which they can bring their direct experience and extensive network of partners. View press release.

• Marc Andreessen, Co-Founder of Netscape and Chairman of Opsware
• Andrew Anker, Co-Founder of Wired Digital and EVP of SixApart
• Andrew Beebe, former CEO of Bigstep and President of Energy Innovations
• Robert Clarkson, former COO of CKS Group and Partner at Jones Day
• Rob DeSantis, Co-Founder of Ariba
• Tom Gruber, Founder of Intraspect Software
• Josh Kopelman, Founder of Half.com
• Joe Kraus, Co-Founder of Excite and CEO of JotSpot
• Loïc Le Meur, Founder of French startups RapidSite, B2L and Tekora
• Jun Makihara, former Managing Director of Goldman Sachs Japan
• Sunil Paul, Co-Founder of Brightmail and Freeloader
• Gil Penchina, VP International at eBay
• Peter Thiel, Co-Founder of PayPal