Four IVP Partners Make the Forbes Midas List

Four IVP Partners Make the Forbes Midas List

IVP Has the Highest Percentage of Partners on the Midas List

Menlo Park , Calif. February 9, 2009 Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), one of the premier later-stage venture capital firms, is pleased to announce that four of its General Partners: Todd Chaffee, Steve Harrick, Sandy Miller and Dennis Phelps, have been named to the prestigious Forbes Midas List of the Top 100 Deal Makers. The firm's recent exits include ArcSight (ARST), Business.com (RHD), ComScore (SCOR), Danger (MSFT), MySQL (JAVA) and Quigo (TWX).

Since 2000, the Forbes annual Midas 100 List seeks to identify individuals who deploy venture capital to create wealth for their investors and build valuable, long-lasting companies and who are recognized as market leaders in their industry segment. They consider tech and life sciences companies that have gone public or been acquired within the past five years. The results are based on extensive reporting and surveys sent to thousands of professionals, including angel investors, bankers, lawyers and venture capitalists.

Here are the descriptions of the IVP general partners who were selected for the Forbes Midas List:

#58 Stephen Harrick

Institutional Venture Partners

2008 Rank: NA

Age: 38

Young financier lands on the Midas list thanks to Sun Microsystems $1 billion buyout of open-source database firm MySQL. Was an early investor in Business.com, acquired by R.H. Donnelly in 2007 for $350 million. Logged time at Highland Capital and Internet Capital Group before joining IVP in 2001.

#64 Todd Chaffee

Institutional Venture Partners

2008 Rank: NA

Age: 49

Digital media expert enjoyed one of the few sizable IPOs of 2008; network security firm Arcsight debuted on the Nasdaq in February. Past successes include ComScore, Akamai, Netflix, Yahoo! and VeriSign. Served as president of Visa Marketplace, the credit card giants in-house investment fund, prior to joining IVP.

#65 Dennis Phelps

Institutional Venture Partners

2008 Rank: NA

Age: 35

Communications and software guru got his start as an investment banker at Hambrecht & Quist. Broke into venture investing at Battery Ventures. Portfolio company Quigo Technologies, a Web advertising network, was acquired by Time Warner for over $300 million last year. Currently managing IVPs investments in Dust Networks (wireless sensor networking) and Yodlee (online banking applications).

#90 J. Sanford Miller

Institutional Venture Partners

2008 Rank: 64

Age: 59

Later-stage specialist led investments in Skystream Networks, PlaceWare and Vonage. Chairman of Handango. Got his start as technology investment banker. Co-founded Thomas Weisel Partners before moving to 3i, a global venture firm. Joined IVP in 2006.

About Institutional Venture Partners (IVP)

With more than $2.2 billion of committed capital, Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) is one of the premier later-stage venture capital firms in the United States. The partnership is currently investing IVP XII, a $600 million later-stage fund focused on investments in rapidly-growing technology and media companies. Founded in 1980, IVP has a 28-year IRR of 43.2% and has invested in over 300 companies, 85 of which have gone public. IVP specializes in venture growth investments, industry rollups, founder liquidity and select public market transactions. Since its inception, IVP has invested in such notable companies as ArcSight (ARST), Ask Jeeves (IACI), Aspect Communications (ASPT), At Road (ARDI), Business.com (RHD), Clarify (CLFY), ComScore (SCOR), Concur Technologies (CNQR), Danger (MSFT), Digital River (DRIV), Form Factor (FORM), Foundry Networks (FDRY), Juniper Networks (JNPR), LSI Logic (LSI), Mobile 365 (SY), MySQL (JAVA), Netflix (NFLX), Polycom (PLCM), Quigo (TWX), Seagate (STX), Synchronoss (SNCR), Tivo (TIVO) and Websense (WBSN). IVP has offices in Menlo Park and San Francisco, California. For more information, visit www.ivp.com.

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