StarVest Partners

StarVest Partners is a New York-based venture capital firm with $400 million under management that is funding technology-enabled business services companies throughout the U.S. The firm’s value-added partnership maintains a laser focus on five key emerging technology and services sectors: Software as a Service, Internet marketing services, e-commerce services, data aggregation services, and identity and security management. StarVest combines a sophisticated investment background with the experience to foresee opportunities for both its portfolio companies and its funding partners. StarVest gained national recognition in 2007 as the only outside venture capital firm in NetSuite, whose December 2007 initial public offering opened with a $1.6 billion market capitalization, the second highest market capitalization of any venture capital–backed technology IPO since Google. StarVest was also one of the first institutional investors in MessageOne (acquired by Dell Computer in April 2008).