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Sevin Rosen Funds

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Website
  
www.srfunds.com

Type of business
  
Private

Founder
  
Benjamin M. Rosen

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Key people
  
L. J. Sevin, Co-founder Benjamin M. Rosen, Co-founder

Headquarters
  
Dallas, Texas, United States

Founded
  
1980, Dallas, Texas, United States

Sevin Rosen Funds (SRF) is a venture capital firm that was established in 1980 by L. J. Sevin and Ben Rosen. SRF was involved in the financing of Citrix, Cypress Semiconductor, Electronic Arts, Lotus Development Corporation, Silicon Graphics, and Vitesse Semiconductor. SRF's first major success was its 1982 investment in Compaq which went public shortly thereafter.

Entrepreneurs supported by SRF include: Dennis Mudd (Slacker), James Sabry (Cytokinetics), Dave Vucina (Wayport), Michael Baum (Splunk), Nick Gault (XenSource), and Ranjith Kumaran (YouSendIt).

This fund has shut down West Coast operations.

References

Sevin Rosen Funds Wikipedia