Venrock Associates
Company Information
Palo Alto, CA
United States
Phone: 1 650 561 9580
Fax: 1 650 561 9180
Overview
In the 1930's, Laurance Rockefeller pioneered early-stage financing by investing in the entrepreneurs of Eastern Airlines and McDonnell Aircraft. In 1969, Venrock was founded to continue this heritage of investment and building entrepreneur-backed companies, beginning with Intel. Laurance S. Rockefeller (1910-2004) was the fourth of the six children of John D. Rockefeller. He became well known as an investor of risk capital in young enterprises whose future was based on scientific and technological developments. Over the years, his investment interests included the fields of aviation, aerospace, electronics, high temperature physics, composite materials, optics, lasers, data processing, thermionics and nuclear power. Beginning in August 1969, his venture capital investments in these areas were made through a venture capital group, Venrock, formed by members of the Rockefeller family. Since then, Venrock has developed into one of the country's premier venture capital firms with offices in Menlo Park, New York, Cambridge, MA and Israel. Venrock entrepreneurs have charted new advancements in cancer, anti-infective and auto-immune therapies, powered semiconductors and the digital era, created top technology innovations, secured our information technology infrastructure, pioneered on-line advertising, delighting consumers, and most recently, are generating power through alternative means...
Corporate Structure
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
TOP EXECUTIVES
Anthony B. Evnin Managing General Partner
Mike Samuelian
Steve Erickson
Dennis B. Gillings Board of Directors
Angie You Vice President
Brian Ascher Kauffman Fellow
Dan Grossman
Eric Copeland General Partner
Ohad Finkelstein Venture Partner
Anthony Sun Managing General Partner
Linda H. Hanauer General Partner
Gregory S Butterfield
Dick Bradshaw Partner, Operations and Administration
Dev Khare Vice President
Craig L. Christensen
JAN NEWMAN
Mike Tyrrell General Partner
Chad Latimer
Charles A. Sanders Chairman of the Board of Directors
Bryan Roberts General Partner
Michael C. Brooks General Partner
Jay C. Hoag
Steven D. Goldby
Anders Hove
Adeoye Y Olukotun Board of Directors
William H. Rastetter Executive Chairman
David E. Shaw
Martin A Simonetti Board of Directors
Matthew Trevithick
Eli Lilly Board of Directors
Richard D Katz Senior Vice President, Finance and Corporate Development, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Jessica Verrilli
Loretta Chen Accounting Manager
Teresa Lew Accounting Manager
Richard Moran Partner at Venture Firm Venrock Associates
Fred Aslan Vice President
Neera Dahiya Ravindran
Jocelyne Cooke Vice President
David Siminoff General Partner
Edward P Gray Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property, Chief Patent Counsel and Secretary
Robert J Jakobs Board of Directors
Sam Alemayehu
Modassir Choudhry Vice President
David Courtney
Dafina Toncheva Vice President
David Beisel Vice President
