Investors

Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments

BDMI is a strategic venture investor focused on innovative digital media technologies, products, and distribution channels across the globe. We look for opportunities where we can accelerate growth through BDMI's financial and management resources and close connectivity with one or more Bertelsmann divisions.

Covering seed stage to early rounds, our ideal investment includes a management team passionate about their business and dedicated to building clear and sustainable competitive advantage.

BDMI is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG. With consolidated revenues of over €17 billion (U.S. $25 billion), Bertelsmann AG is an international media company encompassing television (RTL Group), book publishing (Random House), magazine publishing (Gruner + Jahr), media services (Arvato) and media clubs (Direct Group) in more than 50 countries.

DCM

At DCM, we work hard every day to be the venture capital firm of choice for the world’s top innovators building high-impact technology companies.

From Silicon Valley to Beijing and Tokyo, DCM has garnered a distinguished record of providing growth companies around the world with capital and expert business guidance. We work as a team to leverage our hands-on operational experience and access to an extensive network of resources, including close relationships with many of the leading technology companies and investors in the U.S. and Pacific Rim.

Entrepreneurs working with DCM benefit from the collective experience and accessibility of the firm’s investment team, whose partners and principals have held senior management positions at some of the most successful companies in technology — Apple, Arrow Electronics, F5 Networks, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intuit, KLA-Tencor, Mitsubishi, NetFrame and Sina.com — and at professional service firms such as Bain, Ernst & Young, Goldman Sachs and McKinsey.

Leader Ventures

With offices in Menlo Park and San Francisco, Leader Ventures invests primarily in the U.S. and employs a variety of loan structures to invest in companies of different developmental stages and across technology, clean tech and life science industries.

The investment professionals of Leader Ventures come from Dominion Capital Management and Western Technology Investment. The team has a wide range of expertise in lending to, investing in, and running start-ups. The founders of Leader Ventures worked together at Dominion since 2001 and continue to manage the venture loan portfolio of Dominion Capital.

ONSET Ventures

With over $1 billion under management, ONSET has the financial resources to match the strong personal commitment of each of our partners. We focus exclusively on information and medical technologies, investing solely in companies where we believe that we can add value far beyond financial capital.

ONSET has backed over 100 companies since 1984, focusing on early-stage and select later-stage enterprises in business-to-business markets. We have an enviable track record: over 80% of ONSET investments have gone on to achieve successive levels of financing, significantly higher than the industry at large.