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The DCM Team
The DCM Portfolio
The DCM Investment Profile
In the future, we believe that every person in the world will be connected via the Internet:
wired or wireless, desktop or wearable, visually or audibly, night and day. Communications
and applications will be seamless, ubiquitous and invisible.
We invest to build the foundation for this future. We expect to be the catalyst in changing
the way business is conducted. We assist entrepreneurs building world-class companies that
will ultimately change how institutions and people use and live with technology.
With this vision, DCM was established in 1996. We have optimized the size of our team, the
money we raise, and the investments we make -- all so that we can focus on the business of
helping our portfolio companies succeed. Collectively, the DCM investing partners have
over a century of investing and operational experience, and each DCM partner has experience
building hyper-growth startups into billion-dollar businesses.
DCM has $1.6 Billion under management and is actively seeking entrepreneurs building leading
information technology companies in the Communications and Internet software/services sectors.
The cumulative skill-set of the DCM team includes each of the four elements key to
entrepreneurial success in the 21st century - extensive venture investing and operational
expertise, as well as experience in strategic professional services and global business development.
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Our partners have invested in some of the leading information technology companies: @Motion (acquired by Openwave, Nasdaq: OPWV), 51job (Nasdaq: JOBS), About.com (acquired by The New York Times Co., NYSE: NYT), All About (JASDAQ: 2454), Arroyo Video Solutions (acquired by Cisco, Nasdaq: CSCO), Bridge Networks (acquired by 3Com, Nasdaq: COMS), Centillion (acquired by Nortel, NYSE: NTL), Clearwire (Nasdaq: CLWR), Foundry Networks (Nasdaq: FDRY), HireRight (Nasdaq: HIRE), IMS (acquired by Celestica, NYSE: CLS), Internap (Nasdaq: INAP), IPivot (acquired by Intel, Nasdaq: INTC), JCI (Nasdaq Japan - Hercules: 9424), New Era of Networks - NEON (acquired by Sybase, NYSE: SY), Neopath Networks (acquired by Cisco, Nasdaq: CSCO), Network Equipment Technologies (NYSE: NWK), PictureTel (Nasdaq: PCTL), Recourse Technologies (acquired by Symantec, Nasdaq: SYMC), SigmaTel (Nasdaq: SGTL), Sling Media (acquired by EchoStar, Nasdaq: DISH), SMIC (NYSE: SMI), Swan Labs (acquired by F5, Nasdaq: FFIV), and UUnet (acquired by MCI).
Each of the investing partners has worked in senior management positions at some of the fastest-growing, most successful companies in technology — Apple, Arrow Electronics, F5 Networks, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intuit, KLA-Tencor, NetFrame and Sina.com to name a few.
Our partners have held senior positions at world-class professional service firms such as Bain, Ernst & Young, Goldman Sachs and McKinsey.
The DCM investing team leverages the global resources of our strategic investors from the Pacific Rim — which include world-class communications equipment and service providers, resellers/distributors, and professional service companies — to offer our portfolio companies access to business development contacts in markets around the world.
DCM has built a worldwide portfolio of more than 80 companies, including @Motion (acquired by Openwave Systems, Nasdaq: OPWV), 2Wire, 51job (Nasdaq: JOBS), About.com (acquired by The New York Times Co., NYSE: NYT), All About (JASDAQ: 2454), Arroyo Video Solutions (acquired by Cisco), Clearwire (Nasdaq: CLWR), Dang Dang, eDreams (acquired by TA), Foundry Networks (Nasdaq: FDRY), HireRight (Nasdaq: HIRE), Internap (Nasdaq: INAP), IPivot (acquired by Intel, Nasdaq: INTC), JCI (Nasdaq Japan - Hercules: 9424), Kabu.com (TSE: 8703), Neutral Tandem (Nasdaq: TNDM), nQuire (acquired by Siebel), PGP Corporation, Recourse Technologies (acquired by Symantec, Nasdaq: SYMC), SigmaTel (Nasdaq: SGTL), Sling Media (acquired by EchoStar, Nasdaq: DISH), SMIC (NYSE: SMI), Swan Labs (acquired by F5, Nasdaq: FFIV), UUNet (acquired by MCI), Vimicro (Nasdaq: VIMC), and VanceInfo (NYSE: VIT).
DCM invests primarily in early-stage domestic companies, and some selective strategic/late-stage companies. Typically a lead investor, DCM will also syndicate, co-lead or co-invest based on a company’s needs. DCM has made investments as small as $500K in very early stage companies, but our usual initial investment is $3 to $10 million, with an equal amount reserved for future rounds. Our total investment in any one company is generally up to $20 million.
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