Asset Management Ventures

Asset Management Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, early stage, mid stage, late stage, growth, VIPE investments. For seed stage, the firm prefers to invest equity but will fund with a convertible note in certain situations. It invests in companies based in United States, Europe, and Asia region with a focus on the Northern California region. The firm invests in Information Technology including mobility, cloud computing, digital media, and big data; health sciences technology including electronic health records; mobile health and communications; personalized medicine and genomics; e-billing and insurance; informatics, data mining and simulation, web-based social media, novel therapeutics; and monitoring and compliance; information sciences; and the life sciences sectors. Within information sciences, it invests in telecommunications, automation solutions, computer hardware, computer software, networking, Internet business applications and information services, mobility and wireless applications and infrastructure, databases and datacenter management, nanotechnology, and energy and environmental technologies. In life sciences, the firm invests in emerging pharmaceuticals including small molecule therapeutics, biopharmaceuticals, and cell therapy, and medical devices. It seeks to invest between $500,000 and $2 million in its portfolio companies. It invests in companies that have new, broad, and enabling technology and projected market of at least $100 million. The firm prefers to be the lead investor. It prefers to invest in the first institutional round. The firm also co-invests in its transactions where in it often partners with other top-tier venture firms in the Series A and B financings. It seeks to exit its investments between four and seven years. The firm was spun out from Alloy Ventures in April 1999. Asset Management Ventures was founded in 1965 and is based in Palo Alto, California.