Founded in 1999, Gabriel Venture Partners focuses investments primarily on communications, networking and IT early stage ventures. Gabriel invests a total of $3M- $6M for a significant ownership stake in capital efficient companies that require no more than $15M of venture capital over their life to reach either cash flow positive operations, an exit, or a significant valuation to raise growth capital if needed. While the firm does not make an investment unless it has multi-hundreds of million dollars of exit potential, capital efficiency means founders and investors are aligned and can succeed when a smaller exit makes sense.

When evaluating deals, the Gabriel team looks for four characteristics: Capital efficiency; Disruptive technology or business model; Ability to “assist the founders” or team with the founders; and Large market opportunity.

Some of Gabriel's recent Series A co-investors in early rounds include: Maples Investments, Garage Technology Ventures, Startup Capital, Noventi and Venrock. When appropriate, portfolio companies add larger venture firms to lead the later stage rounds. Some of these larger VCs include: Oak Investment Partners, KPCB, Sequoia, Oak Hill, DCM and USVP.

Notable investments include: Aurora Algae, Boston-Power, Chegg (NYSE: CHGG), Level 7 Systems (acquired by Broadcom Corporation), NetScaler (acquired by Citrix), NextG Networks and YLX Corporation.