U.S. Venture Partners

U.S. Venture Partners was founded in 1981. U.S. Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage companies. It typically invests in information technology, life science and technologies for adapting to or mitigating climate change with a focus on energy-related products and services, components, software, systems, semiconductors, web-enabled services for businesses and consumers, storage, wireless communication, sustainable agriculture, the Internet version 2.0, biomedical devices, and new drugs with profound social benefits. The firm seeks to invest in markets with revenue potential in excess of $1 billion and rarely invests in companies focusing on a market smaller than $300 million. It prefers to avoid investing in companies that compete directly with each other. The firm prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies and typically invests for a period of three to ten years.