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August Capital, legally August Capital Master Management Company, LLC, is a venture capital firm founded by David Marquardt and John Johnston in 1995. It is focused on information technology and is based in Menlo Park, California .
“It hadn’t occurred to us to do any market research, and we had no idea how hard it would be to get capital commitments from municipalities. Between 1974 and 1980, Traf-O-Data totaled net ...
Netpulse was founded in 1993 by partners Mike Alvarez Cohen, Kevin Martin and Jeff Cahn. Thomas Proulx, the co-founder of Intuit, joined Netpulse as CEO in 1995, with Bryan Arp joining the company in 1996 as its first product manager.
David F. Marquardt (born February 1, 1949) was a co-founder of venture capital firm August Capital in 1995. He has served on more than 35 boards of directors during his 40-year venture capital career including Microsoft, [1] Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle), Seagate, Adaptec, and Grand Junction Networks (acquired by Cisco).
In 1999, Ravikant co-founded consumer product review site Epinions. They raised $45 million in venture capital from investors, including Benchmark Capital and August Capital . In 2003, Epinions merged with comparison pricing site Dealtime with the approval of Ravikant and the other co-founders that had left the company—even though it meant ...
From January 2008 to April 2010, if you bought shares in companies when August A. Busch III joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -37.2 percent return on your investment, compared to a -19.2 percent return from the S&P 500.
One of the many controversies already swirling around President Donald Trump's second administration is his formation of the Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) helmed by billionaire Elon...
Proulx was the Chairman of Netpulse from 2001 to 2018. [ citation needed ] In 2008, the company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection. Three months later, Tom Proulx came out of retirement and "traded his creditorship for the company’s remaining assets," announced on May 3 in San Francisco, and made the company solvent again.