August Capital

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August Capital is a private venture capital firm with offices on Menlo Park, California's famous Sand Hill Road. It has backed such companies as ATC-Onlane, Tumbleweed Communications, PayCycle, Seagate, Splunk, Six Apart, PacketTrap, VideoEgg, Evite, and Westbridge Technology.

The investment professionals are: David Hornik, John Johnston, David Marquardt, Vivek Mehra, and Andrew S. Rappaport. Investments made by these partners before the founding of August Capital include: Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Adaptec, and Grand Junction Networks (acquired by Cisco).

Entrepreneurs supported by August Capital include: Michael Baum (Splunk), Kerry Champion (Westbridge), Steve Goodman (PacketTrap), René Lacerte (PayCycle), and Jeff Smith (Tumbleweed).

[edit] External links

• Official Site

• One of the firm's partners, David Hornik, maintains Venture Blog, with greater than 50,000 subscribers this is one of the more popular venture oriented blogs on the Web.^{[citation needed]}