"Mentor: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight."

Tabula is fortunate to be backed by a premier group of investors with broad experience building leadership companies. They are much more than sources of funding. Their active mentorship and careful guidance help us navigate through the business challenges any company faces on the path to success. They work as collaborative partners with Tabula management with a long-term view toward enduring market leadership. 

Benchmark Capital
Crosslink Capital
Greylock Partners
NEA
Balderton Capital
DAG Ventures
Integral Capital
Lighthouse
SVB Capital

Bruce Dunlevie | Benchmark Capital

Bruce is a seasoned veteran of venture capital with more than 15 years experience in high-tech investing. Prior to Benchmark, Bruce spent six years as a general partner with Merrill, Pickard, Anderson & Eyre (MPAE). Before MPAE, Bruce served as general manager of the Personal Computer Division of Everex Systems, which he founded and grew to a multi-hundred million-dollar business unit. Bruce also worked in investment banking for three years at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and as a systems designer and programmer with Andersen Consulting.

Investments: Accept.com (acquired by Amazon.com), Catapulse (acquired by Rational Software), Collabra Software (acquired by Netscape Communications), Encompass (acquired by Yahoo!), Good Technology, Genesys Labs (acquired by Alcatel), Handspring (acquired by palmOne), iCompression (acquired by GlobespanVirata), Kalpana (acquired by Cisco Systems), Matrix Semiconductor, NetXen, Orchestria, Palm Computing (acquired by 3Com), Pure Digital Technologies, Rambus (RMBS), Raza Microelectronics, ServiceSource, SnapTrack (acquired by Qualcomm), Tabula, Unicru and Wink Communications (acquired by Liberty Broadband Interactive).

Industry Associations: Bruce is a former director of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists.

Education: MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, 1984 where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar; and a BA from Rice University, 1979.
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Gary Hromadko | Crosslink Capital

Gary joined Crosslink in 2002 as a venture partner, and focuses on investments in communications infrastructure/services.

Over the past 10 years, Gary has been a private venture capital investor. Previous investments in software and communications infrastructure companies include Packeteer (NASDAQ: PKTR), Netcode (acquired by Netscape), and Medior (acquired by America Online).

Prior to forming his own investment practice, Gary was a partner with Merrill, Pickard, Anderson & Eyre, an early stage venture capital firm focused on technology. He was also a partner at Robertson, Stephens & Co., focused on equity research in the software sector. He began his investment career in public market investing at Dodge & Cox.

Education:
BA, Carleton College
MA, English Lit., MBA from the University of Virginia
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Dave Strohm | Greylock Partners

Dave joined Greylock in 1980 and opened its west coast office in 1983. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Harvard Business School. Dave is on the board of AtHoc, CoWare, Edge Dynamics, EMC Corporation, SuccessFactors, and Tabula.

Dave also led Greylock's historic involvement with companies such as Forte Software (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Kiva Software (acquired by Netscape), Legato Systems (acquired by EMC), Decru (acquired by Network Appliance), Internet Security Systems (acquired by IBM), Mentor Graphics, Mobile Automation (acquired by iPass), Net Effect Systems (acquired by Ask Jeeves), Octane Software (acquired by Epiphany) and Wily Technology (acquired by CA).
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Dick Kramlich | NEA

Dick has more than 35 years of venture capital investment experience. Dick focuses on a broad range of technically oriented companies. He was fortunate to have been the first person to have invested in the Ethernet with Bob Metcalfe, an early investor in Balloon Angioplasty with John Simpson and also backed the company that originated PowerPoint presentations. Present board memberships include Fabric7 Systems, Financial Engines, Force10 Networks, Foveon, Informative, Visual Edge Technology, Tabula, Nexthop Technologies, Xoom Corporation and Zhone Technologies (NASDAQ: ZHNE). Previous board memberships include among others, 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS), Ascend Communications (acquired by Lucent Technologies), Dallas Semiconductor (acquired by Maxim Integrated Products), Healtheon/WedMD (NASDAQ: HLTH), Immunex (acquired by Amgen), InfoGear (acquired by Cisco Systems), Juniper Networks (NASDAQ: JNPR), Macromedia (NASDAQ: MACR) acquired by Adobe, NetSolve (NASDAQ: NTSL) acquired by Cisco Systems, Decru (acquired by Network Appliance), Silicon Graphics, and Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) (NYSE: SMI). He was recently Chairman and President of the National Venture Capital Association. Prior to joining NEA, Dick was a General Partner of Arthur Rock & Associates and Executive Vice President of Gardner & Preston Moss. He received a Masters in Business Administration from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in History from Northwestern University. He has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Venture Capital Association and the University of California-Haas School of Business. He and his wife Pam are noted collectors of Media Art.
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About Balderton

Balderton is one of Europe’s largest venture capital firms, committed to finding and helping talented entrepreneurs build great companies. Based in London, it manages approximately USD 1.5 billion in committed venture capital. Since 2000, Balderton has invested in over 70 companies across a wide variety of technology sectors and geographies, including UK, US, China, Russia and Scandinavia.  Balderton takes a team-oriented approach to venture investing. The partners combine Silicon Valley operating and company-building experience with a keen understanding of what it takes to build successful businesses in the European technology market. For more information on Balderton, visit the firm’s website at www.benchmark.com/europe.
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About Duff, Ackerman & Goodrich (DAG) Ventures

Duff Ackerman & Goodrich (DAG) Ventures invests in technology leaders at the forefront of new, large markets. Based in San Francisco, CA they  seek to invest in those entrepreneurial teams able to overcome the obstacles that lead big problems to become big markets. Their investments span entrepreneurial companies in the life science, materials, traditional IT and other sectors.  For more information on DAG, visit the firm's website at www.dagventures.com.
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About Integral Capital

Integral is an active investor, both in the venture and public stages. Their greatest contribution typically relates to corporate strategy, business development opportunities, and maximizing market value either through an IPO or a merger.  The Integral team enjoys extensive investment expertise spanning across a number of information technology sectors at multiple stages of company growth. This broad range of expertise has allowed Integral to become a notable presence in a number of the industry's most revolutionary developments.  For more information on Integral, visit the firm’s website at www.integralcapital.com.
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About Lighthouse Capital Partners

Lighthouse Capital Partners is an independent partnership providing debt and equity financing to early stage technology and life science companies backed by top-tier venture capital firms.  The firm is focused on giving startups the flexible support and unwavering commitment needed to build market-leading companies.  For additional information, visit www.lcpartners.com.
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About SVB Capital

SVB Capital is SVB Financial Group's private equity arm that provides funds management as well as private equity services. SVB Capital Partners, the unit's funds management group, invests in private equity funds and directly in portfolio companies on behalf of SVB Financial Group and third-party investors. Located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California, SVB Capital is a member of global financial services firm SVB Financial Group, with SVB Silicon Valley Bank, SVB Alliant, SVB Analytics, SVB Global and SVB Private Client Services. SVB Capital serves clients across the U.S. and in technology-focused markets worldwide. Additional information is available at www.svbcapital.com.
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