RRE Ventures

RRE Ventures

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company_name = RRE Ventures
company_type = Private Ownership
foundation = 1994
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industry = Venture capital
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homepage = [http://www.rre.com/ www.rre.com]
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RRE Ventures is a firm focused on venture capital investments in software, internet, mobile, financial services, environmental, and other related technologies, primarily within the United States, and especially in and around New York. The founders include James D. Robinson IV, a venture capitalist and entrepreneur previously with JP Morgan Chase and Hambrecht & Quist, Stuart J. Ellman, a former investment banker at Dillon, Read and Morgan Stanley, and a professor at Columbia Business School, and James D. Robinson III, former Chairman & CEO of American Express, and former Chairman of Bristol-Myers Squibb. Other professionals include Richard A. McGinn, former CEO of Lucent, Andrew Zalasin, William Porteous, Harsh Patel, and Michel Orban.

The firm is based in New York City with an office in Silicon Valley.

Since its inception in 1994, RRE Ventures has provided $1 billion in venture capital financing for more than 125 companies. A partial list includes Achex, Concur, Extricity, eMachines, Giga Information Group, Goldpocket, iCrossing, Loudeye, MaMaMedia, Massive, MessageOne, Metapath, Netcentives, Qpass, Recyclebank, Rubric, ScreamingMedia, Telocity, Vastera, Vocera, Watchguard, WeddingChannel, and Wisdomtree.

RRE Ventures differs from the traditional approach of venture capital by focusing on bringing promising young companies to the attention of senior executives at major corporations, and in mentoring young entrepreneurs. The firm has a distinguished group of Fortune 500 executives and successful entrepreneurs as Senior Advisors, including Larry Bossidy, former Chairman & CEO of Honeywell and Allied Signal, David Coulter, former Bank Of America CEO, Joe Flom, Senior Partner of Skadden, Arps, Michael Jordan, CEO of Electronic Data Systems and former CEO of CBS, Shelly Lazarus, Chairman & CEO of Ogilvy & Mather, Former Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, Ric Duques, former Chairman & CEO of First Data, and Terry Semel, former Chairman & CEO of Yahoo! and of Warner Brothers. Several other prominent business leaders not mentioned on the company's website are rumored to be involved as well.

Public data indicate the firm's primary outside investors include Pension Funds, Endowments, public corporations, and business leaders from around the world. The firm is one of the largest, most active early-stage venture capital firms in New York.

External links

* [http://www.rre.com/ RRE Ventures] (company website)
* [http://www.allbusiness.com/technology/software-services-applications-information/6484682-1.html/ Business Wire - RRE Opens West Coast Office, 2000]
* [http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/gen/company.html?gcode=33FDA51CAE374A248089712D78DBC547/ San Francisco Business Times]

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