Highland Capital Partners
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| LLC | |
| Industry | Venture Capital |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Founder | William J. Boyce, Paul Maeder, Bob Higgins |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
| Products | Investments, Venture capital |
| Website | www.hcp.com |
Highland Capital Partners is a global venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, Boston and Shanghai. Highland has raised over $3 billion in committed capital and invested in more than 225 companies. Investments include 2U, Ask Jeeves, Bromium, Gigamon, Handy, Lululemon Athletica, Lycos, Malwarebytes, MapQuest, Qihoo 360, Quattro Wireless, Rent the Runway, Starent Networks, Sybase, VistaPrint, VMTurbo, and WePay. Highland also serves as a mentor for future entrepreneurs through Summer@Highland, a program that provides students and university-affiliated startups with the environment and resources to take their initiative to the next level. They also help run a program for early stage security companies to explore their ideas and obtain customers called Cybersecurity Factory.
Founded in 1988, the company has offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Menlo Park, California, USA, and Shanghai, China.
Highland is typically the first institutional investor in the companies they back.
From inception in 1988 through the middle of 2009, the firm has raised nine venture capital funds with aggregate investor commitments of approximately $3 billion:
The company has invested some $2.5 billion in more than 225 companies since its founding.
In February 2005, Thomas G. Stemberg, the founder and former CEO of Staples joined Highland. Other notable members of the team include Bob Davis, the founder of Lycos; Peter Bell the co-founder and CEO of information storage software company StorageNetworks; Andy Miller, the co-founder of Quattro Wireless (acquired by Apple Computer in 2009), and most recently the Vice President Mobile Advertising responsible for the iAd team; and Wycliffe Grousbeck, who reduced his role in Highland to become managing partner and co-owner of the Boston Celtics. A recent addition to the Highland team is James Cash, Jr., who has served on eighteen public company boards - currently Wal-Mart, General Electric and Chubb Corporation.
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