RRE Ventures is a venture capital

Venture capital

Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...

 firm focused on investments across several disciplines, including software, internet, mobile, financial services, environmental, and other related technologies, primarily within the United States

United States

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, and especially in and around New York

New York

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. The firm was founded in 1994.

RRE Ventures has provided more than $1 billion of venture capital financing for over 125 companies. Among the firm's notable investments are Achex, Apriva, Concur, Extricity, eMachines

EMachines

eMachines is a brand of entry level PCs, based in Irvine, California. eMachines employed about 135 employees and sold between 1 to 2 million computers each year before its purchase on January 30, 2004, by rival Gateway Computers...

, Giga Information Group, Goldpocket, iCrossing, Loudeye, MaMaMedia

MaMaMedia

MaMaMedia is an educational consulting firm run by Idit Harel Caperton that specializes in applications of constructionist learning theory.MaMaMedia.com is designed to foster digital literacy skills for children using contructionist theory principles....

, Massive, MessageOne, Metapath, Netcentives, Qpass

Qpass

Qpass of Seattle, WA was a technology company that specialized in providing the infrastructure for electronic payments. Examples are selling products through mobile phones, digital television and for billing services for Voice over IP products....

, Recyclebank

RecycleBank

Recyclebank is a company headquartered in New York City with offices in Philadelphia and London that rewards people for taking everyday green actions with discounts and deals from thousands of local and national businesses. It does this by measuring the amount of material each home recycles then...

, Revolution Money

Revolution Money

Revolution Money is a financial services company whose products include a PIN-based credit card, online person-to-person payments service with a linked stored value card, and gift card...

, Rubric, ScreamingMedia, Telocity, Vastera, Vocera, Watchguard

WatchGuard

WatchGuard Technologies, a pioneer in network security appliances, is a provider of Internet security solutions for small to mid-sized businesses worldwide.-History:...

, WeddingChannel, and Wisdomtree.

The firm's founders include James D. Robinson IV, a venture capitalist and entrepreneur previously with JP Morgan Chase and Hambrecht & Quist

Hambrecht & Quist

Hambrecht & Quist was an investment bank based in San Francisco, California noted for its focus on the technology and internet sectors. H&Q was founded by William Hambrecht and George Quist in California, 1968....

, Stuart J. Ellman, a former investment banker at Dillon, Read and Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....

, and a professor at Columbia Business School

Columbia Business School

Columbia Business School is the business school of Columbia University in Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1916 to provide business training and professional preparation for undergraduate and graduate Columbia University students...

, and James D. Robinson III

James D. Robinson III

James Dixon Robinson III was the chief executive officer of American Express Co. from 1977 until his retirement in 1993.-Education:...

, former Chairman & CEO of American Express

American Express

American Express Company or AmEx, is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Three World Financial Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Founded in 1850, it is one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is best...

, and former Chairman of Bristol-Myers Squibb

Bristol-Myers Squibb

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.

The firm has a group of Fortune 500

Fortune 500

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 executives and entrepreneurs as Senior Advisors, including Larry Bossidy, former Chairman & CEO of Honeywell

Honeywell

Honeywell International, Inc. is a major conglomerate company that produces a variety of consumer products, engineering services, and aerospace systems for a wide variety of customers, from private consumers to major corporations and governments....

 and Allied Signal; David Coulter

David Coulter

David A. Coulter is an American banker.Currently he is Managing Director and Senior Advisor of Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, he was Vice Chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. from January 2001 to September 2005. Prior to the merger with J.P. Morgan & Co...

, former BankAmerica Corporation CEO; Joseph H. Flom

Joseph H. Flom

Joseph Harold Flom was an American lawyer. He was the last living named partner of the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. He specialized in representing companies in takeover battles.-Early life:...

, Senior Partner of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates , founded in 1948, is a prominent law firm based in New York City. With over 2,000 attorneys, it is one of the largest and highest-grossing law firms in the world. Forbes magazine calls Skadden "Wall Street's most powerful law firm"...

; Michael Jordan, CEO of Electronic Data Systems

Electronic Data Systems

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 and former CEO of CBS

CBS

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; Shelly Lazarus, Chairman & CEO of Ogilvy & Mather

Ogilvy & Mather

Ogilvy & Mather is an international advertising, marketing and public relations agency based in Manhattan and owned by the WPP Group. The company operates 497 offices in 125 countries with approximately 16,000 employees.-History:...

; Sam Nunn

Sam Nunn

Samuel Augustus Nunn, Jr. is an American lawyer and politician. Currently the co-chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative , a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, Nunn served for 24 years as a...

, former US Senator from Georgia; Ric Duques, former Chairman & CEO of First Data

First Data

First Data Corporation is an American payment processing company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. First Data is a provider of electronic commerce and payment solutions...

; and Terry Semel

Terry Semel

Terry Semel is an American corporate executive who was the chairman and CEO of Yahoo! Incorporated. Previously, Semel spent 24 years at Warner Bros., where he served as chairman and co-chief executive officer...

, former Chairman & CEO of Yahoo!

Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...

 and of Warner Brothers.

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

External links

• RRE Ventures (company website)