Rho 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 that actively invests in technology, new media, cleantech and healthcare companies.

The firm, which is based in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

, Palo Alto and Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, was founded in 1981. The firm has raised over $2 billion since inception across 6 funds. The firm is currently investing their sixth fund, Rho Ventures VI, a $510 million fund launched in 2008.

Rho has invested in approximately 200 venture stage companies. Among Rho's portfolio companies are Bluefly

Bluefly

Bluefly, Inc. is an American electronic commerce company. Headquartered in New York, New York, it was one of the first online retailers to sell fashion in a sophisticated manner. Ken Seiff and a team of six founded Bluefly.com, Inc. in 1998 and built it in less than four months from the time it...

, Capstone Turbine

Capstone Turbine

Capstone Turbine Corporation , incorporated in 1988, is a California based gas turbine manufacturer that specializes in microturbine power and heat cogeneration systems. Key to the Capstone design is its use of foil bearings, which provides maintenance and fluid-free operation for the lifetime of...

, Celunol, Coulomb Technologies

Coulomb Technologies

Coulomb Technologies is an electric vehicle infrastructure company, based in Campbell, California. Coulomb Technologies was founded in 2007 by Richard Lowenthal and Praveen Mandal....

, Commerce One

Commerce One

Commerce One was a pioneering e-commerce company founded in 1994 as DistriVision in Pleasanton, California. The company was renamed Commerce One in 1997, and went public in 1999. They were one of the darlings in the hot B2B sector, and saw their stock soar from 20 to over 600 in early 2000,...

, Compaq

Compaq

Compaq Computer Corporation is a personal computer company founded in 1982. Once the largest supplier of personal computing systems in the world, Compaq existed as an independent corporation until 2002, when it was acquired for US$25 billion by Hewlett-Packard....

, Enerkem , Human Genome Sciences

Human Genome Sciences

Human Genome Sciences is a biopharmaceutical corporation founded in 1992. It uses the human DNA sequence to develop protein and antibody drugs. As of 2008, it has drugs under development to treat such diseases as hepatitis C, systemic lupus erythmatosis, anthrax disease, cancer, rheumatoid...

, Innova Dynamics, IntraLinks, iVillage

IVillage

iVillage, Inc. is a media company that is owned by NBCUniversal. The site focuses on categories targeted at women, including Food, Health, Entertainment, Family, Beauty & Style. Additional businesses and brand extensions within iVillage Networks include iVillage UK, NBC Digital Health Network,...

, MedImmune

MedImmune

MedImmune, LLC, headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, became a wholly owned subsidiary of AstraZeneca in 2007. Since being acquired, MedImmune has remained a Maryland-based biotechnology development enterprise...

, ReachLocal

ReachLocal

ReachLocal, Inc is an Internet marketing company that provides search engine marketing and display advertising products and services for small-to-medium size local businesses...

, SolarBridge Technologies , Tacoda

Tacoda

Tacoda was an advertising network company and is based in the United States. It was acquired by AOL on July 23, 2007....

, Tercica

Tercica

Tercica, Inc., is a biopharmaceutical company based in Brisbane, California, USA. It is owned by Ipsen. It is the current developer of Increlex , also known as recombinant human Insulin-like Growth Factor-1...

, Tripod

Tripod

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, Vanda, Verenium, Vertrue

Vertrue

Vertrue Incorporated, headquartered in Norwalk, CT, is a consumer services marketing company. The company again received an "F" from the Better Business Bureau for making unauthorized charges to its customers' credit cards...

, Vidyo

Vidyo

Vidyo, Inc. is a privately held, venture funded company that provides both software-based technology and product-based visual communication solutions...

, Waterfront Media and Yantra

Yantra

Yantra is the Sanskrit word for "instrument" or "machine". Much like the word "instrument" itself, it can stand for symbols, processes, automata, machinery or anything that has structure and organization, depending on context....

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External links

• Rho Ventures (company website)