RVC
Company Information
About
The RVC Company
RVC, which is the former venture capital arm of Reuters, was set
up in 1994 and began investing RVC I (originally known as The Greenhouse
Fund) in Palo Alto, California in 1995. In 1997, RVC expanded the
focus of its operations to Europe, bringing its significant Silicon
Valley experience to a market with relatively few venture capitalists
focused on early stage information technology companies.
In
September 2001, RVC became independent from Reuters and is now wholly
owned by its Investment Partners and Chairman. It was awarded the
contract to continue managing RVC I on behalf of Reuters. In establishing
its investment independence, RVC has retained its strong relationships
with Reuters, its affiliates (Tibco, Factiva, Instinet, Radianz)
and its customers, which are primarily financial services and media
companies who were amongst the first to be impacted by and adopt
new technology. Building on RVC’s relationship with Reuters
in financial services, RVC is developing similar relationships with
leading corporations in other verticals, and acquiring deeper understanding
of the needs and challenges CIOs and business decision makers have
in increasing efficiency and/or revenues through their leverage
of IT investments.
RVC organises the RVC SoftEdge conference, a yearly gathering of
the different components of the software innovation ecosystem, including
entrepreneurs, thought leaders, leading technology columnists, CIOs,
senior executives of established technology players and VCs. The
event is an opportunity for animated discussions amongst some of
the best minds of the software industry, and a medium for RVC to
validate the key themes of its investment strategy.
Since
inception, RVC I has invested €449 million in 82 companies,
including Yahoo!, Verisign, Phone.com (now Openwave Systems), Digimarc,
Infoseek, Orchestream, and Metamerge, amongst others. With 16 IPOs
and 27 trade sales or other cash realisations, and a first fund
that is 94% returned, they believe they have one of the strongest
track records in Europe. Today, RVC has 11 staff located in London
and the Silicon Valley.
RVC
is authorised and Regulated by the Financial Services Authority.
RVC
Europe Ltd
11 Upper Grosvenor Street
London
W1K 2NB
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