Ed Glassmeyer
General Partner @ Oak Investment Partners
New York, United States
Ed Glassmeyer is a Series B investor at Oak Investment Partners in New York focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Edward F. Glassmeyer, Managing Partner, co-founded Oak with Stewart Greenfield in 1978. Ed focuses on expansion financings in the Cloud and Enterprise Software and Services companies. He is also actively involved in Oak’s global initiatives in EMEA and Asia.Ed is currently on the Board of Directors of IT Service companies Cloud TechnologyPartners, EquaTerra (to KPMC) and Geotrace, and storage systems innovator, Xiotech (purchased from Seagate, where Ed was a founding director). He also co-sponsored broadband networking companies GTS (Central Europe) and Zayo. Ed is on the board of earlier stage companies, Movik Networks, whose products substantially reduce peak loads on mobile networks, and eSports company, Major League Gaming. Past portfolio activity includes IT service companies CBORD Group acquired by Roper Industries and Mobius Management acquired by AGS Content Management; Credit Card software company Paysys acquired by First Data; Voice and data switching company Telica (acquired by Lucent); Bellcore spinout Tellium; Aavid Termalloy (NASD:AATT) since taken private; Cogent Communications (NASD: CCOI) and Seagate (NASD: STX ).Prior to Oak, Ed started his career with Citicorp Venture Capital, and later became Managing Partner of The Sprout Group at DLJ (Donaldson, Lufkin, & Jenrette). Ed graduated from Princeton University, served as an officer in the Marine Corps, and received his MBA with distinction from The Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College, where he serves on the Board of Overseers. Ed was a founding Director of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), and received their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 57%
Last updated:
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Industries Ed Glassmeyer invests in
Stages Ed Glassmeyer invests in
Countries Ed Glassmeyer invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (29%)
- Enterprise Software 2 (29%)
- PaaS 1 (14%)
- SaaS 1 (14%)
- Big Data 1 (14%)
Stage
- Series B 3 (43%)
- Series C 2 (29%)
- Series D 1 (14%)
- Funding Round 1 (14%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Cloud Technology Partners
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Cloud Technology Partners helps companies plan, design, and build cloud solutions for applications and infrastructures that reduce IT costs, streamline operations, and accelerate time to market. With a comprehensive cloud-focused service portfolio and targeted methodologies and tools, the company enables businesses and institutions to innovatethrough cloud computing. Its comprehensive framework for cloud adoption and dedicated software development capabilities help clients achieve business results faster, no matter where they are in their cloud transformation.Cloud Technology Partners was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $9.1M / Series B / Dec 09, 2014 | |
Movik Networks
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Movik Networks is headquartered near Boston, MA and has an R&D group in Bangalore, India. The company is focused on delivering purpose-built solutions that bring content and application awareness to the edge of the mobile network. Movik is led by a seasoned management team with a proven track record of delivering products to carriers. | $25M / Series C / Mar 31, 2011 | |
Linux Networx
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As of February 14, 2008, Linux Networx, Inc. was acquired by Silicon Graphics Inc. Linux Networx, Inc. provides Linux-based high performance computing (HPC) solutions. It architects, delivers, and supports HPC cluster solutions. The company's HPC solutions include compute, storage, and visualization solutions. It offers Clusterworx Advanced, acluster management software, which enables administrators to install, manage, and monitor heterogeneous clusters. The company also provides technical services, such as batch scheduling implementations, application optimization, security implementations, and application configuration and tuning. It serves companies in aerospace, automotive, government, heavy equipment, academic, life sciences, heavy manufacturing, and oil and gas sectors. Linux Networx, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Bluffdale, Utah. | $37M / Series D / Sep 11, 2006 | |
collabera
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Collabera is a fast growing, end-to-end information technology services and solutions provider working with leading Global 2000 organizations from the Financial Services, Communications, Media, Manufacturing, Retail, Energy and Utilities domains. Collabera delivers highly responsive and innovative solutions that help clients align their ITstrategy with business goals to address the most important IT needs through a combination of consulting solutions, proprietary methodologies, assets based services and a Collaborative Engagement Model.Collabera employs over 6500 professionals across more than 20 offices and three world-class delivery centers in the US, Europe and India. We deliver a full portfolio of services that include IT Consulting, Application Development and Management, Independent Testing, Infrastructure Management Services, Enterprise Software Solutions, Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing as well as Professional Services. | $30M / May 04, 2006 | |
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Linux Networx
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As of February 14, 2008, Linux Networx, Inc. was acquired by Silicon Graphics Inc. Linux Networx, Inc. provides Linux-based high performance computing (HPC) solutions. It architects, delivers, and supports HPC cluster solutions. The company's HPC solutions include compute, storage, and visualization solutions. It offers Clusterworx Advanced, acluster management software, which enables administrators to install, manage, and monitor heterogeneous clusters. The company also provides technical services, such as batch scheduling implementations, application optimization, security implementations, and application configuration and tuning. It serves companies in aerospace, automotive, government, heavy equipment, academic, life sciences, heavy manufacturing, and oil and gas sectors. Linux Networx, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Bluffdale, Utah. | $10M / Series C / Mar 21, 2006 | |
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Linux Networx
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As of February 14, 2008, Linux Networx, Inc. was acquired by Silicon Graphics Inc. Linux Networx, Inc. provides Linux-based high performance computing (HPC) solutions. It architects, delivers, and supports HPC cluster solutions. The company's HPC solutions include compute, storage, and visualization solutions. It offers Clusterworx Advanced, acluster management software, which enables administrators to install, manage, and monitor heterogeneous clusters. The company also provides technical services, such as batch scheduling implementations, application optimization, security implementations, and application configuration and tuning. It serves companies in aerospace, automotive, government, heavy equipment, academic, life sciences, heavy manufacturing, and oil and gas sectors. Linux Networx, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Bluffdale, Utah. | $40M / Series B / Nov 05, 2004 | |
Lavastorm
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Lavastorm powers enterprises-grade business applications with agile analytics to help businesses gain a competitive advantage by unlocking the potential of their data. It’s collaborative solution empowers businesses to quickly, easily and accurately build analytical applications at scale, across multiple, disparate data sources. Lavastorm is theonly solution that combines data preparation with robust analytics for augmenting data-centric applications with integrated automation and governance. This innovative approach enables IT, data experts and business-process-owners to extract, prepare, and analyze data from disparate sources and deliver these applications to end users | $45M / Series B / Jul 18, 2000 |
Co-Investors
About Oak Investment Partners
Oak Investment Partners is a multi-stage venture capital and private equity firm. Oak focuses on high-growth opportunities in the Information Technology, Internet and Consumer, Financial Services Technology, Healthcare Information and Services, and Clean Energy sectors. It is specialized in investments in buyouts, spinouts, growth equity,mid-to-late stage financings to private businesses, and PIPE investments to public companies. It generally, targets investments between $10 million and $150 million.Since 1978, the firm has invested $9 billion in over 525 companies around the world, earning the trust of entrepreneurs with a senior team that delivers steady guidance, deep domain expertise and a consistent investment philosophy.The firm also specializes in startup investments, emerging growth, recapitalization, industry consolidation. It invests in wireless communications, information technology, enterprise software and services, software outsourced services, broadband and consumer Internet, digital media and new media, semiconductors, financial services information technology, healthcare services, clean energy, and consumer retail and restaurants sectors.The firm primarily invests in the United States with selected investments in Europe, Israel, India, South Korea, and China. Oak Investment Partners was founded in 1978 and is based in Greenwich, Connecticut with additional offices in Norwalk, Connecticut, Palo Alto, California, and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Oak Investment Partners Contacts
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Allan Kwan
Venture Partner
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Ed Glassmeyer
General Partner
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Fred Harman
Managing Partner
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Scot Jarvis
Venture Partner
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Brian Dunefsky
Chief Compliance Officer
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What does Ed Glassmeyer invest in?
Ed Glassmeyer invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and PaaS startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Ed Glassmeyer last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ed Glassmeyer closed in Dec 2014. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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