# Enterprise Partners

> Enterprise Partners is a VC fund backing Software and Manufacturing. See 55 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: La Jolla, United States
- Total investments: 55
- Last investment: Aug 2010
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/46473
- Website: http://www.epvc.com

Enterprise Partners is a VC fund in La Jolla focused on Software and Manufacturing. Enterprise Partners was founded in 1985 and is one of the few venture firms that have consistently focused on investing in Southern California businesses. To date, they have helped build over 150 companies and they are currently investing their sixth fund. They are pleased to say that they have put over $1.1 billion to work for those companies.Their partners are entrepreneurs themselves, having formed, run and sold multiple companies across a spectrum of industries. Their professional staff brings financial, legal, product development, marketing and operations support to the firm and the partners at Enterprise draw on their experience when working with their portfolio companies.Entrepreneurs often ask them what they look for in a company. Typically, they look at large emerging markets and markets undergoing fundamental changes along with the companies that they believe will become leaders in these markets and they look for talented people with innovative business models that can create or transform these large markets.They are open-minded regarding the specific types of businesses they fund but they are currently looking most actively at businesses in the life sciences.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 18% |
| Manufacturing | 7 | 13% |
| Enterprise Software | 6 | 11% |
| Health Care | 5 | 9% |
| Web Hosting | 5 | 9% |

57 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 12 | 22% |
| Series C | 12 | 22% |
| Series A | 8 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 8 | 15% |
| Series D | 7 | 13% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 28 | 51% |
| Singapore | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Carl Eibl | Managing Director | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carl-eibl |
| Andrew Summers | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-summers |
| Bob Conn | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-conn |
| Drew Senyei | Managing Director & Co-Founder | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drew-senyei |
| Teak Murphy | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/teak-murphy |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Complete Genomics | Complete Genomics' high quality, affordable DNA sequencing enables commercial-scale research of the genetic mechanisms underlying drug responses and complex diseases. Complete Genomics combines innovative technology with a disruptive market approach that will revolutionize DNA sequencing. | $39M | Series E | Aug 19, 2010 |  |
| Celladon | Celladon Corporation, a biotechnology company, develops and manufactures molecular therapies for the treatment of heart failure. Its products include SERCA2a, an enzyme that regulates calcium cycling and contractility in heart muscle cells; and MYDICAR, an enzyme replacement therapy for heart failure. Celladon was founded in 2000 and is based in LaJolla, California. | $21.8M | Series C | Nov 01, 2009 |  |
| Nexx Systems | NEXX Systems, Inc. provides processing equipment for wafer-level packaging applications. It offers sputter deposition, electro-deposition plating, and plasma cleaning systems. The company’s systems and technologies focus on flip chip advanced packaging, including wafer bumping, wafer cleaning, photoresist strip, and related technologies. Itselectro-deposition systems are designed for long deposition time processes required in applications, such as gold and solder wafer bumping, redistribution layers, and various MEMS layers. The company’s systems offer processing technology to the areas of compound semiconductors, hard disk drive head manufacturing, and ink jet printing. NEXX Systems has representatives and distributors in the United States, Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, China, Israel, Korea, Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan. NEXX Systems, Inc. was formerly known as Plasmaquest Astex. NEXX Systems, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts. | $4M | Series D | Oct 27, 2009 |  |
| VMIX Media | VMIX is a provider of carrier-class online video publishing and communication solutions. Designed with high-volume producers, device manufacturers and network providers in mind, the company's cloud-based products make it easy to ingest, manage and deliver video anywhere. With 25 million unique videos stored, and processing over one million newvideos every month, VMIX offers comprehensive, scalable online video solutions for media organizations, device manufacturers, agencies and marketers, educators, and non-profits. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in San Diego, California. | $2M | Series B | Oct 01, 2009 |  |
| TradeBeam | TradeBeam provided trade management software and services company streamlining global trading processes for enterprises and their partners. | $7M |  | Sep 21, 2009 |  |
| Complete Genomics | Complete Genomics' high quality, affordable DNA sequencing enables commercial-scale research of the genetic mechanisms underlying drug responses and complex diseases. Complete Genomics combines innovative technology with a disruptive market approach that will revolutionize DNA sequencing. | $45M | Series D | Aug 24, 2009 |  |
| 3Leaf | "The server virtualization solutions offered by 3Leaf Systems support key corporate data center initiatives such as improved power management, optimized scale-out architectures, and architectural support for on-demand computing initiatives."3Leaf's Virtual Compute Environment (VCE) architecture delivers system-levelvirtualization to enable mainframe-class capabilities for commodity servers. With 3Leaf Systems' server virtualization solutions, organizations can significantly reduce their investments in infrastructure and operations, and rapidly deploy and provision data center resources while ensuring their availability to meet the business requirements of today's applications. |  | Series C | Sep 22, 2008 |  |
| Active Network | ACTIVE Network® is the premier global marketplace for activities and events, connecting participants and activity organizers, while offering intelligence solutions through our industry-leading data and insights platform. Our enterprise-level ACTIVEWorks® platform offers organizers advanced SaaS technology that streamlines the administration ofactivities and events. Our ACTIVE Network Activity Cloud® platform combines intelligence solutions and data tools to provide actionable insights that help organizers better manage their events and increase both revenue and participation. Founded in 1999, ACTIVE Network is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. For more information, please visit ACTIVEnetwork.com and follow us on Twitter at @ACTIVEnetwork. | $92.3M | Series F | Sep 12, 2008 |  |
| ReliOn | ReliOn is the world leader in the development and marketing of modular, cartridge-based, proton exchange membrane fuel cell technology. Currently, they are marketing a range of stationary fuel cells for emergency and backup power requirements, uninterruptible power supplies, digital power needs and a variety of off grid power requirements.ReliOn serves private and public entities as diverse as telecommunications, energy, transportation, and government. Their PEM fuel cells are commercially available today. They have sold and delivered more than 1,900kW of fuel cells in the U.S. and abroad, and count among their customers major telecommunications providers, government communication sites and utilities. | $23M | Series C | Apr 28, 2008 |  |
| ReliOn | ReliOn is the world leader in the development and marketing of modular, cartridge-based, proton exchange membrane fuel cell technology. Currently, they are marketing a range of stationary fuel cells for emergency and backup power requirements, uninterruptible power supplies, digital power needs and a variety of off grid power requirements.ReliOn serves private and public entities as diverse as telecommunications, energy, transportation, and government. Their PEM fuel cells are commercially available today. They have sold and delivered more than 1,900kW of fuel cells in the U.S. and abroad, and count among their customers major telecommunications providers, government communication sites and utilities. | $18M |  | Feb 14, 2008 |  |

10 of 55 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Enterprise Partners invest in?

Enterprise Partners invests primarily in Software, Manufacturing and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 55 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Enterprise Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Enterprise Partners?

The team at Enterprise Partners includes Carl Eibl (Managing Director), Andrew Summers (Associate) and Bob Conn (Managing Director), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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