Peter Morris
Investment Advisory Board @ Xfund
Menlo Park, United States
Peter Morris is a Series A investor at Xfund in Menlo Park focused on Computer and Internet. Peter is a member of Xfund’s Investment Advisory Board. He is the Founder/Managing Partner of Morris Investments. Formerly he was a General Partner and member of NEA’s Management Committee. Peter was ranked #10 on the Forbes Midas list and has been honored several times as one of the most successful venture capitalists in America. Pastinvestments include Tele Atlas, Accelerated Networks (Occam), Alteon WebSystems (Nortel), Berkeley Networks (FORE Systems), Carrier Access, Clarify (Nortel), Cybermedia (Network Associates), Cyras Systems (CIENA), Fibex Systems (Cisco), Gadzoox, iAsiaWorks, IronPort Systems, Juniper Networks, Packeteer, Tasman Networks (Cisco), Troika Networks and Virata (Globespan). Prior to joining NEA in 1992, he was a General Manager at Telebit, and before that he was with Montgomery Securities and Bain and Company. Peter served for many years on the Board of the Stanford Engineering Venture Fund and currently is on the Council of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford. Peter received his Masters in Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 30%
Last updated:
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Industries Peter Morris invests in
Stages Peter Morris invests in
Countries Peter Morris invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Computer 2 (20%)
- Internet 2 (20%)
- Software 2 (20%)
- Enterprise Software 2 (20%)
- Information Technology 2 (20%)
Stage
- Series A 2 (20%)
- Series B 2 (20%)
- Series C 2 (20%)
- Funding Round 2 (20%)
- Series D 1 (10%)
Country
- United States 5 (50%)
- Belgium 1 (10%)
- United Kingdom 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Five Lamps
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Five Lamps aims to ?transform lives, raise aspirations, remove barriers and offer choice to families, business and communities?. They are a charity that supports the community by re-investing any profit back into the business. They are also known as a social enterprise, registered charity and community development finance institution. | $6.5M / Debt Financing / Jul 30, 2018 | |
Agitar
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Agitar Technologies enables the enterprise to more efficiently release Java applications, reduce the cost of bugs, and change both new and legacy applications to meet changing business needs. The AgitarOne product family enables software teams to create, use, and manage a set of unit tests to keep their software above par. | $10M / Series C / Jan 17, 2006 | |
Tele Atlas
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Official Twitter account for Tele Atlas, leading provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location based solutions. | $210M / Series A / Apr 27, 2004 | |
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Agitar
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Agitar Technologies enables the enterprise to more efficiently release Java applications, reduce the cost of bugs, and change both new and legacy applications to meet changing business needs. The AgitarOne product family enables software teams to create, use, and manage a set of unit tests to keep their software above par. | $12.6M / Series B / Mar 09, 2004 | |
Mayan Networks
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Mayan Networks is developing products that merge the traditional world of copper and SONET TDM transport with IP data communications. | $60M / Series C / Nov 01, 1999 | |
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Mayan Networks
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Mayan Networks is developing products that merge the traditional world of copper and SONET TDM transport with IP data communications. | $20M / Series B / May 19, 1999 | |
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Mayan Networks
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Mayan Networks is developing products that merge the traditional world of copper and SONET TDM transport with IP data communications. | $8M / Series A / Nov 09, 1998 | |
IronPort Systems
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Cisco acquired IronPort Systems in June, 2007. Now a part of the Cisco product family, IronPort email and web security appliances protect organizations of all sizes against spam, viruses, malware and other Internet threats — combining powerful performance with preventive and reactive security measures that are easy to deploy and manage. Theseaward-winning products and solutions are available from your local account team and through authorized resellers. | $45M / Series D | |
Alteon Websystems
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Alteon Websystems is a computer network hardware company that provides internet infrastructure solutions enabling e-businesses to meet their increasing demands. The company’s portfolio of web data center products includes switches, server adapters, and software that are optimized to meet the specific challenges of managing web application trafficand provide high performance network infrastructure solutions.Alteo Websystems was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. | ||
Packeteer
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Packeteer is a global leader in WAN Application Delivery and WAN Optimization. The company offers an integrated family of appliances and software products. Packeteer is a provider of network software products that enhance mission-critical application performance over enterprise WANs and the Internet. These application-adaptive bandwidth managementsolutions give businesses and service providers per-application control of bandwidth at congested WAN access links. |
Co-Investors
About Xfund
Xfund is the early-stage venture firm designed to back lateral thinkers. Partnering with Harvard University and others of the world’s preeminent universities, Xfund looks beyond the stereotypical technical pedigrees to seek out extraordinary people who are being systemically ignored by traditional venture capital: technically-gifted liberal artsentrepreneurs. We believe it’s our responsibility to help these unconventional, high potential founders align their ambition and passion with opportunity we help them create, to build the sort of ground-breaking companies that can create a better tomorrow. Xfund has offices in Palo Alto, California, and in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more about Xfund, please visit http://www.xfund.com.
Xfund Contacts
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Peter Morris
Investment Advisory Board
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Brandon Farwell
General Partner
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Patrick Chung
Managing General Partner
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FAQ
What does Peter Morris invest in?
Peter Morris invests primarily in Computer, Internet and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 10 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 Peter Morris last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Peter Morris closed in Jul 2018. Shizune tracks 10 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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