With an overall strategy to enable innovation, Intel Capital seeks out and invests in promising technology companies worldwide. We focus on both established and new technologies that help to develop industry standard solutions, drive global Internet growth, facilitate new usage models, and advance the computing and communications platforms.
As part of Intel Corporation, Intel Capital calls on some of its best and brightest to evaluate prospective investments, offer business and technology guidance to our portfolio companies, and provide unrivaled access to the latest developments in the industry. We are among the largest venture capital entities in the world with offices in established and emerging markets around the world.
Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested more than US$7.5 billion in approximately 1,000 companies in 45 countries. In that timeframe, 168 portfolio companies have gone public on various exchanges around the world and 212 were acquired or participated in a merger. In 2007, Intel Capital invested about US$639 million in 166 deals with approximately 37 percent of funds invested outside the United States.
Intel Capital has made a number of well known investments around the globe. These include Actions Semiconductor, Bellrock Media, Broadcom, CNET, CitrixSystems, Clearwire, Elpida Memory, FPT, India Infoline.com, Inktomi, Insyde Software, Integrant Technologies, Marvell, MySQL, NIIT, PCCW, Red Hat, Rediff.com, Research in Motion, Sasken, SiRF, Smart Technologies, Sohu.com, Techfaith, VA Linux, and WebMD.
History
Back before Santa Clara Valley became known as Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore started Intel with the help of venture capitalist Arthur Rock who contributed $10,000 and raised an additional $2.5 million. By then, Moore had already authored what is now well-known as Moore’s Law, and it has been the watchword behind Intel’s success over the past four decades. Intel’s rich history has powered the rise of the Information Age, combining innovation with business savvy to quite literally change the world.
Intel Capital was born of this same combination - a passion for innovation and a mind for business. In the early 1990s, we began with a strategy to seed just a few companies whose products and services filled gaps in our own product line, capabilities, and capacity. But that strategy soon grew.
As the worlds of computing and communications expand and converge, so too does the business behind it all. Intel’s horizons broadened in the past decade and Intel Capital followed suit, entering into emerging technologies and markets, enriching the ecosystem, and looking ahead at future possibilities. |
|
|
|
|
