About Elance
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Investors
Since its founding in 1998, Elance has secured funding from leading investment firms including:
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is committed to helping entrepreneurs build sustainable technology businesses. For nearly 30 years, they have invested in hundreds of market-defining ventures. They are constantly on the lookout for ideas with the promise to invent new business categories or radically alter existing ones. Their focus is on new technologies and new applications of technology that will drive high-impact change.
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NEA (New Enterprise Associates)
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is a leading venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs create and build major new enterprises that use technology to improve the way we live, work and play. Since its founding in 1978, the firm has followed the same basic principles: support their entrepreneurs, provide an excellent return to their limited partners and practice their profession with high standards and respect. Practicing classic venture capital for over 25 years, NEA focuses on investments at all stages of a company’s development, playing an active role in assisting management to build companies of lasting value. With $6 billion under management, NEA's experienced management team has invested in over 500 companies, of which more than 150 have gone public and more than 200 have been acquired. NEA has offices in Reston, Virginia, Menlo Park, California and Baltimore, Maryland.
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Pequot Capital Management
Pequot Ventures is the direct venture investment arm of Pequot Capital Management, focused on today's most dynamic startup and growth stage technology companies. They create value by bringing energy and substantial sector expertise to their portfolio companies through the collective intellectual capital, deep operating experience and extensive network of their investment team. The firm leverages its unique multi-billion dollar presence across both public and private equity markets to help build competitive, sustainable businesses in fast-changing environments and throughout their life cycles.
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