Sevin Rosen Funds


Sevin Rosen Funds is a Texas-based venture capital firm, and was one of the leading investors on the US West Coast, and was established in 1981 by L. J. Sevin, a former Texas Instruments engineer, and Ben Rosen. SRF was involved in the financing of Citrix, Cypress Semiconductor, Electronic Arts, Lotus Development Corporation, Silicon Graphics, Ciena Corporation and Vitesse Semiconductor. SRF's first major success was its 1982 investment in Compaq which went public shortly thereafter.
Entrepreneurs supported by SRF include: Dennis Mudd, James Sabry, Dave Vucina,
Michael Baum , Nick Gault, and Ranjith Kumaran.

West Coast

This fund has shut down West Coast operations.

Investments

Its investments include Alder Biopharmaceuticals, Capstone Turbine, Ciena, Citrix Systems, Compaq, Cyrix, Cytokinetics, Electronic Arts, NetLogic Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, and Splunk.

Community

The company founded and funded an award that gives recognition to "innovative technical achievement with potential for entrepreneurial success" at Berkeley and a grant for "membership in Austin Technology Incubator."