Sevin Rosen Funds
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| founding | 1980 |
| Seat | Dallas, Texas |
| management | Benjamin M. Rosen and Leonce John Sevin |
| Branch | Venture capital |
| Website | http://www.srfunds.com/ |
The Sevin Rosen Funds is a venture capital firm founded in 1980 by Benjamin M. Rosen and Leonce John Sevin .
The company co-financed Citrix , Cypress Semiconductor , Electronic Arts , Lotus Development Corporation , Silicon Graphics , and Vitesse Semiconductor , among others . The company's first major success was its investment in Compaq in 1982, which went public a short time later. The company manages three funds, which together contain 1.7 billion US dollars.
Inventors supported by this company include Dennis Mudd ( Slacker ), James Sabry ( Cytokinetics ), Dave Vucina ( Waypor, t ), Michael Baum ( Splunk ), Nick Gault ( XenSource ), and Ranjith Kumaran ( YouSendIt ) .