OpenView Venture Partners is an expansion stage venture capital fund, with a focus on high-growth software, internet, and technology-enabled companies. The firm was founded in 2006 by Scott Maxwell, a senior Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners. The firm currently encompasses professionals who have been working together for several years, most recently as the Boston office of Insight Venture Partners.
The overarching theme of OpenView is to add significant value to the companies it invests in.
FOCUS
OpenView focuses on high-growth software and internet-related companies with quarterly sales in the range of $500 thousand to $5 million. The firm invests worldwide, and has global investment and operating experience from investments in Russia, the European Union, Canada, Mexico, Asia Pacific, and the United States. The firm offers significant North America expansion assistance to companies outside the United States and global expansion assistance to U.S. companies.
OpenView focuses on high-growth software and internet-related companies with quarterly sales in the range of $500 thousand to $5 million. The firm invests worldwide, and has global investment and operating experience from investments in Russia, the European Union, Canada, Mexico, Asia Pacific, and the United States. The firm offers significant North America expansion assistance to companies outside the United States and global expansion assistance to U.S. companies.
VALUE-ADD SERVICES
Much of the team's success has been driven by its active role in providing its portfolio companies with strategic value-add services and highly practical operating expertise. The entire team is also very active in finding & recruiting senior management where desired, and in helping with exit positioning to bankers and strategic buyers.
Much of the team's success has been driven by its active role in providing its portfolio companies with strategic value-add services and highly practical operating expertise. The entire team is also very active in finding & recruiting senior management where desired, and in helping with exit positioning to bankers and strategic buyers.
OpenView's team includes four dedicated, highly experienced operating executives, with areas of expertise in high-tech sales, marketing, research & development, and general management. Team engagements vary from providing strategic advice, to temporary operating engagements, to full-time local deployments for extended periods. The level of engagement at a company is completely at the discretion of the company's management team.
In addition to its in-house team, OpenView maintains a global network of value-add professionals.
FEWER INVESTMENTS, MORE HELP
The OpenView team believes in concentrating its value-add services in fewer investments. To help accomplish this, OpenView keeps its capital base low. OpenView has a total capital under management of approximately $240 million from leading institutional investors worldwide, as well as from members of the OpenView team.
The OpenView team believes in concentrating its value-add services in fewer investments. To help accomplish this, OpenView keeps its capital base low. OpenView has a total capital under management of approximately $240 million from leading institutional investors worldwide, as well as from members of the OpenView team.
OpenView Venture Partners is headquartered in Boston, MA. To contact the team, please click here.
