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Morgenthaler Ventures

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FIRM OVERVIEW: Medium Private Equity founded in 1968 based out of Menlo Park, United States (US West)

TEAM MEMBERS: Bob Pavey, Drew Lanza, Gary Little, Gary Morgenthaler, Gary Shaffer, Greg Blonder, Jim Broderick, Ken Gullicksen, Nassim Usman, Paul Levine, Ralph E. Christoffersen, Robin Bellas, Ted Laufik,

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Changes at Morgenthaler

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Posted by Anonymous on 2009-03-23

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Gary Shaffer and Greg Blonder are out of the Partnership.

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They Fell Asleep!

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Posted by Anonymous on 2009-02-22

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Actually not sure if they fell asleep, or I did. Low energy

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Good Experience

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Posted by Anonymous on 2008-11-11

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Pitched to KenKen Gullicksen. He was on time, asked reasonable questions and took his time understanding our product and our business model. They turned us down. It was the standard issue where they want us to be further down the road, and we want the money so that we can get there fast rather than grow organically.

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I Have a Good Opinion of Morgenthaler.

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Posted by Anonymous on 2008-08-03

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I enjoyed working with Gary Little and Morgenthaler during our B-round raise. I thought all the partners we met with were decent and thoughtful with good questions. Gary Little in particular has a style that I really appreciated. He takes the time to learn about the business before diving into slides.

I found Gary to be very respectful and a pleasure to work with. We were ultimately faced with a tough choice on who to go with between top-tier VCs. We're very happy with our result, but I would certainly contact Morgenthaler on future opportunities.

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Young Healthcare Care Team Definitely Not Up to Speed

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Posted by Anonymous on 2008-07-25

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They have smart guys, but not innovative thinkers and WAY too conservative on the healthcare side to do anything early-stage. If you aren't doing large scale clinical trial already, do not bother with them.

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Goof Track Record. Young Guys Not Up to Snuff

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Posted by LS guy on 2008-07-19

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David M. is an incredible individual. Truly a classy guy and a gentlemen. He build a premier firm. He has some good older partners (Bellas). Some of the younger guys are not of the same ilk. Choose partners wisely.

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Solid Folks. Wish We Could Have Come to Terms.

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Posted by mojojojo on 2007-12-28

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Was directed to Morgenthaler by one of their current venture backed firms and I had really very good impressions of Gary Little and Greg Blonder. They expressed early enthusiasm, but were unsure of our industry. Too bad.

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Chris Christoffersen

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Posted by aegis on 2007-12-15

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Chris has an excellent reputation in life sciences/biotech. We have had several discussions with them and they appear engaged and interested. We are meeting with them in January. Will keep you all posted

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Morgenthaler Still in Business?

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Posted by STU3 on 2007-10-08

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We had an odd experience with Morgenthaler. A friend had told us that Paul Levine was spearheading investment in a market segment where we were focused. We met with him in Burlington and he "loved our concept" and wanted to follow-up. We called and emailed for two weeks with no response. We finally moved on. Paul seemed professional in person, but the radio silence after indicating interest was either rudeness, or ineptness (perhaps both") on his part. They don't seem to be a player anyway.

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An Interesting Partnership

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Posted by Anonymous on 2007-08-01

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There is definitely a dichotomy in this partnership with some of the older, more experienced guys like Bob Pavey who are worth their weight in gold, and guys like Drew Lanza...

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Good Feedback but Very Risk Averse

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Posted by bootstrapper on 2007-06-23

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This firm seems very risk averse which is odd as you want to show big returns to LPs and there is this risk/return trade off.

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