Investors

Advance Publications, Inc. is a diversified media company with leading positions in national and international magazines through Condé Nast and Parade Publications, daily and weekly newspapers, business journals through American City Business Journals, internet sites including Reddit.com, cable television systems through Bright House Networks, and a significant interest in Discovery Communications.

DAG Ventures is a venture capital partnership investing in and helping outstanding entrepreneurs create leading, long-term companies across a range of markets. With roots from the 1980’s in cable TV, infrastructure, media, and wireless industries, the partnership today is privileged to work with world-class entrepreneurs as they build tomorrow’s leaders in the information technology, energy, and life science sectors. DAG Ventures invests in companies with proven technology, from the prototype stage onward. For more about DAG Ventures, please visit http://www.dagventures.com.

General Catalyst Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in exceptional entrepreneurs who are building the technology-based companies that will lead innovation and transform industries. Founded in 2000, General Catalyst Partners leverages its principals' extensive operational, business development and technological expertise to provide portfolio companies with a catalyst for success through business-building and partnership development assistance. General Catalyst has approximately $1 billion under management and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

For 25 years Mohr Davidow Ventures has identified, mentored and developed entrepreneurs and young companies with the ability to redefine business, technology and medicine. The firm partners with entrepreneurs and takes a hands-on approach to architect and help build successful companies. MDV's team and its extended network of industry experts bring years of real-world experience to accelerate each company's time to market and optimize its long-term success. Category-leading companies funded by MDV include: Agile (ORCL), Brocade (BRCD), Epigram (BRCM), Fliqz, Genius.com, hi5, Ipsilon Networks (NOK), Medio Systems, Nanosolar, Navigenics, ONI Systems (CIEN), ParAllele (AFFX), Pivotal Technologies (BRCM), Revenue Science and Shutterfly (SFLY). MDV has $2 billion dollars under management.

Northgate Capital (“Northgate”) is a closely-held partnership with a singular focus on delivering superior financial returns to its investors through private equity investments, venture capital, growth capital, and distressed/special opportunities. Since the late 1990’s, Northgate has offered its investors access to many of the world’s very best primary fund, secondary fund, and direct investment opportunities.Northgate is privileged to have a select group of loyal, sophisticated, and demanding institutional and family investors as its limited partners.

Visible Measures has been supported from the beginning by wonderful angel investors including the following leaders:

Eric S. Dobkin
Advisory Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Eric is an Advisory Director to Goldman Sachs and chairman emeritus of Global Equity Capital Markets, having served as its founder and head from 1985 to 1997. Eric continues to serve as a member of the Commitments Committee and Firmwide Capital Committee of Goldman Sachs. In 1998, Eric was awarded the first Lifetime Achievement Award by International Financial Review (IFR). In 2004 he received the Special Award for Equities in celebration of IFR's 30th anniversary.

Eric earned an AB from Marietta College in 1964 and an MBA from Harvard in 1967. He earned and honorary LLD from Marietta College in 1995, where he serves as an emeritus trustee.

Eric is a member of the Board of Managers of The School of American Research in Santa Fe and the Board of Governors of The Museum of Arts and Design in New York. Eric lives with his wife, Barbara, in Pound Ridge and Manhattan, New York.

Dharmesh is a software entrepreneur and the co-founder of HubSpot, a software company building a revolutionary software platform delivering a simple, integrated suite of applications for companies in the very small business (VSB) market. Prior to founding HubSpot, Dharmesh founded Pyramid Digital Solutions, an enterprise software company in the financial services sector which was acquired in August 2005 by SunGard Business Systems, an $11 billion technology company.

Dharmesh earned his M.S. from MIT as part of the MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership and has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB).

Phil is Managing General Partner of Lincoln Vale, LLC, an alternative investment management firm. Phil has 25 years of experience in private equity and public securities investing as an entrepreneur, principal investor, private equity fund investor, hedge fund investor, portfolio manager and secondary investor.

Phil conceived, founded (1996) and led the Goldman Sachs Private Equity Group (PEG), as CEO and CIO, to over $11 billion in assets and international prominence. While at Goldman Sachs, he served on the Goldman Sachs Asset Management Risk Committee, Operating Committee and Goldman Sachs Technology Committee. Phil retired as a Goldman Sachs Partner in 2004.

Phil has had extensive experience serving on numerous corporate and non-profit Boards and private equity Advisory Boards. He is a frequent industry speaker and serves as a Senior Lecturer at the IT Sloan School of Management. Phil received his B.S. from Syracuse University and an M.S. in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was an Alfred Sloan Fellow.