Sevin Rosen Funds

Sevin Rosen Funds (SRF)
Company typePrivate
Industryearly stage venture capital
FoundedDallas (1981)
Founders
FateWinding-up after not raising a new fund for 16+ years[1]
HeadquartersDallas, Texas
Key people
  • John Bayless
  • Steve Domenik
  • John Jaggers
Websitewww.srfunds.com

Sevin Rosen Funds (SRF) is a Texas-based[2][3] venture capital firm credited with pioneering the personal computing revolution in the 1980s and also venture investing in Dallas.[4] It was established in 1981[5] by L. J. Sevin, a former Texas Instruments engineer,[6] and Ben Rosen, and was[7][8][9] one of the leading investors on the US West Coast.[10]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference CienaEtAL.BizJ was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Sevin Rosen Funds". Bloomberg.
  3. ^ Anupreeta Das (January 4, 2008). "Sevin Rosen venture capital partners splitting up". Reuters. which is known for backing huge successes like Compaq Computer Corp and Electronic Arts
  4. ^ "Dallas Innovates 2019 – Now is the time for North Texas to grab its place in the tech universe". Dallas Regional Chamber Publications. December 31, 2018.
  5. ^ Leonard Sloane (September 28, 1981). "New Venture Capital Firm is formed". The New York Times.
  6. ^ "BusinessDallas: The 16th Floor". D Magazine (Dallas).
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  8. ^ Miguel Helft (October 7, 2006). "A Kink in Venture Capital's Gold Chain". The New York Times.
  9. ^ "Seven Rosen Funds – Portfolio". Retrieved January 2, 2021. The active funds managed by Sevin Rosen are fully invested. As such, any future investments will be limited solely to companies already in the Sevin Rosen portfolio.
  10. ^ Andrew Zacharakis, William D. Bygrave (2019). Entrepreneurship. John Wiley & Sons. p. 336. ISBN 978-1-119-56322-8.