Topic summary
Venrock Associates
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Venrock.
History
In 1969, Rockefeller formalized these activities by establishing Venrock Associates as a limited partnership funded by family members and some of the institutions the family supported including the Museum of Modern Art, Rockefeller University and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. By 1996, Venrock had financed 221 early-stage companies across aviation, electronics, computers, and biotechnology. Some of its earliest investmens include Intel, Apple, 3Com and Gilead Sciences.