Corporate development or M&A isn’t limited to the Fortune 500 anymore. Increasingly, private startup companies are using corporate development teams to source, manage and close M&A deals. As the addition of a corp dev team acts as a signal for startup traction and momentum in our private company health models, we compiled a list of 115 un-exited companies that are venture-backed and which have corporate development teams using CB Insights’ People Search capability. Subscribers can login and get the actual name, phone number and email of individuals in the corporate development function at these companies.
From Cloudera to Box to Hootsuite, the list represents a snapshot of private companies which have reached the point where they can actively complete acquisitions. Of course, many are part of the Tech IPO Pipeline. We will continue to add and update the list as companies hire for corp dev roles.
Companies range from tech to life sciences to clean energy but all are private and VC-backed. They are arranged alphabetically.
For MBAs looking for a gig, dig in.
Company: Acquisio
Headquarters: Canada
Investors: Tandem Expansion Fund
Description: Marketing optimization platform
Company: Affinium Pharmaceuticals
Headquarters: Canada
Investors: Forward Ventures, Genesys Capital, SV Life Sciences
Description: Specialty pharmaceuticals
Company: AllConnect
Headquarters: Georgia
Investors: Covestco-Seteura, Nth Power
Description: Connects consumers with household services
Company: Allegiance Software
Headquarters: Utah
Investors: Allegis Capital, El Dorado Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners
Description: Customer intelligence
Company: Alvine Pharmaceuticals
Headquarters: California
Investors: InterWest Partners, Prospect Venture Partners, Sofinnova Ventures
Description: Specialty biopharmaceuticals
Company: Ambri
Headquarters: Massachusetts
Investors: Bill Gates, Khosla Ventures
Description: Electricity storage solutions
Company: Anametrix
Headquarters: California
Investors: Michael Christian, Walter Kortschak
Description: Customer and marketing intelligence
Company: Ansun Biopharma
Headquarters: California
Investors: Newport Healthcare Advisors, OrbiMed Advisors
Description: Pharmaceuticals
Company: Appconomy
Headquarters: Texas
Investors: QiMing Venture Partners, True Ventures
Description: App revenue platform
Company: Appfluent Technology
Headquarters: Maryland
Investors: Carlyle Venture Partners, Dynafund Ventures, New Markets Venture Partners
Description: Business intelligence and data management software
Company: Appirio
Headquarters: California
Investors: General Atlantic, GGV Capital, Sequoia Capital
Description: SaaS solutions
Company: Atlantis Computing
Headquarters: California
Investors: Cisco Investments, El Dorado Ventures, Partech International
Description: Cloud storage solutions
Company: Atlassian
Headquarters: Australia
Investors: Accel Partners
Description: Collaboration and development software
Company: Avalanche Biotechnologies
Headquarters: California
Investors: Venrock, Deerfield Management, Redmile Group
Description: Biotechnology
Company: Avalara
Headquarters: Washington
Investors: Battery Ventures, Benaroya Capital, Sageview Capital
Description: Small business tax management
Company: Avaxia Biologics
Headquarters: Massachusetts
Investors: Cherrystone Angel Group, Golden Seeds, Launchpad Venture Group
Description: Pharmaceuticals
Company: Avinger
Headquarters: California
Investors: Lucas Venture Group, Undisclosed Investors
Description: Medical devices
Company: Basho Technologies
Headquarters: Massachusetts
Investors: Georgetown Partners, Trifork AS
Description: Distributed database software technology
Company: Beyond Meat
Headquarters: California
Investors: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Obvious Corp
Description: Meat alternative
Company: Billtrust
Headquarters: New Jersey
Investors: Bain Capital Ventures, Edison Ventures
Description: Billing solutions
Company: Bloom Energy
Headquarters: California
Investors: DAG Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, New Enterprise Associates
Description: Fuel cell technology
Company: Box
Headquarters: California
Investors: Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Scale Venture Partners, US Venture Partners
Description: Data sharing management
Company: BridgeLux
Headquarters: California
Investors: Doll Capital Management, El Dorado Ventures, VantagePoint Capital Partners
Description: LED manufacturer
Company: BrightSource Energy
Headquarters: California
Investors: DBL Investors, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, VantagePoint Capital Partners
Description: Solar thermal technology
Company: CalciMedica
Headquarters: California
Investors: Biogen Idec New Ventures, SR One, Sanderling Ventures
Description: Pharmaceuticals
Company: CardioInsight Technologies
Headquarters: Ohio
Investors: CaseTechnology Ventures, Draper Triangle Ventures
Description: Heart imaging technology
Company: Cayenne Medical
Headquarters: Arizona
Investors: MB Venture Partners, Split Rock Partners
Description: Medical devices
Company: Cellerant Therapeutics
Headquarters: California
Investors: Allen & Company, Camelot Ventures, MPM Capital
Description: Biotechnology
Company: Clean Power Finance
Headquarters: California
Investors: Claremont Creek Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sand Hill Angels
Description: Solar energy
Company: ClearEdge Power
Headquarters: Oregon
Investors: Applied Ventures, Kohlberg Ventures
Description: Energy generation solutions
Company: Click Security
Headquarters: Texas
Investors: Citi Ventures , Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital
Description: Network security
Company: Cloud Engines
Headquarters: California
Investors: Foundry Group, Morgan Stanley, Softbank Capital
Description: Cloud storage
Company: Cloudera
Headquarters: California
Investors: Accel Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Intel Capital
Description: Enterprise data management
Company: Convey Computer
Headquarters: Texas
Investors: Braemar Energy Ventures, CenterPoint Ventures, Rho Ventures
Description: Hybrid-core computing
Company: CrowdSource
Headquarters: Illinois
Investors: Highland Capital Partners
Description: Crowdsourcing services
Company: Deem
Headquarters: California
Investors: Foundation Capital, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Oak Investment Partners
Description: CaaS solutions
Company: Dermira
Headquarters: California
Investors: Bay City Capital, Canaan Partners, New Enterprise Associates
Description: Biotechnology
Company: Detechtion Technologies
Headquarters: Canada
Investors: Element Partners
Description: Compression optimization technology
Company: Dropbox
Headquarters: California
Investors: Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Greylock Partners
Description: Cloud storage
Company: eFFECTOR Therapeutics
Headquarters: California
Investors: US Venture Partners, Novartis Venture Funds, Osage Partners
Description: Biotechnology
Company: Eleutian Technology
Headquarters: Wyoming
Investors: Cheyenne Capital
Description: Online education
Company: eMids Technologies
Headquarters: Tennessee
Investors: Baird Capital Partners, Council Capital
Description: Healthcare consulting
Company: Evernote
Headquarters: California
Investors: Morganthaler Ventures, Sequoia Capital, DoCoMo Capital
Description: Software and services for notetaking and archiving
Company: Fallbrook Technologies
Headquarters: California
Investors: Robeco, NGEN Partners, White Oak Global Advisors
Description: Transmission systems
Company: FlexEnergy
Headquarters: California
Investors: RNS Capital Partners, SAIL Capital Partners
Description: Clean energy
Company: Fonality
Headquarters: Texas
Investors: Azure Capital Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Intel Capital
Description: Business communications solutions
Company: GenBand
Headquarters: Texas
Investors: Oak Investment Partners, Sevin Rosen Funds, Venrock
Description: Telecommunications solutions
Company: Gilt Groupe
Headquarters: New York
Investors: General Atlantic, Matrix Partners
Description: Online retail
Company: Hootsuite
Headquarters: Canada
Investors: Insight Venture Partners, Accel Partners, OMERS Ventures
Description: Social media management
Company: HubSpot
Headquarters: Massachusetts
Investors: Google Ventures, Matrix Partners, Scale Venture Partners
Description: Lead generation software
Company: I/o Data Centers
Headquarters: Arizona
Investors: JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley, Sterling Partners
Description: Data center infrastructure
Company: Inova Payroll
Headquarters: Tennessee
Investors: Chattanooga Renaissance Fund, Clayton Associates, Nashville Capital Network
Description: Human resource software
Company: JanRain
Headquarters: Oregon
Investors: DFJ Frontier, Emergence Capital Partners, RPM Ventures
Description: User management platform
Company: Jibe Mobile
Headquarters: Canada
Investors: MTI Group, Vodafone Ventures
Description: Open technology platform for mobile devices and networks
Company: JiWire
Headquarters: California
Investors: Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Panorama Capital, Trident Capital
Description: Mobile advertising
Company: JustFab
Headquarters: California
Investors: Matrix Partners, Technology Crossover Ventures, Rho Ventures
Description: Online fashion retail
Company: Kabam
Headquarters: California
Investors: Canaan Partners, Google Ventures, Intel Capital
Description: Mobile gaming developer
Company: Kyriba
Headquarters: California
Investors: BRED Banque Populaire, Iris Capital, Upfront Ventures
Description: Treasury solutions
Company: Labcyte
Headquarters: California
Investors: Abingworth, Alloy Ventures, Delphi Ventures
Description: Biotechnology
Company: LicenseStream
Headquarters: New York
Investors: Ackerley Partners, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, City Light Capital
Description: Content licensing service
Company: Lightspeed Retail
Headquarters: Canada
Investors: Accel Partners, iNovia Capital
Description: Retail management software
Company: LiveOps
Headquarters: California
Investors: Benchmark Capital, CMEA Capital, Menlo Ventures
Description: Cloud-based customer service
Company: MarketShare
Headquarters: California
Investors: Elevation Partners, FTV Capital
Description: Business analytics
Company: Midokura
Headquarters: Japan, California
Investors: Allen Miner, NEC Corporation, NTT Investment Partners
Description: Network virtualization
Company: Mocana
Headquarters: California
Investors: Shasta Ventures, Intel Capital, Trident Capital
Description: Mobile app security
Company: Morphlabs
Headquarters: California
Investors: AO Capital Partners, CSK Global Gateway, Investment Group
Description: Cloud software
Company: Nanocomp Technologies
Headquarters: New Hampshire
Investors: CEI Community Ventures, Innovation Ventures
Description: Nanotechnology
Company: Nanosys
Headquarters: California
Investors: ARCH Venture Partners, El Dorado Ventures, Venrock
Description: Nanotechnology
Company: NGM Biopharmaceuticals
Headquarters: California
Investors: Prospect Venture Partners, The Column Group, Rho Ventures
Description: Biopharmaceuticals
Company: NuMedii
Headquarters: California
Investors: Claremont Creek Ventures, Life Science Angels, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Description: Biotechnology
Company: Ogin
Headquarters: Washington
Investors: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Goldman Sachs, New Zealand Superannuation Fund
Description: Wind energy
Company: OpenX Software
Headquarters: California
Investors: Accel Partners, Index Ventures, Mangrove Capital Partners
Description: Digital advertising
Company: Operative Media
Headquarters: New York
Investors: Orix Venture Finance, Edison Ventures
Description: Media sales optimization
Company: OriGene Technologies
Headquarters: Maryland
Investors: IDG-Accel Capital, SBI & TH Venture Capital Management, Walden International
Description: Biotechnology
Company: Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Headquarters: United Kingdom
Investors: Illumina, Invesco Perpetual, IP Group
Description: Nanotechnology
Company: Pathway Therapeutics
Headquarters: Massachusetts
Investors: CM Capital, GBS Venture Partners, Breast Cancer Research Trust
Description: Pharmaceuticals
Company: Pinterest
Headquarters: California
Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, FirstMark Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners
Description: Visual discovery tool
Company: Pivot 3
Headquarters: Texas
Investors: InterWest Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Silver Creek Ventures
Description: Data protection
Company: Planview
Headquarters: Texas
Investors: Apax Partners, Apex Venture Partners
Description: Portfolio management
Company: Precision for Medicine
Headquarters: Maryland
Investors: J.H. Whitney, Oak Investment Partners
Description: Life science services
Company: Puppet Labs
Headquarters: Oregon
Investors: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, True Ventures, VMware
Description: IT automation
Company: Quantros
Headquarters: California
Investors: Ascension Ventures, Francisco Partners
Description: Healthcare safety solutions
Company: Quench USA
Headquarters: Pennsylvania
Investors: Element Partners, Orix Venture Finance, Virgin Green Fund
Description: Water filtration systems
Company: RedVision
Headquarters: New Jersey
Investors: Edison Ventures, Inter-Atlantic Group, Updata Partners
Description: Property data solutions
Company: Regent
Headquarters: Maryland
Investors: Chrysalis Ventures, Edison Ventures, Yearling Fund
Description: Financial aid management software
Company: Return Path
Headquarters: New York
Investors: Bessemer Venture Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures, Union Square Ventures
Description: Email marketing
Company: RiverMeadow Software
Headquarters: California
Investors: Cisco Investments, Violin Memory
Description: Rapid cloud migration
Company: RockYou
Headquarters: California
Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Partech International, Sequoia Capital
Description: Video ad network
Company: Roku
Headquarters: California
Investors: Menlo Ventures, Globespan Capital Partners, News Corp
Description: Video streaming platform
Company: ScrollMotion
Headquarters: New York
Investors: Cue Ball Capital, FireStarter Fund
Description: Mobile content solutions
Company: Sharecare
Headquarters: Georgia
Investors: Galen Partners, Heritage Group, TomorrowVentures
Description: Wellness engagement platform
Company: SI-BONE
Headquarters: California
Investors: Montreux Equity Partners, OrbiMed Advisors, Skyline Ventures
Description: Medical devices
Company: Sientra
Headquarters: California
Investors: OrbiMed Advisors, Goldman Sachs, Clarus Ventures
Description: Medical devices
Company: SilkRoad Technology
Headquarters: Illinois
Investors: Foundation Capital, Azure Capital Partners, Tenaya Capital
Description: Cloud-based HR solutions
Company: Siluria Technologies
Headquarters: California
Investors: Alloy Ventures, ARCH Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Description: Materials innovation
Company: Spotify
Headquarters: Sweden
Investors: Northzone Ventures, Horizons Ventures, Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Description: Digital music service
Company: T2 Biosystems
Headquarters: Massachusetts
Investors: Flagship Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, WS Investment
Description: Medical diagnostics platform
Company: Talend
Headquarters: California
Investors: AGF Private Equity, Balderton Capital, Silver Lake Partners
Description: Business integration platform
Company: Telligent Systems
Headquarters: Texas
Investors: Intel Capital, Plumtree Partners
Description: Enterprise solutions for online communities
Company: ThreatMetrix
Headquarters: California
Investors: CM Capital, Technology Venture Partners, US Venture Partners
Description: Online fraud prevention services
Company: Tongal
Headquarters: California
Investors: Insight Venture Partners
Description: Social media platform
Company: true[X] media
Headquarters: California
Investors: JAFCO Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures
Description: Digital advertising
Company: Uber
Headquarters: California
Investors: First Round Capital, Lowercase Capital, Benchmark, Menlo Ventures, Google Ventures
Description: Mobile transportation app
Company: Vazata
Headquarters: Texas
Investors: Altpoint Capital Partners, Ballast Point Ventures
Description: Cloud architecture provider
Company: Veracode
Headquarters: Massachusetts
Investors: .406 Ventures, Atlas Venture, Polaris Partners
Description: Cloud based intelligence
Company: Virdia
Headquarters: California
Investors: Burrill & Company, Khosla Ventures, Tamar Technology Ventures
Description: Clean energy
Company: Virtustream
Headquarters: Maryland
Investors: Columbia Capital, Intel Capital, Noro-Moseley Partners
Description: Cloud solutions
Company: VLST Corporation
Headquarters: Washington
Investors: ARCH Venture Partners, MPM Capital, OVP Venture Partners
Description: Biotechnology
Company: Vormetric
Headquarters: California
Investors: JK&B Capital, Quicksilver Ventures, Sigma Partners
Description: Data security
Company: Voxer
Investors: Intel Capital, Institutional Venture Partners, SV Angel
Description: Mobile communication
Company: Vubiquity
Headquarters: Virginia
Investors: Columbia Capital, Novak Biddle Venture Partners, Valhalla Partners
Description: Digital video services
Company: [x+1]
Headquarters: New York
Investors: Advanced Technology Ventures, Blue Chip Venture Company, Hudson Ventures
Description: Marketing technology
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