History of Success
Bridgescale is a new firm with a proven team that has experienced success. Our investment team combines operational and domain expertise typical of early-stage investing with the financial and capital markets expertise essential for mid- to late-stage companies. We have more than 75 combined years of operational, venture capital and investment banking experience including broad transaction expertise spanning early-stage to public-market transactions. We have invested in more than 65 companies that were either acquired or went public including Atheros, CNET, FormFactor, Geocities, ONI Systems, Pivotal Technologies, Quantum Effects Design, SupportSoft and Sycamore. In addition, we have advised on M&A and financing transactions representing in excess of $25 billion in transaction value.

High-Value Network
Through our years of investing, advising and operating we have built a broad and global network spanning the entire information technology industry ecosystem. With these proprietary and high- value relationships, we can help our portfolio companies with customer acquisition, business development, recruiting and M&A transactions.

Technology Focused
We are 100 percent technology focused, with deep vertical expertise in consumer Internet, digital media, semiconductors, communications hardware, software and related services.

Bridgescale is strategically located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California, which is in close proximity to the highest concentration of technology startups in the world and where one finds the most active private company technology investors. This focus and access to so many exciting investment opportunities gives Bridgescale a unique ability to identify leading investment prospects and also serves as a potential relationship channel for startups should they like to partner.

Flexible, Creative Deal Structuring
We have been involved with numerous transactions and are very experienced in structuring complex transactions. We can leverage this experience to be creative on structure and process so that we can accommodate all shareholders’ interests. In addition, our investment appetite as measured in dollars is very flexible to accommodate the needs of the management teams, previous investors and the divesting corporation. We are comfortable with minority equity positions, full or partial recapitalizations, acquisition financings and buyouts.