El Dorado Ventures invests in visionary, passionate entrepreneurs with the drive to create successful companies that bring disruptive technologies and innovative business models to their particular market.
The firm invests across a range of sectors and has particular interest and expertise in the following areas:
- Datacenters and Cloud Computing
- Software, particularly Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
- Consumer Internet
- Cleantech
- Communications and Networking
El Dorado Ventures typically invests at the early stage of a company’s development. This could be a small seed financing or a more significant Series A round. In some cases we will consider investments in companies that have made further progress than a “typical Series A.” While our initial investment takes place at the early stage, we reserve sufficient capital to be a major investor in each portfolio company as it grows and raises subsequent financing rounds.
EDV seeks to partner with entrepreneurs who want to rapidly build successful companies around products or services that will be differentiated and defensible. Building companies of lasting value is hard work and we want to back people who understand this and are up to the challenge.
At El Dorado Ventures, we work to be “Partners with Entrepreneurs,” which to us means committing time, resources and expertise to help our portfolio companies succeed. We recognize the success or failure of a business is based on how well the leadership team is able to execute its vision for the company, and see our role as helping to make that happen.