General Info

Venrock Associates has invested more than $1.3 billion into more than 350 companies. Venrock was founded as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller Family and continues a tradition of funding outstanding entrepreneurs and establishing successful, enduring companies. Venrock's activities have focused on early stage companies in information technology and healthcare, with investments in such companies as Intel, Apple Computer, Stratacom, Check Point Software, Visual Networks, and DoubleClick in the IT sector and Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Genetics Institute, Oratec Interventions and Caliper Technologies in the healthcare sector. Venrock was formed in 1969 to build upon the successful investing activities of the Rockefeller Family that began in the late 1930s. The firm has offices in New York, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Menlo Park, Calif.