David M. Kelley

IDEO Ventures focuses strategic equity and royalty investments in the communications, Internet and software sectors.

IDEO LP provides marketing, consulting, product development, and branding and designing services. It offers strategic services, including exploration, service design and transformation services. The company was founded by David M. Kelly, Mike Nuttall and Bill Moggridge in 1991 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

ONSET Ventures focuses on early-stage investments in companies in business-to-business markets in the following information and medical technology segments: enterprise applications, infrastructure software, communications & networking and medical technology. Their medical technology investments focus on medical devices and drug delivery systems. ONSET Ventures also makes select later-stage investments.The firm looks for companies with the potential to be large, independent companies in markets that support rapid growth. They also look for companies with experienced management teams that have identified a market, technical or other advantage that allows it to develop barriers to competition quickly.ONSET Ventures invests primarily in Northern California. Initial investments typically range from several hundreds of thousands of dollars to about $5 million. They generally invest $8 million to $12 million over the life of an investment.