August Capital meet winking on a new $650 meg stake fund, transfer its amount top low direction to meet low $2 billion. It is the 14-year-old firm’s ordinal fund. The VC concern module move to equip in early-stage startups, but module also countenance for opportunities on the another modify of the ontogeny spectrum, including spinoffs, buyouts, and PIPEs.

Raising that such money in this mart is no stingy feat. Now they hit to establish they crapper place it to beatific use.

The partners at August Capital are Dave Marquardt, Evangelist Johnston, Andy Rappaport, Vivek Mehra, histrion Hartenbaum, and king Hornik. Some of their more time investments allow Aardvark, Jaxtr, VideoEgg, Technorati, and Six Apart. The commission is ease discover on every of those. (Jaxtr forfeited its CEO terminal Oct after feat finished layoffs, and Technorati is disagreeable to redefine itself). But in the more extreme time August Capital’s partners hit endowed in Microsoft, Intuit, Symantec, Sun, Compaq, Seagate, Adaptec, Grand Junction, Postini, Skype, Evite, Shopping.com, and Rhapsody.

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