Enterprise News for 2001

New Fund Will Focus on Telecommunications, Life Sciences and Enterprise Software Sectors: Firm Relocates New Corporate Headquarters to Support Continued Growth

Today's carriers are buried under a pile of debt and how they solve this debt will be key to their survival.

"There are a lot of VC firms who came from the dot-com world and jumped on the optical bandwagon, this is a very difficult industry to understand, and some of the new VCs don't." stated Naser Partovi, Managing Director in a recent conversation with Dow Jones News.

The inevitable shift toward optical technology reveals a prism of investment opportunities.

Enterprise Partners Managing Director Naser Partovi's power point presentation at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference ("OFC 2001") where he discussed the recent developments in the optical networking space.

Enterprise Partners Managing Director and General Partner, Bill Stensrud's slide presentation at the Investment Capital Conference sponsored by the Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA).

Forbes picked the Top 100 power brokers in the VC world who, despite the economic downturn, continue to have the Midas Touch.

John Foley, Wall Street Reporter Anchor, discusses the recent trends in venture capital with Bill Stensrud.

Enterprise Parnters, an early-stage investor, is another one of many venture firms turning its attention to existing portfolio companies.

Today's networks need to be scaled to meet the ever-increasing bandwidth and agility demands of Internet-based commerce, operations, and entertainment. With electronics becoming more and more complex, the telecommunications industry looks to optical technology as the Holy Grail for high-speed communications.