IVP

IVP is a late-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, investing in information technology and other growth-stage technology companies in North America. With a 40-year history, IVP has partnered with numerous breakout companies to achieve sustainable scale and public offerings, and its portfolio includes notable firms such as Amplitude, Brex, Coinbase, Crowdstrike, Datadog, Discord, Klarna, Slack, Snap, and Twitter. The firm focuses on guiding founders through growth, product, and go-to-market challenges, serving as a strategic partner to help portfolio companies reach their full potential.

Clay Berger

Senior Associate

Clay Berger

Associate

James Black

Partner

Todd Chaffee

Advisory Partner

Melanie Chladek

CFO and Administrative Partner

Somesh Dash

General Partner

Christopher Esqueda

Senior Vice President, Finance

Colin Fitzpatrick

Associate

Norm Fogelsong

Advisory Partner

Shreyas Garg

Associate

Steve Harrick

General Partner

Tracy Hogan

CFO and Partner

Cynthia Kuo

Associate

Cynthia Lai

Associate

Youri Lee

Senior Associate

Eric Liaw

General Partner

Alexander Lim

General Partner

Thomas Loverro

General Partner

Jules Maltz

General Partner

Bryce Marion

Associate

Michael Miao

Partner

Sandy Miller

General Partner

Shravan Narayen

Partner

Dennis Phelps

General Partner

Karthik Ramakrishnan

Partner

Jared Rosner

Associate

Parsa Saljoughian

Vice President

Joanne Shang

Associate

Army Tunjaicon

Senior Associate

Ajay Vashee

General Partner

Cack Wilhelm

General Partner

Zack Willis

Senior Vice President, Technology

Louisa Xu

Partner

Tamar Yehoshua

Venture Partner

Albert Zhang

Associate

Angela Zhu

Partner

Past deals in Search Engine

Perplexity

Series D in 2024
Perplexity is an AI-driven search engine platform that combines large language models with traditional search engines. It uses natural language processing (NLP) and generative AI to provide conversational responses, bridging the gap between conventional search engines and interactive AI assistance.

Glean

Series E in 2024
Glean develops an AI-based search engine software that connects enterprise data and generates answers through a tool integrated into any company's existing workflows. Its platform, Workplace Search, connects to internal data sources, enabling employees to find information and receive personalized answers using advanced search techniques, retrieval augmented generation, and large language models.

Perplexity

Venture Round in 2024
Perplexity is an AI-driven search engine platform that combines large language models with traditional search engines. It uses natural language processing (NLP) and generative AI to provide conversational responses, bridging the gap between conventional search engines and interactive AI assistance.

Glean

Series D in 2024
Glean develops an AI-based search engine software that connects enterprise data and generates answers through a tool integrated into any company's existing workflows. Its platform, Workplace Search, connects to internal data sources, enabling employees to find information and receive personalized answers using advanced search techniques, retrieval augmented generation, and large language models.

Perplexity

Series B in 2024
Perplexity is an AI-driven search engine platform that combines large language models with traditional search engines. It uses natural language processing (NLP) and generative AI to provide conversational responses, bridging the gap between conventional search engines and interactive AI assistance.

Giphy

Series D in 2016
Giphy, Inc. is an online platform that specializes in the search, sharing, and discovery of animated graphics interchange formats (GIFs). Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, the company offers a comprehensive database of GIFs across various categories including emotions, food, animals, and pop culture. It enables users to easily browse and share these animated graphics through social media channels. Giphy also supports creative input by allowing users to upload their own GIFs and collaborates with brands to produce original content. The platform aims to evolve beyond its search engine roots into a vibrant community for GIF artists and enthusiasts, focusing on fostering creativity and engagement within the digital visual communication space. As of mid-2020, Giphy operates as a subsidiary of Instagram, which enhances its integration within social media ecosystems.

Quigo Technologies

Venture Round in 2007
Quigo Technologies is a company that specializes in ad-targeting networks, offering contextual advertising services to large media websites such as ABCNews.com, CNNMoney.com, Forbes.com, and USAToday.com. It provides performance-based marketing technology for both websites and advertisers, including pay-per-click, paid inclusion, and comparison shopping services. Quigo was acquired by AOL in 2007 for $340 million and integrated into its Platform-A advertising solution.

Ask.com

Series A in 1999
Ask.com, established in 1996, is a leading global digital brand and top 10 U.S. website, serving over 100 million monthly users. Initially known as Ask Jeeves, it pioneered natural language search. In 2005, IAC acquired the company and rebranded it as Ask.com in 2006. In 2010, Ask.com reintroduced its question and answer (Q&A) platform, combining search technology with human responses to address complex or opinion-based queries. The company also launched a mobile application, downloaded over 3 million times. Ask.com's acquisitions of nRelate (2012) and About.com (2012) expanded its content offerings. Ask.com operates as a question answering-focused web search engine, delivering answers from the web and real people, with ads served by Google.
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