Investing in innovative companies is our mission. Intel Capital is a global commitment aimed at investing and supporting profitable enterprises that will drive internet growth, enable new usage models, and advance industry standard. We build companies using our worldwide customer base, technological knowledge, extensive access to capital, and the power of the Intel Brand. While financial return in imperative, our greater mission is to spur innovation and inspire the entrepreneurial spirit to thrive.
With an overall strategy to enable innovation, Intel Capital seeks out and invest in promising technology companies worldwide. We focus on both established and new technologies that help to develop industry standard solution, drive global Internet growth, facilitate new usage models, and advance the computing and communications platforms.
As part of Intel Corporation, Intel Capital calls on some of list best and brightest to evaluate prospective investment, offer business and technology guidance to our portfolio companies, and provide unrivaled access to the latest developments in the industry. We are among the largest venture capital entities in the world with offices in established and emerging markets around th e world.
Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested more than US$7.5 billion in approximately 1,000 companies in 45 countries. In that timeframe, 168 portfolio companies have gone public on various exchanges around the world and 212 were acquired or participated in a merger. In 2007, Intel Capital invested about US$639 million in 166 deals with approximately 37 percent of funds invested outside the United States.
Intel Capital has made a number of well known investment around the globe. These include Actions Semiconductor, Bellrock Media, Broadcom, CNET, CitrixSystem, Clearwire, Elpida Memory, FTP, India Infoline.com, Inktomi, Insyde Software, Integrant Technologies, marvell, MySQL, HIIT, PCCW, Red Hat, Rediff.com, Research in Motion, Sasken, SiRF, Smart Technologies, Sothu.com, Techfaith, VA Linux, and WebMD.
ATH was founded by Fawaz h.Zu'bi as a global coalition of entrepreneurial leaders with the objective if identifying, investing in, and building best of breed ventures in the information and communications technology(ICT) value chain in the Arab World. ATH was incorporated on January 31, 2005 as a Holding Company in Guernsey by 40 shareholders from the United States, Europe, and seven Arab nations. ATH, with the purpose of building the region's technology, media and communications capacity, has already invested in the development of Arab animation, online content, communications and media companies
IV Holding provides capital, expertise and a synergistic network of ventures to help enable and grow special entrepreneurs both within and outside the Arab world. Our ficus on building category defining companies that will shape how a global Arab audience will interact online. We do so by empowering good people to do great things.
IV Holding welcomes your breakthrough ideas on how Internet, media and mobile can be made more relevant to all