gill@opuscapital.com

Gill Cogan is a founding partner of Opus Capital, bringing more than 20 years of venture capital investing experience as well as experience building and leading venture capital firms. Gill is also a founding General Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and continues to serve as Managing Partner of the Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners Funds. Prior to joining Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners in 1990, Gill managed the West Coast venture capital operations of Adler & Company. In 1985, he was one of three general partners who formed the first independent Israeli venture fund.

Gill's operating experience includes his tenure as CEO of Formtek, Inc. — a systems company based on technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University — which was subsequently acquired by Lockheed Corporation.

Gill holds an MBA from UCLA.

Selected Investments:

Airgate (NASDAQ: PCSA, acquired by Alamosa Holdings Inc.)
C-nario
EFI (NASDAQ: EFII)
Genesys Labs (acquired by Alcatel)
Harmonic Lightwaves Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT)
Ixys (NASDAQ: IXYS)
Kalpana (acquired by Cisco)
KIVA Software (acquired by Netscape and then AOL Time Warner)
Mercury (acquired by HP)
P Com, Inc. (NASDAQ: PCMS)
Personeta
Telespree
Vantive (acquired by PeopleSoft)
Zoran (NASDAQ: ZRAN)