Highland Capital Partners

Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, early stage, and growth stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in the information technology, consumer, communications, and healthcare sectors. Within the information technology sector, the firm seeks to invest in digital media, emerging media, software, services, online marketing, payment systems, emerging broadband, interactive television, and media technologies. In the communications sector, it typically invests in networking and communications infrastructure, wireless technologies, service opportunities, cable infrastructure, and semiconductor opportunities. Within the healthcare sector, the firm prefers to invest in medical technology, software, services, medical devices, and biotechnology. It is generally the first institutional investor in the companies it backs and seeks to take a board seat on its portfolio companies. Highland Capital Partners was co-founded by Mr. Robert Higgins and Mr. Paul Maeder in 1988 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts with additional offices in Bethesda, Maryland and Menlo Park, California.