Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) is a US based private equity investment firm focusing on later-stage venture capital and growth equity investments. IVP is one of the oldest venture capital firms on Sand Hill Road founded by Reid W. Dennis in 1980.
The firm manages over $2.9 billion in committed capital, including its 13th and latest fund which IVP closed at $750 million in September 2010.
 
Investments
IVP has invested in more than 300 companies since its inception, including ArcSight (ARST), Akamai (AKAM), AppDynamics (privately owned), Ask Jeeves (IACI), Aspect Communications (ASPT), @Road (ARDI), Business.com (RHD), Care.com (privately owned), Clarify (CLFY), ComScore (SCOR), Concur Technologies (CNQR), Danger (MSFT), Digital River (DRIV), Dropbox, Form Factor (FORM), Foundry Networks (FDRY), Juniper Networks (JNPR), LSI Corporation (LSI), Mobile 365 (SY), MySQL (JAVA), Netflix (NFLX), Polycom (PLCM), Quigo (TWX), Seagate Technology (STX), Spiceworks (privately owned), Synchronoss (SNCR), TiVo (TIVO), Websense (WBSN), Zynga (ZNGA) and Voxer.
IVP invested in Twitter in February 2009.
IVP invested in FleetMatics, a provider of GPS-based fleet management systems, in December 2010.