Highland Capital Partners

Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 1988 and based in Massachusetts, with 39 years of putting the entrepreneur first. The firm has recorded 200 exits, 50+ IPOs, and 40 unicorns, managing approximately $7 billion in assets under management. The firm takes a sector-focused, stage-diversified approach, investing in seed, early, and growth-stage companies across communications, consumer, digital media, healthcare, and information technology markets. Highland is almost always the first institutional investor in the companies it backs, drawing on an investment team with over a century of combined venture capital experience. Highland takes an active, lead role in its portfolio companies, serving on the boards of directors of over 95% of the businesses it backs. The firm emphasizes long-term value creation over quick wins, believing great companies are built through sustained focus on core strengths rather than being built in a day. Highland's investment approach centers on deep, hands-on partnership that extends well beyond board participation, continually seeking and delivering competitive advantages to the founding teams it supports across its diversified portfolio of communications, healthcare, and technology companies.