| From Crunchbase here are my likely sources of bad investor groups (I've excluded individuals and Google): > Compass Technology Partners 4 investments - from the start (probably not). Valor Equity Partners 3 investments - from the start (probably not). > JP Morgan 2 - maybe (unlikely) Technology Venture Partners US 1 - (unlikely) > Capricorn Management 2 - maybe (probably not) VantagePoint Capital Partners 2 - maybe Draper Fisher Jurvetson 2 - maybe Now it seems that Musk didn't expect the investor to act like a douche. So I doubt it's JPMorgan (who are have been historically known to be douches). It was probably one of the VC funds trying to squeeze Musk on TSLA during the GFC - a firm with whom he has dealt with before. I doubt that it was US tech ventures - since they don't have much weight. It was probably one of the VC firms. I doubt it was the Europeans (once again not much weight). So it's either DFJ or Vantage. I remember Sameer Bhatia (of hotmail fame) stating that DFJ loves a good squeeze (they tried to screw him by telling other VCs to back off) - so I wouldn't put it past them. Vantage point has been known to manipulate deals and are probably the most likely along with DFJ. This is all speculation - someone else help me narrow it down? Tesla Investors: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/tesla-motors DFJ: http://www.thefunded.com/funds/show/Draper+Fisher+Jurvetson Vantage Point: http://www.thefunded.com/funds/show/VantagePoint+Venture+Par... |
ie, that it was Technology Partners (http://technologypartners.com/cleantech.html), and not Technology Venture Partners US (http://tvp.com/Investments.aspx has no mention of Tesla), who made the investment (not to be confused with Compass Technology Partners who also invested). oi, names...
http://gigaom.com/cleantech/who-wins-in-the-tesla-ipo/