Reed Elsevier Ventures (REV)

Profile

REV is a global venture capital partnership. They are backed by one of the world's largest content, technology and analytics companies, RELX Group. Their mission is to help build companies that can transform their markets through the application of data, technology and analytics. Since 2000 they have invested over $200m in Big Data, Digital Health, Internet and Enterprise Technology companies. They have been early investors in disruptive category leaders like Palantir, Healthline, Babbel and Netli. Their portfolio of companies is part of a large, extended family of businesses that also includes the entire Reed Elsevier Group. Collaboration is actively encouraged and supported. Their focus is high growth, internet, media & technology businesses based in the US, Europe or Israel. Their typical sectors include: new media, mobile, big data & analytics, healthcare information & software and groundbreaking analytic technologies. They will invest at any stage of a company's development, from early/seed stage to growth capital and whatever their initial capital investment, they remain committed to helping the company achieve market leadership. They are a global investor active in all the major western venture capital hubs - San Francisco, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, London, Berlin and Tel Aviv. Their largest portfolio cluster is in California.