GENEVAGROUP INTERNATIONAL, INC. was founded in 1984 by experienced software executives dedicated to helping our clients achieve their strategic objectives. Our focus on the software technology sector gives us an unparalleled understanding of, and experience in global transactions, advisory, M&A, capital funding and executive team formation within this industry.
GENEVAGROUP specializes in helping technology companies launch their operations and recruit key executive management members. Our primary goal is to help emerging companies build the intrinsic values of their businesses with exceptional management leadership and results.
GENEVA VENTURE PARTNERS invests directly in disruptive technology start-ups, founders and their vision in seeking to create new markets and disrupt existing ones. We focus on early-stage investing and take a value creation, service-oriented approach in markets where we have direct expertise. These include enterprise software, SaaS, software tools and services, security software, financial services, biometrics and technology solutions that address homeland defense needs. We have finalized and fully distributed our second, fully invested fund, Geneva Venture Partners II.
GENEVA VENTURE MANAGEMENT provides in-depth advisory services in value creation through M&A, recapitalizations, capital raising, expanding business partnerships, corporate development and sell-side acquisitions. We assist operating management achieve their growth plans and maximize value creation through focus on the fundamentals of the underlying business and access to growth and expansion capital. Our clients receive the very best in overall investment advisory services, deep industry knowledge, extensive relationship network and senior level experience. In the complex software technology sector, we believe we offer a higher set of expertise, skills and mission critical advice to CEOs and Board member decision makers. Should you wish to explore your firm's full potential, consider our full suite of advisory services. With years of transaction experience on some of the most successful software companies in history, we bring our unique skills to maximize value creation to shareholders.
We are recognized as one of the leading investment advisory firms within this sector due to our deep knowledge, experience, capabilities and superior record of success. We’ve completed over 1,650 consulting, executive search, M&A and board advisory services while forming outstanding relationships with the investor community, premier technology companies, Federal Systems Integrators and Channel Resellers for our clients. We maintain active relationships with Accenture, Citrix, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Entrust, IBM, HP, McAfee, Microsoft, MicroTrend, Oracle, Salesforce, Samsung, SAP, Siemens, Sybase, Symantec, and others. We continue to establish relationships with people who, like us, love their work and are passionate about achieving success.
When ORACLE's CEO Larry Ellison required a global campaign to rapidly recruit the very best executives he turned to GenevaGroup for 54 senior executives to lay his executive team foundation. When SIEBEL Systems’ founder & CEO, Tom Siebel, launched the most advanced CRM software company in early 1994 he turned to us. We provided seed capital as well as recruited 16 senior executives in the USA, Europe and Asia to lay Siebel’s executive team foundation. When Marc Benioff, founder & Chairman of Salesforce.com needed a strong development team and an operational, hands-on President for launching Salesforce.com, he selected GenevaGroup. Geneva Venture Partners was the only institutional venture capital investor in Salesforce.com’s early capitalization financings. When Marten Mickos launched MySQL in the US he chose us to recruit his entire executive team. When Jeff Smith, founder & CEO of Tumbleweed needed a strong operational President & Chief Operating Officer, MD EMEA, VP Sales, and Board Member, he chose us. When Bernard Liautaud, founder, CEO & Chairman of Business Objects needed a President, USA, VP North American, VP Marketing, VP Global Alliances, he chose us. When Red Hat Software, Actuate, Arbor Software, Callixa(SAP), Documentum, Exalead, Forte, GigaNet, Gomez, HP Internet Division, JasperSoft, Informix(IBM), Ingres(CA), LinuxCare, MobileArmor, MySQL(Oracle), NetSuite, ProofPoint, Oracle, Remedy, Software AG, Sun(Oracle), SwivelSecure, Sybase, Symantec, TrollTech, Weblogic, VirtualLogix, Zantaz required key executive talent, they turned to GenevaGroup.
"Thanks again for doing such a great job on our CEO search. You and your team deserve a tremendous amount of credit for your energy, professionalism and performance." Shomit Ghose, Onset Ventures.