Altos Ventures
Portfolio
Section
Current
Past
Software
Services
Systems & Components
Supply Chain
Company
Axis Systems (Verisity)
BigBook (Wirestone)
Bluedot (Ambassadors)
CallConnect (Workscape)
Digital Market (Agile Software)
Egreetings (American Greetings)
Evant (Manhattan Associates)
Evolve (Primavera)
Gravitate (Telcontar)
Inquisit (Ask Jeeves)
Intellify (Sysorex)
iOwn (Citigroup)
Listen.com (Real Networks)
Nishan Systems (McData)
Pixo (Sun Microsystems)
ProduceOnline (World Commerce)
Provato (I-Many)
QUIQ (Kanisa)
Soundpipe (Comdial)
Overview
BigBook was a pioneer in the online business directory market. Altos backed a first time CEO, Kris Hagerman, who had known three of the Partners at Altos since their days together at Stanford.

Altos Partners
Ho Nam

Co-Investors
Brinson Partners
New Enterprise Associates
Plantagenet Capital
Status
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INVESTED: 1997

STATUS: Acquired by Wirestone in 1999
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