David Tennenhouse

Dr. David Tennenhouse, Partner, joined New Venture Partners and opened its Silicon Valley office in 2007. He is focused on developing relationships with corporate R&D teams and strategic business units.

David joined New Venture Partners from Amazon.com where he was Vice President of Platform Strategy and CEO of its A9.com subsidiary.
Prior to Amazon/A9, David was Vice President and Director of Research at Intel Corporation where he pioneered an "open collaborative" approach to corporate research. This was, in part, based on his earlier work as DARPA's Chief Scientist and Director of its Information Technology Office. At both DARPA and Intel, he was involved in the strategic planning and execution of programs related to a wide range of technologies, including networking, wireless communications, computer architecture, distributed computing, machine learning, search / data mining, image processing, robotics, MEMs, healthcare, and nano/bio-technology.

David is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a Fellow of the IEEE. He is currently a Director of Alverix, Inc., the Computing Research Association (CRA) and the International Computer Sciences Institute (ICSI). He is also an advisor to Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and to the Mechanical Engineering Department at UC Berkeley. He has held academic appointments at MIT in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and in the Sloan School of Management.

Dr. Tennenhouse holds a B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto and obtained his Ph.D. at the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge.

New Venture Partners, the global venture capital firm dedicated to corporate technology spin-outs, has over $700 million under management. New Venture Partners provides a bridge between technology corporations and traditional venture capital. Starting in 1997 as Lucent Technologies New Ventures Group and operating as an independent firm since 2001, the New Venture Partners team has launched dozens of companies built upon innovations from Bell Labs, British Telecom, Philips, and other major technology companies.

Current Investments:

Alverix

EverSpin

Intelleflex