Robert Rosenberg

Robert Rosenberg, Partner, was a founder of New Venture Partners and has been a member of the core team since 1998. His work involves identifying technology which could form the basis for a successful entrepreneurial venture, shaping the business model, developing the business plan, structuring the new entity, managing the transfer of technology and human resources, recruiting senior executives, launching the venture, raising outside capital, building value in the company, and ultimately exiting the investment.  Rob focuses on software and systems startups.

Previously, Rob was a manager with The Boston Consulting Group, where he worked with leading global technology and communications companies to devise new product introductions and distribution strategies; a product manager with a networking software and equipment startup; and an analyst with Citicorp Venture Capital and Salomon Brothers Venture Capital where he worked on early stage investments including Iris Graphics (acquired by Scitex) and Proxima (acquired by InFocus).  Rob was honored by the New Jersey Technology Council as a Finalist for Financier of the Year in 2010.

Rob is currently a director of Real Time Content, ShopWell and TimeSight Systems and was previously a director of Liquavista B.V.,  SavaJe Technologies (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Vidus Limited (acquired by @Road), and Vita Nuova Holding, Ltd., and an observer of Internet Photonics, Inc. (acquired by Ciena). 

He holds a BA, magna cum laude, in Computer Science and Psychology from Yale College and an MBA from Harvard University, where he was a Baker Scholar.  He has one patent pending. 

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:

Liquavista

ShopWell

TimeSight Systems

Prior Investments:

Internet Photonics

Real Time Content

SavaJe Technologies

Vidus