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Foster City, Calif – May 7, 2008 – Scale Venture Partners today announced that Rob Theis has joined the firm as Managing Director, adding operating and investing depth to ScaleVP’s technology team. Theis, a 25-year technology industry veteran, was most recently with venture capital firm DCM – Doll Capital Management, where he was a General Partner for eight years. At ScaleVP, Theis will drive investment in technology infrastructure and applications.

"The ScaleVP partnership has continually invested to build our firm into a lasting franchise," said Kate Mitchell, Managing Director with ScaleVP. "Having co-invested with Rob since 2000, we know how well his global operating experience and investment track record will fit with our thematic investing approach and contribute to our industry network."

"ScaleVP has established itself as an emerging leader, backing companies in growing market areas and achieving exits in both its technology and healthcare practices," said Rob Theis. "I'm excited to put my investment and operations experience to work with the talented team at ScaleVP to help build a next-generation firm."

Theis has built and managed technology companies from the early start-up stage through to established, public companies, with global experience in both management and investing. At DCM, Theis invested in successful emerging leaders such as PGP, Roamware, NeoPath (acquired by Cisco) and VanceInfo (NYSE: VIT). Rob's investing career builds on his deep experience driving technology startups' sales, marketing and partnership success. As executive vice president for New Era of Networks (NEON), Rob grew the company to $200 million in revenues and was instrumental in leading NEON through a successful IPO. Prior to NEON, Rob spent 10 years in varied executive roles at Sun Microsystems, where he drove growth in a series of new strategic initiatives, including Sun's success in the Financial Services Industry. Rob's previous experience includes launching Silicon Graphics' initial workstations and selling timesharing services for McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing.) Theis was awarded the Honors Scholarship at the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned a B.A. degree in economics.

About Scale Venture Partners
Based in Foster City, California, the ScaleVP team is a long-standing partnership with a consistent, top quartile track record of returns. Scale Venture Partners' insight-driven investment strategy, extensive operating networks and go-to-market expertise help identify and build winning portfolio companies in technology and healthcare markets. The ScaleVP team's proven skill-set and active approach provides entrepreneurs a competitive advantage for growth and category leadership. Representative portfolio companies include Alimera Sciences, Discera, Frontbridge, Glu Mobile, mBlox, Monolithic Power Systems, National Healing, NComputing, Omniture, Orexigen, ScanSafe, Somaxon, Vantage Media, Waterfront Media, Xceive and Zogenix. For more information, visit www.scalevp.com.

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