Founded in 1978, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) has grown into the world's largest early stage Venture Capital fund.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley with additional offices in Reston, VA and Baltimore, MD, NEA is renowned for technology, medical and life sciences investments. Since 1978, more than 135 of the companies that NEA funded have gone public. Moreover, NEA consistently ranks among the top venture firms based on portfolio company IPOs each year.  As of 2000, NEA had financed companies whose total revenues exceeded $50 billion and whose total market value exceeded $100 billion.

NEA typically invests in 20 to 30 new companies each year. Investments include Silicon Graphics, Bay Networks, Corvis, Juniper Networks, Ascend Communications, UUNet, WebEx and TiVo.NEA currently has eleven partnerships managing $5 billion of capital.