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Panorama Capital

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Panorama Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in technology and life science companies.

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01.01.2005

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The firm, founded in 2005 as a spinoff of JP Morgan Ventures Management, focuses on investments in the pharmaceutical, semiconductors, telecommunications infrastructure, and digital content sectors. With separate management teams for life science and technology investments, Panorama Capital evaluates companies at all stages of maturity and aims to capitalize on market and industry cycles. They closed their first fund in 2008, valued at $240 million.
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Rod Ferguson
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Rod Ferguson

Rod Ferguson is a co-founder of Panorama Capital, a venture capital firm which spun off from JPMorgan Partners (JPMP) in July 2006, where he focuses primarily on life sciences investments. He joined JPMP as a Managing Director in their life sciences venture practice in 2001. From 1999 to 2001, Ferguson was a partner at InterWest Partners, a venture capital firm, where he focused on life sciences investments.Prior to InterWest, he held a variety of management positions over an 11-year career at Genentech, Inc., most recently as Senior Director of Business and Corporate Development responsible for worldwide licensing transactions for both technology and pharmaceutical products. Prior to joining Genentech, Inc. in 1988, Ferguson was an associate with the law firm McCutchen, Doyle, Brown, & Enersen (currently known as Bingham McCutchen LLP). Ferguson received a BS with honors in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois, a PhD in Biochemistry from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a JD cum laude from Northwestern University. Ferguson serves on the technology advisory board of The Economist, a variety of advisory boards in the life sciences industry, and two non-profit boards. In addition, he serves on the board of directors of several private life science companies.Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee, Member of the Compensation Committee.

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Chris Albinson
Chris Albinson

Chris Albinson

Chris currently is Managing Director & Co-Founder of BreakawayGrowth & Panorama Capital, Chairman of the Board at Ninth Decimal, Board member at Careerlist & Senso. BreakawayGrowth is an investor in AppOnBoard, Senso.ai, Careerlist, Buda Juice, Ninth Decimal, Litho, RipKord.tv. Albinson has other current investments in DocuSign, Pinterest, Turo, Stance, 33Across, and an Angel investor in Uberflip, People.AI, and 4 stealth companies. Recent Exits included: DocuSign (NASDAQ: DOCU), Ticketfly (acquired by NASDAQ: Pandora), Elemental (Acquired by NASDAQ: Amazon), Good(Acquired by NASDQ: Blackberry), PasswordBox (Acquired by NASDQ: INTL), Juniper Networks (NASDAQ: JNPR), Newbridge Networks (NYSE : NN; acquired by ALCATEL), (NN then acquired for $7.1B) . Previously, Chris was a General Partner at JP Morgan Partners ($6.5B private equity firm). General Partner & Founder of FCC ($412M AUM secondary fund). Chris also helped grow four startups most recently as Chief Strategy Officer for Digital Island (NASDAQ: ISLD; acquired by Cable & Wireless in 2001). Previously, Chris helped grow Newbridge Networks to a $7.1B exit running Affiliates product division growing it from $0 to $36M revenue; & led a $217 million corporate venture fund returning $1.56B over 7 years, which invested in 27 companies, including Juniper Networks (NASDAQ:JNPR), Cambrian Systems (acquired by Nortel), Abatis Systems (acquired by Redback Networks), Fastlane (acquired by Quest Software), BNI Systems (acquired by Nortel), and PixStream (acquired by Cisco Systems). Chris was also a General Partner at JPMorgan Partners, co-heading the technology venture capital practice where he led investments including Belair Networks (acquired by Ericsson), Reflectivity (acquired by Texas Instruments), Greenfield Networks (acquired by Cisco), and Valere Power (acquired by Eltek). In 2012, he was honoured with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his contributions and service to Canada. Abbreviated-dialing code telecommunications with social media integration Patent dateIssued Nov 4, 2014 Patent issuer and numberus 8880043 Co-Inventor USTO Patent # 8880043 Patent description Abbreviated-dialing codes are used to facilitate access to and information exchanged with social-media websites. Based on the code and/or other information contained in the call, a post may be made to, or information obtained from, a social-media website. Chris currently sits on the boards of Ninth Decimal, Senso, & Careerlist Mr. Albinson holds a B.S. and an M.B.A. from Western University.

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Audrey Vallen

Audrey Vallen

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Shahan Soghikian

Shahan Soghikian

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Damion Wicker

Damion Wicker

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Chris Albinson

Chris Albinson

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Shankar Chandran

Shankar Chandran

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Michael Jung

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Allan Leinwand

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Gaurav Aggarwal

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