The road from Delhi

Venture capitalists

VCs are money managers who make high-risk, high-return investments. They raise money from private and institutional investors. They then invest those funds in start-up and pre-public companies, hoping for a substantial return. VCs get their money back when a portfolio company sells shares to the public in an initial public offering IPO or when it is acquired by another firm.

Haque worked for a decade at a string of medical instrumentation companies, and then started vetting ideas for Norwest Venture Partners in 1990. Bought into the client-server revolution, he made his first big scores on Tivoli and Forte Software. More recent hits: Cerent, Siara, OnDisplay, Extreme Networks and Winphoria.