Philip Herget
Founder at Ardent Venture Partners LLC
Profile
Prior to co-founding Ardent Venture Partners, Phil was the Founder/Managing Member of Avonlea Capital, a venture capital firm focused primarily on high-potential internet, media, mobile, and technology companies.
Avonlea Capital has had a thematic focus on the transformation of work.
Phil currently serves as a Board Observer of Flytedesk.
Avonlea exits include Airside Mobile (acquired by Onfido), Avizia (acquired by American Well), BlackLynx (acquired by Jacobs), Booyah Networks, ClearLeap (acquired by IBM), Greensmith (acquired by Wartsila), Interfolio (acquired by Insight Capital), Pacify (acquired by Advantia Health), SpotX (acquired by RTL Media).
Prior to Avonlea Capital, Phil was a Co-Managing General Partner of Columbia Capital, a venture capital/private equity firm focused on Communications, Media, and Technology.
Phil joined Columbia Capital in 1992, leading the firm’s development, growth, and transition into a premier institutional investor-backed investment firm.
Former Columbia portfolio companies that Phil managed include Altiga Networks (acquired by Cisco Systems), Call Technologies (acquired by 3Com), Columbia Spectrum Management (acquired by P-Com), GoAhead Software (acquired by Oracle), NMP (acquired by AppNet / Commerce One), Ocular Networks (acquired by Tellabs), Riverbed Technologies (acquired by Aether Systems), Saville Systems (NASDAQ: SAVLY subsequently acquired by ADC Communications), Telular (NASDAQ: WRLS), Torrent Networking Technologies (acquired by Ericsson), Vubiquity (served as Board Chair, acquired by Amdocs).
Phil also served as CFO of Telular Corporation, leading the company through an Initial Public Offering.
Philip Herget active positions
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Vibrant Solutions, Inc.
 Vibrant Solutions, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Vibrant Solutions, Inc. provides business performance software solutions. Its products include multi application platforms, veiwlogic manager, and intuitive user interface. The company was founded by Kit Mays in May 2001 and is headquartered in Fairfax, VA. | Director/Board Member | - |
Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc.
 Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc. engages in the supply of software, components, and intellectual property to enable the intelligent use of sensors in consumer electronics, robotics, and IoT devices. Its products include FSP200; BNO080/085; FSM300; FSM-9; FSP200 Development Suite; BNO080 Development Kit; and MotionEngine. The company was founded by Daniel S. Simpkins and Peter S. Jackson in 2001 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD. | Director/Board Member | - |
Hatteras Networks, Inc.
 Hatteras Networks, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Hatteras Networks, Inc. provides broadband Ethernet services. The company was founded on June 20, 2000 and is headquartered in Durnham, NC. | Director/Board Member | - |
Vubiquity, Inc.
 Vubiquity, Inc. Movies/EntertainmentConsumer Services Vubiquity, Inc. provides multiplatform content video services. Its services include subscription gaming, digital storefront, metadata management, provisioning, content licnsing and aggregation, media analytics and intelligence, bandwidth optimization, and localization. The company was founded by Ramanarayan V. Potarazu in 1988 and is headquartered in Reston, VA. | Director/Board Member | - |
Overture Networks, Inc.
 Overture Networks, Inc. Computer CommunicationsElectronic Technology Overture Networks, Inc. provides virtualization solutions to carrier-class service providers.The company was founded by Prayson Pate and Jeffrey W. Reedy in September 6, 2000 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC. | Director/Board Member | - |
ICX Media, Inc.
 ICX Media, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services ICX Media, Inc. develops a digital media software platform which provides comprehensive insights into how videos are performing. It specializes in media, content creators, online video, video, insights, data science and brand content. The company was founded by Michael B. Avon, Steven McCord, Joey McCord and Thomas MacIsaac and is headquartered in Washington, WA. | Director/Board Member | - |
Blacklynx, Inc.
 Blacklynx, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Blacklynx, Inc. manufactures and designs electronic hardware solutions for embedded computing, instrumentation, radio frequency, signal processing and power management. Its product Ryft ONE is an appliance capable of providing real-time business insights into both historical and streaming data. The firm delivers the speed, scalability, simplicity and security required for real-time intelligence applications like smart retail, fraud prevention, cyber security and financial compliance. It serves the government agencies and university research institutions specializing in defense, intelligence, physics and energy applications. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD. | Director/Board Member | - |
Ardent Venture Partners LLC
 Ardent Venture Partners LLC Investment ManagersFinance Ardent Venture Partners LLC (Ardent Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Phil L. Bronner and Philip Richard Herget. The firm is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia. | Founder | 2019-08-31 |
Former positions of Philip Herget
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Little Hawk Capital Management LLC
 Little Hawk Capital Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Founded by Roland Reynolds, Little Hawk Capital Management LLC is a venture capital fund of funds manager located in Alexandria, Virginia | Corporate Officer/Principal | 2013-04-14 |
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Training of Philip Herget
| University of Virginia | Undergraduate Degree |
| Kenan-Flagler Business School | Masters Business Admin |
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| Private companies | 22 |
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Telular Corp.
 Telular Corp. Major TelecommunicationsCommunications Telular Corp. provides transportation, energy and waste management industries. It develops wireless terminals that work in conjunction with software systems to provide integrated event monitoring and reporting services for machine-to-machine (M2M) applications. The company was founded by William L. De Nicolo in 1986 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL. | Communications |
Columbia Capital LLC (Virginia)
 Columbia Capital LLC (Virginia) Investment ManagersFinance Columbia Capital LLC (Columbia Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1989 by Dave P. Mixer. The firm is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. | Finance |
Lloyd's of London Ltd.
 Lloyd's of London Ltd. Insurance Brokers/ServicesFinance Lloyd's of London Ltd. engages in the provision of commercial, corporate, and specialty risk solutions. It also offers resources, capability, and insight to develop new and innovative products for customers. The company was founded on April 22, 1996 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom. | Finance |
CoManage Corp.
 CoManage Corp. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services CoManage Corp. provides data integrity solutions for telecommunications carriers. It also offers network and service auto-discovery, discrepancy management, and reconciliation. The company was founded by Andeww Fraley and David Nelsen in 1998 and is headquartered in Wexford, PA. | Technology Services |
Enpirion, Inc.
 Enpirion, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Enpirion, Inc. operates as an analog semiconductor company, which offers integrated power management solutions. It develops power systems-on-a-chip DC-DC converters featuring integrated inductors, that enables the combination of efficiency, footprint and low-noise performance. The company was founded by Robert Filas, Trifon Liakopolous, Ashraf Lotfi, Troutman William and Jain Tan in 2001 and is headquartered in Hampton, NJ. | Electronic Technology |
Hatteras Networks, Inc.
Hatteras Networks, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Hatteras Networks, Inc. provides broadband Ethernet services. The company was founded on June 20, 2000 and is headquartered in Durnham, NC. | Technology Services |
EZchip Semiconductor, Inc.
 EZchip Semiconductor, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology EZchip Semiconductor, Inc. provided fables semiconductor related products. It was a global leader and innovator in many core processors for network intelligence, video and cloud computing. The firm also developed highest performance, low-power, general purpose many core processors. It designed multi core embedded processors for networking, digital multimedia, and wireless infrastructure markets. The company offered multi core processors for processing and power requirements, multi core software development tools, cloud computing processors, and boards. The company was founded in October 2004 by Devesh Nandan Garg, Vijay K. Aggarwal and Anant Agarwal and was headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Electronic Technology |
Avail Media, Inc.
 Avail Media, Inc. BroadcastingConsumer Services Avail-TVN is the largest independent digital media services company in North America. Working with every major studio and television network, the company offers a full content line up of MPEG-4 encoded live programming as well as video on demand content in MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 to multichannel video providers throughout the US, Canada, the Caribbean and Mexico. The Avail-TVN platform is an open, advanced technology, offering the most comprehensive, end-to-end solution for licensing, managing, distributing and marketing linear and on-demand content to virtually any platform today and is extensible to support the new services of tomorrow. Avail-TVN is the only company today to deliver to its customers a combined MPEG-4 linear IPTV and Video On Demand (VOD) solution. The Avail-TVN solution includes a full line-up of live television programming with hundreds of channels, all quality-encoded in MPEG-4, IP-encapsulated, encrypted, combined with VOD, and designed for future value-added services. Avail-TVN possesses an extensive content library, including transport rights from the top national programmers, including ABC-Disney, Turner, NBC Universal, MTV Networks, Fox Cable Networks as well as On Demand content from every major studio such as Buena Vista/Disney, DreamWorks, Lionsgate NBC Universal, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros and television network, as well as content only available On Demand. Avail-TVN also offers a proprietary software suite, ViewTrak™, which allows both carriers and content providers the ability to track programming activations on a real-time basis. Avail-TVN's solutions have been designed for and are today used by digital video providers of all types. Whether triple-play, quad-play, or pure video play, Avail-TVN has a solution to suit your digital media services requirements. | Consumer Services |
Marsh & McLennan, Inc.
 Marsh & McLennan, Inc. Insurance Brokers/ServicesFinance Part of Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc., Marsh & McLennan, Inc. provides insurance brokerage services. The company is based in New York, NY. | Finance |
| Energy Service Co., Inc. | Distribution Services |
Vibrant Solutions, Inc.
Vibrant Solutions, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Vibrant Solutions, Inc. provides business performance software solutions. Its products include multi application platforms, veiwlogic manager, and intuitive user interface. The company was founded by Kit Mays in May 2001 and is headquartered in Fairfax, VA. | Technology Services |
Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc.
Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc. engages in the supply of software, components, and intellectual property to enable the intelligent use of sensors in consumer electronics, robotics, and IoT devices. Its products include FSP200; BNO080/085; FSM300; FSM-9; FSP200 Development Suite; BNO080 Development Kit; and MotionEngine. The company was founded by Daniel S. Simpkins and Peter S. Jackson in 2001 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD. | Technology Services |
Mangrove Systems, Inc.
 Mangrove Systems, Inc. Computer CommunicationsElectronic Technology Mangrove Systems, Inc. develops networking equipment for the telecommunications industry. It develops MetroMPLS access and switching platforms that bridge the difference between TDM-based access and metro network and the evolving MPLS core. The company was founded by John Hannon and Jonathan Reeves in 2002 and is headquartered in Wallingford, CT. | Electronic Technology |
Overture Networks, Inc.
Overture Networks, Inc. Computer CommunicationsElectronic Technology Overture Networks, Inc. provides virtualization solutions to carrier-class service providers.The company was founded by Prayson Pate and Jeffrey W. Reedy in September 6, 2000 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC. | Electronic Technology |
Industry Ventures LLC
 Industry Ventures LLC Investment ManagersFinance Industry Ventures LLC (Industry Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Johan Douwe Swildens and Tom Litle. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Finance |
Little Hawk Capital Management LLC
Little Hawk Capital Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Founded by Roland Reynolds, Little Hawk Capital Management LLC is a venture capital fund of funds manager located in Alexandria, Virginia | Finance |
Imagine Communications, Inc.
 Imagine Communications, Inc. Electronics/AppliancesConsumer Durables Imagine Communications, Inc. provides digital video solutions for content providers and system operators. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA. | Consumer Durables |
Vubiquity, Inc.
Vubiquity, Inc. Movies/EntertainmentConsumer Services Vubiquity, Inc. provides multiplatform content video services. Its services include subscription gaming, digital storefront, metadata management, provisioning, content licnsing and aggregation, media analytics and intelligence, bandwidth optimization, and localization. The company was founded by Ramanarayan V. Potarazu in 1988 and is headquartered in Reston, VA. | Consumer Services |
| Energy Insurance International, Inc. | |
Blacklynx, Inc.
Blacklynx, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Blacklynx, Inc. manufactures and designs electronic hardware solutions for embedded computing, instrumentation, radio frequency, signal processing and power management. Its product Ryft ONE is an appliance capable of providing real-time business insights into both historical and streaming data. The firm delivers the speed, scalability, simplicity and security required for real-time intelligence applications like smart retail, fraud prevention, cyber security and financial compliance. It serves the government agencies and university research institutions specializing in defense, intelligence, physics and energy applications. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD. | Technology Services |
ICX Media, Inc.
ICX Media, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services ICX Media, Inc. develops a digital media software platform which provides comprehensive insights into how videos are performing. It specializes in media, content creators, online video, video, insights, data science and brand content. The company was founded by Michael B. Avon, Steven McCord, Joey McCord and Thomas MacIsaac and is headquartered in Washington, WA. | Technology Services |
Ardent Venture Partners LLC
Ardent Venture Partners LLC Investment ManagersFinance Ardent Venture Partners LLC (Ardent Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Phil L. Bronner and Philip Richard Herget. The firm is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia. | Finance |
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