Oak Investment Partners

The firm, founded in 1978 by Edward Glassmeyer and Stewart Greenfield,^[1] is based in Greenwich, Connecticut, with offices in Norwalk, Connecticut, Minneapolis and Palo Alto, California. Since its inception, Oak has invested in more than 480 companies and has raised more than $8.4 billion in investor commitments across 12 private equity funds.^{[citation needed]} Ann Lamont is a managing partner.^[2]

In May 2006, Oak raised its 12th fund, at $2.56 billion, reportedly the largest venture capital fund ever raised.^[3]

In 2015, Indian-born employee Iftikar Ahmed was sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on suspicion of stealing US$65 million from the firm.^[4] Ahmed fled to India.^[5] In August 2015, Fortune reported that Mr. Ahmed had been detained in an Indian prison from May 22 until July 23 and that his passport had been confiscated.^[6]

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