Apple Early Investor, Dead in 89

Dick Kamlich, a new enterprise, united almost 50 years ago and put it in a silicone valley power plant, which regularly raised regular billion dollar funds and died on Saturday. Was 89 years old.

His death was sudden and said, “He did not have a long disease,” said his daughter Christina Kramlich, CNBC added that the family would sooner.

“We lost our leader in warm, interesting and optimistic family,” he said.

The business capitalist was a professional occupational occupation, Kramlich sees the opportunity, assuming that they were successful, put a little money in technological entrepreneurs and profits, and saw the opportunities. He put his own money on his own Apple Before combining Chuck Newhall and Frank Bonsal to start in 1977, Hitters Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins opened their doors in California in a few years later.

Kramlich hit a big hit in computer network, wrote early inspection to 3COM Bob Metcalfe Ethernet technology began as a way to commercialize. The company went to the public in 1984 and rose with an assessment $ 28 billion During the 2000s Dot-C Commer, 3Com technology passed by products Cisco and the others and company were Purchased by HP To $ 2.7 billion in 2010.

In another place of space, Kramlich started by its co-founder and invested in the Grand Junction that the company from 1995 Are sold to Cisco. And then the information provided was the Central Network Company Force10 Networks obtained by Dell In 2011.

“Thus,” Kramlich “,” Kramlich “, with a network communication of Ethernet’s network for network communication 2006 Interview Oral historian with Mauree Jane Perry.

Kramlich also supports Macromedia, Ascend Communication and Companies JUNIPER NETWORKS. In the Fusion Power market, Kramlich invested TAE TECHNOLOGIESand sat on the board until the day of death.

Kramlich retired from Nea in 2012, company Raised $ 2.6 billion For the 14th Fund, one of the largest in the industry. However, it was not done with investment.

Kramlich in 2017 Green Bay businesses have started Invest in companies to develop technology and products in production, energy, transport, logistics, real estate and communications. In 2011, the Green Bey with Anthony Schiller began to manage Kramlich’s family money and Casey Tatham, who worked for the family bureau.

The company took the name of Wisconsin, where Kramlich was not born in 1935. Kramlich’s father started the food chain there and his mother became aeronautic engineer. After Wisconsin walked as a child, Kramlich went to college in the northwest and then moved to the Boston region to conduct masters from Harvard business leadership.

Following the work school, Kramlich entered the investment world in Boston and eventually met Apple Intel Investor Arthur Rock. Moved to California and helped Arthur Rock & Co. in 1969. Eight years later, the Kramlich was deleted to start Nea with operations in Kramlich, Baltimore, Maryland and Silicon Valley.

Naean Executive Chairman Scott Sandell, joined the company in 1996. He said he was working as a consultant and first met Kramlich after setting a start in the Baltimore office. The career trajectory has changed quickly and has dropped to a business in Nea and almost three decades.

“He was the reason for many of us,” Sandell said in an interview. “Dick was rejoiced by many countless entrepreneurs and enterprises. This spirit was this spirit with this spirit, more lovely and favorable ways.”

Kramlich, daughter Christina, as well as his wife, Pam and other children, Rix and Mary are survived by Donna.