"Their network is mind-blowing, " says Mr. Howard, whose firm raised a venture round from Morgenthaler Ventures late last year.
Morgenthaler makes a good case that Siri represents the third revolution in human-computer interfaces that Jobs perfected and popularized.
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Other returning investors include Felicis Ventures, Band of Angels, Ali and Hadi Partovi, Founders Fund, Morgenthaler Ventures, and SV Angel.
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Much of the fund's results stem from the momentum-oriented approach of manager Elizabeth Morgenthaler, whose portfolio turnover was 1, 355% last year.
Morgenthaler is an investor in start-ups Evernote and LendingClub, both of which are relevant to Pageonce in mobile and personal finance, respectively.
Guido Appenzeller, a former Morgenthaler EIR and co-founder of Voltage Security and now BigSwitch, runs both his personal life and business on Evernote.
The third, Morgenthaler contends, is a conversational interface epitomized by Siri.
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Before Apple bought it, Morgenthaler says, the plans at Siri were to build out a platform of services in e-commerce and access to a wide range of services on the Internet.
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While we had hoped for a few more women to break onto the list, we are pleased to note that Rebecca Lynn at Morgenthaler Ventures has made our list of 2013 Hot Midas Prospects.
Morgenthaler was the first VC investor in Siri and was a board member until Apple acquired it, as well as an investor and board member of Nuance Communications, the voice recognition software company whose technology also is used by Siri.
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Straight up usually means the same as "neat", but its usage can cause confusion, as American mixologist Jeffrey Morgenthaler has explained, because there's also the term up , which usually means chilled and served in a cocktail glass.
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