Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (HWVP) is an American software and web focused venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California.
Ann Winblad started Hummer Winblad Venture Partners with former professional basketball player John Hummer after selling her company Open Systems and serving as a consultant to Microsoft, Apple Computer, and IBM.
[4] In her book The Kingmakers, reporter Karen Southwick wrote that Hummer Winblad Venture Partners "may not be among the super tier of VC firms, but it certainly gets just about as much publicity.
"[5] In 2000 Hummer Winblad led a US$15 million round of funding for Napster while the internet company was being sued by the Recording Industry Association of America.
[10] The next year, for the first time, it raised a fund without Ann Winblad or John Hummer listed among the general partners.