Paul Madera was a founder of Meritech in 1999 and currently focuses on the storage, eCommerce, SAAS, semiconductor and digital consumer sectors. He has been directly involved with Meritech's investments into Acopia, Corvis Corporation, Netsuite and Topspin, and led Meritech's investments into 2Wire, Homestead Technologies, IntraLase, Riverbed Technology and Salesforce.com.