Fidelity Ventures led our August 1999 financing round, investing with follow-on support from existing investors Mohr Davidow and Kleiner Perkins. At that point we were starting to identify beta customers, a crucial milestone in going to market.

Fidelity Ventures made introductions at the most senior levels of Colt Telecom, one of their portfolio companies and an ideal beta site for ONI. Anne even accompanied our team to London several times to help put the partnership together.

COLT was a very successful beta site, and became our first customer. Fidelity Ventures’ introductions accelerated our time to market, and helped secure our market leadership position.