CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Highland Capital Partners, a leading venture capital firm with a more than twenty year history of helping great people build great companies, today announced that Jeremiah Daly has joined the firm as a Principal.  Based in Highland's Cambridge office, Daly will focus on identifying and leading later-stage investments in the information technology and digital media sectors.

Daly joins Highland from Accel Partners where he was based in their London office and led the firm's investment in Ostrovok (Russian online travel company). While at Accel, he was also a board observer at Showroomprive (French online private sales site), Supercell (Finnish online gaming company) and SimpliVity (data storage vendor), and was actively involved with Atlassian (Australian software development and collaboration tools vendor).  Earlier in his career, Daly was with Summit Partners, Gold Hill Capital and Silicon Valley Bank.

"Jeremiah brings exceptional experience leading venture growth investments in market leading companies from around the world," said Dan Nova, General Partner with Highland.  "He'll be a great addition to our team and we're thrilled to have him on board."

About Highland Capital Partners
Highland Capital Partners was founded with the mission of helping great people build great companies.  With over $3 billion of committed capital and offices in Menlo Park, Boston, Geneva, London and Shanghai, Highland has invested in and worked to create such firms as Ask Jeeves, Avid Technology, CheckFree, Conor Medsystems, Coremetrics, lululemon athletica, Lycos, MapQuest, Navic Networks, Ocular Networks, P.A. Semi, Quattro Wireless, Qihoo 360, Quigo, Starent Networks, Sybase, Telica, Vertica and VistaPrint.  For more information, visit Highland's web site at www.hcp.com.

SOURCE Highland Capital Partners