Eastven Venture Partners is a venture capital firm which focuses primarily on the communications technology in European and North American companies which have proprietary technology. The firm specializes in the seed, early stage and later stage investments with a focus on the communications technology market and in applications, network infrastructure, software, semiconductor, and enabling technology companies. It is based in Darien, Connecticut and was founded in 2000. This firm was formerly known as Ericsson Venture Partners, the corporate venture capital arm of Ericsson.