What technology companies have we helped? We love talking about the semiconductor company that is changing the face of home entertainment. We’re proud of the software developer whose product allows thousands of call-center employees to work from home. And for the stay-at-home moms and dads, we give you the robotics firm whose visioning technology drives a robotic vacuum cleaner.
Those are three of many companies who have chosen our path. Some came to us with revolutionary ideas that transformed how people live or work. Other ideas were more evolutionary, improving upon an existing product, but still highly marketable.
In each case, we were able to do what we do best – open doors, recruit talent, and guide them through critical milestones to the next level of funding. That’s the outcome you can expect when your venture capital firm brings to the table deep scientific know-how and first-hand experience building companies for themselves and others.
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AirTight Networks
AirTight Networks is the global leader in wireless security and compliance solutions providing customers best-of-breed technology to automatically detect, classify, locate and block all current and emerging wireless threats. AirTight offers both the industry’s leading wireless intrusion prevention system (WIPS) and the world’s first wireless vulnerability management (WVM) security-as-a-service (SaaS). AirTight’s award-winning solutions are used by customers globally in the financial, government, retail, manufacturing, transportation, education, healthcare, telecom, and technology industries. AirTight owns the seminal patents for wireless intrusion prevention technology with 11 U.S. patents and two international patents granted (UK and Australia), and more than 25 additional patents pending. AirTight Networks is a privately held company based in Mountain View, CA.
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Alien Technology
Alien Technology is the leading provider of UHF Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) products and services, including RFID Integrated Circuits (IC’s), inlays (tags), readers, and a comprehensive RFID educational curriculum. Alien was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Morgan Hill, CA., with a tag manufacturing facility in Fargo, ND., a RFID Solutions Center in Dayton, OH., and its subsidiary, Alien Technology Asia (ATA), in South Korea. Alien maintains sales offices in the US, Europe, and Asia that support a global channel of committed solution partners.
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Amitive
Amitive is the pioneer of Community Supply Chain Management (C-SCM) software, which provides companies that depend on outsourced manufacturing with on-demand, continuous synchronization of supply and demand across a global, multi-enterprise supply chain community. Unlike traditional SCM solutions which optimize against rigid manufacturing constraints, Amitive unifies business processes on a new SCM in the Cloud platform, enabling supply chain professionals to collaborate with trading partners in real-time and gain end-to-end visibility across the entire trading community. Amitive helps customers to lower inventory and up-front capital requirements, manage business risk, boost product velocity and enhance customer service levels. Visit www.amitive.com for more information.
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Apriso Corporation
Apriso Corporation is a software company dedicated to providing competitive advantage for its customers. It does so by enabling organizations to adapt quickly and easily to market changes and unexpected events. Apriso’s FlexNet platform provides visibility, adaptability and real-time control of manufacturing operations across the enterprise and supply chain network. This is accomplished by integrating planning, execution and control, increasing operational efficiency and eliminating errors in the production process. Apriso serves more than 170 customers in 41 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Its customers include General Motors, Lear, Honeywell, L’Oréal, Trixell, Lockheed Martin, Becton Dickinson, Saint-Gobain, Novelis and Essilor.
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AWR Corporation
AWR Corporation is a worldwide leader in high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA) software for wireless, high-speed wireline, and electro-optical applications. The company’s mission is to dramatically accelerate time-to-market and reduce product development costs for its customers.
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Blekko
Next generation web search engine.
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CafePress
CafePress is the leader in User-Generated Commerce and offers sellers turnkey e-commerce services to independently create and sell a wide variety of products, and offers buyers unique merchandise across virtually every topic. Launched in 1999, CafePress has empowered individuals, organizations and businesses to create, buy and sell customized merchandise online using the company’s unique print-on-demand and e-commerce services. Today, CafePress is a growing network of over 6.5 million members who have unleashed their creativity to transform their artwork and ideas into unique gifts and new revenue streams.
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Ensim Corporation
Founded in 1998, Ensim Corporation is a leading provider of infrastructure management software for the enterprise and service provider industries. Ensim products are used to enable integrated solutions that secure, simplify, and automate complex environments and increase IT department and user productivity. Together with Microsoft, Ensim co-developed and co-markets Ensim Unify and now boast over 2,000,000 users and over 20,000 small, medium, and large sized organizations managed by the Shared, SaaS, MSP, and Enterprise versions of the solution through our network of Telco, ISP, MSP and VAR partners.
Ensim Unify provides advanced out of the box functionality in an extensible SOA framework that overlays existing infrastructure and supports legacy environments and configurations. Ensim Unify enables; access control, identity management, change management, automated provisioning, reporting and auditing, password and role management, along with delegated administration and device/client configuration. Pre-built full function connectors include; Active Directory, Exchange, Blackberry, Share Point, Office Communicator (OCS), Windows Hosting (IIS), Microsoft SQL, and many more. The Unify application connector SDK allows Ensim Unify’s capability to manage and control virtually any application, on premise or in the cloud.
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Entropic Communications, Inc.
Entropic Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:ENTR) is a leading semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets systems solutions to enable connected home entertainment. The company's technologies significantly change the way high-definition television-quality video and other multimedia content such as movies, music, games and photos are brought into and delivered throughout the home. Entropic is the innovator and market leader in Multimedia over Coax Alliance or MoCA® home networking technologies. MoCA creates a whole home connected entertainment network enabling multi-room DVR, online and multi-room gaming, streaming of over the top video and personal content sharing of video, photos and music throughout the home. Entropic is also the innovator and leader in single wire DBS delivery solutions with its Band Translation Switch and Channel Stacking Switch technologies. These advanced RF solutions fundamentally change the way DBS providers deliver content into the home. Entropic has shipped over 40 million chipsets worldwide. Entropic’s connected home entertainment product portfolio also includes broadband access and silicon tv tuner solutions.
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Evolution Robotics, Inc.
Evolution Robotics, Inc. develops state-of-the-art robotics solutions, and partners with original equipment manufacturers to integrate those technologies into new and more intelligent products. Whether used within autonomous robots for commercial or consumer use, or electronic devices with increased, intelligent functionality, Evolution Robotics provides the technologies and services to bring those products to life, and to market.
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Hasso Plattner Ventures
Hasso Plattner Ventures looks for the most promising companies in the IT and Cleantech field throughout Europe and Israel. Apart from investing venture capital the company also offers a combined package of added value through experienced entrepreneurs, partners, industry networks and paid third party professional services. HPV has successfully invested in more than 15 companies with accumulated sales of more than € 24m.
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iSuppli Corporation
iSuppli Corporation is the global leader in technology value chain research and advisory services. iSuppli provides market intelligence services for the EMS, OEM and supplier communities in addition to servicing consumer electronics and media concerns. Services afforded by iSuppli range from electronic component research to device-specific application market forecasts, from teardown analysis to consumer electronics and from display device and systems research to automotive infotainment and services. More information is available at www.isuppli.com or follow iSuppli on Twitter at twitter.com/iSuppli.
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Jobvite
Jobvite is an easy and intuitive Software-as-a-Service for companies to manage all aspects of hiring. Companies use Jobvite’s next generation e-Recruitment application to improve quality of hire and lower costs. Jobvite integrates with Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter so that companies grow referral hires and jobseeker engagement.
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LiveOps, Inc.
LiveOps is a rapidly growing technology company offering two innovative solutions for enterprises: Contact Center in the Cloud, a SaaS technology platform for managing contact centers, and Workforce in the Cloud, an on-demand workforce for outsourcing call center calls. LiveOps On-Demand Contact Center Platform brings the value of cloud computing to the contact center by enabling enterprises to rapidly deploy an always-on and instantly scalable contact center infrastructure in a pay-per-use model that enables customers to achieve greater operational and cost efficiencies. LiveOps uses this same technology platform everyday to successfully run the largest virtual call center with over 20,000 independent agents. LiveOps provides enterprises with the on-demand call center platform and community of on-demand independent agents to quickly achieve better business results. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
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MailExpress, Inc.
Atlanta-based MailExpress, Inc. (www.mailexpressinc.com) has quickly become the preferred mail solution for companies who mail large volumes of light parcels and non-letter-size mail. MailExpress leverages their industry expertise to provide first-class speed, online tracking, real-time analytics and customized reporting, all in a very cost-effective solution for its customers – leaders in pharmaceuticals, financial services, e-tail, digital print and marketing services. MailExpress is the only company in the industry dedicated exclusively to performance mail services, allowing MailExpress to focus solely on developing best-of-class shipment solutions. For more information, contact us at 800.920.5494, or visit our website.
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Multigig, Inc.
Multigig, Inc., is a fabless semiconductor company providing advanced next generation clock and timing ICs for the wired and wireless communications markets. Multigig’s clock synthesizer ICs are the first in the industry to break the 100 femtosecond jitter barrier. The QuietClock family covers the most popular frequencies used by PHY, MAC, SERDES, and memory subsystems used in the communication, telecom, networking, server and storage markets.
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NEA-IndoUS Ventures
NEA-IndoUS Ventures is a leading venture capital firm which provides early and mid-stage funding to new or growing businesses in India. Our team comprises experienced entrepreneurs and executives who understand the model of incubating ideas and transforming them into successful enterprises.
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Odyssey
Odyssey delivers a comprehensive portfolio of managed logistics services for every mode of transportation to the chemical and process industries—so that our clients’ products are delivered safely, reliably and economically, with shipment visibility and actionable data across all modes. Using its large network and technological automation, Odyssey consistently delivers substantial savings to its clients. We apply industry knowledge, experience, technology and flexibility based on our expertise in the chemical and process industry, like no one else.
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Pixazza, Inc.
Founded in 2008, Pixazza, Inc. provides an internet service that turns static images into engaging content, while generating incremental income for web publishers. Pixazza enables consumers to simply mouse over images on their favorite web sites to learn more and see related products. Pixazza is a private company funded by August Capital, CMEA Capital, and Google, with offices in Mountain View, CA.
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Pyxis Technology, Inc.
Pyxis Technology, Inc. delivers next generation integrated circuit (IC) routing software for both full-custom and semi-custom IC designs.
NexusRoute-SoC for System-on-Chip Semi-custom Design
Unlike existing router tool architectures that are struggling to keep up with complex sub-45nm silicon process design rules, and whose algorithms are primarily focused on multiple iterative repair steps, Pyxis NexusRoute-SoC uses a new patent-pending architecture and an industry integrated one-pass flow to perform correct-by-construction optimization of IC performance, power and yield during the routing process. Customers have seen as much as a 4X improvement in design closure cycle time with faster design performance, lower power and higher predicted yield.NexusRoute-HPC for Full-custom Hierarchical Design
Most full-custom design interconnect remains a manual process. Design blocks take weeks to route, limiting the number of design iterations that can be made before tape-out. Today’s existing custom-design routers lack automation and struggle with advanced design rules and deep design hierarchies. NexusRoute-HPC is fully advanced design rule capable and is architected to automatically comprehend deep design hierarchies without the need for the tedious creation of cell-level abstracts. Additionally, NexusRoute-HPC and its extraction and timing engines are integrated into industry leading full-custom chip editing environments. This integration ensures a seamless interaction between the editor and the router with no need to export and import data between systems to route and analyze your full-custom design blocks.
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Schooner Information Technology
Schooner Information Technology provides data access appliances for information-intensive Web 2.0 and cloud computing datacenters. Schooner appliances are built on a patent-pending system architecture that incorporates state-of-the-art enterprise-class flash memory, multi-core processors, low-latency interconnect, and optimized data access and caching applications. Our customers save power and space, reduce TCO, and create new business opportunities based on rapid access to terabyte-scale data.
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SpikeSource
SpikeSource provides the SpikeSource Solutions Factory™ platform—ground-breaking technology that dramatically reduces the cost of developing, distributing, and supporting software solutions. SpikeSource Solutions Factory is the world’s most advanced platform for testing, packaging, distributing, and maintaining software solutions of all kinds – including open source, proprietary, and hybrid solutions—enabling independent software vendors to deliver the highest-quality solutions and reduce their development and support costs. Integrated with distribution networks of the world’s largest technology companies, the SpikeSource Solutions Factory enables ISVs of all sizes to globally market and sell high-quality, channel-ready products at a fraction of the typical cost.
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Symwave, Inc.
Symwave is a global fabless semiconductor company developing connectivity SoCs (System-On-Chip) and software solutions that enable PCs and other consumer electronic devices to realize the benefits of USB 3.0. USB 3.0 (SuperSpeed USB) improves device power management, transfers data tenfold faster and maintains backwards compatibility with the billions of USB ports shipped to date. Symwave’s high-performance mixed-signal products leverage the company’s proprietary mixed-signal technology, IP and silicon design capabilities to bring the benefits of uncompromised speed in low-cost standard CMOS processes. The company is privately held with headquarters in Orange County, Calif., and design centers in Shenzhen, China, and San Diego, Calif. Symwave is backed by top-tier venture capital firms including Kodiak Venture Partners and CMEA Capital.
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Triporati
Triporati was founded by a team of online travel veterans who set out to help travelers answer the fundamental question “Where should I go?” More than 70 percent of leisure travelers don’t know where they will travel six months prior to their trip, yet existing travel sites begin by asking users where they will go. To address this need, and to help travelers discover great trips, Triporati has built a proprietary destination discovery engine powered by original content and rankings from 65 bona fide travel experts who have collectively written or edited more than 550 best-selling guidebooks (such as Lonely Planet, Frommer’s, Fodor’s and more). By ranking their own unique interests, travelers are presented with personalized world maps showing their ideal travel destinations. Triporati was recognized as one of the top six travel innovators at the 2008 PhocusWright Travel Innovation Summit.
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Untangle
Untangle was founded with the vision of untangling the complexities of technology, initially targeting network security and control for SMBs. The company follows Open Source development practices to create better code and make it widely available.
The Untangle Gateway, the world’s first commercial-grade open source solution for blocking spam, spyware, viruses, adware and unwanted content on the network, provides a free and better alternative to costly, inflexible proprietary appliances. Untangle’s applications are currently being used in tens of thousands of businesses in a variety of industries, including financial services, real estate, education, bio-science, and professional services. Untangle is based in San Mateo, California, and is backed by venture capital firms CMEA Capital and Rustic Canyon Partners.
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WorkingPoint
NetBooks, Inc. developed the WorkingPoint system – an easy-to-use, online business management software for small businesses, independent contractors, and home based businesses. WorkingPoint’s goal is to help the over 26 million self-employed and small business owners in the U.S. today start, grow and manage their businesses more efficiently and successfully.
www.workingpoint.com