The firm has made investments in over 70 portfolio companies in the past. Some representative investments from the Firm’s current and previous venture funds include the following:
| Network/Communications Equipment |
| Wireless & Software |
| Semiconductors |
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Networking/Communications Equipment
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Aktino, Inc. |
Aktino is a developer of carrier-class bonded copper solutions that enable ILEC’s to respond to customer hunger for bandwidth by leveraging their considerable in-place copper loop infrastructure. The company’s products are deployed worldwide for the transport of DS3 and high speed Carrier Ethernet. Product: AK3000 Product Family – Solutions for service providers … |
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Alteon WebSystems |
Alteon WebSystems is a developer of gigabit Ethernet switches delivering the end-to-end performance and QoS intelligence required for multimedia intranets. In particular, the company develops a wide range of Ethernet product such as server adapters, 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet server switches and Internet traffic directors. Initially, the company has focused on applying … |
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Bivio Networks |
Bivio Networks is the leading supplier of next generation network appliance platforms, enabling application developers to rapidly develop and deploy market-leading, wire-speed, deep-packet processing network applications. They are a provider of a deep-packet inspection and processing platform that combines scaling of network performance, processing power, and application agility. The company’s system … |
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Cellfire |
Cellfire delivers coupons and discount offers directly to consumer’s mobile phones. Provider of mobile-device-based coupons and discounts. The company’s technology is designed to enable users to carry, store, and redeem valuable coupons on their cell phones. Retailers can redeem and reconcile these coupons at the point-of-sale without installing new hardware. The … |
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Diamond Lane Communications |
Develops and markets telecommunications infrastructure equipment for the last mile, xDSL. Sold to Nokia (NYSE: NOK). |
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NetSocket |
NetSocket is developing IP Service Assurance solutions for managing real-time services in IP networks. The NetSocket Resource Control Point (RCP) is the only comprehensive platform providing IP service assurance, simultaneously monitoring the underlying network for topology and network state and the service control plane for session state. NetSocket’s IP service assurance … |
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ONI Systems |
Develops and markets optical switching equipment for the metropolitan area. IPO, then acquired by Ciena. Developer of protocols, software, and hardware products to create, manage, and deliver high-optical bandwidth for the next generation of metro optical networks. The company’s products are designed to utilize wave-division multiplexing transport, optical switching, and gigabit … |
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OpenConnect Systems |
Developed and marketed software for mainframe to Internet connectivity. Sold to Goff Moore. |
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Optical Data Systems |
Developed, manufactured and marketed local area networking equipment. IPO. Manufacturer of computer networking and internetworking products for application in local area networks. The company’s products are designed to support three industry standards currently applicable to the LAN industry: Token Ring, Fiber Distributed Data Interface, and Ethernet. These products allow customers to … |
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Pivot3 |
Pivot3 is focused on delivering highly scalable, fault tolerant IP-based clustered storage systems composed of industry standard servers. The company boasts strong intellectual property in distributed RAID and time-based I/O journaling for delivering the next generation of block-based clustered storage. Provider of storage equipment for high-definition video surveillance. The company offers … |
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Powerfile |
Powerfile is a provider of permanent storage solutions. The company provides DVD storage libraries that deliver regulatory compliance, long-term archive, and digital asset management solutions. The company combines standardized DVD media with architecture that features a modular design which is able to provide data archive solutions. Product: |
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Shomiti Systems |
Developed and marketed network management systems for local area networks. Acquired by Finisar. Developer of network-analysis systems for high-speed LAN and ATM-switch networks. Century Family allows network managers to capture and analyze all forms of switched 10 and 100-Mbps Ethernet traffic at full wire speed on switch-to-switch and switch-to-server connections. Century … |
Wireless & Software
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Centennial Communications |
Provided wireless services in various countries in South America. Sold to Nextel International. Provider of wireless communications services. The company provides specialized mobile communications in Peru, Equador, Chile, and El Salvador. |
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Corsair Communications |
Develops and markets cellular fraud detection equipment and cellular services. IPO, then acquired by Lightbridge (Nasdaq:LTBG). Developer of fraud protection software and hardware for wireless telecommunications industry. The product, called PhonePrint, uses a signal intelligence technology known as radio frequency fingerprinting to detect and disconnect fraudulent calls within seconds from cellular … |
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MetroPCS |
MetroPCS owns licenses to operate broadband PCS in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Atlanta, and Miami. MetroPCS owns or has access to licenses covering a population of approximately 149 million people in 14 of the top 25 largest metropolitan areas in the United States, including New York City, Los Angeles, … |
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OneSpot |
OneSpot is a provider of third-party content aggregation for online publishers. The company’s service, available on a subscription basis, monitors Web sources, finding and linking relevant content for publishers of Web sites, blogs, and email newsletters. Publishers then decide which curated content is ultimately published, and can deliver the results as … |
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ProNet |
ProNet makes paging systems and answering services for the medical community. They were an early market leader in wireless paging services. IPO (Nasdaq: PNET), then purchased by MetroCall. Source – Dow Jones VentureSources |
Semiconductors
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Credence Systems |
Credence Systems develops, manufactures and markets semiconductor automatic test equipment (ATE) used in the production of semiconductors. The company serves a broad spectrum of the semiconductor industry’s testing needs through a wide range of products that test digital and mixed-signal semiconductors. |
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Crystal Semiconductor |
Crystal Semiconductor is a manufacturer of telecommunications ICs that combine both linear and digital functions for the graphics, audio, video and multimedia market places. Sold to Cirrus Logic. (Nasdaq: CRUS). |
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WaferScale Integration |
WaferScale Integration produces a family of of high-performance field-programmable peripheral integrated circuits (PSD) as well as a broad line of high-performance non-volatile PROM and EPROM memory products, all based on proprietary technology. The company’s technology enables higher performance and greater memory densities per chip area than the traditional stacked-gate method, resulting … |
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Xilinx |
Xilinx is a developer of user-programmable gate arrays in which customers create their own custom gate arrays without the delays or engineering charges normally associated with ASIC devices. Xilinx’s first product, a 1,200 gate device, was introduced in late 1985. In late 1987, Xilinx introduced the second generation of its patented … |