Wavepoint Ventures

Wavepoint Ventures, LLC is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, with an additional office in El Dorado Hills. Founded in 2001, the firm specializes in seed and early-stage financing, primarily targeting companies in sectors such as medical technology, information technology, clean technology, biotechnology, and software for the healthcare industry. Wavepoint Ventures focuses its investments in the California Capital region, typically committing between $0.25 million and $1.5 million to companies with capital requirements not exceeding $15 million. The firm often collaborates with other investors in its funding activities and generally holds investments for three to five years, aiming for exits through acquisitions or public offerings. However, it is important to note that Wavepoint Ventures is no longer actively investing.

Peter Gardner

Managing Director

8 past transactions

Miret Surgical

Series A in 2014
Miret Surgical is a manufacturing company that focuses on providing medical devices for surgeries. It specializes in the fields of healthcare, manufacturing, and medical device. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Elmhurst, Illinois.

Cloud Cruiser

Series A in 2010
Cloud Cruiser, Inc. is a software company that specializes in cloud financial management solutions, founded in 2010 and based in San Jose, California. The company's primary product, Cloud Cruiser, enables enterprises and service providers to effectively manage costs and enhance profitability across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. Its software automates the collection and aggregation of IT costs and revenue, providing users with comprehensive visibility into cloud usage and spending. Features include self-service billing, hybrid IT show back and chargeback capabilities, and detailed profit and loss analytics. Cloud Cruiser's solutions facilitate proactive cost controls and flexible pricing models, positioning it as a key player in optimizing cloud financial management. As of January 2017, Cloud Cruiser operates as a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company.

Velomedix

Series A in 2009
Velomedix, Inc. is a therapeutic hypothermia company in the United States. Its therapeutic hypothermia technology offers a novel solution for the protection of the body's organs during ischemic or inflammatory insults. Velomedix, Inc. is based in Menlo Park, California.

Marrone Bio Innovations

Series A in 2007
Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. is a biopesticide company based in Davis, California, focused on the discovery, development, and marketing of natural products for agricultural pest and disease management. The company offers a range of bio-based products, including biopesticides, bioinsecticides, bionematicides, biofungicides, biostimulants, and bionutrition products. Its notable offerings include Regalia, which protects crops from fungal and bacterial diseases, and various herbicides like GreenMatch and GreenMatch EX, designed for weed control in organic farming. Additionally, Marrone Bio Innovations develops solutions to manage invasive species in waterways and leverages naturally occurring microorganisms to create effective products for controlling pests and enhancing plant health. Founded in 2006, the company markets its products through online platforms.

Sentilla

Series A in 2006
Sentilla software delivers unparalleled intelligence for physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure transformation. Sentilla’s unified IT visibility and continuous, insightful analytics align business requirements with IT resource utilization, capacity, and cost. The result is optimized capacity, reduced CapEx and OpEx, faster deployments, and cheaper service delivery that create agility to enter new markets quickly. Global 1000 enterprises, including cloud service providers and leading telecom companies, deploy Sentilla software to increase infrastructure efficiency by 40%, essentially getting $1.40 for every $1.00 of their IT investment.

DRC Computer

Angel Round in 2005
DRC is the leading provider of programmable coprocessor systems critical for compute-intensive applications. DRC accelerates essential algorithms and total applications in high-performance computing for business and science. Modern business problems continually demand cheaper, faster and more efficient answers—whether performing risk analysis for financial institutions, generating accurate seismic images for oil and gas exploration, or mapping a genome. There is an equally pressing demand for industry-standard platforms and simple-to-use tools to run existing applications with little or no modification. DRC has met this demand by creating the optimum way to directly connect a programmable unit a processor bus and system memory. By moving application processing from software running on a general-purpose CPU to specialized programmable hardware, DRC’s products deliver dramatic performance improvements. Additionally, DRC leverages industry standard systems for even greater ease of implementation and price/performance advantage.

RF Magic

Series C in 2003
RF Magic is a fabless semiconductor company providing a diversified portfolio of radio frequency (RF) Systems on a Chip integrated circuits (ICs) for the next generation of consumer electronics applications. The company’s experienced engineers combine RF and digital communications systems experience with RF silicon design expertise to develop highly advanced ICs for cost-effective integration into high-volume consumer platforms. RF Magic’s RF Systems on a Chip technology is well suited to meet extreme broadband challenges facing the expanding Digital Home, Consumer Mobility and High Performance Networking markets, such as high-throughput communications, wide bandwidth channels, multiple video channels, multi-function radios and high-interference environments. More than two million of the company’s award-winning products have been shipped to customers for use in Digital Broadcast Satellite (DBS) Out Door Units (ODUs), digital broadcast set top boxes (STBs) and televisions, home media centers, and fixed wireless access modems. Employing patented design techniques, RF Magic’s broadband RF Systems on a Chip ICs offer premium performance, efficient design, lower cost, diverse functionality, and simplicity of use to Deliver the Next RF Generation.
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