Wavepoint Ventures

Wavepoint Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm that provides seed and early-stage financing to capital-efficient startups in the medical, information technology, and clean technology sectors. It targets early-stage companies in California, often participates in syndicates with other investors, and typically makes modest investments to support product development and market entry. The firm combines capital, industry experience, and a network to help teams bring innovations to market efficiently, aiming for exits through acquisitions or public offerings.

8 past transactions

Miret Surgical

Series A in 2014
Miret Surgical Inc., established in 2010 and headquartered in Elmhurst, Illinois, specializes in manufacturing medical devices tailored for surgeries. The company focuses on developing innovative surgical tools designed to facilitate minimally invasive procedures, aiming to reduce scarring, enhance procedural efficiency, and maintain cost-effectiveness.

Cloud Cruiser

Series A in 2010
Cloud Cruiser, Inc. is a software company based in San Jose, California, specializing in cloud financial management solutions. Founded in 2010, the company offers a comprehensive platform that automates the collection and aggregation of IT costs and revenue across diverse environments, including public clouds, private clouds, and traditional IT settings. Its flagship product, Cloud Cruiser, provides enterprises and service providers with tools to optimize costs and enhance profitability in hybrid cloud environments. The software enables users to achieve clear visibility into their cloud usage and spending through features such as self-service billing, chargeback mechanisms, granular profit and loss analytics, and proactive cost controls. 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 based in Menlo Park, California. The company specializes in technologies designed to protect the body’s organs during ischemic or inflammatory insults. Velomedix's innovative approach aims to provide an effective solution for preserving organ function in critical medical situations.

Marrone Bio Innovations

Series A in 2007
Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. is a biopesticide company based in Davis, California, that focuses on the discovery, development, and marketing of natural products for agricultural pest and disease management. Founded in 2006, the company offers a range of bio-based solutions, including biopesticides, bioinsecticides, bionematicides, biofungicides, biostimulants, and bionutrition products. Notable products include Regalia, which protects crops from fungal and bacterial diseases, and GreenMatch EX, a herbicide designed for organic growers. Additionally, Marrone Bio Innovations develops products for controlling invasive species in waterways and utilizes naturally occurring microorganisms to create effective solutions for managing insects, weeds, and plant diseases. The company sells its products online, catering to the evolving needs of modern agriculture.

Sentilla

Series A in 2006
Sentilla is a data center management services provider based in Redwood City, California, specializing in IT intelligence infrastructure. The company develops software that offers comprehensive visibility and analytics for physical, virtual, and cloud environments, allowing businesses to optimize their IT resource utilization and capacity. By focusing on performance analysis, capacity management, cloud migration, and risk mitigation, Sentilla enables enterprises to align their IT capabilities with business needs, resulting in significant cost savings and improved operational efficiency. Its solutions are utilized by global enterprises, including cloud service providers and leading telecom companies, helping them enhance infrastructure efficiency and achieve better returns on IT investments.

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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