Argonaut Ventures

Argonaut Ventures LLC provides strategic consulting, funding, and business development as well as design and technical expertise for the development and monetization of online health and medical companies, as well as other online businesses. Argonaut owns a portfolio of domain names, and also has agreements with other entities to develop their domain portfolios. The company's initial focus is on building these online health and medical businesses. Argonaut Ventures' founders have been in the business of developing Internet companies since 1995, with the establishment of a number of online health and medical communities, such as Alzheimers.com, Depression.com, Diabetes.com, and Obesity.com. Through Epicenter Communications, they have developed and sold a number of fully developed online businesses, including Alzheimers.com, Diabetes.com, Depression.com, and Obesity.com. The company is located in Sausalito, California, and is connected to Silicon Valley expertise and capital to identify and build technologies connecting consumers, business and medical professional networks.

Peter Goggin

Partner

Naythons M.D., Matthew

Co-Founder and Partner

10 past transactions

OmniGuide

Series F in 2013
OmniGuide provides a complete, compact system that enables the flexible delivery of CO2 laser energy. CO2, is the most precise and best-absorbed form of surgical laser energy. OmniGuide Beampath CO2 laser energy system combines precise cutting, ablation, and coagulation with minimal thermal damage to adjacent healthy tissue into one versatile and intuitive tool. Their products are cleared for sale in the US and are CE marked. OmniGuide is dedicated to delivering the world's most precise optical scalpels. They are committed to actively improving surgical outcomes for patients by providing enhanced clinical value and extending the reach of minimally invasive surgery. OmniGuide provides superior clinical benefit through indication-specific surgical instruments, enables new minimally invasive treatment modalities, aspires to improve quality of life for patients, and provides exceptional customer service.

TeraDiode

Series B in 2011
TeraDiode, Inc. designs, develops, and manufactures direct-diode lasers. Its products are applied in materials processing, gauge thickness metal cutting, and penetration welding and remote welding; and defense applications, including infrared countermeasures, target designators, and directed energy weapons. The company's direct-diode lasers offer high spectral and spatial brightness for pumping fiber lasers, diode-pumped solid state lasers, and diode-pumped alkali lasers. TeraDiode, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Littleton, Massachusetts.

Solyndra

Private Equity Round in 2010
Solyndra is a manufacturer of cylindrical panels of CIGS thin-film solar cells based in Fremont, California. Solyndra designs and manufactures photovoltaic systems, comprised of panels and mounting hardware, for the commercial rooftop market. Solyndra employs high volume manufacturing based on proven technologies and processes to meet the needs of the global solar market. Using proprietary cylindrical modules and thin-film technology, Solyndra systems are designed to provide the lowest installed cost per system and the highest solar electrical energy output for typical low slope commercial rooftops. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Fremont, California, Solyndra operates a state-of-the-art 300,000 square foot fully-automated manufacturing complex.

Actelis Networks

Venture Round in 2009
Actelis Networks is the provider of high performance, scalable broadband over copper solutions to Telco, Mobile, and IoT networks. Actelis turns copper into a strategic asset that enables delivering reliable, high-speed Ethernet services and broadband access to more places and devices more quickly, easily, and cost-effectively than can be done by using fiber optics or microwave.

CorAssist

Venture Round in 2009
CorAssist is a clinical stage medical device company committed to developing innovative therapeutic products for treating Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction. The company's proprietary technology enables the first implantation of a device that directly improves cardiac diastolic function. CORolla®, is an elastic self-expanding internal spring-like device implanted inside the left ventricular, through a Transapical or percutaneous procedure. The device assists diastolic function by improving diastolic dynamics and filling performance, and does not require an external power source. ImCardia® , the company's first product, is an elastic self-expanding device that is attached to the external left ventricular surface, through a simple off pump procedure.

Solyndra

Series E in 2008
Solyndra is a manufacturer of cylindrical panels of CIGS thin-film solar cells based in Fremont, California. Solyndra designs and manufactures photovoltaic systems, comprised of panels and mounting hardware, for the commercial rooftop market. Solyndra employs high volume manufacturing based on proven technologies and processes to meet the needs of the global solar market. Using proprietary cylindrical modules and thin-film technology, Solyndra systems are designed to provide the lowest installed cost per system and the highest solar electrical energy output for typical low slope commercial rooftops. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Fremont, California, Solyndra operates a state-of-the-art 300,000 square foot fully-automated manufacturing complex.

OmniGuide

Series E in 2008
OmniGuide provides a complete, compact system that enables the flexible delivery of CO2 laser energy. CO2, is the most precise and best-absorbed form of surgical laser energy. OmniGuide Beampath CO2 laser energy system combines precise cutting, ablation, and coagulation with minimal thermal damage to adjacent healthy tissue into one versatile and intuitive tool. Their products are cleared for sale in the US and are CE marked. OmniGuide is dedicated to delivering the world's most precise optical scalpels. They are committed to actively improving surgical outcomes for patients by providing enhanced clinical value and extending the reach of minimally invasive surgery. OmniGuide provides superior clinical benefit through indication-specific surgical instruments, enables new minimally invasive treatment modalities, aspires to improve quality of life for patients, and provides exceptional customer service.

Eglue Business Technologies

Venture Round in 2008
eglue is a software company founded in 2001 that provides real-time customer interaction management solutions. The company seeks to make it possible for companies to cut through complexity, manage unpredictability, categorize information and win customer loyalty.

MedNews.com

Venture Round in 2007
MedNews.com provides the latest health and medical news, categorized by disease and conditions. Since 1995, NetMed has provided health and medical information online and has published dozens of disease-specific websites such as Diabetes.com, Alzheimers.com, Depression.com, Obesity.com, and others. MedNews.com does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

Amimon

Series C in 2007
Amimon is a fabless semiconductor company developing wireless uncompressed HD video connectivity among CE devices. Its uncompressed Wireless High-definition Interface allows flat-panel televisions and multimedia projectors to wirelessly interface to all HDTV video sources at a quality equivalent to that achieved with wired interfaces such as component video, DVI and HDMI. It was founded in 2004 and headquartered in Herzliya, Tel Aviv.
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