Cape is a rapidly growing company headquartered in San Francisco and Cape Town, focused on enhancing internet connectivity. It develops a user-friendly software and hardware solution designed to monitor and improve WiFi networks, catering to IT managers who may not possess extensive networking expertise. Unlike traditional network monitoring tools, Cape's product includes network sensors that simulate human users, providing insights from the user's perspective. These sensors, along with intuitive dashboards and reports, enable users to quickly identify and resolve issues, thereby enhancing the quality of wireless local area networks (WLAN). Additionally, Cape aims to broaden internet access by offering public WiFi solutions that deliver high-speed broadband, making internet connectivity more affordable for residents and businesses. The company is actively expanding its team to include engineers, designers, sales personnel, and marketers who are committed to its mission of improving internet experiences.
Rasa Networks
Acquisition in 2016
Rasa Networks Inc. is a company specializing in network performance management, cloud-based analytics, and data science solutions for both wired and wireless networks. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Rasa Networks focuses on developing wireless local area network (WLAN) products and services. The company plays an integral role in advancing next-generation WLAN technologies, contributing to the development of essential chipsets and identifying technical requirements within the WLAN community. As a subsidiary of Aruba Networks, Inc., Rasa Networks aims to enhance its product offerings and services, addressing the evolving needs of the network management landscape.
Nyansa
Convertible Note in 2014
Nyansa, Inc. is a Palo Alto, California-based company that specializes in advanced IT analytics software solutions aimed at enhancing application and network performance. Founded in 2013, Nyansa is recognized for developing Voyance, a cloud-based network analytics system that focuses on quantifying end-user experiences. This innovative software automatically analyzes and measures network transactions without requiring client software, server agents, or additional hardware sensors. Nyansa's technology securely processes real-time network data to identify root causes of issues and recommend actionable remediation, allowing clients to manage user performance across various infrastructure devices, applications, and services. The company serves a diverse clientele, which includes notable organizations such as Uber, Tesla, Mayo Clinic, Walmart, and Stanford University. As of February 2020, Nyansa operates as a subsidiary of VMware, Inc.
Meridian
Acquisition in 2013
Meridian Apps, Inc. ("Meridian") is an enterprise mobile software company for location-based businesses.
Retailers, hospitals, museums, subways, corporate campuses and other venues use the Meridian's platform to build indoor-GPS apps to engage with their visitors. Customers include Macy's, New York City subway system, American Museum of Natural History, Boston Children's Hospital, Intel and the Venetian hotel-resort-casino.
Supporting Meridian deployment is the location-based services industry's first content management system, Meridian Editor. Within minutes, enterprise customers can use the Meridian Editor's AppMaker to build a full-featured app with turn-by-turn directions, add multimedia and integrate with third-party features. And app developers can use Meridian's SDKs to add indoor navigation and indoor positioning to existing apps.
Meridian was developed by the founders of Spotlight Mobile, an award-winning mobile-app development firm known for their app for Barnes & Noble, American Museum of Natural History, Conde Nast and Nike.
Plursona
Acquisition in 2012
Plursona specializes in a unique mobile device virtualization platform, enabling users to maintain multiple, isolated personas on a single device. Each persona, sourced from different origins, is configured independently to uphold distinct data privacy, security, and inter-app communication policies. This setup ensures the device owner's personal space and user experience remain unaffected. Plursona offers this platform as both an on-premise virtual appliance and a cloud service.
Avenda Systems
Acquisition in 2011
Avenda Systems introduced the industry's first multi-function platform for network access control (NAC) and security that breaks through past deployment barriers found in early competitive solutions complexity, compatibility, compliance and cost.
Avenda's flagship eTIPS solution is a scalable AAA platform that utilizes identity-based policies to manage access control, endpoint health and device authorization for wired, wireless and VPN networks.
Users are granted differentiated privileges to control which network resources and applications they can access. Employee's roles, location, and the health of their computer can be used as determining factors. Visitors can be granted Internet only access if required.
Partnerships with Cisco, Microsoft and top wireless vendors ensure that Avenda's solution fits into any network environment.
Azalea Networks
Acquisition in 2010
Azalea Networks specializes in mobile wireless mesh networking equipment and technology, primarily serving businesses in North America. The company offers a range of wireless broadband mesh infrastructure and products, including both outdoor and indoor mesh routers. Azalea's solutions are designed to deliver high-speed wireless access at a significantly lower cost compared to traditional wired networks. Their technology facilitates seamless voice, video, and broadband connectivity, particularly in remote locations, thereby minimizing downtime linked to complex and expensive equipment. Additionally, Azalea provides network management software that enables real-time monitoring and management of its mesh networks. The company plans to expand its applications in the near future to incorporate location-based services.
Network Chemistry
Acquisition in 2007
Network Chemistry, Inc. offers security solutions to find network equipment, eliminate unauthorized devices, and enforce networking policies. The company's products include Network Chemistry Scanner, a network-based security solution, which focuses on infrastructure discovery, classification, and rogue device remediation; and protects organizations from unauthorized devices. It also provides RFprotect Mobile, a portable analysis product that enables network designers and security personnel to design, analyze, and secure wireless networks by conducting site surveys and accelerating incident response; RFprotect Distributed, a wireless intrusion detection and prevention system that automates threat detection, attack prevention, and 'no wireless' policy enforcement inside the enterprise; and RFprotect Endpoint, a laptop agent, which enforces wireless use policies on employee laptops. Network Chemistry, Inc. serves retail, manufacturing, financial services, health services, and government agencies. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Palo Alto, California.