Marisa Valley

Co-Founder, General Partner

Alan Mendelson

Founder

32 past transactions

Tangen Biosciences

Series A in 2019
Tangen Biosciences is a biotechnology company that offers molecular diagnostic technology services. It develops medical instruments that provide rapid nucleic acid detection with the specificity and sensitivity of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification.

Melinta Therapeutics

Series D in 2009
Melinta Therapeutics is an antibiotics-focused company. The company’s mission is to discover, develop and commercialize urgently needed, groundbreaking antibiotics to overcome drug-resistant, life-threatening infections. The need for new therapies for drug-resistant infections is widely recognized as one of the most serious public health issues facing the world today. To meet this need, Melinta Therapeutics is rapidly progressing its late-stage investigational antibiotic, delafloxacin, which is currently in Phase 3 development for acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI). In addition, Melinta is focused on its ongoing research program to develop a new class of antibiotics designed to overcome the resistant ESKAPE pathogens known to cause the majority of serious hospital infections and patient deaths. Melinta Therapeutics is privately held and backed by Vatera Healthcare Partners and Warburg Pincus.

MX Logic

Series G in 2008
MX Logic, Inc. provides managed email and Web security services in the United States and internationally. It offers Email Defense Solutions that protect against email-borne threats and help businesses to meet compliance regulations via email storage, retrieval, and surveillance. The company also provides Message Archiving for businesses to monitor, store, and retrieve company email messages to comply with electronic security regulations; and Web Defense Service that blocks Web threats, including spyware, viruses, and phishing attacks. It serves public companies, as well as companies in healthcare, financial services, and law and insurance markets. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.

Small Bone Innovations

Series C in 2008
Small Bone Innovations (SBi) specializes in the development and manufacturing of medical devices aimed at small bones and joints, with a particular emphasis on trauma and arthroplasty. The company provides a range of implants designed for various anatomical areas, including the thumb, hand, wrist, elbow, foot, and ankle. Its product offerings include implants specifically designed to treat basal joint arthritis and those intended for replacing anatomic joint surfaces. SBi's innovations focus on preserving bone structure and minimizing disruption to collateral ligament origins and insertions, as well as soft skeletal implants, thereby enhancing surgical outcomes for patients with joint-related conditions.

MX Logic

Series G in 2007
MX Logic, Inc. provides managed email and Web security services in the United States and internationally. It offers Email Defense Solutions that protect against email-borne threats and help businesses to meet compliance regulations via email storage, retrieval, and surveillance. The company also provides Message Archiving for businesses to monitor, store, and retrieve company email messages to comply with electronic security regulations; and Web Defense Service that blocks Web threats, including spyware, viruses, and phishing attacks. It serves public companies, as well as companies in healthcare, financial services, and law and insurance markets. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.

Tangoe

Series E in 2006
Tangoe, a telecommunications group, provides software and technology-driven services that enable global organizations to procure, manage, and control their fixed, mobile, and converged communications assets and their costs. Global 2000 organizations and government agencies depend upon Tangoe solutions to more effectively manage their communications processes. Tangoe has offices in Orange, CT, Austin, TX, Hoboken, NJ, and Waltham, MA.

MX Logic

Series F in 2006
MX Logic, Inc. provides managed email and Web security services in the United States and internationally. It offers Email Defense Solutions that protect against email-borne threats and help businesses to meet compliance regulations via email storage, retrieval, and surveillance. The company also provides Message Archiving for businesses to monitor, store, and retrieve company email messages to comply with electronic security regulations; and Web Defense Service that blocks Web threats, including spyware, viruses, and phishing attacks. It serves public companies, as well as companies in healthcare, financial services, and law and insurance markets. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.

Melinta Therapeutics

Series C in 2006
Melinta Therapeutics, Inc. is a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company specializing in the discovery, development, and commercialization of anti-infective therapies targeting bacterial infections. The company offers several products, including Baxdela, Vabomere, Orbactiv, and Minocin, which address various acute bacterial skin infections and gram-negative infections. Recognizing the urgent need for new antibiotics to combat drug-resistant infections, Melinta is advancing delafloxacin, currently in Phase 3 development for treating acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections. The company also focuses on developing innovative antibiotics aimed at overcoming resistant pathogens associated with serious hospital infections. Established in 2000, Melinta Therapeutics is headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, and operates with support from strategic partners in the healthcare sector.

Tangoe

Series D in 2006
Tangoe, a telecommunications group, provides software and technology-driven services that enable global organizations to procure, manage, and control their fixed, mobile, and converged communications assets and their costs. Global 2000 organizations and government agencies depend upon Tangoe solutions to more effectively manage their communications processes. Tangoe has offices in Orange, CT, Austin, TX, Hoboken, NJ, and Waltham, MA.

Airwide Solutions

Series D in 2006
Airwide Solutions is a global leader in providing mobile infrastructure software to enable, enhance and ensure mobile communications for over 70 wireless operators worldwide. Airwide Solutions was founded in 2004 following the merger of Schlumberger Messaging Solutions (MSG) and Taral Networks. Airwide Solutions has a rich tradition of innovation; it sent the first commercial SMS (short message service) in 1992 and deployed the first A2P (application-to-person) MMS push gateway in 2004. Airwide Solutions has regional offices in England, Canada, India, Australia, Singapore and the United States.

SilverStorm Technologies

Series B in 2006
SilverStorm Technologies provides networking and clustered interconnect solutions for high performance business computing markets. It designs and manufactures an InfiniBand based set of solutions for the performance and I/O requirements of data center environments that utilize clustered topologies. The company markets its products through direct sales, and channel and technology partners globally. SilverStorm Technologies, Inc. was founded as InfiniCon Systems, Inc. in 2000 and changed its name to SilverStorm Technologies, Inc. in 2005. The company is headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. As of November 01, 2006, SilverStorm Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of QLogic Corp.

Small Bone Innovations

Series B in 2005
Small Bones Innovations (SBi) makes devices for small bones and joints, particularly focusing on trauma and arthroplasty.

BioMimetic Therapeutics

Series C in 2005
BioMimetic Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops products to help stimulate the body natural tissue regenerative process. The company's products and product candidates include Augment Injectable and Augment Rotator Cuff for several orthopedic and sports medicine indications comprising the treatment of foot and ankle fusions, the stimulation of wrist fracture healing, and the surgical treatment of rotator cuff tears, as well as Augment Tendinopathy Injection for injuries cause of tendon overuse. BioMimetic Therapeutics was founded on 1999 and is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee.

Alphion

Series B in 2005
Alphion Corporation develops, manufactures and markets passive optical network access systems, subsystems and integrated photonic devices.

Airwide Solutions

Series C in 2004
Airwide Solutions is a global leader in providing mobile infrastructure software to enable, enhance and ensure mobile communications for over 70 wireless operators worldwide. Airwide Solutions was founded in 2004 following the merger of Schlumberger Messaging Solutions (MSG) and Taral Networks. Airwide Solutions has a rich tradition of innovation; it sent the first commercial SMS (short message service) in 1992 and deployed the first A2P (application-to-person) MMS push gateway in 2004. Airwide Solutions has regional offices in England, Canada, India, Australia, Singapore and the United States.

CipherOptics

Series C in 2004
CipherOptics, Inc. provides data security and network encryption, and compliance grade data protection solutions to security enterprises, financial institutions, health care, and government agencies. The company offers CipherEngine, which delivers network-wide encryption to customers by providing an approach to security policy and encryption key management; CipherView, which is a security gateway management application that provides security administrators with a device management tool; SoftRemoteLT, which offers features to remote access users connecting to the corporate VPN; and CipherEngine Enforcement Point family of encryptors that are encryption appliances designed for the carrier Ethernet and MPLS markets. The company also offers MPLS security, metro Ethernet security, disaster recovery and data replication security, and network application security services. The company has strategic partnerships with EMC Corporation, IBM, Intel, and Raza Microelectronics, Inc. CipherOptics, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Motia

Series C in 2004
Motia is a fabless semiconductor company focused on enabling smart antennas with RFICs. The Company's standards-compliant adaptive beamforming technologies easily integrate into wireless systems providers' products to enhance overall functionality and performance.
Aspreva Pharmaceuticals Corp is an emerging pharmaceutical company headquartered in Victoria, British Columbia focused on identifying, developing and commercializing new indications for approved drugs and drug candidates for underserved patient populations. Their strategy, which they call “indication partnering”, is to collaborate with pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies to pursue new indication approvals which lie beyond their strategic focus.

CipherOptics

Series B in 2003
CipherOptics, Inc. provides data security and network encryption, and compliance grade data protection solutions to security enterprises, financial institutions, health care, and government agencies. The company offers CipherEngine, which delivers network-wide encryption to customers by providing an approach to security policy and encryption key management; CipherView, which is a security gateway management application that provides security administrators with a device management tool; SoftRemoteLT, which offers features to remote access users connecting to the corporate VPN; and CipherEngine Enforcement Point family of encryptors that are encryption appliances designed for the carrier Ethernet and MPLS markets. The company also offers MPLS security, metro Ethernet security, disaster recovery and data replication security, and network application security services. The company has strategic partnerships with EMC Corporation, IBM, Intel, and Raza Microelectronics, Inc. CipherOptics, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.

SPS Commerce

Series B in 2003
SPS Commerce is a retail trading partner with an intelligent way to manage and fulfill orders services deliver greater functionality, integration, and reliability with less cost and risk than traditional software.

ChipWrights

Series C in 2003
ChipWrights, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company and a leader in innovative digital and visual signal processing for embedded video and audio applications. ChipWrights specializes in developing all-in-one high definition solutions for complex application-specific standard products (ASSPs)—in particular, System-on-a-Chip (SoC) devices—which integrate a complete system on a single chip. ChipWrights’ fully programmable, low cost, low power, and high performance SoCs are ideal for building competitive products in the digital imaging and video markets. Its vector DSP achieves very high parallelism when operating on image data. The instruction set, address indexing schemes, and data access mechanisms are all tuned for image and video processing. Even the system Direct Memory Access engines are designed to move data in two-dimensional patches. ChipWrights’ goal is to provide customers with the best combination of Price, Performance, Power, Peripheral Integration, and Programmability. ChipWrights believes that image processing should be based on programmable solutions rather than fixed function ASICs. As system product life cycles get shorter and product requirements grow more complex, the improved flexibility of a programmable solution provides tremendous benefits to the system designer and manufacturer. The company offers a complete set of development tools, reference boards, and application libraries for its chips. In addition, a network of third party DSP algorithm and application developers is beginning to emerge whom can work together to create innovative and differentiated imaging products around the ChipWrights platform.

Motia

Venture Round in 2002
Motia is a fabless semiconductor company focused on enabling smart antennas with RFICs. The Company's standards-compliant adaptive beamforming technologies easily integrate into wireless systems providers' products to enhance overall functionality and performance.

Paragon Networks International

Venture Round in 2001
Paragon Networks International is an innovative manufacturer of broadband digital integrated access and optical metro internetworking platforms. They are a leading provider of application specific service deployment and wide area network optimization solutions to wireless service providers (WSP) and network service providers (NSP) worldwide. Utilizing either wireline, wireless, or optical transmission facilities, their products provide voice and data service connectivity, performance monitoring, compression, aggregation, layer 3 routing, quality of service (QOS) filtering, and protection switching of both client and operations support systems (OSS) traffic. Their solutions deliver superior network performance and control at substantial cost savings to their clients.

StatementOne

Series B in 2001
In 1993, StatementOne originated to fill a critical need within the financial services industry. Until then, no practical solution existed to provide Financial Institutions and Advisors with a platform for consolidated statements and performance reporting for their clients.

SPS Commerce

Series D in 2001
SPS Commerce is a retail trading partner with an intelligent way to manage and fulfill orders services deliver greater functionality, integration, and reliability with less cost and risk than traditional software.

IFILM

Venture Round in 2001
Screen Junkies is an online platform that offers the latest news and content from the entertainment industry. It covers movies, TV shows, pictures, and trailers.

E-Color

Venture Round in 2000
E-Color develops software solutions for color consistency and optimization on the Web. It delivers enhanced images while shopping online, printing digital photos, playing video games, and watching DVD movies. E-Color, Inc. was formerly known as Sonnetech, Ltd.

Content Integrity

Series A in 2000
Content Integrity a startup focused on content change management for business-to-business e-commerce.

E-Color

Venture Round in 2000
E-Color develops software solutions for color consistency and optimization on the Web. It delivers enhanced images while shopping online, printing digital photos, playing video games, and watching DVD movies. E-Color, Inc. was formerly known as Sonnetech, Ltd.

SPS Commerce

Series C in 2000
SPS Commerce is a retail trading partner with an intelligent way to manage and fulfill orders services deliver greater functionality, integration, and reliability with less cost and risk than traditional software.

Evoke Software

Venture Round in 1999
Evoke Software Corporation provides data discovery, profiling, and quality management software. It offers Axio product suite that automates profiling and analysis of corporate information assets to streamline data warehouse, business intelligence, data migrations, conversions, and customer relationship management initiatives. The company, formerly known as DBStar Software, Inc., changed its name to DBStar, Inc. in 1994, and then to Evoke Software Corporation in 1998. Evoke Software Corporation was founded in 1993 and is based in San Francisco, California.
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