Axiom Ventures

Axiom Venture Partners, L.P. is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in mid and late stage companies. The firm invests in biotechnology and high technology companies specifically focusing on communications, software, internet infrastructure, and information technology. It seeks to invest throughout the United States. Axiom Venture Partners, L.P. was founded in 1994 and is based in East Hartford, Connecticut.

Samuel (Sam) Mckay

General Partner and Co-Founder

31 past transactions

Melinta

Series D in 2009
Melinta Therapeutics, Inc., a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company, discovers, develops, and commercializes various anti-infectives for the treatment of bacterial infectious diseases in North America. It offers Baxdela, a monotherapy treatment of adult patients with acute bacterial skin or skin structure infections (ABSSSIs); Vabomere, an IV antibiotic used in treatment of gram-negative infections; Orbactiv, an IV antibiotic of the lipoglycopeptide class for the treatment of adult patients with ABSSSIs; and Minocin, a IV antibiotic of the tetracycline class with activity against gram-positive and gram-negative pathogens. The company has license agreements with Yale University, Medical Research Council, Wakunaga Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., and CyDex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Melinta Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Morristown, New Jersey.

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.

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.

Tangen Biosciences

Series A in 2019
Tangen Biosciences LLC develops medical instrument that provides rapid nucleic acid detection, with the specificity and sensitivity of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification.

Small Bone Innovations

Series C in 2008
Small Bones Innovations (SBi) makes devices for small bones and joints, particularly focusing on trauma and arthroplasty.

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.

SPS Commerce

Series C in 2000
SPS Commerce gives retail trading partners an intelligent way to manage and fulfill orders. Based on a multi-tenant, SaaS model, SPS' 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.

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.
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.

Open Solutions

Venture Round in 2000
Open Solutions provides collaborative, enterprise core account processing technology for banks, thrifts and credit unions, along with a full range of surround solutions.

Content Integrity

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

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.

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.

Small Bone Innovations

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

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.

Tangoe, Inc.

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.

Melinta

Series C in 2006
Melinta Therapeutics, Inc., a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company, discovers, develops, and commercializes various anti-infectives for the treatment of bacterial infectious diseases in North America. It offers Baxdela, a monotherapy treatment of adult patients with acute bacterial skin or skin structure infections (ABSSSIs); Vabomere, an IV antibiotic used in treatment of gram-negative infections; Orbactiv, an IV antibiotic of the lipoglycopeptide class for the treatment of adult patients with ABSSSIs; and Minocin, a IV antibiotic of the tetracycline class with activity against gram-positive and gram-negative pathogens. The company has license agreements with Yale University, Medical Research Council, Wakunaga Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., and CyDex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Melinta Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Morristown, New Jersey.

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.

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.

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 D in 2001
SPS Commerce gives retail trading partners an intelligent way to manage and fulfill orders. Based on a multi-tenant, SaaS model, SPS' services deliver greater functionality, integration and reliability with less cost and risk than traditional software.

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.

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.

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.

Alphion

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

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.

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.

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.

Tangoe, Inc.

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.

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.