Castile Ventures

Castile Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Wellesley, Massachusetts, founded in 1998. The firm focuses on providing financial support and strategic guidance to startups primarily in the technology sector within the United States. Castile Ventures III, a fund established in 2006, specifically targets investments in software and technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) industries. The firm is dedicated to fostering innovation and growth in these sectors by backing promising companies at the outset of their development.

Nina F. Saberi

President

58 past transactions

Equip Health

Seed Round in 2019
Equip is a virtual program helping families recover from eating disorders at home with comprehensive, gold-standard care created by experts in the field and people in recovery. Equip’s five person care teams include dieticians, physicians, therapists, and mentors who deliver wrap-around support to provide families progress and lasting recovery. Kristina Saffran and Erin Parks co-founded the company in San Diego, California in 2019.

Blooma

Seed Round in 2019
Blooma is a San Diego-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in artificial intelligence solutions for the lending industry. The firm offers a loan origination platform designed to streamline the loan processing workflow through data-driven intelligent asset scoring and insights into the deal pipeline. By utilizing AI automation and configurable workflows, Blooma enables lenders to enhance their decision-making capabilities while effectively managing risk. The platform aims to simplify and expedite the loan approval process, making it a cost-effective solution for financial institutions seeking to improve efficiency and scalability in their operations.

Connotate

Series B in 2016
Connotate Technologies, Inc. specializes in web data extraction and monitoring, providing a platform that enables information product and service companies to transform web content into structured data. Founded in 2000 and based in Los Gatos, California, with an additional office in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Connotate serves a diverse clientele, including financial information providers, B2B data publishers, market research firms, and government agencies. The company's innovative technology facilitates competitive and pricing intelligence, content aggregation, compliance and risk management, and sales intelligence, among other applications. By automating data collection and extraction processes, Connotate enhances productivity, reduces operational costs, and supports informed decision-making for clients. As of February 2019, Connotate operates as a subsidiary of Import.io Ltd.

Nanomed

Venture Round in 2015
Nanomed is a provider of graphene biosensor products used in life science research, drug discovery, and diagnostics, and health-monitoring. They provide fast and affordable tools for small molecule drug discovery. They have developed a breakthrough electrical assay based on proprietary Field Effect Biosensing (FEB) technology that detects molecular interactions. This technology employs a unique graphene biosensor to enable label-free, highly sensitive binding studies of small molecules to proteins. With a wide dynamic range, small sample requirements, and minimal signal contributions from common solvents and detergents, their technology complements existing technology and accelerates small molecule drug discovery. As the world’s leading mass-manufacturer of next-generation graphene biosensors, their mission is to transform the healthcare industry with innovative new products that accelerate cutting-edge life science and drug discovery research. It was founded in 2013 and is based in San Diego, California.

Eightfold Logic

Series D in 2012
Eightfold Logic (formerly Enquisite) is an inbound marketing innovator. Eightfold Logic's patented inbound marketing platform revolutionizes demand generation efforts by improving website findability for qualified buyers through search engine, social media, and cross-link optimization. The Eightfold Logic approach brings clarity to businesses around how their websites are performing today and simplifies marketing efforts to identify, prioritize and manage inbound marketing campaign opportunities to improve qualified website traffic. Eightfold Logic is a privately-held, San Francisco-based company and is venture backed by Rho Canada Ventures, Castile Ventures, Formative Ventures, Retro Venture Partners and The Entrepreneurs' Fund III.

Funambol

Venture Round in 2012
Funambol, Inc. provides white-label cloud solutions to mobile operators and other service providers. The company offers personal cloud solutions that include OneMediaHub, which stores user content in their cloud; and business cloud solutions that include OneBizHub, which enables providers to offer a cloud file sync and share service for SMBs. It also provides OneSafetyHub, a white-label safety cloud service that includes location tracking and emergency alerting for family security; Internet of Things services; and OneSIMHub, a white-label cloud service for SIM users to upgrade path to smartphones. Funambol, Inc. was formerly known as Sync4j and changed its name to Funambol, Inc. in October 2003. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Foster City, California.

Agiliance

Venture Round in 2012
Agiliance offers real-time integrated risk management solutions tailored for businesses and government agencies. By focusing on governance and security programs, the company equips its clients with innovative tools that enhance operational efficiency and help manage risks effectively. Agiliance's solutions are designed to meet the challenges of economic instability and increasing regulatory demands, enabling organizations to optimize their IT budgets while remaining proactive in a complex environment.

Agiliance

Private Equity Round in 2012
Agiliance offers real-time integrated risk management solutions tailored for businesses and government agencies. By focusing on governance and security programs, the company equips its clients with innovative tools that enhance operational efficiency and help manage risks effectively. Agiliance's solutions are designed to meet the challenges of economic instability and increasing regulatory demands, enabling organizations to optimize their IT budgets while remaining proactive in a complex environment.

Health Guru Media Inc.

Series D in 2011
Healthguru.com is the destination site for health video on the web with 99 million views per month (comScore Video Metrix, August). Our unique approach to health education was developed specifically for the video audience and is differentiated in three key ways: - Category Focus: Healthguru.com focuses on the health topics that matter most to today's audience, including: diet and fitness, mental & emotional health, sexual health, pregnancy, baby health, drugs & alcohol, as well as information on more than 125 different health conditions. - Medium: The modern health consumer seeks out an immersive, rich media experience on the web, and video has proven to be a more engaging medium. Healthguru.com has the largest health video library online, and interactive applications to offer our audience the experience it expects. - Editorial Approach: World-class information providers know that creating truly engaging content is the way to ensure that information becomes learning. That's why Healthguru.com is dedicated to making our content as interesting and, when relevant, entertaining, as it is useful. All Healthguru.com content is created or selected by our editorial team and is rigorously reviewed for medical accuracy, objectivity and balance. While we do accept advertising on our site and may distribute content via third party sites, Healthguru.com does not endorse products, services or companies.

Eightfold Logic

Series C in 2011
Eightfold Logic (formerly Enquisite) is an inbound marketing innovator. Eightfold Logic's patented inbound marketing platform revolutionizes demand generation efforts by improving website findability for qualified buyers through search engine, social media, and cross-link optimization. The Eightfold Logic approach brings clarity to businesses around how their websites are performing today and simplifies marketing efforts to identify, prioritize and manage inbound marketing campaign opportunities to improve qualified website traffic. Eightfold Logic is a privately-held, San Francisco-based company and is venture backed by Rho Canada Ventures, Castile Ventures, Formative Ventures, Retro Venture Partners and The Entrepreneurs' Fund III.

BNI Video

Venture Round in 2010
BNI Video is a software company backed by industry leaders Cisco, Comcast Interactive Capital, and Time Warner Cable, as well as investors Castile Ventures and Charles River Ventures. Since its founding in 2009, BNI has been dedicated to developing the tools and services that video service providers (VSPs) in the cable, telecommunications and wireless industries need to compete in an increasingly on-demand world. BNI’s unique technology platform allows VSPs to easily incorporate social networking, search, and other next-generation applications into their offerings and deliver them to any end point more easily, quickly and reliably than ever before, resulting in reduced operational costs and complexity, expanded monetization opportunities, and more compelling consumer viewing experiences.

ByAllAccounts

Series B in 2010
ByAllAccounts, Inc. enables the automated gathering of financial account data from thousands financial institutions for import directly into Portfolio Management and Trust Accounting Systems. Their patent pending technology analyzes, augments, and delivers data for even the most sophisticated holistic wealth management practice and enables efficient and timely account reconciliation, performance analysis and consolidated reporting. ByAllAccounts, Inc. serves more than 300 clients having a full range of managed and "held-away" accounts, including retirement, banking, brokerage, trust, hedge fund, limited partnerships, private equity, annuity, and more.

RatePoint

Series C in 2010
RatePoint, Inc. is a prominent provider of customer feedback and online reputation management services. The company assists businesses in protecting and enhancing their online reputation by leveraging credible customer feedback as a valuable asset for sales, marketing, and customer service. RatePoint offers user-friendly, web-based communication tools that enable small and medium-sized businesses to collect, manage, and promote customer feedback directly on their websites and across the internet. Its services include feedback collection, survey capabilities, and dispute resolution, allowing businesses to effectively engage with their customers and improve their overall service quality.

Eightfold Logic

Venture Round in 2010
Eightfold Logic (formerly Enquisite) is an inbound marketing innovator. Eightfold Logic's patented inbound marketing platform revolutionizes demand generation efforts by improving website findability for qualified buyers through search engine, social media, and cross-link optimization. The Eightfold Logic approach brings clarity to businesses around how their websites are performing today and simplifies marketing efforts to identify, prioritize and manage inbound marketing campaign opportunities to improve qualified website traffic. Eightfold Logic is a privately-held, San Francisco-based company and is venture backed by Rho Canada Ventures, Castile Ventures, Formative Ventures, Retro Venture Partners and The Entrepreneurs' Fund III.

VGo Communications

Series A in 2010
Vgo Communications develops and markets visual communications solutions for workplaces in the United States. It offers VGO, a system that establishes the user's presence remotely via the physical presence, as well as enables users to see, hear, talk, interact, and move around throughout a distant location. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Nashua, New Hampshire.

VisibleGains

Venture Round in 2009
VisibleGains Inc. is a company that specializes in developing applications aimed at enhancing communication between businesses and their customers. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, the company offers two primary products. The first is Postwire, which allows users to create private web pages for individual clients, enabling the collection and sharing of videos, photos, web links, and documents in a secure environment. The second product, VideoApps, focuses on creating interactive landing page videos to engage customers more effectively. Originally known as PermissionTV, Inc., the company rebranded to VisibleGains in October 2009, reflecting its commitment to improving customer engagement through innovative digital solutions.

Tetragenetics

Venture Round in 2009
Tetragenetics, Inc. is an early-stage biotechnology company meeting the needs of customers who seek a cost-effective alternative platform technology for the production of genetically engineered proteins. Their technology is particularly well suited to the production of eucaryotic membrane and secretory proteins that are difficult to express in conventional systems. Such proteins include vaccine antigens, monoclonal antibodies, and a variety of therapeutic proteins for the treatment and prevention of human and animal disease.

Health Guru Media Inc.

Series C in 2009
Healthguru.com is the destination site for health video on the web with 99 million views per month (comScore Video Metrix, August). Our unique approach to health education was developed specifically for the video audience and is differentiated in three key ways: - Category Focus: Healthguru.com focuses on the health topics that matter most to today's audience, including: diet and fitness, mental & emotional health, sexual health, pregnancy, baby health, drugs & alcohol, as well as information on more than 125 different health conditions. - Medium: The modern health consumer seeks out an immersive, rich media experience on the web, and video has proven to be a more engaging medium. Healthguru.com has the largest health video library online, and interactive applications to offer our audience the experience it expects. - Editorial Approach: World-class information providers know that creating truly engaging content is the way to ensure that information becomes learning. That's why Healthguru.com is dedicated to making our content as interesting and, when relevant, entertaining, as it is useful. All Healthguru.com content is created or selected by our editorial team and is rigorously reviewed for medical accuracy, objectivity and balance. While we do accept advertising on our site and may distribute content via third party sites, Healthguru.com does not endorse products, services or companies.

Eightfold Logic

Series B in 2009
Eightfold Logic (formerly Enquisite) is an inbound marketing innovator. Eightfold Logic's patented inbound marketing platform revolutionizes demand generation efforts by improving website findability for qualified buyers through search engine, social media, and cross-link optimization. The Eightfold Logic approach brings clarity to businesses around how their websites are performing today and simplifies marketing efforts to identify, prioritize and manage inbound marketing campaign opportunities to improve qualified website traffic. Eightfold Logic is a privately-held, San Francisco-based company and is venture backed by Rho Canada Ventures, Castile Ventures, Formative Ventures, Retro Venture Partners and The Entrepreneurs' Fund III.

RatePoint

Series B in 2009
RatePoint, Inc. is a prominent provider of customer feedback and online reputation management services. The company assists businesses in protecting and enhancing their online reputation by leveraging credible customer feedback as a valuable asset for sales, marketing, and customer service. RatePoint offers user-friendly, web-based communication tools that enable small and medium-sized businesses to collect, manage, and promote customer feedback directly on their websites and across the internet. Its services include feedback collection, survey capabilities, and dispute resolution, allowing businesses to effectively engage with their customers and improve their overall service quality.

PGP TrustCenter

Venture Round in 2008
ChosenSecurity, with its TC TrustCenter service, is a provider of On-Demand PKI (public key infrastructure) security services in the world, enabling a wide range of PKI-enabled security services for enterprise authentication, secure e-mail and digital signatures. ChosenSecurity delivers breakthrough economics and implementation speed to the Enterprise; up to 70% less than in-house implementations, 50% less than traditional managed services, and can be implemented in just a few weeks. Unlike traditional PKI implementations, ChosenSecurity is the world's first PKI that can be deployed across multiple clients in a web-based Security as a Service model, enabling any sized enterprise to achieve PKI security in a few weeks with no capital costs, hardware, software or network changes.

Agiliance

Series B in 2008
Agiliance offers real-time integrated risk management solutions tailored for businesses and government agencies. By focusing on governance and security programs, the company equips its clients with innovative tools that enhance operational efficiency and help manage risks effectively. Agiliance's solutions are designed to meet the challenges of economic instability and increasing regulatory demands, enabling organizations to optimize their IT budgets while remaining proactive in a complex environment.

Agito Networks

Series B in 2008
Agito Networks, Inc. is the award-winning technology leader in the enterprise mobility space. Its product, the RoamAnywhere™ Mobility Router™, is an innovative enterprise fixed mobile convergence (eFMC) platform enabling enterprises to extend voice and Unified Communications to cell phones. RoamAnywhere is the first and only network appliance that fuses enterprise wireless LANs, carrier cellular networks, IP telephony and location technology to mobilize voice and data applications, while remaining agnostic to customers’ choices of carrier and equipment vendors. Agito Networks enables low-cost in-building voice coverage, reduced cellular costs, improved enterprise visibility and control over cellular usage, and better accessibility and responsiveness for mobile workers. A Red Herring 100 winner, Agito was named a Coolest Emerging Technology Vendor for 2008 by CRN, as well as a Top Innovator by VON Magazine. The Company’s RoamAnywhere has received numerous industry awards as wel, including earning CTIA Emerging Technology and eWEEK Excellence awards, and receiving Product of the Year honors from Unified Communications and Internet Telephony magazines. CTO Timothy Olson was also named one of the Best CTOs of 2008 by InfoWorld. Founded and led by industry experts in the areas of WiFi, cellular, telephony and mobile operating systems, Agito Networks is delivering its innovative, patent-pending solution to enterprises in a variety of markets, including healthcare, education, manufacturing and high tech. Agito Networks’ RoamAnywhere represents the next generation of enterprise mobility products for enterprises seeking the promise of improved productivity and cost savings from enterprise fixed mobile convergence (eFMC). Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., Agito Networks is well funded with approximately $20 million in investment from Battery Ventures, Castile Ventures and ITX International Holdings, Inc.

Funambol

Series B in 2008
Funambol, Inc. provides white-label cloud solutions to mobile operators and other service providers. The company offers personal cloud solutions that include OneMediaHub, which stores user content in their cloud; and business cloud solutions that include OneBizHub, which enables providers to offer a cloud file sync and share service for SMBs. It also provides OneSafetyHub, a white-label safety cloud service that includes location tracking and emergency alerting for family security; Internet of Things services; and OneSIMHub, a white-label cloud service for SIM users to upgrade path to smartphones. Funambol, Inc. was formerly known as Sync4j and changed its name to Funambol, Inc. in October 2003. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Foster City, California.

VisibleGains

Series C in 2007
VisibleGains Inc. is a company that specializes in developing applications aimed at enhancing communication between businesses and their customers. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, the company offers two primary products. The first is Postwire, which allows users to create private web pages for individual clients, enabling the collection and sharing of videos, photos, web links, and documents in a secure environment. The second product, VideoApps, focuses on creating interactive landing page videos to engage customers more effectively. Originally known as PermissionTV, Inc., the company rebranded to VisibleGains in October 2009, reflecting its commitment to improving customer engagement through innovative digital solutions.

PermissionTV

Series C in 2007
PermissionTV provides a flexible online video platform for brand marketers and advertisers, media companies and publishers, as well as their agencies, content producers and technology providers. This platform helps organizations leverage the power of online video to achieve their marketing objectives through the creation and management of customizable experiences. PermissionTV’s online video tools help customers such as Activision, Adobe, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Harvard Business Publishing and Intercontinental Hotels capture new audiences, enhance relationships, maximize customer value and generate revenue. Competitors include [Brightcove](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/brightcove), [Mogulus](http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/mogulus/) and [Limelight](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/limelight).

PGP TrustCenter

Series A in 2007
ChosenSecurity, with its TC TrustCenter service, is a provider of On-Demand PKI (public key infrastructure) security services in the world, enabling a wide range of PKI-enabled security services for enterprise authentication, secure e-mail and digital signatures. ChosenSecurity delivers breakthrough economics and implementation speed to the Enterprise; up to 70% less than in-house implementations, 50% less than traditional managed services, and can be implemented in just a few weeks. Unlike traditional PKI implementations, ChosenSecurity is the world's first PKI that can be deployed across multiple clients in a web-based Security as a Service model, enabling any sized enterprise to achieve PKI security in a few weeks with no capital costs, hardware, software or network changes.

Ahura Scientific

Series B in 2007
Ahura Scientific Inc. specializes in the development of rugged, ultra-compact optical systems designed for the immediate identification and authentication of both liquid and solid chemical substances. The company serves a diverse clientele, including agencies and organizations in the homeland security, life sciences, industrial, and medical sectors. With a commitment to quality, Ahura Scientific manufactures its products in the United States at an ISO 9001-certified facility, ensuring exceptional portability and high performance in the field.

Brix Networks

Venture Round in 2007
Brix Networks specializes in developing and marketing real-time service assurance and performance management solutions aimed at ensuring the quality of Internet Protocol-based services. Their offerings are designed to verify the performance of various applications, including Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), video services, and web-hosted business applications. By focusing on the reliability and efficiency of these advanced services, Brix Networks addresses the growing demand for high-quality performance in an increasingly digital and connected environment.

Health Guru Media Inc.

Series A in 2007
Healthguru.com is the destination site for health video on the web with 99 million views per month (comScore Video Metrix, August). Our unique approach to health education was developed specifically for the video audience and is differentiated in three key ways: - Category Focus: Healthguru.com focuses on the health topics that matter most to today's audience, including: diet and fitness, mental & emotional health, sexual health, pregnancy, baby health, drugs & alcohol, as well as information on more than 125 different health conditions. - Medium: The modern health consumer seeks out an immersive, rich media experience on the web, and video has proven to be a more engaging medium. Healthguru.com has the largest health video library online, and interactive applications to offer our audience the experience it expects. - Editorial Approach: World-class information providers know that creating truly engaging content is the way to ensure that information becomes learning. That's why Healthguru.com is dedicated to making our content as interesting and, when relevant, entertaining, as it is useful. All Healthguru.com content is created or selected by our editorial team and is rigorously reviewed for medical accuracy, objectivity and balance. While we do accept advertising on our site and may distribute content via third party sites, Healthguru.com does not endorse products, services or companies.

Trapeze Networks

Series D in 2006
Trapeze Networks specializes in providing advanced wireless LAN solutions tailored for mobile applications, encompassing data, voice, video, and real-time location services. The company focuses on delivering high levels of reliability, performance, security, and management to meet the demands of enterprise environments. Trapeze is dedicated to creating scalable and fault-tolerant WLAN infrastructure, ensuring that organizations can efficiently support their wireless communication needs.

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.

NetDevices

Series B in 2005
As of May 24, 2007, NetDevices, Inc. was acquired by Alcatel-Lucent. NetDevices, Inc. provides networking solutions for the finance, retail, manufacturing, and health care industries. NetDevices was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
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Trapeze Networks

Series C in 2005
Trapeze Networks specializes in providing advanced wireless LAN solutions tailored for mobile applications, encompassing data, voice, video, and real-time location services. The company focuses on delivering high levels of reliability, performance, security, and management to meet the demands of enterprise environments. Trapeze is dedicated to creating scalable and fault-tolerant WLAN infrastructure, ensuring that organizations can efficiently support their wireless communication needs.

Trapeze Networks

Series C in 2005
Trapeze Networks specializes in providing advanced wireless LAN solutions tailored for mobile applications, encompassing data, voice, video, and real-time location services. The company focuses on delivering high levels of reliability, performance, security, and management to meet the demands of enterprise environments. Trapeze is dedicated to creating scalable and fault-tolerant WLAN infrastructure, ensuring that organizations can efficiently support their wireless communication needs.

Brix Networks

Series E in 2005
Brix Networks specializes in developing and marketing real-time service assurance and performance management solutions aimed at ensuring the quality of Internet Protocol-based services. Their offerings are designed to verify the performance of various applications, including Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), video services, and web-hosted business applications. By focusing on the reliability and efficiency of these advanced services, Brix Networks addresses the growing demand for high-quality performance in an increasingly digital and connected environment.

Network Intelligence

Series C in 2005
Network Intelligence Corporation provides security information and event management solutions. Its products include enVision that collects and protects data, as well as provides security and compliance analysis, and reporting and alerting solutions; Intelligence Engine software/hardware network security appliances for security information and event management market; and LogSmart Internet Protocol Database, which provides architecture to collect and protect the data from various Internet protocol devices. The company's strategic partners include Microsoft; NetworkAppliance; IBM; EMC2; EDS; Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd.; and Juniper Networks. Network Intelligence Corporation was formerly known as OpenSystems.com, Inc. and changed its name to Network Intelligence Corporation. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Westwood, Massachusetts. It also has offices in Rancho Santa Margarita, California; Chicago, Illinois; Alpharetta, Georgia; Seabrook, Texas; Arlington, Virginia; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Paris, France; and London.

Ahura Scientific

Series B in 2005
Ahura Scientific Inc. specializes in the development of rugged, ultra-compact optical systems designed for the immediate identification and authentication of both liquid and solid chemical substances. The company serves a diverse clientele, including agencies and organizations in the homeland security, life sciences, industrial, and medical sectors. With a commitment to quality, Ahura Scientific manufactures its products in the United States at an ISO 9001-certified facility, ensuring exceptional portability and high performance in the field.

SilverStorm Technologies

Series A in 2005
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.

RetailExchange

Venture Round in 2004
RetailExchange.com, Inc., an online business-to-business marketplace, provides offline and online excess inventory solutions.

NEAH Power Systems

Venture Round in 2004
Neah Power was founded in 1999, but CTO/founder Leroy Ohlsen had been thinking about alternative energy for years. Inspired by a Discovery Channel science program on fuel cells and their potential, Leroy began to read and absorb the history and the science of fuel cells. Upon completing his chemistry degree from the University of Washington, he decided, along with fellow founder Michael Fabian, to start a company to pursue his dream of a superior, longer-lasting energy source.

ASPEED Software

Venture Round in 2004
ASPEED Software accelerates applications in multi-core, multi-CPU, cluster, and grid computing environments.

Optiant

Series B in 2003
Optiant, Inc. provides supply chain network design, inventory optimization, and supply chain business intelligence solutions. It offers PowerChain Network Design that enables network optimization through analysis of time, geography, costs, and capacities; PowerChain Inventory, a multi-echelon inventory management and optimization tool that enables manufacturers to determine inventory strategies and policies; and PowerChain Planner, a policy management tool that enables corporate planners to set stock targets in response to demand fluctuations. The company serves consumer products, life sciences, high tech and electronics, and chemical industries. Optiant, Inc. was founded as SupplyChange, Inc. in 2000 and changed its name to Optiant, Inc. in February 2001. The company is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. As of March 22, 2010, Optiant, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Logility, Inc.

Optiant

Series B in 2003
Optiant, Inc. provides supply chain network design, inventory optimization, and supply chain business intelligence solutions. It offers PowerChain Network Design that enables network optimization through analysis of time, geography, costs, and capacities; PowerChain Inventory, a multi-echelon inventory management and optimization tool that enables manufacturers to determine inventory strategies and policies; and PowerChain Planner, a policy management tool that enables corporate planners to set stock targets in response to demand fluctuations. The company serves consumer products, life sciences, high tech and electronics, and chemical industries. Optiant, Inc. was founded as SupplyChange, Inc. in 2000 and changed its name to Optiant, Inc. in February 2001. The company is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. As of March 22, 2010, Optiant, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Logility, Inc.

Ahura Scientific

Series A in 2002
Ahura Scientific Inc. specializes in the development of rugged, ultra-compact optical systems designed for the immediate identification and authentication of both liquid and solid chemical substances. The company serves a diverse clientele, including agencies and organizations in the homeland security, life sciences, industrial, and medical sectors. With a commitment to quality, Ahura Scientific manufactures its products in the United States at an ISO 9001-certified facility, ensuring exceptional portability and high performance in the field.

Sandbridge Technologies

Series A in 2002
Sandbridge Technologies Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company that develops and markets revolutionary fully programmable software-defined-radio (SDR) chipsets for multimode, multi-function wireless handheld devices. Sandbridge provides its customers tremendous competitive value in the global cellular marketplace through an exceptionally cost effective, ultra-low power broadband wireless technology based on the SandBlaster™ DSP baseband architecture.

Aurora Networks

Series B in 2002
Aurora develops optical transport equipment for HFC, or hybrid fiber coaxial cable networks, which are the networks of choice for cable TV operators.

GeoTrust Europe

Series D in 2002
GeoTrust, Inc., an online security services company, provides digital certificates for secure online transactions and business over the Internet in the Asia Pacific, North America, and Europe. The company's products include SSL certificates that offer extended validation, full organization validation, or domain authentication; signing products, which bind people with electronic documents or code through digital signatures for the trusted exchange of information and applications; and SSL for the enterprise that creates a secure channel between servers and users. It offers retail, developer, ISP and Web host, education, financial services, healthcare, and government solutions. In addition, the company provides retail and reseller services for SSL encryption, and Website authentication, digital signatures, code signing, secure email, and enterprise SSL products. It has strategic partnerships with 1&1 Internet, Ltd.; Tucows, Inc.; The Planet; eNom; Secure128; IPOWERWEB; Alabanza; Digital River; Intermedia.NET; Hostway; OLM, LLC; SAVVIS, Inc.; Trustico; and GlobeHosting.com. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Watertown, Massachusetts. As of September 1, 2006, GeoTrust, Inc. was a subsidiary of VeriSign, Inc. As of August 9, 2010, GeoTrust, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Symantec Corporation.

GeoTrust Europe

Series C in 2002
GeoTrust, Inc., an online security services company, provides digital certificates for secure online transactions and business over the Internet in the Asia Pacific, North America, and Europe. The company's products include SSL certificates that offer extended validation, full organization validation, or domain authentication; signing products, which bind people with electronic documents or code through digital signatures for the trusted exchange of information and applications; and SSL for the enterprise that creates a secure channel between servers and users. It offers retail, developer, ISP and Web host, education, financial services, healthcare, and government solutions. In addition, the company provides retail and reseller services for SSL encryption, and Website authentication, digital signatures, code signing, secure email, and enterprise SSL products. It has strategic partnerships with 1&1 Internet, Ltd.; Tucows, Inc.; The Planet; eNom; Secure128; IPOWERWEB; Alabanza; Digital River; Intermedia.NET; Hostway; OLM, LLC; SAVVIS, Inc.; Trustico; and GlobeHosting.com. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Watertown, Massachusetts. As of September 1, 2006, GeoTrust, Inc. was a subsidiary of VeriSign, Inc. As of August 9, 2010, GeoTrust, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Symantec Corporation.

Quantiva

Venture Round in 2001
Quantiva, Inc. is an innovative company taking a bold, new approach to Web transaction management.

PhotonEx

Series C in 2001
PhotonEx is a prominent event in the UK, focusing on photonics and light technologies. It serves as a platform to showcase innovations and advancements in this field, bringing together industry experts, researchers, and businesses to discuss and explore the latest developments. In addition to organizing this event, PhotonEx is involved in the development of smart photonic systems aimed at enhancing public telecommunications networks. By integrating cutting-edge photonic technologies, the company aims to improve the efficiency and performance of telecommunications infrastructure. Through its initiatives, PhotonEx plays a crucial role in promoting the growth and application of photonics in various sectors.

Aurora Networks

Series B in 2001
Aurora develops optical transport equipment for HFC, or hybrid fiber coaxial cable networks, which are the networks of choice for cable TV operators.

Stargus

Venture Round in 2001
Stargus was founded in June 2000 with the goal of addressing the need for comprehensive network and service management solutions specifically designed for cable broadband networks. The company built a leadership team with deep industry and technology experience, including executives with network and operational experience at major cable operators, several of the key architects of the DOCSIS™ standards, along with software executives with proven abilities in building, delivering and supporting systems for large enterprise and service provider networks. Until now, cable operators' broadband network management needs have been served by simple, reactionary network tools that only provide a snapshot of activity for a limited number of subscribers or network devices. Stargus' CableEdge™ family of products represents the first intelligent network management and planning software specifically designed for DOCSIS infrastructure and IP services.

GeoTrust Europe

Series B in 2000
GeoTrust, Inc., an online security services company, provides digital certificates for secure online transactions and business over the Internet in the Asia Pacific, North America, and Europe. The company's products include SSL certificates that offer extended validation, full organization validation, or domain authentication; signing products, which bind people with electronic documents or code through digital signatures for the trusted exchange of information and applications; and SSL for the enterprise that creates a secure channel between servers and users. It offers retail, developer, ISP and Web host, education, financial services, healthcare, and government solutions. In addition, the company provides retail and reseller services for SSL encryption, and Website authentication, digital signatures, code signing, secure email, and enterprise SSL products. It has strategic partnerships with 1&1 Internet, Ltd.; Tucows, Inc.; The Planet; eNom; Secure128; IPOWERWEB; Alabanza; Digital River; Intermedia.NET; Hostway; OLM, LLC; SAVVIS, Inc.; Trustico; and GlobeHosting.com. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Watertown, Massachusetts. As of September 1, 2006, GeoTrust, Inc. was a subsidiary of VeriSign, Inc. As of August 9, 2010, GeoTrust, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Symantec Corporation.

RetailExchange

Venture Round in 2000
RetailExchange.com, Inc., an online business-to-business marketplace, provides offline and online excess inventory solutions.

PhotonEx Corp

Series B in 2000
PhotonEx Corp is an optical networking equipment manufacturer.

Sonus Networks

Venture Round in 1999
Sonus Networks, now known as Ribbon Communications, specializes in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based communication solutions and Session Border Controllers (SBC) for enterprises and service providers worldwide. The company focuses on enabling Unified Communications in the Cloud, facilitating efficient and secure communication for its clients. In addition to its core offerings, Ribbon Communications also provides mobile network operation solutions and collaborates with Microsoft to enhance its service delivery capabilities.