Celtic House Venture Partners

Celtic House Venture Partners is an independent Canadian investment firm that has been active in the technology and innovation sectors since 1994. With a focus on both Canada and the United States, the firm leverages the expertise of its partners to provide strong financial returns for its investors. Celtic House has a proven track record of collaborating with management teams and repeat entrepreneurs to nurture technology companies from their inception to successful exits, resulting in 25 initial public offerings and acquisitions. The firm operates from offices in Toronto and Ottawa, managing over $425 million across three funds, including its current investments from Fund IV, which closed in 2012.

David Adderley

Investment Partner

Brian Antonen

Partner

Julie Fallon

Chief Financial Officer

Roger Maggs

Founder

Cory Michalyshyn

CFO

Tom Valis

Partner

Tomas Valis Ph.D

Managing Partner

Past deals in Ontario

Snappy

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Snappy provides restaurant management technology that has custom-branded mobile apps and websites.

Snappy

Venture Round in 2021
Snappy provides restaurant management technology that has custom-branded mobile apps and websites.

Nuvyyo

Series B in 2020
Nuvyyo Inc., founded in 2010 and based in Kanata, Canada, specializes in electronic solutions that enhance the home media experience for consumers in the U.S. and Canada. The company is best known for its Tablo product, which is a whole-home over-the-air (OTA) digital video recorder (DVR) that allows users to easily discover, watch, and record free HDTV across various devices, including smartphones, tablets, and computers. Launched in 2014, Tablo was the first app-enabled DVR for over-the-air television. In addition to Tablo, Nuvyyo offers JetStreamHD, a mobile media solution that streams live TV, videos, and music to iPads, along with an adapter that connects users to their home network. Nuvyyo's products are available online and through application stores, catering to the growing demand for flexible media consumption.

Corsa Security

Series C in 2018
Corsa Technology Inc., a networking hardware company, delivers programmable data planes for Software Defined Networking (SDN). The company offers OpenFlow data planes that provide programmability, scalability, and agility for OpenFlow SDNs. Its data planes are used for router bypass and router replacement for SDN in WAN; 100gigabit transcontinental links; network appliances and network functions virtualization (NFV); and solving forwarding problems that traverse the network from data center to desktop and from cloud to device. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Ottawa, Canada.

Auvik Networks

Series C in 2018
Auvik’s cloud-based software simplifies and automates network monitoring and management for IT managed service providers. Auvik gives MSPs better visibility, documentation, and monitoring for their client networks, and automates many time-consuming network tasks. With Auvik, MSPs have an efficient and profitable way to manage their client networks. Visit www.auvik.com or follow @AuvikNetworks on Twitter. Auvik is a registered trademark of Auvik Networks Inc.

Klashwerks

Seed Round in 2018
KlashWerks Inc., doing business as Raven, manufactures an always-on camera equipped security system that connects drivers with their cars. It provides Raven, a car technology, which allows users to monitor road conditions, auto security, and the whereabouts of other members with the help of cameras, navigation, diagnostics, data, and mobile app. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Ottawa, Canada.

CanvasPop

Series A in 2018
CanvasPop is a leader in on-demand printing and personalized photo art and photo gifts. Founded in 2009, the company focuses on providing world-class customer support, delivering the highest quality products, and is constantly innovating the way consumers can order personalized products online. CanvasPop has over 450,000 happy customers with printing and distribution facilities in the United States and Canada and ships across the EU.

Auvik Networks

Series B in 2017
Auvik’s cloud-based software simplifies and automates network monitoring and management for IT managed service providers. Auvik gives MSPs better visibility, documentation, and monitoring for their client networks, and automates many time-consuming network tasks. With Auvik, MSPs have an efficient and profitable way to manage their client networks. Visit www.auvik.com or follow @AuvikNetworks on Twitter. Auvik is a registered trademark of Auvik Networks Inc.

DragonWave

Post in 2016
DragonWave Inc. (DragonWave) is a provider of high-capacity Ethernet microwave solutions for Internet protocol (IP) networks. Its carrier-grade point-to-point Ethernet microwave systems transmit broadband voice, video and data, enabling service providers, government agencies, enterprises and other organizations to meet their bandwidth requirements. The principal application of the Company's products is wireless network backhaul. Its additional solutions include leased line replacement, last mile fiber extension and enterprise networks. DragonWave has a network of distributor and reseller partners globally. Its customers include carriers, service providers, utilities, WISP's and enterprises. The Company's products include packet microwave system, pseudowire systems, network configuration and protection, network management, flexible deployment and reach, and technical documents.

Peraso Technologies

Series C in 2016
Peraso Technologies Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company based in Toronto, Canada, that specializes in the development of multi-gigabit millimeter wave single-chip transceivers. Founded in 2008, the company focuses on creating array antenna solutions and 60 GHz wireless chipsets that comply with the IEEE 802.11ad specification. Its product lineup includes the W120, X710, and X610 chipsets, which cater to the mobile consumer electronics market, serving devices such as smartphones, tablets, and digital cameras. Peraso Technologies also offers custom solutions designed to meet specific customer needs, with applications spanning mobile rapid sync-n-go, desktop interconnect, wireless networking, in-room HD video streaming, cellular backhaul, medical imaging, security imaging, and vehicle-to-vehicle communication.

KodaCloud

Series A in 2015
KodaCloud Inc. is a provider of cloud-powered Wi-Fi services that utilizes artificial intelligence to monitor and troubleshoot network performance. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Campbell, California, with an additional office in Ontario, Canada, KodaCloud offers its services as a subscription, enabling enterprise customers to manage their network connectivity without the need for purchasing equipment. The company ships Wi-Fi access points directly to customer locations, allowing for quick installation and activation via a web-based dashboard or mobile app. This model eliminates the need for inventory management and enables businesses to optimize their performance in real-time through automated adjustments based on captured key performance indicators. KodaCloud's service is designed to provide a cost-effective solution, offering competitive profit margins for managed service providers through a recurring revenue structure.

Corsa Security

Series B in 2015
Corsa Technology Inc., a networking hardware company, delivers programmable data planes for Software Defined Networking (SDN). The company offers OpenFlow data planes that provide programmability, scalability, and agility for OpenFlow SDNs. Its data planes are used for router bypass and router replacement for SDN in WAN; 100gigabit transcontinental links; network appliances and network functions virtualization (NFV); and solving forwarding problems that traverse the network from data center to desktop and from cloud to device. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Ottawa, Canada.

Peraso Technologies

Series B in 2014
Peraso Technologies Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company based in Toronto, Canada, that specializes in the development of multi-gigabit millimeter wave single-chip transceivers. Founded in 2008, the company focuses on creating array antenna solutions and 60 GHz wireless chipsets that comply with the IEEE 802.11ad specification. Its product lineup includes the W120, X710, and X610 chipsets, which cater to the mobile consumer electronics market, serving devices such as smartphones, tablets, and digital cameras. Peraso Technologies also offers custom solutions designed to meet specific customer needs, with applications spanning mobile rapid sync-n-go, desktop interconnect, wireless networking, in-room HD video streaming, cellular backhaul, medical imaging, security imaging, and vehicle-to-vehicle communication.

Nuvyyo

Series A in 2013
Nuvyyo Inc., founded in 2010 and based in Kanata, Canada, specializes in electronic solutions that enhance the home media experience for consumers in the U.S. and Canada. The company is best known for its Tablo product, which is a whole-home over-the-air (OTA) digital video recorder (DVR) that allows users to easily discover, watch, and record free HDTV across various devices, including smartphones, tablets, and computers. Launched in 2014, Tablo was the first app-enabled DVR for over-the-air television. In addition to Tablo, Nuvyyo offers JetStreamHD, a mobile media solution that streams live TV, videos, and music to iPads, along with an adapter that connects users to their home network. Nuvyyo's products are available online and through application stores, catering to the growing demand for flexible media consumption.

Corsa Security

Series A in 2013
Corsa Technology Inc., a networking hardware company, delivers programmable data planes for Software Defined Networking (SDN). The company offers OpenFlow data planes that provide programmability, scalability, and agility for OpenFlow SDNs. Its data planes are used for router bypass and router replacement for SDN in WAN; 100gigabit transcontinental links; network appliances and network functions virtualization (NFV); and solving forwarding problems that traverse the network from data center to desktop and from cloud to device. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Ottawa, Canada.

Auvik Networks

Series A in 2013
Auvik’s cloud-based software simplifies and automates network monitoring and management for IT managed service providers. Auvik gives MSPs better visibility, documentation, and monitoring for their client networks, and automates many time-consuming network tasks. With Auvik, MSPs have an efficient and profitable way to manage their client networks. Visit www.auvik.com or follow @AuvikNetworks on Twitter. Auvik is a registered trademark of Auvik Networks Inc.

Auvik Networks

Seed Round in 2013
Auvik’s cloud-based software simplifies and automates network monitoring and management for IT managed service providers. Auvik gives MSPs better visibility, documentation, and monitoring for their client networks, and automates many time-consuming network tasks. With Auvik, MSPs have an efficient and profitable way to manage their client networks. Visit www.auvik.com or follow @AuvikNetworks on Twitter. Auvik is a registered trademark of Auvik Networks Inc.

Peraso Technologies

Series A in 2010
Peraso Technologies Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company based in Toronto, Canada, that specializes in the development of multi-gigabit millimeter wave single-chip transceivers. Founded in 2008, the company focuses on creating array antenna solutions and 60 GHz wireless chipsets that comply with the IEEE 802.11ad specification. Its product lineup includes the W120, X710, and X610 chipsets, which cater to the mobile consumer electronics market, serving devices such as smartphones, tablets, and digital cameras. Peraso Technologies also offers custom solutions designed to meet specific customer needs, with applications spanning mobile rapid sync-n-go, desktop interconnect, wireless networking, in-room HD video streaming, cellular backhaul, medical imaging, security imaging, and vehicle-to-vehicle communication.

Morega Systems

Series B in 2010
Morega Systems Inc. is a software and consumer product company with advanced media mobility solutions for the digital home. Utilizing advanced transcoding, transcrypting and QoS aware streaming capabilities, Morega provides a complete solution for premium service operators and hardware vendors with high value applications such as side-loading, place-shifting and targeted ad insertion. Morega is dedicated to creating rich, new, media experiences for consumers through the introduction of innovative consumer products, software and applications that enable seamless content mobility for both premium and personal media content.

PixStream

Venture Round in 2010
PixStream is a technology company that engages in the development of video networking solutions. Their systems are designed to adapt TV signals to any type of network. The PixStream system consists of complete video head-ends that allows service providers to offer converged services over their existing networks. PixStream was founded by Marc Morin and Brad Siim in 1996; and is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario.

Avvasi Inc.

Series B in 2010
Avvasi Incorporated provides Quality of Experience (QoE) driven streaming video analytics, traffic management, and monetization solutions. The company offers Q-VUE, a network-based system that enables service providers to monitor, process, and analyze the video demographic and QoE of mobile video traffic; and Q-SRV, a traffic management solution that puts QoE at the center of the decision making process for the management and monetization of video traffic in mobile networks. It serves customers in Canada and internationally. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Waterloo, Canada. As of August 19, 2016, Avvasi Incorporated operates as a subsidiary of NetScout Systems, Inc.

Fresco Microchip

Venture Round in 2009
Fresco Microchip is a fabless semiconductor company that has taken a different approach to an old problem - the challenge of converting analog to digital. Focused on the broad consumer electronics market, the company uniquely brings together three core technologies: next-generation RF, mixed-signal and digital signal processing (DSP). Television level video quality has long been the goal of legacy demodulator designers using digital technology. Fresco uses Agile Signal Processing (agileSPâ„¢) technology to create universal legacy demodulation in low cost CMOS. Digital technology provides television quality video without the part to part variation of the traditional analog implementation. Combining digital demodulation technology with patentable iSAWâ„¢ and agileSPâ„¢ provides the complete hybrid solution.

Peraso Technologies

Series A in 2009
Peraso Technologies Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company based in Toronto, Canada, that specializes in the development of multi-gigabit millimeter wave single-chip transceivers. Founded in 2008, the company focuses on creating array antenna solutions and 60 GHz wireless chipsets that comply with the IEEE 802.11ad specification. Its product lineup includes the W120, X710, and X610 chipsets, which cater to the mobile consumer electronics market, serving devices such as smartphones, tablets, and digital cameras. Peraso Technologies also offers custom solutions designed to meet specific customer needs, with applications spanning mobile rapid sync-n-go, desktop interconnect, wireless networking, in-room HD video streaming, cellular backhaul, medical imaging, security imaging, and vehicle-to-vehicle communication.

Overlay.tv

Series B in 2008
Overlay.tv is an interactive media company based in Ottawa, Canada, founded in 2007. It offers a video commerce platform that allows users, content owners, and e-commerce sites to enhance their video assets by overlaying contextual information, such as images, links, and comments, directly onto online videos. This technology enables the monetization and customization of video content, linking viewers to external websites and enriching their viewing experience.

NovX

Series C in 2008
NOVX Systems Inc. develops and manufactures point-of-collection drug screening devices for the addiction treatment centers, drug courts, third party administrators, and school administrators. Its products include iMDx Analyzer that tests urine for drugs of abuse and adulterants; ezVu, a Web-based application that automates the chain of custody; PatientVu, a software platform designed to manage electronic healthcare records; PatientVu Pain, a multi-disciplinary Web-based EMR designed to enable the clients to manage their clinics and patients; and ClientVu, a software platform, which is designed to manage the electronic case records. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Richmond Hill, Canada. As of March 6, 2014, NOVX Systems Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Qvella Corporation.

Fresco Microchip

Series B in 2008
Fresco Microchip is a fabless semiconductor company that has taken a different approach to an old problem - the challenge of converting analog to digital. Focused on the broad consumer electronics market, the company uniquely brings together three core technologies: next-generation RF, mixed-signal and digital signal processing (DSP). Television level video quality has long been the goal of legacy demodulator designers using digital technology. Fresco uses Agile Signal Processing (agileSPâ„¢) technology to create universal legacy demodulation in low cost CMOS. Digital technology provides television quality video without the part to part variation of the traditional analog implementation. Combining digital demodulation technology with patentable iSAWâ„¢ and agileSPâ„¢ provides the complete hybrid solution.

Overlay.tv

Series A in 2008
Overlay.tv is an interactive media company based in Ottawa, Canada, founded in 2007. It offers a video commerce platform that allows users, content owners, and e-commerce sites to enhance their video assets by overlaying contextual information, such as images, links, and comments, directly onto online videos. This technology enables the monetization and customization of video content, linking viewers to external websites and enriching their viewing experience.

NovX

Debt Financing in 2007
NOVX Systems Inc. develops and manufactures point-of-collection drug screening devices for the addiction treatment centers, drug courts, third party administrators, and school administrators. Its products include iMDx Analyzer that tests urine for drugs of abuse and adulterants; ezVu, a Web-based application that automates the chain of custody; PatientVu, a software platform designed to manage electronic healthcare records; PatientVu Pain, a multi-disciplinary Web-based EMR designed to enable the clients to manage their clinics and patients; and ClientVu, a software platform, which is designed to manage the electronic case records. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Richmond Hill, Canada. As of March 6, 2014, NOVX Systems Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Qvella Corporation.

Morega Systems

Series A in 2007
Morega Systems Inc. is a software and consumer product company with advanced media mobility solutions for the digital home. Utilizing advanced transcoding, transcrypting and QoS aware streaming capabilities, Morega provides a complete solution for premium service operators and hardware vendors with high value applications such as side-loading, place-shifting and targeted ad insertion. Morega is dedicated to creating rich, new, media experiences for consumers through the introduction of innovative consumer products, software and applications that enable seamless content mobility for both premium and personal media content.

DNA13

Series A in 2007
dna13 Inc. provides on-demand software solutions for brand and reputation management. It offers dnaEnterprise, a public relations and corporate communications software suite that helps organizations to manage, monitor, and measure their brand and reputation in real-time; and dnaMonitor, a media monitoring software for real-time insight into brand, reputation, competitors, and industry issues. The company also provides consulting, training, and implementation services for its software portals. Its dnaEnterprise software consolidates media content sources, critical brand data, and stakeholder information into a brand data warehouse, as well as provides a suite of integrated applications to help organizations manage and automate the end-to-end public relations processes. The company serves corporate communications, public relations, investor relations, government relations, human resources, and legal staff in corporations. dna13 Inc. has strategic partnerships with CNW Group, PR Newswire, Bulldog Reporter, Dialog, Critical Mention Inc., Moreover Technologies, Nielsen BuzzMetrics, BurrellesLuce, Nielsen Media Research, ComScore, SRDS Media Solutions, NADbank, and BBM. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Ottawa, Canada.

Fresco Microchip

Series A in 2005
Fresco Microchip is a fabless semiconductor company that has taken a different approach to an old problem - the challenge of converting analog to digital. Focused on the broad consumer electronics market, the company uniquely brings together three core technologies: next-generation RF, mixed-signal and digital signal processing (DSP). Television level video quality has long been the goal of legacy demodulator designers using digital technology. Fresco uses Agile Signal Processing (agileSPâ„¢) technology to create universal legacy demodulation in low cost CMOS. Digital technology provides television quality video without the part to part variation of the traditional analog implementation. Combining digital demodulation technology with patentable iSAWâ„¢ and agileSPâ„¢ provides the complete hybrid solution.

Sandvine

Venture Round in 2005
Sandvine Corporation designs and sells subscriber experience assurance solutions utilizing deep packet inspection (DPI) technology for network operators globally. Its PacketLogic solutions provide insights and facilitate actions that help ensure a high-quality experience for internet-connected devices. The company also offers the Network Application Visibility Library (NAVL), an embedded DPI software engine for real-time classification of network traffic. Sandvine markets its products under the PacketLogic and NAVL brands through a variety of channels, including direct sales, resellers, distributors, and system integrators, serving customers across the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Its clientele includes mobile and broadband service providers, cable operators, telecommunications companies, Wi-Fi network operators, and enterprise customers such as educational institutions and government agencies. Established in 2002 and headquartered in Fremont, California, Sandvine has a strategic partnership with Mobily to enhance customer experience through active network intelligence. The company was formerly known as Procera Networks, Inc. and rebranded as Sandvine Corporation in 2017.

NovX

Series B in 2005
NOVX Systems Inc. develops and manufactures point-of-collection drug screening devices for the addiction treatment centers, drug courts, third party administrators, and school administrators. Its products include iMDx Analyzer that tests urine for drugs of abuse and adulterants; ezVu, a Web-based application that automates the chain of custody; PatientVu, a software platform designed to manage electronic healthcare records; PatientVu Pain, a multi-disciplinary Web-based EMR designed to enable the clients to manage their clinics and patients; and ClientVu, a software platform, which is designed to manage the electronic case records. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Richmond Hill, Canada. As of March 6, 2014, NOVX Systems Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Qvella Corporation.

Tropic Networks

Series D in 2004
Tropic Networks, Inc. designs, develops, and markets regional and metro-area optical networking equipment for telephony, data, and cable applications. The company offers Wavelength Tracker, an optical transport solution that leverages SONET/SDH familiarity to deliver optical layer intelligence; and various services for Tropic Networks platform and its related products, including network design, planning and installation, operation and maintenance consulting, and evaluation and modeling of network architecture, as well as training and planned upgrades. It also provides Networks TRX-24000, a metro optical transport platform that delivers dense wavelength division multiplexing and optical add-drop multiplexing for a host of services in a package. The company offers metro-optimized network solution for carriers to plan, manage, and scale the MAN; and to address the need for bandwidth expansion, optical transport, wavelength identification, and wavelength management in regional and metropolitan-area optical networks. Its metro optical networking solution streamlines the underlying optical layer architecture of DWDM/ODAM networks. Tropic Networks, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Camilion Solutions

Series B in 2003
Camilion Solutions is a software company that provides product development and management solutions for its clients. It offers product configuration solutions such as ProductAuthority that automates the population of all ISO electronic content and updates and provides insurers with tools to analyze, update, and maintain ISO deviations. The company also provides policy administration solutions including PolicyAuthority that supports the entire policy administration lifecycle such as application data capture, qualification, rating, pricing, quote management, bind and issuance, and required policy transactions. It was founded in 2000 and is based in Markham, Ontario.

Tropic Networks

Series C in 2003
Tropic Networks, Inc. designs, develops, and markets regional and metro-area optical networking equipment for telephony, data, and cable applications. The company offers Wavelength Tracker, an optical transport solution that leverages SONET/SDH familiarity to deliver optical layer intelligence; and various services for Tropic Networks platform and its related products, including network design, planning and installation, operation and maintenance consulting, and evaluation and modeling of network architecture, as well as training and planned upgrades. It also provides Networks TRX-24000, a metro optical transport platform that delivers dense wavelength division multiplexing and optical add-drop multiplexing for a host of services in a package. The company offers metro-optimized network solution for carriers to plan, manage, and scale the MAN; and to address the need for bandwidth expansion, optical transport, wavelength identification, and wavelength management in regional and metropolitan-area optical networks. Its metro optical networking solution streamlines the underlying optical layer architecture of DWDM/ODAM networks. Tropic Networks, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

SiberCore Technologies

Series D in 2002
SiberCore Technologies Incorporated is a pure-play, Internet IC company developing high-value-added Application Specific Standard Products (ASSPs) for intelligent hardware-based switching and routing platforms, such as Gigabit / Terabit Routers and Layer 2 / 3 / 4 Ethernet Switches. The company's initial products are a family of high-speed high-capacity packet forwarding engines based on Content Addressable Memories (CAM technology) which overcome the performance bottleneck associated with the network's routing table look-up function. This emerging market has been created by the demands of the explosion in datacom traffic, coupled with the worldwide deployment of fiber optics and DWDM. These broadband deployments have shifted the bottleneck from the Access and Transport section of the network, to the Routers and Switches connecting to these pipes. The company's founding technical team gained industry-wide recognition for its world-class design expertise in this area at Nortel Networks. A veteran Executive team in all the functional divisions of the company supplements this preeminent technical team.

SiberCore Technologies

Series C in 2001
SiberCore Technologies Incorporated is a pure-play, Internet IC company developing high-value-added Application Specific Standard Products (ASSPs) for intelligent hardware-based switching and routing platforms, such as Gigabit / Terabit Routers and Layer 2 / 3 / 4 Ethernet Switches. The company's initial products are a family of high-speed high-capacity packet forwarding engines based on Content Addressable Memories (CAM technology) which overcome the performance bottleneck associated with the network's routing table look-up function. This emerging market has been created by the demands of the explosion in datacom traffic, coupled with the worldwide deployment of fiber optics and DWDM. These broadband deployments have shifted the bottleneck from the Access and Transport section of the network, to the Routers and Switches connecting to these pipes. The company's founding technical team gained industry-wide recognition for its world-class design expertise in this area at Nortel Networks. A veteran Executive team in all the functional divisions of the company supplements this preeminent technical team.

Tropic Networks

Series B in 2001
Tropic Networks, Inc. designs, develops, and markets regional and metro-area optical networking equipment for telephony, data, and cable applications. The company offers Wavelength Tracker, an optical transport solution that leverages SONET/SDH familiarity to deliver optical layer intelligence; and various services for Tropic Networks platform and its related products, including network design, planning and installation, operation and maintenance consulting, and evaluation and modeling of network architecture, as well as training and planned upgrades. It also provides Networks TRX-24000, a metro optical transport platform that delivers dense wavelength division multiplexing and optical add-drop multiplexing for a host of services in a package. The company offers metro-optimized network solution for carriers to plan, manage, and scale the MAN; and to address the need for bandwidth expansion, optical transport, wavelength identification, and wavelength management in regional and metropolitan-area optical networks. Its metro optical networking solution streamlines the underlying optical layer architecture of DWDM/ODAM networks. Tropic Networks, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Cogency Semiconductor

Series B in 2000
Cogency Semiconductor is a provider of semiconductors for home networking.

March Networks

Venture Round in 2000
March Networks As a leading provider of IP video software and systems, They work with certified partners and customers worldwide to transform video into usable business intelligence. They give them the tools they need to enhance security, mitigate risk, and reduce losses from theft and fraud. They then deliver on the true power of video with integrated applications that let them see what’s happening in their organization, and make informed decisions to improve performance and profitability.

Tropic Networks

Series A in 2000
Tropic Networks, Inc. designs, develops, and markets regional and metro-area optical networking equipment for telephony, data, and cable applications. The company offers Wavelength Tracker, an optical transport solution that leverages SONET/SDH familiarity to deliver optical layer intelligence; and various services for Tropic Networks platform and its related products, including network design, planning and installation, operation and maintenance consulting, and evaluation and modeling of network architecture, as well as training and planned upgrades. It also provides Networks TRX-24000, a metro optical transport platform that delivers dense wavelength division multiplexing and optical add-drop multiplexing for a host of services in a package. The company offers metro-optimized network solution for carriers to plan, manage, and scale the MAN; and to address the need for bandwidth expansion, optical transport, wavelength identification, and wavelength management in regional and metropolitan-area optical networks. Its metro optical networking solution streamlines the underlying optical layer architecture of DWDM/ODAM networks. Tropic Networks, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

SiberCore Technologies

Series B in 2000
SiberCore Technologies Incorporated is a pure-play, Internet IC company developing high-value-added Application Specific Standard Products (ASSPs) for intelligent hardware-based switching and routing platforms, such as Gigabit / Terabit Routers and Layer 2 / 3 / 4 Ethernet Switches. The company's initial products are a family of high-speed high-capacity packet forwarding engines based on Content Addressable Memories (CAM technology) which overcome the performance bottleneck associated with the network's routing table look-up function. This emerging market has been created by the demands of the explosion in datacom traffic, coupled with the worldwide deployment of fiber optics and DWDM. These broadband deployments have shifted the bottleneck from the Access and Transport section of the network, to the Routers and Switches connecting to these pipes. The company's founding technical team gained industry-wide recognition for its world-class design expertise in this area at Nortel Networks. A veteran Executive team in all the functional divisions of the company supplements this preeminent technical team.

SiberCore Technologies

Series A in 1999
SiberCore Technologies Incorporated is a pure-play, Internet IC company developing high-value-added Application Specific Standard Products (ASSPs) for intelligent hardware-based switching and routing platforms, such as Gigabit / Terabit Routers and Layer 2 / 3 / 4 Ethernet Switches. The company's initial products are a family of high-speed high-capacity packet forwarding engines based on Content Addressable Memories (CAM technology) which overcome the performance bottleneck associated with the network's routing table look-up function. This emerging market has been created by the demands of the explosion in datacom traffic, coupled with the worldwide deployment of fiber optics and DWDM. These broadband deployments have shifted the bottleneck from the Access and Transport section of the network, to the Routers and Switches connecting to these pipes. The company's founding technical team gained industry-wide recognition for its world-class design expertise in this area at Nortel Networks. A veteran Executive team in all the functional divisions of the company supplements this preeminent technical team.

SiberCore Technologies

Seed Round in 1999
SiberCore Technologies Incorporated is a pure-play, Internet IC company developing high-value-added Application Specific Standard Products (ASSPs) for intelligent hardware-based switching and routing platforms, such as Gigabit / Terabit Routers and Layer 2 / 3 / 4 Ethernet Switches. The company's initial products are a family of high-speed high-capacity packet forwarding engines based on Content Addressable Memories (CAM technology) which overcome the performance bottleneck associated with the network's routing table look-up function. This emerging market has been created by the demands of the explosion in datacom traffic, coupled with the worldwide deployment of fiber optics and DWDM. These broadband deployments have shifted the bottleneck from the Access and Transport section of the network, to the Routers and Switches connecting to these pipes. The company's founding technical team gained industry-wide recognition for its world-class design expertise in this area at Nortel Networks. A veteran Executive team in all the functional divisions of the company supplements this preeminent technical team.

Protus IP Solutions

Venture Round in 1999
Protus IP Solutions, Inc. provides software-as-a-service communication tools for small to medium businesses and enterprise organizations. The company offers Internet fax, virtual PBX, and email marketing services. Additionally, it provides fax and voice broadcast services. The company markets its products under MyFax, my1voice, Campaigner, and CampaignerPro brand names. It caters to finance, insurance, real estate, healthcare, and transportation, and government sectors. Protus IP Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Ottawa, Canada. As of December 6, 2010, Protus IP Solutions, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of j2 Global Communications, Inc.

Skystone Systems

Venture Round in 1997
Skystone Systems Corporation manufactures and markets semiconductor and sub-system chips for telecommunications and data communications equipment manufacturers. The company was founded in 1994 is based in Nepean, Canada.