Cipio Partners

Founded in 2003, Cipio Partners is a leading investment management and advisory firm for European growth capital & minority buyouts for technology companies (typical sectors e.g. software, technology enabled B2B products & services, components and consumer internet). Cipio Partners targets European growth stage technology businesses with €10-50 million in revenue and makes initial investments ranging from €5-15 million. Cipio Partners operates from offices in Munich and Luxembourg. Further information is available at www.cipiopartners.com

Roland Dennert

Managing Partner

Ansgar Kirchheim

Venture Partner

Hans-Dieter Koch

Managing Partner and Founder

Kreppel, David

Principal

Thomas Lenz

Senior Associate

Meyel, Diana

Managing Partner

Endric Mueller

Senior Associate

Christoph Wedegaertner

Managing Partner

83 past transactions

Wire

Series C in 2022
Wire is the most secure collaboration platform, transforming the way businesses communicate at the same speed and with the same impact that our founders disrupted telephony with Skype. Headquartered in Berlin with offices in Switzerland and San Francisco, Wire’s award-winning collaboration and communications platform counts over 1,800 government and enterprise customers worldwide, including EY, Fortum, the German government and four other G7 governments. Recognized for its secure collaboration platform as a leader and high performer by G2 Crowd, IDC, Forrester and Gartner, Wire offers messaging, audio/video conferencing, file-sharing, and external collaboration - all protected by the most advanced end-to-end encryption.

NavVis

Venture Round in 2021
Bridging the gap between the physical and digital world, NavVis enables service providers and enterprises to capture and share the built environment as photorealistic digital twins. Our SLAM-based mobile mapping systems generate high-quality data with survey-grade accuracy at speed and scale. And with our digital factory solutions, users are equipped to make better operational decisions, boost productivity, streamline business processes, and improve profitability. Based in Munich, Germany, with offices in the United States and China, NavVis has customers worldwide in the surveying, AEC, and manufacturing industries. For more information, visit www.navvis.com.

Nuki Home Solutions

Venture Round in 2021
Nuki Home Solutions is the leading supplier of smart home solutions in Europe. The company aims to make access controls smarter and physical keys irrelevant. We believe in the power of mobile technology innovations and use it to facilitate our daily lives. The company is headquartered in Graz, Austria. Nuki Home Solutions operates in the DACH region, France, UK, BENELUX, Spain and Italy and is working with partners to ensure availability in other European markets. The company’s first product Nuki turns a smartphone into a smart key in only a few minutes. The Smart Lock is mounted on the inside of the existing door lock and is Europe’s first Bluetooth Smart Lock with permanent Internet access. The smart door lock delivers maximum convenience to its customers. By using Bluetooth, Nuki opens the entrance door automatically as soon as an authorized person approaches and closes the door at the push of a button, when you leave the building.

La Ruche qui dit Oui

Venture Round in 2021
La Ruche qui dit Oui is an e-commerce platform where users group themselves to buy directly from their local farmers. “Online food co-op La Ruche Qui Dit Oui! combines an internet speciality – cutting out the middleman in the supply chain connecting consumers with producers – with grass-roots social networking. The yes-saying beehive of the name represents the consumers who club together to source a food order: when the required size is met, the order is triggered and the consumers receive their goods. With 467 hives across France it's generating a, er, buzz.”

Brightpearl

Series C in 2020
Brightpearl is the omnichannel retail management system that puts your orders, inventory, financials, POS and CRM in one place. A purpose built ERP platform that delivers real time accounting and order management to automate the back office for today’s omnichannel brands, retailers and wholesalers where in store, online, or in the warehouse. They are 100% focussed on the retail sector and deploy in half of the of time of generic solutions like NetSuite, SAP, and Sage.

Brainsgate

Series F in 2020
BrainsGate's platform technology involves electrical stimulation of the Spheno-Palatine Ganglion (SPG), a nervous center known to increase cerebral blood flow. BrainsGate is exploring several applications for its technology, and is currently focusing on treatment of acute ischemic stroke. Building on its technology, the Company has developed the ISS, based on a miniature electrode implanted at the roof of the mouth in a bed side, minimally invasive, local anesthesia procedure comparable to dental treatment. In 2008, the company completed ImPACT-1, a pilot clinical trial for acute ischemic stroke with promising results. In 2011 the Company completed a 300 patients RCT pivotal trial that further substantiated the safety and efficacy of its treatment for acute ischemic stroke patients. BrainsGate is currently running the ImpACT-24b, a multi-national, randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled pivotal study to assess the safety and efficacy of its treatment for stroke patients in a 24-hour window.

Microoled

Series A in 2020
Microoled is a provider of microdisplays for mobile near-to-eye viewing devices used by consumers, medical professionals, and the security industry. Founded in 2007, Microoled headquarters, R&D, and a production facility are located in Grenoble, a renowned center of excellence in France for chipset and nanotechnology development.

Whisbi

Venture Round in 2019
Whisbi provides a mobile-first mobile-first conversational sales & marketing platform for B2C enterprises. Their solution creates an opportunity for Sales & Marketing professionals to increase sales conversion, improve live engagement and provide a differentiating online customer experience. Whisbi combines all contact channels like video-call, chat, chatbot, click-to-call or a traditional phone call into one centralized data-driven UI for your customers. Enhanced by a BI engine, Whisbi provides the right channel for the right customer at the right time. The Whisbi solution easily integrates with existing infrastructures, ranging from call centers to physical stores and virtual showrooms. Simple inclusion of the solution on websites provides the ability to drive a truly omnichannel customer experience that significantly increases online conversion rates. They offer a world-class conversational platform for sales & marketing and are able to share industry-specific insights & expertise. They have unparalleled experience working closely with global enterprises in telecommunications, automotive, travel, and insurance & banking.

Agorapulse

Venture Round in 2019
AgoraPulse is a leading Social Media Management platform that enables agencies, businesses and marketers to manage all their social media messages, schedule & publish content, identify key influencers, monitor social channels, and get stunning reports - all in one easy to use dashboard.

Zappi

Venture Round in 2019
Zappi helps global brands make faster and better decisions to drive business growth. The company introduces AI as part of its market research software suite, which uses automation taught from 1.2 billion historical consumer insights to spot promising marketing and product ideas and help teams make the right market fit decisions. Zappi has been named Best Place to Work by Quirk's Media for its engaging and inclusive workplace culture and has been named one of the hottest martech companies in 2022 by Business Insider. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, England with offices in Boston and Cape Town.

Vitafy

Venture Round in 2018
Vitafy GmbH is a pure online player in fitness and sports nutrition, Vitafy addresses the growing healthy living movement.

Silicon Mobility

Series B in 2018
Silicon Mobility is a technology leader for cleaner, safer and smarter mobility. The company designs, develops and sells flexible, real-time, safe and open solutions for the automotive industry used to increase energy efficiency and reduce pollutant emissions while keeping passengers safe. Silicon Mobility's products control electric motors, battery and energy management systems of hybrid and electric vehicles. By using Silicon Mobility’s technologies, Manufacturers improve the efficiency, reduce the size, weight and cost of electric motors and increase the battery range and durability. Silicon Mobility technologies and products accelerate the car’s powertrain electrification and the deployment of driverless vehicles

Launchmetrics

Venture Round in 2018
Launchmetrics is a Brand Performance Cloud that arms fashion, luxury, and beauty executives with the tools and data to create inspiring, shareworthy, and measurable experiences to attract today’s modern consumer. With over a decade of experience, the company develops software that helps companies in the fashion, luxury, and cosmetics sectors, helping them grow their businesses and streamline their processes. It is the most essential and trusted technology in the industry, yielding an unrivaled market penetration to 50% of the top 100 luxury brands worldwide in addition to fashion, beauty, and retailer giants such as Dior, Fendi, TopShop, Shiseido, NET-A-PORTER, Adidas, and more. Founded in NYC, with operating headquarters in Paris, Launchmetrics has employees in eight markets and support in five languages. The company works with over 1,000 brands as well as partners like IMG, the Council of Fashion Designers of America, the British Fashion Council, Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, Pitti Immagine, and Google, to accelerate their business and build lasting exposure.

Brightpearl

Venture Round in 2018
Brightpearl is the omnichannel retail management system that puts your orders, inventory, financials, POS and CRM in one place. A purpose built ERP platform that delivers real time accounting and order management to automate the back office for today’s omnichannel brands, retailers and wholesalers where in store, online, or in the warehouse. They are 100% focussed on the retail sector and deploy in half of the of time of generic solutions like NetSuite, SAP, and Sage.

Blackwood Seven | Part of Kantar Group

Private Equity Round in 2018
Blackwood Seven is a media analytics platform which strives to increase the effect of company’s media spend using our predictive analytics framework built on machine learning and artificial intelligence. Using real-time modelling and advanced KPI prediction we are able to increase a company’s media ROI by up to 15-25%.

EyeEm

Private Equity Round in 2018
EyeEm is a photography company that builds computer vision technology to connect its global creative community with iconic brands. EyeEm’s collection features more than 90 million images from more than 20 million photographers around the globe.

B2X

Venture Round in 2018
B2X is the provider of customer care solutions for electronic devices to manufacturers, insurance providers, mobile network operators and retailers globally. B2X has created the first shared services platform for unparalleled customer care solutions. Their Smart Service Platform consists of a global organization of highly experienced staff, a trusted and reliable operational fulfillment partner network and best practice service delivery processes. An end-to-end technology platform ensures consistency and quality across your service operations. They manage backend repairs, parts and logistics services and provide frontend consumer facing services making their offering an end-to-end solution for manufacturers, insurance providers, Mobil Network Operators and Retailers for electronic devices. They support consumers from the moment they receive a device to when they have a problem, and all the way through the logistics and repair process of a broken device.

21sportsgroup

Venture Round in 2017
21sportsgroup is an online sporting goods retailer that offers a selection of running shoes, bicycles, apparel, and accessories for amateur athletes, runners, cyclists, and triathletes right through to professional athletes. It markets a range of sporting goods, mainly in the areas of outdoor, action, running, cycling, and triathlon sports. By combining e-commerce and retail businesses, 21sportsgroup reduces the gap between online and offline retail services. All products of the company are available for immediate shipping. Founded by Jörg Mayer, 21sportsgroup is based in Mannheim, Baden-Wurttemberg.

Falcon.io

Series C in 2017
Falcon.io offers a unified SaaS platform for social media listening, engaging, publishing and managing customer data. Falcon clients can explore the full potential of digital marketing by managing multiple customer touch points from one platform.The diverse and global client portfolio includes Carlsberg, Tiger, Columbia University, IWC Watches, Momondo, Coca-Cola and much more.

Openet

Venture Round in 2017
Openet provides the most robust, extensible and innovative Service Optimization Software to communication and media service providers worldwide, enabling them to control, monetize and increase visibility into the usage of services and network resources. Their software-based solutions empower operators to create new business models, simplify and personalize the subscriber experience, and maximize the value of network resources as they transform their legacy infrastructures to embrace the challenges to LTE, cloud computing, and other “next generation” business opportunities.

tyntec

Venture Round in 2017
tyntec partners with telecom operators around the world to enable enterprises and Internet brands to power their applications, authentication, and mission-critical communications with universal mobile services such as SMS, voice, and phone numbers. tyntec’s extensive coverage reaches 1200+ networks in over 200 countries. Founded in 2002, tyntec employs over 150 people in six offices around the globe, serving more than 500 global businesses.

21sportsgroup

Venture Round in 2016
21sportsgroup is an online sporting goods retailer that offers a selection of running shoes, bicycles, apparel, and accessories for amateur athletes, runners, cyclists, and triathletes right through to professional athletes. It markets a range of sporting goods, mainly in the areas of outdoor, action, running, cycling, and triathlon sports. By combining e-commerce and retail businesses, 21sportsgroup reduces the gap between online and offline retail services. All products of the company are available for immediate shipping. Founded by Jörg Mayer, 21sportsgroup is based in Mannheim, Baden-Wurttemberg.

Silicon Mobility

Venture Round in 2015
Silicon Mobility is a technology leader for cleaner, safer and smarter mobility. The company designs, develops and sells flexible, real-time, safe and open solutions for the automotive industry used to increase energy efficiency and reduce pollutant emissions while keeping passengers safe. Silicon Mobility's products control electric motors, battery and energy management systems of hybrid and electric vehicles. By using Silicon Mobility’s technologies, Manufacturers improve the efficiency, reduce the size, weight and cost of electric motors and increase the battery range and durability. Silicon Mobility technologies and products accelerate the car’s powertrain electrification and the deployment of driverless vehicles

Safeguard Global

Venture Round in 2015
Safeguard Global builds adaptive solutions for organizations seeking to thrive in the global economy. It enables success through smarter, efficient global employee management, recruitment, payroll, onboarding, expense management and more. It has helped hundreds of organizations pay and hire workers around the world.

MyOptique Group

Venture Round in 2015
The MyOptique Group is revolutionising the £20bn European optical industry by cutting out the high street middle man – and providing its customers a superior service and significant savings. The group is the clear European leader in the growing online optical segment with a full offering covering all three major segments in the eyewear market - prescription glasses, sunglasses and contact lenses via its online retail brands Glasses Direct, Sunglasses Shop, MyOptique.com, LensOn, Netzoptiker, Eyewearbrands and Lensbest.de. More than two-thirds of sales are outside of the UK market. It carries over 150 brands and 7,000 styles.

Softgarden

Venture Round in 2015
Softgarden is a provider of online recruitment software that simplifies the hiring process for businesses. Its platform allows companies to post job advertisements on their websites and various job boards, facilitating online applications from candidates. The software includes features for candidate tracking, application management, and employer branding, enabling businesses to assess and discuss applications efficiently. By offering analytics, Softgarden provides insights into the recruitment process, helping organizations make informed decisions. The cloud-based system covers the entire recruitment lifecycle, from publishing job postings to processing applications and selecting suitable candidates, streamlining the hiring workflow for companies.

Onzo

Venture Round in 2014
Onzo enables consumers to reduce energy consumption, lower their bills and curtail carbon emissions. To utilities that’s an opportunity to differentiate, attract and retain; a way to reduce demand and shift the peak; and a tool for reducing cost to serve. Onzo is a company that brings technology and design talent together with commercial acumen to develop innovative and market leading products and services.

Definiens

Venture Round in 2014
Definiens is the provider of image analysis and data mining solutions for quantitative digital pathology in the life sciences, diagnostic biomarkers and healthcare industries. Definiens software provides detailed readouts from whole tissue slides, cell-based assays and full body scans and allows correlating this information with data derived from other sources. By automating analysis workflows, Definiens helps pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, research institutions, clinical service organizations and pathologists to generate new knowledge and supports better decisions in research, diagnostics and therapy. Definiens’ vision is to open new fields of research, to contribute to development of personalized medicine and to significantly improve the quality of patients’ lives. Definiens is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and has offices throughout the United States.

Onzo

Venture Round in 2014
Onzo enables consumers to reduce energy consumption, lower their bills and curtail carbon emissions. To utilities that’s an opportunity to differentiate, attract and retain; a way to reduce demand and shift the peak; and a tool for reducing cost to serve. Onzo is a company that brings technology and design talent together with commercial acumen to develop innovative and market leading products and services.

MyOptique Group

Series C in 2013
The MyOptique Group is revolutionising the £20bn European optical industry by cutting out the high street middle man – and providing its customers a superior service and significant savings. The group is the clear European leader in the growing online optical segment with a full offering covering all three major segments in the eyewear market - prescription glasses, sunglasses and contact lenses via its online retail brands Glasses Direct, Sunglasses Shop, MyOptique.com, LensOn, Netzoptiker, Eyewearbrands and Lensbest.de. More than two-thirds of sales are outside of the UK market. It carries over 150 brands and 7,000 styles.

wywy

Series B in 2013
wywy is a real estate agency that provides investment, property, asset management. They also offer facilities management, auctions, tenders projects, construction, management development, and consultancy services. They also provide public offerings, accounting, asset review, acquisition, credit security, asset acquisition, disposal, and real property gains tax services.

mysportgroup GmbH

Venture Round in 2013
mysportgroup GmbH offers sports and outdoor products online.

BridgeWave Communications

Venture Round in 2013
BridgeWave Communications is a supplier of outdoor Gigabit wireless connectivity solutions. BridgeWave's point-to-point, wireless solutions are typically deployed in mainstream enterprise and service provider network applications and are poised to play a key role in the migration to 4G mobile network backhaul.

Definiens

Venture Round in 2012
Definiens is the provider of image analysis and data mining solutions for quantitative digital pathology in the life sciences, diagnostic biomarkers and healthcare industries. Definiens software provides detailed readouts from whole tissue slides, cell-based assays and full body scans and allows correlating this information with data derived from other sources. By automating analysis workflows, Definiens helps pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, research institutions, clinical service organizations and pathologists to generate new knowledge and supports better decisions in research, diagnostics and therapy. Definiens’ vision is to open new fields of research, to contribute to development of personalized medicine and to significantly improve the quality of patients’ lives. Definiens is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and has offices throughout the United States.

DisplayLink

Venture Round in 2012
DisplayLink develops hardware and software solutions to enable easy connectivity between monitors, virtual reality HMDs and computing devices over standard interfaces such as USB, Ethernet, and wireless networks. DisplayLink’s enterprise technology increases productivity and ease-of-use in the multi-display workspace and is deployed to millions of users through globally branded PC products. DisplayLink’s XR solution enables a fully immersive, cable-free experience for virtual reality users.

mysportgroup GmbH

Series B in 2012
mysportgroup GmbH offers sports and outdoor products online.

wywy

Series A in 2012
wywy is a real estate agency that provides investment, property, asset management. They also offer facilities management, auctions, tenders projects, construction, management development, and consultancy services. They also provide public offerings, accounting, asset review, acquisition, credit security, asset acquisition, disposal, and real property gains tax services.

HR New Media

Venture Round in 2012
HR New Media is operates a portal which offers companies access to over 1000 job portals and social media channels.

BridgeWave Communications

Venture Round in 2012
BridgeWave Communications is a supplier of outdoor Gigabit wireless connectivity solutions. BridgeWave's point-to-point, wireless solutions are typically deployed in mainstream enterprise and service provider network applications and are poised to play a key role in the migration to 4G mobile network backhaul.

BridgeWave Communications

Venture Round in 2012
BridgeWave Communications is a supplier of outdoor Gigabit wireless connectivity solutions. BridgeWave's point-to-point, wireless solutions are typically deployed in mainstream enterprise and service provider network applications and are poised to play a key role in the migration to 4G mobile network backhaul.

eMaze Networks S.p.A.

Acquisition in 2011
eMaze Networks S.p.A. provides information technology security solutions.

DisplayLink

Series D in 2011
DisplayLink develops hardware and software solutions to enable easy connectivity between monitors, virtual reality HMDs and computing devices over standard interfaces such as USB, Ethernet, and wireless networks. DisplayLink’s enterprise technology increases productivity and ease-of-use in the multi-display workspace and is deployed to millions of users through globally branded PC products. DisplayLink’s XR solution enables a fully immersive, cable-free experience for virtual reality users.

123.TV

Venture Round in 2011
German television channel, 123TV organizes cross-media auctions (TV and internet) on consumer products, for a public of all generations. The auction is reversed in the sense that the price fixed in advance to steady decreases over time until the amounts passed.

Voddler

Venture Round in 2011
Voddler, Inc. provides virtual cable television system. It offers VoddlerNet technology, which enables viewers to watch television programs, movies, and various video contents. The company primarily operates in the United States and Europe. It serves media producers, aggregators, and distributors. Voddler was founded in 2005 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Cint

Series B in 2010
Cint is a global software leader in digital insights gathering. The Cint platform automates the insights gathering process so that companies can gain access to insights faster with unparalleled scale. Cint has the world’s largest consumer network for digital survey-based research, made up of over 144 million engaged respondents across more than 130 countries. Over 2,500 insights-driven companies - including SurveyMonkey, Zappi, Kantar, and GfK - use Cint to accelerate how they gather consumer insights and supercharge business growth. Cint Group AB (publ), listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, has a rapidly growing team across 14 global offices, including Stockholm, London, New York, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney. www.cint.com

VPIsystems

Venture Round in 2010
VPIsystems (formerly VPI Virtual Photonics) develops and markets network planning software and services for the telecommunications industry in the United States and internationally. Its products include Photonic Design Automation, a solution for the modeling and optimization of photonic components and subsystems; and OnePlan, an integrated network planning system that enables communications service providers, systems integrators, and manufacturers to design, plan, and implement their transition to an IP-based network. The company serves wireline, wireless, and broadband carriers; and network equipment manufacturers and optical equipment vendors. VPIsystems, Inc. has strategic alliances with Accenture, HP, Logica, and Tech Mahindra. The company was founded as VPI Virtual Photonics, Inc. in 1997 and changed its name to VPIsystems, Inc. in July 2001. VPIsystems, Inc. is based in Holmdel, New Jersey with additional offices in Europe, Asia, and Australia.

eCircle

Private Equity Round in 2010
eCircle provides software and services for email marketing in Europe. It offers software for email and SMS broadcasting, and email address data for newsletter mailings and email/SMS/MMS campaigns, as well as consulting services and social media functionalities. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Munich, Germany with additional offices in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, the Netherlands, and Italy.

picoChip

Series E in 2009
picoChip provides signal processing products for wireless communications. picoChip offers multi-core DSP, with widely deployed software-defined radio products and a growing range of cost- and performance-optimized ASSP devices.

NovoGI

Series F in 2009
novoGI™ (previously NiTi Surgical Solutions) is committed to advancing patient care by providing an expanding range of comprehensive solutions for GI disease management. NiTi Surgical Solutions has developed the first major advance in closure for gastrointestinal surgery in more than 30 years. NiTi's proprietary technology represents a breakthrough in natural healing with tissue-sparing, uniform BioDynamix anastomosis. The company's unique line of products utilizes Nitinol-based elements to press together the ends of resected tissue, enabling a natural reconnection of the intestine after removing a section, for example, as part of a colon cancer treatment. The company is commercializing a family of FDA-cleared and CE-marked disposable tissue closure devices.

BuyVIP

Series C in 2009
BuyVIP is Europe's leader among Private Sales Clubs. BuyVIP founded in 2006, is the largest Online Shopping Community with more than 3.6 million members in Europe.

BridgeCo

Venture Round in 2009
BridgeCo offers processor IC and software platforms for connecting Internet media sources, computers and consumer electronics throughout the home. BridgeCo platforms are targeted at the market for stand-alone after-market and embedded audio applications. BridgeCo platforms are the core technologies underlying digital media players (DMPs), audio/video receivers (AVRs), musical instruments and external multi-channel sound cards.

EnOcean

Series D in 2008
EnOcean GmbH manufactures and markets wireless sensor solutions for use in buildings and industrial installations. It offers energy harvesting technology, sensors, and radio frequency communication in a single solution for building and home automation, lighting, industrial, automated meter reading, and environmental applications. The company's products include transmitters, receivers, transceivers, energy harvesters, kits, and accessories; the self-powered wireless sensor technology; self-powered wireless sensors to harvest and manage energy from environment; and radio technology to generate a long-range signals. It sells its products through distributors in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China/Hongkong, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Korea, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. EnOcean GmbH was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Oberhaching, Germany. The company has a subsidiary in the United States.

Ipanema Technologies

Venture Round in 2008
Ipanema helps enterprises to guarantee the application performance to each user whatever the IT complexity. CIOs recover control of their applications and dynamically adapt to new usages. They easily manage their strategic IT transformations including Unified Communications, SaaS and Cloud applications, they embrace social media and BYOD and take full advantage of their hybrid networks while reducing their IT expenses.

Brainsgate

Series C in 2008
BrainsGate's platform technology involves electrical stimulation of the Spheno-Palatine Ganglion (SPG), a nervous center known to increase cerebral blood flow. BrainsGate is exploring several applications for its technology, and is currently focusing on treatment of acute ischemic stroke. Building on its technology, the Company has developed the ISS, based on a miniature electrode implanted at the roof of the mouth in a bed side, minimally invasive, local anesthesia procedure comparable to dental treatment. In 2008, the company completed ImPACT-1, a pilot clinical trial for acute ischemic stroke with promising results. In 2011 the Company completed a 300 patients RCT pivotal trial that further substantiated the safety and efficacy of its treatment for acute ischemic stroke patients. BrainsGate is currently running the ImpACT-24b, a multi-national, randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled pivotal study to assess the safety and efficacy of its treatment for stroke patients in a 24-hour window.

Verimatrix

Series C in 2008
Verimatrix is a leading provider of software-based security solutions that protect content, devices, applications, and communications across various industries, including entertainment, finance, healthcare, and gaming. With over 20 years of experience, Verimatrix specializes in securing digital assets such as Hollywood content, live sports streaming, and sensitive data. The company offers business intelligence solutions that help organizations monitor and mitigate unmanaged security threats. Trusted by many of the world's largest service providers, Verimatrix is recognized for its ability to address security and business challenges effectively. Its solutions are designed to be cost-effective and easy to deploy, supported by a responsive customer service team located globally.

PSS Systems

Series D in 2008
PSS leads the industry with its visionary products. They anticipated the legal holds and retention problem years ahead of others and launched the Atlas Solution Suite two years before the FRCP changes. They have invested deeply for five years in creating solutions on the Atlas platform to meet evolving market needs. PSS is committed to advancing legal holds and retention practices across the industry through the Corporate Governance and Oversight Council, a corporate practitioners' community focused on retention, preservation and privacy.

DuneNetworks

Series B in 2008
Dune Networks is a fabless semiconductor supplier of networking devices which facilitate the building of Data Center, Enterprise and Carrier Ethernet Switching Platforms. They provide switching solutions which are scalable in capacity, port rate and service schemes, effectively extending the life cycle of packet platforms from 3 years (legacy-based systems) to 10 years and beyond, subsequently revolutionizing the economics of packet network deployment.

Voltage Security

Series D in 2007
Data-centric security to combat advanced security threats inside and outside the cloud, from mainframe to mobile Voltage Security provides data-centric security and stateless key management solutions to combat new security threats and address compliance by protecting structured and unstructured data as it is used across data centers, public and private clouds and mobile devices. Voltage solutions are in use at almost 1,000 enterprise customers, including some of the world's leading brand-name companies in payments, banking, retail, insurance, energy, healthcare and government such as ING, Kaiser Permanente, Kodak, Wells Fargo and Heartland Payment Systems. Voltage solutions reduce the risks associated with theft of sensitive and private information, support privacy guidelines including PCI DSS, HITECH, U.S. Data Breach Disclosure laws and European Data Privacy directives. Offerings include Voltage SecureMail™, Voltage SecureData™, Voltage SecureFile™, Voltage SecureData Payments™, Voltage SecureData Web™, and Voltage Cloud Services™ providing cloud scale encryption for email and document encryption between businesses, partners and their customers. The company has been issued several patents based upon breakthrough research in mathematics and cryptographic systems. To learn more about Voltage customers please visit voltage.com/customers.

BroadLight

Series E in 2007
BroadLight leads delivery of end-to-end (E2E) Passive Optical Network (PON) technology through its comprehensive and innovative product solutions consisting of highly integrated semiconductor devices, embedded and application software, reference designs and support tools. Their company is delivering complete E2E BPON and GPON component solutions for the central office (CO) and customer premise equipment (CPE). These solutions help equipment companies bring standards-based PON products quickly to service providers and with low risk. BroadLight has been supplying the PON industry with components longer than any other company and is the most experienced in turning up BPON and GPON. As one of the pioneers in GPON, BroadLight's ground-breaking first to market product line is now delivering the majority of today's GPON solutions worldwide.

BridgeCo

Venture Round in 2007
BridgeCo offers processor IC and software platforms for connecting Internet media sources, computers and consumer electronics throughout the home. BridgeCo platforms are targeted at the market for stand-alone after-market and embedded audio applications. BridgeCo platforms are the core technologies underlying digital media players (DMPs), audio/video receivers (AVRs), musical instruments and external multi-channel sound cards.

TEVET

Venture Round in 2007
TEVET provides test and measurement, life science and chemical analysis products from marketing OEM's to American Prime Contractor. The company is a a service-disabled, veteran-owned and HUBZone Small Business (SDVOSB). Founded in 2004 and is based in Greeneville, Tennessee.
Tevet Process Control Technologies, Ltd. develops and deploys metrology solutions for semiconductor processes. It offers Trajectory T³, an integrated metrology module for monitoring and controlling processes in semiconductor fabs. The company’s products are used in various applications, such as STI trench fill and STI CMP, ILD etch, and dielectric and Cu CMP, as well as PMD, ARL, barrier layer, and ILD deposition. It offers its products through a network of representatives and distributors in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Malta, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux, Liechtenstein, Eastern Europe, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Scandinavia, Japan, Taiwan, China, South Korea, and the United States. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Yokneam, Israel with additional offices in Israel and the United States. As of May 7, 2008, Tevet Process Control Technologies, Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Nanometrics, Inc.

DiBcom

Series E in 2007
DiBcom S.A., a fabless semiconductor company, offers a range of integrated circuits in France & internationally. It specializes in the development of broadband wireless solutions following digital video broadcasting and other broadband communication standards. The company offers chipsets and development kits. Its solutions are used in automotive, portable LCD TV, PC, mobile phones and other handheld device applications. DiBcom S.A. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Palaiseau, France.

Ethernity Networks

Venture Round in 2007
Ethernity Networks (AIM: ENET.L) is a leading innovator of network processing technology and products. Mounted on low-cost COTS FPGAs and with a rich set of networking features, Ethernity’s ENET SoCs, ACE-NIC smart network adapters, and network appliances offer best-in-class all-programmable platforms for the fixed and mobile telecom, enterprise security, and data center markets. Our complete offering, incorporating FPGA firmware, software applications and hardware, enables full programmability at the pace of software development, quickly adapting to changing market demands and applications and facilitating the deployment of edge computing, 5G, and SDN/NFV.

Nexnet

Venture Round in 2007
The Pearl by Nexnet is a method that allows viewers to respond to an on-screen cue (a "Pearl" icon appears) with their remote control, resulting in an instantaneous e-mail to the individuals personal e-mail in-box regarding the topic or product appearing on the screen at that time. The topic can be informational or promotional and also works with recorded content. This e-mail generated from the click of the remote guides the viewer effortlessly to the exact information or product requested. Visits to these websites can be tracked — a significant interest to advertisers. The links can be sent to any number of e-mail addresses in the household. Nexnet provides all e-mail creation, customization and reporting through its web interface with the Nexnet server database for PEARL. Advertisers, Content Providers and Operators can facilitate all their PEARL needs through an on-line system that can be accessed from anywhere around the world giving maximum flexibility to campaign creation and management. Nexnet provides a deeper level of detail about the subscriber base. Data is accumulated based on the viewer instead of the household. This helps the operator understand who watches TV in each household, which TV/STB they are using and what the viewer is interested in watching. This depth of granularity down to the specific viewer is not available through any other service.

Fortemedia

Venture Round in 2006
Fortemedia, Inc., headquartered in the US Silicon Valley and with global operations and offices in Asia, focuses on developing high quality solutions and semiconductor products that provide advanced voice processing technologies to enhance human-to-human and human-to-machine voice communication efficiencies. Well recognized as a technology leader, Fortemedia's ASIC devices and solutions with advanced voice processing technologies, SAM, SAMSoft®, and ForteVoice® , have all been widely deployed in numerous commercial systems, devices, and applications. As of today, Fortemedia has filed for more than 200 patents worldwide and has over 75 patents issued. Fortemedia offers a full range of options to improve voice interface solutions, which we call the iSAM business model or iSAM business solution. iSAM is short for intelligent Small Array Microphone. This integrated solution consists of voice processing technology, a voice solution Emulator (test bench), Smart Microphone Processor (SMP), and Small Array Microphone (SAM).

BridgeCo

Series D in 2006
BridgeCo offers processor IC and software platforms for connecting Internet media sources, computers and consumer electronics throughout the home. BridgeCo platforms are targeted at the market for stand-alone after-market and embedded audio applications. BridgeCo platforms are the core technologies underlying digital media players (DMPs), audio/video receivers (AVRs), musical instruments and external multi-channel sound cards.

Imago Scientific Instruments

Venture Round in 2006
Imago is a world class provider of metrology and analysis equipment serving the microelectronic and general research markets. We are committed to the development of the nanotechnology solutions required as the semiconductor, data storage and advanced materials industries increasingly enter the realm of nanotechnology.Imago provides time-to-market advantages to our customers through leading edge technology in the field of three-dimensional, nanoscale, metrology and analysis equipment. Our focus on and funding of advanced technology, together with our network of industrial collaborations, ensures that we continue to accelerate the development of these empowering metrology techniques. Imago's headquarters moved to a new, larger office and manufacturing facility in July 2006. The world-class applications lab includes two dual beam focused ion beams, two scanning electron microscopes, electro polishing equipment, a clean room area for specimen preparation, and a suite of Imago LEAP microscopes.

BridgeWave Communications

Series B in 2005
BridgeWave Communications is a supplier of outdoor Gigabit wireless connectivity solutions. BridgeWave's point-to-point, wireless solutions are typically deployed in mainstream enterprise and service provider network applications and are poised to play a key role in the migration to 4G mobile network backhaul.

Metara

Series E in 2005
Metara manufactures chemical metrology tools for semiconductor industry that are used in monitoring and controlling chemical processes. Its products include sentry trace contamination metrology system, which monitors benign chemistries for trace contaminants; and sentry chemical composition metrology system, which monitors copper electroplating and cobalt bath chemistries. The company also offers sentry harsh chemistry metrology system, an analysis solution for harsh chemistries used in semiconductor manufacturing processes; and inline mass spectrometer, a chemical metrology solution that determines chemical composition and potential yield-or process-limiting contaminants. Metara Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Broadbus Technologies

Series C in 2005
Broadbus was a pioneer of memory based systems for delivering both movies and television on demand. Broadbus was acquired by [Motorola](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/motorola) in July 2006 for $181 million.

VPIsystems

Venture Round in 2005
VPIsystems (formerly VPI Virtual Photonics) develops and markets network planning software and services for the telecommunications industry in the United States and internationally. Its products include Photonic Design Automation, a solution for the modeling and optimization of photonic components and subsystems; and OnePlan, an integrated network planning system that enables communications service providers, systems integrators, and manufacturers to design, plan, and implement their transition to an IP-based network. The company serves wireline, wireless, and broadband carriers; and network equipment manufacturers and optical equipment vendors. VPIsystems, Inc. has strategic alliances with Accenture, HP, Logica, and Tech Mahindra. The company was founded as VPI Virtual Photonics, Inc. in 1997 and changed its name to VPIsystems, Inc. in July 2001. VPIsystems, Inc. is based in Holmdel, New Jersey with additional offices in Europe, Asia, and Australia.

DaimlerChrysler Venture

Acquisition in 2004
DaimlerChrysler Venture helps you turn your visions into marketable solutions to position these competitively in international marketplace.

Continuous Computing

Venture Round in 2004
Continuous Computing is the global source of integrated platform solutions that enable network equipment providers to overcome the mobile broadband capacity challenge quickly and cost effectively. Leveraging more than 20 years of telecom innovation, the company empowers customers to increase Return on Investment (ROI) by focusing internal resources on differentiation for 3G, Long Term Evolution (LTE), Femtocell and Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) applications. Expertise and responsiveness set the company apart: only Continuous Computing combines best-in-class AdvancedTCA (ATCA) platforms with world-famous TrilliumÂ:registered: protocol software to create highly-optimized, field-proven wireless and packet processing products. www.ccpu.com Continuous Computing is an active member of 3GPP, CP-TA, eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance, ETSI, Femto Forum, Intel Embedded Alliance, PICMG and the SCOPE Alliance.

DiBcom

Venture Round in 2003
DiBcom S.A., a fabless semiconductor company, offers a range of integrated circuits in France & internationally. It specializes in the development of broadband wireless solutions following digital video broadcasting and other broadband communication standards. The company offers chipsets and development kits. Its solutions are used in automotive, portable LCD TV, PC, mobile phones and other handheld device applications. DiBcom S.A. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Palaiseau, France.

Jungo Software

Series C in 2003
Jungo Connectivity Ltd.develops the residential gateway software platform called OpenRG which enables Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to bring broadband customer premises equipment (CPE) such as residential gateways, SOHO gateways and IADs to market quickly. Jungo also provides software development tools for embedded systems and telephony applications, which have millions of installations in the market to date.

Broadbus Technologies

Venture Round in 2003
Broadbus was a pioneer of memory based systems for delivering both movies and television on demand. Broadbus was acquired by [Motorola](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/motorola) in July 2006 for $181 million.

lastminute.com group

Venture Round in 2002
lastminute.com group is a publicly traded multinational Group, among the worldwide leaders in the online travel industry, and they operate a portfolio of well-known brands such as lastminute.com, Bravofly, Rumbo, Volagratis, Jetcost and Wayn. Every year, more than 10 million travellers book and manage their travel and leisure experiences through their websites and mobile apps in 17 languages and across 40 countries.

Impinj

Series B in 2002
Impinj is a provider of RAIN RFID solutions that deliver Item Intelligence to retail, pharmaceutical, healthcare, food and beverage, and many other industries. We enable the Internet of Things to identify, locate and authenticate billions of items, and our Item Intelligence platform comprises the most comprehensive and widely adopted RAIN RFID product portfolio in the world. For more information about Impinj, visit www.impinj.com.

alfabet

Series B in 2002
alfabet enables companies to strategically plan and manage their IT to realize business goals. Its planningIT software is unique in tightly coupling business priorities and IT deliverables with current and future initiatives. Competitive point solutions offer modeling or repository functions with a static view of priorities, architecture and infrastructure. alfabet provides a holistic, integrated and collaborative approach that offers continuous transparency into how IT and business information, processes and roles are changing and need to be managed over time. The company serves a global user community of 40,000 IT professionals in more than 40 countries in a variety of industries, including automotive, financial services, telecommunications, logistics, high-tech and others. alfabet’s customers include international corporations such as Credit Suisse, Munich Re, BMW, AXA Winterthur, Deutsche Bahn, OCBC and T-Systems. Founded in 1997, alfabet is based in Berlin with U.S. headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.

Ipanema Technologies

Series B in 2002
Ipanema helps enterprises to guarantee the application performance to each user whatever the IT complexity. CIOs recover control of their applications and dynamically adapt to new usages. They easily manage their strategic IT transformations including Unified Communications, SaaS and Cloud applications, they embrace social media and BYOD and take full advantage of their hybrid networks while reducing their IT expenses.

Saifun Semiconductors Ltd.

Venture Round in 2000
Semiconductor With the B2B website www.semiconductor-scout.com we create for you as a company a sustainable advantage through use of new media to everyday processes. Cause semiconductor-scout.com occupied a central position in the daily workflow between the semiconductor and microelectronic market operating companies.

Bitboys Oy

Venture Round in 2000
Bitboys Oy is a hardware development and licensing company based in Finland, founded in 1991 and acquired by ATI Technologies for up to US$44M on May 2, 2006.[1] Until the acquisition, Bitboys had focused on mobile phone gaming, and had developed a large vector graphics-related portfolio
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