Tegile Systems
Series E in 2017
Tegile Systems, Inc. specializes in providing flash-driven storage solutions, including hybrid and all-flash storage arrays, designed for various enterprise applications such as databases, server virtualization, and virtual desktop environments. Based in Newark, California, the company offers a patented IntelliFlash architecture that delivers high input/output performance and low latency, enabling customers to enhance business operations while reducing storage capacity requirements. Tegile Systems also features IntelliFlash, a storage operating system that allows users to adjust the amount of flash in their storage systems for optimal performance and cost efficiency, as well as IntelliCare, a cloud-based customer care program. Founded in 2010, Tegile Systems serves a diverse clientele across sectors including desktop and server virtualization, government, and education. In 2017, it became a subsidiary of Western Digital Corporation.
Globality
Series B in 2016
Globality, Inc. is a technology company based in Menlo Park, California, that specializes in connecting global enterprises with small and midsize service providers across various sectors, including marketing, legal, energy, environment, and social impact. Founded in 2015, the company leverages its AI-powered platform and Smart Sourcing technologies to transform the sourcing process. By replacing traditional methods like the Request for Proposal, Globality streamlines the procurement process, enabling businesses to efficiently identify and engage suitable suppliers tailored to their specific needs. This innovative approach not only reduces sourcing timelines from months to hours but also delivers significant cost savings, typically exceeding 20%.
Globality
Series A in 2015
Globality, Inc. is a technology company based in Menlo Park, California, that specializes in connecting global enterprises with small and midsize service providers across various sectors, including marketing, legal, energy, environment, and social impact. Founded in 2015, the company leverages its AI-powered platform and Smart Sourcing technologies to transform the sourcing process. By replacing traditional methods like the Request for Proposal, Globality streamlines the procurement process, enabling businesses to efficiently identify and engage suitable suppliers tailored to their specific needs. This innovative approach not only reduces sourcing timelines from months to hours but also delivers significant cost savings, typically exceeding 20%.
Tegile Systems
Series D in 2015
Tegile Systems, Inc. specializes in providing flash-driven storage solutions, including hybrid and all-flash storage arrays, designed for various enterprise applications such as databases, server virtualization, and virtual desktop environments. Based in Newark, California, the company offers a patented IntelliFlash architecture that delivers high input/output performance and low latency, enabling customers to enhance business operations while reducing storage capacity requirements. Tegile Systems also features IntelliFlash, a storage operating system that allows users to adjust the amount of flash in their storage systems for optimal performance and cost efficiency, as well as IntelliCare, a cloud-based customer care program. Founded in 2010, Tegile Systems serves a diverse clientele across sectors including desktop and server virtualization, government, and education. In 2017, it became a subsidiary of Western Digital Corporation.
3D Robotics
Series C in 2015
3D Robotics, Inc. is a manufacturer of drones, specializing in advanced aerial technology for sectors such as construction, insurance, surveying, agriculture, utilities, telecommunications, and public safety. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, the company offers a range of products including the Solo motion control drone and Site Scan, a cloud-connected mobile application designed for autonomous inspections, scans, and surveys. Site Scan facilitates the creation of 2D maps and 3D models, while the company also provides the Pixhawk autopilot system for building unmanned aerial vehicles, along with various parts and accessories. 3D Robotics focuses on making drone technology accessible for data analysis and land mapping, enabling clients to collect accurate aerial data and transform it into actionable insights for informed decision-making at construction sites. The company distributes its products through resellers and its online store globally.
August Home
Series B in 2015
August Home Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing smart home access products, primarily through its flagship offering, the August Smart Lock. Founded in 2012 by designer Yves Behar and technology expert Jason Johnson, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. August Home's products utilize encrypted locking technology, allowing users to replace traditional keys with smartphones. This innovation enables homeowners to create virtual keys for various individuals such as house cleaners, dog walkers, and guests, and to manage access durations remotely via smartphones and computers. The company also features August Pro, a division focused on supporting professional smart home installers. August Home operates as a subsidiary of ASSA ABLOY AB, further enhancing its capabilities in the smart home market.
Reaction, Inc. is an innovative product company that designs and manufactures hardware and software to (re)meet a basic human need: shelter.
3D Robotics
Series C in 2015
3D Robotics, Inc. is a manufacturer of drones, specializing in advanced aerial technology for sectors such as construction, insurance, surveying, agriculture, utilities, telecommunications, and public safety. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, the company offers a range of products including the Solo motion control drone and Site Scan, a cloud-connected mobile application designed for autonomous inspections, scans, and surveys. Site Scan facilitates the creation of 2D maps and 3D models, while the company also provides the Pixhawk autopilot system for building unmanned aerial vehicles, along with various parts and accessories. 3D Robotics focuses on making drone technology accessible for data analysis and land mapping, enabling clients to collect accurate aerial data and transform it into actionable insights for informed decision-making at construction sites. The company distributes its products through resellers and its online store globally.
Ravello Systems
Series C in 2015
Ravello Systems Inc. is a provider of cloud-based virtualization software solutions, specializing in nested virtualization technology. Founded in 2011 and based in Palo Alto, California, Ravello allows enterprises to encapsulate multi-VM applications and run them seamlessly across various environments, including on-premises and public clouds, without requiring modifications. Its offerings include the ability to develop and test VMware and KVM applications with complex networking on platforms like AWS and Google Cloud, as well as virtual training solutions for deploying multi-VM application environments. Additionally, the company provides on-demand OpenStack labs for development and testing, as well as VMware ESXi lab environments for demos and proofs of concept. This flexibility empowers developers, DevOps teams, and IT professionals to leverage the extensive resources of the public cloud for their application development and testing needs. As of March 2016, Ravello Systems operates as a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation.
Altair Semiconductor
Venture Round in 2014
Altair Semiconductor Ltd. is a fabless semiconductor company based in Hod Hasharon, Israel, specializing in the development of LTE chipsets for global Tier-1 operators. Founded in 2005 by former Texas Instruments executives, the company produces integrated Cat-M1 and NB1 IoT chipsets, as well as CAT-1 and CAT-4 chipsets for various cellular IoT and broadband applications. Altair's products are utilized in sectors such as smart metering, wearables, connected vehicles, and smart city infrastructure. The company collaborates with global OEMs and ODMs to deliver modules designed for both industrial and consumer IoT applications. Known for its cutting-edge technology, Altair Semiconductor has established itself as a leader in the ultra-low power mobile chipset market, enabling advancements in mobile communication and connectivity solutions. As of early 2016, Altair operates as a subsidiary of Sony Corporation.
Stratoscale
Series B in 2014
Stratoscale is a cloud infrastructure company that offers software solutions designed for enterprise IT, development teams, and service providers. Its primary product, Stratoscale Symphony, is a cloud data center software that can be rapidly deployed on standard x86 servers, effectively providing users with an experience similar to Amazon Web Services while enhancing existing VMware infrastructure. The company's technology focuses on virtualization, allowing IT teams to optimize their current infrastructures through a hyper-converged operating system that utilizes a rack design, as opposed to traditional single-server setups. This approach enables clients to develop a new software stack that can efficiently manage and scale their data center operations. Stratoscale has been recognized as a notable player in the industry and has received considerable investment from prominent firms, further solidifying its position in the market.
H2O.ai is a Mountain View-based company established in 2011, specializing in AI-driven predictive analytics. It offers an open-source platform, H2O, for data scientists, developers, and analysts to perform machine learning tasks on big data. The platform includes H2O Driverless AI for automated machine learning and H2O Wave for real-time application development powered by AI. H2O.ai serves over 20,000 global organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, empowering them to solve complex business problems and discover new ideas. Its customer-centric approach has earned it a Net Promoter Score of 78, the highest in its industry. The company's AI Hybrid Cloud platform is used across various sectors such as marketing mix modeling, risk analysis, fraud detection, advertising technology, and customer intelligence. H2O.ai collaborates strategically with companies like Alteryx and has backing from investors including Goldman Sachs, NVIDIA, and Wells Fargo.
Fusion-io
Acquisition in 2014
Fusion-io specializes in enterprise storage architecture and I/O solutions that enhance data processing speeds. The company's core offerings include the ioDrive, a non-volatile solid-state storage device utilizing NAND technology, and the ioMemory virtual storage layer, which serves as a flash-optimized operating system subsystem for the enterprise flash sector. Additionally, Fusion-io provides the ioSphere platform, a software management solution designed for server-attached storage-class memory. Their technology is employed by a diverse range of clients, including e-commerce companies, social media firms, and Fortune Global 500 enterprises, all of which leverage Fusion-io's solutions to improve the performance and efficiency of their data centers, thereby accelerating critical applications essential to the information economy.
Nexenta Systems
Venture Round in 2014
Nexenta Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of software-defined storage solutions, specializing in open-source-driven technology. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company offers a range of products designed to optimize storage infrastructure for enterprise applications. Its flagship platform, NexentaStor, delivers both file and block storage services, while NexentaCloud enhances virtual desktop infrastructure deployments. The NexentaEdge object storage platform allows users to access data without needing to know its physical location. Additionally, NexentaFusion provides analytics and orchestration software for managing complex compute systems and data stores. Nexenta's solutions are designed to support various applications, clouds, and hardware platforms, enabling organizations to avoid vendor lock-in and adopt flexible, scalable storage strategies. The company has established strategic partnerships with numerous technology leaders and serves a diverse global customer base. As of May 2019, Nexenta operates as a subsidiary of DataDirect Networks, Inc.
Magisto is a cloud-based video creation and marketing platform that enables users to turn photos and video clips into polished movies. Its AI-driven Emotion Sense Technology analyzes footage to identify people, scenes, and actions and automatically edits clips into a cohesive story, applying customizable styles and music. The service is accessible on iOS, Android, Amazon Appstore, and Web. Founded in 2009, Magisto is based in Ness-Ziona, Israel, with offices in New York and California. The platform serves individuals and businesses by helping them create engaging videos quickly for personal sharing or marketing purposes.
Nexenta Systems
Series E in 2013
Nexenta Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of software-defined storage solutions, specializing in open-source-driven technology. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company offers a range of products designed to optimize storage infrastructure for enterprise applications. Its flagship platform, NexentaStor, delivers both file and block storage services, while NexentaCloud enhances virtual desktop infrastructure deployments. The NexentaEdge object storage platform allows users to access data without needing to know its physical location. Additionally, NexentaFusion provides analytics and orchestration software for managing complex compute systems and data stores. Nexenta's solutions are designed to support various applications, clouds, and hardware platforms, enabling organizations to avoid vendor lock-in and adopt flexible, scalable storage strategies. The company has established strategic partnerships with numerous technology leaders and serves a diverse global customer base. As of May 2019, Nexenta operates as a subsidiary of DataDirect Networks, Inc.
Tegile Systems
Series C in 2013
Tegile Systems, Inc. specializes in providing flash-driven storage solutions, including hybrid and all-flash storage arrays, designed for various enterprise applications such as databases, server virtualization, and virtual desktop environments. Based in Newark, California, the company offers a patented IntelliFlash architecture that delivers high input/output performance and low latency, enabling customers to enhance business operations while reducing storage capacity requirements. Tegile Systems also features IntelliFlash, a storage operating system that allows users to adjust the amount of flash in their storage systems for optimal performance and cost efficiency, as well as IntelliCare, a cloud-based customer care program. Founded in 2010, Tegile Systems serves a diverse clientele across sectors including desktop and server virtualization, government, and education. In 2017, it became a subsidiary of Western Digital Corporation.
Pebbles Interfaces
Series B in 2013
Pebbles Interfaces is a technology company specializing in advanced motion sensors that enhance human interaction with digital devices. Their innovative sensors allow for the seamless display of physical objects within the digital realm, facilitating intuitive and natural gestures across various platforms, including smartphones, PCs, smart TVs, and even everyday surfaces like coffee tables. By embedding their minimal hardware into partner products, Pebbles aims to transform how users engage with consumer electronics, enabling interactions that feel organic and immediate. Their vision is to create a unified interface that bridges the gap between the physical and digital worlds, making it easier for individuals to interact with both real and virtual objects effortlessly.
SMART Storage Systems
Acquisition in 2013
SMART Storage Systems is a technology leader specializing in the design, development, and deployment of advanced solid-state storage products for the computer hardware industry. The company focuses on providing high-quality and reliable solutions to a diverse customer base, including tier one storage and server original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). SMART Storage Systems leverages its expertise in flash and enterprise storage technology to deliver innovative products, such as the NAND high-endurance Guardian™ technology. Its offerings cater to various markets, including enterprise storage, data centers, defense, industrial applications, gaming, telecommunications, and aerospace. As a member of the SMART family of global companies, SMART Storage Systems is committed to supporting its customers with exceptional products and service.
Panzura is a provider of enterprise storage infrastructure designed for cloud-era data management. Its Global Cloud Storage System combines an on-premise controller with the Global File System and software that orchestrates the system, enabling cloud-enabled NAS-like file sharing and multi-site collaboration across locations and workloads. The platform supports cloud integration, archiving, and data protection across multi-cloud environments, with products for cloud-based long-term storage and multi-cloud file services. Panzura targets industries such as architecture, engineering and construction, oil and gas, entertainment, healthcare, manufacturing, and legal, helping organizations consolidate dispersed data, gain visibility, improve cyber resilience, and enable AI-ready access to files where and when needed. The company emphasizes a unified data engine that transforms cloud object storage into a scalable file system, with on-prem and cloud components, and provides professional services and support.
WhipTail Technologies commercialized the first all-flash enterprise storage array to address performance issues in data centers. Installed worldwide in numerous mission critical database, virtualization, and online environments, WhipTail's solid-state storage dramatically reduces delays related to hard disk contention and access times, allowing servers to process more data in dramatically less time -- months to days, hours to minutes. Since 2009, customers have relied on WhipTail's flash-based arrays for extreme IOPS, bandwidth and latency, optimizing performance of key business functions and bringing modern performance demanding applications to life.
Printi is a B2B e-commerce company founded in 2012 and headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, that focuses on transforming the printing market in the US and Latin America. By leveraging advanced technology and online platforms, Printi addresses the challenges of transparency and efficiency in the printing industry. The company offers a wide range of high-quality printed products at competitive prices, catering to businesses of all sizes. Its innovative approach allows for on-demand printing services, enhancing accessibility and convenience for customers in Brazil.
Schooner Information Technology
Acquisition in 2012
Schooner Information Technology develops and markets two software products: SchoonerSQL™, a high-availability high-performance SQL database, 100% compatible with standard MySQL and InnoDB, for demanding mission-critical applications; and Membrain™, a 100% memcached-compatible flash-optimized software cache and NoSQL key-value store.
SchoonerSQL and Membrain provide industry-leading 99.999% availability with auto fail-over, guarantee no data loss and no stale data”, deliver industry-leading performance and scalability on commodity servers and storage, radically simplify administration, and minimize your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Schooner, based in Sunnyvale, CA, is funded by CMEA Capital (Jim Watson), Redpoint Ventures (John Walecka), and Menlo Ventures (Mark Siegel). Learn more at www.schoonerinfotech.com.
FlashSoft
Acquisition in 2012
FlashSoft is a technology company that specializes in data management software aimed at enhancing application performance and scalability in data centers. Its software enables standard solid-state drives (SSDs) to function as high-performance read-write caches within servers. This innovative solution allows data center administrators to easily identify and cache frequently accessed information on flash-based SSDs without requiring changes to existing infrastructure. By eliminating input/output latency, FlashSoft's software simplifies computing operations, thereby facilitating improved application performance and supporting virtualization efforts.
Pliant Technology
Acquisition in 2011
Pliant Technology specializes in developing advanced solid state drive storage devices tailored for the enterprise computing market, particularly through its innovative Enterprise Flash Drives (EFDs). These drives are engineered to integrate seamlessly into existing enterprise information systems, enhancing performance, reliability, energy efficiency, and total cost of ownership for data center storage. Pliant's EFDs cater to data-intensive applications across various sectors, including finance, e-commerce, and video on demand. By significantly outperforming traditional hard drives and consumer solid state storage devices, Pliant's solutions allow enterprise data centers to achieve greater operational efficiency with reduced costs, energy consumption, and physical space requirements. The company's technology, grounded in a proprietary ASIC design and advanced software architecture, redefines the storage paradigm while supporting environmental sustainability goals. Founded by a team of industry veterans from prominent companies, Pliant Technology leverages extensive expertise to drive innovation in the data storage landscape.
Magenta ComputacÃon
Funding Round in 2010
Magenta is focused on services, which contribute to long-term recurring revenues; is a unified communications leader and has extensive experience in complex network integration projects.
Magenta boasts more than 22 years of experience providing technology solutions to more than 500 clients. The company has extensive expertise in network integration, security and unified communications.
In addition, Magenta offers professional and managed services, including consulting, installation, diagnostics, maintenance and monitoring.
Magenta is a Cisco Silver Certified Partner and has strong partnerships with other key technology players.
MusicGremlin
Acquisition in 2008
Musicgremlin provided a wireless portable music player allowing users to download music from a central catalog and share it with each other.
M-Systems
Acquisition in 2006
M-Systems is an Israeli company that provides flash memory storage products for individuals and enterprises. Their flagship product, the True Flash Filing System, allows flash memory to be presented as a disk drive to computers. Some of their well-known products include DiskOnKey, DiskOnChip, and TrueFFS. Founded in 2008, M-Systems was later acquired by SanDisk on July 30, 2006.
Matrix Semiconductor
Acquisition in 2005
Matrix Semiconductor is a manufacturer and developer of advanced 3D memory devices, primarily focused on providing innovative flash-memory storage solutions for digital content. Established in 1997 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company produces a range of products, including Matrix 3-D memory, which enhances the speed and efficiency of data transfer for digital content publishers. Its offerings include various formats such as TSOP and SD-based cards, with designs that ensure compatibility with existing flash devices. Matrix Semiconductor operates as a subsidiary of SanDisk Corp., contributing to the evolving landscape of portable consumer electronics through its cutting-edge memory technology.
Divio is an established fabless semiconductor company. Divio s products power both emerging and existing applications in digital video, digital audio, digital imaging, and streaming video. Divio products are manufactured through an agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC),
one of the most trusted semiconductor foundries in the industry. Divio s products are assembled at ASE and SPIL.