DOCOMO

DOCOMO operates primarily through its subsidiary, DOCOMO Capital, which focuses on delivering advanced mobile services to over 53 million customers. The company is dedicated to leveraging cutting-edge technologies to enhance user experience and functionality. In addition to its service offerings, DOCOMO Capital invests in venture-backed startups, providing them with the resources and support to utilize NTT DOCOMO's extensive assets for their growth and success. Through these initiatives, DOCOMO aims to foster innovation and collaboration within the mobile services sector.

Byron Haigh

Principal

Takashi Hara

President and CEO

36 past transactions

Nok Nok Labs

Series C in 2015
Nok Nok Labs, Inc. develops products and services for online security and authentication. Its products include Multifactor Authentication Client Desktop Edition that provides authentication to various applications by unleashing the existing security capabilities of desktops and laptops; and Multifactor Authentication Client Mobile Edition that enables users to authenticate to various applications using the existing security capabilities of their mobile devices. The company’s products also comprises Multifactor Authentication Server that provides an authentication infrastructure, which enables authentication for various devices, methods, and applications; and Nok Nok application SDK, a FIDO-based authentication solution for smart watch devices. Nok Nok Labs, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Synaptics. Nok Nok Labs, Inc. was formerly known as Facilisys Inc. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Netpulse

Series D in 2014
Netpulse is the largest provider of branded mobile club apps that engage members, drive revenue, and integrate deeply with the club's most important technology solutions. Industry leaders such as Gold's Gym, Retro Fitness and Equinox leverage Netpulse's mobile solutions in clubs all over the world. A complete mobile experience is delivered by partnering with top technology solutions, including ABC Financial, Club Comm and Perkville. Founded in 2001, by Bryan Arp and Intuit co-founder Tom Proulx, Netpulse has since raised $40M in funding and is headquartered in San Francisco.

Evernote

Series B in 2009
Evernote builds apps and products that are defining the way individuals and teams work today. As one workspace that lives across people's phone, tablet and computer, Evernote is the place people write free from distraction, collect information, find what they need and present their ideas to the world. Whatever peole are working toward, Evernote’s job is to make sure they get there. Evernote is an independent, privately held company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded in 2007, Evernote products reach more than 100 million users worldwide. With nearly 400 employees and growing, they are always looking for talented individuals to join their global team.

Influitive

Series B in 2015
Influitive is driving the shift from company-centric marketing to advocate marketing. Their advocacy platform and team of experts helps the world’s most successful businesses spark, build and sustain a movement behind their brands with the participation of their greatest marketing asset: their customers. They believe the companies that put their customers at the heart of their marketing — and their business — are the ones that will win.

Gizmoz

Series B in 2008
Gizmoz has developed proprietary patented 3D and animation technology to let users express themselves by creating realistic 3D characters made from a single face photo. Gizmoz is the leader in 3D face-mapping technology, face manipulation and automatic face detection with several patents and pending patents in this field. Gizmoz provides a central service to design, manage and transport digital avatars that can be deployed in virtual worlds, online games, PC and console 3D games, social networks, video clips, greeting cards, mobile apps, as well as professional modeling and animation tools.

Couchbase

Venture Round in 2011
Couchbase is a NoSQL vendor that develops Couchbase Server, an open-source, NoSQL, document-oriented database optimized for interactive applications. Couchbase’s NoSQL mobile solution is comprised of Couchbase Server, Couchbase Sync Gateway, and Couchbase Lite, a lightweight NoSQL database designed for the device. Couchbase's mission is to be the NoSQL database that revolutionizes digital innovation. The platform provides unmatched agility and manageability – as well as unparalleled performance at any scale – to deliver ever-richer and ever-more-personalized customer experiences. Built with the most powerful NoSQL technology, Couchbase was architected on top of an open source foundation for the massively interactive enterprise.

Verient

Series A in 2008
Verient develops technologies and products that enable financial institutions (FIs) and merchants to customize payment choices for their customers, thereby offering more convenient and more secure transactions for both Internet and in store purchases. This capability results in the capture of additional customer payments, thus increasing revenue, while at the same time reducing fraud losses.

Fab

Series D in 2013
Fab sells everyday design products online in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It offers various products in the categories of furniture, kitchen and dining, bed and bath, art, jewelry, and personal accessories, as well as home products. Bradford Shane Shellhammer, Deepa Shah, Jason Goldberg, Nishith Shah, and Sunil Khedar founded Fab in February 2009, with its headquarters in New York City. Fab operates as a subsidiary of PCH International as of March 3, 2015.

Fab

Series C in 2012
Fab sells everyday design products online in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It offers various products in the categories of furniture, kitchen and dining, bed and bath, art, jewelry, and personal accessories, as well as home products. Bradford Shane Shellhammer, Deepa Shah, Jason Goldberg, Nishith Shah, and Sunil Khedar founded Fab in February 2009, with its headquarters in New York City. Fab operates as a subsidiary of PCH International as of March 3, 2015.

TrackR

Series B in 2017
TrackR develops apps, cloud databases, and small Bluetooth devices that help people locate their misplaced items. The company has shipped over 8 million devices and is sold in over 5,000 stores worldwide. TrackR was ranked #45 by the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies, and is backed by the Revolution Growth, Foundry Group, Resolute Ventures, IncWell Venture Capital, Orange Fab, Amazon Alexa Fund, and others.

Arteris

Series C in 2008
Arteris IP is helping power the next wave of autonomous driving, 5G and Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems fueling the growth the of the semiconductor industry. Our Network-on-Chip (NoC) interconnect semiconductor intellectual property (IP) is the on-chip communications backbone of most of the world’s most important and sophisticated systems-on-chip (SoC). Optimizing on-chip dataflow and connectivity is the cornerstone of our vision for system-on-chip development and assembly. Since our inception in 2003, we have pioneered the development and commercialization of NoC interconnect technology, cementing our position as the world’s first and largest commercial NoC interconnect IP company. Our unique technology meets the needs for cache coherent and non-coherent on-chip communications, on-chip data caching, and on-chip data protection to meet functional safety requirements. ARTERIS IP PRODUCTS AND SOLUTIONS Our on-chip NoC-based interconnect IP products make systems-on-chip easier to develop, perform better, and faster to get to market. The Arteris IP product portfolio meets the needs of design teams creating nearly any type of digital logic SoC with any type of communications semantics. Our seminal FlexNoC® Interconnect IP pioneered the market for NoC interconnects and is the industry leader. The highly configurable Ncore® Cache Coherent Interconnect IP allows optimal integration of cache-coherent Arm®-based processor IP with other cache-coherent and non-coherent IP. The growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) has inspired the creation of two innovative products. The Arteris IP AI Package is an option to Arteris FlexNoC that provides automated means to create complex topologies (meshes, rings, and tori) while adding multicast/broadcast communications, virtual channels, and source-synchronous communications to meet the unique needs of AI/ML chips. The CodaCache® Last Level Cache provides a highly configurable cache that can be instantiated anywhere within an SoC interconnect, providing data locality wherever needed. To meet the needs of the new generation of multibillion-transistor chips for automated systems with functional safety requirements, Arteris IP also offers Resilience Packages that provide hardware-based data protection technologies as well as automated diagnostic coverage analysis to help meet requirements ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 functional standards. Resilience Packages are available for FlexNoC, Ncore and CodaCache IP products. Timing closure has become a key design schedule constraint as chips have grown in size and complexity and semiconductor manufacturing process critical dimension have shrunk. To address this, Arteris IP created the PIANO® Timing Closure Package which provides physical and timing information about the interconnect to back-end synthesis place and route tools to help ensure faster timing closure.

Stoke

Series E in 2011
Stoke develops carrier-class mobile broadband gateways specifically engineered to enable mobile and converged network operators to maximize the economic returns of their 3G mobile networks.

Influitive

Series B in 2015
Influitive is driving the shift from company-centric marketing to advocate marketing. Their advocacy platform and team of experts helps the world’s most successful businesses spark, build and sustain a movement behind their brands with the participation of their greatest marketing asset: their customers. They believe the companies that put their customers at the heart of their marketing — and their business — are the ones that will win.

Stoke

Series D in 2009
Stoke develops carrier-class mobile broadband gateways specifically engineered to enable mobile and converged network operators to maximize the economic returns of their 3G mobile networks.

Midokura

Series A in 2013
A Sony Group subsidiary with offices in Tokyo and Barcelona. We aim to create a platform to easily deploy and run AI workloads on edge devices, taking advantage of AI accelerators and to run complex distributed workloads on a cluster of IoT devices, the fog/MEC, and cloud, all managed by a SaaS platform. Midokura has offices in Tokyo and Barcelona.

Muzy

Angel Round in 2013
Muzy is a new kind of blog for creative and visual people, where you can post, enhance, create, and share photos, thoughts, drawings, animations, collages, and all kinds of creative stuff. Your Muzy is a customizable blog to post text, art, videos, photos, and more that comes with easy apps for photo effects, text, collaging, drawing, captioning, and more.

Adero

Series B in 2017
Adero, Inc. develops and delivers an intelligent organization system to locate lost or misplaced items. The company enables to locate lost items via a mobile application compatible with iPhone and Android devices. It serves customers online. The company was formerly known as TrackR, Inc. and changed its name to Adero, Inc. in October 2018. Adero, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Goleta, California.

Nok Nok Labs

Series D in 2017
Nok Nok Labs, Inc. develops products and services for online security and authentication. Its products include Multifactor Authentication Client Desktop Edition that provides authentication to various applications by unleashing the existing security capabilities of desktops and laptops; and Multifactor Authentication Client Mobile Edition that enables users to authenticate to various applications using the existing security capabilities of their mobile devices. The company’s products also comprises Multifactor Authentication Server that provides an authentication infrastructure, which enables authentication for various devices, methods, and applications; and Nok Nok application SDK, a FIDO-based authentication solution for smart watch devices. Nok Nok Labs, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Synaptics. Nok Nok Labs, Inc. was formerly known as Facilisys Inc. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

GCT Semiconductor

Series E in 2006
GCT Semiconductor is a leading fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets innovative integrated circuit solutions for the wireless communications industry. With its proven CMOS radio frequency (RF) and SOC expertise, GCT provides state-of-the-art CMOS RF transceivers and CMOS single-chip Satellite-DMB digital receivers and other SOC solutions serving 3G and 4G mobile handset manufacturers while reducing component cost, lowering power consumption and offering a smaller footprint.

Quantance

Series D in 2013
Quantance is a fabless semiconductor company enabling a major breakthrough in data speed and battery life in mobile devices. Quantance's patented RF technology enables users to transmit more signal power from their mobile devices and data cards, which enhances data performance without adversely impacting battery life or requiring any changes to wireless network infrastructure.

Swype

Series C in 2011
Swype creates text input technology for screens. The patented interface enables users to create words with one continuous finger motion across an on-screen keyboard. This approach provides a faster and easier way to write. Swype delivers single-tap, multi-tap, predictive and "swype" motions for both stylus and finger based input. In addition, the application is designed to work across a variety of devices such as phones, tablets, game consoles, kiosks, televisions, virtual screens and more. Seattle based Swype Inc. was founded by Cliff Kushler and Randy Marsden in 2003. Cliff is the co-inventor of T9, the standard predictive text-entry solution used on almost 3 billion mobile phones worldwide. Randy is the developer of the onscreen keyboard included in Windows, with an installed base of over 500 million units

Skycross

Series E in 2011
[Skycross](http://www.skycross.com) is a global wireless antenna solutions company. They serve a range of market segments including handsets, data cards, USB dongles, laptops, access points, mobile personal entertainment devices, and more.

Arteris

Series D in 2009
Arteris IP is helping power the next wave of autonomous driving, 5G and Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems fueling the growth the of the semiconductor industry. Our Network-on-Chip (NoC) interconnect semiconductor intellectual property (IP) is the on-chip communications backbone of most of the world’s most important and sophisticated systems-on-chip (SoC). Optimizing on-chip dataflow and connectivity is the cornerstone of our vision for system-on-chip development and assembly. Since our inception in 2003, we have pioneered the development and commercialization of NoC interconnect technology, cementing our position as the world’s first and largest commercial NoC interconnect IP company. Our unique technology meets the needs for cache coherent and non-coherent on-chip communications, on-chip data caching, and on-chip data protection to meet functional safety requirements. ARTERIS IP PRODUCTS AND SOLUTIONS Our on-chip NoC-based interconnect IP products make systems-on-chip easier to develop, perform better, and faster to get to market. The Arteris IP product portfolio meets the needs of design teams creating nearly any type of digital logic SoC with any type of communications semantics. Our seminal FlexNoC® Interconnect IP pioneered the market for NoC interconnects and is the industry leader. The highly configurable Ncore® Cache Coherent Interconnect IP allows optimal integration of cache-coherent Arm®-based processor IP with other cache-coherent and non-coherent IP. The growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) has inspired the creation of two innovative products. The Arteris IP AI Package is an option to Arteris FlexNoC that provides automated means to create complex topologies (meshes, rings, and tori) while adding multicast/broadcast communications, virtual channels, and source-synchronous communications to meet the unique needs of AI/ML chips. The CodaCache® Last Level Cache provides a highly configurable cache that can be instantiated anywhere within an SoC interconnect, providing data locality wherever needed. To meet the needs of the new generation of multibillion-transistor chips for automated systems with functional safety requirements, Arteris IP also offers Resilience Packages that provide hardware-based data protection technologies as well as automated diagnostic coverage analysis to help meet requirements ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 functional standards. Resilience Packages are available for FlexNoC, Ncore and CodaCache IP products. Timing closure has become a key design schedule constraint as chips have grown in size and complexity and semiconductor manufacturing process critical dimension have shrunk. To address this, Arteris IP created the PIANO® Timing Closure Package which provides physical and timing information about the interconnect to back-end synthesis place and route tools to help ensure faster timing closure.

Quantance

Series B in 2008
Quantance is a fabless semiconductor company enabling a major breakthrough in data speed and battery life in mobile devices. Quantance's patented RF technology enables users to transmit more signal power from their mobile devices and data cards, which enhances data performance without adversely impacting battery life or requiring any changes to wireless network infrastructure.

Kyte

Series B in 2007
Kyte is the online and mobile video platform for media and entertainment. The Kyte Platform combines the real-time, interactive and community building capabilities of the social web with the analytics, control, and monetization features of professional video platforms, enabling companies to converge online and mobile audiences, build community, and monetize.

WiSpry

Series B in 2008
WiSpry, Inc. develops fabless radio frequency semiconductor. It offers tunable RF components, digital capacitor arrays, RF evaluation kits, filters and duplexors, and power amplifiers. The company’s products are used in airbag sensors, game controllers, accelerometers, microoptics, video projection systems, and printer heads. It serves mobile handset manufacturers and network operators. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Irvine, California. As of May 7, 2015, WiSpry, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of AAC Technologies Holdings Inc.

Centrify

Series E in 2014
Centrify redefines security from a legacy static perimeter-based approach to protecting millions of scattered connections in a boundaryless hybrid enterprise. As the only industry-recognized leader in both Privileged Identity Management and Identity-as-a-Service, Centrify provides a single platform to secure each user’s access to apps and infrastructure through the power of identity services. This is Next Dimension Security in the Age of Access. Centrify is enabling over 5,000 customers, including over half the Fortune 50, to defend their organizations. To learn more visit www.centrify.com. The Breach Stops Here.

Picsel Technologies

Series C in 2007
Picsel Technologies Limited provides mobile software solutions. It offers Digital Content Suite, a suite of Web explorers and viewers for handling mainstream desktop formats and content types, as well as to read, view, present, edit, and save mainstream media types on mobile phones. The company also provides User Interface Platform, which enables the creation and delivery of branded user experience. In addition, it offers Universal Desktop Widgets that enables new and existing desktop widgets to run directly on the mobile devices; and File Viewer to view Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Adobe PDF images, and plain text files. Further, the company provides Mobile Content solution that enables to deliver content directly to various mobile devices, as well as attachment solutions. Picsel Technologies Limited was formerly known as Picsel Research Limited. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Glasgow, the United Kingdom with additional offices in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Tokyo, Japan; Seoul, South Korea; and San Francisco, California.

Gizmoz

Series A in 2007
Gizmoz has developed proprietary patented 3D and animation technology to let users express themselves by creating realistic 3D characters made from a single face photo. Gizmoz is the leader in 3D face-mapping technology, face manipulation and automatic face detection with several patents and pending patents in this field. Gizmoz provides a central service to design, manage and transport digital avatars that can be deployed in virtual worlds, online games, PC and console 3D games, social networks, video clips, greeting cards, mobile apps, as well as professional modeling and animation tools.

Quantance

Series C in 2011
Quantance is a fabless semiconductor company enabling a major breakthrough in data speed and battery life in mobile devices. Quantance's patented RF technology enables users to transmit more signal power from their mobile devices and data cards, which enhances data performance without adversely impacting battery life or requiring any changes to wireless network infrastructure.

Swype

Series B in 2010
Swype creates text input technology for screens. The patented interface enables users to create words with one continuous finger motion across an on-screen keyboard. This approach provides a faster and easier way to write. Swype delivers single-tap, multi-tap, predictive and "swype" motions for both stylus and finger based input. In addition, the application is designed to work across a variety of devices such as phones, tablets, game consoles, kiosks, televisions, virtual screens and more. Seattle based Swype Inc. was founded by Cliff Kushler and Randy Marsden in 2003. Cliff is the co-inventor of T9, the standard predictive text-entry solution used on almost 3 billion mobile phones worldwide. Randy is the developer of the onscreen keyboard included in Windows, with an installed base of over 500 million units

Evernote

Series A in 2009
Evernote builds apps and products that are defining the way individuals and teams work today. As one workspace that lives across people's phone, tablet and computer, Evernote is the place people write free from distraction, collect information, find what they need and present their ideas to the world. Whatever peole are working toward, Evernote’s job is to make sure they get there. Evernote is an independent, privately held company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded in 2007, Evernote products reach more than 100 million users worldwide. With nearly 400 employees and growing, they are always looking for talented individuals to join their global team.

Couchbase

Series E in 2014
Couchbase is a NoSQL vendor that develops Couchbase Server, an open-source, NoSQL, document-oriented database optimized for interactive applications. Couchbase’s NoSQL mobile solution is comprised of Couchbase Server, Couchbase Sync Gateway, and Couchbase Lite, a lightweight NoSQL database designed for the device. Couchbase's mission is to be the NoSQL database that revolutionizes digital innovation. The platform provides unmatched agility and manageability – as well as unparalleled performance at any scale – to deliver ever-richer and ever-more-personalized customer experiences. Built with the most powerful NoSQL technology, Couchbase was architected on top of an open source foundation for the massively interactive enterprise.

Swype

Series C in 2011
Swype creates text input technology for screens. The patented interface enables users to create words with one continuous finger motion across an on-screen keyboard. This approach provides a faster and easier way to write. Swype delivers single-tap, multi-tap, predictive and "swype" motions for both stylus and finger based input. In addition, the application is designed to work across a variety of devices such as phones, tablets, game consoles, kiosks, televisions, virtual screens and more. Seattle based Swype Inc. was founded by Cliff Kushler and Randy Marsden in 2003. Cliff is the co-inventor of T9, the standard predictive text-entry solution used on almost 3 billion mobile phones worldwide. Randy is the developer of the onscreen keyboard included in Windows, with an installed base of over 500 million units

Grabit Inc.

Series B in 2016
Founded in 2013, Grabit produces game changing productivity solutions for the manufacturing and warehouse logistics industries. Grabit’s Chief Technology and Products Officer, Harsha Prahlad, Ph.D., was the principal inventor of electroadhesion technology. Electroadhesion is an electrically controllable adhesion technology that requires ultra-low power consumption. Grabit products provide customers with improved productivity and expanded capabilities. Customers include several Fortune 500 companies in a wide range of industries such as manufacturing automation, warehouse logistics, parcel handling, and consumer products.

Skydio

Series E in 2023
Skydio is a drone manufacturer and world leader in autonomous flight. The company leverages AI to create intelligent flying machines for use by consumers, enterprises, and government customers. Its solutions are used by enterprises across a wide range of industry sectors.