Dot Edu Ventures

Dot Edu Ventures is formed around a unique, multi-university network of computer science and engineering faculty at top US universities. The firm provides seed funding along with strong technical and strategic support for early stage technology businesses. A large percentage of Dot Edu portfolio companies have been founded by graduate student and faculty entrepreneurs, and built in conjunction with leading venture firms in the Bay Area.

Asha Motwani Ph.D

Managing Partner and Founder

13 past transactions

Mimosa Systems

Debt Financing in 2009
Mimosa Systems, Inc. provides content archiving solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. It offers Mimosa NearPoint, an integrated unstructured information management software for emails, files, and instant messages that enables email and file system archiving, e-discovery, recovery, disaster recovery, and storage management. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California with additional offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India.

Mimosa Systems

Series D in 2008
Mimosa Systems, Inc. provides content archiving solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. It offers Mimosa NearPoint, an integrated unstructured information management software for emails, files, and instant messages that enables email and file system archiving, e-discovery, recovery, disaster recovery, and storage management. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California with additional offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India.

Meru Networks

Series C in 2005
Meru Networks develops and markets wireless LAN infrastructure solutions that use virtualization to deliver pervasive, high-fidelity wireless service for business-critical voice, video and data applications. The company first introduced its award-winning virtual cell wireless architecture in 2003, and Meru products embody a complete departure from typical hub-based WLAN approaches, offering a wireless solution with levels of performance, reliability, security and cost-effectiveness previously found only in wired networking environments.

NeoPath Networks

Series B in 2004
NeoPath Networks, Inc. provides file storage management solutions. It provides File Director, a network appliance that resides in-band between file servers and clients, and provides file storage management capabilities, including namespace virtualization and globalization, safe and non-disruptive file migrations, real-time file characterization and analysis, and policy-based file management; and SMARTtouch, a file storage software solution that allows its clients to balance and utilize existing file storage capacity. The company's products simplify and advance file storage management for networked attached storage and other file servers, and increase storage utilization. It serves financial services, government, hosted services, aerospace, manufacturing, healthcare, and education industries. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. As of April 3, 2007, NeoPath Networks, Inc. is a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc.

Meru Networks

Series B in 2004
Meru Networks develops and markets wireless LAN infrastructure solutions that use virtualization to deliver pervasive, high-fidelity wireless service for business-critical voice, video and data applications. The company first introduced its award-winning virtual cell wireless architecture in 2003, and Meru products embody a complete departure from typical hub-based WLAN approaches, offering a wireless solution with levels of performance, reliability, security and cost-effectiveness previously found only in wired networking environments.

NeoPath Networks

Series A in 2004
NeoPath Networks, Inc. provides file storage management solutions. It provides File Director, a network appliance that resides in-band between file servers and clients, and provides file storage management capabilities, including namespace virtualization and globalization, safe and non-disruptive file migrations, real-time file characterization and analysis, and policy-based file management; and SMARTtouch, a file storage software solution that allows its clients to balance and utilize existing file storage capacity. The company's products simplify and advance file storage management for networked attached storage and other file servers, and increase storage utilization. It serves financial services, government, hosted services, aerospace, manufacturing, healthcare, and education industries. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. As of April 3, 2007, NeoPath Networks, Inc. is a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc.

Composite Software

Series B in 2003
Composite Software, Inc. disrupted the data integration market with a faster, lower cost data integration approach now known as data virtualization.

Composite Software

Series A in 2003
Composite Software, Inc. disrupted the data integration market with a faster, lower cost data integration approach now known as data virtualization.
Sychron Advanced Technologies, Inc. provides server-based desktop computing solutions. It offers OnDemand Desktop, a server-based virtual desktop system that enables and controls the delivery of a user experience identical to what users see with standalone PCs. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

SynTera Communications

Series A in 2001
SynTera is an industry leader in the development of turnkey silicon solutions for high-performance networking systems. The Company leverages its core competencies in networking silicon and systems, including digital and mixed-signal design, protocols and software to create a family of products that enable and accelerate the convergence of data, voice and video communications over the Internet.

Invertica

Series A in 2000
Invertica Inc. is a developer of a direct marketing platform.

Hopelink

Series A in 2000
Since 1971, Hopelink has served homeless and low-income families, children, seniors and people with disabilities in King and Snohomish counties; providing stability and helping people gain the skills and knowledge they need to exit poverty for good. Hopelink provides a network of critical social services through a number of different programs – including housing, transportation, family development, financial assistance, employment programs, adult education, financial literacy training and five food banks. The agency’s service centers, housing and transportation programs help more than 60,000 people every year.
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