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Dot Edu Ventures

Dot Edu Ventures was a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, that focused on seed and early-stage investments in technology businesses. Established in March 2000, the firm sought to invest in ideas and technologies emerging from doctoral and post-doctoral research, particularly in areas such as enterprise software, databases, data mining, communications software, and wireless communication. Dot Edu Ventures was notable for its unique network of computer science and engineering faculty across several top U.S. universities, providing not only funding but also technical and strategic support to entrepreneurs, many of whom were graduate students and faculty members themselves. The firm typically invested between $0.1 million and $1 million per company and collaborated closely with prominent venture firms in the Bay Area. However, Dot Edu Ventures is no longer in operation.
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Asha Motwani Ph.D

Managing Partner and Founder

13 past transactions

Mimosa Systems

Debt Financing in 2009
Mimosa Systems, Inc. specializes in content archiving solutions that enhance information immediacy, discovery, and continuity for enterprises. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with additional offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India, the company offers Mimosa NearPoint, a comprehensive software for managing unstructured information. This software facilitates the archiving of emails, files, and instant messages, while also providing capabilities for e-discovery, recovery, disaster recovery, and storage management. Mimosa Systems focuses on the effective management of both unstructured and semi-structured data types, ensuring that organizations can efficiently handle critical information.

Mimosa Systems

Series D in 2008
Mimosa Systems, Inc. specializes in content archiving solutions that enhance information immediacy, discovery, and continuity for enterprises. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with additional offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India, the company offers Mimosa NearPoint, a comprehensive software for managing unstructured information. This software facilitates the archiving of emails, files, and instant messages, while also providing capabilities for e-discovery, recovery, disaster recovery, and storage management. Mimosa Systems focuses on the effective management of both unstructured and semi-structured data types, ensuring that organizations can efficiently handle critical information.

Meru Networks

Series C in 2005
Meru Networks specializes in the development and marketing of wireless LAN infrastructure solutions that utilize virtualization to provide reliable and high-quality wireless service essential for business-critical applications, including voice, video, and data. Since its establishment, the company has pioneered its innovative virtual cell wireless architecture, which significantly departs from traditional hub-based WLAN systems. Meru's products are designed to deliver performance, reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness comparable to that of wired networking, making them suitable for enterprises seeking robust wireless solutions.

NeoPath Networks

Series B in 2004
NeoPath Networks, Inc. specializes in file storage management solutions. The company offers two main products: File Director and SMARTtouch. File Director is a network appliance that operates between file servers and clients, providing features such as namespace virtualization, safe file migrations, real-time file analysis, and policy-based management. SMARTtouch is a software solution designed to help clients optimize their existing file storage capacity. Together, these products enhance file storage management for network-attached storage systems and other file servers, leading to improved storage utilization. NeoPath Networks serves a diverse range of industries, including finance, government, healthcare, aerospace, manufacturing, and education. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, NeoPath Networks became a subsidiary of Cisco Systems in 2007.

Meru Networks

Series B in 2004
Meru Networks specializes in the development and marketing of wireless LAN infrastructure solutions that utilize virtualization to provide reliable and high-quality wireless service essential for business-critical applications, including voice, video, and data. Since its establishment, the company has pioneered its innovative virtual cell wireless architecture, which significantly departs from traditional hub-based WLAN systems. Meru's products are designed to deliver performance, reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness comparable to that of wired networking, making them suitable for enterprises seeking robust wireless solutions.

NeoPath Networks

Series A in 2004
NeoPath Networks, Inc. specializes in file storage management solutions. The company offers two main products: File Director and SMARTtouch. File Director is a network appliance that operates between file servers and clients, providing features such as namespace virtualization, safe file migrations, real-time file analysis, and policy-based management. SMARTtouch is a software solution designed to help clients optimize their existing file storage capacity. Together, these products enhance file storage management for network-attached storage systems and other file servers, leading to improved storage utilization. NeoPath Networks serves a diverse range of industries, including finance, government, healthcare, aerospace, manufacturing, and education. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, NeoPath Networks became a subsidiary of Cisco Systems in 2007.

Composite Software

Series B in 2003
Composite Software LLC specializes in data virtualization software solutions for organizations in the United States and globally. The company offers a Data Virtualization Platform that integrates data from diverse sources, enabling insights and supporting analytics and business intelligence needs. Their Information Server facilitates querying and delivering data on demand, while CIS Adapters enhance access to various data sources, including enterprise applications and big data stores. Composite Software also provides a range of analytics and business intelligence solutions, data integration services, and business applications that cater to sectors such as financial services, government, life sciences, and retail. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Composite Software operates as a subsidiary of TIBCO Software Inc. since November 2017.

Composite Software

Series A in 2003
Composite Software LLC specializes in data virtualization software solutions for organizations in the United States and globally. The company offers a Data Virtualization Platform that integrates data from diverse sources, enabling insights and supporting analytics and business intelligence needs. Their Information Server facilitates querying and delivering data on demand, while CIS Adapters enhance access to various data sources, including enterprise applications and big data stores. Composite Software also provides a range of analytics and business intelligence solutions, data integration services, and business applications that cater to sectors such as financial services, government, life sciences, and retail. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Composite Software operates as a subsidiary of TIBCO Software Inc. since November 2017.

Sychron Advanced Technologies

Series A in 2003
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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