The Halo Fund

The Halo Fund is a venture capital firm established in 2000 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. It focuses on early-stage investments, including seed, startup, and growth capital, primarily targeting technology startups. The firm invests in sectors such as consumer products, life sciences, clean technology, and high technology. It has a preference for companies located in Silicon Valley and within a 50-mile radius of Mountain View. Additionally, The Halo Fund engages in fund of funds investments, aiming to support recently launched private equity funds, particularly in California. The firm often collaborates with other venture capital firms, private equity firms, corporate venture funds, and angel investors, and typically seeks to take a seat on the board of its portfolio companies as a member or observer.

Adam Cohen

Partner

Ed Esber

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Nagesh Mhatre

Partner

16 past transactions

Komodo Math

Angel Round in 2015
Komodo Learning Ltd. is an online education platform based in Belfast, United Kingdom, that specializes in mathematics for children. Founded in 2013, the company provides an engaging application that allows kids to practice math through short lessons on tablets and computers. The platform emphasizes effective learning while promoting a balanced lifestyle, encouraging children to spend limited time on screen before engaging in outdoor activities. By integrating parental involvement, Komodo Learning empowers parents to motivate their children and rewards their progress, ensuring a supportive home learning environment. The application focuses on mental arithmetic and employs proven methods to enhance children's confidence and skills in mathematics.

Ensighten

Series A in 2012
Ensighten, Inc. provides enterprise tag management and cybersecurity solutions that assist marketers in analytics and media tracking across multiple platforms. Their tag management platform allows businesses to efficiently manage website tags while offering precise control tailored to individual visitors, sessions, and pages across various devices, including mobile and desktop. Ensighten's offerings include a Tag Delivery Network for diverse media types, the Ensighten Activate platform for customizing digital data to enhance business outcomes, and the Ensighten Agile Marketing Platform (AMP) for personalized marketing initiatives. Additionally, Ensighten is a leader in client-side cybersecurity, safeguarding against data loss, ad injection, and cyber threats while ensuring compliance with global data privacy regulations such as CCPA and GDPR. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the company also has a presence in the United Kingdom.

Intrapace

Venture Round in 2012
IntraPace, Inc. specializes in the development and marketing of implantable devices aimed at treating obesity. Founded in 2001 and located in Mountain View, California, the company has created the abiliti system, which stimulates a satiety response to facilitate weight loss. This innovative device is based on technology commonly used in cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators, allowing for implantation through standard laparoscopic methods. Notably, the abiliti system does not alter the digestive system's anatomy and imposes no restrictions on a patient's dietary intake, making it a versatile option for individuals seeking weight management solutions.

WordLock

Venture Round in 2012
Founded in 2004 and based in Cranbury, New Jersey, WordLock specializes in the manufacturing of combination padlocks designed to enhance security for personal belongings such as bikes and luggage. The company has developed a unique locking system that replaces traditional numerical codes with customizable letter combinations, allowing users to select a memorable word as their access code. This innovative approach leverages the natural preference of memory for keywords, enabling users to easily set and modify their codes from a vast array of word and letter combinations. The locks are constructed from durable materials including brass, steel, and zinc, ensuring both security and ease of use.

Qumu

Debt Financing in 2010
Qumu Corporation specializes in providing comprehensive tools for the creation, management, security, distribution, and delivery of live and on-demand video content tailored for enterprises. The company offers an end-to-end solution that includes software licenses, server appliances, software-enabled devices, and a cloud-hosted software-as-a-service platform. In addition to these products, Qumu provides maintenance, support, and professional services to enhance user experience. Its offerings cater to various sectors, including banking, finance, insurance, manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and government, through both direct sales and partnerships. Established in 1978 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Qumu was previously known as Rimage Corporation before rebranding in 2013.

Qumu

Series C in 2008
Qumu Corporation specializes in providing comprehensive tools for the creation, management, security, distribution, and delivery of live and on-demand video content tailored for enterprises. The company offers an end-to-end solution that includes software licenses, server appliances, software-enabled devices, and a cloud-hosted software-as-a-service platform. In addition to these products, Qumu provides maintenance, support, and professional services to enhance user experience. Its offerings cater to various sectors, including banking, finance, insurance, manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and government, through both direct sales and partnerships. Established in 1978 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Qumu was previously known as Rimage Corporation before rebranding in 2013.

Sonoma Orthopedics

Series B in 2007
Sonoma Orthopedic Products specializes in the design, development, and delivery of proprietary orthopedic implants aimed at assisting physicians in the treatment of problematic fractures. The company's innovative WaviBody technology platform facilitates quick and minimally invasive surgical solutions, catering to the needs of active patients. By focusing on advanced orthopedic solutions, Sonoma Orthopedic Products aims to enhance patient recovery and overall quality of care.

Catalist Homes

Series D in 2007
Catalist Homes is a real estate company providing a higher quality of client service through professional personnel working out of local offices and backed with tremendous corporate support. A reduction in fees would be meaningless if your home did not achieve its maximum value on the market. The good news for CataList Home's clients is they not only save thousands of dollars in fees, but yield higher prices and almost identical marketing times than other homes sold in the market. Data from hundreds of CataList sales in Los Angeles and Orange County prove that they achieve the highest sold price to listing price The truth is, it does not cost any real estate agent more than 3% to sell a home. Fees in excess of 3% represent an excessive charge to the home seller for the use of a real estate agent involved in an old, inefficient and costly system. Instead, you should be asking: "How can Realtors continue to charge five and six percent commissions (typically eliminating 20-25% of homeowner equity) when the average home is sold in less than 30 days?" When you consider the fact that home prices have virtually doubled in the last five years, how can Realtors keep the commission percentage the same and essentially double their fee? Your conventional agent is asking you for a 100% pay raise in 5 years, and he wants you to pay for it. A 3% commission in 2006 is the same dollar cost as 6% just five years ago when you factor in home appreciation. This is how they offer all the essential service for 3%.

Sonoma Orthopedics

Series A in 2007
Sonoma Orthopedic Products specializes in the design, development, and delivery of proprietary orthopedic implants aimed at assisting physicians in the treatment of problematic fractures. The company's innovative WaviBody technology platform facilitates quick and minimally invasive surgical solutions, catering to the needs of active patients. By focusing on advanced orthopedic solutions, Sonoma Orthopedic Products aims to enhance patient recovery and overall quality of care.

Qumu

Series B in 2006
Qumu Corporation specializes in providing comprehensive tools for the creation, management, security, distribution, and delivery of live and on-demand video content tailored for enterprises. The company offers an end-to-end solution that includes software licenses, server appliances, software-enabled devices, and a cloud-hosted software-as-a-service platform. In addition to these products, Qumu provides maintenance, support, and professional services to enhance user experience. Its offerings cater to various sectors, including banking, finance, insurance, manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and government, through both direct sales and partnerships. Established in 1978 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Qumu was previously known as Rimage Corporation before rebranding in 2013.

Modviz

Seed Round in 2004
Modviz is a company that specializes in data visualization through its Virtual Graphics Platform. It offers software solutions designed to assist organizations in visualizing large 3D data sets on computing clusters. Additionally, Modviz provides a 3D graphics computing platform that facilitates data visualization and supports the development of custom OpenGL applications. This combination of tools enables users to effectively interpret complex data in a three-dimensional environment.

Intrapace

Series C in 2004
IntraPace, Inc. specializes in the development and marketing of implantable devices aimed at treating obesity. Founded in 2001 and located in Mountain View, California, the company has created the abiliti system, which stimulates a satiety response to facilitate weight loss. This innovative device is based on technology commonly used in cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators, allowing for implantation through standard laparoscopic methods. Notably, the abiliti system does not alter the digestive system's anatomy and imposes no restrictions on a patient's dietary intake, making it a versatile option for individuals seeking weight management solutions.

Media Publisher

Series A in 2003
Media Publisher, Inc. (MPI) is the leader in Enterprise Video Communication, enabling Fortune 2000 companies to UNIFY content from a wide array of content providers and file types, CREATE live and on-demand video presentations, MANAGE video assets in a scalable and robust EVC platform, and DELIVER video content to an organization's existing network and computing infrastructure. Media Publisher Solutions offer significant value to the enterprise in Corporate Communications, Sales and Channel Enablement, and Engineering/R&D Distance Learning. Many large-scale, international customers have adopted Media Publisher Solutions to drive significant revenue generation benefits across the enterprise. Additionally, Media Publisher leverages past infrasturucture investments to deliver dramatic efficiency-gain and productivity benefits. Business video delivered via the internet is now a reliable and cost-effective communications tool for the enterprise. Corporate networks, video software applications, and enterprise infrastructure have matured to allow companies to broadcast streaming video presentations cost-effectively and easily without expensive proprietary hardware or satellite networks. Far more compelling than audio or web conferences, broadcast video helps companies communicate more effectively, improve productivity, and cut costs. Media Publisher enterprise software eliminates much of the technical complexity involved in creating, broadcasting and managing business video. Their products help large organizations remove IT as a process bottleneck while allowing IT to maintain control of their infrastructure and enabling even non-technical employees to fully utilize business video publishing and management tools. Enterprise-class and fully deployed and tested in eight of the Fortune 50, Media Publisher 4.0 is helping companies make broadcast video communications over IP a mission critical application.

Qumu

Series A in 2003
Qumu Corporation specializes in providing comprehensive tools for the creation, management, security, distribution, and delivery of live and on-demand video content tailored for enterprises. The company offers an end-to-end solution that includes software licenses, server appliances, software-enabled devices, and a cloud-hosted software-as-a-service platform. In addition to these products, Qumu provides maintenance, support, and professional services to enhance user experience. Its offerings cater to various sectors, including banking, finance, insurance, manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and government, through both direct sales and partnerships. Established in 1978 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Qumu was previously known as Rimage Corporation before rebranding in 2013.

BlueRoads

Series A in 2002
BlueRoads, founded in 2001 by Axel Schultze, Steve DeWindt, and Marita Roebkes, specializes in enterprise partner opportunity management software for technology vendors and their reseller partners. The company aims to enhance the collaboration between vendors and partners by providing a closed-loop system that empowers individual partner representatives to engage actively in the sales and marketing process. BlueRoads has established itself as a leader in channel management through its innovative Active Participation Network model, which encourages participation from all levels of partner organizations. This approach contrasts with traditional Partner Relationship Management systems that primarily benefit vendors and often see low partner adoption. BlueRoads' solutions include deal registration, lead management, renewal management, and account registration, allowing for streamlined collaboration while maintaining access and privacy for both parties. With automated data capture and real-time reporting, BlueRoads optimizes the partner experience, reduces the effort required for participation, and ultimately drives higher adoption of vendor programs.

AirPrime

Series B in 2000
The company develops code division multiple access chipsets for wireless voice and data products.
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