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.

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 specializes in developing and marketing wireless LAN infrastructure solutions that leverage virtualization to provide reliable wireless service for essential voice, video, and data applications. Since introducing its innovative virtual cell wireless architecture in 2003, Meru has distinguished itself from traditional hub-based WLAN systems. Its products offer enhanced performance, reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness, comparable to that of wired networking environments. The company supplies a range of wireless networking solutions, including WLAN systems and Air Traffic Control, catering to various enterprises and industries.

PANTA Systems

Venture Round in 2005
PANTA Systems, Inc. specializes in developing data warehouse appliances in the United States. The company offers the PANTA Data Warehouse Appliance, which integrates with Oracle to support a variety of data warehouse applications, including star-schema data marts, large-scale enterprise data warehouses, and operational data stores. Founded in 2002, PANTA Systems is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and maintains offices across multiple locations in the United States, including Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Washington, Texas, and California, as well as in several international cities such as Veenendaal, Stockholm, London, and Frankfurt.

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 specializes in developing and marketing wireless LAN infrastructure solutions that leverage virtualization to provide reliable wireless service for essential voice, video, and data applications. Since introducing its innovative virtual cell wireless architecture in 2003, Meru has distinguished itself from traditional hub-based WLAN systems. Its products offer enhanced performance, reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness, comparable to that of wired networking environments. The company supplies a range of wireless networking solutions, including WLAN systems and Air Traffic Control, catering to various enterprises and industries.

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 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, 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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