Pacifica Fund
Pacifica Fund is a venture capital firm located in Los Altos, California, specializing in early-stage investments in emerging information technology and materials science companies. The firm primarily targets small enterprises requiring funding between $1 million and $5 million, often investing between $1 million and $1.5 million per company. Pacifica Fund focuses on sectors such as energy efficiency, solid-state lighting, and cloud computing, while avoiding investments in content-driven services, biofuels, and coal-related technologies. It seeks to provide "mentor capital," combining financial support with strategic and operational guidance, leveraging the experience of its team in founding startups and managing large divisions. The firm prefers to take an active role by securing board seats in its portfolio companies and considers follow-on investments. With a keen interest in technical differentiation and sustainable business models, Pacifica Fund aims to bridge the funding gap that many entrepreneurs face in transforming innovative ideas into successful ventures.
Billeo Inc.
Series C in 2012
[Acquired by PaymentUs.] Billeo is a leading provider of online shopping and bill pay services since 2006, helping banks, card issuers and product marketplaces better engage, retain, and deepen consumer loyalty. Its services allow financial institutions and marketplaces to simplify and speed up the online and mobile shopping and payment process for their consumers.
Novariant, Inc. specializes in precision steering and positioning solutions, providing advanced technologies for applications that require high accuracy and consistency. The company offers a comprehensive range of products, including global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), positioning sensors, steering hardware, and software data services. Novariant's innovations cater to various industries, including precision agriculture, construction, and automotive sectors, enhancing productivity through effective machine control. Founded in 1994 and based in Fremont, California, Novariant was originally known as IntegriNautics Corporation and rebranded in 2004. In 2014, the company entered into an acquisition agreement with AgJunction Inc., a leading precision GPS company.
Billeo Inc.
Series B in 2007
[Acquired by PaymentUs.] Billeo is a leading provider of online shopping and bill pay services since 2006, helping banks, card issuers and product marketplaces better engage, retain, and deepen consumer loyalty. Its services allow financial institutions and marketplaces to simplify and speed up the online and mobile shopping and payment process for their consumers.
Bay Microsystems, Inc. specializes in designing and developing advanced network solutions, including network architectures, systems, software, and integrated circuits. The company provides a range of products such as ABEx, a network appliance that supports various network types including optical transport and packet-switched networks. Additionally, Bay Microsystems offers a portfolio of network processors, including Chesapeake, Montego, and Biscayne, which serve functions from programmable traffic management to classification. The Lighthouse Tool Suite serves as a development platform for network processor-based equipment, while BayPort acts as a demonstration and evaluation platform for the company's processors. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in San Jose, California, with an office in Germantown, Maryland, Bay Microsystems aims to enhance connectivity and data accessibility for enterprises across diverse geographic locations.
Intematix Corporation engages in developing, manufacturing, marketing, and selling nano, bulk, and thin film materials to light and imaging markets. The company offers phosphors materials for LED, CCFL, CFL, and security/detection applications; lighting solutions; and energy storage/clean energy materials technologies, including fuel cell and battery materials. It also provides chips and silicones in the greater China market. Intematix Corporation was founded in 2000 and is based in Fremont, California with a technology center in Yang Mei, Taiwan.
Cranite Systems, Inc. offers access solutions for SMBs, enterprises, and government markets. The company's products include SafeConnect, a remote access solution that enables enterprise connectivity from wireless hotspots and other public wireless, or wired locations; and WirelessWall, a software solution for securing wireless local area networks inside the enterprise. It delivers its products and services through a network of value-added resellers, integrators, and solution providers. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California.
Billeo Inc.
Series A in 2006
[Acquired by PaymentUs.] Billeo is a leading provider of online shopping and bill pay services since 2006, helping banks, card issuers and product marketplaces better engage, retain, and deepen consumer loyalty. Its services allow financial institutions and marketplaces to simplify and speed up the online and mobile shopping and payment process for their consumers.
Novariant, Inc. specializes in precision steering and positioning solutions, providing advanced technologies for applications that require high accuracy and consistency. The company offers a comprehensive range of products, including global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), positioning sensors, steering hardware, and software data services. Novariant's innovations cater to various industries, including precision agriculture, construction, and automotive sectors, enhancing productivity through effective machine control. Founded in 1994 and based in Fremont, California, Novariant was originally known as IntegriNautics Corporation and rebranded in 2004. In 2014, the company entered into an acquisition agreement with AgJunction Inc., a leading precision GPS company.
Clairvoyante, Inc.
Series B in 2004
Clairvoyante develops PenTile RGBW technology to optimize screen brightness, resolution, and power consumption of flat-panel liquid crystal displays that enables high-brightness and low-power displays that needs to support data-centric 3G applications and contents. Clairvoyante is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2000 by Candice Brown Elliott. The company was acquired by Samsung Electronics on March, 2008.
NanoNexus
Series C in 2003
NanoNexus, Inc. provides contactor and interconnect products for the electronics industry.
Cranite Systems, Inc. offers access solutions for SMBs, enterprises, and government markets. The company's products include SafeConnect, a remote access solution that enables enterprise connectivity from wireless hotspots and other public wireless, or wired locations; and WirelessWall, a software solution for securing wireless local area networks inside the enterprise. It delivers its products and services through a network of value-added resellers, integrators, and solution providers. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California.
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