SAS Investors

SAS Investors is a venture capital firm based in New York, specializing in seed and early-stage investments in technology companies. Founded in January 2001, the firm focuses on businesses located in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions of the United States, particularly in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. SAS Investors typically commits up to $1.25 million in initial funding and may invest up to $3 million throughout the company's life cycle. The firm aims to be the first institutional investor in its portfolio companies and often seeks co-investment opportunities. Supported by notable venture capital firms, SAS Investors is dedicated to fostering the growth of unique technology ventures by leveraging its extensive experience and resources to help companies develop effective go-to-market strategies and optimize their market entry.

Joshua Grotstein

Managing Partner and Co-Founder

23 past transactions

VisibleGains

Venture Round in 2009
VisibleGains Inc. is a company that specializes in developing applications aimed at enhancing communication between businesses and their customers. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, the company offers two primary products. The first is Postwire, which allows users to create private web pages for individual clients, enabling the collection and sharing of videos, photos, web links, and documents in a secure environment. The second product, VideoApps, focuses on creating interactive landing page videos to engage customers more effectively. Originally known as PermissionTV, Inc., the company rebranded to VisibleGains in October 2009, reflecting its commitment to improving customer engagement through innovative digital solutions.

Enpirion

Series E in 2009
Enpirion manufactures a growing line of Switch-mode DC-DC converters with integrated inductor, which sets their products apart from the competition. The layout and placement of the inductor is one of the most common reasons for power IC related failures and Enpirion solves this problem and reduces foot print, part count, and noise associated with switch-mode power conversion. Applications include high volume consumer products such as mobile phones, portable game players, MP3, and personal media players, as well as data networking, telecoms, user terminal equipment, and notebook/desktop PCs.

Motionbox

Series C in 2009
Video sharing service providing video format support and online space for sharing high-definition personal videos

Motionbox

Series B in 2007
Video sharing service providing video format support and online space for sharing high-definition personal videos

VisibleGains

Series C in 2007
VisibleGains Inc. is a company that specializes in developing applications aimed at enhancing communication between businesses and their customers. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, the company offers two primary products. The first is Postwire, which allows users to create private web pages for individual clients, enabling the collection and sharing of videos, photos, web links, and documents in a secure environment. The second product, VideoApps, focuses on creating interactive landing page videos to engage customers more effectively. Originally known as PermissionTV, Inc., the company rebranded to VisibleGains in October 2009, reflecting its commitment to improving customer engagement through innovative digital solutions.

PermissionTV

Series C in 2007
PermissionTV provides a flexible online video platform for brand marketers and advertisers, media companies and publishers, as well as their agencies, content producers and technology providers. This platform helps organizations leverage the power of online video to achieve their marketing objectives through the creation and management of customizable experiences. PermissionTV’s online video tools help customers such as Activision, Adobe, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Harvard Business Publishing and Intercontinental Hotels capture new audiences, enhance relationships, maximize customer value and generate revenue. Competitors include [Brightcove](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/brightcove), [Mogulus](http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/mogulus/) and [Limelight](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/limelight).

Backfence

Venture Round in 2006
Backfence, Inc. builds and operates advertising-backed, hyperlocal community Web sites. The company allows its Websites members to create virtual content, such as blogs, wikis, calendars, photo galleries, do-it-yourself ad tools, and related technologies. Its media self-publishing model provides local information to communities in the United States. The company displays advertisings, online classifieds, and yellow pages listings on its Websites. Backfence, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in McLean, Virginia.

Motionbox

Series A in 2006
Video sharing service providing video format support and online space for sharing high-definition personal videos

CebaTech

Series C in 2006
CebaTech, Inc. designs, develops, and licenses high-value silicon intellectual property (IP) cores. The company focuses on delivering hardware solutions that accelerate data and storage networking applications. Its products include CebaRIP cores, such as a family of advanced encryption standard IP cores that provide hardware encryption and decryption to meet data security needs; data deflate cores; and LZRW3, MD5, and SHA-1 cores, which are direct hardware embodiment of original software implementations that enable FPGA or ASIC solutions for data compression and decompression, and cryptographic hash functions. The company also provides software models for virtual prototyping cards and cores, as well as for early pre-hardware integration, test, performance analysis, and low-end performance application code. In addition, the company provides custom IP services, such as customer-specified features for CebaIP Cores; customer-specified IP development; and select turnkey FPGA or ASIC development services. Further, the company develops tunable silicon IP cores to accelerate the realization of software algorithms in silicon to boost the productivity of engineering teams focused on advanced SoC, ASIC, and FPGA systems design. CebaTech, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Eatontown, New Jersey.

Enpirion

Series C in 2006
Enpirion manufactures a growing line of Switch-mode DC-DC converters with integrated inductor, which sets their products apart from the competition. The layout and placement of the inductor is one of the most common reasons for power IC related failures and Enpirion solves this problem and reduces foot print, part count, and noise associated with switch-mode power conversion. Applications include high volume consumer products such as mobile phones, portable game players, MP3, and personal media players, as well as data networking, telecoms, user terminal equipment, and notebook/desktop PCs.

Lightspeed Audio Labs

Seed Round in 2006
Lightspeed Audio Labs, Inc. is based in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, and specializes in developing a media collaboration platform designed for musicians. This platform facilitates real-time online collaboration, enabling artists to create and produce audio content together over the Internet.

Multispectral Imaging

Series B in 2005
Multispectral Imaging, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and supplies infrared imaging detectors and arrays. The company provides technologies for night vision and thermal-imaging products. Its solutions include infrared imaging array detector modules that use microelectromechanical sensor and ROIC technologies to produce detectors with sensitivities; and microcantilever detector technologies, which enable detector sensitivities to the infrared detection approach. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Parsippany, New Jersey with a branch office in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As of April 4, 2008, Multispectral Imaging, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Agiltron, Inc.

VisibleGains

Series B in 2005
VisibleGains Inc. is a company that specializes in developing applications aimed at enhancing communication between businesses and their customers. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, the company offers two primary products. The first is Postwire, which allows users to create private web pages for individual clients, enabling the collection and sharing of videos, photos, web links, and documents in a secure environment. The second product, VideoApps, focuses on creating interactive landing page videos to engage customers more effectively. Originally known as PermissionTV, Inc., the company rebranded to VisibleGains in October 2009, reflecting its commitment to improving customer engagement through innovative digital solutions.

Textronics

Series A in 2005
Textronics, Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells wearable textile sensor components and a line of clothes for use in fitness and health monitoring. It provides soft textile sensors used in wearable vital signs monitoring applications to sense the electrical activity of the body; and elastic yarns, which are building block fibers used to weave or knit conductive or optical fabric structures. The company also offers nano-composite elastomeric polymers that exhibit changes in electrical conductivity; elastic conductive ribbons that attach to standard electronic connectors to provide motion-absorbing; and heart sensing sports bras. In addition, it provides a developer's kit that includes textile electrodes to designers, researchers, and product developers for use in creating interactive wearable prototypes. The company's textile sensors capture physiologic data from the body and are designed to integrate into everyday garments. Its products are used in sports and fitness, health and wellness, military and public safety, home textiles, personal electronics, and industrial markets. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. As of November 6, 2008, Textronics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Adidas International B.V.

PermissionTV

Series B in 2005
PermissionTV provides a flexible online video platform for brand marketers and advertisers, media companies and publishers, as well as their agencies, content producers and technology providers. This platform helps organizations leverage the power of online video to achieve their marketing objectives through the creation and management of customizable experiences. PermissionTV’s online video tools help customers such as Activision, Adobe, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Harvard Business Publishing and Intercontinental Hotels capture new audiences, enhance relationships, maximize customer value and generate revenue. Competitors include [Brightcove](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/brightcove), [Mogulus](http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/mogulus/) and [Limelight](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/limelight).

Velox Semiconductor

Series A in 2005
Velox Semiconductor Corporation manufactures gallium nitride power semiconductors. The company offers gallium nitride transistors and diodes; and schottky rectifiers, which are used in power factor correction, switch mode power supplies, and freewheeling diode applications. It serves the power supply industry, as well as automotive, industrial, computer, and telecom markets. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Somerset, New Jersey.

Tacit Networks

Series C in 2005
As of May 8, 2006, Tacit Networks, Inc. was acquired by Packeteer, Inc. Tacit Networks, Inc. provides wide area file services and wide area network optimization solutions for branch office and remote users. It offers IShared products, which enable businesses to consolidate, accelerate, and control information. The company provides file, exchange, management, networking, Web, and print services. It offers its products and services directly and through integrated network reseller partners program. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in South Plainfield, New Jersey.

CebaTech

Series B in 2005
CebaTech, Inc. designs, develops, and licenses high-value silicon intellectual property (IP) cores. The company focuses on delivering hardware solutions that accelerate data and storage networking applications. Its products include CebaRIP cores, such as a family of advanced encryption standard IP cores that provide hardware encryption and decryption to meet data security needs; data deflate cores; and LZRW3, MD5, and SHA-1 cores, which are direct hardware embodiment of original software implementations that enable FPGA or ASIC solutions for data compression and decompression, and cryptographic hash functions. The company also provides software models for virtual prototyping cards and cores, as well as for early pre-hardware integration, test, performance analysis, and low-end performance application code. In addition, the company provides custom IP services, such as customer-specified features for CebaIP Cores; customer-specified IP development; and select turnkey FPGA or ASIC development services. Further, the company develops tunable silicon IP cores to accelerate the realization of software algorithms in silicon to boost the productivity of engineering teams focused on advanced SoC, ASIC, and FPGA systems design. CebaTech, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Eatontown, New Jersey.
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Enpirion

Series B in 2004
Enpirion manufactures a growing line of Switch-mode DC-DC converters with integrated inductor, which sets their products apart from the competition. The layout and placement of the inductor is one of the most common reasons for power IC related failures and Enpirion solves this problem and reduces foot print, part count, and noise associated with switch-mode power conversion. Applications include high volume consumer products such as mobile phones, portable game players, MP3, and personal media players, as well as data networking, telecoms, user terminal equipment, and notebook/desktop PCs.

PermissionTV

Series A in 2004
PermissionTV provides a flexible online video platform for brand marketers and advertisers, media companies and publishers, as well as their agencies, content producers and technology providers. This platform helps organizations leverage the power of online video to achieve their marketing objectives through the creation and management of customizable experiences. PermissionTV’s online video tools help customers such as Activision, Adobe, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Harvard Business Publishing and Intercontinental Hotels capture new audiences, enhance relationships, maximize customer value and generate revenue. Competitors include [Brightcove](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/brightcove), [Mogulus](http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/mogulus/) and [Limelight](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/limelight).
Protonex is opening up a world of new energy by revolutionizing the way you can use portable power. Tap into tomorrow's power today and find the product that best suits your changing portable power needs. Protonex power solutions offer numerous advantages over batteries and generators

HydroGlobe

Series A in 2003
HydroGlobe, the award-winning environmental company with leading edge, patent-pending products for removal of heavy metals from water at a fraction of the cost of the current technology. Whether your groundwater or process wastewater has a high concentration of heavy metals or your drinking water is contaminated by arsenic, you can count on HydroGlobe products to solve your problem efficiently and affordably.