CrossBridge Venture Partners

CrossBridge Venture Partners is a private equity fund founded in 2000 and based in San Bruno, California, managed by a team of seasoned investment professionals with a proven track record. The firm primarily focuses on early to late-stage investments in U.S. technology companies and their subsidiaries in Asia, targeting sectors such as communications, software, the Internet, services, and semiconductors. CrossBridge aims to achieve substantial capital gains by connecting the growth of Silicon Valley technology firms with Asian markets. The firm employs a hands-on investment strategy that has historically yielded significant returns, with over half of its investments resulting in initial public offerings. With a network of co-investment partners and contacts in both the U.S. and Asia, CrossBridge offers portfolio companies strategic access to one of the world's largest markets. The management team comprises former senior partners from notable firms, bringing extensive experience in venture capital investing across both regions.

Victor Saito

Managing Director

11 past transactions

Bay Microsystems

Series E in 2007
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.

Tropic Networks

Venture Round in 2005
Tropic Networks, Inc. designs, develops, and markets regional and metro-area optical networking equipment for telephony, data, and cable applications. The company offers Wavelength Tracker, an optical transport solution that leverages SONET/SDH familiarity to deliver optical layer intelligence; and various services for Tropic Networks platform and its related products, including network design, planning and installation, operation and maintenance consulting, and evaluation and modeling of network architecture, as well as training and planned upgrades. It also provides Networks TRX-24000, a metro optical transport platform that delivers dense wavelength division multiplexing and optical add-drop multiplexing for a host of services in a package. The company offers metro-optimized network solution for carriers to plan, manage, and scale the MAN; and to address the need for bandwidth expansion, optical transport, wavelength identification, and wavelength management in regional and metropolitan-area optical networks. Its metro optical networking solution streamlines the underlying optical layer architecture of DWDM/ODAM networks. Tropic Networks, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Tak Imaging

Series C in 2005
TAK'ASIC is an innovator in dedicated imaging processors and solutions.

eSilicon

Series F in 2005
eSilicon, a pioneering semiconductor Value Chain Producer (VCP), provides a comprehensive suite of ASIC design, productization and manufacturing services, enabling a flexible, low-cost, lower-risk path to volume production of integrated circuits (ICs). The company delivers custom chips (ASICs) to system original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and fabless semiconductor companies (FSCs) who serve a wide variety of markets including the consumer, computer, communications and industrial segments. eSilicon creates a unique, optimized semiconductor Value Chain for each customer and each design - from design services and tools, to IP and materials suppliers, to test and packaging providers. By integrating this Value Chain with its internal expertise and proven eSilicon Enterpriseâ„¢ infrastructure, the ASIC services and solutions provider produces more than 10 million leading-edge chips per year.

YeePay

Series A in 2005
YeePay is a Chinese third-party payment service provider established in August 2003 by Beijing Rongtong Information Technology Corporation. The company focuses on delivering innovative financial services that facilitate secure and convenient payment transactions for consumers and merchants. YeePay offers a comprehensive platform that integrates both online and offline electronic payments, allowing users to make and receive payments through various channels, including the internet, mobile devices, and telephones. In addition to standard payment services, YeePay has introduced features such as text-messaging payment services and a telephone-payment service, which enhance payment options for traditional industries and streamline the electronic payment process.

Tropic Networks

Series D in 2004
Tropic Networks, Inc. designs, develops, and markets regional and metro-area optical networking equipment for telephony, data, and cable applications. The company offers Wavelength Tracker, an optical transport solution that leverages SONET/SDH familiarity to deliver optical layer intelligence; and various services for Tropic Networks platform and its related products, including network design, planning and installation, operation and maintenance consulting, and evaluation and modeling of network architecture, as well as training and planned upgrades. It also provides Networks TRX-24000, a metro optical transport platform that delivers dense wavelength division multiplexing and optical add-drop multiplexing for a host of services in a package. The company offers metro-optimized network solution for carriers to plan, manage, and scale the MAN; and to address the need for bandwidth expansion, optical transport, wavelength identification, and wavelength management in regional and metropolitan-area optical networks. Its metro optical networking solution streamlines the underlying optical layer architecture of DWDM/ODAM networks. Tropic Networks, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Tak Imaging

Series C in 2004
TAK'ASIC is an innovator in dedicated imaging processors and solutions.

Orchestria

Series C in 2004
Orchestria, a leader in Information Protection and Control, provides the software and solutions to help organizations protect and control this critical resource wherever it is stored or used and significantly reduce the risks associated with uncontrolled information. Orchestria addresses a broad set of risks while optimizing the operational burdens associated with the detection and remediation of these risks. Orchestria helps customers prevent data loss, address messaging compliance concerns, and enforce information classification and control.

Expand Beyond

Series B in 2003
Expand Beyond provides mobile systems management solutions. Its mobile software enables organizations to wirelessly access and control databases, networks, systems, and business applications. Expand Beyond was founded in January 2000 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Iolon

Series C in 2002
iolon, Inc., is a privately held optical networking components company. The company provides high performance tunable devices for advanced fiber optic networks. iolon s initial product is a high-powered, external cavity, tunable laser source ideal for high bit rate, long haul applications. Future product lines include tunable filters, optical switches, polarization controllers, spectral monitors and universal transponders. iolon s platform technology enables advanced automation for high volume manufacturing based on patented micro-optics, MEMS and advanced servo control technologies.

SteelEye Technology

Series B in 2001
SteelEye is a leading provider of data and application availability management solutions for business continuity and disaster recovery. The SteelEye LifeKeeper family of application-focused data replication, high availability clustering and disaster recovery solutions are easy to deploy and operate, and enable enterprises of all sizes to ensure continuous availability of business-critical applications, servers and data.
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