Guide Ventures

Guide Ventures, LLC was a seed and early stage venture capital fund focused on the entrepreneur. The Guide Fund II invested in new media, security software and financial systems. In addition to investments, Guide also provided experienced managers as consultants to companies for interim assignments.

Sarah J. Kingma

Director of Finance

David Kowalick

Senior Associate

Jim Thornton

MD

7 past transactions

CSA Medical

Series C in 2013
CSA Medical, Inc. develops and manufactures innovative spray cryotherapy medical devices aimed at the destruction of unwanted tissue in various medical fields, including dermatology, gynecology, and general surgery. The company's flagship product, the truFreeze spray cryotherapy device, utilizes cold liquid nitrogen as a cryosurgical tool, allowing for the targeted destruction of tissue while promoting the regeneration of healthy tissue. Additionally, CSA Medical offers the Rapid AV Spray Kit, which enhances the truFreeze system by reducing the time required for liquid nitrogen application. Founded in 1993 and originally known as Crymed Technologies, the company rebranded to CSA Medical in 2006 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, with a research and development facility located in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Bocada

Series C in 2005
Bocada, Inc. provides data protection management software. It offers Bocada Enterprise that collects, organizes, stores, and presents information from multi-vendor data protection applications; and Bocada Prism, a data protection service management solution. The company offers its products through partnerships with system integrators, solution providers, value added resellers, and independent consultants. It serves banking, consumer, biotech, health care, software, and telecom sectors. Bocada, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

nCircle Network Security

Series C in 2002
nCircle Network Security, Inc. provides agentless security risk and compliance management solutions. The company's products include IP360, the vulnerability and risk management solution that provides reporting, vulnerability prioritization, and remediation workflow designed to enable risk reduction; and Topology Risk Analyzer, which prioritizes vulnerabilities utilizing intelligence about the network layout. Its products also include Security Intelligence Hub, an open-architected reporting and integration point for collecting and sharing network intelligence across the enterprise security ecosystem; and nTellect, a threat prioritization system that leverages IP360's updated network intelligence to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of Cisco and McAfee's IDS and IPS. In addition, the company's products include Certified PCI Scan Service, an automated network security scan and reporting service, which enables customers to monitor and report on compliance with the PCI security standard; and Security Policy and Regulatory Compliance Solutions that compliance with internal security policies and automate security process, as well as support government- regulatory compliance solutions for FISMA and IAVA. It also provides configuration and regulatory compliance, reporting and analytics, and government solutions. The company offers vulnerabilities and exposures research team, consulting, and training services. Its security solutions are used by financial services, energy, utilities, retail, consumer goods, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, government, media, leisure, and technology enterprises, as well as government agencies and service providers to identify, measure, manage, and reduce security risk and automate compliance on their networks. The company was formerly known as Hiverworld, Inc. nCircle Network Security, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California with regional offices in Atlanta, Toronto, and London.

ShareBuilder

Series D in 2001
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nCircle Network Security

Series B in 2001
nCircle Network Security, Inc. provides agentless security risk and compliance management solutions. The company's products include IP360, the vulnerability and risk management solution that provides reporting, vulnerability prioritization, and remediation workflow designed to enable risk reduction; and Topology Risk Analyzer, which prioritizes vulnerabilities utilizing intelligence about the network layout. Its products also include Security Intelligence Hub, an open-architected reporting and integration point for collecting and sharing network intelligence across the enterprise security ecosystem; and nTellect, a threat prioritization system that leverages IP360's updated network intelligence to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of Cisco and McAfee's IDS and IPS. In addition, the company's products include Certified PCI Scan Service, an automated network security scan and reporting service, which enables customers to monitor and report on compliance with the PCI security standard; and Security Policy and Regulatory Compliance Solutions that compliance with internal security policies and automate security process, as well as support government- regulatory compliance solutions for FISMA and IAVA. It also provides configuration and regulatory compliance, reporting and analytics, and government solutions. The company offers vulnerabilities and exposures research team, consulting, and training services. Its security solutions are used by financial services, energy, utilities, retail, consumer goods, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, government, media, leisure, and technology enterprises, as well as government agencies and service providers to identify, measure, manage, and reduce security risk and automate compliance on their networks. The company was formerly known as Hiverworld, Inc. nCircle Network Security, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California with regional offices in Atlanta, Toronto, and London.

FizzyLab

Series B in 2000
FizzyLab develops new technology that manages information chaos on the internet.

theDial.com

Series B in 2000
theDial is an online platform that enables its users to listen to private labelled audio.