Lake Street Capital

Lake Street Capital, LLC is an investment firm established in 2003, with its headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, and an office in San Francisco, California. The firm specializes in direct and secondary direct investments, primarily focusing on late-stage companies in the technology, healthcare, and business services sectors. Lake Street Capital seeks to acquire venture capital, buyout, and private equity positions from existing investors, including corporations, financial institutions, and founders. The firm typically engages in transactions ranging from $1 million to over $50 million and also makes follow-on investments in selected portfolio companies. With a robust presence in the secondary direct market, Lake Street Capital manages two funds with over $400 million invested across more than 100 companies. The firm is recognized for its ability to provide liquidity and facilitate spin-outs of entire portfolios while targeting businesses with strong growth potential and solid business models.

Nhi Huynh

Principal

7 past transactions

LucidMedia

Series C in 2008
LucidMedia (www.lucidmedia.com) is a demand-side platform (DSP) for display advertising management and targeting that delivers optimized, direct response and brand advertising campaigns to advertisers and their interactive agencies. LucidMedia DSP™ with ClickSense® page-level analysis and intelligent real-time bidding (RTB) is available via self-service or as a managed service. The LucidMedia platform employs an easy-to-use and secure interface to deliver proprietary campaign optimization, consolidated buying across the Internet's largest repositories, unique insight into real-time inventory availability, universal frequency capping (UFC), and reach into 95% of the online population. Founded in 1999, LucidMedia processes 25 billion ad impressions every month for hundreds of major brand advertisers.

Silicon Genesis

Series C in 2007
Silicon Genesis Corporation specializes in manufacturing substrate technology, processes, and equipment for the semiconductor, solar, display, and optoelectronics industries, serving both domestic and international markets. The company focuses on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and strained-silicon products, as well as engineered multi-layer structures for advanced electronic and optoelectronic applications. Key offerings include a plasma-activation tool for bonding silicon wafers, the DB & C Tool for layer transfer applications, and a range of material processes for SOI and other engineered substrates. Silicon Genesis also provides intellectual property licensing, in-house application-engineering services, and process training and support. Established in 1997 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company transitioned to a fabless IP licensor and equipment provider in 2004, securing numerous licenses across various sectors. With a significant share of the semiconductor silicon wafer market, Silicon Genesis aims to expand into the solar cell market, tapping into high-growth segments across multiple industries.

Sequence Design

Venture Round in 2005
Sequence Design, Inc. specializes in power and signal integrity software solutions, offering a suite of tools designed to enhance the efficiency and reliability of system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Its products include the Power-Aware SoC Design Flow for comprehensive design from system level to signoff, and PowerTheater, which focuses on improving power efficiency. Additional offerings include Columbus-RLC Extraction for nanometer SoC designs, Columbus-Turbo for standard-cell designs, and Columbus-AMS for analog extraction. The company also provides CoolTime, a cell-based solution for concurrent analysis of various electrical integrity aspects in nanometer SoC designs. Sequence Design's tools are utilized by professionals in diverse sectors such as wireless communication, graphics, mobile computing, and networking. Established in 1995 and based in Santa Clara, California, the company was formerly known as Frequency Technology, Inc. and became a subsidiary of Apache Design Solutions, Inc. in 2009.

Frictionless Commerce

Venture Round in 2005
Frictionless Commerce is a provider of supplier relationship management software, specializing in sourcing solutions that help purchasing organizations optimize the acquisition of direct and indirect materials, services, and capital equipment. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Newton Square, Pennsylvania, with an additional office in London, the company serves a diverse range of industries, including banking, insurance, professional services, consumer products, discrete manufacturing, life sciences, telecommunications, and utilities. As of 2006, it operates as a subsidiary of SAP AG, enhancing its capabilities in the enterprise sourcing market.

Celion Networks

Series C in 2003
Celion Networks, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets enterprise optical networking products. The company markets an enterprise-class solution that enables transport of data over distance. It provides customer solutions for network design and dark fiber acquisition, hardware installation, network management, and long-term maintenance.

Network Elements

Series C in 2003
Network Elements specializes in the design and development of high-speed optical networking modules, specifically 10Gb/s and 40Gb/s products. The company focuses on innovations in high-speed optics, electronics, and multi-protocol ASICs, catering to various markets including core, metropolitan area, edge, and server applications. Their products are engineered to deliver high performance and integration within a single module, facilitating the creation of advanced optical networking equipment. Additionally, Network Elements emphasizes flexible, scalable, and configurable architectures to meet the evolving demands of the industry.

Ardence

Venture Round in 2000
Ardence is a provider of solutions that enables IT administrators to provision PCs, servers, and web services on-demand from a centrally managed source. Ardence software can support a dynamic desktop infrastructure, in which both the operating system (OS) and applications are delivered to a bare metal machine from virtual disks on a centralized server.
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