Clear Ventures

Clear Ventures is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Chris Rust and Rajeev Madhavan. Specializing in early-stage investments in business technology and services, the firm provides support to startup teams in the United States, Canada, Israel, India, and Europe. With a focus on very-early stage companies, Clear Ventures offers access to customers, talent, and industry insights to help startups grow into market-leading companies. Based in Palo Alto, California, Clear Ventures seeks to invest between $0.01 million and $4 million in promising startups in the San Francisco Bay area. Visit Clear online at www.clear.ventures for more information.

Christopher J. Rust

Partner

78 past transactions

Frore Systems

Series A in 2018
Frore Systems is a operator of an engineering company intended to offer micro electromechanical systems.The company is currently operating in a Stealth mode.

LVL7 Systems

Series C in 2005
LVL7 Systems, Inc. provides networking software solutions. It offers FASTPATH, a production-ready networking software, which is used by original equipment manufacturers and original design manufacturers to implement Internet protocol and ethernet products. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina. As of January 3, 2007, LVL7 Systems, Inc. is a subsidiary of Broadcom Corp.

Espresa

Seed Round in 2015
Espresa is an only all-in-one culture benefits platform that supports HR and people teams with the design, implementation, communication, and scaling of culture benefit programs. It serves as a cloud platform and vendor network for services to improve work-life balance, increase productivity, and attract and retain the best people. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Tignis

Seed Round in 2018
Tignis is an information technology company that enables hardware and software vendors to continually monitor performance data while their products are in use. Using real-time edge computing, machine learning, and customer-specific controls, vendors can quickly identify and proactively remedy performance issues and predict problems before they occur. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Washington, United States.

Arrcus

Series D in 2023
Arrcus, Inc. designs and develops closed-source operating systems for switches and routers. Its operating system software enables organizations to build scalable infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud network environments. Its products include ArcOS, a software-driven, hardware agnostic network operating system; ArcRR, a 64-bit route reflector; ArcIQ, an analytics platform that provides networking professionals with real-time views of the networks and devices with insights for incident management and troubleshooting; and Arrcus VDR, a routing platform; Arrcus IP/EVPN Clos solution; and Arrcus multi-cloud networking platform. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Jose, California.

Concentric

Venture Round in 2020
Concentric Inc. provides agent-based simulation technology. Its technology helps organizations to integrate data and tools into a single framework; attribute the impact of marketing investments; forecast sales and brand metrics; and test future strategies. The company offers services in the areas of licensing, consulting, support, and development aspects. It serves customers in the United States and internationally. Concentric Inc. has a strategic alliance with Phoenix Strategic Advisors. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Abrizio

Series A in 1998
Abrizio designs and provides semiconductors, specializing in terabit network switching technology for voice and data carrier infrastructure.

Opsera

Series A in 2021
At Opsera, we share a vision for the future of software delivery. Our vision is to empower software and DevOps engineers to deliver software faster, safer and smarter by providing them with a continuous orchestration platform that enables choice of any CI/CD tools and no-code automation across the entire DevOps life cycle. Opsera’s continuous orchestration platform provides self-service toolchain automation, drag-and-drop declarative pipelines, and unified insights. With Opsera, development teams can increase software velocity while using the tools they want, operations teams gain improved efficiency while reducing risk and complexity, and business leaders have unparalleled visibility. Opsera believes that DevOps has transformed from an aspiration to a practical science, and its platform is purpose-built to help organizations accelerate DevOps adoption and reach peak innovation velocity.

Tignis

Series A in 2022
Tignis is an information technology company that enables hardware and software vendors to continually monitor performance data while their products are in use. Using real-time edge computing, machine learning, and customer-specific controls, vendors can quickly identify and proactively remedy performance issues and predict problems before they occur. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Washington, United States.

Reflektion

Private Placement in 2020
Reflektion’s AI-powered personalization platform listens to the behaviors of each individual shopper, utilizes artificial intelligence to calculate their preferences and intent, and then responds to every moment-to-moment interaction by displaying the most relevant content and products in real-time and across the digital touchpoints that matter most—including site search, product recommendations, category and landing pages, and email. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Falcon Computing

Series B in 2017
Falcon Computing enables data scientists and software developers working in Genomics, Machine Learning, Finance, and Computer Vision to simplify their path to heterogeneous accelerated computing. With a simple push-button C/C++ to a highly-optimized FPGA implementation for both public and private clouds, users can achieve performance, energy-efficiency, and productivity gains. Falcon Computing was founded in 2014 by Dr. Jason Cong, serial entrepreneur and Director of the Center for Domain-Specific Computing (CDSC) at UCLA. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA with offices in Los Angeles and Beijing.

Arrcus

Series B in 2019
Arrcus, Inc. designs and develops closed-source operating systems for switches and routers. Its operating system software enables organizations to build scalable infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud network environments. Its products include ArcOS, a software-driven, hardware agnostic network operating system; ArcRR, a 64-bit route reflector; ArcIQ, an analytics platform that provides networking professionals with real-time views of the networks and devices with insights for incident management and troubleshooting; and Arrcus VDR, a routing platform; Arrcus IP/EVPN Clos solution; and Arrcus multi-cloud networking platform. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Jose, California.

Atmosic

Private Placement in 2018
Atmosic Technologies, Inc. operates as a fabless semiconductor company. It designs ultra-low power wireless technologies to dramatically reduce and disrupt device dependency on batteries, focusing to deliver battery life and the battery free connected Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The company’s products enable the IoT device ecosystem—designers and manufacturers, developers, and end users to reduce costs and efforts associated with maintaining the IoT in personal, home, auto, healthcare, industrial, enterprise, and smart cities segments. Atmosic Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Campbell, California.

Concentric AI

Seed Round in 2020
Concentric’s Semantic Intelligence solution delivers data risk insights across the entire inventory of sensitive documents in the cloud and on-premises. Its deep learning technology examines each document’s content and context for efficient actionable security. It scans the documents, identifies sensitive or business-critical data, evaluates the risk each document poses and highlights critical concerns that need immediate attention. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

DuneNetworks

Series B in 2008
Dune Networks is a fabless semiconductor supplier of networking devices which facilitate the building of Data Center, Enterprise and Carrier Ethernet Switching Platforms. They provide switching solutions which are scalable in capacity, port rate and service schemes, effectively extending the life cycle of packet platforms from 3 years (legacy-based systems) to 10 years and beyond, subsequently revolutionizing the economics of packet network deployment.

Santur Corporation

Series A in 2001
Santur Corporation was founded in November 2000 and focused to commercialize laser array and packaging technologies for communications. The first application applied these technologies to tunable lasers. As communications systems move from static point-to-point links to mesh and reconfigurable WDM networks, the need for tunability becomes paramount to allow flexibility and cost reduction.

Falcon Computing

Series A in 2015
Falcon Computing enables data scientists and software developers working in Genomics, Machine Learning, Finance, and Computer Vision to simplify their path to heterogeneous accelerated computing. With a simple push-button C/C++ to a highly-optimized FPGA implementation for both public and private clouds, users can achieve performance, energy-efficiency, and productivity gains. Falcon Computing was founded in 2014 by Dr. Jason Cong, serial entrepreneur and Director of the Center for Domain-Specific Computing (CDSC) at UCLA. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA with offices in Los Angeles and Beijing.

Groupon

Series A in 2008
Groupon is a deal-of-the-day website that offers discounted gift certificates usable at local or national companies. It is known as an online e-commerce platform that provides its users with the ability to purchase any product. Groupon offers consumers a vast marketplace of deals all over the world. Its users have the ability to discover various products on the web or on mobile with Groupon Local; enjoy vacations with Groupon Getaways; and find a curated selection of electronics, fashion, home furnishings, and more with Groupon Goods. Groupon provides merchants with a collection of products and services, including customizable deal campaigns, credit card payment processing capabilities, and point-of-sale solutions. The platform was launched in 2011 and is based in Chicago Heights, I.L.

Turin Networks

Series A in 1999
Turin Networks, Inc. is a leading global provider of Carrier Ethernet solutions for wireline and wireless network operators. The company's iConnectâ„¢ solutions pragmatically address the real-world challenges for network operators deploying networks for Wireless Backhaul, Carrier Ethernet and Converged Services.

Arrcus

Private Placement in 2019
Arrcus, Inc. designs and develops closed-source operating systems for switches and routers. Its operating system software enables organizations to build scalable infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud network environments. Its products include ArcOS, a software-driven, hardware agnostic network operating system; ArcRR, a 64-bit route reflector; ArcIQ, an analytics platform that provides networking professionals with real-time views of the networks and devices with insights for incident management and troubleshooting; and Arrcus VDR, a routing platform; Arrcus IP/EVPN Clos solution; and Arrcus multi-cloud networking platform. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Jose, California.

Telera

Series A in 1998
Provider of a software platform for advanced voice applications. The company's flagship Voice Web Application Platform enables both wireline and wireless service providers to deliver advanced, business-centric voice applications. By leveraging new technologies like Voice XML customer service, commerce transaction, and self-service applications provide a more personalized and interactive caller experience, and ensure that mobile corporate users have equal access to time-critical business and customer information.

Afara Websystems

Seed Round in 2000
Afara Websystems is a develops SPARC-based microprocessor technology for web-based and other large access servers.

Wootcloud

Seed Round in 2017
WootCloud Inc. develops Internet of Things (IoT) security solution in California. The company offers HyperContext powered security, an online platform that provides insights by combining device context, network data, and threat intelligence. It use for computers, cell phones, smart TVs, and bluetooth devices. WootCloud Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Jose, California with additional offices in India and Argentina.

Arrcus

Venture Round in 2021
Arrcus, Inc. designs and develops closed-source operating systems for switches and routers. Its operating system software enables organizations to build scalable infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud network environments. Its products include ArcOS, a software-driven, hardware agnostic network operating system; ArcRR, a 64-bit route reflector; ArcIQ, an analytics platform that provides networking professionals with real-time views of the networks and devices with insights for incident management and troubleshooting; and Arrcus VDR, a routing platform; Arrcus IP/EVPN Clos solution; and Arrcus multi-cloud networking platform. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Jose, California.

Frore Systems

Series C in 2022
Frore Systems is a operator of an engineering company intended to offer micro electromechanical systems.The company is currently operating in a Stealth mode.

Arrcus

Series D in 2023
Arrcus, Inc. designs and develops closed-source operating systems for switches and routers. Its operating system software enables organizations to build scalable infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud network environments. Its products include ArcOS, a software-driven, hardware agnostic network operating system; ArcRR, a 64-bit route reflector; ArcIQ, an analytics platform that provides networking professionals with real-time views of the networks and devices with insights for incident management and troubleshooting; and Arrcus VDR, a routing platform; Arrcus IP/EVPN Clos solution; and Arrcus multi-cloud networking platform. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Jose, California.

Peel

Seed Round in 2009
Peel is revolutionizing the home entertainment and home control experience by integrating device control and content discovery into one easy-to-navigate universal Peel Smart Remote app and platform, which has 130M-plus registered users globally, generating 10 billion remote commands a month. Peel drives brand engagement and TV tune-in through its True Tune-in™ products, which are used by major TV networks, such as CW, HISTORY, and National Geographic to promote trackable viewership.

AICrete

Seed Round in 2022
AICrete is the only recipe-as-a-service platform optimizing local materials for cleaner and more cost-efficient concrete.

Atmosic

Series A in 2017
Atmosic Technologies, Inc. operates as a fabless semiconductor company. It designs ultra-low power wireless technologies to dramatically reduce and disrupt device dependency on batteries, focusing to deliver battery life and the battery free connected Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The company’s products enable the IoT device ecosystem—designers and manufacturers, developers, and end users to reduce costs and efforts associated with maintaining the IoT in personal, home, auto, healthcare, industrial, enterprise, and smart cities segments. Atmosic Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Campbell, California.

Concentric AI

Series A in 2022
Concentric’s Semantic Intelligence solution delivers data risk insights across the entire inventory of sensitive documents in the cloud and on-premises. Its deep learning technology examines each document’s content and context for efficient actionable security. It scans the documents, identifies sensitive or business-critical data, evaluates the risk each document poses and highlights critical concerns that need immediate attention. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Avicena Tech

Seed Round in 2019
It has been known for decades that optical interconnects have the potential to provide significant benefits even at lengths down to 1 millimeter and below. Silicon photonics, plasmonics, and other high-volume commercial technologies have reached a tipping point where they can be used to address critical chip-to-chip interconnect needs. Avicena’s ultra-dense, low-latency, low-cost, low-power optical interconnects revolutionize inter-chip communications and vastly improve the performance of systems that are hampered by legacy chip-to-chip interconnects.

Arrcus

Private Placement in 2018
Arrcus, Inc. designs and develops closed-source operating systems for switches and routers. Its operating system software enables organizations to build scalable infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud network environments. Its products include ArcOS, a software-driven, hardware agnostic network operating system; ArcRR, a 64-bit route reflector; ArcIQ, an analytics platform that provides networking professionals with real-time views of the networks and devices with insights for incident management and troubleshooting; and Arrcus VDR, a routing platform; Arrcus IP/EVPN Clos solution; and Arrcus multi-cloud networking platform. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Jose, California.

Arrcus

Seed Round in 2016
Arrcus, Inc. designs and develops closed-source operating systems for switches and routers. Its operating system software enables organizations to build scalable infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud network environments. Its products include ArcOS, a software-driven, hardware agnostic network operating system; ArcRR, a 64-bit route reflector; ArcIQ, an analytics platform that provides networking professionals with real-time views of the networks and devices with insights for incident management and troubleshooting; and Arrcus VDR, a routing platform; Arrcus IP/EVPN Clos solution; and Arrcus multi-cloud networking platform. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Jose, California.

GoPro

Series A in 2011
GoPro is an activity image capture company. It is a brand of personal cameras used in extreme action video photography. GoPro produces HD HERO, a line of wearable and gear-mountable cameras and accessories, making it easy for people to capture and share their lives' most exciting moments in high definition. GoPro's products are sold through specialty retailers in more than 50 countries and online. Founded in 2002 by Nicholas Woodman, GoPro is headquartered in San Mateo, California, United States.

Swift Navigation

Series B in 2017
Swift Navigation, Inc. develops hardware and software in the area of global positioning system (GPS). It offers Piksi Multi GNSS Module, a multi-band, multi-constellation RTK GNSS receiver that provides centimeter-level accuracy; Duro Ruggedized Receiver, a ruggedized version of the Piksi Multi RTK GNSS receiver for agricultural, robotics, maritime, and outdoor industrial applications; Skylark cloud corrections service; Starling, a GNSS positioning engine designed for automotive and autonomous vehicle applications; and accessories, such as GNSS modules, radios, antennas, and cables. It offers its products online. Swift Navigation, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional location in Melbourne, Australia.

Reflektion

Series B in 2017
Reflektion’s AI-powered personalization platform listens to the behaviors of each individual shopper, utilizes artificial intelligence to calculate their preferences and intent, and then responds to every moment-to-moment interaction by displaying the most relevant content and products in real-time and across the digital touchpoints that matter most—including site search, product recommendations, category and landing pages, and email. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Tignis

Venture Round in 2018
Tignis is an information technology company that enables hardware and software vendors to continually monitor performance data while their products are in use. Using real-time edge computing, machine learning, and customer-specific controls, vendors can quickly identify and proactively remedy performance issues and predict problems before they occur. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Washington, United States.

Robin.io

Private Placement in 2018
Robin Systems, Inc. operates as an application virtualization software company that provides application-defined data center software solutions to enterprises. The company offers Robin Application Virtualization Platform (AVP), a container-based compute and storage platform that liberates applications from servers, VMs, and storage boundaries. Its Robin AVP transforms commodity hardware into a compute, storage, and data continuum that enables applications to share a server or machine; transparent application mobility across machines; and application deployment and lifecycle management. The company also owns and operates hyper-converged Kubernetes platform for roll out of information technology and business initiatives for big data, databases, and artificial intelligence markup language. The company has strategic alliance with Parallel Wireless, Inc. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Jose, California.

Wootcloud

Seed Round in 2019
WootCloud Inc. develops Internet of Things (IoT) security solution in California. The company offers HyperContext powered security, an online platform that provides insights by combining device context, network data, and threat intelligence. It use for computers, cell phones, smart TVs, and bluetooth devices. WootCloud Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Jose, California with additional offices in India and Argentina.

Kaiam

Seed Round in 2010
Kaiam is a private company commercializing photonic integrated circuits. In plain language, they specialize in the design and manufacture of gadgets that help transmit and receive data at very high speeds. The company also manufactures optronics equipment for computer networking and hyper-scale data centers. It also uses micromachined silicon, a demonstrated the CWDM4, a 100 Gigabit-per-second coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) silicon photonics transceiver using silicon modules and receivers.

Opsera

Seed Round in 2019
At Opsera, we share a vision for the future of software delivery. Our vision is to empower software and DevOps engineers to deliver software faster, safer and smarter by providing them with a continuous orchestration platform that enables choice of any CI/CD tools and no-code automation across the entire DevOps life cycle. Opsera’s continuous orchestration platform provides self-service toolchain automation, drag-and-drop declarative pipelines, and unified insights. With Opsera, development teams can increase software velocity while using the tools they want, operations teams gain improved efficiency while reducing risk and complexity, and business leaders have unparalleled visibility. Opsera believes that DevOps has transformed from an aspiration to a practical science, and its platform is purpose-built to help organizations accelerate DevOps adoption and reach peak innovation velocity.

Robin.io

Series A in 2017
Robin Systems, Inc. operates as an application virtualization software company that provides application-defined data center software solutions to enterprises. The company offers Robin Application Virtualization Platform (AVP), a container-based compute and storage platform that liberates applications from servers, VMs, and storage boundaries. Its Robin AVP transforms commodity hardware into a compute, storage, and data continuum that enables applications to share a server or machine; transparent application mobility across machines; and application deployment and lifecycle management. The company also owns and operates hyper-converged Kubernetes platform for roll out of information technology and business initiatives for big data, databases, and artificial intelligence markup language. The company has strategic alliance with Parallel Wireless, Inc. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Jose, California.

Apigee

Series A in 2005
Apigee is a provider of API technology and services for enterprises and developers. The platform gives enterprises control over and visibility into the APIs that connect applications and data, across the enterprise and across clouds. Hundreds of companies including Walgreens, Bechtel, eBay, Pearson, and Gilt Groupe as well as tens of thousands of developers use Apigee to simplify the delivery, management and analysis of APIs and apps. Apigee's global headquarters are in Palo Alto, California, and it also has offices in Bangalore, India; London; and Austin, Texas.

Arrcus

Series A in 2018
Arrcus, Inc. designs and develops closed-source operating systems for switches and routers. Its operating system software enables organizations to build scalable infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud network environments. Its products include ArcOS, a software-driven, hardware agnostic network operating system; ArcRR, a 64-bit route reflector; ArcIQ, an analytics platform that provides networking professionals with real-time views of the networks and devices with insights for incident management and troubleshooting; and Arrcus VDR, a routing platform; Arrcus IP/EVPN Clos solution; and Arrcus multi-cloud networking platform. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Jose, California.

YuMe

Seed Round in 2005
YuMe is a provider of digital video brand advertising solutions that drives inventory monetization and enables advertisers to reach targeted audiences across a wide range of internet-connected devices. Designed to serve the specific needs of brand advertising, its technology platform simplifies the complexities associated with delivering effective digital video advertising campaigns in today’s market. YuMe was founded in 2004 by [Jayant Kadambi](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/jayant-kadambi#/entity) and [Ayyappan Sankaran](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/ayyappan-sankaran#/entity). It is headquartered in Redwood City, C.A. with European headquarters in London and nine additional offices worldwide.

Concentric AI

Private Placement in 2020
Concentric’s Semantic Intelligence solution delivers data risk insights across the entire inventory of sensitive documents in the cloud and on-premises. Its deep learning technology examines each document’s content and context for efficient actionable security. It scans the documents, identifies sensitive or business-critical data, evaluates the risk each document poses and highlights critical concerns that need immediate attention. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Syndesis

Series A in 1999
Syndesis has captured the market in high-efficiency, end-to-end provisioning and activation solutions that are critical for service offerings like Triple Play, Ethernet and DSL. CoManage is renowned for industry-leading data integrity management solutions that enable service providers to improve the quality of data used in service management and revenue assurance processes.

WaterGuru

Venture Round in 2018
WaterGuru, Inc. develops and manufactures a device for testing and treating pool water. Its device enables to test pool temperature and pH and chlorine levels. The company also develops an application to monitor pool and the device remotely. WaterGuru, Inc. was formerly known as Waterpods, Inc. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Virident Systems

Seed Round in 2006
Computer company designing and building enterprise-class data storage devices

SwitchOn Networks

Seed Round in 1999
SwitchOn Networks is a provider of semiconductor and software components to the Content and Policy-based networking.The company's products enable next generation network equipment, including web and content switches, CMTS, DSLAM, enterprise routers, edge routers, bandwidth managers, VPNs, Firewalls and Intrusion detection systems.

LogicVision

Seed Round in 1992
LogicVision, Inc. operates as a test and yield learning company in the semiconductor design-for-test sector. The company offers a portfolio of products for the automated development, integration, and deployment of embedded test technology. Its products comprise technology products, which include the embedded test technology that enables customers to design and manufacture the company’s embedded test circuit structures. The company was formerly known as LV Software and changed its name to LogicVision, Inc. in June 1996. LogicVision was founded in 1992 and is based in San Jose, California. As of August 18, 2009, LogicVision Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Mentor Graphics Corp.

Vera

Series A in 2014
Vera enables organizations to secure, track, and revoke access to confidential data, across any platform or device. Vera encrypts and protects critical enterprise data while still allowing collaborators to create, access, edit, store, and share data easily using the apps, web services (e.g. Box, Dropbox), and devices they prefer. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Virtual Power Systems

Series A in 2016
Virtual Power Systems, Inc. provides software defined data centers. It offers VPS ICE, a software application suite that uses existing infrastructure footprint to deliver power within the data center by elasticizing it as a resource. The company also provides commercial off-the-shelf hardware that allows users to share power between racks, control power on IT nodes, and utilize various power sources. In addition, its solutions include optimizing data center, ICE power capacity manager, ICE power bursting, ICE power peak shaving, and ICE dynamic power. Virtual Power Systems, Inc. was formerly known as Virtual Power Conversion, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Milpitas, California.

VxTel

Series A in 1999
VxTel provides silicon solutions for next-generation carrier networks. The company's products use a unique signal-processing architecture optimized for voice, data and telecommunication, and multimedia applications. By providing key technology for carrier class switches, VxTel will help accelerate the adoption and expansion of packet-based networks for voice and advanced services. The company's current focus is on enabling the highest density voice-over-packet systems supporting hundreds of thousands of channels across the full range of voice processing applications. VxTel, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.

SOHA SYSTEMS

Seed Round in 2013
Soha Systems, Inc. provides cloud-based enterprise-grade application security services to developers, IT/security teams, and CIOs. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. As of October 4, 2016, Soha Systems, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Frore Systems

Series C in 2024
Frore Systems is a operator of an engineering company intended to offer micro electromechanical systems.The company is currently operating in a Stealth mode.

Espresa

Series A in 2023
Espresa is an only all-in-one culture benefits platform that supports HR and people teams with the design, implementation, communication, and scaling of culture benefit programs. It serves as a cloud platform and vendor network for services to improve work-life balance, increase productivity, and attract and retain the best people. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Opsera

Series A in 2023
At Opsera, we share a vision for the future of software delivery. Our vision is to empower software and DevOps engineers to deliver software faster, safer and smarter by providing them with a continuous orchestration platform that enables choice of any CI/CD tools and no-code automation across the entire DevOps life cycle. Opsera’s continuous orchestration platform provides self-service toolchain automation, drag-and-drop declarative pipelines, and unified insights. With Opsera, development teams can increase software velocity while using the tools they want, operations teams gain improved efficiency while reducing risk and complexity, and business leaders have unparalleled visibility. Opsera believes that DevOps has transformed from an aspiration to a practical science, and its platform is purpose-built to help organizations accelerate DevOps adoption and reach peak innovation velocity.

Avicena Tech

Series A in 2022
It has been known for decades that optical interconnects have the potential to provide significant benefits even at lengths down to 1 millimeter and below. Silicon photonics, plasmonics, and other high-volume commercial technologies have reached a tipping point where they can be used to address critical chip-to-chip interconnect needs. Avicena’s ultra-dense, low-latency, low-cost, low-power optical interconnects revolutionize inter-chip communications and vastly improve the performance of systems that are hampered by legacy chip-to-chip interconnects.

Arrcus

Venture Round in 2024
Arrcus, Inc. designs and develops closed-source operating systems for switches and routers. Its operating system software enables organizations to build scalable infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud network environments. Its products include ArcOS, a software-driven, hardware agnostic network operating system; ArcRR, a 64-bit route reflector; ArcIQ, an analytics platform that provides networking professionals with real-time views of the networks and devices with insights for incident management and troubleshooting; and Arrcus VDR, a routing platform; Arrcus IP/EVPN Clos solution; and Arrcus multi-cloud networking platform. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Jose, California.

Onetta

Series A in 2000
Onetta was the first vendor to build a dynamic optical amplifier for metro transport networks.

AutoESL

Seed Round in 2010
AutoESL Design Technologies, Inc. provides high level synthesis tools for FPGA and ASIC design applications. AutoESL Design Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Cupertino, California. As of January 31, 2011, AutoESL Design Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Xilinx Inc.

ZEROSOFT

Seed Round in 2007
Zerosoft Inc. is a privately held company provides concurrent simulations of a hardware design.

Robin.io

Series C in 2021
Robin Systems, Inc. operates as an application virtualization software company that provides application-defined data center software solutions to enterprises. The company offers Robin Application Virtualization Platform (AVP), a container-based compute and storage platform that liberates applications from servers, VMs, and storage boundaries. Its Robin AVP transforms commodity hardware into a compute, storage, and data continuum that enables applications to share a server or machine; transparent application mobility across machines; and application deployment and lifecycle management. The company also owns and operates hyper-converged Kubernetes platform for roll out of information technology and business initiatives for big data, databases, and artificial intelligence markup language. The company has strategic alliance with Parallel Wireless, Inc. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Jose, California.

Mellanox Technologies

Series A in 1999
Mellanox Technologies is a supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for servers and storage that optimize data center performance. Mellanox products deliver market-leading bandwidth, performance, scalability, power conservation and cost-effectiveness while converging multiple legacy network technologies into one future-proof solution. For the best in performance and scalability, Mellanox is the choice for Fortune 500 data centers and the world's most powerful supercomputers. Founded in 1999, Mellanox Technologies is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and Yokneam, Israel.

Robin.io

Series B in 2018
Robin Systems, Inc. operates as an application virtualization software company that provides application-defined data center software solutions to enterprises. The company offers Robin Application Virtualization Platform (AVP), a container-based compute and storage platform that liberates applications from servers, VMs, and storage boundaries. Its Robin AVP transforms commodity hardware into a compute, storage, and data continuum that enables applications to share a server or machine; transparent application mobility across machines; and application deployment and lifecycle management. The company also owns and operates hyper-converged Kubernetes platform for roll out of information technology and business initiatives for big data, databases, and artificial intelligence markup language. The company has strategic alliance with Parallel Wireless, Inc. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Jose, California.

Atmosic

Private Placement in 2019
Atmosic Technologies, Inc. operates as a fabless semiconductor company. It designs ultra-low power wireless technologies to dramatically reduce and disrupt device dependency on batteries, focusing to deliver battery life and the battery free connected Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The company’s products enable the IoT device ecosystem—designers and manufacturers, developers, and end users to reduce costs and efforts associated with maintaining the IoT in personal, home, auto, healthcare, industrial, enterprise, and smart cities segments. Atmosic Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Campbell, California.

Atmosic

Series B in 2019
Atmosic Technologies, Inc. operates as a fabless semiconductor company. It designs ultra-low power wireless technologies to dramatically reduce and disrupt device dependency on batteries, focusing to deliver battery life and the battery free connected Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The company’s products enable the IoT device ecosystem—designers and manufacturers, developers, and end users to reduce costs and efforts associated with maintaining the IoT in personal, home, auto, healthcare, industrial, enterprise, and smart cities segments. Atmosic Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Campbell, California.

Lilt

Series C in 2022
Lilt is an AI-powered enterprise language translation company on a mission to make the world's information accessible to everyone regardless of where they were born or which language they speak. The Lilt platform combines adaptive neural machine translation technology with an enterprise translation management system that empowers product, marketing, support, e-commerce, and localization teams move faster than ever. Lilt gives industry-leading organizations like Intel, ASICS, WalkMe, DigitalOcean, and Sprinklr everything they need to scale their translation programs, go-to-market faster, and deliver exceptional customer experiences to global audiences.