Mitsui Global Investment

Mitsui Global Investment, formerly known as Mitsui Ventures, is the venture investment arm of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Tokyo, the firm focuses on venture capital investments globally through its subsidiaries. With a specialization in seed stage to growth stage companies in sectors like information technology, healthcare, and cleantech, Mitsui & Co. Global Investment collaborates with companies to expand their businesses internationally. Operating from Tokyo, Silicon Valley, New York, Beijing, and Mumbai, the firm maintains a global investment perspective while concentrating on regions like the United States, China, and India.

Kinji Fuchikami

Venture Partner

Yushi Goto

Principal

Kenichi Kimura

MD

Yukitaka Kojima

Associate

Yoichiro Miwa

Investment Director

Atsushi Mizuno

Investment Director

Sunao Nishimura

MD

Kiyoshi Okubo

President and CEO

Sanjay Pichaiah

Investment Director

Kotaro Saijo

President and CEO

Richard See

Investment Director

Susie Shen

Investment Director

152 past transactions

EKOS Corporation

Series C in 2006
EKOS Corporation pioneered the development and the clinical application of ultrasound accelerated thrombolysis, introducing its first system for the treatment of vascular thrombosis in 2005. Today, interventional radiologists, cardiologists and vascular surgeons at leading institutions around the world use the EKOS EkoSonic Endovascular System to provide faster, safer and more complete dissolution of thrombus.

DiObex

Series B in 2007
DiObex, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company in the United States. The company develops novel products for the treatment of metabolic disorders, including type-one and type-two diabetes, dyslipidemia, obesity, and diabetic nephropathy. Its products include DIO-901, a very low dose glucagon product that is developed for the reduction of nocturnal hypoglycemia in patients with type-one diabetes; and DIO-902, a cortisol synthesis inhibitor that is developed as a therapy for glucose and cholesterol control in patients with type-two diabetes. DiObex, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in San Francisco, California.

GMZ Energy

Series C in 2011
GMZ Energy was founded based on the scientific discovery made at MIT and Boston College in thermoelectric materials and the conviction of the founders that thermoelectric energy conversion has game changing potential in efficient and environmentally friendly direct conversion between thermal and electrical energy, for cooling and power applications. The vision of their founders is that thermoelectric energy conversion technology will in the future be widely used in air-conditioning, heat pumping, waste heat recovery, and solar thermal energy conversion.

QurAlis

Private Placement in 2020
QurAlis Corporation discovers and develops therapeutics for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurological diseases. The company’s pipeline includes treatments for subtypes of ALS, such as a drug to restore a dysfunctional cellular waste clearance system that poisons neurons; a therapy to treat overactive neurons and prevents resulting cell death; and an approach to remove toxic proteins. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. QurAlis Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Q-State Biosciences, Inc.

NxThera

Series D in 2015
NxThera develops medical technologies to treat a variety of endourology conditions, including BPH. The company's technology platform utilizes a simple, minimally invasive, vapor therapy designed to measurably improve urinary flow and patient quality of life. BPH afflicts more than 32 million men in the United States.
Panacos Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a development stage biotechnology company, engages in the discovery and development of small-molecule oral drugs designed to treat human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other human viral diseases. The company’s discovery technologies focus on novel targets in the virus life cycle, including virus maturation and virus fusion. Its product pipeline includes second- and third-generation programs in HIV maturation inhibition. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Pica8

Series B in 2014
Pica8 is fulfilling the promise of true software-defined networking (SDN) by providing the world's first open, hardware-independent switching system. Pica8's open switches transform the data center by decoupling hardware from software. This new approach provides greater flexibility and adaptability and supports increased automation while driving down implementation- and management-related costs of cloud and virtualized applications. It was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

BeamReach Networks

Series B in 2002
BeamReach Networks a developer of broadband wireless technology.

ProteinSimple

Series C in 2009
ProteinSimple is part of the Protein Platforms division of Bio-Techne (NASDAQ: TECH). They rethinking protein tools and helping thousands of researchers around the world resolve their protein analysis problems so they can reveal new insight into proteins and their role in disease. Their wide-ranging portfolio of tools includes everything from immunoassay systems that quantify protein expression to systems that probe the structure and purity of protein-based therapeutics.

NapaJen

Series C in 2019
NapaJen Pharma, Inc., a biotherapeutics company, develops novel immunotherapeutic agents. It develops oligonucleotide therapeutics in the area of immune-related conditions, such as autoimmune diseases, cancer, transplantation, and vaccine. The company creates a proprietary platform technology in which oligonucleotide compounds are delivered to immune cells. NapaJen Pharma, Inc. was formerly known as NAPA JEONOMICS CORPORATION and changed its name to NapaJen Pharma, Inc. in July 2011. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Burlingame, California with an additional office in Japan.

Change Healthcare

Series C in 2012
Change Healthcare is a catalyst for your value-based healthcare system. They are a healthcare technology company that offers software, analytics, network solutions, and technology-enabled services to help create a stronger, more collaborative healthcare system. They help deliver measurable value not only at the point of care, but also before, after, and in between care episodes. It was founded in 2005 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Anaeropharma Science

Venture Round in 2020
Anaeropharma Science, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the development of therapeutics that target hypoxic environment in solid cancers based on i-DPS (in situ delivery and production system), a platform technology that utilizes recombinant Bifidobacterium. It provides APS001F, a solution for solid cancer; anticancer drugs in the area of immuno-oncology and an anti-ischemic drug; and FGF2, a solution for ischemia treatment. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Chiyoda, Japan.

100du.tv

Series A in 2008
100du.tv provides online platform for consumption, eating, drinking and video information. It offers product promotion solutions in the form of Internet video clips for traders, allowing its partners to broadcast their advertisement videos online and bringing business opportunities for them through off-line discount coupons and Internet user campaigns. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Shanghai, China.

Location Labs

Series B in 2005
Location Labs provides mobile security solutions for people worldwide. The company offers Phone Controls which provides anti-virus and cloud-based backup solutions for protecting people who carry phones, including kids, families, and individuals; Locator that enables users to see where important people are on a map, get automatic location alerts, and keep track of where they have been; and Drive Safe that locks the phone automatically when it is moving. The company also offers Sparkle, a mobile platform that enables its users to manage analytics, MDM, and enhanced location remotely in the cloud. Location Labs was founded in 2000 and is based in Emeryville, California.

S*Bio

Private Equity Round in 2010
S*BIO Pte, Ltd., a biotech company, focuses on the discovery and clinical development of novel targeted small drugs for the treatment of cancer. It serves the biotechnology industry in Singapore. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Singapore, Singapore. S*BIO Pte, Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Chiron Corporation Limited.

InnoPath

Series C in 2003
innoPath technology drives the support and care of mobile devices in an always-on world. Using mobileUpdate and activeCare2, mobile operators and device manufacturers update, diagnose, and fix devices over-the-air. The benefits of using innoPath technology include avoided device recalls and returns, reduced incidence of support calls, improved first call resolution for issues related to Android and iOS devices, and increased subscriber satisfaction.

goBalto

Series C in 2015
GoBalto is a software platform that develops cloud-based solutions for drug trial sponsors and clinical research organizations. Its products offer drug trial sponsors and clinical research organizations the fastest, easiest possible way to start clinical studies on the web. The company was founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Promethera Biosciences

Series C in 2016
Promethera® Biosciences is a biopharmaceutical company, spin-off of the Université Catholique de Louvain, that develops innovative treatments based on allogeneic adult stem cell technology. Promethera® Biosciences' mission is to discover, develop and commercialize cell therapy products to treat liver diseases in an innovative way using allogenic progenitor cells from healthy human livers. Promethera® Biosciences develops two products based on a newly discovered and patented progenitor cell type: the human Adult Liver-Derived Mesenchymal Progenitor Cell (hALDMSC):

Change Healthcare

Series D in 2013
Change Healthcare is a catalyst for your value-based healthcare system. They are a healthcare technology company that offers software, analytics, network solutions, and technology-enabled services to help create a stronger, more collaborative healthcare system. They help deliver measurable value not only at the point of care, but also before, after, and in between care episodes. It was founded in 2005 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

SenSage

Series D in 2007
SenSage offers patented event data warehouse solutions that provide actionable results from massive amounts of log and event data. More than 400 customers have deployed SenSage solutions to reduce security, fraud and compliance risks at a fraction of the cost of traditional data warehouses and log management solutions.

QurAlis

Series A in 2020
QurAlis Corporation discovers and develops therapeutics for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurological diseases. The company’s pipeline includes treatments for subtypes of ALS, such as a drug to restore a dysfunctional cellular waste clearance system that poisons neurons; a therapy to treat overactive neurons and prevents resulting cell death; and an approach to remove toxic proteins. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. QurAlis Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Q-State Biosciences, Inc.

Pinnacle Engines

Series C in 2014
Pinnacle Engines, Inc. manufactures and sells combustion engines and controllers for automotive, motorcycle, marine, and power sports industries, as well as industrial and commercial markets in the United States and internationally. It offers single-cylinder engines, lean burn control systems, multi-cylinder automotive engines with VCR, and portable gensets. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in San Carlos, California with research and development lab in San Carlos, California; and an additional office in Pune, India.

Worldsensing

Series A in 2015
Worldsensing is a market leader in Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. The company has built on its expertise in low-power wireless sensing networks and has created comprehensive vertical solutions in sectors where IoT is making a measurable impact. The company focuses on two key markets: Mobility - a unique smart traffic management portfolio includes Bitcarrier, a real-time traffic flo management solution, and Fastprk, its market-leading smart parking system. Industrial Solutions - offers the LS-G6 platform to monitor key assets in remote or hard-to-access locations. Examples include bridges, tunnels, large public buildings and infrastructures, mines, power lines. Worldsensing raised its round of seed capital in 2010. A series A round was closed in 2013 with Fundación Jose Manuel Entrecanales (FJME) and IESE Business School's Finaves fund as investors. A series B round was completed in 2015, led by FJME, Kibo Ventures and Mitsui & Co. Cisco Ventures and Endeavor also participated in this round. Today, the company has offices in Barcelona and London and has a team of more than 40 professionals. Awards -Fastprk- has won two major awards: the Stockholm Smart City Living Labs Global Award 2011 and the IBM Smart Camp 2010 London Award. -Bitcarrier was IBM Smart Camp Winner (2011), and it has been recognised by Analyst Firm Gartner as "Cool Vendor 2013". -Ignasi Vilajosana, Worldsensing’s CEO, was named the first Spanish Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2014.

Nanosolar

Series C in 2006
Nanosolar prints solar cells and assembles panels to enable the most cost-efficient solar electricity. Nanosolars proprietary approach to printing CIGS (Copper, Indium, Gallium, Selenium) and nanoparticle inks using an annealing process minimizes the use of expensive, high vacuum deposition manufacturing equipment. This allows the Company to utilize equipment from the industrial printing and roll-to-roll manufacturing industries to produce solar-electric foil at high speeds, bringing the economics of printing to the world of solar PV semiconductor manufacturing.

Laszlo Systems

Series B in 2005
Laszlo Systems provides leading user experience solutions delivering interoperability across applications optimized for mobile and web-enabled devices. Laszlo's web and mobile solutions provide seamless connectivity to multiple backend systems and cloud services while delivering unified user interfaces to dynamically access and share data across applications such as email, contacts, calendar, voice mail. Users can connect to their contacts and social networks, manage a consolidated single list of all their messages (emails, SMS, voice mails, Facebook messages), consume and share media across devices and maintain an aggregated calendar via an intuitive Web interface on their desktops, or straight from their mobile devices and tablets. With Laszlo's solutions, service providers can offer a truly engaging and differentiated experience for integrated communications, messaging and social networking services.

iSoftStone

Series B in 2007
iSoftStone, Inc. provides information technology consulting and outsourcing services. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. iSoftStone, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Isoftstone Holdings Limited.

MapAnything

Series C in 2017
Founded in 2009, MapAnything is a location services company for your Salesforce data. Its mission is to become the world’s leading business platform for “Where” software. MapAnything provides a suite of “Where” apps and platform services to drive productivity and planning across multiple use cases. With more than 1,400 customers globally, ranging in all sizes and industries from small businesses to international enterprises, MapAnything is a Gold Salesforce App Innovation Partner. It is the recipient of Ventana Research’s 2016 Technology Innovation Award for Location Analytics and has been named a Customer’s Choice – Highly Reviewed App by users of Salesforce.

BeXcom

Venture Round in 2000
BeXcom, a privately held corporation founded in 1996, operates a global network of eCommerce hubs in the world's major trading zones. This global transaction infrastructure enables companies and exchanges to conduct business electronically locally or with multiple trading partners around the world. BeXcom's Commerce Service Provider model provides and maintains all the required hardware and software to operate centralized B2B eCommerce solutions for their users. By building on the BeXcom infrastructure, supply chains, vertical markets and market makers can quickly implement or dramatically extend their eCommerce capabilities to cover the complete range of purchasing processes, from RFQ to settlement. BeXcom is the first company to integrate global financial, logistics, and certificate authority services into a global eCommerce infrastructure, ensuring all transactions are safe, secure, and verifiable. BeXcom helps their customers streamline business processes, reduce costs, expand markets and add value to their business by delivering the full potential of B2B eCommerce.

Edison Pharmaceuticals

Series F in 2012
Edison is a world leader in the discovery and development of redox drugs. The company has obtained orphan designation in both the United States and Europe for its first drug candidate, EPI-743 . Vincerinone is now in phase 2 clinical development. It is being evaluated in multiple clinical indications where defects in the mitochondrial proteins and redox control have been well characterized.

Sopogy

Series E in 2012
Sopogy Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets micro-scaled concentrating solar power technology (MicroCSP); and sells related software, and services. Our products include SopoFlare, SopoNova, SopoHelios, SopoTitan, SopoLite, and the SopoSoft operating system. We sell to original equipment manufacturers who use our products to enhance theirs, the Independent Power Producers who use our systems to generate base load energy, the Oil & Gas industry who use our technologies to generate fossil fuel free solar steam and the Commercial & Industrial sector who use our solutions as an energy efficiency alternative. In nearly all of our thermal energy markets, Sopogy's MicroCSP systems have the shortest paybacks of all other commercialized solar options. This is achieved thru our patented concentrating technology using mirrors with optics. Our technology platform enables us to produce a low cost but highly efficient solar collector. We combine that with our low cost thermal storage solution and plant software which enable low cost installation. Low costs with high efficiencies equal low paybacks. MicroCSP technologies are used to create Process Heat, Solar Air Conditioning or Electrical Power and can be ground or rooftop mounted opening an entirely new market for CSP systems. For more information on the technology visit our How It Works page.

QD Laser, Inc.

Venture Round in 2006
QD Laser is a developer of quantum dot laser technology designed to offer high performance semiconductor lasers.The company's quantum dot laser technology develops new semiconductor lasers in a wide range of fields and offer current-free quantum dot lasers for communications, enabling telecommunication industries to get services that helps them improve their businesses.

Cardiovascular Systems

Venture Round in 2006
Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. (CSI) is devoted to developing and commercializing innovative solutions for treating peripheral and coronary vascular disease. Their primary focus is helping physicians conquer even the most difficult disease states, including calcium, given the complications it presents for the millions who suffer from peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and coronary artery disease (CAD). CSI is committed to clinical rigor, constant innovation, and a defining drive to set the standard in safe, effective, economical medical devices that improve patient outcomes.

Norak Biosciences

Series B in 2002
Norak Biosciences, Inc., headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC, is a private biotechnology company. Norak is utilizing its proprietary Transfluor technology to become a world leader in the discovery and development of drugs that regulate G protein-coupled receptors.

Biolex Therapeutics

Series B in 2005
Biolex is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that uses their patented LEX SystemSM to develop hard-to-make therapeutic proteins and monoclonal antibodies that have been optimized to enhance their efficacy and potency. The LEX System is a technology that genetically transforms the aquatic plant Lemna to enable the production of biologic product candidates. Their main product aims at treating those afflicted with Hepatitis C.

OptiScan Biomedical

Venture Round in 2005
OptiScan Biomedical Corporation develops glucose monitoring systems for the intensive care unit (ICU)/CCU. It offers OptiScanner, an automated, bedside glucose monitoring system to assist healthcare providers manage the glucose level of critically ill patients. The company’s OptiScanner provides serial blood glucose measurements for a range of glucose concentrations. OptiScan Biomedical Corporation was founded in 1994 and is based in Hayward, California.

Solaria

Debt Financing in 2009
The Solaria Corporation, a solar technology company, manufactures cells and modules for the optics and semiconductor industries. The company develops cell and module technologies that fit into the existing value-add chain. It uses a low-concentration solar PV multiplying technology that produces PV cells from silicon material.

Laszlo Systems

Venture Round in 2010
Laszlo Systems provides leading user experience solutions delivering interoperability across applications optimized for mobile and web-enabled devices. Laszlo's web and mobile solutions provide seamless connectivity to multiple backend systems and cloud services while delivering unified user interfaces to dynamically access and share data across applications such as email, contacts, calendar, voice mail. Users can connect to their contacts and social networks, manage a consolidated single list of all their messages (emails, SMS, voice mails, Facebook messages), consume and share media across devices and maintain an aggregated calendar via an intuitive Web interface on their desktops, or straight from their mobile devices and tablets. With Laszlo's solutions, service providers can offer a truly engaging and differentiated experience for integrated communications, messaging and social networking services.

iSoftStone

Series C in 2010
iSoftStone, Inc. provides information technology consulting and outsourcing services. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. iSoftStone, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Isoftstone Holdings Limited.

Sirrus

Series A in 2012
Sirrus develops innovative monomer platforms that serve as the foundation for the next generation of adhesive, sealant, coating, ink and plastic solutions. The company’s team of scientists and engineers collaborates with customers across a wide range of industries on chemical formulations that enhance efficiency, reduce energy consumption and costs, and improve performance.

Apps Foundry

Series A in 2011
Apps Foundry is an emerging mobile company that brings the latest mobile technology to your daily life. Working with technology and content partners, Apps Foundry build application for both consumers and enterprises. The team members have strong diversified experience in infrastructure, app development, design and user experience.

Element Analytics

Series A in 2018
Element Analytics creates industrial analytics software that empowers organizations to achieve new levels of operational performance. The Element Platform helps industrial organizations easily and rapidly use industrial time-series data for actionable insight. The platform readies time-series data, enriches it with analytically relevant context, and instills trust. It also blends time-series and other operational data with unprecedented high fidelity. With data ready, the platform enables machine-learning modeling to surface reliability, productivity, and sustainability insights for operations.

Tag Networks

Series B in 2006
TAG Networks, Inc. operates TAG TV, a games-on-demand television network that provides casual games to broad television audiences. TAG Networks has filed eight patents on its core technology which seamlessly integrates into existingVOD infrastructures, allowing the Company to provide the nation's first massively deployable games channel for cable, IPTV, and satellite television. With video game revenues far exceeding Hollywood's box office and 58 million Americans playing games each week, TAG enables digital TV operators to capitalize on revenue from America's 60 million gaming households.

LuxN

Series C in 2000
LuxN provides intelligent optical access and transport solutions for metropolitan service providers and major enterprises. Supporting both CWDM and DWDM, LuxN's carrier-class, OSMINE-certified systems offer manageability and service level assurance for critical applications. LuxN's protocol-independent solutions enable delivery of high-bandwidth data, storage, video, and voice services for a diversified customer base including ILECs, CLECs, MSOs, utilities, municipalities, and storage providers. An ISO 9001 certified company, LuxN has a diverse base of customers and distribution partners spanning the North American, Asia-Pacific, and European regions.

OpenX

Series E in 2013
OpenX powers highly relevant advertising at global scale, delivering quality and value to brands, publishers and consumers across every type of connected screen and ad format. The company’s leading technology aggregates, curates and values consumer interest in real time on one of the world’s largest and highest quality ad exchanges to ensure marketers reach exactly the audience they want. OpenX serves more than 30,000 of the world’s most recognized brands, more than 1,200 websites and more than 2,000 premium mobile apps.

BioAmber

Series A in 2010
BioAmber is a private US company registered in the state of Delaware. The company, formerly known as DNP Green Technology, changed its name to BioAmber following its acquisition of its joint venture with ARD. Following the transaction, they adopted the name BioAmber, which had been used to that point by the joint venture.

Symic Biomedical

Series A in 2015
Symic Biomedical is a developer of matrix regulator therapeutics designed to affect matrix degradation and structure. The company's therapeutics bind to targets in the matrix, damaged in response to injury or because of disease, to inhibit pathological inflammatory responses, enabling clinicians to investigate applications in the areas of fibrosis, oncology and diseases of the central nervous system.

Kineto Wireless

Series B in 2003
Internet protocol-based services and solutions for mobile operators acquired by taqua on the 09-04-2014

Galazar

Series C in 2006
Galazar Networks Inc. designs, develops, and supplies system semiconductors and software solutions. It focuses on Ethernet, DS1/E1, DS3/E3, and SONET/SDH/OTN solutions for carrier grade Ethernet and multi-service line cards.

EnerVault

Series B in 2012
EnerVault builds large-scale energy storage systems for the modern electric grid. Its patented redox flow battery technology offers commercial, industrial, renewables and utility customers a safe and reliable way to reduce their long-term energy costs. Using proprietary, highly configurable technology EnerVault systems deliver the highest value in energy storage. Featured In: The Industry Insights report: Energy Storage 2013 in NY, D.C., California, Hawaii, & Beyond The Industry Snapshot: Commercially Feasible Energy Storage in California

Virident Systems

Venture Round in 2012
Computer company designing and building enterprise-class data storage devices

Garapon

Seed Round in 2012
Garapon Co., Ltd. offers video recording and storing services from TV channels. The users can watch recorded programs remotely on internet-enabled devices. The company also offers Garapon Remote, a device that allows users to control all electronic home devices through their smartphone browser. Garapon Co., Ltd. was founded in 2010 and is based in Bunkyo-ku, Japan.

BeamReach Networks

Series C in 2003
BeamReach Networks a developer of broadband wireless technology.

Cylene Pharmaceuticals

Series C in 2007
Cylene Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biotech pharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of small molecule drugs that target nucleolus and kill cancer cells. It offers nucleolus targeting agents, which are small-molecule targeted cancer therapeutic agents for carcinoid/neuroendocrine tumors and pediatric brain tumors; and serine/threonine protein kinase inhibitors. The company also provides pre-clinical stage oral drug candidates. Cylene Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 1997 as Cyternex, Inc. and changed its name to Cylene Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in October 2003. The company is based in San Diego, California.

Kaiima

Venture Round in 2013
Kaiima developed a pioneering, non-GMO, technology platform called EP™. EP™, coupled with advanced breeding programs, boosts the inherent productivity and resource usage efficiency of high-impact food and energy crops. The company collaborates with partners around the globe to develop new crop varieties, specifically suited for sustainable agriculture. Kaiima is also active in castor breeding, marketing and sales as well as high-quality vegetable variety development through its subsidiary, Top Seeds. Kaiima is headquartered in the Lower Galilee, Israel.

LuxN

Series D in 2001
LuxN provides intelligent optical access and transport solutions for metropolitan service providers and major enterprises. Supporting both CWDM and DWDM, LuxN's carrier-class, OSMINE-certified systems offer manageability and service level assurance for critical applications. LuxN's protocol-independent solutions enable delivery of high-bandwidth data, storage, video, and voice services for a diversified customer base including ILECs, CLECs, MSOs, utilities, municipalities, and storage providers. An ISO 9001 certified company, LuxN has a diverse base of customers and distribution partners spanning the North American, Asia-Pacific, and European regions.

Spire.com

Series A in 2014
Spire Global Inc. is a space to cloud data analytics company that utilizes proprietary satellite data and algorithms to provide the most advanced maritime, aviation, and weather tracking in the world. Spire’s data analytics is backed by a wholly owned and developed constellation of nanosatellites, global ground station network, and 24/7 operations that provide real-time global coverage of every point on Earth over 100 times per day. Spire identifies and tracks movement of the world's resources and weather systems in order for businesses to make smart decisions. Spire is founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

MicroMed Technology

Series D in 2002
According to American Heart Association statistics, 20,000-40,000 patients in the United States would benefit from a heart transplant. The MicroMed DeBakey VAD®, jointly developed with Dr. Michael DeBakey, Dr. George Noon and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has the potential to keep many of these people alive until a donor heart becomes available. Weighing less than four ounces, the device is silent and is approximately 1/10 the size of other pulsatile products on the market. The MicroMed DeBakey VAD® is designed to be a lower-cost, less invasive alternative to the commercially available, larger ventricular assist devices (VADs).

General Mobile Corporation

Venture Round in 2012
General Mobile Corporation, a Cayman-based company that provides mobile internet service to emerging markets via its content management and application store hosting platform

Silk

Series E in 2015
Silk’s Cloud Data Platform optimizes everything about life in the cloud, allowing organizations to get ten times the performance out of their existing cloud data while spending 30% less. It fits neatly between your full application stack and cloud infrastructure, making your entire cloud environment run smarter without changing a thing. With real-time data reduction, thin provisioning, and continuous resource optimization, Silk automatically matches your cloud data spend to your actual data needs at every moment, so you can spend less and cloud more.

Laszlo Systems

Series C in 2008
Laszlo Systems provides leading user experience solutions delivering interoperability across applications optimized for mobile and web-enabled devices. Laszlo's web and mobile solutions provide seamless connectivity to multiple backend systems and cloud services while delivering unified user interfaces to dynamically access and share data across applications such as email, contacts, calendar, voice mail. Users can connect to their contacts and social networks, manage a consolidated single list of all their messages (emails, SMS, voice mails, Facebook messages), consume and share media across devices and maintain an aggregated calendar via an intuitive Web interface on their desktops, or straight from their mobile devices and tablets. With Laszlo's solutions, service providers can offer a truly engaging and differentiated experience for integrated communications, messaging and social networking services.

Cylene Pharmaceuticals

Series B in 2005
Cylene Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biotech pharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of small molecule drugs that target nucleolus and kill cancer cells. It offers nucleolus targeting agents, which are small-molecule targeted cancer therapeutic agents for carcinoid/neuroendocrine tumors and pediatric brain tumors; and serine/threonine protein kinase inhibitors. The company also provides pre-clinical stage oral drug candidates. Cylene Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 1997 as Cyternex, Inc. and changed its name to Cylene Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in October 2003. The company is based in San Diego, California.

Efficient Frontier

Series C in 2006
An online performance and social media marketing platform, manages social media campaigns for advertisers and agencies

Rallybio

Private Placement in 2020
Rallybio, LLC, a biopharmaceutical company, develops transformative therapies for patients with severe and rare disorders. Its lead product candidate, RLYB211, is in development for the prevention of fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT), a life-threatening rare disease that can cause uncontrolled bleeding in fetuses and newborns. Its drugs focus on antibodies, small molecules, and engineered proteins. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New Haven, Connecticut.

YPX Cayman Holdings

Series B in 2011
YPX Cayman Holdings Co. (心品印象) operates in the food and beverage industry, managing restaurant chain in China. Whilst it has its own brand Cloud9 吞云小莳, it will be introducing new brands into China via franchising or partnerships with companies from other countries who want to come into China. Its aim is to have about 1,500 stores in China by 2020, in combined brands.

Silk

Series E in 2014
Silk’s Cloud Data Platform optimizes everything about life in the cloud, allowing organizations to get ten times the performance out of their existing cloud data while spending 30% less. It fits neatly between your full application stack and cloud infrastructure, making your entire cloud environment run smarter without changing a thing. With real-time data reduction, thin provisioning, and continuous resource optimization, Silk automatically matches your cloud data spend to your actual data needs at every moment, so you can spend less and cloud more.

Biolex Therapeutics

Series D in 2008
Biolex is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that uses their patented LEX SystemSM to develop hard-to-make therapeutic proteins and monoclonal antibodies that have been optimized to enhance their efficacy and potency. The LEX System is a technology that genetically transforms the aquatic plant Lemna to enable the production of biologic product candidates. Their main product aims at treating those afflicted with Hepatitis C.

100du.tv

Series C in 2010
100du.tv provides online platform for consumption, eating, drinking and video information. It offers product promotion solutions in the form of Internet video clips for traders, allowing its partners to broadcast their advertisement videos online and bringing business opportunities for them through off-line discount coupons and Internet user campaigns. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Shanghai, China.

Palamida

Series B in 2006
Palamida provides application security solution exclusively for open source software. The Palamida Enterprise Edition uses component-level analysis to identify and track undisclosed code and associated security vulnerabilities, as well as intellectual property and compliance issues. Using Palamida, organizations can manage and secure mission critical Web and software applications.

Rallybio

Series B in 2020
Rallybio, LLC, a biopharmaceutical company, develops transformative therapies for patients with severe and rare disorders. Its lead product candidate, RLYB211, is in development for the prevention of fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT), a life-threatening rare disease that can cause uncontrolled bleeding in fetuses and newborns. Its drugs focus on antibodies, small molecules, and engineered proteins. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New Haven, Connecticut.

SenSage

Series C in 2005
SenSage offers patented event data warehouse solutions that provide actionable results from massive amounts of log and event data. More than 400 customers have deployed SenSage solutions to reduce security, fraud and compliance risks at a fraction of the cost of traditional data warehouses and log management solutions.

Clearwater Networks

Series B in 2001
Clearwater Networks (formerly XStream Logic) is developing the industry’s first single-processor packet processing solution capable of performing 7-layer packet processing at 10-Gigabit data rates. XStream’s family of network processors is targeted at solving the critical bottleneck in next-generation network infrastructure equipment: layers 4-7 packet processing. Edge and core routers, content-aware web switches, network attached storage devices, and other networking appliances all require the need to implement advanced services that are beyond the capability of existing semiconductor solutions. XStream ’s products are able to solve a wide variety of applications and advanced services using a simple, single-processor architecture that reduces system complexity and improves customers’ time to market.

Suvidhaa

Series C in 2011
Suvidhaa is a renowned company in the payment and remittances space. We are a leading aggregator of multiple services like utility bill collection, insurance premium, mobile and DTH recharge, travel tickets, money transfer services on a single platform through a network of 80,000 franchise outlets across the country. Our innovative business model has brought about a radical change in the way people make payments and remittances across multiple services. Over 300 Service Providers ride on Suvidhaa’s robust S-Commerce® Platform to reach their last mile.

A10 Networks

Series C in 2008
A10 Networks provides appliances for accelerating web application delivery, bandwidth management and network identity issues The three appliance families are: AX Series - server load balancing and web application delivery EX Series - quality of service and link load balancing ID Series - includes password management, IP-to-ID translation, RADIUS and more.

Retweett511

Series D in 2007
Beceem Communications is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in the emerging WiMAX marketplace. They offer baseband & RF chips as well as complete hardware & software solutions. From the beginning, Beceem has taken a leadership position in everything they do. In 2005, they were the first to market with a pre-WiMAX chipset called the MS100, and followed that success with the first Wave 1 (released January 2006) and Wave 2 (released December 2006) mobile WiMAX chipsets.

4INFO

Venture Round in 2011
4INFO, Inc. operates as an identity and activation solutions company. The company offers Bullseye ID, which creates a match key that maps all the connected devices in a household to consumer data, including the marketer’s own CRM data and a treasure trove of second and third-party data for insights, targeting, and attribution. Its platform delivers measured mobile campaigns to CPG companies, retailers, and auto manufacturers. The company serves brands, agencies, media, and data companies; and advanced TV, CPG, automotive, retail, QSR, pharma, and financial industries. 4INFO, Inc. was formerly known as UDoIt. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in San Jose, California. It has a location in New York, New York. As of January 2, 2020, 4INFO, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cadent, LLC.

BrightLink Networks

Series C in 2000
BrightLink Networks, Inc. is a manufacturer of optical network switching systems. The company begins the marketing and manufacturing of its intelligent optical network system.

MC10

Venture Round in 2018
MC10, Inc. develops and sells wearable medical sensors for collecting medical grade, clinical quality bio-metric, and physiological data in a clinical trial setting. The company’s products include BioStamp nPoint, which collects and processes raw data into recognizable clinical metrics including vital signs, activity and posture classification, and sleep metrics; Kintinuum, a rehabilitation device for orthopedic surgery; WiSP, a cardiac monitoring and electrocardiographs (ECG) recording solution; and BioStampMD, a wearable sensor conforming to the human body to collect objective and patient-reported subjective data. It sells its products online. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts.

EnerVault

Venture Round in 2012
EnerVault builds large-scale energy storage systems for the modern electric grid. Its patented redox flow battery technology offers commercial, industrial, renewables and utility customers a safe and reliable way to reduce their long-term energy costs. Using proprietary, highly configurable technology EnerVault systems deliver the highest value in energy storage. Featured In: The Industry Insights report: Energy Storage 2013 in NY, D.C., California, Hawaii, & Beyond The Industry Snapshot: Commercially Feasible Energy Storage in California

NanoGram

Series C in 2008
NanoGram Corporation develops and manufactures products for the next generation of photovoltaics, electronics and displays. A dynamic and agile nanotechnology company, NanoGram has incubated and spun out two successful companies in NeoPhotonics and NanoGram Devices. The NanoGram KK office in Tokyo, and a strategic development and manufacturing supply relationship with Nagase & Co., Ltd / Nagase ChemteX Corporation, supports their growing presence in Japan, while the NanoGram Korea office in Seoul serves the expanding markets and opportunities in Korea.

Axikin Pharmaceuticals

Series A in 2009
Axikin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a privately held biopharmaceutical company focused exclusively on the development and commercialization of small molecule therapeutics for severe respiratory, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), inflammatory dermatoses, inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid arthritis. Axikin was spun out from Actimis Pharmaceuticals, in June 2008.

Nanosolar

Series B in 2005
Nanosolar prints solar cells and assembles panels to enable the most cost-efficient solar electricity. Nanosolars proprietary approach to printing CIGS (Copper, Indium, Gallium, Selenium) and nanoparticle inks using an annealing process minimizes the use of expensive, high vacuum deposition manufacturing equipment. This allows the Company to utilize equipment from the industrial printing and roll-to-roll manufacturing industries to produce solar-electric foil at high speeds, bringing the economics of printing to the world of solar PV semiconductor manufacturing.

RGB Networks

Series C in 2006
RGB Networks, Inc. provides network video processing solutions. Its video intelligence architecture (VIA) based solutions include broadcast network processor for grooming, statistical multiplexing, transrating, digital program insertion, and digital overlays; dynamic bandwidth manager for personalized architectures, such as video-on-demand and switched digital video; and modular media converter for ASI-to-gigabit Ethernet conversion. The company's VIA solutions also comprise modular video processor, an IPTV solution to deliver Internet protocol-based video services; simulcast edge processor for digital simulcast edge decoding applications; and universal scalable modulator, a multi-service digital edge QAM modulation and upconversion solution. Its video processing solutions enable multiple system operators and video service providers to implement switched digital networks.

StartForce

Series A in 2007
StartForce developed web based desktop virtualization solution for enterprise until its assets were bought by ZeroPC, Inc.

Synacor

Series C in 2006
Synacor's online content, portal and comprehensive front-end technology solutions enable MSOs, ISPs and telecommunications companies to bundle, promote and deliver narrowband and broadband premium content and services as part of existing Internet access products. Its solutions offer the combined strength of a flexible portal framework, a robust provisioning platform, a unified back-end and a network of in-demand standard and premium content enabling service providers to maintain critical contact with consumers as they shift from screen-to-screen while seeking increasingly personalized entertainment experiences.

ConvenientPower HK

Series B in 2011
ConvenientPower HK Limited designs and develops wireless power applications for users of mobile electronics. It offers wireless QI charging pads for QI certified receiver devices through retail stores. ConvenientPower HK Limited has a strategic alliance with Philips & Lite-On Digital Solutions Corp; and a strategic collaboration with ON Semiconductor Corporation. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Shatin, Hong Kong.

Redwood Systems

Venture Round in 2011
Redwood Systems' LED lighting system architecture helps customers reduce energy costs while providing a degree of control and automation of commercial lighting never before possible.

NetMotion Software

Series B in 2002
NetMotion is a software company that enables businesses and government agencies to maximize the productivity of their mobile workforces. The company's flagship solution is Mobility , mobile VPN software that allows mobile workers to maintain and optimize mobile data connections as they move in and out of wireless coverage areas and roam between networks. Over 1,400 of the world's most respected organizations rely on NetMotion everyday, including major public utilities, healthcare organizations, communications providers, public safety organizations, transportation companies and many others

Mobeam

Series A in 2011
Mobeam, inc. is transforming mobile commerce with its unique and patented light-based communications technology. Overcoming the technical barrier preventing mobile phones from interacting with laser scanners at checkout, Mobeam’s technology provides universal access at the point of sale (POS), enabling the transmission of coupons, gift cards, tickets, and other barcode data at retailers worldwide. Mobeam’s technology powers new capabilities for existing mobile phone designs, and requires no changes to retailer POS infrastructure. Mobeam was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Boingo Wireless

Series C in 2006
Boingo Wireless, Inc. (NASDAQ: WIFI), the world's leading Wi-Fi software and services provider, makes it easy, convenient and cost-effective for people to enjoy Wi-Fi access on their laptop or mobile device at more than 325,000 hotspots worldwide. With a single account, Boingo users can access the mobile Internet via Boingo Network locations that include the top airports around the world, major hotel chains, cafés and coffee shops, restaurants, convention centers and metropolitan hot zones. Boingo and its Concourse Communications Group subsidiary operate wired and wireless networks at large-scale venues worldwide such as airports, major sporting arenas, malls, and convention centers, as well as quick serve restaurants. For more information about Boingo, please visit http://www.boingo.com.

Halation Photonics

Series A in 2012
Halation Photonics Co., Ltd develops and commercializes Multi-stable Liquid Crystal (MSLC) devices and MSLC related system solutions. Halation Photonics Co., Ltd was founded in 2007 and is based in Suzhou, China.

InnoPath

Series D in 2006
innoPath technology drives the support and care of mobile devices in an always-on world. Using mobileUpdate and activeCare2, mobile operators and device manufacturers update, diagnose, and fix devices over-the-air. The benefits of using innoPath technology include avoided device recalls and returns, reduced incidence of support calls, improved first call resolution for issues related to Android and iOS devices, and increased subscriber satisfaction.

Graviton

Series D in 2001
Graviton, Inc. was a high-tech, privately-held, development-stage company located in La Jolla, California. Graviton was a pioneer in the emerging “sensornetics” industry – producing small, aspirin-sized sensors to expand the capacity of the public and private sectors to manage buildings, infrastructure, and other elements of the engineered world. Graviton developed sensor technology to keep managers informed, used wireless communications to provide operations data and real-time connections, and provided managed information services to keep managers in control. Graviton’s integrated solutions were designed to expand the “common sense” of managers and decision-makers at every level by generating, transmitting, and managing new data to provide more accurate, timely, and actionable intelligence to better inform everyday decision-making. In 2003, Graviton merged with Xsilogy, a provider of wireless sensor network technologies and applications.