Clearstone

Clearstone Venture Partners, founded in 1997, is a Santa Monica-based private equity firm specializing in early-stage investments in technology companies in the United States and India. With over $650 million of committed capital, Clearstone has helped finance successful companies like eToys, Overture, PayPal, and MP3.com. The firm focuses on a wide range of technology markets, including software, consumer, enterprise infrastructure, and communications. Clearstone prefers to be the lead investor, providing financing between $1 million and $15 million, and taking a board seat in its portfolio companies. While winding down due to diminishing funds in 2013, the firm continues to invest additional cash in existing portfolio companies.

Bill Elkus

Managing Partner

William S. Elkus

Founder and MD

Dana Moraly

Chief Financial Officer

William Quigley

Managing Partner

101 past transactions

AOptix Technologies

Series E in 2012
AOptix Technologies, Inc. develops free space optical communications and iris biometrics based identification solutions for government and commercial markets. It offers advanced biometric iris recognition systems and ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions. Its products are used in advanced biometrics applications, such as border security, national and regional ID cards, aviation security, governmental and commercial access control, and law enforcement; defense applications, including network-centric operation and ground and air nodes; and commercial applications comprising outdoor sporting event remotes, wireless ad-hoc networks, and wireless breakthrough delivers uncompressed HD video.

Six Degrees Games

Series A in 2008
Six Degrees Games, Inc. operates as a videogame and virtual world publisher for videogame systems and personal computers. It offers Action AllStars, a sports-themed virtual world designed for ages six to fourteen-years-old. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Marina del Rey, California.

AOptix Technologies

Series B in 2005
AOptix Technologies, Inc. develops free space optical communications and iris biometrics based identification solutions for government and commercial markets. It offers advanced biometric iris recognition systems and ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions. Its products are used in advanced biometrics applications, such as border security, national and regional ID cards, aviation security, governmental and commercial access control, and law enforcement; defense applications, including network-centric operation and ground and air nodes; and commercial applications comprising outdoor sporting event remotes, wireless ad-hoc networks, and wireless breakthrough delivers uncompressed HD video.

Syndera

Series B in 2005
Syndera Corporation provides real-time business intelligence and business activity monitoring solutions. Its software enables users to continuously monitor key performance indicators(KPIs) for business results, such as profit and loss; external conditions, which include client behavior, market movements; internal business processes and operations; get instant alerts on out-of-boundary KPIs; and identify root cause and trends immediately; and analyze and determine corrective action swiftly. Syndera serves communications, energy, financial services, manufacturing, media, retail, and transportation services markets. It has strategic partnership with SunGard, BearingPoint, Inc., and JBoss, Inc. Syndera has operations in New York, New York; and London, the United Kingdom. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Meru Networks

Series E in 2009
Meru Networks develops and markets wireless LAN infrastructure solutions that use virtualization to deliver pervasive, high-fidelity wireless service for business-critical voice, video and data applications. The company first introduced its award-winning virtual cell wireless architecture in 2003, and Meru products embody a complete departure from typical hub-based WLAN approaches, offering a wireless solution with levels of performance, reliability, security and cost-effectiveness previously found only in wired networking environments.

Chutney Technologies

Series C in 2003
Chutney Technologies, Inc. operates as an Internet infrastructure company. It engages in delivering enterprise-scale software object execution technologies. It develops software and firmware products that enable advances in the way Web and e-commerce application servers interact with users. The company’s products include APPTIMIZER, a memory and task virtualization solution; STATESTORE, a session virtualization solution for interactive enterprise applications that virtualizes application state, providing improvements in session availability, support for large session objects, and improved reliability; and APPTUALIZER, an application layer software solution that allows a collection of application servers to function as a single logical server. Its products are used in various industries, including financial services, retail, transportation, and travel and leisure. Chutney Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Redwood City, California.

AOptix Technologies

Series B in 2002
AOptix Technologies, Inc. develops free space optical communications and iris biometrics based identification solutions for government and commercial markets. It offers advanced biometric iris recognition systems and ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions. Its products are used in advanced biometrics applications, such as border security, national and regional ID cards, aviation security, governmental and commercial access control, and law enforcement; defense applications, including network-centric operation and ground and air nodes; and commercial applications comprising outdoor sporting event remotes, wireless ad-hoc networks, and wireless breakthrough delivers uncompressed HD video.

Spock

Series A in 2006
Spock is a people search engine which collects data from all corners of the web with a heavy focus on areas with dense people information such as [wikipedia](http://crunchbase.com/organization/wikipedia), photo sites, blogs and social networks. Spock claims people search accounts for 30% of online search and thus they are directly taking on giants like Google and Amazon (product search). If the 30% is accurate then the market is ripe for identity searching companies to expand. Spock's closest competitors include [Copenda](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/copenda),[PeekYou](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/peekyou), ProfileLinker, [LinkedIn](http://crunchbase.com/organization/linkedin), and [Wink](http://crunchbase.com/organization/Wink) which has been around since 2005, yet only launched its people search engine in November 2006. Spock received $7 million in funding from Opus Capital and Clearstone Venture Partners.

Billdesk

Venture Round in 2006
BillDesk, a property of IndiaIdeas.com Ltd. was conceived in early 2000 to solve the frustrations of most of us when it comes to paying bills. We have created BillDesk to help consumers like us leverage on the potential of electronic medium to better organise and manage our payments, while escaping some of the pitfalls of traditional bill payment services.

Ankeena Networks

Series B in 2009
Ankeena develops media infrastructure solutions deliver online media at a massive scale. The solution is fully interoperable with industry standard players and other infrastructure elements.

Aceva Technologies

Venture Round in 2005
As of February 14, 2007, Aceva Technologies, Inc. was acquired by SunGard Data Systems, Inc. Aceva Technologies, Inc. provides enterprise application software solutions for revenue and receivables management. The company offers a suite of enterprise application software solutions, including business analytics dashboard, transaction reconciliation, and collections management solutions for credit management, order quality, dispute prevention, inventory transaction reconciliation, deductions management, collections management, electronic invoice presentment and payment, and cash forecasting. It also provides value assessment, implementation, and support services. Aceva Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as InPurchase, Inc. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California. Aceva Technologies has additional offices in Seattle, Washington; Dallas, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; Boston, Massachusetts; New York, New York; and Atlanta, Georgia, as well as New Delhi, India.

SyncVoice Communications

Series A in 2006
SyncVoice Communications offers true lifecycle management solutions regardless of convergence level, vendor device or network topology. The company is based in Costa Mesa, California.

Tesloop

Seed Round in 2016
Tesloop, Inc. provides road transportation of passengers in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Magnite

Venture Round in 2010
Rubicon Project (NYSE: RUBI) has engineered the Advertising Automation Cloud, one of the largest real-time cloud and Big Data computing systems. The Company's mission is to automate the buying and selling of advertising by offering innovative products to connect buyers and sellers globally.

Soonr

Series C in 2009
Soonr is a secure cloud service for teams to work together on shared digital content from any device, anywhere in the world. With Soonr Workplace, businesses and teams can store, share, access, search, edit and sync files across platforms with support for more than 800 mobile devices including Android, Blackberry, iPhone and iPad. Soonr incorporates patented rendering technology and was designed with teams, remote access and security in mind.

LeisureLink

Venture Round in 2006
LeisureLink is a private, high-growth company headquartered in Pasadena, California, and funded by leading Southern California venture capitalist firms Clearstone Venture Partners and Mission Ventures, with a strategic investment from Wyndham Worldwide (NYSE: WYN). Over 1,500 “LeisureLinked” independent vacation rental properties, timeshares, villas, bed and breakfasts, condo hotels and boutique resorts throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe and the Caribbean trust our online system to manage their brands, maximize their profitability, streamline their revenue-driving efforts, and put heads in beds, every day.

OpenSales

Series A in 2000
OpenSales is the provider of OpenSales Core Commerce, a freely available platform for the complete management of e-commerce sites. The software, which runs on Linux, UNIX and Windows NT, is designed to allow the easy management of content, pricing, inventory, ordering and statistical information.

Soonr

Series D in 2010
Soonr is a secure cloud service for teams to work together on shared digital content from any device, anywhere in the world. With Soonr Workplace, businesses and teams can store, share, access, search, edit and sync files across platforms with support for more than 800 mobile devices including Android, Blackberry, iPhone and iPad. Soonr incorporates patented rendering technology and was designed with teams, remote access and security in mind.

SyncVoice Communications

Series B in 2007
SyncVoice Communications offers true lifecycle management solutions regardless of convergence level, vendor device or network topology. The company is based in Costa Mesa, California.

ARIO Data Networks

Series E in 2006
ARIO Data Networks provides storage solutions and RAID controllers. It provides a line of Sanario RAID and JBOD SATA and SAS controllers. The company also offers Capacity RAID Array product family, which is a RAID storage subsystem product family; and Capacity Expansion Array product family, which is an expansion storage subsystem product family for storage original equipment manufacturers. Its solutions are deployed in SAN, NAS, and DAS environments. The company's solutions are used in various applications, such as information lifecycle management, near line storage, disk-to-disk back up, and high performance scientific computing. ARIO Data Networks was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

SupplyFrame

Series C in 2009
Supplyframe is the leading intelligence platform for the global electronics value chain. Our solutions sense and interpret billions of intent, demand, supply, and risk signals to deliver insights at key decision points throughout the entire design-to-market product lifecycle. Over 10 million engineering and supply chain professionals worldwide engage with our SaaS solutions, search engines and media properties to power rapid innovation and optimize in excess of $120 billion in annual direct materials spend. Supplyframe is headquartered in Pasadena, Calif., with offices in Austin, Belgrade, Grenoble, Oxford, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. To join the Supplyframe community, visit supplyframe.com and follow us on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/4686855#ixzz6QOcwBOAb

Meru Networks

Series B in 2004
Meru Networks develops and markets wireless LAN infrastructure solutions that use virtualization to deliver pervasive, high-fidelity wireless service for business-critical voice, video and data applications. The company first introduced its award-winning virtual cell wireless architecture in 2003, and Meru products embody a complete departure from typical hub-based WLAN approaches, offering a wireless solution with levels of performance, reliability, security and cost-effectiveness previously found only in wired networking environments.

Magnite

Series C in 2009
Rubicon Project (NYSE: RUBI) has engineered the Advertising Automation Cloud, one of the largest real-time cloud and Big Data computing systems. The Company's mission is to automate the buying and selling of advertising by offering innovative products to connect buyers and sellers globally.

Magnite

Series B in 2008
Rubicon Project (NYSE: RUBI) has engineered the Advertising Automation Cloud, one of the largest real-time cloud and Big Data computing systems. The Company's mission is to automate the buying and selling of advertising by offering innovative products to connect buyers and sellers globally.

Ankeena Networks

Series A in 2008
Ankeena develops media infrastructure solutions deliver online media at a massive scale. The solution is fully interoperable with industry standard players and other infrastructure elements.

AOptix Technologies

Series F in 2015
AOptix Technologies, Inc. develops free space optical communications and iris biometrics based identification solutions for government and commercial markets. It offers advanced biometric iris recognition systems and ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions. Its products are used in advanced biometrics applications, such as border security, national and regional ID cards, aviation security, governmental and commercial access control, and law enforcement; defense applications, including network-centric operation and ground and air nodes; and commercial applications comprising outdoor sporting event remotes, wireless ad-hoc networks, and wireless breakthrough delivers uncompressed HD video.

SupplyFrame

Series B in 2007
Supplyframe is the leading intelligence platform for the global electronics value chain. Our solutions sense and interpret billions of intent, demand, supply, and risk signals to deliver insights at key decision points throughout the entire design-to-market product lifecycle. Over 10 million engineering and supply chain professionals worldwide engage with our SaaS solutions, search engines and media properties to power rapid innovation and optimize in excess of $120 billion in annual direct materials spend. Supplyframe is headquartered in Pasadena, Calif., with offices in Austin, Belgrade, Grenoble, Oxford, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. To join the Supplyframe community, visit supplyframe.com and follow us on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/4686855#ixzz6QOcwBOAb

iPolicy Networks

Series A in 2004
iPolicy Networks is the developer of the world's first Intrusion Prevention Firewall delivering real-time, consistent security enforcement for enterprises, carriers and managed security service providers. The iPolicy Intrusion Prevention Firewall supports multiple security functions built on iPolicy's Single Pass Architecture(TM) that enables superior performance even under heavy traffic load.

DiVitas Networks

Series B in 2006
DiVitas mobilizes business voice and messaging applications and provides single number reach and visual voicemail through mobile deskphone capabilities in addition to enterprise contacts, messaging, and presence services.

Kuapay

Series A in 2013
Kuapay offers a mobile payment application that enables its users to make purchases with smartphones. The system allows consumers to present one-time QR codes to merchants, authorize purchases, and receive receipts. While its features also include location-based coupons and loyalty marketing, its one-time mechanism increases security over presenting a credit card number. Kuapay was founded in 2011 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

DiVitas Networks

Series A in 2006
DiVitas mobilizes business voice and messaging applications and provides single number reach and visual voicemail through mobile deskphone capabilities in addition to enterprise contacts, messaging, and presence services.

LiveLike

Series A in 2016
LiveLike Inc. provides a live streaming platform that allows broadcasters to stream regular and interactive content to its end users on mobile and virtual reality. It develops a sports viewing platform to watch live sports; allows users to replay sports and commentary; and offers sports statistics. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Gurugram, India.

Veodia

Series A in 2008
Veodia's enterprise video service (SaaS) enables existing business environments and processes with video and screen recording capabilities. Using the Veodia service, any employee can easily create visual content in context and share it securely with other employees, partners or customers. Veodia's customers include Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Stanford University.

EntryPoint

Venture Round in 2000
EntryPoint offers consumers a variety of easy-to-access features including personalized top news headlines, ticker and news briefs, stock quotes, sports scores, shopping, alerting, portfolio manager, weather and a resources guide with maps/directions and more.

Kazeon

Series F in 2009
Electronic discovery solutions in the united states

iPolicy Networks

Venture Round in 2006
iPolicy Networks is the developer of the world's first Intrusion Prevention Firewall delivering real-time, consistent security enforcement for enterprises, carriers and managed security service providers. The iPolicy Intrusion Prevention Firewall supports multiple security functions built on iPolicy's Single Pass Architecture(TM) that enables superior performance even under heavy traffic load.

iPolicy Networks

Series B in 2005
iPolicy Networks is the developer of the world's first Intrusion Prevention Firewall delivering real-time, consistent security enforcement for enterprises, carriers and managed security service providers. The iPolicy Intrusion Prevention Firewall supports multiple security functions built on iPolicy's Single Pass Architecture(TM) that enables superior performance even under heavy traffic load.

Soonr

Series A in 2006
Soonr is a secure cloud service for teams to work together on shared digital content from any device, anywhere in the world. With Soonr Workplace, businesses and teams can store, share, access, search, edit and sync files across platforms with support for more than 800 mobile devices including Android, Blackberry, iPhone and iPad. Soonr incorporates patented rendering technology and was designed with teams, remote access and security in mind.

SupplyFrame

Series A in 2005
Supplyframe is the leading intelligence platform for the global electronics value chain. Our solutions sense and interpret billions of intent, demand, supply, and risk signals to deliver insights at key decision points throughout the entire design-to-market product lifecycle. Over 10 million engineering and supply chain professionals worldwide engage with our SaaS solutions, search engines and media properties to power rapid innovation and optimize in excess of $120 billion in annual direct materials spend. Supplyframe is headquartered in Pasadena, Calif., with offices in Austin, Belgrade, Grenoble, Oxford, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. To join the Supplyframe community, visit supplyframe.com and follow us on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/4686855#ixzz6QOcwBOAb

Vast

Series A in 2005
Vast.com, Inc. develops and operates a platform that support big data experiences for automotive, real estate, and travel markets. Its platform offers consumers an online inventory of new and used cars; and real estate listings, rentals listings, and various real estate professionals, as well as operates a database of inventory options from hotels, motels, vacation rentals, and campgrounds to B&Bs and other alternative lodging options to in-market home buyers, sellers, and renters. The company’s platform also serves as a search and advertising platform for top tier publishers. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Games2Win

Series A in 2007
Games2win India Pvt. Ltd., a casual gaming company, develops and offers online and mobile games. It offers casual, original, fun, addictive, and snacky; and flash, iOS, Android, virtual world, and social games. Games2win India Pvt. Ltd. has a strategic partnership with LINE Corporation. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Mumbai, India. Games2win India Pvt. Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Contests2win.com India Pvt.Ltd.

Vyng

Seed Round in 2017
Vyng has built a next-generation Caller ID platform that visualizes every call. Vyng is helping start better conversations between friends, family, and businesses for the next half billion smartphone users in India and beyond. Vyng boasts 4 billion videos played across 170 countries since its launch in 2018. The company has raised $7MM and is backed by March Capital, Omidyar Network, a Sequoia Capital partner, and the founders of Giphy and GroupMe.

Communicado

Series A in 2006
Communicado provides software platforms, management processes and real-time communication expertise needed by business organizations and industry partners to make convergence work for everyone. Onsite or remote, software is licensed or provided as a service.

Xcelerate

Venture Round in 2000
Xcelerate develops a range of B2B marketplaces for its clients. It was founded in 1999 and is based in Florida.

AOptix Technologies

Venture Round in 2008
AOptix Technologies, Inc. develops free space optical communications and iris biometrics based identification solutions for government and commercial markets. It offers advanced biometric iris recognition systems and ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions. Its products are used in advanced biometrics applications, such as border security, national and regional ID cards, aviation security, governmental and commercial access control, and law enforcement; defense applications, including network-centric operation and ground and air nodes; and commercial applications comprising outdoor sporting event remotes, wireless ad-hoc networks, and wireless breakthrough delivers uncompressed HD video.

LeisureLink

Series B in 2007
LeisureLink is a private, high-growth company headquartered in Pasadena, California, and funded by leading Southern California venture capitalist firms Clearstone Venture Partners and Mission Ventures, with a strategic investment from Wyndham Worldwide (NYSE: WYN). Over 1,500 “LeisureLinked” independent vacation rental properties, timeshares, villas, bed and breakfasts, condo hotels and boutique resorts throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe and the Caribbean trust our online system to manage their brands, maximize their profitability, streamline their revenue-driving efforts, and put heads in beds, every day.

Phasebridge

Venture Round in 2005
Phasebridge photonics integration technologies, products and services enable the use of photonics everywhere.

At The Pool

Angel Round in 2013
At The Pool is the best way to connect with people around you, through beautiful profiles and intelligent interest-mapping. 1) At The Pool re-imagines the Contact List, showing your friends nearby and making it easy to get offline. 2) ‘Shout’ to the people around you like a proactive status update: what you are doing / want to do? Find out which friends want to go for a hike, try a restaurant, or discover an event in your area. 3) 'Explore' the people around you based off of distance and time. If you find someone interesting, comment on their shout, or message them directly. Already with members in 100+ countries, getting offline and finding like-minded people is easier than ever in your town or on the go. Stay in touch with your friends nearby by easily viewing who is closest to you at any given time. Share pictures of the adventures, and memories you make through private messaging or by ‘Shouting.’

Ankeena Networks

Venture Round in 2010
Ankeena develops media infrastructure solutions deliver online media at a massive scale. The solution is fully interoperable with industry standard players and other infrastructure elements.

Games2Win

Series B in 2011
Games2win India Pvt. Ltd., a casual gaming company, develops and offers online and mobile games. It offers casual, original, fun, addictive, and snacky; and flash, iOS, Android, virtual world, and social games. Games2win India Pvt. Ltd. has a strategic partnership with LINE Corporation. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Mumbai, India. Games2win India Pvt. Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Contests2win.com India Pvt.Ltd.

Mimosa Systems

Series A in 2004
Mimosa Systems, Inc. provides content archiving solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. It offers Mimosa NearPoint, an integrated unstructured information management software for emails, files, and instant messages that enables email and file system archiving, e-discovery, recovery, disaster recovery, and storage management. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California with additional offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India.

Rhone Apparel

Series A in 2015
Rhone was born out of a need-created to fill the void in the modern mens lifestyle offering. To provide an attire option with purpose-clothing that refuses to be designated as business or leisure or any pursuit between. For the man that values form and function alike. For the man that demands something technical enough to keep up with him in his active pursuits and stylish enough to keep up with the rest of his lifestyle. Our aim is to deliver the most premium quality mens active apparel that leaves you inspired.

Novariant

Series C in 2005
Novariant is a company whose technology provides precision location and machine control solutions in applications that require a high level of accuracy, consistency, and availability. In 2014, Novariant entered into an agreement to be acquired by AgJunction Inc. a precision GPS company out of Hiawatha, Kansas

Presto Services

Venture Round in 2006
Presto was founded in 2004 by successful entrepreneurs who happened to come from large families. With parents, brothers and sisters, plus nieces and nephews spread across the country, they saw the need for a new and simple way to keep the extended family connected by making it easier to share digital content.

Games2Win

Series C in 2013
Games2win India Pvt. Ltd., a casual gaming company, develops and offers online and mobile games. It offers casual, original, fun, addictive, and snacky; and flash, iOS, Android, virtual world, and social games. Games2win India Pvt. Ltd. has a strategic partnership with LINE Corporation. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Mumbai, India. Games2win India Pvt. Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Contests2win.com India Pvt.Ltd.

Kazeon

Series B in 2005
Electronic discovery solutions in the united states

CastBridge

Series A in 2003
CastBridge, Inc. develops software for enterprise data sharing. The company’s solution is based on instant data messaging and gives creators and managers of data control over the sharing of that data with others. CastBridge solutions are used for sales forecasting and financial planning and reporting. The company is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Composite Software

Series A in 2003
Composite Software, Inc. disrupted the data integration market with a faster, lower cost data integration approach now known as data virtualization.

Integrien

Series A in 2005
Integrien Corporation designs, develops, and markets integrity management solutions. The company's solutions enable problem diagnosis, prediction, and prevention services. The company also detects application slowdowns and outages. Additionally, it offers troubleshooting, maintenance, and system integration and implementation services. The company has strategic partnerships with IBM, HP, BMC, VMware, and Tata Consultancy Services. Integrien Corporation was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

HealthAllies.com

Series B in 2000
Founded in the summer of 1999, HealthAllies.com recently received the Gold "Abby" Award for Innovation in Healthcare from the Adaptive Business Leaders Organization. HealthAllies.com uses the power of the Internet to offer you the best care at the best rates from physicians, treatment centers and hospitals throughout the United States. These low rates are available to anyone with out-of-pocket medical expenses, and include any treatment not covered or only partially covered by insurance. And with HealthAllies.com, you only pay for the care you need. HealthAllies.com works either alongside or in place of health insurance. You'll have access to providers in virtually every specialty, offering every diagnostic test and covering every procedure, with rates ranging from 10 to 50 percent off of standard charges, plus a small transaction fee to HealthAllies.com when the service is used. We can even help you renegotiate a past bill, and we won't charge you any insurance premiums, membership dues or annual fees.

Six Degrees Games

Series B in 2009
Six Degrees Games, Inc. operates as a videogame and virtual world publisher for videogame systems and personal computers. It offers Action AllStars, a sports-themed virtual world designed for ages six to fourteen-years-old. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Marina del Rey, California.

PeopleSupport

Venture Round in 2000
PeopleSupport, Inc., an offshore business process outsourcing (BPO) company, provides customer management, transcription and captioning, and additional BPO services through its centers in the Philippines, Costa Rica, and the United States. It offers customer service support services that are initiated by inbound calls and email from its clients' customers and address a range of questions regarding their account billing, changes in services, reservation changes, delivery updates on goods or services, complaint and issue resolution, and general product or service inquiries. The company also handles inbound calls from customers purchasing products and services from its clients, including travel reservations, financial transactions, telecommunications services, Internet services, and consumer products and services; collects consumer receivables in the financial services, telecommunications, and utilities industries; and handles troubleshooting calls and inbound telephone orders or inquiries. PeopleSupport's transcription and captioning services include both real-time and offline captioning of television, and film and classroom content for the healthcare and insurance, entertainment and education, and law enforcement markets. It also provides a range of additional BPO services, including credit application processing, mortgage processing, title searches, and data verification; conducts product and fraud detection; manages refunds, warranties, and applications; and conducts preparations for serving legal papers. The company serves primarily U.S.-based clients that operate within the travel and consumer, financial services, technology, telecommunications, healthcare, insurance, and media industries. PeopleSupport was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

AOptix Technologies

Series C in 2007
AOptix Technologies, Inc. develops free space optical communications and iris biometrics based identification solutions for government and commercial markets. It offers advanced biometric iris recognition systems and ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions. Its products are used in advanced biometrics applications, such as border security, national and regional ID cards, aviation security, governmental and commercial access control, and law enforcement; defense applications, including network-centric operation and ground and air nodes; and commercial applications comprising outdoor sporting event remotes, wireless ad-hoc networks, and wireless breakthrough delivers uncompressed HD video.

Mimosa Systems

Series C in 2007
Mimosa Systems, Inc. provides content archiving solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. It offers Mimosa NearPoint, an integrated unstructured information management software for emails, files, and instant messages that enables email and file system archiving, e-discovery, recovery, disaster recovery, and storage management. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California with additional offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India.

Mimosa Systems

Series D in 2008
Mimosa Systems, Inc. provides content archiving solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. It offers Mimosa NearPoint, an integrated unstructured information management software for emails, files, and instant messages that enables email and file system archiving, e-discovery, recovery, disaster recovery, and storage management. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California with additional offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India.

Neomar

Series B in 2001
Neomar is the only company delivering an end-to-end solution that directly targets the enterprise for management and secure delivery of corporate and customer data to wireless devices, while providing secure, timely access to information with a compelling user experience

Meru Networks

Series D in 2007
Meru Networks develops and markets wireless LAN infrastructure solutions that use virtualization to deliver pervasive, high-fidelity wireless service for business-critical voice, video and data applications. The company first introduced its award-winning virtual cell wireless architecture in 2003, and Meru products embody a complete departure from typical hub-based WLAN approaches, offering a wireless solution with levels of performance, reliability, security and cost-effectiveness previously found only in wired networking environments.

Billdesk

Corporate Round in 2018
BillDesk, a property of IndiaIdeas.com Ltd. was conceived in early 2000 to solve the frustrations of most of us when it comes to paying bills. We have created BillDesk to help consumers like us leverage on the potential of electronic medium to better organise and manage our payments, while escaping some of the pitfalls of traditional bill payment services.

Meru Networks

Series A in 2002
Meru Networks develops and markets wireless LAN infrastructure solutions that use virtualization to deliver pervasive, high-fidelity wireless service for business-critical voice, video and data applications. The company first introduced its award-winning virtual cell wireless architecture in 2003, and Meru products embody a complete departure from typical hub-based WLAN approaches, offering a wireless solution with levels of performance, reliability, security and cost-effectiveness previously found only in wired networking environments.

Comet Systems

Series C in 2000
Companies that have survived on the Internet usually fall into two categories: those whose business models took off early — like eBay and Amazon — and those who succeeded after reinventing themselves in response to the rapidly changing Internet economy. Comet proudly counts itself in this latter camp: having started with a simple cursor-changing product, the company has gone on to build a highly profitable business with four diversified product lines.

DiVitas Networks

Venture Round in 2008
DiVitas mobilizes business voice and messaging applications and provides single number reach and visual voicemail through mobile deskphone capabilities in addition to enterprise contacts, messaging, and presence services.

Composite Software

Series B in 2003
Composite Software, Inc. disrupted the data integration market with a faster, lower cost data integration approach now known as data virtualization.

Integrien

Series B in 2006
Integrien Corporation designs, develops, and markets integrity management solutions. The company's solutions enable problem diagnosis, prediction, and prevention services. The company also detects application slowdowns and outages. Additionally, it offers troubleshooting, maintenance, and system integration and implementation services. The company has strategic partnerships with IBM, HP, BMC, VMware, and Tata Consultancy Services. Integrien Corporation was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

AOptix Technologies

Series D in 2009
AOptix Technologies, Inc. develops free space optical communications and iris biometrics based identification solutions for government and commercial markets. It offers advanced biometric iris recognition systems and ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions. Its products are used in advanced biometrics applications, such as border security, national and regional ID cards, aviation security, governmental and commercial access control, and law enforcement; defense applications, including network-centric operation and ground and air nodes; and commercial applications comprising outdoor sporting event remotes, wireless ad-hoc networks, and wireless breakthrough delivers uncompressed HD video.

ARIO Data Networks

Venture Round in 2005
ARIO Data Networks provides storage solutions and RAID controllers. It provides a line of Sanario RAID and JBOD SATA and SAS controllers. The company also offers Capacity RAID Array product family, which is a RAID storage subsystem product family; and Capacity Expansion Array product family, which is an expansion storage subsystem product family for storage original equipment manufacturers. Its solutions are deployed in SAN, NAS, and DAS environments. The company's solutions are used in various applications, such as information lifecycle management, near line storage, disk-to-disk back up, and high performance scientific computing. ARIO Data Networks was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Utility

Series B in 2000
Utility Associates, Inc. offers mobile resource management solutions to command and control field operations. It offers AVaiL, which delivers a mobile operations command and control service that provides a view of the current location and status of mobile resources layered with data from various business systems, such as GIS, customer, and outage management yielding unparalleled awareness of mobile operations; AVaiL-Navigator, which provides an on board navigation system; AVaiL Tablet, which delivers various levels of mobile computing functionalities; AVaiL RFID, which delivers information on the location and status of various mobile resources; AVaiL Diagnostics, which delivers vehicle diagnostic information to AVaiL command and control; AVaiL Cell, which is downloaded to cell-phones; PadWORKS, a work management system for the utility industry; AVaiL Boost, which maintains wireless connectivity in geographic areas; and OnComm Rocket, which enables enterprises to track the location and status of various mobile assets, such as toolboxes, backhoes, personnel, and vehicles.

ThisNext

Series B in 2008
ThisNext is a social commerce site where people recommend their favorite products so others can discover what's best to buy online. It blends two powerful elements of real-world shopping otherwise lost for online consumers: word-of-mouth recommendation from trusted sources and the ability to browse products in the way that naturally leads to discovery. ThisNext has also developed a suite of distribution tools for bloggers, online communities and commerce sites

Meru Networks

Series C in 2005
Meru Networks develops and markets wireless LAN infrastructure solutions that use virtualization to deliver pervasive, high-fidelity wireless service for business-critical voice, video and data applications. The company first introduced its award-winning virtual cell wireless architecture in 2003, and Meru products embody a complete departure from typical hub-based WLAN approaches, offering a wireless solution with levels of performance, reliability, security and cost-effectiveness previously found only in wired networking environments.

Magnite

Series C in 2009
Rubicon Project (NYSE: RUBI) has engineered the Advertising Automation Cloud, one of the largest real-time cloud and Big Data computing systems. The Company's mission is to automate the buying and selling of advertising by offering innovative products to connect buyers and sellers globally.

ARIO Data Networks

Series D in 2004
ARIO Data Networks provides storage solutions and RAID controllers. It provides a line of Sanario RAID and JBOD SATA and SAS controllers. The company also offers Capacity RAID Array product family, which is a RAID storage subsystem product family; and Capacity Expansion Array product family, which is an expansion storage subsystem product family for storage original equipment manufacturers. Its solutions are deployed in SAN, NAS, and DAS environments. The company's solutions are used in various applications, such as information lifecycle management, near line storage, disk-to-disk back up, and high performance scientific computing. ARIO Data Networks was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Homepage.com

Venture Round in 2000
HomePage.com, an idealab! company, is a new type of Application Service Provider (ASP) that develops and hosts proprietary Web page applications for Global 2000 companies and leading e-businesses. HomePage.com's HP/2.0 Application Series offers a suite of flexible applications geared to providing high-value customer interactions. These applications, the home page application and the ePage application, result in a customized end-user experience through its Business-to-Consumer and Business-to-Business solutions: home pages, community pages, club pages, commerce pages, portal pages, marketplace pages, sales pages and customer pages. HomePage.com provides seamless integration of the service and works closely with clients to customize an offering that will maximize lifetime customer value.

Intersperse

Series B in 2001
Intersperse is a provider of management solutions for service-oriented enterprise applications. Intersperse Manager is designed to help master the rapidly growing complexity of SOA business systems. It gives developers, operators, and analysts a comprehensive view of all relevant tiers, the ability to proactively monitor and analyze system performance in business contexts, and the control to automatically or directly corrects problems in the production environment. Users can visualize not only application services, but also the ways in which those services are expected to perform, ensuring compliance with established service-level commitments.

Integrien

Venture Round in 2010
Integrien Corporation designs, develops, and markets integrity management solutions. The company's solutions enable problem diagnosis, prediction, and prevention services. The company also detects application slowdowns and outages. Additionally, it offers troubleshooting, maintenance, and system integration and implementation services. The company has strategic partnerships with IBM, HP, BMC, VMware, and Tata Consultancy Services. Integrien Corporation was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Mimosa Systems

Series B in 2005
Mimosa Systems, Inc. provides content archiving solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. It offers Mimosa NearPoint, an integrated unstructured information management software for emails, files, and instant messages that enables email and file system archiving, e-discovery, recovery, disaster recovery, and storage management. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California with additional offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India.

Glossi, Inc

Seed Round in 2012
Glossi is a publishing platform that enables anyone to create and share their own digital magazines across devices. Through a proprietary content management system and HTML-5 viewer, Glossi puts the power of magazine-style publishing and multi-screen distribution into the hands of any content creator. No design or technical skills are required to get a beautiful result. All that's needed is an idea. A Glossi can contain video, audio, animations, images and text. Pages and content can be customized with simple tools in an intuitive interface. Finished Glossies can be shared throughout the social web, viewed in the same format on every device, and each Glossi - or a collection of Glossies - can be embedded on a creator's blog or website, as well as on third party websites.

Inporia

Seed Round in 2011
Inporia's current product is Kaleidoscope - a inspiration ecommerce app and widget. Kaleidoscope launched on Android in Feburary 2011 and was made available for the iPhone in April 2011. It’s the first in what promises to be a series of ecommerce-driven apps from parent company Inporia. The four-person company was started by Ryan Junee, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Omnisio (acquired by Google in 2008) and serves as a mentor to 500 Startups and StartMate, and Max Skibinsky. Sarah Kunst and Simon Ratner complete the 4 person team. It raised $1.25 million in seed funding from Ron Conway’s SV Angel and 500 Startups, NEA, Start Fund and Y-Combinator among others.

LeisureLink

Series C in 2010
LeisureLink is a private, high-growth company headquartered in Pasadena, California, and funded by leading Southern California venture capitalist firms Clearstone Venture Partners and Mission Ventures, with a strategic investment from Wyndham Worldwide (NYSE: WYN). Over 1,500 “LeisureLinked” independent vacation rental properties, timeshares, villas, bed and breakfasts, condo hotels and boutique resorts throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe and the Caribbean trust our online system to manage their brands, maximize their profitability, streamline their revenue-driving efforts, and put heads in beds, every day.

Apture

Series A in 2009
Apture allows publishers and bloggers to link and incorporate several media items into a dynamic layer above their pages. Publishers have to embed a single line of Javascript code into their site and then sign into their Apture account. By highlighting words or phrases Apture allows publishers to link, providing appropriate content to choose between. When the reader clicks a small window opens with related items selected by the publisher. The reader can view the content be it text, video or photos. Readers access these items without leaving the original page.

Dhruva

Venture Round in 2006
Dhruva is a game developer, providing game development and art production services to the global games industry. Having worked on over 100 titles across various platforms and genres, the company has built domain expertise across consoles on social, casual, and mobile devices in serving marquee global clients, both big and small. Dhruva is led by a team that includes professionals from all around the world, working out of two state-of-the-art studios in Bangalore. It was founded in 1997.

AOptix Technologies

Series A in 2000
AOptix Technologies, Inc. develops free space optical communications and iris biometrics based identification solutions for government and commercial markets. It offers advanced biometric iris recognition systems and ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions. Its products are used in advanced biometrics applications, such as border security, national and regional ID cards, aviation security, governmental and commercial access control, and law enforcement; defense applications, including network-centric operation and ground and air nodes; and commercial applications comprising outdoor sporting event remotes, wireless ad-hoc networks, and wireless breakthrough delivers uncompressed HD video.

LeisureLink

Venture Round in 2016
LeisureLink is a private, high-growth company headquartered in Pasadena, California, and funded by leading Southern California venture capitalist firms Clearstone Venture Partners and Mission Ventures, with a strategic investment from Wyndham Worldwide (NYSE: WYN). Over 1,500 “LeisureLinked” independent vacation rental properties, timeshares, villas, bed and breakfasts, condo hotels and boutique resorts throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe and the Caribbean trust our online system to manage their brands, maximize their profitability, streamline their revenue-driving efforts, and put heads in beds, every day.

Communicado

Series B in 2007
Communicado provides software platforms, management processes and real-time communication expertise needed by business organizations and industry partners to make convergence work for everyone. Onsite or remote, software is licensed or provided as a service.

Meru Networks

Series E in 2009
Meru Networks develops and markets wireless LAN infrastructure solutions that use virtualization to deliver pervasive, high-fidelity wireless service for business-critical voice, video and data applications. The company first introduced its award-winning virtual cell wireless architecture in 2003, and Meru products embody a complete departure from typical hub-based WLAN approaches, offering a wireless solution with levels of performance, reliability, security and cost-effectiveness previously found only in wired networking environments.

HealthAllies.com

Series A in 1999
Founded in the summer of 1999, HealthAllies.com recently received the Gold "Abby" Award for Innovation in Healthcare from the Adaptive Business Leaders Organization. HealthAllies.com uses the power of the Internet to offer you the best care at the best rates from physicians, treatment centers and hospitals throughout the United States. These low rates are available to anyone with out-of-pocket medical expenses, and include any treatment not covered or only partially covered by insurance. And with HealthAllies.com, you only pay for the care you need. HealthAllies.com works either alongside or in place of health insurance. You'll have access to providers in virtually every specialty, offering every diagnostic test and covering every procedure, with rates ranging from 10 to 50 percent off of standard charges, plus a small transaction fee to HealthAllies.com when the service is used. We can even help you renegotiate a past bill, and we won't charge you any insurance premiums, membership dues or annual fees.

Magnite

Series A in 2007
Rubicon Project (NYSE: RUBI) has engineered the Advertising Automation Cloud, one of the largest real-time cloud and Big Data computing systems. The Company's mission is to automate the buying and selling of advertising by offering innovative products to connect buyers and sellers globally.

Meru Networks

Series D in 2006
Meru Networks develops and markets wireless LAN infrastructure solutions that use virtualization to deliver pervasive, high-fidelity wireless service for business-critical voice, video and data applications. The company first introduced its award-winning virtual cell wireless architecture in 2003, and Meru products embody a complete departure from typical hub-based WLAN approaches, offering a wireless solution with levels of performance, reliability, security and cost-effectiveness previously found only in wired networking environments.

Mimosa Systems

Debt Financing in 2009
Mimosa Systems, Inc. provides content archiving solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. It offers Mimosa NearPoint, an integrated unstructured information management software for emails, files, and instant messages that enables email and file system archiving, e-discovery, recovery, disaster recovery, and storage management. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California with additional offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India.