Ericsson

Ericsson, founded in 1876 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, is a telecommunications equipment and services provider. The company offers 2G, 3G, and 4G mobile technologies, along with mobile and fixed network infrastructure, broadband solutions, and multimedia services for operators, enterprises, and the media industry. With a leading position in managed services, Ericsson supports networks with over 2 billion subscribers worldwide. Through joint ventures like Sony Ericsson and ST-Ericsson, the company also provides feature-rich personal mobile devices to consumers. With a workforce of more than 80,000 employees operating in 175 countries, Ericsson generated revenue of SEK 206.5 billion (USD 27.1 billion) in 2009. The firm is listed on OMX NASDAQ, Stockholm, and NASDAQ New York, and provides pension plans and other retirement benefits to its employees. Ericsson Ventures, the company's private equity and venture capital arm, focuses on investments in emerging technologies such as IOT, artificial intelligence, software-defined networking, security, and more.

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TrueFort

Series B in 2021
TrueFort Fortress is a comprehensive, real-time cloud and application workload protection solution that secures the largest, most targeted and most dynamic, part of the enterprise attack surface … its application environment. It leverages telemetry from your existing agents and delivers more value than point or infrastructure-focused solutions. Best of all, it is a single console, policy, and reporting system from which to measure, control and immediately improve your risk posture.

Arantech

Series B in 2005
Founded in 1999, Arantech is the premier provider of Customer Experience Management (CEM) systems to communications service providers worldwide. Arantech's CEM solution radically transforms not only the way that operators service their customers but also the way their internal organisations respond to customer needs. This has made Arantech CEM both a catalyst for cultural change and a transformational force for its customers in terms of revenue and operational practice issues, as well as network issues. Arantech has defined CEM as the ability to proactively monitor and manage, in real time, the lifecycle experience of every customer that comes into contact with the business or infrastructure of a communications provider. Arantech CEM manages the experience of an entire brand offering, monitoring customers at every point where they touch the business. Arantech's CEM solutions deliver actionable business and technical options, providing a 360-degree view of all customers, 24/7/365, in real time, over any network or device.

Genaker

Acquisition in 2020
Genaker team has overcome major technical challenges such as real-time multimedia handling, development of a highly portable SIP / IMS stack for all platforms and the combination of Telco 2.0 and Web 2.0 experiences in mobile devices to enable applications that leverage the best of the Internet and the cellular worlds. Genaker (a registered trademark of eSI Mobile Solutions S.L.) was founded in Barcelona in 2003. It is an independent company owned by 10 individual shareholders. The core team involves a group of Senior Managers and R&D Engineers from the former Nokia R&D center located in Barcelona between 1999 and 2003. 82% of the shares are owned by Genaker employees, while 18% is owned by external individuals or business angels. Since its foundation, Genaker focuses on development of state-of-the-art solutions based on SIP. These include genaker4010, the most advanced Dispatching solution for Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC). Genaker also develops mobile and Windows-based applications that leverage the power of IMS- and Telco-based technologies (such as RCS, OMA Presence, OMA SIMPLE Messaging, Presence, VoIP, MMTel and Location Based Services). Genaker is also an active player involved in bridging the gap between Telco2.0, Mobile2.0 and Internet/Web2.0 domains. With offices in Barcelona, Genaker's aim is to leverage and replicate worldwide the success and trust achieved with local customers in Spain. Genaker has successfully delivered project and product deployments to leading mobile and convergent operators and service providers in Europe, Middle East and Americas. Furthermore, Genaker's products have been deployed in several countries and are being trialed worldwide.

Sand 9

Series C in 2012
Sand 9, Inc. is a venture funded startup company dedicated to the design of components that will dramatically improve the performance and increase the capabilities of wireless devices.

Ericsson Television

Acquisition in 2007
Ericsson Television, formerly Tandberg Television, creates products and systems for the delivery of high-quality live video and on-demand content across cable, DSL, fiber, IP, satellite and terrestrial networks. Recognized as a market leader, the Company provides systems integration and global support capabilities through its sales and 24-hour support operations in the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe. Ericsson Television's customers include many of the major broadcasters, network operators and content owners around the world.

Einride

Private Placement in 2019
Einride AB provides transportation of goods. The company also manufactures Einride Pods, the electric trucks for road freight transportation of pallets, timber, and perishable goods. It also offers clients to plan, order, and track sustainable transport. Einride AB was founded in 2016 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden with additional offices in Gothenburg, Sweden and Palo Alto, California.

Formant

Series A in 2022
Formant is a monitoring and operations infrastructure for anyone who works with robots. Founded by a team of former Google, Savioke, and Redwood Robotics software engineers, roboticists, and product managers—Formant believes that more efficient cloud infrastructure can help unlock the shared potential of humans and robots. The company was established in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Pluribus Networks

Venture Round in 2021
Pluribus Networks, Inc. specializes in network virtualization for private and public cloud datacenters. The company’s products include Netvisor OS, a distributed network operating system with bare-metal hardware programmability; E28Q Network Computing Appliance, a platform for various applications, including ToR and spine switching, cloud/rack controller, virtualization, and network services, as well as application/L4-7 hosting; F64 network computing appliances; E68 server switches; VCF insight analytics, a flow-based client-server oriented business intelligence solution for data centers; and supermicro microblade switches. It provides analytics appliance, open fabric W/analytics, open network virtualization, and DevOps networking solutions. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

MetraTech

Acquisition in 2014
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Everactive

Series C in 2021
Everactive's custom ultra-low-power chips enable completely battery-less wireless sensors that form the foundation of end-to-end IoT data services. The company technology allows for low cost, long-lived, and intelligent instrumentation of industrial operations. Its end-to-end solutions are built upon innovative advances in ultra-low-power circuit design and wireless communication that enable the company to power its Eversensors exclusively from harvested energy. The company also creates networking and cloud software to provide a service focused on providing customers with valuable insights from generated and self-sustaining data streams. The company was founded on 2012 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Pluribus Networks

Series D in 2015
Pluribus Networks, Inc. specializes in network virtualization for private and public cloud datacenters. The company’s products include Netvisor OS, a distributed network operating system with bare-metal hardware programmability; E28Q Network Computing Appliance, a platform for various applications, including ToR and spine switching, cloud/rack controller, virtualization, and network services, as well as application/L4-7 hosting; F64 network computing appliances; E68 server switches; VCF insight analytics, a flow-based client-server oriented business intelligence solution for data centers; and supermicro microblade switches. It provides analytics appliance, open fabric W/analytics, open network virtualization, and DevOps networking solutions. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Pluribus Networks

Series E in 2017
Pluribus Networks, Inc. specializes in network virtualization for private and public cloud datacenters. The company’s products include Netvisor OS, a distributed network operating system with bare-metal hardware programmability; E28Q Network Computing Appliance, a platform for various applications, including ToR and spine switching, cloud/rack controller, virtualization, and network services, as well as application/L4-7 hosting; F64 network computing appliances; E68 server switches; VCF insight analytics, a flow-based client-server oriented business intelligence solution for data centers; and supermicro microblade switches. It provides analytics appliance, open fabric W/analytics, open network virtualization, and DevOps networking solutions. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Menlo Security

Series C in 2017
Menlo Security provides a cloud-based isolation platform that protects organizations from cyberattacks by eliminating the threat of malware from websites, documents, and emails. Menlo Security is trusted by major global businesses, including Fortune 500 companies and financial services institutions, and backed by Vista Equity Partners, Neuberger Berman, General Catalyst, Sutter Hill Ventures, Engineering Capital, Osage University Partners, American Express Ventures, Ericsson Ventures, HSBC, and JP Morgan Chase. Menlo Security was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

NodePrime

Acquisition in 2016
NodePrime is infrastructure without limits. NodePrime helps service providers, SaaS players and online gaming companies reliably operate massive IT infrastructures.

Balena

Series A in 2016
Balena is a complete set of tools for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected IoT devices. It provides infrastructure and tools for fleet owners so they can focus on developing their applications and growing their fleets with as little friction as possible. Balena enables devices and their running services to be managed, monitored, and updated through the web dashboard or through its API, via the CLI and SDK. Balena was established in 2013.

Advanced Computer Communications

Acquisition in 1998
Advanced Computer Communications, Inc. develops and manufactures wide area internetworking products for interconnection and management of distributed computer networks. The company provides bandwidth optimization technologies. It offers various routers, such as voice routers that integrate voice, data, fax, and modem traffic over ISDN BRI line; small and home office router, an ISDN bridge/router for information access; remote office router to remote sites and branch offices for connections, such as ISDN and Frame Relay; and branch office router, a remote router that offers a suite of features in the WAN enclosure.

Cradlepoint

Acquisition in 2020
Cradlepoint offers a cloud-based network solution to connect people, places, and things over wired and wireless broadband. Cradlepoint NetCloud is a software and services platform that extends the company’s 4G LTE-enabled multi-function routers and ruggedized M2M/IoT gateways with cloud-based management and software-defined network services. With Cradlepoint, customers can leverage the speed and economics of wired and wireless Internet broadband for branch, failover, mobile, and IoT networks while maintaining end-to-end visibility, security, and control. More than 15,000 enterprise and government organizations around the world — including 75 percent of the world’s top retailers, 50 percent of the Fortune 100, and 25 of the largest U.S. cities — rely on Cradlepoint to keep critical sites, workforces, vehicles, and devices always connected and protected. Major service providers use Cradlepoint network solutions as the foundation for innovative managed service offerings. Founded in 2006, Cradlepoint is a privately held company headquartered in Boise, Idaho, with development centers in Silicon Valley and Kelowna, Canada, and offices in the UK, Australia, and Japan.

Jolata

Series B in 2016
Jolata provides solutions that help enterprises optimize their network performance. The Silicon Valley-based start-up has built a software solution for real-time network monitoring, analytics and performance optimization. It can monitor up to every packet on a global network with sub-second visualization. The Jolata TruFlow Platform is a big data analytics solution for precise and real-time performance monitoring, initially aimed at network operators in wireless/telecommunications, cable and enterprise/financial services environments.

Cask

Series B in 2015
Acquired by Google. Founded by developers for developers, Cask, the open source software company makes building and running big data solutions easy, provides the first unified integration platform for big data that cuts down the time to production for data applications and data lakes by 80%. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., the company is backed by leading investors including Battery Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Ignition Partners.

Trifacta

Private Placement in 2018
Trifacta enables anyone to efficiently explore and prepare data by utilizing machine learning to provide a breakthrough UX and architecture. It also leverages decades of innovative research in human-computer interaction, scalable data management, and machine learning to make the process of preparing data faster and more intuitive. Around the globe, tens of thousands of users at more than 8,000 companies, including leading brands like Deutsche Boerse, Google, Kaiser Permanente, New York Life, and PepsiCo, are unlocking the potential of their data with Trifacta’s market-leading data wrangling solutions. The company develops data wrangling software for data exploration and self-service data preparation for analysis. They focused on building software that helps organizations and individuals unlock the potential of their data by providing a new approach to how data is explored and prepared for analysis. Trifacta was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with offices in Boston, Berlin, London, and Paris.

Redback Networks

Acquisition in 2006
Redback Networks, Inc. provides advanced telecommunications networking equipment in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. It offers SmartEdge service gateway that combines scalable carrier-class edge routing, Ethernet aggregation, and advanced subscriber management; SMS product families, which enable service providers and carriers to provide, aggregate, and manage broadband and dialup subscribers, and services through a single and unified platform; and the NetOp policy manager, a software platform that allows policy management and control across the SmartEdge and SMS product families. The company’s products enable service providers to build Internet protocol-based broadband networks to deliver high-speed access and services to consumers and businesses. It has collaboration agreements with DSL Forum, Broadband Services Forum, TIA, United States Telecom Association, and Isocore.

Weaveworks

Private Placement in 2020
Weaveworks simplifies operating Kubernetes workloads and provides a developer-centric operating model for cloud-native applications. Founded in 2014, Weaveworks makes it fast and simple for developers and DevOps teams to build and operate powerful containerized applications. They minimize the complexity of operating workloads in Kubernetes by providing automated continuous delivery pipelines, observability, and monitoring. It is one of the first members of the Cloud Native Computing Forum. Weaveworks also contributes to several open-source projects, including Weave Scope, Weave Cortex, and Weave Flux.

Marconi Group

Acquisition in 2005
The Marconi Company originally known as The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company was a British telecommunications and engineering company. The company was founded in 1897 by the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi and was in operation until 2006. The company was a pioneer of wireless long distance communication and mass media broadcasting, eventually becoming one of the UKs most successful manufacturing companies. In 1999, its defense manufacturing division, Marconi Electronic Systems, merged with British Aerospace to form BAE Systems. In 2006, extreme financial difficulties led to the collapse of the remaining company, with the bulk of the business acquired by Ericsson.

AirClic

Series B in 2001
AirClic, Inc. provides mobile business solutions in the United States. It captures and accesses information about workers, assets, inventory, activities, GPS location, and time, as well as supports various hardware devices to capture data in the fields. The company also provides business process mobilization solutions, as well as proof of delivery/services, logistics and transportation management, inventory management, security, operations and supply chain management, field services, customer communications, and time and expense management services. AirClic, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Trevose, Pennsylvania.

Drutt Corporation

Acquisition in 2007
Drutt Corporation Inc. provides Mobile Service Delivery Platform (MSDP) solutions to mobile network operators. The MSDP solutions offer an end-to-end multi-channel solution for establishing a mobile service delivery business helping operators to mobilize and charge for any content to any kind of mobile device, over any mobile network and delivery channel. It also provides Drutt 3PI that handles various aspects of content and service integration, as well as partner management; and Drutt Rendering, an engine looking after various device adaptation and content re-purposing to optimize delivery to every mobile device. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden with sales offices in Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America, and the Middle East. As of June 27, 2007, Drutt Corporation Inc. operates as a subsidiary of LM Ericsson Telephone Co.

Envivio

Acquisition in 2015
Envivio (NASDAQ: ENVI) is a leader in software-based solutions for multi-screen video processing and delivery. Envivio solutions remove the boundaries of traditional television and make the world’s video content universally enjoyable by all viewers, on any device, across any network, at any time. Now in its second decade of developing market-leading video convergence solutions, Envivio powers services for more than 300 content and service provider customers around the world, including eight of the top 10 mobile operators, nine of the top 10 broadband providers and three of the top four US cable operators. Envivio is headquartered in South San Francisco, California and has offices worldwide including France, England, China, Singapore and Japan. Visit www.envivio.com for more information.

Ericpol

Acquisition in 2016
Ericpol Sp. z o.o. is an engineering company that has been operating on international ICT market since 1991. The company provides outsourcing, consulting and integration services as well as dedicated solutions in telecommunications, M2M (machine to machine), IoT (Internet of Things), healthcare, finances&banking and business solutions area. Ericpol consists of 4 offices in Poland and 3 production centres in Ukraine, Belarus and Sweden, employing over 2000 people. The Ericpol company was established in 1991 in Łódź. Since the very beginning company is financed exclusively with its own capital and it has noted a very good liquidity and only positive financial results. Well-established relations with the client and long-term activity in the telecommunication industry enabled the regular and dynamic development of the company.

Red Bee Media

Acquisition in 2013
Red Bee Media is a world-leading media management company providing technology and creative solutions that help channels, broadcasters, content rights holders and brand owners reach and engage with their audiences in traditional and new ways. In the rapidly changing media landscape consumers are exerting greater control over the content they watch and how they choose to engage. Red Bee Media is finding innovative ways to enable companies to unlock new revenue streams and build audience share on multiple platforms including traditional TV channels and on demand services.

Trifacta

Series D in 2018
Trifacta enables anyone to efficiently explore and prepare data by utilizing machine learning to provide a breakthrough UX and architecture. It also leverages decades of innovative research in human-computer interaction, scalable data management, and machine learning to make the process of preparing data faster and more intuitive. Around the globe, tens of thousands of users at more than 8,000 companies, including leading brands like Deutsche Boerse, Google, Kaiser Permanente, New York Life, and PepsiCo, are unlocking the potential of their data with Trifacta’s market-leading data wrangling solutions. The company develops data wrangling software for data exploration and self-service data preparation for analysis. They focused on building software that helps organizations and individuals unlock the potential of their data by providing a new approach to how data is explored and prepared for analysis. Trifacta was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with offices in Boston, Berlin, London, and Paris.

Azuki Systems

Acquisition in 2014
Azuki Systems began with a single premise: to be the best multi-screen video delivery platform. To reach this goal they focused on hiring the best people, building the best technologies for multi-screen video delivery and monetization, and striving to always be building what’s next. Their culture of innovation fosters creative solutions to the most pressing problems faced by their customers, and the result is nothing less than amazing. Azuki developed the highest quality, most flexible, best-protected and most proven managed OTT optimized multi-screen video delivery solution available. Their team is composed of the best leaders, engineers, designers, and technologists in the TV Everywhere, OTT multi-screen video business. Azuki is the only multi-screen video delivery technology built from the ground-up for the unique challenges of mobile and OTT multi-screen. They focus on the challenges of their customers: cable operators, IPTV providers, mobile network operators, content owners and enterprises. Your multi-screen problems are their focus. You can trust that their team, hand-picked, vetted, and proven, is building and supporting the best multi-screen video delivery platform in the world to move your business forward.

Metro Optix

Series B in 2000
Metro-Optix develops hardware for telecommunications companies that want to transition from circuit-based services to cell- and packet-based services. The hardware essentially reduces the number of hardware boxes needed, such as routers, which the networks feed into.

Ericsson Amplified Technologies

Acquisition in 2000
Ericsson Amplified Technologies Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells power amplifiers and related subsystems to the worldwide wireless telecommunications market. The company's products include radio frequency and microwave, and single and multi channel power amplifiers that supported various analog and digital transmission protocols, which include AMPS, CDMA, TDMA, TACS, GSM, W-CDMA, and CDMA2000.

Cask

Venture Round in 2016
Acquired by Google. Founded by developers for developers, Cask, the open source software company makes building and running big data solutions easy, provides the first unified integration platform for big data that cuts down the time to production for data applications and data lakes by 80%. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., the company is backed by leading investors including Battery Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Ignition Partners.

Drawbridge

Series C in 2017
Drawbridge is on a mission to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to build and democratize scaled identity technologies. Today, Drawbridge is the go-to destination for cross-device, people-based identity management solutions, with clients from every industry leveraging our technology to provide great experiences for their customers. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley, is backed by Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and Northgate Capital. Drawbridge has been listed on CNBC’s annual Disruptor 50 list of groundbreaking companies twice, named one of Fortune’s 50 Companies Leading the AI Revolution, and has been included on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies in America for two consecutive years.

Optimi Corporation

Acquisition in 2010
Optimi Corporation provides network simulation, prediction, optimization, and service monitoring solutions for wireless carriers, network equipment manufacturers, and engineering consulting firms in the United States and internationally. Its products include xWizard, a network planning solution that allows the user to view various networks in a single application; xDimension, an integrated solution that lowers capital and operating expenditures through automated network dimensioning; xACP, an automatic cell planning solution that enables the optimization of the network; and xAFP, which enables users to create, simulate, and analyze frequency plans prior to implementation in a live environment.

Airvana - EVDO business

Acquisition in 2013
Airvana - EVDO business offers network infrastructure products used by wireless operators.

Ambient Corporation

Acquisition in 2014
Ambient Corporation is engaged in the design, development, and delivery of Ambient Smart Grid® communications equipment, technologies, and services. Ambient Smart Grid communications technology enables power line infrastructure landlords (electric utilities and property owners) to use their existing medium and low voltage distribution lines for the delivery of high-speed IP-based services.

NetScreen Technologies

Venture Round in 2000
Juniper Networks is a news network that designs, develops, and sells products and services, along with network infrastructure.

Formant

Series A in 2023
Formant is a monitoring and operations infrastructure for anyone who works with robots. Founded by a team of former Google, Savioke, and Redwood Robotics software engineers, roboticists, and product managers—Formant believes that more efficient cloud infrastructure can help unlock the shared potential of humans and robots. The company was established in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Technicolor - Broadcast Services

Acquisition in 2012
Technicolor - Broadcast Services provides play-out services, live production support and media asset management services.

Einride

Series B in 2021
Einride AB provides transportation of goods. The company also manufactures Einride Pods, the electric trucks for road freight transportation of pallets, timber, and perishable goods. It also offers clients to plan, order, and track sustainable transport. Einride AB was founded in 2016 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden with additional offices in Gothenburg, Sweden and Palo Alto, California.

Netspira Networks

Acquisition in 2005
Netspira Networks develops software tools and applications for the management of added-value services in the data networks of mobile telephone operators. Founded in 2001, it is based in Madrid, Spain.

FYI Television

Acquisition in 2016
FYI Television, Inc. (FYI), a global TV metadata and entertainment image content expert, accumulates and distributes TV entertainment.

Microsoft Mediaroom

Acquisition in 2013
Ericsson Mediaroom is a collection of software for operators to deliver IPTV (IPTV) subscription services, including content-protected, live, digital video recorder, video on demand, multiscreen, and applications.

Aspex Semiconductor

Acquisition in 2012
Aspex Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company that develops, manufactures, and distributes system-on-chip high-definition video compression and transcoding solutions for consumer electronic applications. It is specialized in the development of software programmable media processors and offers HD video transcoding chips. Aspex Semiconductor’s products are used in intelligent home gateways, PVR functionalities, Blu-ray or HD DVD recorders, networked digital televisions, television pause buttons, PCs and laptops, HD webcams, external adapters, and wireless HDMI applications. The company serves professional imaging and wireless infrastructure markets, including broadcast and digital cinema, medical imaging, machine vision, printing and document processing, and video compression markets. Aspex Semiconductor is based in Bradford, Somerset and, it sells its products through distributors in North America and the United Kingdom.

Entrisphere

Acquisition in 2007
Entrisphere, Inc. supplies access network equipment for the broadband service providers. Its products include BLM 1500, a multi-service access platform that provides POTS, HiCap, IPTV, DSL, B-PON and GPON, voice over packet, and Ethernet interfaces from a single chassis; and T-series of ONTs and ONUs, which support deployments, including single family units, small business units, multiple dwelling units, multiple tenant units, and in fiber to the curb and fiber to the business. The company also provides Entriview EMS that provides centralized control of BLM 1500 network with FCAPS functionality; and OSP cabinets, which enable voice, data, and video services to be deployed over copper or fiber from remote locations. In addition, it offers support services, such as network planning, consultation, installation, configuration, training, project management, maintenance, and software support. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Santa Clara, California. As of February 12, 2007, Entrisphere, Inc. operates as subsidiary of LM Ericsson Telephone Co.

RapidDeploy

Series B in 2021
RapidDeploy, Inc. develops cloud-based call-taking and computer aided dispatch (CAD) platform that enables public safety officials to reduce emergency response times and improve situational awareness. It provides solutions for vehicle and responder tracking, mobile workforce management, route optimization, event scheduling, bulk dispatch, lifecycle management, and call capture. RapidDeploy, Inc. was formerly known as RapidDeploy Delaware Corp. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Axxessit AS

Acquisition in 2005
AXXESSIT is a supplier of broadband access solutions. The company's products make it possible to build access networks that cope with convergence between telephony, video and data services. Telecommunications operators involved in constructing networks to deliver broadband services to the corporate market form the target market for Axxessit.

VidScale

Acquisition in 2018
Vidscale focuses on a hardware agnostic, unified software solution that provides both a CDN solution for managed content as well as a transparent caching solution for OTT content. It was founded in 2010. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

avaamo

Series A in 2018
Avaamo is a deep-learning software company that specializes in conversational interfaces to solve specific, high impact problems in the enterprise. Avaamo is building fundamental AI technology across a broad area of neural networks, speech synthesis and deep learning to make conversational computing for the enterprise a reality.

Giga

Venture Round in 2020
Giga is a global initiative to connect every school to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity, and choice.

Pride SpA

Acquisition in 2010
Pride SpA is a systems integration company that offers products and services primarily for the ICT industry in Europe. Its product portfolio includes PrideTelcoSuite, a business support systems and operational support systems suite for the telecommunications market; Mobility Innovative Suite for wireless operators; and the +PLUS suite, which provides business intelligence, customer relationship management, billing, and accounting solutions for energy and utilities providers. The company offers consulting services in the areas of customer relationship management, charging and billing systems, operation support systems, revenue assurance, business intelligence, enterprise application integration, data warehousing, and enterprise resource planning; and system integration services.

LHS AG

Acquisition in 2007
LHS AG provides telecommunications billing and customer care systems across the wireless, wireline, and IP telecom markets worldwide.

Weaveworks

Venture Round in 2020
Weaveworks simplifies operating Kubernetes workloads and provides a developer-centric operating model for cloud-native applications. Founded in 2014, Weaveworks makes it fast and simple for developers and DevOps teams to build and operate powerful containerized applications. They minimize the complexity of operating workloads in Kubernetes by providing automated continuous delivery pipelines, observability, and monitoring. It is one of the first members of the Cloud Native Computing Forum. Weaveworks also contributes to several open-source projects, including Weave Scope, Weave Cortex, and Weave Flux.

Terraplay Systems

Venture Round in 2003
Terraplay Systems operates a global gaming network. It enables game publishers and developers, network operators, and service providers to offer games to a global gaming community and deliver gaming services across various channels. The company provides services, which include mobile storefronts, content download, gaming community, in-game payments, and multiplayer; and white label community sites, billing, and community wrappers. It also offers game developer training, support, consultancy, testing, network and handset knowledge, and tools services. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Solna, Sweden.

Fabrix Systems

Acquisition in 2014
Fabrix is a leading provider of enterprise class integrated storage and computing platforms for applications requiring processing and storing of large (and constantly growing) amounts of data. Our tightly integrated architecture is a major paradigm shift in the implementation of IT infrastructures. but Fabrix’s disruptive, software-based solution delivers performance, reliability, scalability and flexibility critical to the needs of the IT, surveillance, life sciences and energy industries. Our largest deployments are Video-centric applications in the Media and Entertainment space, including scalable origin servers, cloud DVR applications and VOD expansion.

Mirantis

Series B in 2015
Mirantis helps organizations ship code faster on public and private clouds. The company provides a public cloud experience on any infrastructure from the data center to the edge. With Lens and the Mirantis Cloud Native Platform, Mirantis empowers a new breed of Kubernetes developers by removing infrastructure and operations complexity and providing one cohesive cloud experience for complete app and DevOps portability, a single pane of glass, and automated full-stack lifecycle management with continuous updates. Mirantis serves many of the world’s leading enterprises, including Adobe, DocuSign, Liberty Mutual, Nationwide Insurance, PayPal, Reliance Jio, Splunk, and STC. Learn more at www.mirantis.com. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Campbell, California.

avaamo

Private Placement in 2018
Avaamo is a deep-learning software company that specializes in conversational interfaces to solve specific, high impact problems in the enterprise. Avaamo is building fundamental AI technology across a broad area of neural networks, speech synthesis and deep learning to make conversational computing for the enterprise a reality.

GEOSS

Acquisition in 2014
GEOSS is an operations support systems (OSS) consulting company.

TimelessMIND

Acquisition in 2015
TimelessMind, a Canada-based consulting and systems integration company specializing in operations and business support (OSS/BSS). TimelessMIND offers Information Technology (IT) consulting services. The company provides systems integration, business intelligence, application development, and maintenance services. In addition, it offers project assessment, architecture and design review, system development and support, mentoring and training, and system monitoring and analytics services.

Matterport

Venture Round in 2017
Matterport develops and operates a cloud-based platform that enables users to create cloud-based 3D and virtual reality models of real-world spaces that can be experienced, changed, and shared online. Its 3D model allows people to walk through, modify, and share digital environments on devices, such as laptops and iPads. Matterport also provides Matterport Pro 3D camera to capture visual and spatial data and the appearance and dimensions of space, Matterport Cloud, for cloud hosting and processing, Matterport Spaces for playing web player, and Matterport 3D player, a web-based viewer that enables users to see and navigate through their 3D model. It also offers a 3D Showcase that enables users to navigate and visualize homes and other buildings with multiple floors. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Teleca

Acquisition in 2005
Teleca AB supplies software solutions to the mobile communications industry in Asia, Europe, North America, and internationally. The company offers application development, platform creation, integration and porting, base porting, test and verification, and gaming service platform solutions. It serves mobile device manufacturers, software and chipset vendors, HW platform providers, service providers, and network operators, as well as consumer electronics, automotive, and Internet companies in Sweden, Finland, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The company was formerly known as Sigma AB and changed its name to Teleca AB in June 2001.

Balena

Funding Round in 2018
Balena is a complete set of tools for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected IoT devices. It provides infrastructure and tools for fleet owners so they can focus on developing their applications and growing their fleets with as little friction as possible. Balena enables devices and their running services to be managed, monitored, and updated through the web dashboard or through its API, via the CLI and SDK. Balena was established in 2013.

Adapteva

Series B in 2014
Adapteva, Inc. designs, develops, builds, and markets energy efficient and scalable multi-core processor chips for parallel computing. The company offers multi-core accelerator chips and computer modules for applications with energy efficiency requirements, such as real time image classification, machine learning, autonomous navigation, and software defined radio. Its products include Epiphany, a scalable distributed multi-core memory architecture that features various processors on a single chip connected through a high-bandwidth network-on-chip; and Parallella Board, an open source and credit card sized multi-core computer for parallel programming. Adapteva, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Mirantis

Series B in 2014
Mirantis helps organizations ship code faster on public and private clouds. The company provides a public cloud experience on any infrastructure from the data center to the edge. With Lens and the Mirantis Cloud Native Platform, Mirantis empowers a new breed of Kubernetes developers by removing infrastructure and operations complexity and providing one cohesive cloud experience for complete app and DevOps portability, a single pane of glass, and automated full-stack lifecycle management with continuous updates. Mirantis serves many of the world’s leading enterprises, including Adobe, DocuSign, Liberty Mutual, Nationwide Insurance, PayPal, Reliance Jio, Splunk, and STC. Learn more at www.mirantis.com. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Campbell, California.

CENX

Acquisition in 2018
CENX, provides interconnect services for the new generation of Ethernet-based backhaul networks. Awarded by multiple leading publications for its innovation, CENX's Ethernet Backhaul Management Service aggregates and translates different Ethernet backhaul services from multiple access providers to all cell sites in a given market. CENX provides a normalized Carrier Ethernet handoff to a given wireless provider enabling ubiquitous 4G-LTE Ethernet backhaul coverage to all cell sites in that market. CENX manages the entire circuit life cycle, yielding better quality of service, reduced CapEx and a level of monitoring of Ethernet Backhaul service traffic that has not been feasible previously. CENX's investors include its management and a number of leading firms, including DCM (whose co-founder, Dixon Doll, is the Chairman of the CENX Board of Directors), Highland Capital Partners and Mesirow Financial. Through its work in the MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) and in the industry, the CENX management team has played a critical role in the definition of standards and the development of the Carrier Ethernet market over the past ten years.

ReefEdge

Series B in 2004
ReefEdge, Inc. is a provider of wireless local area network systems for multi-site enterprises to deploy, manage, and secure wireless networks. ReefEdge Inc. develops technologies for in-building wireless networks. Founded in Spring 2000, ReefEdge products allow the emerging generation of mobile devices to become full participants in the corporate networking environment. ReefEdge provides secure, reliable, managed connectivity for mobile devices equipped with short-range wireless capabilities such as Bluetooth and makes possible the deployment of new kinds of "smart" mobile applications that deliver personalized, location-aware and collaborative services. The company boasts a seasoned executive team with years of experience delivering products and solutions to enterprise customers, with former executives from IBM, AT&T, Telcordia and Prodigy.

Sentilla

Acquisition in 2014
Sentilla software delivers unparalleled intelligence for physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure transformation. Sentilla’s unified IT visibility and continuous, insightful analytics align business requirements with IT resource utilization, capacity, and cost. The result is optimized capacity, reduced CapEx and OpEx, faster deployments, and cheaper service delivery that create agility to enter new markets quickly. Global 1000 enterprises, including cloud service providers and leading telecom companies, deploy Sentilla software to increase infrastructure efficiency by 40%, essentially getting $1.40 for every $1.00 of their IT investment.

Nicira Networks

Series C in 2011
Nicira Networks is accelerating the transformation to cloud infrastructure by delivering software that virtualizes the network and enables elastic, scale-out data centers. The company was founded by networking research leaders from Stanford University and University of California at Berkeley, and is led by proven entrepreneurs in networking, security and virtualization.

NodePrime

Seed Round in 2015
NodePrime is infrastructure without limits. NodePrime helps service providers, SaaS players and online gaming companies reliably operate massive IT infrastructures.

Allolio&Konrad

Acquisition in 2016
Allolio&Konrad Consulting GmbH provides business consulting services to the telecommunication industry. It offers program, revenue, and cost assurance services; strategic advisory services; consulting services in the areas of profitability analysis, cost allocation, program management, data analytics, data migration, and data cleansing; and BSS-transformation services. Allolio&Konrad Consulting GmbH was founded in 2001 and is based in Bonn, Germany.

Skorpios Technologies

Series B in 2011
Skorpios Technologies, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, develops and markets silicon photonic integrated circuit (IC) products. The company offers 100G-CWDM system-on-chip fully integrated opto-electronic S-roC receiver ICs and S-toC transmitter ICs. It also provides Skorpios’ Template Assisted Bonding, a platform to address various applications that include high-speed video, data, and voice communications for networking and cloud computing, storage, wireless, and cable TV; and Skorpios optical ASICs that are constructed from a set of photonic and electrical macrocell building blocks. The company serves to aerospace and defense, bioelectronics, and communications sectors. Skorpios Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

BelAir Networks

Acquisition in 2012
BelAir Networks wireless networking equipment is deployed by the world's leading service providers including AT&T, Comcast and Time Warner Cable. The company's portfolio of indoor access points and outdoor picocell base stations, control and management systems enable service providers to deploy high performance, scalable and flexible wireless networks. BelAir Networks solutions provide a compelling return on investment enabling service providers to capitalize on the explosive growth of mobile data devices, applications and usage. Innovative cable, telecom and mobile service providers use BelAir Networks to drive revenue and improve competitiveness. Founded in 2002, BelAir Networks is a privately held company with Tier 1 carrier customers and backed by investment from Comcast Interactive Capital, T-Mobile Venture Fund and leading venture capital firms including Trilogy Equity Partners. For more information, visit www.belairnetworks.com.

iconectiv

Acquisition in 2011
At iconectiv, they envision a world without boundaries, where the ability to access and exchange information is simple, secure and seamless. As the authoritative partner of the communications industry for more than 30 years, their market-leading solutions enable the interconnection of networks, devices, and applications for more than two billion people every day. Working closely with private, government and non-governmental organizations, iconectiv has intimate knowledge of the intricacies and complexities of creating, operating and securing the telecommunications infrastructure for service providers, governments and enterprises. iconectiv provides network and operations management, numbering, registry, messaging and fraud and identity solutions to more than 1,200 customers globally. A US-based company, Telcordia Technologies, doing business as iconectiv, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ericsson.

Einride

Venture Round in 2020
Einride AB provides transportation of goods. The company also manufactures Einride Pods, the electric trucks for road freight transportation of pallets, timber, and perishable goods. It also offers clients to plan, order, and track sustainable transport. Einride AB was founded in 2016 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden with additional offices in Gothenburg, Sweden and Palo Alto, California.

Apcera

Acquisition in 2014
Apcera, Inc. operates as a cloud computing company that provides enterprises with more visibility and control over their on-premise and public cloud-based applications. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Mountain View, California. As of October 10, 2014, Apcera, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ).

Einride

Series A in 2019
Einride AB provides transportation of goods. The company also manufactures Einride Pods, the electric trucks for road freight transportation of pallets, timber, and perishable goods. It also offers clients to plan, order, and track sustainable transport. Einride AB was founded in 2016 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden with additional offices in Gothenburg, Sweden and Palo Alto, California.

Einride

Private Placement in 2020
Einride AB provides transportation of goods. The company also manufactures Einride Pods, the electric trucks for road freight transportation of pallets, timber, and perishable goods. It also offers clients to plan, order, and track sustainable transport. Einride AB was founded in 2016 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden with additional offices in Gothenburg, Sweden and Palo Alto, California.

ConceptWave Software

Acquisition in 2012
ConceptWave Software offers ConceptWave Rapid CRM, a customer lifecycle management solution that leverages unified customer data from various disparate systems; and ConceptWave Order Care, a product and order lifecycle management solution that provides product development and deployment, and order and service fulfillment.

Nubis Communications

Venture Round in 2023
Nubis Communications is a cloud startup company providing services to the electrical and electronic manufacturing industries. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in New York City Metropolitan Area.

NanoSemi

Venture Round in 2017
NanoSemi develops intellectual property based upon machine learning to improve communication and other systems.

Realm

Venture Round in 2017
Realm ApS develops a mobile database. The company’s mobile database serves as a replacement for SQLite and Core Data; and is accessible on Android, and iOS and OSX platforms. Its mobile database comprises querying, relationships and graphs, thread safety, and other features; and provides memory-efficient access to the user’s data by using Realm objects. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark with an additional office in San Francisco, California. As of May 7, 2019, Realm ApS operates as a subsidiary of MongoDB, Inc.

SAM Seamless Network

Series B in 2022
SAM Seamless Network develops a cybersecurity technology platform that protects the connected home, by tackling cyber security threats at the source. It offers SAM for Homes, a software that protects connected home by securing threats right at the source; SAM for SMBs, an office network management platform; and SAM On-the-Go, a software platform with parental control. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel with additional offices in New York, New York; and Berlin, Germany.

Hydrolix

Series A in 2023
Hydrolix is an early-stage startup with an ambition to change the economics of high density data. The company develops a query service technology intended to process petabyte-scale time series data. Hydrolix's cloud-based query service utilizes proprietary compression and indexing technology, allowing customers to process sub-second interactive queries at a fraction of the cost of other existing services.

Hadean

Series A in 2023
Hadean Supercomputing Ltd. develops an application platform that enables developers to run algorithms using existing tool chain. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

RapidDeploy

Series C in 2023
RapidDeploy, Inc. develops cloud-based call-taking and computer aided dispatch (CAD) platform that enables public safety officials to reduce emergency response times and improve situational awareness. It provides solutions for vehicle and responder tracking, mobile workforce management, route optimization, event scheduling, bulk dispatch, lifecycle management, and call capture. RapidDeploy, Inc. was formerly known as RapidDeploy Delaware Corp. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Austin, Texas.