Oak Investment Partners

As a multi-stage venture capital firm, Oak focuses on high-growth opportunities in the Information Technology, Internet and Consumer, Financial Services Technology, Healthcare Information and Services, and Clean Energy sectors. Our goal is to help dynamic companies transform the way business is done.

Iftikhar A. Ahmed

General Partner

Grace Ames

General Partner and COO

Bandel Carano

Managing Partner

John A. Downer

Venture Partner

Edward F. Glassmeyer

Managing Partner

Saad Gómez

Venture Partner

Fred Harman

Managing Partner

Fredric W. Harman

Managing Partner

Thomas S. Huseby

Venture Partner

Scot B. Jarvis

Venture Partner

Allan Kwan

Venture Partner

Ann Huntress Lamont

Managing Partner

Kathryn Roland

Venture Partner

Kathryn Roland

Venture Partner

craig lang

VP of Legal Affairs

409 past transactions

GENBAND

Venture Round in 2013
GENBAND is a global supplier of IP gateways, session border controllers and FMC security solutions. These high-performance, high-security gateway solutions are at the center of fixed and mobile networks around the globe, evolving, securing and improving communications networks.

Moxie

Series C in 2009
Moxie is changing the way eCommerce is done. Moxie anticipates what customers want, connecting and engaging with them through the entire digital journey across devices. Through Moxie’s solutions, including Live Chat, Email, Knowledge, and Web Self-Service companies have the ability to deliver the right engagement offer via the right channel to increase total customer value. More than 600 of the world’s leading brands in financial services, healthcare, high-tech, retail and travel and hospitality rely on Moxie to build loyalty and drive customer conversion and revenue.

Solarflare Communications

Venture Round in 2008
Solarflare Communications is a computer networking company that specializes in providing neural-class networks, technologies for ultra-scale, and software-defined. It also provides a comprehensive, integrated set of technologies for distributed, ultra-scale, software-defined datacenters. It was founded in 2001 and headquartered in Irvine, California.

Flooz

Venture Round in 2000
Flooz.com is an online gift giving platform to send electronic greeting cards and online gift currency to anyone with an e-mail address.

HuffPost

Series C in 2008
The Huffington Post is an online news provider and blog that offers coverage of U.S. politics, entertainment, style, world news, technology, and comedy. It is comprised of 80,000 bloggers and 126 million monthly visitors. In 2012, The Huffington Post became the first commercially run United States digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize. It was launched in 2005 and is based in New York, N.Y.

Soapstone Networks

Series A in 1997
Soapstone Networks (formerly Avici Systems) developer of Terabit Switch/Router technology aimed at providing the next generation of high performance, IP-based routers to carriers and Internet Service Providers worldwide. Soapstone Networks got liquidated in 2009 July.

Cloud Technology Partners

Series B in 2015
Cloud Technology Partners helps companies plan, design, and build cloud solutions for applications and infrastructures that reduce IT costs, streamline operations, and accelerate time to market. With a comprehensive cloud-focused service portfolio and targeted methodologies and tools, the company enables businesses and institutions to innovate through cloud computing. Its comprehensive framework for cloud adoption and dedicated software development capabilities help clients achieve business results faster, no matter where they are in their cloud transformation. Cloud Technology Partners was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Scale Eight

Series D in 2002
Scale Eight is an internet company. It offers virtually limitless storage capacity, allowing companies to grow their online offerings. Scale Eight delivers file storage solutions technology through its global storage service and in a family of network-attached storage products. Scale Eight was founded by Josh Coates and is located in San Francisco, California.

FirstRain

Venture Round in 2011
FirstRain, Inc. develops a business analytics platform that assists Fortune 1000 companies in building their strategies, creating lead generation campaigns, discovering and developing new sales opportunities, and identifying business risks. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California. As of July 31, 2017, FirstRain, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Ignite Technologies, Inc.

Scale Eight

Series C in 2001
Scale Eight is an internet company. It offers virtually limitless storage capacity, allowing companies to grow their online offerings. Scale Eight delivers file storage solutions technology through its global storage service and in a family of network-attached storage products. Scale Eight was founded by Josh Coates and is located in San Francisco, California.

One Medical

Series D in 2009
One Medical is a members-only technology platform offering an array of concierge medical services. The integration of these elements allows them to offer a seamless experience that not only saves their patients time and money but also leads to better health outcomes and happier lives. The company attracts the highest caliber team of health care providers, allowing them to practice medicine the way it should be. Each of their professionals has the time to invest in personal relationships and engage in thoughtful decision-making with their patients. One Medical makes access to care frictionless with face-to-face virtual video visits available anytime. It allows practicing medicine the way it should be practiced, focusing on improving the patient experience, and challenging the healthcare status quo. One Medical was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Giosis

Series A in 2015
Giosis, the company behind Qoo10, operates an e-marketplace offering sellers customisable sales strategies and buyers an extensive product portfolio. It is a joint venture established between eBay Inc. and Gmarket Inc. founder, Mr Ku Young Bae, in April 2010. Today, Giosis provides seven localised marketplaces, Qoo10, in five countries – China, Hong Kong, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. It partners esteemed enterprises such as Mecox Lane and Yahoo to enable e-commerce of the best deals in almost every country. Qoo10’s five markets transacted SGD278 million in 2012, almost doubling 2011's SGD150 million. In Singapore, its daily transactions are about 30,000, translating into monthly sales volume of SDG15 million and annual sales volume of SGD90 million in 2012. As of January 2013, 960,000 Qoo10 mobile apps have been downloaded across the five Qoo10 e-marketplaces. Singapore contributed some 580,000 downloads. About 20 per cent of the overall sales come from mobile sales, and this number is expected to rise to 30 per cent within 2013. As of March 2013, there are about 50,000 registered sellers on Qoo10 Singapore. About 150 sellers transact at least SGD10,000 every month. There are about 900,000 registered users on Qoo10 Singapore. More than 1,000 new users are registered on Qoo10 Singapore every day since January 2012.

Cyrano Sciences

Venture Round in 2000
Cyrano Sciences, is focused on providing chemical and biological sensors and software solutions.

Federated Media

Series C in 2008
Federated Media is an integrated media company that drives engagement for brands through pure native content and advertising solutions. Federated Media is involved in many content marketing activities: represents online publishers and their properties to advertisers; supports other properties sponsored by advertiser clients; and owns and operates websites. It also offers media and ad solutions, including standard IAB ads, STAMP and other high-impact ads, engagement ads, conversationalists, social frames, and conversation targeting; content marketing services through custom content series and sponsored blog posts; and advertising opportunities on sponsored properties and communities.

NowThis

Series D in 2015
NowThis Media, Inc. produces short video news clips for social and mobile audiences. It produces daily video updates for Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Vine, YouTube, Android, and Apple applications; and the mobile Web. NowThis Media, Inc. was formerly known as PlanetDaily Network, Inc. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

GENBAND

Series C in 2007
GENBAND is a global supplier of IP gateways, session border controllers and FMC security solutions. These high-performance, high-security gateway solutions are at the center of fixed and mobile networks around the globe, evolving, securing and improving communications networks.

Maestro Health

Series A in 2016
Founded in 2013, Maestro Health is an American employee benefits company that provides integrated one-stop shopping experiences, along with private-labeled exchange solutions. It also offers employee health and benefits management solutions for brokers, small employers, and Fortune 1000 organizations. It combines private exchange, benefits administration, enrollment, self-insurance, healthcare savings account administration, and components on its integrated mobile and web platform, maestroEDGE. The company owns and operates a proprietary private exchange and medical TPA, which allows the streamlined integration of care management to drive down costs for employers.

Sigma Networks

Series A in 2001
Broadband networking technology.

eStyle

Series F in 2003
eStyle operates BabyStyle, a platform that provides online and offline retail locations for baby products.

Teloquent Communications

Venture Round in 2000
Teloquent Communications offers businesses and professionals with virtual call center solutions that focus on web and conventional telephone-based customer interaction. Teloquent Communications provides solutions that are able to integrate voice, data, video, and web inquiries. Teloquent Communications was acquired by Syntellect in December 2003. Teloquent Communications was founded in June 1989 and is based in Billerica, Massachusetts.

SNAPin Software

Series A in 2004
SNAPin Software, Inc. develops self-service software for mobile devices. The company's handset-based SelfService product suite repairs critical device and network settings, such as those required for roaming, messaging, or data networking. The SelfService product suite includes SelfService Campaign, which delivers interactive promotions and context-sensitive offers based on device usage; SelfService Care, which intercepts and resolves three out of four calls to customer care; SelfService Configure delivers an operator branded experience on mobile phones by installing and managing a custom set of applications and media elements on expanded memory SIM cards; and SelfService Server, which enables operators to centrally manage all facets of their subscribers' experience with SNAPin's handset-based products, such as SelfService Campaign and SelfService Care. SNAPin Software, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington with offices in London, the United Kingdom. As of October 1, 2008, SNAPin Software, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Nuance Communications, Inc.

Airspan Networks

Series B in 1998
Airspan Networks is a global provider of 4G broadband wireless systems and solutions that deliver high-speed data, voice and multimedia services. Airspan’s products serve operators and vertical markets such as smart utilities, transportation and public safety around the world in both licensed and unlicensed frequency bands covering from 700MHz up to 6GHz. Its products have been deployed in over 100 countries by 500 operators, 100 of which use Airspan’s 4G products. Airspan has a unique combination of in-house skills addressing the LTE, WiMAX, Wi-Fi and VoIP technologies and develops industry-leading products by combining these technologies in innovative ways in order to deliver new and advanced solutions. Airspan offers a comprehensive range of products to meet the connectivity requirements of a wide variety of applications. With a pioneering suite of 4G radio access network (RAN) products, Airspan delivers first-ever solutions to bridge connectivity gaps, provide improved end-user personal broadband experiences, and connect a myriad of vertical market organizations to reliable, robust 4G broadband.

Mimosa

Series C in 2014
Mimosa Networks, Inc manufactures wireless broadband point-to-point and point-to-multipoint network equipment and accessories. The company also offers broadband wireless communication services. It delivers fiber-fast connectivity to service providers, enterprise, industrial, and government operators worldwide. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Campbell, California. As of November 20, 2018, Mimosa Networks, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Airspan Networks Inc.

NeoPhotonics

Series C in 2006
NeoPhotonics offers a complete line of both active and passive optical components for every network market segment: FTTH/Access, Datacom, Storage Area Networks, Metro and Long Haul networks. NeoPhotonics' transceivers are compliant with industry standard MSAs, are available in GBIC, SFF, SFP, XFP and other configurations, and serve a variety of reaches, applications and data-rates from 155MBps to 10GBps. NeoPhotonics' advanced silica Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) integrated optical modules and subsystems are critical parts in access FTTH networks and in metro and long-haul DWDM networks. For FTTH, NeoPhotonics manufactures integrated splitters in high volume and FTTH BiDi and TriPlexer transceivers, Other products include AWGs, Athermal AWGs, VOA Multiplexers, EDFAs and ROADM Modules. NeoPhotonics' manufactures MEMS-based Variable Optical Attenuators and Dynamic Channel Equalizers

Good Technology

Venture Round in 2005
Good Technology Corporation provides secure mobility solutions for enterprises and governments worldwide. It offers a suite of collaboration applications, such as Good Launcher, a mobile desktop solution for business, Good Work, a mobile workforce for business-class e-mail and collaboration, Good Access, a browser that allows users to access the corporate Intranets and Web applications, and Good Share, a solution that enables mobile business users to access, download, and share documents. It was founded in 1996 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Evident Software

Venture Round in 2003
Evident Software's IT Service Intelligence platform helps drive IT value. Our software makes IT usage, costs and their business drivers evident, so our clients can manage IT as an investment. Evident's global reach and patented technology is helping some of the world's largest organizations, including IBM, Fidelity Investments, and British Telecommunications, measure and communicate the business value of IT.

NanoH2O

Venture Round in 2011
NanoH2O enhances current polymer-based membranes with a nano-structured material that allows additional control of key membrane properties. The result is a wide array of advantageous membrane characteristics including improved throughput at requisite salt and contaminant rejection levels, passive and active fouling resistance, and the flexibility to address specific water chemistries.

Phononic

Series E in 2016
Phononic is a growth stage, semiconductor hardware company commercializing solid-state heat pumps and fully integrated systems that displace compressors, heat sinks, and fans for electronics cooling; residential and commercial refrigeration; and climate control. The company’s disruptive approach combines high-performance solid-state heat pumps integrated into a manufacturing-friendly systems architecture that realizes products that are smart, sustainable, and solid state-driven.

Telica

Series B in 2000
Telica is a telecommunications solution company that provides intelligent broadband switching systems for service providers to deploy highly dependable data and voice services over the new public network. Telica solutions aggregate, simplify and normalize the switching and transport of voice and data sessions, independent of narrowband or broadband access, through a unified broadband packet network.

Oberon Media

Venture Round in 2006
Oberon Media is the world's leading multi-platform casual-games company, with expertise in the PC, online, mobile and interactive TV categories. The Oberon Game Center platform is the industry standard and has been adopted by some of the world's innovative corporations including Microsoft, Comcast, Sprint, Verizon, Electronic Arts, France Telecom and NHN. The platform combines casual-game content, merchandizing and features to fulfill each partner's specific needs. Oberon Media is unique because they create integrated casual gaming solutions to support brand and users. Oberon Media's flagship online property is [I-play Games](http://www.iplay.com)

@hand

Series A in 2000
Founded in 1998, @hand has a long history of providing enterprise mobility solutions for leading commercial enterprises and government organizations. Through our experience, @hand has gained a wealth of knowledge in the application of mobile software technology to the diverse needs of our customers. By innovating with customers, @hand has developed products and solutions that provide an immediate impact as well as long-term success.

Talisma

Series A in 2000
Talisma has been a global provider of dynamic customer relationship management (CRM) products and services to recognized leaders in finance, banking, education, technology, telecommunications, and other industries. From the automation of sales and marketing, to customer portals and support, helpdesk and analytics, the company's offerings help organizations integrate multiple channels of communication and build successful, long-term relationships with customers and constituents.

Conversant

Series A in 2004
ValueClick is an integrated online marketing companies. They deliver scalable solutions for advertisers to cost-effectively acquire customers and for publishers to maximize their revenue.

Gazillion, Inc.

Series C in 2017
Gazillion Entertainment, we develop, publish and operate diverse games on many platforms. Our goal: To build breakthrough experiences featuring world-class brands and original franchises, superior production quality and unmatched gameplay. Gazillion is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

NextNav

Series D in 2014
NextNav operates a platform intended to offer indoor location services and applications. Its platform offers location-enabling technology with carrier-grade reliability for use in buildings and urban areas where satellite-based geographical positioning service signals cannot reach, enabling clients to avail urban and indoor positioning for public safety and commercial applications.

Sutherland

Venture Round in 2004
As a digital transformation company, Sutherland rethinks and rebuilds processes for the digital age by combining the speed and insight of design thinking with the scale and accuracy of data analytics. The company has been helping customers, across industries from financial services to healthcare, achieve greater agility through transformed and automated customer experiences for over 30 years. Headquartered in Rochester, N.Y., Sutherland employs thousands of professionals spanning over 80 locations and 140 countries around the world. To learn more, please visit www.sutherlandglobal.com.

Kineto Wireless

Series C in 2007
Internet protocol-based services and solutions for mobile operators acquired by taqua on the 09-04-2014

Caspian Networks

Series D in 2002
Caspian Networks (formerly PacketCom) is an Internet infrastructure company designing a breakthrough new generation of equipment for the heart of the largest networks in the world – the service provider networks upon which the Internet is based. Company shut down.

Veebeam

Series B in 2010
Veebeam Limited is dedicated to bringing Internet video content to every TV. The company was created by the 2008 merger of Staccato Communications (San Diego, CA) and Artimi (Cambridge, UK), and has an office in Cambridge (UK). Veebeam Ltd. is privately held and venture backed by leading technology investors. The Veebeam team includes industry veterans with vast experience in bringing to market a wide array of consumer hardware - including wired and wireless Internet connectivity products. CEO Jerry Loraine has more than 20 years experience in the semiconductor and wireless communications industries in executive and senior management roles.

Plastic Logic Germany

Series D in 2007
Plastic Logic Germany leads the way in developing, manufacturing and commercializing flexible displays. The company has successfully industrialized the manufacturing process in its facility, the world’s first commercial, volume, organic electronics factory. Using a stable and proven licensed technology transistor platform, the company manufactures a range of high-quality, flexible plastic displays. These shatterproof, daylight-readable displays are ultra-thin, ultra-lightweight and very low-power, offering huge advantages over conventional screens as they are extremely robust with proven lifetimes. Plastic Logic Germany also runs an open pilot line for flexible electronics. Third party companies are invited to benefit from the company’s years of experience in the industrialization and manufacture of flexible electronics. Plastic Logic Germany’s customers include OEMs and electronics manufacturers for signage and logistics, mobile electronic devices, smart-cards, wearables and more. For more information, please visit www.plasticlogic.com.

Zayo

Venture Round in 2007
Zayo Group provides comprehensive Bandwidth Infrastructure services in over 300 markets throughout the US and Europe. Zayo delivers a full suite of lit services and dark fiber products to wireline and wireless customers, data centers, Internet content providers, high-bandwidth enterprises, and government agencies across its robust 79,000 route mile network. The company also offers 27 carrier-neutral colocation facilities across the US. Please visit www.zayo.com for more information about Zayo and its fiber solutions.

Linux Networx

Series C in 2006
As of February 14, 2008, Linux Networx, Inc. was acquired by Silicon Graphics Inc. Linux Networx, Inc. provides Linux-based high performance computing (HPC) solutions. It architects, delivers, and supports HPC cluster solutions. The company's HPC solutions include compute, storage, and visualization solutions. It offers Clusterworx Advanced, a cluster management software, which enables administrators to install, manage, and monitor heterogeneous clusters. The company also provides technical services, such as batch scheduling implementations, application optimization, security implementations, and application configuration and tuning. It serves companies in aerospace, automotive, government, heavy equipment, academic, life sciences, heavy manufacturing, and oil and gas sectors. Linux Networx, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Bluffdale, Utah.

Trapeze Networks

Series C in 2005
NonStop Wireless Trapeze solutions provide the highest levels of reliability, performance, security and management for today's most demanding mobile applications, including data, voice, video, and real-time location services. Trapeze is committed to delivering the most scalable, fault-tolerant WLAN infrastructure and solutions for the enterprise market.

eStyle

Series F in 2004
eStyle operates BabyStyle, a platform that provides online and offline retail locations for baby products.

X-IO

Acquisition in 2002
X-IO is a storage industry related company delivering unmatched price or performance, reliability, and scale for enterprise, cloud applications, and infrastructure. Its “Intelligent Storage Element” systems are based on two decades of invention and investment by veteran storage industry experts. The features of X-IO’s plug-and-perform “Intelligent Storage Element” storage arrays are accelerate transactional, reporting and business intelligence applications by a factor of 3x or more; drives extreme performance and scale for virtual desktop and virtualized server infrastructures; and with five- to seven-year duty cycles, a super-efficient energy and space profile. X-IO solutions have been recognized as SQL Server Magazine and Windows IT Pro’s 2011 Editors’ Best Gold Medal winners, the 2012 Best of TechEd “Hardware and Storage Product” and “Attendees’ Pick” Awards, and inclusion in CRN’s 2012 Data Center 100 List.

NxtWave Communications

Series A in 1998
NxtWave Communications Inc. designs and markets broadband, error-free video and data communications integrated circuits.

NxtWave Communications

Series B in 1999
NxtWave Communications Inc. designs and markets broadband, error-free video and data communications integrated circuits.

Major League Gaming

Series B in 2009
Major League Gaming is a digital network to promote eSports globally through premier competition and to deliver premium gaming content to viewers anytime, anywhere through its global streaming platform. It operates MLG.tv, an online broadcast network for professional level competitive gaming; the MLG Pro Circuit, the longest-running eSports league in North America; and GameBattles, the largest cross platform online gaming tournament system with 9 million registered users across the globe. Each month, Major League Gaming reaches millions of fans via web, mobile, connected TVs, and gaming consoles. It was launched in 2002 by Sundance DiGiovanni and Michael Sepso. The network is based in New York, N.Y.

Xelus

Venture Round in 2000
Xelus (pronounced "zealous") is the recognized global leader in service inventory management solutions. Service and service parts are profit drivers for companies in the aviation, telecom, automotive, utilities, and other high-tech industries. Senior management today understands the importance of properly managing service parts inventory along with repair, maintenance and overhaul operations. They know that this affects the level of service delivered to customers. They recognize that a well-balanced, optimized service operation can generate significant profits and return on investment (ROI). Today, ROI and customer care are two of the most vital components contributing to shareholder value.

NanoH2O

Venture Round in 2012
NanoH2O enhances current polymer-based membranes with a nano-structured material that allows additional control of key membrane properties. The result is a wide array of advantageous membrane characteristics including improved throughput at requisite salt and contaminant rejection levels, passive and active fouling resistance, and the flexibility to address specific water chemistries.

Lightwave Microsystems Corporation

Series E in 2000
Lightwave Microsystems engages in the design, customization, and manufacture of a range of passive and active waveguide components and integrated devices.

Tengion

Series C in 2007
Tengion, a clinical-stage biotechnology company, is a leader in developing neo-organs and neo-tissues, currently derived from a patient's own (autologous) cells. The Company has completed two Phase 2 human clinical trial in the United States with its Tengion Neo-Bladder Augment for children with neurogenic bladder due to spina bifida and in adults with neurogenic bladder due to spinal cord injury. A successful academic human clinical experience with a urinary Neo-Bladder Augment was reported in The Lancet in April 2006 by investigators from the Children's Hospital Boston. Tengion has an effective investigational new drug application (IND) for its Neo-Urinary Conduit and expects to begin a Phase 1 clinical trial in the first half of 2010 in bladder cancer patients requiring bladder removal.

Philips LumiLeds Holding B.V.

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
Philips LumiLeds Holding B.V. manufactures LED lights. Philips LumiLeds Holding B.V. was formerly known as Lumileds Lighting International B.V. and changed its name to Philips LumiLeds Holding B.V. in November 2005, as a result of its acquisition by Koninklijke Philips N.V. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Lucy

Series C in 2000
Lucy are women who love to move. Just like you. They design high performance workout wear that focuses on a woman's strengths and lets her shine. Whether you're a practiced yogi, happy bootcamper or your life is a constant sprint, they're right there with you.

nLIGHT

Series D in 2007
nLight Photonics is developing high performance optical components that enable an increase in optical fiber bandwidth to meet demands created by the Internet. Focused on fiber optic communication systems, nLight is using its proprietary technology to reduce the need for signal regeneration and increase overall system bandwidth.

Solarflare Communications

Venture Round in 2008
Solarflare Communications is a computer networking company that specializes in providing neural-class networks, technologies for ultra-scale, and software-defined. It also provides a comprehensive, integrated set of technologies for distributed, ultra-scale, software-defined datacenters. It was founded in 2001 and headquartered in Irvine, California.

Homeportfolio.com

Series C in 2000
HomePortfolio was founded in the 1990s by Rolly Rouse and Tom Ashbrook, two friends from Yale with entrepreneurial spirits and an eagerness to stake their claim in the Internet land rush. While other design enthusiasts were tearing pages out of design magazines and dog-earing decorating books, they were creating the first ever online library of high-end home products—the type of products typically reserved for fancy Design Center showrooms that required a password and secret handshake before one would be granted admission.

One Medical

Series E in 2011
One Medical is a members-only technology platform offering an array of concierge medical services. The integration of these elements allows them to offer a seamless experience that not only saves their patients time and money but also leads to better health outcomes and happier lives. The company attracts the highest caliber team of health care providers, allowing them to practice medicine the way it should be. Each of their professionals has the time to invest in personal relationships and engage in thoughtful decision-making with their patients. One Medical makes access to care frictionless with face-to-face virtual video visits available anytime. It allows practicing medicine the way it should be practiced, focusing on improving the patient experience, and challenging the healthcare status quo. One Medical was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

B5M.COM

Series A in 2012
B5M, “help me buy” in Chinese, is the most comprehensive, accurate, and unbiased Chinese shopping search portal across multiple vertical categories. It offers hundreds of millions of business-to-consumer products, product and merchant reviews, group-buy deals, discount products, and shopping-related web articles, and it’s innovative shopping community features help Chinese consumers make informed purchasing decisions. B5M, founded in 2007, is headquartered in Shanghai with offices in Beijing, Hangzhou, and Seoul. The company also provides e-commerce search and recommendation engines to e-commerce sites to create a better user experience and higher conversion rates. B5M operates its own advertisement network to deliver hundreds of millions of clicks daily from hundreds of premier media sites as well as B5M.com to thousands of E-commerce websites and other advertisers. The company has raised Series A round of $7M, led by Oak Investment Partners, in Feb 2012, and Series B round of $16M, led by ClearVue Partners, in Apr 2013. The company has over 8M UV a day and 60M PV a day through the company’s website, browser plugin, and mobile apps, and the traffic continues to rapidly increase.

Tikona Infinet Limited

Venture Round in 2014
Tikona Broadband is a Mumbai based company that primarily provides wireless broadband connectivity, amongst other services. The company began its operations in 2008. The brand has an IP network that is functional in 25 cities across India and is planning to expand its footprint to tier-III and new urban and semi-urban markets. Tikona Digital Networks has an all India class A ISP license granted by the Ministry of Communications, Govt. of India, for the purpose of building the next generation wireless broadband services for home and enterprise customers in India. Tikona is expected to deploy 4G LTE network and provide coverage to several smaller cities and towns in India by the end of 2015. The rates of the 4G internet are predicted to be relatively affordable to enable more people to get access to internet. LTE is one of the best standards for wireless communication of high-speed data for mobile phones and data terminals. This would ensure better connectivity and uninterrupted services for customers. It is also expected that Tikona would build comprehensive services framework, which can be outsourced to various service providers globally, that would deliver various next generation services to customers. The infrastructure would be designed to provide multimedia content, video, voice and other IT applications facilities though broadband or an IP based network. Tikona Broadband plans include several low rate internet connection plans such as the 2 MBps and the 4 MBps plans with the option of unlimited data offer. Additionally, it also offers secure Wi-Fi solutions for offices. It uses WPA2 Enterprise to offer access to Wi-Fi and also has an inbuilt ‘Quality of Service’ feature and helps deploy a leased line connection wirelessly without disrupting existing wired network. Tikona also facilitates optimal usage of bandwidth by implementing a load-sharing method. Tikona Infinet is a subsidiary of the company that mainly offers services to the domestic enterprise market. Wireless last mile access is offered by the brand for its Virtual Private Network (VPN) and the Internet facilities. The services offered by this subsidiary include business mailing, data center and network facility management, VPN, and internet solutions, among other options. Using its wireless last mile feature, connectivity is extended to regions across India through Tikona Infinet’s Points of Presence (POP). The whole process is carried out through the brand’s Wireless Broadband (WBB) base stations located at each POP. The company meets several global standards with its state-of-the-art data center infrastructure as corroborated by many customers with their positive reviews about Tikona. Many of those reviews about Tikona Broadband states that it offers expandability, flexibility, manageability and scalability that is required for today’s networked business enterprises.

Tengion

Series B in 2006
Tengion, a clinical-stage biotechnology company, is a leader in developing neo-organs and neo-tissues, currently derived from a patient's own (autologous) cells. The Company has completed two Phase 2 human clinical trial in the United States with its Tengion Neo-Bladder Augment for children with neurogenic bladder due to spina bifida and in adults with neurogenic bladder due to spinal cord injury. A successful academic human clinical experience with a urinary Neo-Bladder Augment was reported in The Lancet in April 2006 by investigators from the Children's Hospital Boston. Tengion has an effective investigational new drug application (IND) for its Neo-Urinary Conduit and expects to begin a Phase 1 clinical trial in the first half of 2010 in bladder cancer patients requiring bladder removal.

Milyoni

Series B in 2012
Milyoni, Inc. provides a social video platform for entertainment companies, brands, studios, and artists worldwide. It provides WildCard Theater, a solution with polls and trivia, comments, live chat, ad networks, and more plugins; WildCard, which customizes with a bio, profile, and cover photos; and Audience Relationship Management, which delivers an end-to-end solution by combining Milyoni’s WildCard Theater to capture profiles, generate personalized offers, and deliver these offers using the more appropriate channels. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California with additional offices in Los Angeles and New York. As of April 22, 2015, Milyoni, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Photobucket.com, Inc.

Castlight Health

Series C in 2010
Integrated Health Benefits Platform

Good Technology

Series H in 2005
Good Technology Corporation provides secure mobility solutions for enterprises and governments worldwide. It offers a suite of collaboration applications, such as Good Launcher, a mobile desktop solution for business, Good Work, a mobile workforce for business-class e-mail and collaboration, Good Access, a browser that allows users to access the corporate Intranets and Web applications, and Good Share, a solution that enables mobile business users to access, download, and share documents. It was founded in 1996 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

GENBAND

Series C in 2000
GENBAND is a global supplier of IP gateways, session border controllers and FMC security solutions. These high-performance, high-security gateway solutions are at the center of fixed and mobile networks around the globe, evolving, securing and improving communications networks.

Airgo Networks

Series D in 2004
Airgo Network provided WLAN products to both manufacturers of access points and laptop computers.
Bonds.com Group, Inc.'s wholly-owned subsidiary Bonds.com Inc. ("BCI"), a FINRA registered Broker Dealer and ATS, offers access to live liquidity and execution through its web based electronic BondsPRO platform. BondsPRO provides professional traders over 70,000 live prices (with 65 million price updates daily) on 10,000 different issues from over 300 contributing counterparties. BondsPRO posts live, anonymous, and executable orders on a single bond or list basis, and permits price negotiation. Its all-to-all connectivity allows supply to meet demand, thereby increasing efficiency and reducing spread. BCI is a neutral counterparty to all trades, acting as a riskless principal.

MobiTV

Private Placement in 2019
MobiTV delivers live and on-demand video to any screen, connecting media reliably and securely anytime, anywhere, on any device. The company’s end-to-end platform delivers a true TV everywhere experience that helps service providers reduce time to market and control costs associated with the deployment and operation of high concurrency, multiple platform services. MobiTV’s connected media solutions solve the complexity of delivering video across networks, operating systems, and devices while managing associated rights. The company efficiently optimizes for network conditions to deliver multiscreen media services that center on empowering the viewer. MobiTV’s connected media solutions are tailored for IPTV operators, as well as mobile TV and over-the-top customers including AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Sprint, T-Mobile, TELUS, US Cellular, and Verizon among others.

Stretch

Series B in 2009
Stretch, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, designs, develops, and supplies software configurable processors and development tools for compute-intensive applications. Its products include channel DVR add-in cards; channel capture cards; and DVR capture cards that provide video and audio capture, real-time display, and hardware compression features for DVR designers. The company also offers Stretch IDE, which provides an intuitive development flow, and focuses on programming and system configuration, as well as integrates compiler, debugger, assembler, profiler, linker, and editor tools under an intuitive graphical interface; Stretch reference design kits that are designed for the customers to evaluate a reference design and start the preliminary design of their own products; and Intelligent Encoder software development kit, a video processing and compression solution, which is optimized for the Stretch family of software configurable processors. Its products are used in security and surveillance, broadcast video, wireless communication, and industrial imaging applications. Stretch, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Sunnyvale, California with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan; and Krefeld, Germany.
Cogent Communications Group, Inc. is a facilities-based provider of Internet access and Internet Protocol (IP) communications services. Its network is specifically designed and optimized to transmit data using IP. The Company delivers its services primarily to small and medium-sized businesses, communications service providers and other organizations through approximately 21,300 customer connections in North America and Europe. The Company provides its own on-net service at a speed of 100 Megabits per second through its own facilities. Its customers in multi-tenant office buildings are law firms, financial services firms, advertising and marketing firms and other professional services businesses. It also provide on-net Internet access to certain bandwidth-intensive users, such as universities, other Internet service providers (ISPs) and commercial content providers at speeds of up to ten Gigabits per second.

Resonext Communications

Series B in 2000
Resonext is a provider of integrated silicon complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) wireless local area network (WLAN) solutions for 802.11a and multiband (802.11a/b/g) platforms primarily in the United States.

Stretch

Series A in 2006
Stretch, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, designs, develops, and supplies software configurable processors and development tools for compute-intensive applications. Its products include channel DVR add-in cards; channel capture cards; and DVR capture cards that provide video and audio capture, real-time display, and hardware compression features for DVR designers. The company also offers Stretch IDE, which provides an intuitive development flow, and focuses on programming and system configuration, as well as integrates compiler, debugger, assembler, profiler, linker, and editor tools under an intuitive graphical interface; Stretch reference design kits that are designed for the customers to evaluate a reference design and start the preliminary design of their own products; and Intelligent Encoder software development kit, a video processing and compression solution, which is optimized for the Stretch family of software configurable processors. Its products are used in security and surveillance, broadcast video, wireless communication, and industrial imaging applications. Stretch, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Sunnyvale, California with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan; and Krefeld, Germany.

RebelMouse

Seed Round in 2012
RebelMouse, Inc. is a social media aggregator platform. The platform allows users to aggregate their social sharing, write posts, and offers analytics to see how their content is being shared and consumed. It provides Distributed Content Management System (DCMS) for social publishing. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

Artimi

Series B in 2007
Artimi a fables semiconductor company, engages in the development, marketing, and sale of semiconductors, software, and reference designs for the delivery of high speed wireless connectivity in portable consumer electronics devices. The company offers silicon solutions for high bandwidth wireless connectivity based on ultra wideband technologies. Its products include MAC controllers, wireless USB evaluation kits, wireless USB adaptor reference design kits, hard disk drive reference design kits, and printer reference design kits.

Trapeze Networks

Series D in 2006
NonStop Wireless Trapeze solutions provide the highest levels of reliability, performance, security and management for today's most demanding mobile applications, including data, voice, video, and real-time location services. Trapeze is committed to delivering the most scalable, fault-tolerant WLAN infrastructure and solutions for the enterprise market.

Knowledge Networks

Series D in 2002
Knowledge Networks, Inc., a consumer information company, delivers consumer insights and research to researchers and marketers. It offers Knowledge Networks/SRI, which provides media research; and Knowledge Networks/PDI, which provides promotion research. The company also provides practices in media, marketing, advertising, and government and academic studies. In addition, it involves in study designs, analytics, and custom panel creation. Further, the company delivers online research through Internet panel. It serves consumer packaged goods and retail, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, government and academic research, media, yellow pages research, and financial services industries. Knowledge Networks was formerly known as InterSurvey, Inc. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

SNAPin Software

Series B in 2005
SNAPin Software, Inc. develops self-service software for mobile devices. The company's handset-based SelfService product suite repairs critical device and network settings, such as those required for roaming, messaging, or data networking. The SelfService product suite includes SelfService Campaign, which delivers interactive promotions and context-sensitive offers based on device usage; SelfService Care, which intercepts and resolves three out of four calls to customer care; SelfService Configure delivers an operator branded experience on mobile phones by installing and managing a custom set of applications and media elements on expanded memory SIM cards; and SelfService Server, which enables operators to centrally manage all facets of their subscribers' experience with SNAPin's handset-based products, such as SelfService Campaign and SelfService Care. SNAPin Software, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington with offices in London, the United Kingdom. As of October 1, 2008, SNAPin Software, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Nuance Communications, Inc.

GreenVolts

Venture Round in 2012
According to Forbes.com article on 9/12/12 - "...a major investor abruptly withdrew financial support for the company. 'A sudden, and unexpected, change in direction from a major strategic investor has affected GreenVolts’ access to funding,' the company said Wednesday in a statement, referring to ABB, the Swiss power and automation giant. 'The impact was at the last minute and so severe that GreenVolts cannot continue normal operation and has reduced its workforce to a small team to provide customer support and engage other options, including working with potential buyers of the system, technology and IP.' " _____ GreenVolts has taken an integrated systems approach to development of complete Concentrating Photovoltaic (CPV) solutions that combines: •State-of-the-art proprietary highly concentrating optics •¢High precision, low profile, two-axis solar tracking •Intelligent power and control systems •On-board, real time, high resolution performance monitoring This unique integrated systems approach will achieve industry leading energy productivity and low overall Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE). The high energy density of GreenVolts’ CPV system enables low cost power production that can be deployed close to load, further increasing the real value of the energy generated.

Deem

Venture Round in 2013
Deem is a technology platform for the business travel industry focusing on travel, car service, and expense solutions. Its mission is to make business travel less complicated for travelers, less costly for employers, and more profitable for service providers. Using its industry-leading software solutions, employees book travel and car service and report those expenses faster and more easily than ever before. Corporations control costs more effectively. Travel management companies deliver more engaging customer experiences. Car service operators benefit from new efficiencies and widen their customer reach. The company was founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Boston Power

Series E in 2010
Boston-Power has developed the Sonata technology platform, which is a battery they say charges faster, lasts longer, performs better and is safer than what's currently on the market. The technology will be used in many consumer electronic devices including laptops, PDAs and mobile phones. In January of 2008, Boston-Power announced a new partnership with Chinese battery manufacturer GP Batteries to step up production of Sonata batteries.

Good Technology

Series C in 2014
Good Technology Corporation provides secure mobility solutions for enterprises and governments worldwide. It offers a suite of collaboration applications, such as Good Launcher, a mobile desktop solution for business, Good Work, a mobile workforce for business-class e-mail and collaboration, Good Access, a browser that allows users to access the corporate Intranets and Web applications, and Good Share, a solution that enables mobile business users to access, download, and share documents. It was founded in 1996 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Caspian Networks

Venture Round in 2005
Caspian Networks (formerly PacketCom) is an Internet infrastructure company designing a breakthrough new generation of equipment for the heart of the largest networks in the world – the service provider networks upon which the Internet is based. Company shut down.

SmartDrive

Series D in 2007
SmartDrive Inc. develops vehicle tracking and big data analytics solutions. The company offers data platform, which provides data about vehicle management, usage management, route optimization, accident, safe driving analysis, real time vehicle management services through GPS, dangerous area mapping etc. The company also offers devices such OBD and car charger. Additionally, the company offers DriveOn, an iPhone application and base hardware that promotes safe driving. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Shinagawa-ku, Japan.

Cereva Networks

Series E in 2001
Cereva Networks was a victim of swiftly shrinking corporate IT budgets. The company failed to meet the demand for a start-up large-scale, storage systems. Resulted in abruptly shutting down and laid off 140 employees.

Phononic

Series D in 2014
Phononic is a growth stage, semiconductor hardware company commercializing solid-state heat pumps and fully integrated systems that displace compressors, heat sinks, and fans for electronics cooling; residential and commercial refrigeration; and climate control. The company’s disruptive approach combines high-performance solid-state heat pumps integrated into a manufacturing-friendly systems architecture that realizes products that are smart, sustainable, and solid state-driven.

DueDil

Series B in 2014
DueDil Limited owns and operates an online platform that combines sources of company information to enable other companies make data-informed decisions. It offers a unified platform to provide companies with better information about other businesses to contextualize and navigate the relationships between sets of data. The company also offers CBILS Eligibility and Endpoint assessment for businesses for Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) and the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS). The company's solution enables its users to find, verify, manage, monitor, and connect business relationships. Its solution is used by various teams, such as sales, marketing, research, procurement, compliance, and credit risk. DueDil Limited was formerly known as Bantr Ltd. and changed its name to DueDil Limited in October 2010. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

eSolar

Venture Round in 2008
eSolar has developed a solar thermalpower plant technology. eneration can be scaled from 46 MW to over 500 MW. eSolar's modular, scalable power plant architecture enables custom built facilities with generating capacities of 46 MW to 500 MW and energy prices that are competitive with fossil fuels. eSolar systems provide competitive energy prices even at the 46 MW level, and can expand generation capacity to over 500 MW to meet the needs of any energy retailer. eSolar constructs power plants using a tiered delivery model. The power plants are structured on a 46 MW base unit, called a "power module."

Linux Networx

Series D in 2006
As of February 14, 2008, Linux Networx, Inc. was acquired by Silicon Graphics Inc. Linux Networx, Inc. provides Linux-based high performance computing (HPC) solutions. It architects, delivers, and supports HPC cluster solutions. The company's HPC solutions include compute, storage, and visualization solutions. It offers Clusterworx Advanced, a cluster management software, which enables administrators to install, manage, and monitor heterogeneous clusters. The company also provides technical services, such as batch scheduling implementations, application optimization, security implementations, and application configuration and tuning. It serves companies in aerospace, automotive, government, heavy equipment, academic, life sciences, heavy manufacturing, and oil and gas sectors. Linux Networx, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Bluffdale, Utah.

Aurora Biofuels

Series B in 2008
Aurora Biofuels is now Aurora Algae. Please update your settings to follow Aurora Algae. Aurora Algae is a producer of high-performance, premium algae-based products for the pharmaceutical, nutrition, aquaculture and fuels markets. The company has developed the industry’s first commercial-scale photosynthetic platform for sustainable, algae-based product development. Aurora Algae’s proprietary algae strains and production process uses arid land, seawater and captured carbon pollution from industrial emitters resulting in more capitally efficient and more environmentally sustainable algae farming. Aurora Algae enables its customers and partners to improve the diversity and sustainability of their product portfolios, while addressing consumer demand for natural products.

RebelMouse

Series A in 2015
RebelMouse, Inc. is a social media aggregator platform. The platform allows users to aggregate their social sharing, write posts, and offers analytics to see how their content is being shared and consumed. It provides Distributed Content Management System (DCMS) for social publishing. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

OraPharma Inc. (acquired by JNJ)

Venture Round in 1998
OraPharma is a specialty pharmaceutical company that develops and commercializes products that help improve and maintain oral health. They are dedicated to delivering scientifically and technologically advanced products to dental professionals and their practices. ARESTIN® (minocycline HCl) Microspheres, 1 mg is a locally administered antibiotic (LAA) offering a patented microsphere technology. OraPharma is proud to have introduced this revolutionary approach to treating periodontitis as an adjunct to scaling and root planing and continues to take a leadership role in educating clinicians and consumers on the disease. Read more about ARESTIN® or click here for Prescribing Information.

SmartDrive

Series C in 2007
SmartDrive Inc. develops vehicle tracking and big data analytics solutions. The company offers data platform, which provides data about vehicle management, usage management, route optimization, accident, safe driving analysis, real time vehicle management services through GPS, dangerous area mapping etc. The company also offers devices such OBD and car charger. Additionally, the company offers DriveOn, an iPhone application and base hardware that promotes safe driving. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Shinagawa-ku, Japan.

SunSun Lighting

Series B in 2012
SunSun Lighting is an innovative company involved in R&D, manufacturing and popularization of LED lighting. Relying on independent and leading technologies of LED driving and system integration, powerful research and development strength and abundant international venture investment as well as low-cost advantage from vertical integration of the whole industrial chain, the company endeavors to promote revolution in solid-state lighting and truly bring the LED lighting to every family so as to thoroughly transform human's lighting patterns at last.

iCrossing

Series E in 2007
iCrossing, a digital marketing company, holds its own marketing platform, which can be tailored for clients. The company also offers planning services and development services. Its planning services include primary customer research, competitive and market research, persona development, digital marketing strategy, integrated search marketing strategy, social media/word-of-mouth strategy, mobile marketing strategy, analytics and performance planning, and marketing intelligence dashboarding. Its development services include search engine marketing (SEO/SEM), display and rich media advertising, email marketing, mobile marketing and site development, website development, social media campaign development, and emerging media development. iCrossing, formerly known as International Crossing, is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona and has offices worldwide.

Fiber Optic Network Solutions (FONS)

Series B in 2001
Fiber Optic Network Solutions (FONS) Corporation is a manufacturer of passive optical components and interconnect solutions. FONS' portfolio of products includes fused technology based optical components and packaged modules including splitters, taps and filter-based DWDMs. The company's broad, vertically integrated product line also includes traditional fiber optic connectivity hardware and components such as cable assemblies, connectors, enclosures, pre-wired enclosures and frames.

Solarflare Communications

Corporate Round in 2018
Solarflare Communications is a computer networking company that specializes in providing neural-class networks, technologies for ultra-scale, and software-defined. It also provides a comprehensive, integrated set of technologies for distributed, ultra-scale, software-defined datacenters. It was founded in 2001 and headquartered in Irvine, California.

Homespace

Series B in 1999
An online provider of mortgage, real estate and home services.

Good Technology

Venture Round in 2006
Good Technology Corporation provides secure mobility solutions for enterprises and governments worldwide. It offers a suite of collaboration applications, such as Good Launcher, a mobile desktop solution for business, Good Work, a mobile workforce for business-class e-mail and collaboration, Good Access, a browser that allows users to access the corporate Intranets and Web applications, and Good Share, a solution that enables mobile business users to access, download, and share documents. It was founded in 1996 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Pulsewave RF

Series C in 2006
PulseWave RF(TM) is a fabless semiconductor company that has developed the industry's first digital high-efficiency RF power amplifier module for wireless infrastructure. The company's proprietary Class M Power technology is a digital MCPA module that simultaneously sets new industry benchmarks for cost, size and efficiency.