Oak Investment Partners

Oak Investment Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Connecticut, established in 1978. The firm specializes in multi-stage investments across high-growth sectors, including Information Technology, Internet and Consumer, Financial Services Technology, Healthcare Information and Services, and Clean Energy. Oak targets investments ranging from $10 million to $150 million, engaging in buyouts, spinouts, growth equity, and mid-to-late stage financings for private businesses, as well as PIPE investments for public companies. With a history of investing $9 billion in over 525 companies globally, Oak has built a reputation for providing strategic guidance and expertise to entrepreneurs. The firm primarily focuses on the U.S. market but also makes selective investments in Europe, Israel, India, South Korea, and China. Its areas of interest include wireless communications, enterprise software, digital media, semiconductors, and consumer retail. Oak Investment Partners operates additional offices in Norwalk, Palo Alto, and Minneapolis.

Iftikhar A. Ahmed

General Partner

Grace Ames

General Partner and Chief Operating Officer

Bandel Carano

Managing Partner

John A. Downer

Venture Partner

Saad Gómez

Venture Partner

Fred Harman

Managing Partner

Fredric W. Harman

Managing Partner

Thomas S. Huseby

Venture Partner

Scot Jarvis

Venture Partner

Allan Kwan

Venture Partner

Ann Huntress Lamont

Managing Partner

Ren Riley

Venture Partner

Kathy Roland

Venture Partner

craig lang

Vice President of Legal Affairs

411 past transactions

Independent Living Systems

Venture Round in 2012
Independent Living Systems (ILS) is a health-services company that delivers turn-key solutions to millions of America’s frail, special needs, and aging population. In partnership with health plans, providers, hospitals, and community-based organizations, ILS provides managed care services aimed at improving health outcomes and reducing costs. The company’s integrated offering, powered by an award winning technology platform, provides assistance at every stage of care including personalized care management. The ILS management team draws on decades of experience in all facets of the healthcare industry. This knowledge is combined with a passion for innovation to restructure the healthcare delivery system in a way that enables efficient, cost-effective, and personalized care. Our passion and innovation was recognized by Computerworld when they named ILS a 2013 Laureate for visionary applications of information technology promoting positive social, economic, and educational change. Modern Healthcare also recognized ILS in 2013 as the 10th fastest growing healthcare company in the nation. The company features a full continuum of services that enable individuals to successfully transition through the critical stages of episodic and long-term care.

Evident Software

Series B in 2004
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.

SMIC

Series C in 2003
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is a semiconductor foundry providing integrated circuit (IC) foundry and technology services at 0.35-micron to 40-nanometer. SMIC develops one-stop turnkey services to meet its customers’ needs. In addition to IC manufacturing, SMIC offers a full range of services that includes design services, mask manufacturing, and testing. SMIC provides integrated circuit (IC) foundry and technology services on process nodes from 0.35 micron to 28 nanometer. Headquartered in Shanghai, China, SMIC has an international manufacturing and service base. In China, SMIC has a 300mm wafer fabrication facility (fab) and a 200mm mega-fab in Shanghai; a 300mm mega-fab and a majority-owned 300mm fab for advanced nodes in Beijing; 200mm fabs in Tianjin and Shenzhen; and a majority-owned joint-venture 300mm bumping facility in Jiangyin; additionally, in Italy SMIC has a majority-owned 200mm fab. Headquartered in Shanghai, China, SMIC has a 300mm wafer fabrication facility (fab) and a 200mm mega-fab in Shanghai, a 300mm mega-fab in Beijing, a 200mm fab in Tianjin, and a 200mm fab project under development in Shenzhen. SMIC also has customer service and marketing offices in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Taiwan, and a representative office in Hong Kong. SMIC competes with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., United Microelectronics Corporation, GlobalFoundries, Fujitsu Limited, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., and Toshiba Corporation.

Centric Software

Series B in 2008
Centric Software provides a Digital Transformation Platform for the most prestigious names in fashion, retail, footwear, luxury, outdoor and consumer goods. Centric Visual Innovation Platform (VIP) is a visual, fully digital collection of boards for touch-based devices like iPad, iPhone and large-scale, touch-screen televisions. Centric VIP transforms decision making and automates execution to truly collapse time to market and distance to trend. Centric’s flagship product lifecycle management (PLM) platform, Centric 8, delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, business planning, quality, and collection management functionality tailored for fast-moving consumer industries. Centric SMB packages extended PLM including innovative technology and key industry learnings tailored for small businesses. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards, including the Frost & Sullivan Global Product Differentiation Excellence Award in Retail, Fashion, and Apparel PLM in 2016 and Frost & Sullivan’s Global Retail, Fashion, and Apparel PLM Product Differentiation Excellence Award in 2012. Red Herring named Centric to its Top 100 Global list in 2013, 2015, and 2016.

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.

PropertyFirst.com

Series B in 1999
PropertyFirst.com is an online marketplace for the commercial real estate industry. It is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

CoVi Technologies

Venture Round in 2006
CoVi Technologies provides security solutions for businesses, governments, and individuals. The company's solutions are used to safeguard valuable assets, deter crime, monitor facilities, respond to security issues, and provide evidentiary material. It develops and manufactures high-definition video surveillance systems. The company offers high definition sensor based products, including high definition cameras, distributed media managers/recorders, and crystal high definition surveillance system software, as well as varifocal and monofocal lenses. It also serves gaming, banking, education, and retail industries. CoVi Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas with an additional office in Henley-on-Thames, the United Kingdom.

Rioport

Series B in 2000
RioPort build its integrated digital audio platform for the delivery, management and playback of music and spoken audio content.

Airspan Networks

Post in 2021
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.

eStyle

Series C in 2000
eStyle operates BabyStyle, a platform that provides online and offline retail locations for baby products.

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.
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.

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.

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.

Talisma

Venture Round in 2003
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.

Aurora Biofuels

Venture Round in 2011
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.

FullCircl

Series C in 2018
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.

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)

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.

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.

FreshBooks

Series B in 2017
FreshBooks is the #1 accounting software in the cloud designed exclusively for service-based small business owners and independent professionals. The company has helped more than 10 million people worldwide process billions of dollars with its ridiculously easy-to-use invoicing, time tracking, expense management features. Recognized with eight Stevie awards for best customer service in the world, the company’s mantra is to “execute extraordinary experiences everyday.” Based in Toronto, Canada, FreshBooks serves paying customers in 160 countries.

F&S Healthcare Services

Venture Round in 2007
Franklin & Seidelmann Subspecialty Radiology (F&S) is a leading, national full-service subspecialty teleradiology provider serving imaging centers, physician practices, radiology groups and hospitals. F&S provides high quality, clinically specific, detailed reports and consultation services that meet the needs of orthopedists, neurosurgeons, neurologists, spine surgeons, internists, rheumatologists, and podiatrists, among others that make up the tens of thousands of physicians who rely on strong academic and subspecialty expertise.

Resonext Communications

Series C in 2002
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.

SmartDrive

Venture Round in 2012
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.

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.

nLIGHT

Series D in 2009
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.

iMarket

Funding Round in 1997
iMarket is an online platform that develops B2B sales and marketing analysis tools for its users.

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.

Phononic

Series B in 2011
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.

GreenVolts

Series B in 2008
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.

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.

NxtWave Communications

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

GENBAND

Series D in 2001
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.

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.

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.

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.

WholePeople.com

Venture Round in 2000
WholePeople.com Inc., a multi-faceted e-commerce company in the "Whole Living" industry.

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.

NextNav

Series E in 2020
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.

Solarflare Communications

Series C in 2005
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.

CareMedic Systems

Series E in 2004
CareMedic Systems, Inc. provides revenue cycle management solutions to hospitals and healthcare providers in the United States and Puerto Rico. It offers electronic Financial Record, a healthcare financial management system that provides activity tracking capabilities, and recording descriptions and dates for various events that occur inside or outside the patient accounting system; and VerifyAR, a solution for front-end document management, eligibility verification, compliance checking, and medical necessity review. The company also provides AccelerateAR, a Medicare review and editing solution with document management, all-payer claims formatting and submission, and print and mail service capabilities; and OptimizeAR, a solution that offers tools for managing payments through remittance management, denial management, and paper EOB to electronic 835 conversions. In addition, it offers ImageAR, a document management system with integrated front and back-end scanning, indexing, and storage solutions that enable and streamline various revenue cycle functions; and ResolveAR, a suite of service offerings, including accounts receivables outsourcing, Medicare accounts receivables cleanup, and credit balance resolution. The company provides its solutions in application service provider (ASP) model. CareMedic Systems, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in St. Petersburg, Florida with additional offices in Alpharetta and Decatur, Georgia.

NxtWave Communications

Series D in 2001
NxtWave Communications Inc. designs and markets broadband, error-free video and data communications integrated circuits.

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.
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.

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.

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.

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.

Parlano

Series B in 2006
Parlano, acquired by Microsoft for an undisclosed amount in 2007, is the maker of MindAlign enterprise-level team collaboration and messaging products. The MindAlign product series is a mix between email and chat platform created for business use. Microsoft plans on using the communication platform to improve Microsoft Office Communications Server and Microsoft Office Communicator. The MindAlign platform mixes the asynchronous nature of email with the real-time nature of IM to allow groups to have "persistent group chat" around "business-critical topics". They also claim that the product helps to unclutter your information silos. All their enterprise-level jargon will fit in perfectly with Microsoft.

NxtWave Communications

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

Memlink

Venture Round in 2000
Memlink is a developer of all optical switching solutions.

Cyrano Sciences

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

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.

American Esoteric Laboratories

Venture Round in 2004
American Esoteric Laboratories (AEL), formerly Memphis Pathology Laboratory (MPL), has served the medical community for over fifty years with a tradition of quality service. AEL is a state-of-the-art full service community-based medical laboratory serving physician offices, hospitals, and industry in our region. AEL is the largest independent laboratory network in Tennessee and the Mid-South.

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.

Zumobi

Series A in 2007
Zumobi, Inc. provides mobile content marketing solutions. The company operates Zumobi Brand Integration platform that integrates a publishing engine together with a Web-based command center to deliver content marketing experience to mobile audience. Its platform also provides visibility into content consumption patterns to enable marketers to enhance their customer profiles with preference data and optimize their cross-channel marketing efforts. Zumobi, Inc. was formerly known as ZenZui and changed its name to Zumobi, Inc. in November 2007. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Brit + Co

Series A in 2013
Brit + Co is a media company that inspires, educates, and entertains real women with a creative spirit. Founded in late 2011 by Brit Morin, Brit + Co has become one of the largest digital media companies for women. Brit + Co now reaches an engaged community of over 125 million online and across platforms. They have garnered tens of millions of video views and produce over 100 pieces of content every day to keep up with everything their audience is up to. As a digital-first company, they have an innate understanding of how the online connection to offline. That’s why, in addition to their website, brit.co, their free app, and their presence across social channels, they extend their reach to experiences.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Protean Electric

Private Placement in 2018
Protean Electric is an automotive technology firm. As the world leader of in-wheel motor technology, we provide a stand-alone electric drive solution with software that enables digital vehicle control and enhances customization. ProteanDrive motors use patented technologies, digital control, and are packaged with a friction brake. Designed to withstand 300,000 km vehicle lifetime, they deliver torque vectoring, 90 degree turn radius, and a digital control platform that can support a range of AI and cloud based services including autonomous EV sensors, digital ABS, vehicle diagnostics and road condition data. ProteanDrive provides opportunities for full EV and Hybrid vehicles in all segments from TaaS, to conventional vehicle programs including heavy trucks.

Tele Atlas

Series A in 2004
Official Twitter account for Tele Atlas, leading provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location based solutions.

RazorGator

Series B in 2006
RazorGator is the 3rd largest player in the online ticket reselling business behind eBay's [StubHub](http://www.stubhub.com) and Ticketmaster's [TicketsNow](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ticketsnow) according to December 2007 comScore data. The service covers reselling of sports, theater, and concert tickets, as well as vacation packages for various sporting events.

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.

NextPage

Venture Round in 2001
NextPage, a leading innovator in Compliance and Information Risk Solutions, delivers the only Information Tracking Platform that mitigates enterprise risk, increases document policy compliance and reduces the cost of eDiscovery by tracking and managing documents no matter where they are located – hard drives, USBs, servers, or email attachments. With patent pending technology, NextPage Digital Thread™ software, NextPage proactively tackles the risk by tracking, classifying, executing policy, and reporting on the compliance of all documents across the enterprise.

Comstellar Technologies

Series A in 2000
At Comstellar Technologies, Inc., we're building a major technology company with a singular focus on communications infrastructure utilizing a innovative operating model. We're focusing on communications infrastructure because that's increasingly central to all technologies. The possibilities are endless, the opportunities are worldwide, and the demand is explosive.

Norse

Series A in 2013
Based in California, Norse is a cybersecurity firm that offers internet security intelligence solutions to e-commerce and enterprise clients. The firm delivers live and accurate attack intelligence solutions enabling its customers to block attacks, uncover hidden breaches, and track threats emerging around the globe. It is focused on improving the performance, catch-rate, and return-on-investment for enterprise security infrastructures. Norse, which was founded in 2010, serves global financial, government, and technology organizations through its products and services.

Aventail

Series E in 2001
Aventail is a Seattle, Washington provider of technology that allows employees to remotely access their corporate network. They were acquired by SonicWALL in June of 2007.

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.

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.

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.

Precision for Medicine

Private Equity Round in 2013
At Precision Medicine Group, we deliver specialty services that help our life science clients navigate these challenges. For research and development, we bring highly specialized biomarker, laboratory, and clinical trial services as well as the regulatory expertise to manage the precision development pathway. To address commercial excellence, we bring a uniquely specialized set of services that integrate the generation and communication of the evidence necessary to establish value, optimize access, and drive demand. These include integrated market access, advanced payer analytics, health economics, and marketing communications.

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.

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.

Reunion.com

Venture Round in 2007
Reunion.com, Inc. operates as a social networking Website that keeps people in touch online. The company's site helps to find and reconnect with old friends, lost loves, business colleagues, family members, and various important relationships online. It also features online address book, message board, and share photos with friends. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Enjoy Technology, Inc.

Series A in 2014
Enjoy is reinventing the way people buy the world’s best technology products. With every purchase, an Enjoy Expert hand delivers the product in as fast as four hours. Enjoy can meet you at your home, office, coffee shop… you name it. Upon delivery, the Expert spends an hour turning you into an expert. Experts set up your product, sync it, and show you all the cool tips and tricks. The best part, this white-glove service is free with every purchase from Enjoy.com.

eStyle

Venture Round in 2007
eStyle operates BabyStyle, a platform that provides online and offline retail locations for baby products.

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.

SNAPin Software

Series C in 2006
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.

@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.

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.

Castlight Health

Series D in 2012
Integrated Health Benefits Platform

Gazillion, Inc.

Venture Round in 2010
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.

Trumba

Series B in 2005
Trumba Corporation is a Seattle-based developer of innovative event calendar publishing technology that helps businesses and organizations more effectively publish, promote, and communicate their events online. Trumba enables customers—from small businesses to large organizations—to connect key audiences with their events, transforming those events into unique and highly valued marketing and communication opportunities.

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.

OmniPV

Venture Round in 2008
OmniPV develops and produces solar energy solutions for its clients. It was founded in 2000. OmniPV is headquartered in Belmont, California.

Centric Software

Series C in 2011
Centric Software provides a Digital Transformation Platform for the most prestigious names in fashion, retail, footwear, luxury, outdoor and consumer goods. Centric Visual Innovation Platform (VIP) is a visual, fully digital collection of boards for touch-based devices like iPad, iPhone and large-scale, touch-screen televisions. Centric VIP transforms decision making and automates execution to truly collapse time to market and distance to trend. Centric’s flagship product lifecycle management (PLM) platform, Centric 8, delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, business planning, quality, and collection management functionality tailored for fast-moving consumer industries. Centric SMB packages extended PLM including innovative technology and key industry learnings tailored for small businesses. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards, including the Frost & Sullivan Global Product Differentiation Excellence Award in Retail, Fashion, and Apparel PLM in 2016 and Frost & Sullivan’s Global Retail, Fashion, and Apparel PLM Product Differentiation Excellence Award in 2012. Red Herring named Centric to its Top 100 Global list in 2013, 2015, and 2016.

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.

Soapstone Networks

Series C in 1999
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.

Protean Electric

Venture Round in 2012
Protean Electric is an automotive technology firm. As the world leader of in-wheel motor technology, we provide a stand-alone electric drive solution with software that enables digital vehicle control and enhances customization. ProteanDrive motors use patented technologies, digital control, and are packaged with a friction brake. Designed to withstand 300,000 km vehicle lifetime, they deliver torque vectoring, 90 degree turn radius, and a digital control platform that can support a range of AI and cloud based services including autonomous EV sensors, digital ABS, vehicle diagnostics and road condition data. ProteanDrive provides opportunities for full EV and Hybrid vehicles in all segments from TaaS, to conventional vehicle programs including heavy trucks.

Clarient

Venture Round in 2009
Clarient is a leading provider of cancer diagnostic testing. They work with local pathologists and oncologists to bring the standard of care back into their community. They're dedicated to providing clarity to complex problems by using a number of technologies to help their clients diagnose cancer cases. They also provide them insight into what therapies will work best for these patients, and continue with follow-up and case monitoring.

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.

Chamate

Series C in 2008
Chamate is a modern metropolitan tea catering service provider focused on promoting Taiwanese cuisine and tea. Chamate opened their first restaurant in 2002 in Shanghai and later expanded to Beijing, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Ningbo, Wuxi, Yiwu, Changzhou, Wuhan and Tianjin. As of August 2011, there are about 100 stores in all major Cities across China.

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.

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.