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Vision Capital

Vision Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in investment in private debt investments. It seeks to invest in technology companies with a focus on communications, semiconductor, software, Internet, and e-commerce. It prefers to invest in companies based in Europe seeking international expansion in to the United States. The firm seeks to invest between $3 million to $8 million in a portfolio company over the life of the investment and through subsequent rounds of investment. It also co-invests with international venture capitalists and does not prefer to be the lead investor in a round. The firm seeks to take a Board seat in its portfolio companies. Vision Capital was founded in 1996 and is based in Burlingame, California with an additional office in Geneva, Switzerland.

Oliver Jones

Associate

DJ

David John Lamb

Partner

Sven Lingjaerde

General Partner and Co-Founder

JR

John Robinson

Associate

DS

Dag Syrrist

General Partner

WW

William Wick

Partner and CFO

38 past transactions

Addo Food Group

Acquisition in 2007
Addo Food Group Limited produces and markets pastry products under the brand names, such as Pork Farms, Wall’s, Millers, Scrummy Eggs, Bowyers, Too Good, and Farmhouse. The company offers sausage rolls, pork pies, hot pies, savory eggs, pastries and slices, quiche, flans, and tarts. Addo Food Group Limited was formerly known as Pork Farms Group Limited and changed its name to Pork Farms Group Limited in August 2015. Addo Food Group Limited was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Nottingham, United Kingdom.

United Initiators

Acquisition in 2011
United Initiators is a world leading manufacturer of organic peroxides and persulfates. Our products are essential for a multitude of indispensable things in modern daily life. Whether it is renewable energy, coatings, adhesives, energy efficiency, construction or environmentally friendly disinfection – to name a few – we drive it.

Teknovus

Series D in 2007
Teknovus, Inc., a fabless semiconductor and software solutions company, develops and supplies access chips and embedded software for the FTTx market. It offers Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) integrated chips for central office and customer premises applications; EPON customer premises equipment ONU; TDM transport chips that provide the circuit emulation of T1/E1/J1 on various Ethernet switched networks; evaluation kits, which support original equipment manufacturers and service provider customers; EPON OLT solutions that offer a system-on-a-chip approach to the original equipment manufacturers; and TK3401 Intelligent EPON Node Controller that enables service providers to meet various needs of network topologies and subscriber densities. The company’s system-on-a-chips incorporate firmware for the embedded processor to control the hardware. Teknovus, Inc. markets its products through distributors in the United States, Europe, and China. Teknovus, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Petaluma, California with sales and support centers in Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. The company also has a location in San Jose, California.

Staccato Communications

Venture Round in 2008
Staccato Communications, Inc. offers ultra wideband wireless enabled devices for the wireless USB, Bluetooth, and Internet protocol connectivity to the personal computing, consumer electronics, and mobile phone industries. Its products include single-chip integrated circuits, device adapter and device module design kits, reference design kits, wireless USB development kits, and streaming services development kits. The company also provides Ripcord Software, which provides a software stack for variety of ultra wide band applications, as well as includes installers, firmware, middleware, drivers, customization tools, and firmware upgrade tools. Staccato Communications’ products are used in various applications, such as printers, camera, mass storage devices, portable media players, wireless docking, wireless projectors, Web cameras, wireless HDTV, wireless speakers, set top boxes, wireless displays, purchasing content, sharing content, and personal servers. Staccato Communications, Inc. was formerly known as Discrete Time Communications, Inc. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in San Diego, California.
JDR is a provider of technology connecting the global offshore energy industry. Our products and services enable vital control and power delivery to offshore oil, gas and renewable energy systems. The most major energy companies and subsea service providers depend on high performance subsea control umbilicals and subsea power cables that operate in the world’s harshest offshore environments. JDR invests in state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities, technology and people to deliver these world-class subsea products.

CPL Industries Ltd.

Acquisition in 2005
CPL Industries Ltd. manufactures and markets smokeless solid fuels. It offers solid fuels, protective bags, and covers; activated carbons and management of activated carbon mobile filters; and refractory repair services and products. The company was founded in 1973 and is based in Sheffield, United Kingdom. As of March 31, 2018, CPL Industries Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of CPL Industries Holdings Limited.

Avalon Photonics

Venture Round in 2003
Avalon Photonics produces world-class VCSELs (vertical cavity surface emitting lasers) for datacom, sensing, and measurement markets. These devices are enabling volume applications due to their exceptional performance, lower power consumption, and volume cost reduction.Avalon also produces unique, patent-protected, single-spatial-mode VCSELs with unsurpassed specifications required for many sensing and measurement applications. Avalon’s ISO 9001 production line achieves high quality, exceptional uniformity, and telecom-grade reliability devices. VCSELs can be provided from bare die up to fully packaged units with temperature control and fiber pigtailing.

Sphera Solutions, Inc.

Series D in 2002
Sphera is the global provider of Web hosting automation and management software, today announced that it has expanded its management team and moved its corporate headquarters to Denver, Colorado. In the coming months, Sphera will continue to leverage recent funding to support and build its infrastructure in high-potential markets, strengthen its technology portfolio, increase sales and marketing initiatives and increase support for its global customers.

PIRTEK

Acquisition in 2007

Massana

Series A in 1999
Founded in early 1996, Massana is an innovator of "smart math in silicon" for broadband digital communications. Massana combines its proprietary methodologies and custom signal processing architectures to take complex mathematics to silicon. By applying this unique approach, Massana provides customers with a new level of broadband capability to meet the exploding demand for wired and wireless Internet bandwidth.
Game Trading Technologies, Inc. is a leading video game trading services provider focused on valuation, procurement, refurbishment, and redistribution of pre-owned video games. Game Trading Technologies, Inc. currently offers unique services, supported by innovative technologies to an array of national firms, allowing them to better serve customers who want to trade their games for store credit or purchase pre-owned games. The foundation of most of these relationships is Game Trading Technologies, Inc.'s proprietary game trading database, which updates values on more than 10,000 video games and consoles on a daily basis according to market conditions. Game Trading Technologies, Inc. shares are traded on the OTCBB under the symbol 'GMTD'.
Sequans Communications S.A. (NYSE: SQNS) is a 4G chipmaker and leading provider of single-mode LTE chipset solutions to wireless device manufacturers worldwide. Founded in 2003, Sequans has developed and delivered seven generations of 4G technology and its chips are certified and shipping in 4G networks around the world. Today, Sequans offers two LTE product lines: StreamrichLTE™, optimized for feature-rich mobile computing and home/portable router devices, and StreamliteLTE™, optimized for M2M devices and other connected devices for the Internet of Things. Sequans is based in Paris, France with additional offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, and China.

Altitun

Series A in 1998
Altitun AB provides a full tunable laser product line, designed to help systems vendors and carriers reduce costs today and drive the all-optical networks of tomorrow. Altitun is the provider of the world’s most complete tunable laser product line.

Sphera Solutions, Inc.

Venture Round in 2005
Sphera is the global provider of Web hosting automation and management software, today announced that it has expanded its management team and moved its corporate headquarters to Denver, Colorado. In the coming months, Sphera will continue to leverage recent funding to support and build its infrastructure in high-potential markets, strengthen its technology portfolio, increase sales and marketing initiatives and increase support for its global customers.

Addo Food Group

Acquisition in 2007
Addo Food Group Limited produces and markets pastry products under the brand names, such as Pork Farms, Wall’s, Millers, Scrummy Eggs, Bowyers, Too Good, and Farmhouse. The company offers sausage rolls, pork pies, hot pies, savory eggs, pastries and slices, quiche, flans, and tarts. Addo Food Group Limited was formerly known as Pork Farms Group Limited and changed its name to Pork Farms Group Limited in August 2015. Addo Food Group Limited was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Nottingham, United Kingdom.

Onebox

Series C in 2000
Onebox, a subsidiary of j2 Global Communications, Inc. [NASDAQ: JCOM], provides a suite of outsourced virtual phone services which enable small companies to leverage the features and functions of a Fortune 500 phone system without the associated expense. Onebox Receptionist provides the features you would expect from an expensive, in-house phone system, but in a simple, cost-effective service that can be implemented today. The Virtual PBX services are designed to meet communications needs.

Caiyi Store

Angel Round in 2018
Caiyi Store is a Blockchain Platform.

Yaoyanshe

Series C in 2019
Yaoyanshe develops an application for value sharing and trading in the pharmaceutical research and development industry. It offers patients with the latest information on treatments and drugs in the world, industry personnel credit assessment, research project competition analysis, and sponsor project evaluation. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Shanghai, China.

MoreMagic Solutions

Series D in 2005
MoreMagic Solutions is a global company that allows operators, content providers, and banks to offer consumers the ability to purchase goods and services on demand using a mobile phone or the web. MoreMagic's high-throughput payment engine and pre-packaged applications enable customers to offer new revenue-generating services. Implementation in an existing network is quick and easy. Average return on investment is three to six months.

Chipidea Microelectrónica

Series B in 2005
Chipidea Microelectrónica offers analog and mixed semiconductor solutions to wireless communications, digital media, and consumer electronics market segments. It provides analog subsystems for wireless and wire line communications, device-to-device connectivity, multimedia, and power management in Europe, Asia, and North America. The company offers analog and mixed Internet protocol products in various categories, including analog to digital converters, analog filters, analog front end, analog standard cells, audio and voice, clock management, digital modules, over sampling modulators, power management, radio frequency, USB link controllers, and USB physical interfaces for blue chip customers.

Avalon Photonics

Venture Round in 2000
Avalon Photonics produces world-class VCSELs (vertical cavity surface emitting lasers) for datacom, sensing, and measurement markets. These devices are enabling volume applications due to their exceptional performance, lower power consumption, and volume cost reduction.Avalon also produces unique, patent-protected, single-spatial-mode VCSELs with unsurpassed specifications required for many sensing and measurement applications. Avalon’s ISO 9001 production line achieves high quality, exceptional uniformity, and telecom-grade reliability devices. VCSELs can be provided from bare die up to fully packaged units with temperature control and fiber pigtailing.

Syntune

Series B in 2007
Syntune supplies lasers for the telecommunications sector. The innovation reduces costs for WDM systems and will be a key component in the new "flexible bandwidth" fiber optic networks. Syntune acquired by Ignis ASA.

Atempo

Series A in 2006
Since 1992, Atempo has provided data management solutions to secure, preserve and move essential business data for thousands of companies around the world. Our integrated suite of solutions include our market leading data backup and disaster recovery offerings (Tina -Time Navigator and Lina - Live Navigator and Backstone Appliances) and our innovative large NAS backup, archiving and migration platform (Miria). Based on high performance data movers our solutions are extremely scalable. Atempo products are suited to data protection needs of midsized to petabyte scale businesses and large distributed enterprises. Atempo is headquartered south of Paris, France, in Les Ulis with operations in Europe, the Americas and Asia; it has a sales and support network of over 100 resellers, partners and Managed Service Providers (MSP) serving our customers worldwide.

Fletchers Group

Acquisition in 2006
The Group is looking to excel as an own label supplier in the retail sector, but also aims to develop Kara Foodservice to become the trade brand of choice in wholesale bakery for foodservice customers. Fletchers Group takes pride in the strong relationships it has established with major retailers and shares a number of key business goals across its business units including providing excellent customer service, sector-leading technical standards and recruiting, retaining and developing the best people.

CardioMEMS

Series F in 2009
CardioMEMS is a medical device company that has developed and is commercializing a proprietary wireless sensing and communication technology for the human body. Their technology platform is designed to improve the management of severe chronic cardiovascular diseases such as heart failure and aneurysms. Their miniature wireless sensors can be implanted using minimally invasive techniques and transmit cardiac output, blood pressure and heart rate data that are critical to the management of patients.

SAQQARA Systems

Series B in 2000
SAQQARA solutions address the needs of a wide range of B2B suppliers -- manufacturers, Net market makers and distributors -- to create branded and differentiated product content that allows them to market and sell over the Internet.

Straatum Processware

Series C in 2005
Straatum is the leading provider of real-time fault detection and classification solutions to the semiconductor sector worldwide. Fault detection and classification is seen as the foundation stone to meeting the advanced process control (APC) requirements long anticipated in the marketplace…"advanced process control is emerging as an essential ingredient of future wafer processing as necessary process performance challenges the limits of wafer processing equipment" Gartner June 2002.

Nordax Group AB

Acquisition in 2010
Nordax Bank offers savings and loan products to private customers and has since the startup in 2003 established itself as one of the leading players in the Nordic market. The business is run from the head office in Stockholm where our 200 employees serve the company's approximately 100 000 customers in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Germany. Nordax Group AB (publ) is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm’s main market. Nordax Bank is under the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority's supervision and is connected to the state deposit guarantee.

Staccato Communications

Series C in 2006
Staccato Communications, Inc. offers ultra wideband wireless enabled devices for the wireless USB, Bluetooth, and Internet protocol connectivity to the personal computing, consumer electronics, and mobile phone industries. Its products include single-chip integrated circuits, device adapter and device module design kits, reference design kits, wireless USB development kits, and streaming services development kits. The company also provides Ripcord Software, which provides a software stack for variety of ultra wide band applications, as well as includes installers, firmware, middleware, drivers, customization tools, and firmware upgrade tools. Staccato Communications’ products are used in various applications, such as printers, camera, mass storage devices, portable media players, wireless docking, wireless projectors, Web cameras, wireless HDTV, wireless speakers, set top boxes, wireless displays, purchasing content, sharing content, and personal servers. Staccato Communications, Inc. was formerly known as Discrete Time Communications, Inc. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in San Diego, California.

Veebeam Ltd.

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.

ABL-TECHNIC

Acquisition in 2011
ABL-TECHNIC offer you a comprehensive portfolio of services throughout the world, ranging from paint stripping management right along the line to waste disposal and the recovery of valuable materials.

NanoMuscle

Series C in 2003
NanoMuscle is a privately held company that designs and manufactures advanced motion technologies for use in a wide range of consumer devices. With their low cost, small size and silent operation, NanoMuscle products displace conventional electromagnetic motors and solenoids and for the first time provide miniature, affordable motion.

Sphera Solutions, Inc.

Series B in 2002
Sphera is the global provider of Web hosting automation and management software, today announced that it has expanded its management team and moved its corporate headquarters to Denver, Colorado. In the coming months, Sphera will continue to leverage recent funding to support and build its infrastructure in high-potential markets, strengthen its technology portfolio, increase sales and marketing initiatives and increase support for its global customers.

Altitun

Series B in 1999
Altitun AB provides a full tunable laser product line, designed to help systems vendors and carriers reduce costs today and drive the all-optical networks of tomorrow. Altitun is the provider of the world’s most complete tunable laser product line.

Atempo

Venture Round in 2003
Since 1992, Atempo has provided data management solutions to secure, preserve and move essential business data for thousands of companies around the world. Our integrated suite of solutions include our market leading data backup and disaster recovery offerings (Tina -Time Navigator and Lina - Live Navigator and Backstone Appliances) and our innovative large NAS backup, archiving and migration platform (Miria). Based on high performance data movers our solutions are extremely scalable. Atempo products are suited to data protection needs of midsized to petabyte scale businesses and large distributed enterprises. Atempo is headquartered south of Paris, France, in Les Ulis with operations in Europe, the Americas and Asia; it has a sales and support network of over 100 resellers, partners and Managed Service Providers (MSP) serving our customers worldwide.
Sequans Communications S.A. (NYSE: SQNS) is a 4G chipmaker and leading provider of single-mode LTE chipset solutions to wireless device manufacturers worldwide. Founded in 2003, Sequans has developed and delivered seven generations of 4G technology and its chips are certified and shipping in 4G networks around the world. Today, Sequans offers two LTE product lines: StreamrichLTE™, optimized for feature-rich mobile computing and home/portable router devices, and StreamliteLTE™, optimized for M2M devices and other connected devices for the Internet of Things. Sequans is based in Paris, France with additional offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, and China.

Staccato Communications

Venture Round in 2007
Staccato Communications, Inc. offers ultra wideband wireless enabled devices for the wireless USB, Bluetooth, and Internet protocol connectivity to the personal computing, consumer electronics, and mobile phone industries. Its products include single-chip integrated circuits, device adapter and device module design kits, reference design kits, wireless USB development kits, and streaming services development kits. The company also provides Ripcord Software, which provides a software stack for variety of ultra wide band applications, as well as includes installers, firmware, middleware, drivers, customization tools, and firmware upgrade tools. Staccato Communications’ products are used in various applications, such as printers, camera, mass storage devices, portable media players, wireless docking, wireless projectors, Web cameras, wireless HDTV, wireless speakers, set top boxes, wireless displays, purchasing content, sharing content, and personal servers. Staccato Communications, Inc. was formerly known as Discrete Time Communications, Inc. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in San Diego, California.

Syntune

Series A in 2004
Syntune supplies lasers for the telecommunications sector. The innovation reduces costs for WDM systems and will be a key component in the new "flexible bandwidth" fiber optic networks. Syntune acquired by Ignis ASA.