Miramar Ventures

Miramar Venture Partners is a California-based venture capital firm that specializes in seed and early-stage investments, primarily targeting the information technology sector. The firm focuses on areas such as storage systems, networking and connectivity, mobile internet, semiconductors, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), and software as a service (SaaS). Within storage systems, it invests in solid-state drives, memory solutions, and portable medical records. For networking and connectivity, it seeks opportunities in database security and telemedicine. In semiconductors and MEMS, investments include semiconductor design and biosensors. In the SaaS domain, it looks for companies developing monitoring systems and innovative internet monetization models. Miramar typically invests between $0.1 million and $3 million per transaction and prefers to lead investments but also collaborates with other venture firms and corporate investors. The firm primarily focuses on companies located in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Founded in 2001, Miramar Venture Partners is headquartered in Corona del Mar, with additional offices in Del Mar and San Diego.

Sherman Atkinson

Managing Director

Richard A. Fink

MD of Miramar I

Bruce Hallett

Co-Founder & Managing Director

Bob Holmen

Managing Director

Heiner Sussner

Managing Director

71 past transactions

Brilliant

Series B in 2021
Brilliant Home Technology, Inc. develops smart home devices, such as smart home controls, smart dimmer switches, smart plugs, and other accessories that provides users with the ability to control lights, music, climate, security, and doorbells. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Factual

Seed Round in 2010
Factual is the location data company the world’s most valuable brands and tech companies trust to understand and intelligently grow their businesses. Factual provides product and engineering teams, marketers and data analysts access to the world’s most trusted, accurate and comprehensive data on places and people worldwide, transforming products, advertising and businesses with data that puts everything in context.

Aktino

Series B in 2005
Positron Access Solutions design, manufactures, and markets networking and broadband management equipment to information technology and telecommunication industries. The company's platform enables broadband connectivity and system networking services. It partners with EMBARQ Logistics. Positron Access Solutions was formerly known as Aktino, Inc. and changed its name after its acquisiton by Positron Inc. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. As of May 11, 2009, Aktino, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Positron Inc.

Predixion

Series C in 2013
Predixion was founded on the belief that predictive analytics has the power to create a smarter, safer and healthier world – and access to that power should not be limited to a select few with extensive statistical knowledge. To achieve that vision, Predixion developed a self-service predictive analytics platform called Predixion Insight™ that simplifies the entire predictive process. Predixion Insight is designed for business analysts and other non-technical users to enable broader adoption of predictive analytics, but is powerful and flexible enough for data scientists. In addition, Predixion expedites the “Last Mile of Analytics™” – the deployment of powerful predictions directly to the people who need them to take action – so the value of being predictive is realized immediately. More than 200 companies rely on Predixion to help drive better decisions every day. Founded in 2009, Predixion Software is headquartered in San Juan Capistrano, California with development offices in Redmond, Washington. For more information visit www.predixionsoftware.com.

Aktino

Series C in 2008
Positron Access Solutions design, manufactures, and markets networking and broadband management equipment to information technology and telecommunication industries. The company's platform enables broadband connectivity and system networking services. It partners with EMBARQ Logistics. Positron Access Solutions was formerly known as Aktino, Inc. and changed its name after its acquisiton by Positron Inc. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. As of May 11, 2009, Aktino, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Positron Inc.

Liquid Grids

Series A in 2014
Liquid Grids is being used by companies across the healthcare spectrum, including biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, health insurance providers and healthcare product companies. We partner directly with brands or their marketing agencies to deliver the most effective contribution to their digital and inbound marketing campaigns. Our vision is to be the leader of Social Health Intelligence by providing the most advanced and predictive intelligence about healthcare consumers available. To provide groundbreaking, disruptive marketing strategies that change the way the industry interacts with the online health communities. Our mission is to enable the Healthcare industry to engage with consumers online, motivate them to adopt healthier lifestyles and more effectively manage chronic illnesses, resulting in better health outcomes and significant cost savings to the system.

Artisan Partners

Post in 2014
Artisan Partners is a global investment management firm that provides a broad range of high value-added investment strategies in growing asset classes to sophisticated clients around the world.

Burner

Series A in 2013
Ad Hoc Labs, Inc., a mobile software company, develops Burner, a smartphone number platform. It enables users to obtain and manage additional phone numbers for voice, SMS, and MMS communications, as well as allows users to get various numbers, and use each as a private line on iPhone or Android phones. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

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.

Protego Networks

Series A in 2004
Protego Networks provides network security appliances to enable organizations to identify, manage, and eliminate network attacks. The company's products correlate security event data, provide a graphical view of the source of an attack and affected systems, integrate and consolidate security event information from varies security products, and offer advice to mitigate the attack. It serves financial services, manufacturing, managed services, health industrial, and government organizations internationally. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Quettra

Seed Round in 2014
Quettra, Inc. provides mobile advertising services. The company operates an online platform which connects advertisers with their target audience. Quettra, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Milpitas, California. As of December 10, 2015, Quettra, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of SimilarGroup Ltd.

eRelevance Corporation

Series A in 2017
eRelevance Corporation, Inc. provides a technology-enabled marketing automation service to small- and medium-sized businesses. The company users multiple digital communication channels, including email, text, Web, social, and automated conversations through an application and text messaging to generate leads. It serves healthcare, marketing, and real estate industries. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Playlist.com

Private Placement in 2018
Playlist.com operates an online music community. Its website enables music fans to discover, create, organize, enjoy, and share their music playlists. Playlist.com was formerly known as Project Playlist, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Palo Alto, California. As of February 1, 2013, Playlist.com operates as a subsidiary of Playlist Media, Inc.

Applariat

Seed Round in 2016
appLariat, Inc. designs and develops a container automation platform. It offers automated containerization, deployment, and ongoing management of existing applications. appLariat, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Irvine, California.

Aktino

Series A in 2003
Positron Access Solutions design, manufactures, and markets networking and broadband management equipment to information technology and telecommunication industries. The company's platform enables broadband connectivity and system networking services. It partners with EMBARQ Logistics. Positron Access Solutions was formerly known as Aktino, Inc. and changed its name after its acquisiton by Positron Inc. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. As of May 11, 2009, Aktino, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Positron Inc.

Embrace

Seed Round in 2019
Embrace is the only performance monitoring and debugging platform built for mobile apps. Whether an unsolved crash, a bug in the checkout flow, an error log without resolution, or a startup that takes too long, developers need to find every issue and not take days. With Embrace, mobile teams instantly look up any user, see every user’s sessions on command, and understand what happened seconds and minutes before any error of any type.

Independa

Venture Round in 2012
Independa subscription services address today's gap in integrated solutions to deliver cost effective Technology-enabled Independent Living. We help family caregivers help their loved ones live home longer, safer and more comfortably. Independa will revolutionize how family caregivers support and care for their senior loved ones, providing a cost effective and real time answer to the key question of "How's my loved one doing?"

Tarari

Series A in 2002
Tarari operates as a fabless semiconductor company. It designs and develops deep content inspection, acceleration, and content processor silicon for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), ODMs, and ISVs in the network device, appliance, and server spaces. The company's products help OEMs to accelerate and offload compute-intensive algorithms used in XML/Web services, network security, and digital media environments.

Factual

Series B in 2015
Factual is the location data company the world’s most valuable brands and tech companies trust to understand and intelligently grow their businesses. Factual provides product and engineering teams, marketers and data analysts access to the world’s most trusted, accurate and comprehensive data on places and people worldwide, transforming products, advertising and businesses with data that puts everything in context.
Brand Affinity Technologies, Inc. develops and provides a research engine and social media platform that offers daily analysis of celebrities and athletes. It offers an endorsement platform that allows advertisers to identify, license, and activate the talent for digital and cross-media campaigns based on brand and targeting considerations; and Fantapper, a digital solution, which enables fans to connect with their favorite celebrities. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Irvine, California. As of December 15, 2014, Brand Affinity Technologies, Inc. is in reorganization.

Solarflare Communications

Series B in 2003
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.

eRelevance Corporation

Series A in 2016
eRelevance Corporation, Inc. provides a technology-enabled marketing automation service to small- and medium-sized businesses. The company users multiple digital communication channels, including email, text, Web, social, and automated conversations through an application and text messaging to generate leads. It serves healthcare, marketing, and real estate industries. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Findout Media

Seed Round in 2016
Findout is a discovery platform that connects local content, users and commerce. The Findout mobile app shows full length articles about great places nearby recommended by hand selected local experts. With a focus on curation and quality, Findout users are able to quickly discover new places, save and share them with friends and directly transact with suppliers to book, reserve, or order. Users: Benefit from free access to curated articles and experts. Authors: Benefit from exposure, branding and traffic. Suppliers: Benefit from awareness and direct sales.

Azuro

Series B in 2006
Azuro is an electronic design automation (EDA) company supplying software tools to design digital semiconductor chips. The company's clock tree synthesis and physical optimization technologies make chips faster, reduce chip power and accelerate chip time to market. Customers of Azuro's software include Broadcom, Cambridge Silicon Radio, NVIDIA, ST Microelectronics, and Texas Instruments. The company was founded in 2002, and has completed over 40 tapeouts since launching its first product in 2005. Azuro is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA with R&D in Cambridge, UK, and is privately held.

pop.in

Convertible Note in 2014
Smiletime, Inc. powers pop.in, an app for spontaneous, ephemeral live connection. On pop.in, civility and inclusivity are the bedrock of dynamic conversations, which are hosted in an environment that allows for discussions to be as multifaceted as the people having them. An unlimited number of people can join pop.ins and use video, audio, text and images to have nuanced dialogue. A pop.in only lasts as long as people are in them, so by their definition, pop.ins are never empty and never lonely. And with the ability to create "ground rules" that are unique to every pop.in, hosts are empowered to be deliberate in setting a tenor and intention for their conversations from the get-go. Smiletime, Inc. believes technology can and should enable honest dialogue and empathetic connection, and that's what they've created with pop.in. Smiletime, Inc. was founded by Alex Kruglov, Sharon Chang, and Jace Hall in 2014, and is located in Los Angeles, California.

SiliconSystems

Series B in 2005
SiliconSystems is the world leader in industrial-grade solid-state storage solutions engineered exclusively for the high performance, high reliability, multi-year product lifecycle requirements of the Enterprise System OEM market. The company's patented and patent-pending SiliconDrive(TM) technology meets the rigorous demands of applications in the netcom, military, industrial, interactive kiosk and medical markets. SiliconSystems is based in Aliso Viejo, California.

Starport Systems

Series A in 2005
Starport Systems, Inc. is a venture backed fabless semiconductor company providing system-on-a-chip and software solutions for convergence of mobile RFID applications.

Brilliant

Series A in 2017
Brilliant Home Technology, Inc. develops smart home devices, such as smart home controls, smart dimmer switches, smart plugs, and other accessories that provides users with the ability to control lights, music, climate, security, and doorbells. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Mateo, California.

me.me

Convertible Note in 2016
Me.me, a meme search engine, has raised $1.5 million in funding. The investors included Arjun Sethi from The Social+Capital Partnership, Peter Rojas from Betaworks Ventures, Danhua Capital and Mirarmar Ventures.Memes are steadily growing in greater and greater popularity. At the start of 2016 the death of a mountain gorilla, called Harambe, at Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden sparked a huge meme movement. According to Google Trends, memes overall growth over the last 10 years shows no signs of decelerating. Others have hinted that memes shaped the outcome of the US election that Donald J. Trump won.“Memes are very rich pieces of media,” Walker continues, “So we use data science and computer vision to make sense of the over millions of memes being found daily. As a result, we’re starting to be able to plot trends and make predictions of future memes.”

Scripsense

Seed Round in 2014
Scripsense is where innovation meets philanthropy. They provide the easiest, most effective technology available for organizations to raise money by empowering members to give through their everyday spending. Founded in 2013 by entrepreneurs Lori Jackson and Melinda Masson, scripsense revolutionizes the standard modes of fundraising with a powerful and professional fundraising platform for desktops and mobile devices. Using scripsense’s interactive shopping program, organizations and their members can keep track of all cash rebates earned for the organization when their members purchase eGift cards, products or services from merchants nationwide. Nonprofits, schools, charities, religious institutions and associations of all types benefit from easier, more successful fundraising, while requiring significantly less busy-work for coordinators and members. In addition, local and national retail merchants receive higher visibility and prestige in the community as well as increased revenues. Scripsense is so powerful and easy to use that it has become the one-stop-shop for fundraising campaigns!

Tempo AI

Seed Round in 2011
Tempo AI is a developer of a smart calendar application used to enhance work activities and schedules. In February 2013, Tempo AI launched the Tempo Smart Calendar mobile app, the first intelligent calendar that’s like having a personal assistant prepare what’s next to save users time and eliminate hassles. Tempo is context-aware to personalize experiences so routine tasks take the fewest taps. It learns patterns and behaviors to constantly optimize the smart calendar experience.

Welltok

Series C in 2014
Welltok is a data-driven, enterprise SaaS company that delivers the healthcare industry’s leading consumer activation platform. Welltok’s solutions empower health plans, employers, providers, and public entities to connect consumers with personalized health improvement resources, making it easy and rewarding for consumers to complete actions that optimize their health and wellbeing. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

HyperQuality

Series A in 2005
At HyperQuality, they focus on improving customer experience 24/7. they accomplish this through their proven and innovative methodology for evaluations and surveys, reliable and valid data, and quality assurance software resulting in specific recommendations from the agent to the company–wide level.

Independa

Venture Round in 2011
Independa subscription services address today's gap in integrated solutions to deliver cost effective Technology-enabled Independent Living. We help family caregivers help their loved ones live home longer, safer and more comfortably. Independa will revolutionize how family caregivers support and care for their senior loved ones, providing a cost effective and real time answer to the key question of "How's my loved one doing?"

Postcard on the Run Website

Seed Round in 2012
Postcard on the Run was an easy to use mobile application that allows users to take a photograph from their mobile phone, personalize it with a message and their own signature, and send it as a physical postcard anywhere in the world. Postcard On The Run pitched their business on Shark Tank in 2013 (Season 5 Episode 1) and got a deal with Robert Herjavec. Postcard on the Run ran out of steam on 1 October 2015. In September 2017, the Postcard App MyPostcard acquired their website URL which now redirects to mypostcard.com.

Predixion

Series A in 2010
Predixion was founded on the belief that predictive analytics has the power to create a smarter, safer and healthier world – and access to that power should not be limited to a select few with extensive statistical knowledge. To achieve that vision, Predixion developed a self-service predictive analytics platform called Predixion Insight™ that simplifies the entire predictive process. Predixion Insight is designed for business analysts and other non-technical users to enable broader adoption of predictive analytics, but is powerful and flexible enough for data scientists. In addition, Predixion expedites the “Last Mile of Analytics™” – the deployment of powerful predictions directly to the people who need them to take action – so the value of being predictive is realized immediately. More than 200 companies rely on Predixion to help drive better decisions every day. Founded in 2009, Predixion Software is headquartered in San Juan Capistrano, California with development offices in Redmond, Washington. For more information visit www.predixionsoftware.com.

pop.in

Seed Round in 2017
Smiletime, Inc. powers pop.in, an app for spontaneous, ephemeral live connection. On pop.in, civility and inclusivity are the bedrock of dynamic conversations, which are hosted in an environment that allows for discussions to be as multifaceted as the people having them. An unlimited number of people can join pop.ins and use video, audio, text and images to have nuanced dialogue. A pop.in only lasts as long as people are in them, so by their definition, pop.ins are never empty and never lonely. And with the ability to create "ground rules" that are unique to every pop.in, hosts are empowered to be deliberate in setting a tenor and intention for their conversations from the get-go. Smiletime, Inc. believes technology can and should enable honest dialogue and empathetic connection, and that's what they've created with pop.in. Smiletime, Inc. was founded by Alex Kruglov, Sharon Chang, and Jace Hall in 2014, and is located in Los Angeles, California.

Postcard on the Run Website

Seed Round in 2012
Postcard on the Run was an easy to use mobile application that allows users to take a photograph from their mobile phone, personalize it with a message and their own signature, and send it as a physical postcard anywhere in the world. Postcard On The Run pitched their business on Shark Tank in 2013 (Season 5 Episode 1) and got a deal with Robert Herjavec. Postcard on the Run ran out of steam on 1 October 2015. In September 2017, the Postcard App MyPostcard acquired their website URL which now redirects to mypostcard.com.

AccelOps

Series A in 2007
AccelOps provides the leading IT operations analytics platform for the modern data center with a focus on security, network performance and compliance. The AccelOps platform automatically discovers, analyzes and automates IT issues in machine and big data across public, private and hybrid clouds spanning servers, storage, networks, security, applications and users. AccelOps’ unsupervised, machine learning engine sends real-time alerts when deviations occur that indicate a security or performance-impacting event. The AccelOps platform scales seamlessly and provides unmatched delivery of proactive security and operational intelligence, allowing organizations to be more responsive and competitive as they expand their IT capabilities.

Thankful

Series A in 2021
Thankful, Inc. develops an artificial intelligence platform known as Thankful which deflects queries. The platform allows modifying scripts, managing the team, and monitoring thankful's accuracy and impact over time. Its features include questions and answers auto replies, information gathering, ticket routing, e commerce actions, advanced scripts, and team management. Thankful, Inc. is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Field Squared

Seed Round in 2014
A pioneer and leader in the field service management space, Field Squared is the industry’s first unified Field Service Management Process Automation Platform. As a cloud-based SaaS solution, Field Squared is flexible, scalable and purpose-built to optimize the efficiency of the mobile workforce in the field. Focusing on business process automation, Field Squared enables enterprises to digitally transform, completely automate and streamline their field service operations, from the frontline to back-office systems. Based in gorgeous Highlands Ranch, Colorado, nestled against the incomparable Rocky Mountains, we built something different, an industry-first innovation to disrupt the field service management space.

Solarflare Communications

Venture Round in 2016
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.

Tarari

Series C in 2006
Tarari operates as a fabless semiconductor company. It designs and develops deep content inspection, acceleration, and content processor silicon for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), ODMs, and ISVs in the network device, appliance, and server spaces. The company's products help OEMs to accelerate and offload compute-intensive algorithms used in XML/Web services, network security, and digital media environments.

Load DynamiX

Series B in 2012
As a leader in storage infrastructure workload analytics and performance validation, Load DynamiX empowers: 1. IT organizations with the insight they need to optimize the performance, availability, and cost of their storage infrastructure. Load DynamiX accelerates new application roll-outs and eliminates the risk of new technology deployments. 2. Storage and network equipment manufacturers with the insight they need to maximize the performance, scalability and reliability of their products. Load DynamiX accelerates your time to market. Addressing file, block, and object storage technology validation, Load DynamiX has the unique capability and performance required to stress today’s most complex storage systems to their limits.

Welltok

Series A in 2011
Welltok is a data-driven, enterprise SaaS company that delivers the healthcare industry’s leading consumer activation platform. Welltok’s solutions empower health plans, employers, providers, and public entities to connect consumers with personalized health improvement resources, making it easy and rewarding for consumers to complete actions that optimize their health and wellbeing. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Welltok

Series B in 2013
Welltok is a data-driven, enterprise SaaS company that delivers the healthcare industry’s leading consumer activation platform. Welltok’s solutions empower health plans, employers, providers, and public entities to connect consumers with personalized health improvement resources, making it easy and rewarding for consumers to complete actions that optimize their health and wellbeing. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Scopely

Series A in 2014
Scopely, Inc. develops mobile and tablet touchscreen-based games for casual and core gamers worldwide. It offers fleet command games; and game design, live, marketing, analytics, business development, advertising, and other services. Scopely, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Culver City, California.

Breinify

Seed Round in 2017
Breinify Inc. develops artificial intelligence (AI) as-a-service platform for predictive personalization of customer's behavior. The company through its platform allows users to predict consumers' interests and preferences. It combines various signals to form patterns to generate predictions about an individual's interest and intent. It serves retail, consumer goods, travel, financial services, and banking industries. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Cupertino, California.

ProspectHills

Series A in 2007
ProspectHills Inc. is a Saratoga, Calif.-based IT startup.

Tarari

Series B in 2004
Tarari operates as a fabless semiconductor company. It designs and develops deep content inspection, acceleration, and content processor silicon for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), ODMs, and ISVs in the network device, appliance, and server spaces. The company's products help OEMs to accelerate and offload compute-intensive algorithms used in XML/Web services, network security, and digital media environments.

Embrace

Series B in 2021
Embrace is the only performance monitoring and debugging platform built for mobile apps. Whether an unsolved crash, a bug in the checkout flow, an error log without resolution, or a startup that takes too long, developers need to find every issue and not take days. With Embrace, mobile teams instantly look up any user, see every user’s sessions on command, and understand what happened seconds and minutes before any error of any type.

HyperQuality

Series B in 2007
At HyperQuality, they focus on improving customer experience 24/7. they accomplish this through their proven and innovative methodology for evaluations and surveys, reliable and valid data, and quality assurance software resulting in specific recommendations from the agent to the company–wide level.

Social Native

Seed Round in 2017
Social Native is an online platform that enables its users to create customized branded content. The platform enables its users to connect with relevant creators based on interests and brand affinity. It offers images and videos on demand, personalized content, age-targeting, testimonials, product placements, and brand affinity. Social Native was launched in 2014 by David Shadpour and Eytan Elbaz and is based in California.

Rachio

Convertible Note in 2014
Rachio, Inc. provides intelligent sprinkler controllers that enable users to water landscapes smartly. It also offers Iro, a WiFi-enabled device that turns sprinklers on and off remotely, and enables users to schedule irrigation automatically based on factors, such as water budgets, local weather, soil characteristics, and more. The company also offers control and dashboard options through a smartphone application. Rachio, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Predixion

Series B in 2011
Predixion was founded on the belief that predictive analytics has the power to create a smarter, safer and healthier world – and access to that power should not be limited to a select few with extensive statistical knowledge. To achieve that vision, Predixion developed a self-service predictive analytics platform called Predixion Insight™ that simplifies the entire predictive process. Predixion Insight is designed for business analysts and other non-technical users to enable broader adoption of predictive analytics, but is powerful and flexible enough for data scientists. In addition, Predixion expedites the “Last Mile of Analytics™” – the deployment of powerful predictions directly to the people who need them to take action – so the value of being predictive is realized immediately. More than 200 companies rely on Predixion to help drive better decisions every day. Founded in 2009, Predixion Software is headquartered in San Juan Capistrano, California with development offices in Redmond, Washington. For more information visit www.predixionsoftware.com.

Tempo AI

Series A in 2013
Tempo AI is a developer of a smart calendar application used to enhance work activities and schedules. In February 2013, Tempo AI launched the Tempo Smart Calendar mobile app, the first intelligent calendar that’s like having a personal assistant prepare what’s next to save users time and eliminate hassles. Tempo is context-aware to personalize experiences so routine tasks take the fewest taps. It learns patterns and behaviors to constantly optimize the smart calendar experience.

SiliconSystems

Series A in 2004
SiliconSystems is the world leader in industrial-grade solid-state storage solutions engineered exclusively for the high performance, high reliability, multi-year product lifecycle requirements of the Enterprise System OEM market. The company's patented and patent-pending SiliconDrive(TM) technology meets the rigorous demands of applications in the netcom, military, industrial, interactive kiosk and medical markets. SiliconSystems is based in Aliso Viejo, California.

Atomica Corp

Series A in 2005
IMT is a company focused on foundry services from design and development to prototyping and volume production of micro-electro-mechanical systems.

Cirro

Series A in 2013
Cirro provides solutions for database management issues spanning secure access, data migration, and data virtualization. Its data analysis platform is a business intelligence platform enabling users to access various data platforms with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data sources. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Fama

Seed Round in 2015
Fama is an AI-based solution that identifies and offers an opportunity to address problematic behavior among potential hires and current employees by analyzing publicly available online information. This type of content can ultimately lead to brand risk and toxic culture, and is often missed in the hiring and management process.

Veritone

Venture Round in 2014
Veritone is an artificial intelligence company that has developed aiWARE, an AWS-certified platform offering orchestrated, cognitive computing to transform and analyze structured and unstructured data for clients in a variety of markets, including media and entertainment, legal, compliance, and government. The open platform integrates an ecosystem of cognitive engines, which can be orchestrated together, and a suite of proprietary applications, to reveal unprecedented, multivariate insights from linear files such as radio and TV broadcasts, surveillance footage and public and private content globally. Veritone is the presenting sponsor of the Artificial Intelligence Marketplace at CES and has been recognized by Oracle for Excellence in Application Development.

Forcefield

Seed Round in 2014
At Forcefield they are developing a safe internet browsing product for children and young teens that combines filtering, a premium content library, a dynamic social network for young users and real controls and reporting for parents.

Welltok

Series E in 2016
Welltok is a data-driven, enterprise SaaS company that delivers the healthcare industry’s leading consumer activation platform. Welltok’s solutions empower health plans, employers, providers, and public entities to connect consumers with personalized health improvement resources, making it easy and rewarding for consumers to complete actions that optimize their health and wellbeing. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

FastSoft

Series A in 2007
FastSoft, Inc. manufactures equipment to accelerate the download and distribution of Web applications, video, and digital content. Its products include FastSoft E Series Internet Accelerators, which create, sell, and distribute digital content using a centralized solution requiring no technology at the endpoints; and FastSoft E Series EX that accelerates TCP traffic without requiring software or hardware at the receiving end. The company serves Internet content providers, such as graphics, animation, hosting companies, subscription data services, and software-as-a-service service providers; content distribution network service providers; media and entertainment-film, IPTV, and post-production; and government agencies, systems integrators, and gaming and software companies. FastSoft, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Pasadena, California.

ZendyHealth

Convertible Note in 2016
ZendyHealth (ZH) makes it easier than ever before to search and save on health and dental services. ZH connects customers seeking standardized procedures to top local Certified Providers at affordable prices. Consumers are empowered to make smarter purchasing decisions and access care more affordably; they can choose their procedure -- when and where they want -- and at their own price. Providers increase business and fill excess capacity and address perishable inventory -- the end result being a win-win solution for customers and providers alike.

CaseRev

Series B in 2006
CaseRev provides vendor relationship management solutions. It offers VenCore, a Web-based application, which enables users to search for vendors; create and enforce vendor relationships; make and track referrals; track governance and compliance information; send messages; create and maintain preferred partner lists; capture preferred pricing details for each partner; secure updated partner profiles; capture user ratings for each partner's work; and generate reports about partners' cost, quality, and performance, as well as information about how internal users differ in their use of outside partners.

Scopely

Seed Round in 2012
Scopely, Inc. develops mobile and tablet touchscreen-based games for casual and core gamers worldwide. It offers fleet command games; and game design, live, marketing, analytics, business development, advertising, and other services. Scopely, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Culver City, California.

OptionEase

Series A in 2009
OptionEase is the market and technology leader in on-demand accounting compliance solutions. More than 350 companies ranging from small privately held start-ups to large multi-national public corporations are using the OptionEase compliance solution to comply with the complex regulation of FAS 123(R) and manage their equity plans.

Coradiant

Series D in 2005
Coradiant, Inc. provides network and Website monitoring equipment to manage, optimize, and troubleshoot Web applications. The company's products use customer metrics gathered from Web user visits as their primary data source for information technology management. It offers both virtual and physical appliances that passively taps and collect Web traffic data, and Coradiant TrueSight Edge for Akamai, a custom-built software-based product that provides performance visibility into Web applications that are accelerated by Akamai. The company serves clients in software-as-a-service, e-commerce, entertainment, finance, insurance, healthcare, and education industries. Coradiant Inc. was founded in 2000.
Brand Affinity Technologies, Inc. develops and provides a research engine and social media platform that offers daily analysis of celebrities and athletes. It offers an endorsement platform that allows advertisers to identify, license, and activate the talent for digital and cross-media campaigns based on brand and targeting considerations; and Fantapper, a digital solution, which enables fans to connect with their favorite celebrities. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Irvine, California. As of December 15, 2014, Brand Affinity Technologies, Inc. is in reorganization.

Syntiant

Private Placement in 2020
Syntiant is moving artificial intelligence and machine learning from the cloud to edge devices. Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high performance, deep neural network processors for always-on applications in battery-powered devices, such as smartphones, smart speakers, earbuds, hearing aids, and laptops. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.