OVP Venture Partners

OVP Venture Partners is no longer investing. The firm is a venture capital firm specializing in seed and early stage investments. The firm also invests in Series A and B investments. It seeks to invest in communications, software, digital media, security, semiconductors, technology, network security, life sciences, digital biology, clean tech, and nanotechnology. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It typically invests between $1 million and $5 million growing to $8 million to $15 million over the life of the deal. The firm seeks to take a board seat and originate and lead all its investments in its portfolio companies. It also co-invests with other venture capital firms. OVP Venture Partners was founded in 1983 and is based in Seattle, Washington with an additional office in Portland, Oregon.

Bill Funcannon

MD and CFO

Linda Hoban

Director of Marketing and Investor Communications

CW

Charles Waite Jr.

MD

117 past transactions

Groove Biopharma

Series A in 2010
Groove Biopharma focuses on the generation of novel microRNA (miRNA) therapeutics with improved properties, including higher potency and enhanced pharmacodynamic activity. Endogenous microRNAs (miRNAs) are involved in extensive regulatory networks for many target genes and pathways. Groove Biopharma’s core technology addresses a new avenue of nucleotide therapeutic drug discovery via modulation of cellular miRNA. Using exclusive technology, Groove Biopharma is generating a series of lead candidates with the potential to be best-in-class therapeutics. By incorporating proprietary structural modifications into miRNA therapeutics, the Groove Biopharma technology platform presents promising potential for treating a wide range of diseases, including cancer, fibrosis, and infectious disease.

Napera Networks

Series A in 2008
Napera Networks is delivering a new breed of active network management services, powered from the cloud, and focused on helping small and medium-sized enterprises reduce the cost and complexity of IT management. Acquired by OPSWAT

NanoString Technologies

Series A in 2005
NanoString Technologies (NASDAQ: NSTG) is a publicly held provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostics. The company's technology enables a wide variety of basic research, translational medicine and in vitro diagnostics applications. NanoString's products are based on a novel digital molecular barcoding technology invented at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) in Seattle under direction of Dr. Leroy Hood. The company was founded in 2003 with an exclusive license to develop and market the technology. In 2008, NanoString launched its first commercial instrument system and began international sales operations with its first multiplexed assays for gene expression analysis. In 2010, the company launched new applications for the system to support microRNA analysis and copy number variation detection, and in 2013 launched Prosigna®, its first in vitro diagnostic product for prognosis of early stage breast cancer.

Limerick BioPharma

Series C in 2009
Limerick BioPharma is dedicated to developing compounds that, when used adjunctively with both marketed and investigational drugs, significantly improve the quality of patients' lives. Their compounds minimize toxic side effects at non-targeted vulnerable organs and tissue while maintaining or enhancing a drug's desired effects. In the monotherapy setting, they are developing novel compounds that target the treatment of metabolic diseases such as hypercholesteremia and hyperglycemia.

Safeharbor Knowledge Solutions

Venture Round in 2005
Safeharbor Knowledge Solutions is a provider of forums & knowledge base software tools and knowledge management solutions. Our knowledge base applications SmartSupport is cutting edge solution to internal and external knowledge management. SmartSupport allows administrators optimize knowledge base content, simplify knowledge base and forum management, and maximize support channel ROI. Set up a knowledge base on your website in minutes and start deflecting customer inquiries while providing superior customer service. Use the help of our knowledge base experts to create rich and informative content and fall back on our suite of contact center and help desk services to provide comprehensive customer support.

PrecisionDemand

Series B in 2009
PrecisionDemand, formerly Lucid Commerce, is an early stage company and television media agency based in Seattle and New York. PrecisionDemand applies sophisticated analytic techniques to cost-efficiently target more impressions on advertisers' best prospects. Using their cutting-edge technology platform, PrecisionDemand is able to precision-target the TV audience and quantify the impact these targeted impressions are having on sales. This targeting leverages many hundreds of individual and household demographic and behavioral attributes. Through their revolutionary Buyometric targeting system, PrecisionDemand has been able to decrease their clients' cost-per-sale by over 25% while predicting sales volumes through multiple channels with over 95% accuracy. The PrecisionDemand team is made up of industry leading experts in media, technology, and data mining.

TZero Technologies

Series C in 2008
TZero Technologies designs and develops ultra wideband semiconductors for video distribution. The company offers wirelessly connects devices and ultra wideband chipsets, which connect audiovisual components, such as televisions, set-top boxes, and digital video recorders. It serves consumer electronics, service providers, and computer manufacturers. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Translarity is an innovator in the semiconductor wafer test industry, focused on the advanced probe card market. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Translarity brings a disruptive change to the world of semiconductor test by offering a full-wafer test with low cost, high performance, and short cycle time. Translarity acquired BucklingBeam in 2017 to expand its offerings and deliver a full suite of probe card solutions, including full probe cards and vertical probe head solutions. Combined with the company’s advanced Space Translator™ space transformer technology, the company addresses the rapid state of acceleration in probe technologies. Translarity’s proven management team, backed by strong financial investors, recruited a dynamic team of top industry talent to address the unmet challenges in building the Wafer Translator™ technology. In creating the Translarity solution, the team developed a fertile innovation pipeline and a strong IP portfolio, with more than 45 patents already issued and more than 50 filed.

Acylin Therapeutics

Series A in 2011
Acylin Therapeutics is the first company focused on developing inhibitors of cellular acetylation, an enzymatic mechanism fundamental to the molecular pathology of cancer, metabolic disease, and neurodegeneration. Recent discoveries by Acylin founders and other investigators have revealed protein acetylation as a cellular signal transduction regulator potentially as ubiquitous and important as phosphorylation by kinase enzymes. The Company has developed a platform technology to design specific acyltransferase inhibitors based on crystal structures, novel medicinal chemical approaches, and mechanistic understanding. Acylin has prioritized the p300 and CBP histone acetyl transferases [HATs] for initial drug discovery.

Accelerator Corporation

Venture Round in 2004
Founded in 2003, Accelerator Corporation is a Seattle-headquartered private equity firm with an office in New York and San Diego. The firm is focused on early-stage investments in biotechnology companies.

Vascular Solutions

Series B in 1997
Vascular Solutions, Inc. (Vascular) is a medical device company focused on providing clinically advanced solutions to interventional cardiologists and interventional radiologists worldwide. Vascular's hemostat (blood clotting) products principally consist of the D-Stat Dry hemostat, a topical thrombin-based pad with a bandage used to control surface bleeding, and the D-Stat Flowable, a thick yet flowable thrombin-based mixture for preventing bleeding in subcutaneous pockets. Its extraction catheters consist of the Pronto V3 and Pronto LP extraction catheters. Its vein products include the Vari-Lase endovenous laser. Its access products include micro-introducer kits, MICRO Elite and EXPRO Elite snares, the Guardian hemostasis valve and guide wires used in connection with percutaneous access to the vasculature. It offers specialty catheters consisting of a variety of catheters for clinical uses, including the Langston dual lumen catheters and Twin-Pass dual access catheters.

Returns Online

Series A in 2000
Returns Online has focused on returns management to provide the latest technology and facilities available to meet these challenges. Leading companies can rely on our investment in reverse logistics to process returns in a timely, accurate manner. Our complete solution gives clients control over the entire process. It allows merchants to collect consistent, centralized data to empower them to better understand customers, improve product quality and ultimately, increase profits.

Fate Therapeutics, Inc.

Series A in 2007
Fate Therapeutics is using the fundamental biological mechanisms that guide cell fate to develop stem cell therapeutics. The company has brought together the foremost scientists from the nation's research hotbeds (Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, and Seattle) who have demonstrated the potential to create and modulate stem cells to restore health. The backstory is that while others were working towards therapies based on transplanting stem cell-derived cells into patients, Randall Moon (HHMI and the University of Washington) and Alex Rives (Arch Venture Capitol) envisioned a different approach to develop regenerative therapies. The concept, based on data from hematopoietic progenitor cells, was that one could modulate the properties of stem cells in vivo using small molecules or biologics. They presented this idea to Arch Venture Capitol in Seattle, which launched the company, soon to be joined by other investors.

GenoLogics

Series D in 2012
GenoLogics, Inc. develops a laboratory information management system to help advance the diagnosis and treatment of disease. It offers BaseSpace Clarity LIMS, a laboratory information management system that is used by research and clinical laboratories to positively track samples from receipt to result, reduce costs, improve accuracy, and maintain rigorous quality. The company’s solution is available through a network of distributors. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Victoria, Canada with an additional office in Redwood City, California. As of August 2015, GenoLogics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Illumina Inc.

Max-Viz

Venture Round in 2008
Max-Viz is the only company in the world dedicated solely to the design, development and manufacture of Enhanced Vision Systems for the aviation industry.Driven by an extremely passionate and experienced team of scientists, engineers and business partners, Max-Viz maintains a clear vision of its mission: increased safety for all civilian and military aviation.

Vantos

Series B in 2008
VANTOS is focused on being the global leader in the Enterprise Investigation Management market. From minor office misconduct to international financial crimes, companies can spend millions of dollars conducting workplace investigations. They offer solutions that are responsive to their customers' evolving investigation needs.

NanoString Technologies

Series D in 2011
NanoString Technologies (NASDAQ: NSTG) is a publicly held provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostics. The company's technology enables a wide variety of basic research, translational medicine and in vitro diagnostics applications. NanoString's products are based on a novel digital molecular barcoding technology invented at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) in Seattle under direction of Dr. Leroy Hood. The company was founded in 2003 with an exclusive license to develop and market the technology. In 2008, NanoString launched its first commercial instrument system and began international sales operations with its first multiplexed assays for gene expression analysis. In 2010, the company launched new applications for the system to support microRNA analysis and copy number variation detection, and in 2013 launched Prosigna®, its first in vitro diagnostic product for prognosis of early stage breast cancer.

EnerG2, Inc.

Venture Round in 2013
EnerG2 engineers advanced nano-structured carbon materials for energy storage and is focused on the production of these materials for energy storage devices. Proprietary manufacturing technologies allow its products to surpass the material limitations of naturally occurring carbons, producing high surface area, high performance materials that improve power density and cycle life in batteries and other energy storage devices. EnerG2 is currently delivering its advanced carbons to customers for ultracapacitors, lead acid batteries, and lithium ion batteries.

Tigo Energy, Inc.

Series A in 2008
Tigo Energy is a solar power installations group that increases output power, up-time, and reliability on existing and new solar installations, resulting in a faster return on investment and lower cost of ownership. By viewing the system holistically over the span of its useful life, Tigo Energy mitigates a variety of issues which limit the efficiency, availability and flexibility of today's solar installations.

Action Engine

Series A in 2000
Action Engine Corporation operates as an on-device portal company. It offers Mobile Application Platform, a browserless client/server platform, which provides the underlying framework for developing and deploying application packs that provide intuitive and personalized methods for accessing and using content. The company's signature solutions include mobile advertising, mobile search, social networking, and mobile entertainment. Action Engine Corporation was founded in 2000 and is based in Bellevue, Washington. As of October 13, 2008, Action Engine Corporation operates as a subsidiary of MobUI, Inc.

GenoLogics

Series C in 2009
GenoLogics, Inc. develops a laboratory information management system to help advance the diagnosis and treatment of disease. It offers BaseSpace Clarity LIMS, a laboratory information management system that is used by research and clinical laboratories to positively track samples from receipt to result, reduce costs, improve accuracy, and maintain rigorous quality. The company’s solution is available through a network of distributors. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Victoria, Canada with an additional office in Redwood City, California. As of August 2015, GenoLogics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Illumina Inc.

Symform

Series A in 2009
Symform develops cost effective solutions to large scale distributed data management problems. The Symform Cooperative Storage Cloud is a solution that combines the best practices of disaster recovery, data security and distributed networking using the power of Internet. The big idea is simple: Give local storage, get online storage. Members contribute unused server space equal to the amount they consume in the storage cloud. Symform handles the day-to-day management of network security and administration of the storage cloud.

Entomo

Series C in 2003
Entomo, Inc. is the provider of cloud-based Channel Control and Revenue Management (cCRM) solutions that help companies transform their business by increasing channel visibility, building stronger partner relationships and maximizing revenues.

GainSpan

Series A in 2006
GainSpan brings Ultra-low-power Wi-Fi to sensors and embedded applications. The company's semiconductor solutions break new ground in Wi-Fi applications by enabling years of battery life for Wi-Fi sensors and other devices. In September of 2006, a core team of engineers and thought leaders spun off from Intel Corporation to form Emphany Systems, later GainSpan. The vision was simple... enable and accelerate the adoption of new wireless usage models for sensor network applications using an existing widely deployed standard technology. The challenge was daunting... while wireless sensor networks have seen steady growth over the past few years, their market potential has, in fact, been hindered by power consumption issues and lack of mature standards based solutions. The solution was innovative... new Wi-Fi semiconductor and software solutions that enable sensors and other devices to run up to 10 years on a single AA battery. This allows users to leverage the global Wi-Fi infrastructure, existing tools and knowledge investments, for new applications such as temperature monitoring for energy management, condition monitoring of industrial equipment in manufacturing plants or streetlights in metro areas.

Groove Biopharma

Series B in 2011
Groove Biopharma focuses on the generation of novel microRNA (miRNA) therapeutics with improved properties, including higher potency and enhanced pharmacodynamic activity. Endogenous microRNAs (miRNAs) are involved in extensive regulatory networks for many target genes and pathways. Groove Biopharma’s core technology addresses a new avenue of nucleotide therapeutic drug discovery via modulation of cellular miRNA. Using exclusive technology, Groove Biopharma is generating a series of lead candidates with the potential to be best-in-class therapeutics. By incorporating proprietary structural modifications into miRNA therapeutics, the Groove Biopharma technology platform presents promising potential for treating a wide range of diseases, including cancer, fibrosis, and infectious disease.

Accelerator Corporation

Series C in 2007
Founded in 2003, Accelerator Corporation is a Seattle-headquartered private equity firm with an office in New York and San Diego. The firm is focused on early-stage investments in biotechnology companies.

Verdezyne

Venture Round in 2010
Verdezyne was a privately-held company that employs its biological expertise and proprietary advanced computational algorithms to design and synthesize novel, high-diversity gene libraries for engineering proteins, metabolic pathways, and microorganisms. The company creates and harnesses this unique biological diversity to optimize commercial fermentation processes for the production of petrochemical replacements.

Foundstone

Venture Round in 2000
Foundstone, a division of security software maker McAfee, provides enterprise-level vulnerability management that helps network operators mitigate the chances of a data security breach. In addition to software, the company's Foundstone Professional Services unit offers technical and risk management consulting services. Foundstone Education provides training courses, online and on-site, in security awareness programs. Foundstone was founded in 1999 by George Kurtz, Chris Prosise, Gary Bahadur, and William Chan. As of 2004, it was acquired by McAfee.

Airgo Networks

Series C in 2003
Airgo Network provided WLAN products to both manufacturers of access points and laptop computers.

Intelligent Results

Series A in 2002
Intelligent Results enables companies in financial services, utilities, telecom, government, and retail to manage their business more dynamically with a new standard in customer analytics and decision management. The Intelligent Results PREDIGYTM software platform allows companies to better understand and predict customer behavior and then quickly plan and operationalize targeted strategies. This empowers companies to improve the customer experience, allocate resources more effectively, and increase profitability. Intelligent Results’ approach, platform and applications result from 20 years experience that began in the national labs
DataSphere provides Web technology and an ad sales team focused on generating neighborhood level user engagement and monetization for existing media companies.

PrecisionDemand

Series A in 2008
PrecisionDemand, formerly Lucid Commerce, is an early stage company and television media agency based in Seattle and New York. PrecisionDemand applies sophisticated analytic techniques to cost-efficiently target more impressions on advertisers' best prospects. Using their cutting-edge technology platform, PrecisionDemand is able to precision-target the TV audience and quantify the impact these targeted impressions are having on sales. This targeting leverages many hundreds of individual and household demographic and behavioral attributes. Through their revolutionary Buyometric targeting system, PrecisionDemand has been able to decrease their clients' cost-per-sale by over 25% while predicting sales volumes through multiple channels with over 95% accuracy. The PrecisionDemand team is made up of industry leading experts in media, technology, and data mining.

EnerG2, Inc.

Series A in 2008
EnerG2 engineers advanced nano-structured carbon materials for energy storage and is focused on the production of these materials for energy storage devices. Proprietary manufacturing technologies allow its products to surpass the material limitations of naturally occurring carbons, producing high surface area, high performance materials that improve power density and cycle life in batteries and other energy storage devices. EnerG2 is currently delivering its advanced carbons to customers for ultracapacitors, lead acid batteries, and lithium ion batteries.

Intelligent Results

Series B in 2003
Intelligent Results enables companies in financial services, utilities, telecom, government, and retail to manage their business more dynamically with a new standard in customer analytics and decision management. The Intelligent Results PREDIGYTM software platform allows companies to better understand and predict customer behavior and then quickly plan and operationalize targeted strategies. This empowers companies to improve the customer experience, allocate resources more effectively, and increase profitability. Intelligent Results’ approach, platform and applications result from 20 years experience that began in the national labs

BioPassword

Series B in 2005
AdmitOne Security is a SaaS-based company that offers authentication and anti-fraud software. The company is based in Issaquah, Washington.

Symform

Series B in 2012
Symform develops cost effective solutions to large scale distributed data management problems. The Symform Cooperative Storage Cloud is a solution that combines the best practices of disaster recovery, data security and distributed networking using the power of Internet. The big idea is simple: Give local storage, get online storage. Members contribute unused server space equal to the amount they consume in the storage cloud. Symform handles the day-to-day management of network security and administration of the storage cloud.

Allozyne, Inc.

Series B in 2007
Allozyne develops and commercializes technologies that enable improvements in the efficacy, safety, dosing, and other characteristics of protein-based therapeutics, including peptides, antibodies, and vaccines. Its PEGylated IFN beta is for the treatment of multiple sclerosis. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Vascular Solutions

Series B in 1998
Vascular Solutions, Inc. (Vascular) is a medical device company focused on providing clinically advanced solutions to interventional cardiologists and interventional radiologists worldwide. Vascular's hemostat (blood clotting) products principally consist of the D-Stat Dry hemostat, a topical thrombin-based pad with a bandage used to control surface bleeding, and the D-Stat Flowable, a thick yet flowable thrombin-based mixture for preventing bleeding in subcutaneous pockets. Its extraction catheters consist of the Pronto V3 and Pronto LP extraction catheters. Its vein products include the Vari-Lase endovenous laser. Its access products include micro-introducer kits, MICRO Elite and EXPRO Elite snares, the Guardian hemostasis valve and guide wires used in connection with percutaneous access to the vasculature. It offers specialty catheters consisting of a variety of catheters for clinical uses, including the Langston dual lumen catheters and Twin-Pass dual access catheters.

Verdezyne

Series C in 2007
Verdezyne was a privately-held company that employs its biological expertise and proprietary advanced computational algorithms to design and synthesize novel, high-diversity gene libraries for engineering proteins, metabolic pathways, and microorganisms. The company creates and harnesses this unique biological diversity to optimize commercial fermentation processes for the production of petrochemical replacements.

Scout Analytics

Series B in 2005
Scout Analytics is the leader in digital revenue optimization, enabling publishers to increase their average revenue per user (ARPU) by as much as 10-15 percent. Scout Analytics™ SaaS-based application leverages patent-pending behavioral analytics technology to target and monetize user engagement. In action at over 70 publishers, Scout Analytics is a proven solution for both subscription and advertising revenue models. Scout Analytics is a venture-backed company headquartered in Issaquah, Washington.
Safeharbor Knowledge Solutions is a provider of forums & knowledge base software tools and knowledge management solutions. Our knowledge base applications SmartSupport is cutting edge solution to internal and external knowledge management. SmartSupport allows administrators optimize knowledge base content, simplify knowledge base and forum management, and maximize support channel ROI. Set up a knowledge base on your website in minutes and start deflecting customer inquiries while providing superior customer service. Use the help of our knowledge base experts to create rich and informative content and fall back on our suite of contact center and help desk services to provide comprehensive customer support.
Collaborative Software Initiative Inc. develops and delivers enterprise software. It also offers TriSano, a public health application that focuses on infectious disease surveillance, outbreak management, and bioterrorism attacks for epidemiologists, doctors, nurses, health officials, and software developers. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Webridge

Series C in 2000
Webridge is a software company that develops and commercializes extranet portal systems. It enables companies to communicate with employees, suppliers, and other business partners through a web browser. Founded in 1996, Webridge is based in Beaverton, Oregon.

RedSeal

Venture Round in 2011
RedSeal develops security risk management (SRM) software and solutions and helps companies eliminate cyber threats. RedSeal was founded in 2004, helps Global 2000 organizations defend their critical digital assets. RedSeal gets ahead of cyber criminals by calculating every possible internal and external “attack path” to the most valuable network assets – before they do. Customers get a prioritized list of the most vulnerable paths to their most valuable assets. More than 200 corporations and government agencies worldwide have RedSealed their networks, including five of the top 50 financial institutions, all of the major security vendors, fifteen of the Fortune 100 retail companies, and a number of US government organizations including the US Army, US Navy, US Postal Service and the FAA. Key commercial customers include Nationwide, Oracle, Cisco and First Data. RedSeal partners with all of the top suppliers of network infrastructure (Cisco, Juniper Networks, Fortinet, Arista, Aruba, Check Point, Palo Alto Networks, F5). Its software integrates with all industry leading security solutions (McAfee, Symantec, Qualys, HP ArcSight, Rapid7, Splunk,Tripwire, MaxPatrol, nMap) as well as with major workflow vendors (ServiceNow, Remedy), providing the most comprehensive validation of network security. RedSeal is backed by prominent venture investors including Venrock, Leapfrog Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, JAFCO Ventures, Olympic Venture Partners and In-Q-Tel.

Ambric

Series B in 2007
Ambric developed a massively parallel processor array integrated circuit for high performance applications. Ambric's parallel processor solution including a "structured object programming model" that allowed developers to effectively program the large number of cores. Ambric's first generation chip architecture, Am2045, featured 336 processors on a chip. It competed against large FPGA's, DSPs and use of Intel x86 processors used in embedded markets. Ambric targeted video compression markets, medical imaging, wireless basesation and military markets.

Applied Identity

Series C in 2008
Applied Identity, Inc. offers identity aware network security solutions. It offers ID-Audit, which displays real-time and historical user and resource activity; ID-Unify that enables the management of user identities between disparate identity stores; ID-Enforce, an identity aware network enforcement solution; and ID-Mark, which enables collection of audit data. The company also provides audit and compliance, asset protection, network level user and group separation, and identity virtualization solutions. Its clients include financial services, government department and agencies, technology innovators, and educational institutions.

Aggregate Knowledge

Series C in 2010
Aggregate Knowledge (AK) is the only media intelligence company that offers advertisers and agencies an exact science to pinpoint where to reach highest performing customers in a single platform. AK’s patented media intelligence platform (MIP) is the only data management solution that combines both media and audience data, enabling marketers to most effectively allocate media dollars, resulting in increased reach, higher sales and dramatically improved media spend efficiency.

Applied Identity

Series B in 2006
Applied Identity, Inc. offers identity aware network security solutions. It offers ID-Audit, which displays real-time and historical user and resource activity; ID-Unify that enables the management of user identities between disparate identity stores; ID-Enforce, an identity aware network enforcement solution; and ID-Mark, which enables collection of audit data. The company also provides audit and compliance, asset protection, network level user and group separation, and identity virtualization solutions. Its clients include financial services, government department and agencies, technology innovators, and educational institutions.

Aggregate Knowledge

Series E in 2013
Aggregate Knowledge (AK) is the only media intelligence company that offers advertisers and agencies an exact science to pinpoint where to reach highest performing customers in a single platform. AK’s patented media intelligence platform (MIP) is the only data management solution that combines both media and audience data, enabling marketers to most effectively allocate media dollars, resulting in increased reach, higher sales and dramatically improved media spend efficiency.

BioPassword

Series C in 2008
AdmitOne Security is a SaaS-based company that offers authentication and anti-fraud software. The company is based in Issaquah, Washington.

Entomo

Series A in 2000
Entomo, Inc. is the provider of cloud-based Channel Control and Revenue Management (cCRM) solutions that help companies transform their business by increasing channel visibility, building stronger partner relationships and maximizing revenues.

Aggregate Knowledge

Venture Round in 2013
Aggregate Knowledge (AK) is the only media intelligence company that offers advertisers and agencies an exact science to pinpoint where to reach highest performing customers in a single platform. AK’s patented media intelligence platform (MIP) is the only data management solution that combines both media and audience data, enabling marketers to most effectively allocate media dollars, resulting in increased reach, higher sales and dramatically improved media spend efficiency.

Vantos

Series A in 2005
VANTOS is focused on being the global leader in the Enterprise Investigation Management market. From minor office misconduct to international financial crimes, companies can spend millions of dollars conducting workplace investigations. They offer solutions that are responsive to their customers' evolving investigation needs.

PrecisionDemand

Series B in 2010
PrecisionDemand, formerly Lucid Commerce, is an early stage company and television media agency based in Seattle and New York. PrecisionDemand applies sophisticated analytic techniques to cost-efficiently target more impressions on advertisers' best prospects. Using their cutting-edge technology platform, PrecisionDemand is able to precision-target the TV audience and quantify the impact these targeted impressions are having on sales. This targeting leverages many hundreds of individual and household demographic and behavioral attributes. Through their revolutionary Buyometric targeting system, PrecisionDemand has been able to decrease their clients' cost-per-sale by over 25% while predicting sales volumes through multiple channels with over 95% accuracy. The PrecisionDemand team is made up of industry leading experts in media, technology, and data mining.

Complete Genomics

Series D in 2009
Complete Genomics' high quality, affordable DNA sequencing enables commercial-scale research of the genetic mechanisms underlying drug responses and complex diseases. Complete Genomics combines innovative technology with a disruptive market approach that will revolutionize DNA sequencing.

Djangos.com

Series A in 2000
jangos operates Second Hand Tunes, a chain of Chicago-based music stores.

Corixa Corp

Series A in 1995
Corixa is a developer of immunotherapeutics with a commitment to treating and preventing autoimmune diseases, cancer and infectious diseases by understanding and directing the immune system. Having founded in 1994, the company conducted various preclinical development programs, including the BEXXAR® therapy and the MELACINE® vaccine. Corixa is focused on immunotherapeutic products and has a broad technology platform enabling both fully integrated vaccine design and the use of its separate, proprietary product components on a standalone basis. The company partners with numerous developers and marketers of pharmaceuticals, targeting products that are powered by Corixa™ technology with the goal of making its potential products available to patients around the world. Corixa was acquired by GlaxoSmithKline on 12 July 2005, and GSK had formerly made use of the Corixa's MPL adjuvant in some of their vaccines. The company ceased operations in March 2006.
The mission of Integrated Diagnostics is to leverage powerful emerging technologies in the development of diagnostic products that enable physicians and patients to manage complex and important diseases such as cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's through blood tests that can monitor tens to hundreds of disease markers simultaneously. The company plans to develop a pipeline of game-changing diagnostic products that enable the diagnosis and prognosis of a variety of diseases. The company is based on the concept of a systems view of disease where pathophysiology arises from disease-perturbed networks of proteins, genes and other molecules.

Oncofactor Corporation

Series A in 2011
Oncofactor is a Seattle, Washington-based developer of cancer therapeutics that disrupt signaling pathways between tumors and the immune system.

Serus

Series C in 2007
Cloud-based manufacturing, supply chain visibility, and intelligence solutions for semi-conductor companies

Talyst, LLC

Series C in 2008
Talyst is engineering the safer pharmacy. The company was founded in 2002 to provide easy-to-use, automated medication management systems to acute care hospital pharmacies. The following year, Talyst launched AutoPharm®, the innovative software platform designed to integrate medication storage, inventory, ordering, barcoding, and clinical systems.

Symform

Venture Round in 2012
Symform develops cost effective solutions to large scale distributed data management problems. The Symform Cooperative Storage Cloud is a solution that combines the best practices of disaster recovery, data security and distributed networking using the power of Internet. The big idea is simple: Give local storage, get online storage. Members contribute unused server space equal to the amount they consume in the storage cloud. Symform handles the day-to-day management of network security and administration of the storage cloud.

Captivate Network

Series D in 2001
Captivate, LLC., a digital out-of-home advertising company, delivers digital news and advertising on flat-panel TV screens mounted in elevators and lobbies of large urban office buildings and suburban office campuses in the United States and Canada. It offers content programming, tenant communication, and display and hardware installation services for property managers; and news, business, sports, and lifestyle content through its networks. The company also provides ScreenCenter, a cloud-based content management system to broadcast message. It offers customized digital media services for advertisers, property, managers, and viewers. Captivate, LLC formerly known as Captivate Network, Inc. and changed its name to Captivate, LLC in 2013. The company was founded in 1997 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Lowell, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles, California; and Toronto, Canada.

CarbonFlow

Series A in 2008
CarbonFlow is a developer of carbon trading software. Specifically, the company works to lower the cost and time it takes to create a credit. The Carbonflow suite enhances productivity, reduces both administration costs and the financial risks of managing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) offset projects, and manages the delivery of certified carbon credits for buyers and sellers worldwide founded in 2006.

BioPassword

Series C in 2007
AdmitOne Security is a SaaS-based company that offers authentication and anti-fraud software. The company is based in Issaquah, Washington.

Action Engine

Series E in 2007
Action Engine Corporation operates as an on-device portal company. It offers Mobile Application Platform, a browserless client/server platform, which provides the underlying framework for developing and deploying application packs that provide intuitive and personalized methods for accessing and using content. The company's signature solutions include mobile advertising, mobile search, social networking, and mobile entertainment. Action Engine Corporation was founded in 2000 and is based in Bellevue, Washington. As of October 13, 2008, Action Engine Corporation operates as a subsidiary of MobUI, Inc.

Adapx

Series B in 2009
Adapx offers software that turns natural speech, sketches, and handwriting into data for Microsoft Office and other back-end systems. By simply speaking and writing, teams get instant access to structured data collected on paper, touchscreens, mobile devices, and wall displays. A range of enterprises and agencies speed workflows and reduce risk by using Capturx to bypass data transcription from paper and cumbersome keyboard- and menu-driven interfaces. Adapx was formerly known as Natural Interaction Systems. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Intelligent Results

Series B in 2004
Intelligent Results enables companies in financial services, utilities, telecom, government, and retail to manage their business more dynamically with a new standard in customer analytics and decision management. The Intelligent Results PREDIGYTM software platform allows companies to better understand and predict customer behavior and then quickly plan and operationalize targeted strategies. This empowers companies to improve the customer experience, allocate resources more effectively, and increase profitability. Intelligent Results’ approach, platform and applications result from 20 years experience that began in the national labs

Avenda Systems

Series B in 2008
Avenda Systems introduced the industry's first multi-function platform for network access control (NAC) and security that breaks through past deployment barriers found in early competitive solutions complexity, compatibility, compliance and cost. Avenda's flagship eTIPS solution is a scalable AAA platform that utilizes identity-based policies to manage access control, endpoint health and device authorization for wired, wireless and VPN networks. Users are granted differentiated privileges to control which network resources and applications they can access. Employee's roles, location, and the health of their computer can be used as determining factors. Visitors can be granted Internet only access if required. Partnerships with Cisco, Microsoft and top wireless vendors ensure that Avenda's solution fits into any network environment.

Complete Genomics

Series E in 2010
Complete Genomics' high quality, affordable DNA sequencing enables commercial-scale research of the genetic mechanisms underlying drug responses and complex diseases. Complete Genomics combines innovative technology with a disruptive market approach that will revolutionize DNA sequencing.

GainSpan

Series B in 2007
GainSpan brings Ultra-low-power Wi-Fi to sensors and embedded applications. The company's semiconductor solutions break new ground in Wi-Fi applications by enabling years of battery life for Wi-Fi sensors and other devices. In September of 2006, a core team of engineers and thought leaders spun off from Intel Corporation to form Emphany Systems, later GainSpan. The vision was simple... enable and accelerate the adoption of new wireless usage models for sensor network applications using an existing widely deployed standard technology. The challenge was daunting... while wireless sensor networks have seen steady growth over the past few years, their market potential has, in fact, been hindered by power consumption issues and lack of mature standards based solutions. The solution was innovative... new Wi-Fi semiconductor and software solutions that enable sensors and other devices to run up to 10 years on a single AA battery. This allows users to leverage the global Wi-Fi infrastructure, existing tools and knowledge investments, for new applications such as temperature monitoring for energy management, condition monitoring of industrial equipment in manufacturing plants or streetlights in metro areas.

Djangos.com

Venture Round in 2000
jangos operates Second Hand Tunes, a chain of Chicago-based music stores.

Allozyne, Inc.

Series A in 2005
Allozyne develops and commercializes technologies that enable improvements in the efficacy, safety, dosing, and other characteristics of protein-based therapeutics, including peptides, antibodies, and vaccines. Its PEGylated IFN beta is for the treatment of multiple sclerosis. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Airgo Networks

Series E in 2005
Airgo Network provided WLAN products to both manufacturers of access points and laptop computers.

DepotPoint

Series C in 2008
DepotPoint makes softwar for the distressed property market, focusing on transparency, efficiency and intelligence. The Company’s core technology incorporates a centralized workflow engine and tracking system used in a suite of web solutions. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

Symform

Venture Round in 2010
Symform develops cost effective solutions to large scale distributed data management problems. The Symform Cooperative Storage Cloud is a solution that combines the best practices of disaster recovery, data security and distributed networking using the power of Internet. The big idea is simple: Give local storage, get online storage. Members contribute unused server space equal to the amount they consume in the storage cloud. Symform handles the day-to-day management of network security and administration of the storage cloud.
Translarity is an innovator in the semiconductor wafer test industry, focused on the advanced probe card market. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Translarity brings a disruptive change to the world of semiconductor test by offering a full-wafer test with low cost, high performance, and short cycle time. Translarity acquired BucklingBeam in 2017 to expand its offerings and deliver a full suite of probe card solutions, including full probe cards and vertical probe head solutions. Combined with the company’s advanced Space Translator™ space transformer technology, the company addresses the rapid state of acceleration in probe technologies. Translarity’s proven management team, backed by strong financial investors, recruited a dynamic team of top industry talent to address the unmet challenges in building the Wafer Translator™ technology. In creating the Translarity solution, the team developed a fertile innovation pipeline and a strong IP portfolio, with more than 45 patents already issued and more than 50 filed.

Safeharbor Knowledge Solutions

Venture Round in 2002
Safeharbor Knowledge Solutions is a provider of forums & knowledge base software tools and knowledge management solutions. Our knowledge base applications SmartSupport is cutting edge solution to internal and external knowledge management. SmartSupport allows administrators optimize knowledge base content, simplify knowledge base and forum management, and maximize support channel ROI. Set up a knowledge base on your website in minutes and start deflecting customer inquiries while providing superior customer service. Use the help of our knowledge base experts to create rich and informative content and fall back on our suite of contact center and help desk services to provide comprehensive customer support.

Complete Genomics

Series A in 2006
Complete Genomics' high quality, affordable DNA sequencing enables commercial-scale research of the genetic mechanisms underlying drug responses and complex diseases. Complete Genomics combines innovative technology with a disruptive market approach that will revolutionize DNA sequencing.

CradlePoint, Inc.

Venture Round in 2011
Cradlepoint offers a cloud-based network solution to connect people, places, and things over wired and wireless broadband. Cradlepoint NetCloud is a software and services platform that extends the company’s 4G LTE-enabled multi-function routers and ruggedized M2M/IoT gateways with cloud-based management and software-defined network services. With Cradlepoint, customers can leverage the speed and economics of wired and wireless Internet broadband for branch, failover, mobile, and IoT networks while maintaining end-to-end visibility, security, and control. More than 15,000 enterprise and government organizations around the world — including 75 percent of the world’s top retailers, 50 percent of the Fortune 100, and 25 of the largest U.S. cities — rely on Cradlepoint to keep critical sites, workforces, vehicles, and devices always connected and protected. Major service providers use Cradlepoint network solutions as the foundation for innovative managed service offerings. Founded in 2006, Cradlepoint is a privately held company headquartered in Boise, Idaho, with development centers in Silicon Valley and Kelowna, Canada, and offices in the UK, Australia, and Japan.

Fate Therapeutics, Inc.

Series B in 2011
Fate Therapeutics is using the fundamental biological mechanisms that guide cell fate to develop stem cell therapeutics. The company has brought together the foremost scientists from the nation's research hotbeds (Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, and Seattle) who have demonstrated the potential to create and modulate stem cells to restore health. The backstory is that while others were working towards therapies based on transplanting stem cell-derived cells into patients, Randall Moon (HHMI and the University of Washington) and Alex Rives (Arch Venture Capitol) envisioned a different approach to develop regenerative therapies. The concept, based on data from hematopoietic progenitor cells, was that one could modulate the properties of stem cells in vivo using small molecules or biologics. They presented this idea to Arch Venture Capitol in Seattle, which launched the company, soon to be joined by other investors.

Verdezyne

Venture Round in 2011
Verdezyne was a privately-held company that employs its biological expertise and proprietary advanced computational algorithms to design and synthesize novel, high-diversity gene libraries for engineering proteins, metabolic pathways, and microorganisms. The company creates and harnesses this unique biological diversity to optimize commercial fermentation processes for the production of petrochemical replacements.

Virtugo Software

Series B in 2006
Virtugo Software, Inc. provides software products that monitor, control, and optimize virtual and physical server environments. It delivers a workflow engine-based software platform that enables system integrators to automate customer specific system management processes for computing and communications environments. The company provides the data necessary for performance monitoring, capacity management, resource optimization, and service metering while enabling integration with third party infrastructure management solutions. Its products offer a performance management tool designed to enable IT organizations to discover, monitor, and maintain the statistics of the virtualized environment; delivers the analysis, metrics, and reporting necessary for capacity planning, baseline usage, and performance modeling within the virtual environment; automatically tunes virtual environment to enhance application performance; offers a utilization measurement to track the utilization of virtualized environment; and monitors the virtual servers to allow for problem identification, notification, and correction, as well as provides tasks to automate and perform routine operations. The company was founded in 2002 as uXcomm, Inc. and changed its name to Virtugo Software, Inc. in 2007. Virtugo Software, Inc. is based in Beaverton, Oregon.

Action Engine

Series B in 2002
Action Engine Corporation operates as an on-device portal company. It offers Mobile Application Platform, a browserless client/server platform, which provides the underlying framework for developing and deploying application packs that provide intuitive and personalized methods for accessing and using content. The company's signature solutions include mobile advertising, mobile search, social networking, and mobile entertainment. Action Engine Corporation was founded in 2000 and is based in Bellevue, Washington. As of October 13, 2008, Action Engine Corporation operates as a subsidiary of MobUI, Inc.

Tigo Energy, Inc.

Series B in 2009
Tigo Energy is a solar power installations group that increases output power, up-time, and reliability on existing and new solar installations, resulting in a faster return on investment and lower cost of ownership. By viewing the system holistically over the span of its useful life, Tigo Energy mitigates a variety of issues which limit the efficiency, availability and flexibility of today's solar installations.
Safeharbor Knowledge Solutions is a provider of forums & knowledge base software tools and knowledge management solutions. Our knowledge base applications SmartSupport is cutting edge solution to internal and external knowledge management. SmartSupport allows administrators optimize knowledge base content, simplify knowledge base and forum management, and maximize support channel ROI. Set up a knowledge base on your website in minutes and start deflecting customer inquiries while providing superior customer service. Use the help of our knowledge base experts to create rich and informative content and fall back on our suite of contact center and help desk services to provide comprehensive customer support.

RedSeal

Series C in 2009
RedSeal develops security risk management (SRM) software and solutions and helps companies eliminate cyber threats. RedSeal was founded in 2004, helps Global 2000 organizations defend their critical digital assets. RedSeal gets ahead of cyber criminals by calculating every possible internal and external “attack path” to the most valuable network assets – before they do. Customers get a prioritized list of the most vulnerable paths to their most valuable assets. More than 200 corporations and government agencies worldwide have RedSealed their networks, including five of the top 50 financial institutions, all of the major security vendors, fifteen of the Fortune 100 retail companies, and a number of US government organizations including the US Army, US Navy, US Postal Service and the FAA. Key commercial customers include Nationwide, Oracle, Cisco and First Data. RedSeal partners with all of the top suppliers of network infrastructure (Cisco, Juniper Networks, Fortinet, Arista, Aruba, Check Point, Palo Alto Networks, F5). Its software integrates with all industry leading security solutions (McAfee, Symantec, Qualys, HP ArcSight, Rapid7, Splunk,Tripwire, MaxPatrol, nMap) as well as with major workflow vendors (ServiceNow, Remedy), providing the most comprehensive validation of network security. RedSeal is backed by prominent venture investors including Venrock, Leapfrog Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, JAFCO Ventures, Olympic Venture Partners and In-Q-Tel.

Novomer, Inc.

Series B in 2009
Novomer is a new materials company pioneering a family of competitively priced high-performance green plastics, polymers and other chemicals. With proprietary catalytic technology and a world-class scientific team, Novomer's groundbreaking technology allows carbon dioxide and other renewable materials to be cost-effectively transformed into polymers, plastics and other chemicals for a wide variety of industrial markets. It was founded in 2004 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Adapx

Venture Round in 2012
Adapx offers software that turns natural speech, sketches, and handwriting into data for Microsoft Office and other back-end systems. By simply speaking and writing, teams get instant access to structured data collected on paper, touchscreens, mobile devices, and wall displays. A range of enterprises and agencies speed workflows and reduce risk by using Capturx to bypass data transcription from paper and cumbersome keyboard- and menu-driven interfaces. Adapx was formerly known as Natural Interaction Systems. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

CarbonFlow

Series B in 2010
CarbonFlow is a developer of carbon trading software. Specifically, the company works to lower the cost and time it takes to create a credit. The Carbonflow suite enhances productivity, reduces both administration costs and the financial risks of managing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) offset projects, and manages the delivery of certified carbon credits for buyers and sellers worldwide founded in 2006.

Verdezyne

Venture Round in 2014
Verdezyne was a privately-held company that employs its biological expertise and proprietary advanced computational algorithms to design and synthesize novel, high-diversity gene libraries for engineering proteins, metabolic pathways, and microorganisms. The company creates and harnesses this unique biological diversity to optimize commercial fermentation processes for the production of petrochemical replacements.

TZero Technologies

Series B in 2006
TZero Technologies designs and develops ultra wideband semiconductors for video distribution. The company offers wirelessly connects devices and ultra wideband chipsets, which connect audiovisual components, such as televisions, set-top boxes, and digital video recorders. It serves consumer electronics, service providers, and computer manufacturers. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Group14 Technologies is a battery storage technology company that develops silicon-carbon composite materials for lithium-ion markets. Founded to enable the coming electrification of everything, Group14’s battery materials breakthrough brings new levels of energy performance to Lithium ion-powered devices and vehicles. Recognized by the Department of Energy for its novel, drop-in ready nanomaterials, and reliable industrial-scale process, Group14 serves the global transition to an all-electric future with a tunable performance for any use case. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Woodinville, Washington.

Virtugo Software

Venture Round in 2007
Virtugo Software, Inc. provides software products that monitor, control, and optimize virtual and physical server environments. It delivers a workflow engine-based software platform that enables system integrators to automate customer specific system management processes for computing and communications environments. The company provides the data necessary for performance monitoring, capacity management, resource optimization, and service metering while enabling integration with third party infrastructure management solutions. Its products offer a performance management tool designed to enable IT organizations to discover, monitor, and maintain the statistics of the virtualized environment; delivers the analysis, metrics, and reporting necessary for capacity planning, baseline usage, and performance modeling within the virtual environment; automatically tunes virtual environment to enhance application performance; offers a utilization measurement to track the utilization of virtualized environment; and monitors the virtual servers to allow for problem identification, notification, and correction, as well as provides tasks to automate and perform routine operations. The company was founded in 2002 as uXcomm, Inc. and changed its name to Virtugo Software, Inc. in 2007. Virtugo Software, Inc. is based in Beaverton, Oregon.
Safeharbor Knowledge Solutions is a provider of forums & knowledge base software tools and knowledge management solutions. Our knowledge base applications SmartSupport is cutting edge solution to internal and external knowledge management. SmartSupport allows administrators optimize knowledge base content, simplify knowledge base and forum management, and maximize support channel ROI. Set up a knowledge base on your website in minutes and start deflecting customer inquiries while providing superior customer service. Use the help of our knowledge base experts to create rich and informative content and fall back on our suite of contact center and help desk services to provide comprehensive customer support.
Group14 Technologies is a battery storage technology company that develops silicon-carbon composite materials for lithium-ion markets. Founded to enable the coming electrification of everything, Group14’s battery materials breakthrough brings new levels of energy performance to Lithium ion-powered devices and vehicles. Recognized by the Department of Energy for its novel, drop-in ready nanomaterials, and reliable industrial-scale process, Group14 serves the global transition to an all-electric future with a tunable performance for any use case. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Woodinville, Washington.

Adapx

Venture Round in 2013
Adapx offers software that turns natural speech, sketches, and handwriting into data for Microsoft Office and other back-end systems. By simply speaking and writing, teams get instant access to structured data collected on paper, touchscreens, mobile devices, and wall displays. A range of enterprises and agencies speed workflows and reduce risk by using Capturx to bypass data transcription from paper and cumbersome keyboard- and menu-driven interfaces. Adapx was formerly known as Natural Interaction Systems. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Max-Viz

Venture Round in 2002
Max-Viz is the only company in the world dedicated solely to the design, development and manufacture of Enhanced Vision Systems for the aviation industry.Driven by an extremely passionate and experienced team of scientists, engineers and business partners, Max-Viz maintains a clear vision of its mission: increased safety for all civilian and military aviation.

Verdezyne

Venture Round in 2009
Verdezyne was a privately-held company that employs its biological expertise and proprietary advanced computational algorithms to design and synthesize novel, high-diversity gene libraries for engineering proteins, metabolic pathways, and microorganisms. The company creates and harnesses this unique biological diversity to optimize commercial fermentation processes for the production of petrochemical replacements.

Adapx

Series A in 2007
Adapx offers software that turns natural speech, sketches, and handwriting into data for Microsoft Office and other back-end systems. By simply speaking and writing, teams get instant access to structured data collected on paper, touchscreens, mobile devices, and wall displays. A range of enterprises and agencies speed workflows and reduce risk by using Capturx to bypass data transcription from paper and cumbersome keyboard- and menu-driven interfaces. Adapx was formerly known as Natural Interaction Systems. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Fate Therapeutics, Inc.

Series B in 2009
Fate Therapeutics is using the fundamental biological mechanisms that guide cell fate to develop stem cell therapeutics. The company has brought together the foremost scientists from the nation's research hotbeds (Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, and Seattle) who have demonstrated the potential to create and modulate stem cells to restore health. The backstory is that while others were working towards therapies based on transplanting stem cell-derived cells into patients, Randall Moon (HHMI and the University of Washington) and Alex Rives (Arch Venture Capitol) envisioned a different approach to develop regenerative therapies. The concept, based on data from hematopoietic progenitor cells, was that one could modulate the properties of stem cells in vivo using small molecules or biologics. They presented this idea to Arch Venture Capitol in Seattle, which launched the company, soon to be joined by other investors.

Webridge

Series B in 1999
Webridge is a software company that develops and commercializes extranet portal systems. It enables companies to communicate with employees, suppliers, and other business partners through a web browser. Founded in 1996, Webridge is based in Beaverton, Oregon.

GenoLogics

Series B in 2006
GenoLogics, Inc. develops a laboratory information management system to help advance the diagnosis and treatment of disease. It offers BaseSpace Clarity LIMS, a laboratory information management system that is used by research and clinical laboratories to positively track samples from receipt to result, reduce costs, improve accuracy, and maintain rigorous quality. The company’s solution is available through a network of distributors. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Victoria, Canada with an additional office in Redwood City, California. As of August 2015, GenoLogics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Illumina Inc.

NanoString Technologies

Series B in 2007
NanoString Technologies (NASDAQ: NSTG) is a publicly held provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostics. The company's technology enables a wide variety of basic research, translational medicine and in vitro diagnostics applications. NanoString's products are based on a novel digital molecular barcoding technology invented at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) in Seattle under direction of Dr. Leroy Hood. The company was founded in 2003 with an exclusive license to develop and market the technology. In 2008, NanoString launched its first commercial instrument system and began international sales operations with its first multiplexed assays for gene expression analysis. In 2010, the company launched new applications for the system to support microRNA analysis and copy number variation detection, and in 2013 launched Prosigna®, its first in vitro diagnostic product for prognosis of early stage breast cancer.

NanoString Technologies

Series E in 2012
NanoString Technologies (NASDAQ: NSTG) is a publicly held provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostics. The company's technology enables a wide variety of basic research, translational medicine and in vitro diagnostics applications. NanoString's products are based on a novel digital molecular barcoding technology invented at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) in Seattle under direction of Dr. Leroy Hood. The company was founded in 2003 with an exclusive license to develop and market the technology. In 2008, NanoString launched its first commercial instrument system and began international sales operations with its first multiplexed assays for gene expression analysis. In 2010, the company launched new applications for the system to support microRNA analysis and copy number variation detection, and in 2013 launched Prosigna®, its first in vitro diagnostic product for prognosis of early stage breast cancer.

VLST Corporation

Series B in 2006
VLST Corporation is a privately held biotechnology company that has developed a novel and streamlined approach to speed the development of effective therapeutics for the treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The VLST platform uses novel bioinformatics and state-of-the-art proteomics, to identify viral genes whose protein products function as immunomodulatory agents. The resulting product candidates will be either human homologues to these virulence factors or monoclonal antibodies that mimic the function of the virulence gene products. This approach allows for the efficient identification of high quality, pre-validated drug targets for the treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory disorders. The Company's technology has identified potential product candidates for the treatment of disorders such as multiple sclerosis, lupus, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes.

Adapx

Venture Round in 2011
Adapx offers software that turns natural speech, sketches, and handwriting into data for Microsoft Office and other back-end systems. By simply speaking and writing, teams get instant access to structured data collected on paper, touchscreens, mobile devices, and wall displays. A range of enterprises and agencies speed workflows and reduce risk by using Capturx to bypass data transcription from paper and cumbersome keyboard- and menu-driven interfaces. Adapx was formerly known as Natural Interaction Systems. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Airgo Networks

Series D in 2004
Airgo Network provided WLAN products to both manufacturers of access points and laptop computers.

M2E Power

Series A in 2007
M2E Power is focused on the development of energy generation technology solutions and delivers clean technology power for mobile devices. Its technology solutions are used in military devices. M2E Power was acquired by Motionetics in July 2009. M2E Power was founded in 2006 and is based in Boise, Idaho.

PrecisionDemand

Series C in 2011
PrecisionDemand, formerly Lucid Commerce, is an early stage company and television media agency based in Seattle and New York. PrecisionDemand applies sophisticated analytic techniques to cost-efficiently target more impressions on advertisers' best prospects. Using their cutting-edge technology platform, PrecisionDemand is able to precision-target the TV audience and quantify the impact these targeted impressions are having on sales. This targeting leverages many hundreds of individual and household demographic and behavioral attributes. Through their revolutionary Buyometric targeting system, PrecisionDemand has been able to decrease their clients' cost-per-sale by over 25% while predicting sales volumes through multiple channels with over 95% accuracy. The PrecisionDemand team is made up of industry leading experts in media, technology, and data mining.

Action Engine Corp

Series A in 2000
At Action Engine, we're charting unexplored territory on all fronts. Our mobile commerce service application is groundbreaking and so is the way we're building our team. We're a company of driven and passionate people, and are committed to creating a total work environment that supports our ability to build a one-of-a-kind product. Our management team's track records speak for themselves - leaders creating new products and bringing them to market. Along with the rest of the Action Engine family - software development and testing, business development, finance and accounting, human resources and marketing - we bring to life a truly collaborative work ethic. For instance, developers are valuable resources when thinking through marketing tactics, and business development managers often collaborate with program managers concerning ways to effectively integrate merchant partners. No one person can do it alone. When we reach the summit, it will be because the group set up a fantastic base camp for Action Engine - one in which everyone contributes and pulls their weight.
Safeharbor Knowledge Solutions is a provider of forums & knowledge base software tools and knowledge management solutions. Our knowledge base applications SmartSupport is cutting edge solution to internal and external knowledge management. SmartSupport allows administrators optimize knowledge base content, simplify knowledge base and forum management, and maximize support channel ROI. Set up a knowledge base on your website in minutes and start deflecting customer inquiries while providing superior customer service. Use the help of our knowledge base experts to create rich and informative content and fall back on our suite of contact center and help desk services to provide comprehensive customer support.

Ambric

Series A in 2004
Ambric developed a massively parallel processor array integrated circuit for high performance applications. Ambric's parallel processor solution including a "structured object programming model" that allowed developers to effectively program the large number of cores. Ambric's first generation chip architecture, Am2045, featured 336 processors on a chip. It competed against large FPGA's, DSPs and use of Intel x86 processors used in embedded markets. Ambric targeted video compression markets, medical imaging, wireless basesation and military markets.

Talyst, LLC

Series B in 2006
Talyst is engineering the safer pharmacy. The company was founded in 2002 to provide easy-to-use, automated medication management systems to acute care hospital pharmacies. The following year, Talyst launched AutoPharm®, the innovative software platform designed to integrate medication storage, inventory, ordering, barcoding, and clinical systems.
DataSphere provides Web technology and an ad sales team focused on generating neighborhood level user engagement and monetization for existing media companies.

800.COM

Venture Round in 2001
800.COM has been providing excellent products, services and customer care for 10 years. Regardless of whether you are a small or large company, they know that when you’re successful, they’re successful. They have the industry’s largest selection of toll-free numbers to choose from, choosing the right number makes it easy for customers to call your business. They pride theirselves on being a resource to help grow your business. Their care specialists can help you find the best numbers for your business.

GenoLogics

Series A in 2005
GenoLogics, Inc. develops a laboratory information management system to help advance the diagnosis and treatment of disease. It offers BaseSpace Clarity LIMS, a laboratory information management system that is used by research and clinical laboratories to positively track samples from receipt to result, reduce costs, improve accuracy, and maintain rigorous quality. The company’s solution is available through a network of distributors. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Victoria, Canada with an additional office in Redwood City, California. As of August 2015, GenoLogics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Illumina Inc.