Shoreline Venture Management

Shoreline Venture Management is a venture capital firm located in the San Francisco Bay Area, established in 1998. The firm specializes in investing in early-stage technology companies across the United States and Canada, with a focus on sectors such as information technology, software, data analytics, medical devices, and healthcare. Shoreline manages several funds and has committed capital to 14 companies to date, primarily targeting seed and Series A investment rounds. Investments typically range from $0.25 million to $1 million initially, with the potential for total investments of $3 million to $8 million over the life of a portfolio company. Shoreline actively seeks new opportunities while maintaining its commitment to equity ownership in its investments.

Keith Corbin

CFO

Peter Craddock

Managing Director

Richard H. Freyberg

Venture Partner

Colin Harris

Venture Partner

Marian Hudacek

Business Development and Operations

Rich Miller

Venture Capital

Bob Spears

Managing Director

Robert Spears

Co-Founder and MD

Rob Taylor

Venture Partner

Joan Wrabetz

Venture Partner

12 past transactions

Blab

Series B in 2014
At Blab, our Predictive Social Intelligence™ platform ingests 100M+ posts a day from 50K+ sources worldwide, including News, Blogs and Social using a combination of IAB Content Categories, Brand Targets and Audience Interests and give our users the ability to predict tomorrow's conversations, today. BlabPredicts™ enables Advertisers, Publishers and Creative Agencies to tap into a living, breathing, language agnostic index of consumer conversations and the trends that matter, giving them the ability to plan, execute and optimize Media, up to 72 hours in advance.

Health Hero Network

Series B in 2006
Health Hero Network, Inc. develops and markets technology solutions for remote health monitoring and management. The company provides health management programs delivering personalized daily monitoring and patient education, and information to care providers. It also offers Health Buddy system that serves as the interface between patients at home and care providers, facilitating patient education and monitoring of chronic conditions. The company's Health Buddy system includes monitoring technologies, clinical information databases, Internet-enabled decision support tools, health management programs, and content development software tools. It serves hospitals, health plans, government health organizations, disease management companies, and pharmaceutical companies or universities conducting clinical trials or studies. The company was founded in 1988 and is based in Palo Alto, California. As of December 19, 2007, Health Hero Network, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Robert Bosch GMBH.

Layer 7 Technologies

Series B in 2006
Layer 7 Technologies provides security and management products for API-driven integrations spanning the extended hybrid enterprise. It offers API management solutions such as API Proxy, a virtual API gateway that gives API publishers a tool for securing, orchestrating, and optimizing APIs as well as enforcing SLAs; XML Firewall that is designed to address access, federation, and message security needs in service oriented architecture (SOA) based integrations; SOA Gateway, an API Gateway that provides data translation, contextual routing, SLA management, caching, protocol switching, and B2B functionality; and Mobile Access Gateway, which simplifies the process of adapting internal data, application, and security infrastructure for mobile use. The company also offers developer management solutions, including API Portal, a platform for developer onboarding, engagement, and management; and operations management solutions such as API Service Manager that simplifies API, service, and gateway management across datacenters and the cloud. In addition, it offers identity management solutions, including OAuth Toolkit which empowers users to control access to their APIs; and Security Token Service for API identity translation and federation. Further, the company offers API academy training in the areas of introduction, API design and architecture, API strategy consulting, and hackathon management; IT services, such as architectural consulting, implementation, and operational health check; and gateway, API portal, and administrator training services. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Vancouver, Canada. Currently, it operates as a subsidiary of CA Technologies.

CoinFlip

Seed Round in 2016
CoinFlip is a conversion and payment platform technology solution that enables consumers to use their loyalty points and miles for purchases at brick-and-mortar retail locations. CoinFlip’s proprietary technology facilitates conversion of points and miles to payment transactions, simplifies the transactional accounting, and provides access to valuable data streams. The company was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.

DBM Cloud Systems, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2018
DBM Cloud Systems, Inc. develops cloud orchestration software platform that enables users to optimize their preferred cloud infrastructure. It provides services needed to optimize cloud strategies, such as define a multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud strategy, map requirements to the host of services available from public cloud providers, right-size service choices given the enterprise's current and projected needs, assist in evaluating cloud pricing options, manage data migration to the cloud, cloud TCO analysis and test plan for deployment of its open software platform, and storage update service. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Burlingame, California.

CoinFlip

Private Placement in 2016
CoinFlip is a conversion and payment platform technology solution that enables consumers to use their loyalty points and miles for purchases at brick-and-mortar retail locations. CoinFlip’s proprietary technology facilitates conversion of points and miles to payment transactions, simplifies the transactional accounting, and provides access to valuable data streams. The company was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.

Microdermics

Seed Round in 2017
Microdermics Inc., a medical device company, focuses on commercializing a hollow microneedle delivery platform for the biopharmaceutical market. It focuses on designing, building, testing, and manufacturing hollow metal microneedles for various therapeutics and traditional intramuscular vaccinations. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Attune Systems

Series B in 2005
Attune Systems, Inc. provides network file management products to reduce file management complexity for the enterprise, government, and education storage environments. It offers Maestro File Manager, a file virtualization appliance that helps information technology administrators to discover, analyze, manage, and optimize their existing heterogeneous file storage resources. The company also provides archive intelligence and security diligence, data migration and consolidation, disaster recovery, forensic search, tiered backup, and tiered storage with deduplication solutions. Attune Systems, Inc. has strategic partnerships with Microsoft, Data domain, Net App, Symantec, and Google. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Santa Clara, California.