Eastven Venture Partners

Eastven Venture Partners, established in 2000 and formerly known as Ericsson Venture Partners, is a venture capital firm based in Darien that specializes in telecommunications-related technology investments across North America and Europe. With its roots as the exclusive venture capital arm for Ericsson in these regions, Eastven has developed a strong foundation in communications technology, a critical segment of the IT sector. The firm capitalizes on its extensive industry experience and strategic relationships with key players, including Ericsson, Sony-Ericsson, and various global enterprises, to enhance the growth potential of its portfolio companies. By leveraging these connections, Eastven aims to deliver significant value and superior returns for its investors.

Jeff Low

Co-Founding Principal and Partner

Mark Maybell

Co-Founding Principal and Partner

20 past transactions

Atrua Technologies

Series A in 2002
Atrua Technology is a high-tech provider of intelligent touch control solutions. Its advanced technology provides a new and convenient input method for devices in need of user input, such as cellphones, game machines, and other personal electrical devices. Atura's key product, Atrua Wings series, takes advantage of Atrua's touching control processing technology to transform finger movement into users' commands upon electronic device control. It can improve the playability of games, enrich the interface between human and computer of mobile devices and enlarge the application scope of mobile data services. Meanwhile, its fingerprint identification technology provides security guarantee for e-commerce.

RadioFrame

Series E in 2006
RadioFrame Networks is a supplier of targeted base-transceiver station solutions. It offers base-transceiver station solutions to the wireless communications industry. The company’s products include wireless base stations, iDEN network management tools, pico and femtocell base stations, microcell and macrocell base stations, and network and system management systems.

RadioFrame

Series C in 2002
RadioFrame Networks is a supplier of targeted base-transceiver station solutions. It offers base-transceiver station solutions to the wireless communications industry. The company’s products include wireless base stations, iDEN network management tools, pico and femtocell base stations, microcell and macrocell base stations, and network and system management systems.

Kirusa

Series C in 2007
Kirusa, develops mobile value added services. The company offers KV.SMS, a voice SMS solution that allows mobile subscribers to send and reply to SMS messages with voice. Kirusa also operates Consumer Corner, an online site for information and resources on voice SMS. It serves mobile operators and service providers. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in New Providence, New Jersey. It has sales offices in Paris, France; Delhi, India; and Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, as well as research and development facilities in New Delhi and Bangalore, India.

CENX

Venture Round in 2012
CENX, provides interconnect services for the new generation of Ethernet-based backhaul networks. Awarded by multiple leading publications for its innovation, CENX's Ethernet Backhaul Management Service aggregates and translates different Ethernet backhaul services from multiple access providers to all cell sites in a given market. CENX provides a normalized Carrier Ethernet handoff to a given wireless provider enabling ubiquitous 4G-LTE Ethernet backhaul coverage to all cell sites in that market. CENX manages the entire circuit life cycle, yielding better quality of service, reduced CapEx and a level of monitoring of Ethernet Backhaul service traffic that has not been feasible previously. CENX's investors include its management and a number of leading firms, including DCM (whose co-founder, Dixon Doll, is the Chairman of the CENX Board of Directors), Highland Capital Partners and Mesirow Financial. Through its work in the MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) and in the industry, the CENX management team has played a critical role in the definition of standards and the development of the Carrier Ethernet market over the past ten years.

RadioFrame

Series F in 2008
RadioFrame Networks is a supplier of targeted base-transceiver station solutions. It offers base-transceiver station solutions to the wireless communications industry. The company’s products include wireless base stations, iDEN network management tools, pico and femtocell base stations, microcell and macrocell base stations, and network and system management systems.

Bytemobile

Series B in 2002
Offers solutions enabling mobile network operators to improve the utilization and performance of their existing network capacity

Photobucket

Venture Round in 2008
Image and video hosting website allowing users to upload, edit and share photos

RadioFrame

Series D in 2003
RadioFrame Networks is a supplier of targeted base-transceiver station solutions. It offers base-transceiver station solutions to the wireless communications industry. The company’s products include wireless base stations, iDEN network management tools, pico and femtocell base stations, microcell and macrocell base stations, and network and system management systems.

CENX

Venture Round in 2015
CENX, provides interconnect services for the new generation of Ethernet-based backhaul networks. Awarded by multiple leading publications for its innovation, CENX's Ethernet Backhaul Management Service aggregates and translates different Ethernet backhaul services from multiple access providers to all cell sites in a given market. CENX provides a normalized Carrier Ethernet handoff to a given wireless provider enabling ubiquitous 4G-LTE Ethernet backhaul coverage to all cell sites in that market. CENX manages the entire circuit life cycle, yielding better quality of service, reduced CapEx and a level of monitoring of Ethernet Backhaul service traffic that has not been feasible previously. CENX's investors include its management and a number of leading firms, including DCM (whose co-founder, Dixon Doll, is the Chairman of the CENX Board of Directors), Highland Capital Partners and Mesirow Financial. Through its work in the MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) and in the industry, the CENX management team has played a critical role in the definition of standards and the development of the Carrier Ethernet market over the past ten years.

ReefEdge

Venture Round in 2003
ReefEdge, Inc. is a provider of wireless local area network systems for multi-site enterprises to deploy, manage, and secure wireless networks. ReefEdge Inc. develops technologies for in-building wireless networks. Founded in Spring 2000, ReefEdge products allow the emerging generation of mobile devices to become full participants in the corporate networking environment. ReefEdge provides secure, reliable, managed connectivity for mobile devices equipped with short-range wireless capabilities such as Bluetooth and makes possible the deployment of new kinds of "smart" mobile applications that deliver personalized, location-aware and collaborative services. The company boasts a seasoned executive team with years of experience delivering products and solutions to enterprise customers, with former executives from IBM, AT&T, Telcordia and Prodigy.

Atrua Technologies

Series E in 2008
Atrua Technology is a high-tech provider of intelligent touch control solutions. Its advanced technology provides a new and convenient input method for devices in need of user input, such as cellphones, game machines, and other personal electrical devices. Atura's key product, Atrua Wings series, takes advantage of Atrua's touching control processing technology to transform finger movement into users' commands upon electronic device control. It can improve the playability of games, enrich the interface between human and computer of mobile devices and enlarge the application scope of mobile data services. Meanwhile, its fingerprint identification technology provides security guarantee for e-commerce.

Photobucket

Venture Round in 2009
Image and video hosting website allowing users to upload, edit and share photos

Atrua Technologies

Series D in 2006
Atrua Technology is a high-tech provider of intelligent touch control solutions. Its advanced technology provides a new and convenient input method for devices in need of user input, such as cellphones, game machines, and other personal electrical devices. Atura's key product, Atrua Wings series, takes advantage of Atrua's touching control processing technology to transform finger movement into users' commands upon electronic device control. It can improve the playability of games, enrich the interface between human and computer of mobile devices and enlarge the application scope of mobile data services. Meanwhile, its fingerprint identification technology provides security guarantee for e-commerce.

NodePrime

Seed Round in 2015
NodePrime is infrastructure without limits. NodePrime helps service providers, SaaS players and online gaming companies reliably operate massive IT infrastructures.

Atrua Technologies

Series B in 2004
Atrua Technology is a high-tech provider of intelligent touch control solutions. Its advanced technology provides a new and convenient input method for devices in need of user input, such as cellphones, game machines, and other personal electrical devices. Atura's key product, Atrua Wings series, takes advantage of Atrua's touching control processing technology to transform finger movement into users' commands upon electronic device control. It can improve the playability of games, enrich the interface between human and computer of mobile devices and enlarge the application scope of mobile data services. Meanwhile, its fingerprint identification technology provides security guarantee for e-commerce.

RadioFrame

Series F in 2008
RadioFrame Networks is a supplier of targeted base-transceiver station solutions. It offers base-transceiver station solutions to the wireless communications industry. The company’s products include wireless base stations, iDEN network management tools, pico and femtocell base stations, microcell and macrocell base stations, and network and system management systems.

Mirantis

Series A in 2013
Mirantis helps organizations ship code faster on public and private clouds. The company provides a public cloud experience on any infrastructure from the data center to the edge. With Lens and the Mirantis Cloud Native Platform, Mirantis empowers a new breed of Kubernetes developers by removing infrastructure and operations complexity and providing one cohesive cloud experience for complete app and DevOps portability, a single pane of glass, and automated full-stack lifecycle management with continuous updates. Mirantis serves many of the world’s leading enterprises, including Adobe, DocuSign, Liberty Mutual, Nationwide Insurance, PayPal, Reliance Jio, Splunk, and STC. Learn more at www.mirantis.com. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Campbell, California.