Finaventures

Finaventures, founded in 1999 and based in Beverly Hills, California, is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed, startup, growth capital, turnaround of mid-size companies, and early stage investments in the Fintech sector. The firm focuses on financial technology, blockchain, gaming, internet of things, software, information technology, and communications technologies. Additionally, Finaventures provides advisory services to companies in need of growth, acceleration, or rescue. Their business model combines investment capital with active involvement at the management and board levels to align all stakeholders, offering a balanced perspective on growth or crisis management. Through their expertise in strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology, fundraising, and mergers & acquisitions, Finaventures aims to improve overall company performance and results by leveraging existing strengths and addressing weaknesses.

Rachid Sefrioui

MD

33 past transactions

Vector Cuatro

Series A in 2011
Vector Cuatro is the only company with experience in and dedicated to the complete value chain of solar PV projects: from advisory and structuring or engineering to management and administration of green power facilities; which constitutes a significant competitive advantage valued by the market.

EyeTech Digital Systems

Series B in 2019
EyeTech Digital Systems helps thousands of disabled children and adults around the world gain independence through eye tracking technology. We offer an integrated portfolio of algorithms, hardware and software solutions, making it possible for users to operate their computers using only their eyes. With a worldwide presence, EyeTech DS continues to pioneer eye tracking systems that empower everyone, everywhere, while reinventing what’s possible in a truly hands-free world.

NanoNexus

Series C in 2003
NanoNexus, Inc. provides contactor and interconnect products for the electronics industry.

Saisie.ma

Venture Round in 2006
Saisie.ma provides outsourced data entry services to help customers reduce costs in their outsourcing projects. Saisie.ma's services offer to make available one or more operators to reduce time and costs and make actions more flexible, enabling clients to outsource data and provide improved care to its end customers.

Atrenta

Venture Round in 2006
Atrenta’s SpyGlass Predictive Analysis software platform significantly improves design efficiency for the world’s leading semiconductor and consumer electronics companies. Patented solutions provide early design insight into the demanding performance, power and area requirements of the complex system on chips (SoCs) fueling today’s consumer electronics revolution. More than two hundred companies and thousands of design engineers worldwide rely on SpyGlass to reduce risk and cost before traditional EDA tools are deployed. SpyGlass functions like an interactive guidance system for design engineers and managers, finding the fastest and least expensive path to implementation for complex SoCs. SpyGlass from Atrenta: Insight. Efficiency. Confidence.

Ultra RPM

Series A in 2009
Domain Name registrar

New.net

Series B in 2001
New.net is a provider of domain name registry and related services that offers domain name extensions in several languages, including English, Espanola, Francais, Portuguese, Deutsch, and Italian. Its domain name extensions include .sport, .shop, and .school. New.net was founded in 2000 and is based in Pasadena, C.A. It operates as a subsidiary of Connexus Corporation.

Reef

Series C in 2002
Reef’s 30-year heritage was born out of an idea by Fernando and Santiago Aguerre, entrepreneur brothers from South America with a love of surf and beach culture, to create a high-quality active lifestyle sandal. To bring their vision to life, the brothers moved to Southern California to manage the Reef brand, and they set up production in Sao Paulo Brazil in 1984, where they first produced the iconic sandal that made Reef the leader in open-toe footwear. Inspired by the beautiful women of the beaches in South America, the brothers saw an opportunity to introduce the surf market to an exotic element that they called Miss Reef, who has become a global icon of the surfing community. Since then, the vibrant culture, imagery, and beautiful Reef girls of Latin America have been a part of Reef’s DNA. Now 30 years later, the company is thriving as the global surf lifestyle brand that lives by the "Just Passing Through" mentality of surf adventure. Reef draws on the spirit of the global traveler to offer casual lifestyle footwear for men and women, as well as apparel for men that combines function and fashion for life on the road. Using technology and a host of eco-based materials inspired by Reef Redemption, Reef continually delivers instant comfort and exotic styling, and strives toward versatile and multi-functional products for the traveling surfer. The brand is also well known for an ambassador program that supports some of the best wanderers and waveriders around the globe.

Sequoia Communications

Series D in 2004
Sequoia Communications is a fabless RF semiconductor company setting new benchmarks in multimode design and integration. The FullSpectra™ common architecture, developed by Sequoia Communications, allows a single-chip transceiver to support multiple air interface protocols enabling effective communications across numerous wireless air standards. Based on the FullSpectra architecture, the SEQ7400 is a single-chip, 7-band multimode transceiver that supports GSM/GPRS/EDGE/WCDMA/HSPA and TD-SCDMA. The SEQ7400 uses a single polar modulator transmit architecture for all air standards, delivering the highest levels of integration in the industry. Typically external WCDMA LNAs and SAW filters are required, but the SEQ7400 integrates these functions into the chip and is the industry's first true monolithic receiver providing significant savings in bill-of-material (BOM), size and cost. The line of multimode RF products created by Sequoia Communications will continue to address the three key handset metrics of cost, size and power consumption.

New.net

Series C in 2003
New.net is a provider of domain name registry and related services that offers domain name extensions in several languages, including English, Espanola, Francais, Portuguese, Deutsch, and Italian. Its domain name extensions include .sport, .shop, and .school. New.net was founded in 2000 and is based in Pasadena, C.A. It operates as a subsidiary of Connexus Corporation.

NexPlanar

Series A in 2004
NexPlanar Corporation builds chemical mechanical planarization pads for the semiconductor device industry. The company provides hard and mid-hard, and ultra-soft pads. It serves semiconductor fabrication operations around the world. NexPlanar Corporation was formerly known as Neopad Technologies Corporation and changed its name to NexPlanar Corporation in September 2008. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Hillsboro, Oregon. As of October 22, 2015, NexPlanar Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Cabot Microelectronics Corporation.

EyeTech Digital Systems

Series C in 2023
EyeTech Digital Systems helps thousands of disabled children and adults around the world gain independence through eye tracking technology. We offer an integrated portfolio of algorithms, hardware and software solutions, making it possible for users to operate their computers using only their eyes. With a worldwide presence, EyeTech DS continues to pioneer eye tracking systems that empower everyone, everywhere, while reinventing what’s possible in a truly hands-free world.

Apogee Photonics

Series C in 2003
As per the transaction announced on March 20, 2007, Apogee Photonics, Inc. was acquired by CyOptics, Inc. Apogee Photonics, Inc. engages in the design, development, and production integrated indium phosphide solutions for optical transmission systems that exceed the distance-extinction-power product for other optical semiconductor technologies. Its solutions include cooled, semi-cooled, and uncooled products for 10Gb/s and 40Gb/s transmission to several tier 1 system OEMs and module vendors. The company's products include thermistor-based temperature monitoring and modulator-based power monitoring products, electroabsorption-modulated lasers, and laser integrated modulators. Apogee Photonics, Inc. was formerly known as ASIP, Inc. Apogee Photonics, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania with an additional office in New Jersey. The company also has sales locations in the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel, and Asia.

Petra Systems

Series B in 2011
Petra Solar is a technology company, pioneering "smart solar" which couples distributed solar energy generation with smart grid technology, with their own smart grid communication infrastructure and platform. Petra Solar's smart energy systems are being deployed in both the largest distributed solar electric project and the largest rooftop project in the world today.

Atrenta

Series B in 2003
Atrenta’s SpyGlass Predictive Analysis software platform significantly improves design efficiency for the world’s leading semiconductor and consumer electronics companies. Patented solutions provide early design insight into the demanding performance, power and area requirements of the complex system on chips (SoCs) fueling today’s consumer electronics revolution. More than two hundred companies and thousands of design engineers worldwide rely on SpyGlass to reduce risk and cost before traditional EDA tools are deployed. SpyGlass functions like an interactive guidance system for design engineers and managers, finding the fastest and least expensive path to implementation for complex SoCs. SpyGlass from Atrenta: Insight. Efficiency. Confidence.

RF Magic

Series C in 2003
RF Magic is a fabless semiconductor company providing a diversified portfolio of radio frequency (RF) Systems on a Chip integrated circuits (ICs) for the next generation of consumer electronics applications. The company’s experienced engineers combine RF and digital communications systems experience with RF silicon design expertise to develop highly advanced ICs for cost-effective integration into high-volume consumer platforms. RF Magic’s RF Systems on a Chip technology is well suited to meet extreme broadband challenges facing the expanding Digital Home, Consumer Mobility and High Performance Networking markets, such as high-throughput communications, wide bandwidth channels, multiple video channels, multi-function radios and high-interference environments. More than two million of the company’s award-winning products have been shipped to customers for use in Digital Broadcast Satellite (DBS) Out Door Units (ODUs), digital broadcast set top boxes (STBs) and televisions, home media centers, and fixed wireless access modems. Employing patented design techniques, RF Magic’s broadband RF Systems on a Chip ICs offer premium performance, efficient design, lower cost, diverse functionality, and simplicity of use to Deliver the Next RF Generation.

General Photonics

Series A in 2001
General Photonics Corporation develops and builds optical instruments and modules for optical networks, sensor systems, and biomedical diagnosis systems. It offers polarization measurement, polarization control, PMD and PDL management, light sources, and timing/delay management instruments; polarization management, time/delay management, and light sources modules; passive components, such as isolators, couplers, circulators, combiners/splitters, polarizers/depolarizers, faraday rotator mirrors, and time delay products; accessories comprising tools and drivers; and active components, such as various detectors. The company also provides polarization, delay, and timing management modules and instruments for optical coherence tomography applications. It serves fiber optic communications networks, fiber optic test and measurement equipment manufacturers, fiber optic sensor manufacturers, biomedical imaging equipment manufacturers, aerospace companies and medical system manufacturers, and research and development laboratories and universities through distributors and representatives in the United States and internationally. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Chino, California with a design, engineering, and technical support center in Beijing, China. As of March 1, 2019, General Photonics Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Luna Technologies, Inc.

OEwaves

Series A in 2000
OEwaves, Inc. provides microwave photonic product solutions for application in radar and communications. The company’s products include ultra-high performance advanced opto-electronic oscillator (OEO), a modularized fixed frequency OEO, and a frequency agile OEO, as well as ultra-low phase noise measurement systems. Its microwave-photonic product solutions include tunable filters, modulator, and narrow-band semiconductor lasers that configure various receiver front-end architectures in support of special applications. The company’s customers include defense contractors, the United States government laboratories, offices, and agencies. OEwaves, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Pasadena, California.

Entropic

Series C in 2004
Entropic (NASDAQ: ENTR) is a world leader in semiconductor solutions for the connected home. The Company transforms how traditional HDTV broadcast and IP-based streaming video content is seamlessly, reliably, and securely delivered, processed, and distributed into and throughout the home. Entropic's next-generation Set-top Box (STB) System-on-a-Chip (SoC) and Connectivity solutions enable Pay-TV operators to offer consumers more captivating whole-home entertainment experiences by transforming the way digital entertainment is delivered, connected and consumed – in the home and on the go.

NexPlanar

Series C in 2008
NexPlanar Corporation builds chemical mechanical planarization pads for the semiconductor device industry. The company provides hard and mid-hard, and ultra-soft pads. It serves semiconductor fabrication operations around the world. NexPlanar Corporation was formerly known as Neopad Technologies Corporation and changed its name to NexPlanar Corporation in September 2008. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Hillsboro, Oregon. As of October 22, 2015, NexPlanar Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Cabot Microelectronics Corporation.
Global Communication Semiconductors is a manufacturer and offers foundry services for RF/Wireless and Optoelectronics. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Torrance, California, United States.

Atrenta

Series C in 2004
Atrenta’s SpyGlass Predictive Analysis software platform significantly improves design efficiency for the world’s leading semiconductor and consumer electronics companies. Patented solutions provide early design insight into the demanding performance, power and area requirements of the complex system on chips (SoCs) fueling today’s consumer electronics revolution. More than two hundred companies and thousands of design engineers worldwide rely on SpyGlass to reduce risk and cost before traditional EDA tools are deployed. SpyGlass functions like an interactive guidance system for design engineers and managers, finding the fastest and least expensive path to implementation for complex SoCs. SpyGlass from Atrenta: Insight. Efficiency. Confidence.

Artemis Software

Private Equity Round in 2008
Software for the legal profession, in-house counsel, regulatory agencies, governments. Artemis was acquired by Legal Suite (Septeo Group) from Finatech Group (a BDC of Finaventures)

Apogee Photonics

Venture Round in 2005
As per the transaction announced on March 20, 2007, Apogee Photonics, Inc. was acquired by CyOptics, Inc. Apogee Photonics, Inc. engages in the design, development, and production integrated indium phosphide solutions for optical transmission systems that exceed the distance-extinction-power product for other optical semiconductor technologies. Its solutions include cooled, semi-cooled, and uncooled products for 10Gb/s and 40Gb/s transmission to several tier 1 system OEMs and module vendors. The company's products include thermistor-based temperature monitoring and modulator-based power monitoring products, electroabsorption-modulated lasers, and laser integrated modulators. Apogee Photonics, Inc. was formerly known as ASIP, Inc. Apogee Photonics, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania with an additional office in New Jersey. The company also has sales locations in the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel, and Asia.

EyeTech Digital Systems

Series A in 2017
EyeTech Digital Systems helps thousands of disabled children and adults around the world gain independence through eye tracking technology. We offer an integrated portfolio of algorithms, hardware and software solutions, making it possible for users to operate their computers using only their eyes. With a worldwide presence, EyeTech DS continues to pioneer eye tracking systems that empower everyone, everywhere, while reinventing what’s possible in a truly hands-free world.