Steven Bird

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Ananth Rao

Venture Investor

135 past transactions

EIS Group

Private Equity Round in 2021
EIS Group is focused on providing IT solutions that enable companies to convert their technology into strategic assets. Its solutions leverage companies existing IT infrastructure to automate and streamline operations to enable straight-through processing for Insurance, banking, communication, and public sector enterprises.

Shape Security

Series F in 2019
Shape provides defense against malicious automated cyber-attacks on web and mobile applications. Shape has deflected over $1B in fraud losses for major retailers, financial institutions, airlines, and government agencies. Shape Security is headquartered in Silicon Valley and backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Norwest Venture Partners, Venrock, Baseline Ventures, Google Ventures, WING VC and a host of other prominent investors. Shape was founded in 2011 to disrupt automated attacks on web and mobile applications.

Shape Security

Series E in 2018
Shape provides defense against malicious automated cyber-attacks on web and mobile applications. Shape has deflected over $1B in fraud losses for major retailers, financial institutions, airlines, and government agencies. Shape Security is headquartered in Silicon Valley and backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Norwest Venture Partners, Venrock, Baseline Ventures, Google Ventures, WING VC and a host of other prominent investors. Shape was founded in 2011 to disrupt automated attacks on web and mobile applications.

Reputation

Series A in 2017
Reputation.com, Inc. specializes in online reputation management solutions for businesses and individuals, operating both in the United States and internationally. The company offers a comprehensive platform that provides tools for managing negative search results, personal data removal, and executive privacy, along with services tailored for local search listings, online reviews, social media management, surveys, and analytics. Their offerings include advanced features like Reputation Score X, which merges performance metrics with prescriptive analytics, and Feedback Anywhere, an integration platform for customer feedback. Additionally, the company provides mobile applications for clients to engage with customer reviews and social media. With a focus on enhancing operational efficiency and customer service, Reputation.com serves a diverse range of sectors, including automotive, healthcare, hospitality, and retail. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, the company was previously known as ReputationDefender, Inc. before rebranding in 2011.

Dynamic Signal

Series D in 2016
Dynamic Signal is an employee communication and engagement platform connecting companies with their valued asset and their employees. The company is driving reach, productivity, and advocacy provides a better and faster way for employees and their audiences to receive enterprise signals. It increases productivity and empowers advocacy by informing and engaging employees with timely, relevant content across channels and devices. Dynamic Signal ensures communications are received by employees and their audiences alike. It offers influencer recruiting, collaboration support, member rewards, advisory support, and account management services. Hundreds of the world’s largest enterprises, including 85 of the Fortune 500, trust Dynamic Signal to deliver their enterprise signal in 21 countries around the globe. Founded in 2010, the company’s world class customers include IBM, Edelman, Ingram Micro, Salesforce, Autodesk, Domo, SurveyMonkey, and Humana. Dynamic Signal is based in San Francisco, California.

Tachyus

Series A in 2016
Tachyus develops a technology platform to optimize energy production for the oil and gas industry. Its platform provides prescriptive and predictive analytics, descriptive analytics, integration, and measurement features. Tachyus offers solutions for production optimization in cyclic steaming, steam-flooding, CO2-flooding, water-flooding, pump optimization, workover prioritization, and shale fracking. It production responses to stimulation, relationships between completion design and initial production, and optimal injection rates through its platform enables users to predict mechanical equipment failure. Tachyus serves through iOS applications. Dakin Sloss, Francisco Leport, and Paul Orland founded Software Revolution in 2013 that became Tachyus in April 2013. It has its headquarters in San Mateo in California.

Pivot3

Series E in 2014
Pivot3 is a provider of software infrastructure services aimed at simplifying data center operations by integrating storage, compute, and network resources into a cohesive solution. The company offers Dynamic Hyperconverged Infrastructure and PCIe Flash Arrays that optimize resource utilization, ensure high availability, and support mission-critical applications. Pivot3’s technologies help organizations lower their IT infrastructure costs, enhance revenue generation, improve customer satisfaction, and boost employee productivity. With a diverse portfolio tailored for various applications such as server virtualization, data center consolidation, and disaster recovery, Pivot3 has established a significant global presence, deploying over 16,000 hyperconverged infrastructures and flash storage solutions across 53 countries. Its client base spans mid-sized firms to major corporations in sectors including energy, aerospace, logistics, telecommunications, and retail. Through partnerships with technology and system integration firms, Pivot3 is committed to advancing smart IT infrastructures that pave the way for the future of software-defined data centers.

Apigee

Venture Round in 2014
Apigee is a provider of API technology and services for enterprises and developers. The platform gives enterprises control over and visibility into the APIs that connect applications and data, across the enterprise and across clouds. Hundreds of companies including Walgreens, Bechtel, eBay, Pearson, and Gilt Groupe as well as tens of thousands of developers use Apigee to simplify the delivery, management and analysis of APIs and apps. Apigee's global headquarters are in Palo Alto, California, and it also has offices in Bangalore, India; London; and Austin, Texas.

SpinMedia

Venture Round in 2014
SpinMedia LLC will now be known as SpinMedia Group. SpinMedia is the leader in pop culture and millennial audience reach - the world’s fastest-growing digital media company with more than 100 million monthly unique visitors. The over 35 SpinMedia brands – including Celebuzz, Stereogum, Buzznet, TheSuperficial, Idolator, Just Jared, Just Jared Jr., PureVolume, Hype Machine, Absolute Punk, What Would Tyler Durden Do?, SocialiteLife, Go Fug Yourself, Pink is the New Blog, Gorilla vs. Bear, RCRD LBL, Videogum, TheFrisky, Egotastic!, Concrete Loop, Brooklyn Vegan, Crunktastical, Punknews.org, and others- are category-leading, authentic, influential voices. SpinMedia is currently the fifth largest Web destination reaching adults 18-24. Via comScore, the company is the second largest digital publisher in Entertainment News and the tenth largest in Music. SpinMedia uses its massive reach, deep audience engagement, and understanding of the young adult audience to provide customized, innovative marketing and advertising solutions across its branded properties.

Turn

Series E in 2014
Turn provide data management and a demand-side platform for ad buyers and an omnichannel platform that enables data management and executes bidding to improve the performance of customers' advertising. They deliver data insights for ad agencies and marketers through their cloud applications and internet-scale architecture.

Sojern

Series C in 2013
Sojern provides digital marketing solutions for the travel industry. Driven by artificial intelligence and traveler intent data, the platform activates multi-channel marketing solutions to drive direct demand.

Pivot3

Venture Round in 2013
Pivot3 was founded in pursuit of a vision – to radically simplify the data center by unifying storage, compute and network resources into a powerful, easy to deploy a solution that would reduce cost, risk, and complexity. Since then, Pivot3’s smart technologies have helped thousands of enterprises around the world achieve their IT operational and overall business goals. Pivot3 has accomplished this with an ecosystem of, technology, channel, and system integration partners all focused on enabling a smarter IT infrastructure to lay the foundation for the software-defined data center of the future. Today, Pivot3 has broadened its offerings and now provides Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays that provide maximum resource utilization, deliver high availability even during degraded conditions, and guarantee mission-critical applications perform as needed. Key customer business outcomes with Pivot3 solutions include the lower total cost of ownership of their IT infrastructure, ensuring uninterrupted revenue generation, improving customer satisfaction and retention, and maximizing employee productivity. With a best-in-class portfolio of products optimized for server virtualization, virtual desktop, data center consolidation, video surveillance, business continuity, and disaster recovery, remote and branch office, and more, Pivot3 is transforming IT one deployment at a time. Pivot3 has deployed over 16,000 hyperconverged infrastructures and flash storage arrays in 53 countries from mid-sized companies to some of the world’s biggest public companies, including leaders in energy, aerospace and defense, logistics, telecommunications, retail, consumer electronics, and more.

Apigee

Series F in 2013
Apigee is a provider of API technology and services for enterprises and developers. The platform gives enterprises control over and visibility into the APIs that connect applications and data, across the enterprise and across clouds. Hundreds of companies including Walgreens, Bechtel, eBay, Pearson, and Gilt Groupe as well as tens of thousands of developers use Apigee to simplify the delivery, management and analysis of APIs and apps. Apigee's global headquarters are in Palo Alto, California, and it also has offices in Bangalore, India; London; and Austin, Texas.
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Picarro

Series D in 2012
Picarro's singular mission is to produce the world's highest performance and easiest to use gas analyzers. Our analyzers serve a wide variety of markets including atmospheric science, greenhouse gas measurement, air quality, food safety, hydrology, biomaterials testing, ecology, environmental justice, semi-conductor, industrial process gas measurement, and landfill gas measurement. With ppt sensitivity to %-level measurements, months or years of calibration-free operation, and a quick and easy set-up, this incredibly rare combination of attributes enables our customers to make the highest quality measurements both in the modern lab and in the most remote locations imaginable. Every possible source of industrial and municipal emissions are subject to increasing regulation either for worker safety, to improve air quality, or as part of larger state, national and international greenhouse gas reduction strategies and protocols. Regardless of whether the customer is an expert scientist who values performance foremost, an engineer who demands quality and uptime from a solution, or a field technician who values simple installation and little maintenance, Picarro analyzers are the emerging standard. Based on technology originally licensed from Stanford University and further strengthened by 9 additional Picarro patents, our CRDS analyzers offer unprecedented sensitivity, selectivity and stability all in an elegantly simple, turnkey design. All Picarro products are produced through a world-class manufacturing process that ensures rock-solid reliability. Picarro is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Apigee

Series E in 2012
Apigee is a provider of API technology and services for enterprises and developers. The platform gives enterprises control over and visibility into the APIs that connect applications and data, across the enterprise and across clouds. Hundreds of companies including Walgreens, Bechtel, eBay, Pearson, and Gilt Groupe as well as tens of thousands of developers use Apigee to simplify the delivery, management and analysis of APIs and apps. Apigee's global headquarters are in Palo Alto, California, and it also has offices in Bangalore, India; London; and Austin, Texas.

Say Media

Venture Round in 2012
Say Media is a digital publishing company. Through its award-winning Tempest publishing platform and media services, Say Media enables its portfolio of independent content creators to build passionate communities around key consumer interest areas such as Style, Living, Food and Tech. The company provides simple and accountable ways for the world’s top brands to engage with these passionate audiences, at scale, with a reach of more than 400 million people around the world. Say Media is headquartered in San Francisco and New York, with offices across North America, in the UK and Australia.

Sojern

Series B in 2012
Sojern provides digital marketing solutions for the travel industry. Driven by artificial intelligence and traveler intent data, the platform activates multi-channel marketing solutions to drive direct demand.

Pivot3

Venture Round in 2012
Pivot3 is a provider of software infrastructure services aimed at simplifying data center operations by integrating storage, compute, and network resources into a cohesive solution. The company offers Dynamic Hyperconverged Infrastructure and PCIe Flash Arrays that optimize resource utilization, ensure high availability, and support mission-critical applications. Pivot3’s technologies help organizations lower their IT infrastructure costs, enhance revenue generation, improve customer satisfaction, and boost employee productivity. With a diverse portfolio tailored for various applications such as server virtualization, data center consolidation, and disaster recovery, Pivot3 has established a significant global presence, deploying over 16,000 hyperconverged infrastructures and flash storage solutions across 53 countries. Its client base spans mid-sized firms to major corporations in sectors including energy, aerospace, logistics, telecommunications, and retail. Through partnerships with technology and system integration firms, Pivot3 is committed to advancing smart IT infrastructures that pave the way for the future of software-defined data centers.

BlackDuck

Series E in 2011
Black Duck secures and manages open source software worldwide, eliminating open source security vulnerabilities and license compliance pain. With the rapid, widespread adoption of open-source software, Black Duck is a key component of Synopsys’ Software Integrity Platform, the most comprehensive solution for integrating security into the SDLC and software supply chain. Black Duck was established in 2002 and is based in Burlington, Massachusetts, United States.

Hara

Series C in 2011
Haraʼs enterprise software platform for energy and sustainability management dramatically reduces energy costs and risks to substantially improve operating profits and enhance sustainability. Haraʼs more than 50 customers span global multi-national and public sector organizations including: Avaya, Aflac, Alcatel-Lucent, Bloomberg, Dell, Diebold, eBay, HP, Hasbro, Harvard University, Intuit, News Corporation, Safeway, Tishman Speyer, Union Bank, U.S. Bank and the cities of Las Vegas, Palo Alto and Philadelphia. For more information: www.hara.com.

Marin Software

Series E in 2011
Marin Software’s (NASDAQ: MRIN) mission is to give digital advertisers and agencies the power to optimize their paid marketing programs. MarinOne provides a unified platform for search, social, and eCommerce advertising. We help digital marketers convert precise audiences, win new customers, and make better decisions. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices worldwide, Marin Software’s platform powers marketing campaigns around the globe. For more information about us, please visit www.marinsoftware.com.

PCH

Series B in 2011
PCH is a global company founded in 1996. We provide a unique, intelligent, end-to-end product development and supply chain orchestration platform for the world’s best brands. Our customers come from a variety of sectors, including beauty, home, living, entertainment, technology, fashion, and wellness. Our customers are passionate about their design, their brand, and the consumer experience, and they utilize a variety of market channels, including direct-to-consumer, direct-to-retail, and eCommerce sites. PCH is set up internationally to achieve cost synergies, scale and access to talent. At PCH, our passion is rapid, rigorous product development and supply chain speed, velocity and agility – all done with visibility, transparency, sustainability, and consumer engagement. Our innovative, new-generation supply chain model connects brands with consumers. We are asset-light, focusing on the complete product lifecycle and investing in value drivers of the brand’s product lifecycle. While the typical product fulfillment network is fragmented, PCH’s intelligent, end-to-end platform is horizontal, eliminating silos. Our platform increases brand revenue, optimizes costs, reduces balance sheet liabilities, and increases consumer engagement. PCH has two Innovation Hubs -- in San Francisco and in Shenzhen, China, with headquarters in Cork, Ireland, and software, finance, and back-office operations in Cape Town, South Africa. PCH founded Highway1, the world-renown hardware accelerator that helps startups bring innovative products to market. “PCH” stands for “Pacific Coast Highway” because founder Liam Casey loved the early time he spent in Southern California and the positive spirit that the iconic stretch of Highway 1 evoked. PCH is an equal opportunity employer who values diversity and inclusion. PCH is a great place to develop your career and have fun – all while working with great brands and doing rewarding, creative work. We value teamwork, integrity, and passion. We support professional growth along with work-life balance.

Rafter

Series C in 2011
Rafter is an established course materials management company whose mission is to promote student success by making education accessible, affordable, and effective for all. Rafter is redesigning and transforming course materials management in higher education with its innovative textbooks-in-tuition solution, Rafter360. Rafter has helped hundreds of campuses and over 2.7 million students to save nearly $700 million on textbooks. Rafter, headquartered in San Mateo, CA, is a privately held company. To learn more visit www.rafter.com Rafter was formed from the rebranding of popular textbook rental service (and Chegg competitor) [BookRenter](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bookrenter-com) in July 2012.

Stoke

Series E in 2011
Stoke develops carrier-class mobile broadband gateways specifically engineered to enable mobile and converged network operators to maximize the economic returns of their 3G mobile networks.

Sojern

Private Equity Round in 2010
Sojern provides digital marketing solutions for the travel industry. Driven by artificial intelligence and traveler intent data, the platform activates multi-channel marketing solutions to drive direct demand.

Brand.net

Series C in 2010
Brand.net is an online advertising network focused exclusively on brand advertising. Their technology is designed to allow Brand advertisers and agencies to reach the right target in the right context, efficiently and measurably.

Marin Software

Series D in 2010
Marin Software’s (NASDAQ: MRIN) mission is to give digital advertisers and agencies the power to optimize their paid marketing programs. MarinOne provides a unified platform for search, social, and eCommerce advertising. We help digital marketers convert precise audiences, win new customers, and make better decisions. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices worldwide, Marin Software’s platform powers marketing campaigns around the globe. For more information about us, please visit www.marinsoftware.com.

Pivot3

Series D in 2010
Pivot3 was founded in pursuit of a vision – to radically simplify the data center by unifying storage, compute and network resources into a powerful, easy to deploy a solution that would reduce cost, risk, and complexity. Since then, Pivot3’s smart technologies have helped thousands of enterprises around the world achieve their IT operational and overall business goals. Pivot3 has accomplished this with an ecosystem of, technology, channel, and system integration partners all focused on enabling a smarter IT infrastructure to lay the foundation for the software-defined data center of the future. Today, Pivot3 has broadened its offerings and now provides Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays that provide maximum resource utilization, deliver high availability even during degraded conditions, and guarantee mission-critical applications perform as needed. Key customer business outcomes with Pivot3 solutions include the lower total cost of ownership of their IT infrastructure, ensuring uninterrupted revenue generation, improving customer satisfaction and retention, and maximizing employee productivity. With a best-in-class portfolio of products optimized for server virtualization, virtual desktop, data center consolidation, video surveillance, business continuity, and disaster recovery, remote and branch office, and more, Pivot3 is transforming IT one deployment at a time. Pivot3 has deployed over 16,000 hyperconverged infrastructures and flash storage arrays in 53 countries from mid-sized companies to some of the world’s biggest public companies, including leaders in energy, aerospace and defense, logistics, telecommunications, retail, consumer electronics, and more.

Pivot3

Series D in 2010
Pivot3 was founded in pursuit of a vision – to radically simplify the data center by unifying storage, compute and network resources into a powerful, easy to deploy a solution that would reduce cost, risk, and complexity. Since then, Pivot3’s smart technologies have helped thousands of enterprises around the world achieve their IT operational and overall business goals. Pivot3 has accomplished this with an ecosystem of, technology, channel, and system integration partners all focused on enabling a smarter IT infrastructure to lay the foundation for the software-defined data center of the future. Today, Pivot3 has broadened its offerings and now provides Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays that provide maximum resource utilization, deliver high availability even during degraded conditions, and guarantee mission-critical applications perform as needed. Key customer business outcomes with Pivot3 solutions include the lower total cost of ownership of their IT infrastructure, ensuring uninterrupted revenue generation, improving customer satisfaction and retention, and maximizing employee productivity. With a best-in-class portfolio of products optimized for server virtualization, virtual desktop, data center consolidation, video surveillance, business continuity, and disaster recovery, remote and branch office, and more, Pivot3 is transforming IT one deployment at a time. Pivot3 has deployed over 16,000 hyperconverged infrastructures and flash storage arrays in 53 countries from mid-sized companies to some of the world’s biggest public companies, including leaders in energy, aerospace and defense, logistics, telecommunications, retail, consumer electronics, and more.

WebVisible

Series C in 2010
Based in Southern California, WebVisible is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company and leading name in local online advertising, known for being a true expert in bringing the Internet as an advertising and customer acquisition medium to small businesses around the world. Through direct sales and global partners in the Yellow Pages, newspaper, and online marketing industries, we offer our innovative online advertising products to small business customers. Our advertising products are powered by our award winning Geneva software platform - named 2008 Internet Product of the Year by the American Electronics Association - which buys advertising space across a variety of media, ensuring that our small business customers get the most effective, local, targeted advertising for their money.

Cyan

Series D in 2009
Cyan is an industry-leading, global provider of next generation packet-optical transport solutions with revolutionary multi-layer network planning and management. Providing metro and regional aggregation and transport of packet, TDM and optical services with superior service level agreement (SLA) support, Cyan’s solutions provide the industry’s first and only 3-dimensional multi-layer planning, operations and verification systems to scale, extend and simplify networks for more profitable service offerings. Recognized as the industry’s first purpose-built packet-optical transport system, Cyan’s solutions modularly support Carrier Ethernet services (MEF) with connection oriented Ethernet transport, SONET/SDH, OTN, DWDM and ROADM functions in a highly cost-effective and scalable manner from the access edge to the network core. The ability to support 10G services today, while laying a foundation for future 100G services has enabled Cyan’s customers to deploy field-proven solutions for key applications such as Carrier Ethernet, wireless backhaul, broadband backhaul (middle-mile), data center connectivity and interconnect, and wholesale services transport for metro, state-wide, regional, national, multi-national and Enterprise networks across North America and Europe. Founded in Petaluma, California in 2006, Cyan is lead by a team of industry veterans with a track record of successful innovation in communications transport and access networks around the world.

Cedar Point Communications

Debt Financing in 2009
Cedar Point Communications provides integrated voice over Internet protocol and multimedia switching technologies for the service provider and enterprise telecommunication industries. Its products include SAFARI C3, a media switching system, which delivers Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) capabilities that support the anticipated migration to IMS architecture for converged networks; and SAFARI eMG, a media gateway that delivers flexibility. The company also provides training, customer, and solution services. Cedar Point Communications serves information technology departments and network operators, cable operators and telecommunications carriers, and enterprise customers and educational institutions. Cedar Point Communications, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Derry, New Hampshire with an additional office in Meersburg, Germany.

Mimosa Systems

Debt Financing in 2009
Mimosa Systems, Inc. provides content archiving solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. It offers Mimosa NearPoint, an integrated unstructured information management software for emails, files, and instant messages that enables email and file system archiving, e-discovery, recovery, disaster recovery, and storage management. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California with additional offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India.

Teknovus

Venture Round in 2009
Teknovus, Inc., a fabless semiconductor and software solutions company, develops and supplies access chips and embedded software for the FTTx market. It offers Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) integrated chips for central office and customer premises applications; EPON customer premises equipment ONU; TDM transport chips that provide the circuit emulation of T1/E1/J1 on various Ethernet switched networks; evaluation kits, which support original equipment manufacturers and service provider customers; EPON OLT solutions that offer a system-on-a-chip approach to the original equipment manufacturers; and TK3401 Intelligent EPON Node Controller that enables service providers to meet various needs of network topologies and subscriber densities. The company’s system-on-a-chips incorporate firmware for the embedded processor to control the hardware. Teknovus, Inc. markets its products through distributors in the United States, Europe, and China. Teknovus, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Petaluma, California with sales and support centers in Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. The company also has a location in San Jose, California.

Drobo

Series E in 2009
Drobo makes award-winning data storage products for Small and Medium Businesses and Individual Professionals that provide an unprecedented combination of sophisticated data protection and management features, affordable capacity, and ease-of-use. With over 50 industry awards and hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide, Drobo has demonstrated success solving the three major storage challenges in one device – data protection, capacity adjustment, and application service-level optimization – through patented BeyondRAID™, Thin Provisioning / Reclamation, and the breakthrough Automated Data-Aware Tiering technology. Unlike other storage options, Drobo lets users hot-swap drives, mix and match drives of different capacities, speeds, and types (SATA / SAS / SSD), and perform zero-support drive pack migration. This means that customers can optimize storage economies without worrying about drive order, data loss, downtime, or compatibility. They can swap in drives as needed, while the Drobo is running. Drobo is privately held and headquartered in San Jose, California, with sales offices worldwide.

Delivery Agent

Series D in 2009
Delivery Agent is the market leader in turning audiences into revenue generating customers for the world’s largest brands and media companies. Delivery Agent’s proprietary technology allows audiences to engage with and transact directly from advertisements and television shows through web, mobile, and advanced television applications. Currently in market with leading broadcasters, advertisers, MVPDs and smart TV manufacturers, Delivery Agent brings scalability, organization and economic incentive to a disparate ecosystem that has traditionally lacked uniform technical standards and has been challenged by complex rights and revenue sharing issues. The company is deployed and maintains long term partnerships with NBC, FOX, CBS, HBO, Live Nation, Bravado, Tiger Woods, Pepsi, Visa, Comcast, and Samsung, among others. More information about Delivery Agent is available at www.deliveryagent.com and @deliveryagent.

Ruckus Wireless

Series F in 2009
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, Ruckus Wireless, Inc.(NYSE: RKUS) is a global supplier of advanced wireless systems for the rapidly expanding mobile Internet infrastructure market. The company offers a wide range of indoor and outdoor “Smart Wi-Fi” products to mobile carriers, broadband service providers, and corporate enterprises, and has over 48,000 end-customers worldwide. Ruckus technology addresses Wi-Fi capacity and coverage challenges caused by the ever-increasing amount of traffic on wireless networks due to accelerated adoption of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Ruckus invented and has patented state-of-the-art wireless voice, video, and data technology innovations, such as adaptive antenna arrays that extend signal range, increase client data rates, and avoid interference, providing consistent and reliable distribution of delay-sensitive multimedia content and services over standard 802.11 Wi-Fi.

Marin Software

Series C in 2009
Marin Software’s (NASDAQ: MRIN) mission is to give digital advertisers and agencies the power to optimize their paid marketing programs. MarinOne provides a unified platform for search, social, and eCommerce advertising. We help digital marketers convert precise audiences, win new customers, and make better decisions. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices worldwide, Marin Software’s platform powers marketing campaigns around the globe. For more information about us, please visit www.marinsoftware.com.

Sepaton

Series F in 2009
SEPATON, Inc. provides enterprise data protection solutions. It provides hardware and software products for enterprise data protection, departmental backups, deduplication, and electronic remote replication. The company also offers technical consulting and support services, remote monitoring, and replacement parts programs. Its ContentAware architecture enables virtual tape libraries (VTL) to deliver backup and restore performance, linear scalability, and advanced system automation. In addition, the company offers services, such as assessment services to evaluate backup processes on the various key metrics, including data risk, backup and restore performance, asset utilization, power consumption, and cost of ownership to provide recommendations for updating policies; and implementation services to install and integrate VTL, and deduplication and remote replication software. Further, it provides business solutions, such as backup performance, disaster recovery, green data center, corporate compliance, and information technology cost containment solutions; solutions for federal government, financial services, healthcare and health services, and telecommunications industries; and technology solutions. SEPATON, Inc. was formerly known as SANgate Systems, Inc. and changed its name in 2003. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts with additional offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

SpinMedia

Series D in 2009
SpinMedia LLC will now be known as SpinMedia Group. SpinMedia is the leader in pop culture and millennial audience reach - the world’s fastest-growing digital media company with more than 100 million monthly unique visitors. The over 35 SpinMedia brands – including Celebuzz, Stereogum, Buzznet, TheSuperficial, Idolator, Just Jared, Just Jared Jr., PureVolume, Hype Machine, Absolute Punk, What Would Tyler Durden Do?, SocialiteLife, Go Fug Yourself, Pink is the New Blog, Gorilla vs. Bear, RCRD LBL, Videogum, TheFrisky, Egotastic!, Concrete Loop, Brooklyn Vegan, Crunktastical, Punknews.org, and others- are category-leading, authentic, influential voices. SpinMedia is currently the fifth largest Web destination reaching adults 18-24. Via comScore, the company is the second largest digital publisher in Entertainment News and the tenth largest in Music. SpinMedia uses its massive reach, deep audience engagement, and understanding of the young adult audience to provide customized, innovative marketing and advertising solutions across its branded properties.

Buzz Media

Series D in 2009
Buzzmedia is an entertainment publisher focused on pop culture, music, and celebrity content. Based on concepts on social media, its platform enables brand advertisers to access and engage audiences using a combination of professional editorial, expert opinion, user contributions, and customized marketing solutions.

BlackDuck

Series D in 2009
Black Duck secures and manages open source software worldwide, eliminating open source security vulnerabilities and license compliance pain. With the rapid, widespread adoption of open-source software, Black Duck is a key component of Synopsys’ Software Integrity Platform, the most comprehensive solution for integrating security into the SDLC and software supply chain. Black Duck was established in 2002 and is based in Burlington, Massachusetts, United States.

PCH

Series A in 2008
PCH is a global company founded in 1996. We provide a unique, intelligent, end-to-end product development and supply chain orchestration platform for the world’s best brands. Our customers come from a variety of sectors, including beauty, home, living, entertainment, technology, fashion, and wellness. Our customers are passionate about their design, their brand, and the consumer experience, and they utilize a variety of market channels, including direct-to-consumer, direct-to-retail, and eCommerce sites. PCH is set up internationally to achieve cost synergies, scale and access to talent. At PCH, our passion is rapid, rigorous product development and supply chain speed, velocity and agility – all done with visibility, transparency, sustainability, and consumer engagement. Our innovative, new-generation supply chain model connects brands with consumers. We are asset-light, focusing on the complete product lifecycle and investing in value drivers of the brand’s product lifecycle. While the typical product fulfillment network is fragmented, PCH’s intelligent, end-to-end platform is horizontal, eliminating silos. Our platform increases brand revenue, optimizes costs, reduces balance sheet liabilities, and increases consumer engagement. PCH has two Innovation Hubs -- in San Francisco and in Shenzhen, China, with headquarters in Cork, Ireland, and software, finance, and back-office operations in Cape Town, South Africa. PCH founded Highway1, the world-renown hardware accelerator that helps startups bring innovative products to market. “PCH” stands for “Pacific Coast Highway” because founder Liam Casey loved the early time he spent in Southern California and the positive spirit that the iconic stretch of Highway 1 evoked. PCH is an equal opportunity employer who values diversity and inclusion. PCH is a great place to develop your career and have fun – all while working with great brands and doing rewarding, creative work. We value teamwork, integrity, and passion. We support professional growth along with work-life balance.

MarkMonitor

Series E in 2008
MarkMonitor, the global leader in enterprise brand protection, offers comprehensive solutions and services that safeguard brands, reputation and revenue from online risks. With end-to-end solutions that address the growing threats of online fraud, brand abuse and unauthorized channels, MarkMonitor enables a secure Internet for businesses and their customers. The company's exclusive access to data combined with its patented real-time prevention, detection and response capabilities provide wide-ranging protection to the ever-changing online risks faced by brands today.

DATAllegro

Series D in 2008
DATAllegro provides integrated data warehousing services.

Mu Dynamics

Series C in 2008
Mu Dynamics helps network operators and their diverse product suppliers build and operate higher quality, more reliable and robust networks that have minimal downtime. Operators need their revenue-critical next-gen IP services to be robust, available and secure to ensure minimal customer churn and costly downtime issues.

VDURA

Series E in 2008
VDURA is at the forefront of AI and HPC data storage and management, catering to on-premises, public cloud, and hybrid environments. Renowned for its unparalleled blend of performance, durability, and reliability, our Data Platform builds upon our legacy as pioneers and leaders in parallel NAS technology. Offering a unique integration of diverse storage media within a single architecture and global namespace, VDURA empowers customers with unmatched flexibility, simplicity, and cost-effectiveness. Our integrated approach ensures the highest levels of data protection, integrity, and availability, fueling relentless innovation in AI and HPC. Explore more at www.vdura.com.

Ecast

Series D in 2008
Ecast is the leader in place-based interactive media. Their hospitality network delivers digital music, games, entertainment, information and interactive advertising to more than 10,000 bars and nightclubs across the United States. Leveraging the personal impact of touch combined with the interactivity and targeting of the Internet, Ecast brings unsurpassed consumer engagement to out-of-home markets and is redefining the way consumers are entertained, informed and engaged.

Mimosa Systems

Series D in 2008
Mimosa Systems, Inc. provides content archiving solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. It offers Mimosa NearPoint, an integrated unstructured information management software for emails, files, and instant messages that enables email and file system archiving, e-discovery, recovery, disaster recovery, and storage management. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California with additional offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India.

RGB Networks

Series D in 2008
RGB Networks, Inc. provides network video processing solutions. Its video intelligence architecture (VIA) based solutions include broadcast network processor for grooming, statistical multiplexing, transrating, digital program insertion, and digital overlays; dynamic bandwidth manager for personalized architectures, such as video-on-demand and switched digital video; and modular media converter for ASI-to-gigabit Ethernet conversion. The company's VIA solutions also comprise modular video processor, an IPTV solution to deliver Internet protocol-based video services; simulcast edge processor for digital simulcast edge decoding applications; and universal scalable modulator, a multi-service digital edge QAM modulation and upconversion solution. Its video processing solutions enable multiple system operators and video service providers to implement switched digital networks.

Barracuda Networks

Venture Round in 2008
Barracuda Networks designs, develops, manufactures, distributes, and sells email and web security appliances. It offers cloud-connected solutions that help its customers address security threats, enhance network performance, and protect and store their data. The company’s products include Barracuda Spam Firewall, an integrated hardware and software solution for the protection of email servers from spam, virus, spoofing, phishing, and spyware attacks; Barracuda Web Filter, a solution to enforce organizational internet usage policies; Barracuda IM Firewall, an IM solution that provides IM server and gateway technologies; and Barracuda Website Firewall which offers protection against hackers' attempts. Watch an analyst interview with Steve Pao, GM, Security Business, here: https://vimeo.com/127091386 The company's products also include Barracuda Message Archiver, an email archiving solution and Barracuda Load Balancer that integrates server load balancing and network intrusion prevention solutions into network appliances. In addition, it provides IM protection, application server load balancing, and message archiving appliances as well as Barracuda Backup Service, a local and cloud-based data backup and disaster recovery solution hosted by data centers for businesses in Europe. Barracuda Networks’ solutions deliver protection against enterprise-class spam, spyware, viruses, and IT infrastructure threats. It sells its products through a network of distributors in the United States and internationally. The company sells its appliances, services, and software products to the education, government, financial services, healthcare, professional services, telecommunications, retail, and manufacturing industries. Barracuda Networks was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Campbell, California with additional offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, India, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, and China.

LogLogic

Series D in 2008
LogLogic is the provider of industry's only scalable log and security intelligence platform for the enterprise and cloud. LogLogic, with over 1300 customers, provides solutions that allow customers to collect and analyze terabytes of big data generated by their IT assets and gives Security, IT Ops, and Compliance professionals actionable information at their finger tips to identify issues proactively and make insightful decisions, and also get compliant with various regulations. Currently, LogLogic customers are leveraging its solutions to manage over 1,000 Petabytes (or 1 Exabyte) of data.

KACE

Series C in 2008
KACE Networks, Inc. operates as a systems management appliance company. The company offers KBOX Systems Management Appliance, which fulfills various systems management needs, such as initial discovery and computer inventory, software distribution, configuration management, patch management, security audit and enforcement, asset management, help desk, remote control, and reporting. Its KBOX Systems Management Appliance offers enhanced support for the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best practices. The company also provides KBOX Systems Deployment Appliance, which fulfills various systems deployment needs, such as computer inventory assessment, OS and application provisioning, migration, and recovery. In addition, it offers Virtual KBOX Systems Management Appliances, an appliance-based solution for companies that have deployed a virtual environment; and AppDeploy, which provides resources for IT professionals focused on application and system deployment. Further, the company provides software license compliance, regulatory compliance, systems and software deployment, cross platform management, virtualization management, and power management solutions. Its products manage desktops, laptops, and servers. KACE Networks, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California with additional offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. As per the transaction announced on February 11, 2010, KACE Networks, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Dell Inc.

Say Media

Series D in 2007
Say Media is a digital publishing company. Through its award-winning Tempest publishing platform and media services, Say Media enables its portfolio of independent content creators to build passionate communities around key consumer interest areas such as Style, Living, Food and Tech. The company provides simple and accountable ways for the world’s top brands to engage with these passionate audiences, at scale, with a reach of more than 400 million people around the world. Say Media is headquartered in San Francisco and New York, with offices across North America, in the UK and Australia.

Teknovus

Series D in 2007
Teknovus, Inc., a fabless semiconductor and software solutions company, develops and supplies access chips and embedded software for the FTTx market. It offers Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) integrated chips for central office and customer premises applications; EPON customer premises equipment ONU; TDM transport chips that provide the circuit emulation of T1/E1/J1 on various Ethernet switched networks; evaluation kits, which support original equipment manufacturers and service provider customers; EPON OLT solutions that offer a system-on-a-chip approach to the original equipment manufacturers; and TK3401 Intelligent EPON Node Controller that enables service providers to meet various needs of network topologies and subscriber densities. The company’s system-on-a-chips incorporate firmware for the embedded processor to control the hardware. Teknovus, Inc. markets its products through distributors in the United States, Europe, and China. Teknovus, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Petaluma, California with sales and support centers in Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. The company also has a location in San Jose, California.

Say Media

Series D in 2007
Say Media is a digital publishing company. Through its award-winning Tempest publishing platform and media services, Say Media enables its portfolio of independent content creators to build passionate communities around key consumer interest areas such as Style, Living, Food and Tech. The company provides simple and accountable ways for the world’s top brands to engage with these passionate audiences, at scale, with a reach of more than 400 million people around the world. Say Media is headquartered in San Francisco and New York, with offices across North America, in the UK and Australia.

Orchestria Corporation

Series E in 2007
Orchestria, a leader in Information Protection and Control, provides the software and solutions to help organizations protect and control this critical resource wherever it is stored or used and significantly reduce the risks associated with uncontrolled information. Orchestria addresses a broad set of risks while optimizing the operational burdens associated with the detection and remediation of these risks. Orchestria helps customers prevent data loss, address messaging compliance concerns, and enforce information classification and control.

Miradia

Series C in 2007
Miradia designs and manufactures micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) products. The company, through its technology, integrates MEMS structures directly on complementary metal-oxide semiconductors and wafer scale packaging. Miradia was formerly known as XHP Microsystems, Inc. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. As of April 7, 2009, Miradia, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Touch Micro-system Technology.

The Fanfare Group

Series C in 2007
The Fanfare Group, Inc. provides automated system and device testing solutions to help service providers, equipment manufacturers, and enterprises. It offers iTest, which automates critical testing processes to accelerate system and device testing in the QA organization; iTest Personal for manual testers and developers; iTest Team for feature testers and engineers with experience using scripting languages; and iTest Enterprise, which provides the tools to automation engineers need to make their jobs and automation. The company also offers professional, acceleration, and training services. The Fanfare Group, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Crossbeam Systems

Series F in 2007
Crossbeam Systems, Inc. provides next-generation security platforms for high-performance networks. It transforms the way enterprises, service providers, and government agencies architect and deliver security services. Its security platforms allow companies to consolidate racks of security appliances and network equipment, such as switches and load balancers; virtualizes the deployment and delivery of security applications; and simplify the delivery of security services. The company also integrates hardware with third-party security applications, such as firewalls, virtual private networks, intrusion detection and prevention systems, anti-virus, URL filtering, and content scanning at various performance levels. In addition, it offers SecureShore NMS, a multi-element network management system for multi-box configuration, OS backup and restore, reporting, application distribution, and event scheduling. The company offers firewall, content gateway, virtual security, and security virtualization and consolidation solutions; and professional, training and education, and online support services. Its customers include financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, universities, media organizations, manufacturers, and retailers. Crossbeam Systems, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Boxborough, Massachusetts with additional offices in Europe and the Asia Pacific. The company also operates an authorized training center in Mexico City.

Pure Digital Technologies

Series F in 2007
Pure Digital Technologies is the provider of innovative imaging solutions for the mass market, including the Flip Video family of digital camcorders. The Flip Video camera is a simple digital camcorder designed especially for Internet video sharing. The camera contains on-board software enabling one-click uploads to [YouTube](/organization/youtube), AOL Video, [MySpace](/organization/myspace) and other websites. The latest model, the Flip Ultra, has been the best-selling camcorder on [Amazon.com](/organization/amazon) since the day of its debut, capturing about 13% of the camcorder market. It captures video in 640x480 resolution at 30 frames per second. It uses 2 AA batteries. It lacks a memory card extension slot but can be connected to a computer with its pop-out USB connector, without the need for a cable. It is simple to use, lacking most of the features of more advanced cameras. Depending on memory size, the current ("Ultra") model camera retails for $150 (1 GB flash memory for about 30 minutes of video) or $180 (s2 GB flash memory). Pure Digital Technologies was acquired in 2009 by [Cisco](/organization/cisco), and in April 2011 Cisco [announced](http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=775104) it was shutting down the Flip line.

Mimosa Systems

Series C in 2007
Mimosa Systems, Inc. provides content archiving solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. It offers Mimosa NearPoint, an integrated unstructured information management software for emails, files, and instant messages that enables email and file system archiving, e-discovery, recovery, disaster recovery, and storage management. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California with additional offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India.

QuinStreet

Venture Round in 2007
QuinStreet uses the internet to connect companies with potential customers. The online performance marketing company helps businesses target their would-be customer audiences by using its proprietary technologies and media reach to generate sales leads. As a sign of confidence in its quality, QuinStreet has adopted a pay-for-performance model of pricing. Founded in 1999, QuinStreet is headquartered in Foster City, California, with satellite offices worldwide and 500 employees.

BlackDuck

Series C in 2007
Black Duck secures and manages open source software worldwide, eliminating open source security vulnerabilities and license compliance pain. With the rapid, widespread adoption of open-source software, Black Duck is a key component of Synopsys’ Software Integrity Platform, the most comprehensive solution for integrating security into the SDLC and software supply chain. Black Duck was established in 2002 and is based in Burlington, Massachusetts, United States.

Quartics

Series B in 2006
Quartics is a consumer electronics company focused on improving video experience for consumers globally. The company patented products and technologies deliver an improvement on HD (High Definition) quality on devices including Netbooks, Laptops, PCs, and more.

Barracuda Networks

Series D in 2006
Barracuda Networks designs, develops, manufactures, distributes, and sells email and web security appliances. It offers cloud-connected solutions that help its customers address security threats, enhance network performance, and protect and store their data. The company’s products include Barracuda Spam Firewall, an integrated hardware and software solution for the protection of email servers from spam, virus, spoofing, phishing, and spyware attacks; Barracuda Web Filter, a solution to enforce organizational internet usage policies; Barracuda IM Firewall, an IM solution that provides IM server and gateway technologies; and Barracuda Website Firewall which offers protection against hackers' attempts. Watch an analyst interview with Steve Pao, GM, Security Business, here: https://vimeo.com/127091386 The company's products also include Barracuda Message Archiver, an email archiving solution and Barracuda Load Balancer that integrates server load balancing and network intrusion prevention solutions into network appliances. In addition, it provides IM protection, application server load balancing, and message archiving appliances as well as Barracuda Backup Service, a local and cloud-based data backup and disaster recovery solution hosted by data centers for businesses in Europe. Barracuda Networks’ solutions deliver protection against enterprise-class spam, spyware, viruses, and IT infrastructure threats. It sells its products through a network of distributors in the United States and internationally. The company sells its appliances, services, and software products to the education, government, financial services, healthcare, professional services, telecommunications, retail, and manufacturing industries. Barracuda Networks was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Campbell, California with additional offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, India, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, and China.

DATAllegro

Series C in 2006
DATAllegro provides integrated data warehousing services.

Ecast

Series C in 2006
Ecast is the leader in place-based interactive media. Their hospitality network delivers digital music, games, entertainment, information and interactive advertising to more than 10,000 bars and nightclubs across the United States. Leveraging the personal impact of touch combined with the interactivity and targeting of the Internet, Ecast brings unsurpassed consumer engagement to out-of-home markets and is redefining the way consumers are entertained, informed and engaged.

Kazeon

Series C in 2006
Kazeon Systems, Inc. develops and provides electronic discovery solutions in the United States. It offers eDiscovery/litigation support, information security and privacy, governance, and risk and compliance solutions, as well as support and educational services for remote devices over corporate IP networks, VPN networks, and wireless and wired networks. The company also provides Information Center, which helps customers turn their data center into an information center; and Information Server, a software that automates eDiscovery functions from identification, collection through processing, preservation, analysis and review for corporations, service providers, and law firms. In addition, it offers a suite of storage optimization solutions, including data consolidation, migration and archival, file reporting, and backup search. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Mountain View, California. As of September 30, 2009, Kazeon Systems, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of EMC Corporation.

RGB Networks

Series C in 2006
RGB Networks, Inc. provides network video processing solutions. Its video intelligence architecture (VIA) based solutions include broadcast network processor for grooming, statistical multiplexing, transrating, digital program insertion, and digital overlays; dynamic bandwidth manager for personalized architectures, such as video-on-demand and switched digital video; and modular media converter for ASI-to-gigabit Ethernet conversion. The company's VIA solutions also comprise modular video processor, an IPTV solution to deliver Internet protocol-based video services; simulcast edge processor for digital simulcast edge decoding applications; and universal scalable modulator, a multi-service digital edge QAM modulation and upconversion solution. Its video processing solutions enable multiple system operators and video service providers to implement switched digital networks.

MarkMonitor

Series D in 2006
MarkMonitor, the global leader in enterprise brand protection, offers comprehensive solutions and services that safeguard brands, reputation and revenue from online risks. With end-to-end solutions that address the growing threats of online fraud, brand abuse and unauthorized channels, MarkMonitor enables a secure Internet for businesses and their customers. The company's exclusive access to data combined with its patented real-time prevention, detection and response capabilities provide wide-ranging protection to the ever-changing online risks faced by brands today.

Centrality Communications

Series D in 2005
Centrality Communications, Inc. was acquired by SiRF Technology Holdings Inc. Centrality Communications, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, delivers platform solutions for the navigation infotainment devices and systems market. It develops GPS navigation infotainment system platforms. The company offers a navigation processor family that focus on solving navigation problems, such as cost, GPS performance, and navigation and multimedia functionality. Its navigation processor family includes Atlas-I, a GPS engine and entry level platform, which targets baseline systems for the mainstream consumer; and Atlas-II processor that targets GPS navigation infotainment systems. The company also provides ATLAS-H, a type handheld processor, which delivers integration for portable navigation devices and handheld navigation terminals.

Sequence Design

Venture Round in 2005
Sequence Design, Inc. provides power and signal-integrity software solutions. The company offers Power-Aware SoC Design Flow, which enables power-aware SoC design from system level to signoff; PowerTheater, a set of power tools that creates power efficiency for SoC designs; Columbus-RLC Extraction for nanometer SoC designs; Columbus-Turbo, an extraction for nanometer standard-cell designs; Columbus-AMS, a RLC extraction for analogs; and CoolTime, a cell-based electrical integrity solution for concurrent analysis of voltage drop, power, electromigration, timing, and signal integrity for nanometer SoC designs. It also provides tools used by designers in wireless, graphics, mobile-computing, networking, and ASIC markets. The company was formerly known as Frequency Technology, Inc and changed its name to Sequence Design, Inc. in January, 2000. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Santa Clara, California. As of August 5, 2009, Sequence Design, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Apache Design Solutions, Inc.

Aruba Networks

Series D in 2005
Aruba securely delivers the enterprise network to users, wherever they work or roam, with unified mobility networks that significantly expand the reach of traditional port-centric networks. Unified mobility networks integrate adaptive WLANs, identity-based security, and application continuity services into a cohesive, high-performance system that can be easily deployed as an overlay on top of existing network infrastructure. Adaptive WLANs deliver high-performance, follow-me connectivity so users are always within reach of mission-critical information. Identity-based security associates access policies with users, not ports, to enable follow-me security that is enforced regardless of access method or location. Application continuity services enable follow-me applications that can be seamlessly accessed across WLAN and cellular networks. The cost, convenience, and security benefits of unified mobility networks are fundamentally changing how and where they work. Listed on the NASDAQ and Russell 2000® Index, Aruba is based in Sunnyvale, California, and has operations throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific regions.

Teknovus

Series C in 2005
Teknovus, Inc., a fabless semiconductor and software solutions company, develops and supplies access chips and embedded software for the FTTx market. It offers Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) integrated chips for central office and customer premises applications; EPON customer premises equipment ONU; TDM transport chips that provide the circuit emulation of T1/E1/J1 on various Ethernet switched networks; evaluation kits, which support original equipment manufacturers and service provider customers; EPON OLT solutions that offer a system-on-a-chip approach to the original equipment manufacturers; and TK3401 Intelligent EPON Node Controller that enables service providers to meet various needs of network topologies and subscriber densities. The company’s system-on-a-chips incorporate firmware for the embedded processor to control the hardware. Teknovus, Inc. markets its products through distributors in the United States, Europe, and China. Teknovus, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Petaluma, California with sales and support centers in Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. The company also has a location in San Jose, California.
Cedar Point Communications provides integrated voice over Internet protocol and multimedia switching technologies for the service provider and enterprise telecommunication industries. Its products include SAFARI C3, a media switching system, which delivers Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) capabilities that support the anticipated migration to IMS architecture for converged networks; and SAFARI eMG, a media gateway that delivers flexibility. The company also provides training, customer, and solution services. Cedar Point Communications serves information technology departments and network operators, cable operators and telecommunications carriers, and enterprise customers and educational institutions. Cedar Point Communications, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Derry, New Hampshire with an additional office in Meersburg, Germany.

MarkMonitor

Series C in 2005
MarkMonitor, the global leader in enterprise brand protection, offers comprehensive solutions and services that safeguard brands, reputation and revenue from online risks. With end-to-end solutions that address the growing threats of online fraud, brand abuse and unauthorized channels, MarkMonitor enables a secure Internet for businesses and their customers. The company's exclusive access to data combined with its patented real-time prevention, detection and response capabilities provide wide-ranging protection to the ever-changing online risks faced by brands today.

OuterBay Technologies

Series C in 2005
As of February 17, 2006, OuterBay Technologies, Inc. was acquired by Hewlett-Packard Co. OuterBay Technologies, Inc. provides information lifecycle management solutions for applications and databases that help customers to monitor, forecast, and manage data growth in enterprise application environments. It offers application resource monitor; data growth analysis and policy management; database archiving for long-term data retention, governance, and regulatory compliance; enterprise database archiving for applications; database sub setting; and data growth monitoring solutions. OuterBay Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Cupertino, California. The company has additional offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India.

Silicon Optix

Series C in 2004
Silicon Optix is a fabless semiconductor company, supplier of warping integrated circuit (IC) technology – eWARP™. eWARP digital distortion correction allows manufacturers to complement optics with sophisticated electronics imaging in order to achieve superior system designs and add new compelling features to products while reducing cost and complexity of optical systems. Silicon Optix has the only mainstream geometry processing IC in volume production to date. Over seven years of research and development invested in IC design, system design and optics have given Silicon Optix the expertise to be the leader in this emerging technology with large market opportunities.

Miradia

Series B in 2004
Miradia designs and manufactures micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) products. The company, through its technology, integrates MEMS structures directly on complementary metal-oxide semiconductors and wafer scale packaging. Miradia was formerly known as XHP Microsystems, Inc. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. As of April 7, 2009, Miradia, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Touch Micro-system Technology.

Frontbridge Technologies

Series D in 2004
Frontbridge technologies provided electronic messaging with security services for email and IM archiving, spam filtering, virus scanning, encrypted email, policy enforcement and disaster recovery.

Equallogic

Series C in 2004
Equallogic is a data management platform that provides data access, enterprise mobility, and virtualization solutions to its clients. Its product range includes automated enterprise storage tiering, load-balancing, and iSCSI-based SAN systems. It has a total funding of $47 million. Equallogic was founded in 1984.

Virtusa

Series D in 2004
Virtusa Corporation is a provider of digital business strategy, digital engineering, and information technology (IT) services and solutions that help clients change, disrupt, and unlock new value through innovation engineering. Virtusa serves Global 2000 companies in Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare, Communications, Media, Entertainment, Travel, Manufacturing, and Technology industries. Virtusa helps clients grow their business with innovative products and services that create operational efficiency using digital labor, future-proof operational and IT platforms, and rationalization and modernization of IT applications infrastructure. This is achieved through a unique approach blending deep contextual expertise, empowered agile teams, and measurably better engineering to create holistic solutions that drive business forward at unparalleled velocity enabled by a culture of cooperative disruption. Virtusa is a registered trademark of Virtusa Corporation. All other company and brand names may be trademarks or service marks of their respective holders.

Starent Networks

Series D in 2004
Starent Networks is a provider of multimedia core technology that enables mobile operators to deliver mobile broadband to their subscribers. Their proven platforms and software solutions combine significant performance capabilities and system intelligence required by the worlds most demanding mobile networks.

NetScaler

Series F in 2004
NetScaler is a software-defined application delivery controller that focuses on increasing the performance of business applications and networks. NetScaler is offered by Citrix Systems. NetScaler is based in San Jose, California and was founded in December 1997.

Silicon Optix

Series B in 2004
Silicon Optix is a fabless semiconductor company, supplier of warping integrated circuit (IC) technology – eWARP™. eWARP digital distortion correction allows manufacturers to complement optics with sophisticated electronics imaging in order to achieve superior system designs and add new compelling features to products while reducing cost and complexity of optical systems. Silicon Optix has the only mainstream geometry processing IC in volume production to date. Over seven years of research and development invested in IC design, system design and optics have given Silicon Optix the expertise to be the leader in this emerging technology with large market opportunities.

Pure Digital Technologies

Series C in 2004
Pure Digital Technologies is the provider of innovative imaging solutions for the mass market, including the Flip Video family of digital camcorders. The Flip Video camera is a simple digital camcorder designed especially for Internet video sharing. The camera contains on-board software enabling one-click uploads to [YouTube](/organization/youtube), AOL Video, [MySpace](/organization/myspace) and other websites. The latest model, the Flip Ultra, has been the best-selling camcorder on [Amazon.com](/organization/amazon) since the day of its debut, capturing about 13% of the camcorder market. It captures video in 640x480 resolution at 30 frames per second. It uses 2 AA batteries. It lacks a memory card extension slot but can be connected to a computer with its pop-out USB connector, without the need for a cable. It is simple to use, lacking most of the features of more advanced cameras. Depending on memory size, the current ("Ultra") model camera retails for $150 (1 GB flash memory for about 30 minutes of video) or $180 (s2 GB flash memory). Pure Digital Technologies was acquired in 2009 by [Cisco](/organization/cisco), and in April 2011 Cisco [announced](http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=775104) it was shutting down the Flip line.

Zeevo

Series E in 2003
Zeevo, Inc. develops system-on-chip solutions for Bluetooth and other wireless communications applications.

Everypath

Venture Round in 2003
Everypath is the leading provider of mobile task automation software to global 1000 companies.

MadeToOrder.com

Venture Round in 2002
MadeToOrder™ specializes in the development; sourcing and sales of logo branded merchandise and apparel and is owned and operated by senior sales executives who bring an average of 15 plus years' experience in corporate promotional products. They are passionate about their client relationships, attuned to their needs, and highly motivated to find the best possible solution to their problems. They deliver high-touch, super creative, ultra-responsive service that is intended to help their clients shine. The people you deal with are the firm. It matters to us. Having spent the majority of their careers as commissioned account executives serving Fortune 1000 companies, they are expert at managing the inevitable challenges of their business and making critical decisions on behalf of their clients. They have the experience and industry savvy to guide you seamlessly through generating ideas, identifying products, applying design, converting artwork, managing logistics and delivering a successful product on-time and on-budget.

EIS Group

Venture Round in 2002
EIS Group is focused on providing IT solutions that enable companies to convert their technology into strategic assets. Its solutions leverage companies existing IT infrastructure to automate and streamline operations to enable straight-through processing for Insurance, banking, communication, and public sector enterprises.
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