Global Catalyst Partners

Global Catalyst Partners is an international, multistage, technology-oriented venture capital firm. Their partners have significant operating experience serving in large public companies as well as building entrepreneurial ventures into major public companies. It is GCP's view that all ventures must be global upon inception, optimizing inputs (manufacturing, technology sourcing, financing) and opportunities. Accordingly, GCP has a single fund and operates with a single team assisting each of its ventures globally. GCP has extensive strategic corporate relationships to help companies recruit, source technology, obtain services, and most importantly identify appropriate customers.

Koji Osawa

Managing Principal and Co-Founder

Vijay Parikh

Managing Principal

53 past transactions

Countable

Series A in 2021
Countable provides virtual community management for corporations, non-profits, and political campaigns. They use technology to communicate and human interconnectedness. They produce technology solutions that facilitate community engagement.

GROOVE X

Series A in 2017
GROOVE X is designing and developing a totally new, next-generation household robot that no one has seen before, that truly touches people's hearts and inspires real affection.

GROOVE X

Seed Round in 2016
GROOVE X is designing and developing a totally new, next-generation household robot that no one has seen before, that truly touches people's hearts and inspires real affection.

Raksul

Series D in 2016
Raksul.inc is a fabless B2B platform builder. It aims to redesign and simplify value chains in legacy industries. It has enabled the "sharing economy" business model in printing, logistics and advertising, by connecting SME customers directly to excess capacities of existing players in various industries at a low cost.

Fuller

Series C in 2016
Fuller is a software development company that builds mobile phone applications and provides internet media services. The company’s products include App Ape Analytics and App Ape Lab. App Ape Analytics is a trend research and analysis app that investigates the usage of Android terminal, and offers the viewing rate data; the number of active users of the application; and user attribute information such as the user’s age gender, the user who is in possession of the application, and more. App Ape Lab analyzes the trends and offers real-time information of the app market. Fuller was founded in 2011 and is based in Chiba, Japan.

GROOVE X

Seed Round in 2016
GROOVE X is designing and developing a totally new, next-generation household robot that no one has seen before, that truly touches people's hearts and inspires real affection.

Fuller

Venture Round in 2015
Fuller is a software development company that builds mobile phone applications and provides internet media services. The company’s products include App Ape Analytics and App Ape Lab. App Ape Analytics is a trend research and analysis app that investigates the usage of Android terminal, and offers the viewing rate data; the number of active users of the application; and user attribute information such as the user’s age gender, the user who is in possession of the application, and more. App Ape Lab analyzes the trends and offers real-time information of the app market. Fuller was founded in 2011 and is based in Chiba, Japan.

Raksul

Series C in 2015
Raksul.inc is a fabless B2B platform builder. It aims to redesign and simplify value chains in legacy industries. It has enabled the "sharing economy" business model in printing, logistics and advertising, by connecting SME customers directly to excess capacities of existing players in various industries at a low cost.

ZOCAI

Series A in 2014
ZOCAI offers jewelry products that include platinum diamond rings and wedding rings. They allow consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the internet using a web browser or a mobile app. Their products serve consumers.

Verient

Venture Round in 2012
Verient develops technologies and products that enable financial institutions (FIs) and merchants to customize payment choices for their customers, thereby offering more convenient and more secure transactions for both Internet and in store purchases. This capability results in the capture of additional customer payments, thus increasing revenue, while at the same time reducing fraud losses.

Teranetics

Venture Round in 2010
Teranetics is a leading mixed-signal IC company that develops silicon products for the most advanced communication applications. The company's core development team has a strong track record of successful product development efforts in advanced communication systems and silicon. Teranetics is backed by a strong consortium of venture investors with in-depth experience and success in the semiconductor and communication markets.
Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. (中微半导体设备(上海)有限公司) is a Chinese global microfabrication equipment company serving customers in the semiconductor industry and relevant high-tech sectors. The company is a specialized supplier of key equipment for the production and development of micron-sized and nanoscale VLSI for the semiconductor industry in China and Asia. The company is focused on chemical vapor deposition and plasma etching products.

iKoa

Debt Financing in 2010
An early-stage semiconductor start-up company, iKoa® is dedicated to becoming a leader in enabling low-power, high-performance semiconductor products for consumer mobile devices in the mobile communications, entertainment, and personal computer markets. Founded by repeat entrepreneurs, iKoa surmounts the capability of today's semiconductor solutions by offering previously unattainable performance and new features for end-user products, at a very low power consumption. With iKoa's disruptive technology, semiconductor products can be designed with up to 4X more performance, more features, and 1/10th the power consumption of competing methods. iKoa has offices in Menlo Park, California (Silicon Valley) and engineering and development operations in Hyderabad, India.

Actelis Networks

Venture Round in 2009
Actelis Networks is the provider of high performance, scalable broadband over copper solutions to Telco, Mobile, and IoT networks. Actelis turns copper into a strategic asset that enables delivering reliable, high-speed Ethernet services and broadband access to more places and devices more quickly, easily, and cost-effectively than can be done by using fiber optics or microwave.

Beceem Communications

Venture Round in 2009
Beceem Communications is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in the emerging WiMAX marketplace. They offer baseband & RF chips as well as complete hardware & software solutions. From the beginning, Beceem has taken a leadership position in everything they do. In 2005, they were the first to market with a pre-WiMAX chipset called the MS100, and followed that success with the first Wave 1 (released January 2006) and Wave 2 (released December 2006) mobile WiMAX chipsets.
Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. (中微半导体设备(上海)有限公司) is a Chinese global microfabrication equipment company serving customers in the semiconductor industry and relevant high-tech sectors. The company is a specialized supplier of key equipment for the production and development of micron-sized and nanoscale VLSI for the semiconductor industry in China and Asia. The company is focused on chemical vapor deposition and plasma etching products.

sliceX

Series B in 2008
SliceX started as design house in 1996 and established itself as a leading provider of high performance, low power analog and mixed signal ICs and IP services. SliceX owns over 200 silicon-proven analog function blocks that can be used to deliver high-value analog IC solutions. SliceX ICs have targeted a diverse range of applications — consumer, communication, imaging, industrial and medical.

OmniPV

Venture Round in 2008
OmniPV they develops and produces solar energy solutions for their clients. Their renewable energy is both environmentally safe and economically sustainable as a source of energy.

SoundHound

Series B in 2008
SoundHound AI develops a voice AI platform that enables brands to create customized conversational experiences for their products and services. The platform allows companies to voice-enable their offerings while providing access to valuable data and analytics for improved customer interactions. SoundHound AI aims to enhance user engagement through natural voice interactions across various industries.

Actelis Networks

Series F in 2008
Actelis Networks is the provider of high performance, scalable broadband over copper solutions to Telco, Mobile, and IoT networks. Actelis turns copper into a strategic asset that enables delivering reliable, high-speed Ethernet services and broadband access to more places and devices more quickly, easily, and cost-effectively than can be done by using fiber optics or microwave.

Verient

Series A in 2008
Verient develops technologies and products that enable financial institutions (FIs) and merchants to customize payment choices for their customers, thereby offering more convenient and more secure transactions for both Internet and in store purchases. This capability results in the capture of additional customer payments, thus increasing revenue, while at the same time reducing fraud losses.

Teranetics

Series D in 2008
Teranetics is a leading mixed-signal IC company that develops silicon products for the most advanced communication applications. The company's core development team has a strong track record of successful product development efforts in advanced communication systems and silicon. Teranetics is backed by a strong consortium of venture investors with in-depth experience and success in the semiconductor and communication markets.

Siimpel Corporation

Series D in 2007
Siimpel Corporation has been in the business of innovation since its original founding in 2000 as SiWave. With a heritage from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a background in high-precision navigation grade MEMS sensors, the company has maintained a leadership in technology. In its short history, Siimpel Corporation created the smallest high port count optical switches in the world, packaged MEMS components for NASA's Mars rovers, developed the world's first MEMS horizon sensor, developed the highest precision laser ranging system, and created the world's smallest stages using MEMS technology. A recipient of the ATP (advanced technology program) award from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Siimpel is proud of its history of ground breaking innovation. Since 2004, Siimpel has been applying the high precision MEMS platform technology to enable the drastic reduction in size of high performance digital cameras. Siimpel's innovative products set new standards for the size and performance of digital cameras in mobile platforms.

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.

Yoomba

Series A in 2007
Yoomba is a free service that lets anyone with an e-mail address send and receive instant messages and VoIP calls without creating any new user accounts. Needing only a functioning e-mail address, users can quickly download the Yoomba client from the company website, and without any registration can contact other e-mail addresses over chat or VoIP call by clicking one of two buttons that automatically appear next to e-mails in your e-mail client. In order to chat or make calls, however, both users need to have Yoomba: if the other address contacted does not have Yoomba, he/she will get an e-mail directed to Yoomba's download site. Yoomba is compatible with many e-mail clients inculding GMail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, and Outlook. The service is great because it eliminates the need for phone numbers. Users only need their email account and an email address to make a call or IM. Now based in Silicon Valley, Yoomba was originally founded in Tel Aviv, Israel as one of the world's first open communications companies. It faces competition from other more popular services like the IM client [Meebo](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/Meebo) and VoIP company [Skype](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/Skype), which have larger user bases and offer some more features. Yet Yoomba is unique to offer an open standard available to any community: it connects people universally across e-mail address as opposed to over closed user networks which often involve registration and restrictions. Yoomba reached over 500,000 users in less than a month from its July 2007 launch.

iKoa

Series A in 2007
An early-stage semiconductor start-up company, iKoa® is dedicated to becoming a leader in enabling low-power, high-performance semiconductor products for consumer mobile devices in the mobile communications, entertainment, and personal computer markets. Founded by repeat entrepreneurs, iKoa surmounts the capability of today's semiconductor solutions by offering previously unattainable performance and new features for end-user products, at a very low power consumption. With iKoa's disruptive technology, semiconductor products can be designed with up to 4X more performance, more features, and 1/10th the power consumption of competing methods. iKoa has offices in Menlo Park, California (Silicon Valley) and engineering and development operations in Hyderabad, India.
Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. (中微半导体设备(上海)有限公司) is a Chinese global microfabrication equipment company serving customers in the semiconductor industry and relevant high-tech sectors. The company is a specialized supplier of key equipment for the production and development of micron-sized and nanoscale VLSI for the semiconductor industry in China and Asia. The company is focused on chemical vapor deposition and plasma etching products.

Aquest Systems

Series B in 2007
Aquest Systems Corporation provides automation equipment for the semiconductor manufacturing industry. It offers No-Wait-Manufacturing, which improves fab productivity by reducing fab cycle-time and improving equipment utilization, as well as increasing flexibility of fab layout and expansion in an IC fab; No-Wait-Productivity Improvement that optimizes material movement in an existing fab by eliminating or minimizing bottlenecks; and FabEX Transporter, which creates FOUP transportation. Aquest Systems Corporation was founded in 2004 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. It has operations and locations in Sunnyvale, California; Tokyo, Japan; Taichung, Taiwan; Bangalore, India; and Singapore, Singapore.

Beceem Communications

Series D in 2007
Beceem Communications is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in the emerging WiMAX marketplace. They offer baseband & RF chips as well as complete hardware & software solutions. From the beginning, Beceem has taken a leadership position in everything they do. In 2005, they were the first to market with a pre-WiMAX chipset called the MS100, and followed that success with the first Wave 1 (released January 2006) and Wave 2 (released December 2006) mobile WiMAX chipsets.

Actelis Networks

Series E in 2007
Actelis Networks is the provider of high performance, scalable broadband over copper solutions to Telco, Mobile, and IoT networks. Actelis turns copper into a strategic asset that enables delivering reliable, high-speed Ethernet services and broadband access to more places and devices more quickly, easily, and cost-effectively than can be done by using fiber optics or microwave.

Teranetics

Series C in 2006
Teranetics is a leading mixed-signal IC company that develops silicon products for the most advanced communication applications. The company's core development team has a strong track record of successful product development efforts in advanced communication systems and silicon. Teranetics is backed by a strong consortium of venture investors with in-depth experience and success in the semiconductor and communication markets.

Newport Media

Series C in 2006
Newport Media is a fabless semiconductor company that develops and sells highly integrated solutions for emerging digital audio and mobile TV broadcasts standards. Market research firm In-Stat forecasts that the market for TV enabled cellular phones will grow to over 80 million units annually by 2010. To optimally address this and other significant market opportunities, Newport Media has assembled a management and development team with comprehensive system semiconductor experience in wireless handset and digital set-top box industries. Newport Media development team leverages its collective experience in these converging industries to develop broadcast multi-media architectures and IC implementations with unprecedented performance, power consumption, size and cost. Newport Media is a member of all major mobile TV industry forums and is an active participant in the international standardization process.

Verient

Series A in 2006
Verient develops technologies and products that enable financial institutions (FIs) and merchants to customize payment choices for their customers, thereby offering more convenient and more secure transactions for both Internet and in store purchases. This capability results in the capture of additional customer payments, thus increasing revenue, while at the same time reducing fraud losses.

Beceem Communications

Series D in 2006
Beceem Communications is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in the emerging WiMAX marketplace. They offer baseband & RF chips as well as complete hardware & software solutions. From the beginning, Beceem has taken a leadership position in everything they do. In 2005, they were the first to market with a pre-WiMAX chipset called the MS100, and followed that success with the first Wave 1 (released January 2006) and Wave 2 (released December 2006) mobile WiMAX chipsets.
Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. (中微半导体设备(上海)有限公司) is a Chinese global microfabrication equipment company serving customers in the semiconductor industry and relevant high-tech sectors. The company is a specialized supplier of key equipment for the production and development of micron-sized and nanoscale VLSI for the semiconductor industry in China and Asia. The company is focused on chemical vapor deposition and plasma etching products.

Miradia

Series C in 2006
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.

SoundHound

Series A in 2006
SoundHound AI develops a voice AI platform that enables brands to create customized conversational experiences for their products and services. The platform allows companies to voice-enable their offerings while providing access to valuable data and analytics for improved customer interactions. SoundHound AI aims to enhance user engagement through natural voice interactions across various industries.

Newport Media

Series B in 2006
Newport Media is a fabless semiconductor company that develops and sells highly integrated solutions for emerging digital audio and mobile TV broadcasts standards. Market research firm In-Stat forecasts that the market for TV enabled cellular phones will grow to over 80 million units annually by 2010. To optimally address this and other significant market opportunities, Newport Media has assembled a management and development team with comprehensive system semiconductor experience in wireless handset and digital set-top box industries. Newport Media development team leverages its collective experience in these converging industries to develop broadcast multi-media architectures and IC implementations with unprecedented performance, power consumption, size and cost. Newport Media is a member of all major mobile TV industry forums and is an active participant in the international standardization process.

Beceem Communications

Series C in 2006
Beceem Communications is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in the emerging WiMAX marketplace. They offer baseband & RF chips as well as complete hardware & software solutions. From the beginning, Beceem has taken a leadership position in everything they do. In 2005, they were the first to market with a pre-WiMAX chipset called the MS100, and followed that success with the first Wave 1 (released January 2006) and Wave 2 (released December 2006) mobile WiMAX chipsets.

Siimpel Corporation

Series C in 2005
Siimpel Corporation has been in the business of innovation since its original founding in 2000 as SiWave. With a heritage from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a background in high-precision navigation grade MEMS sensors, the company has maintained a leadership in technology. In its short history, Siimpel Corporation created the smallest high port count optical switches in the world, packaged MEMS components for NASA's Mars rovers, developed the world's first MEMS horizon sensor, developed the highest precision laser ranging system, and created the world's smallest stages using MEMS technology. A recipient of the ATP (advanced technology program) award from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Siimpel is proud of its history of ground breaking innovation. Since 2004, Siimpel has been applying the high precision MEMS platform technology to enable the drastic reduction in size of high performance digital cameras. Siimpel's innovative products set new standards for the size and performance of digital cameras in mobile platforms.

Teranetics

Series B in 2005
Teranetics is a leading mixed-signal IC company that develops silicon products for the most advanced communication applications. The company's core development team has a strong track record of successful product development efforts in advanced communication systems and silicon. Teranetics is backed by a strong consortium of venture investors with in-depth experience and success in the semiconductor and communication markets.

Beceem Communications

Series B in 2005
Beceem Communications is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in the emerging WiMAX marketplace. They offer baseband & RF chips as well as complete hardware & software solutions. From the beginning, Beceem has taken a leadership position in everything they do. In 2005, they were the first to market with a pre-WiMAX chipset called the MS100, and followed that success with the first Wave 1 (released January 2006) and Wave 2 (released December 2006) mobile WiMAX chipsets.

Newport Media

Series A in 2005
Newport Media is a fabless semiconductor company that develops and sells highly integrated solutions for emerging digital audio and mobile TV broadcasts standards. Market research firm In-Stat forecasts that the market for TV enabled cellular phones will grow to over 80 million units annually by 2010. To optimally address this and other significant market opportunities, Newport Media has assembled a management and development team with comprehensive system semiconductor experience in wireless handset and digital set-top box industries. Newport Media development team leverages its collective experience in these converging industries to develop broadcast multi-media architectures and IC implementations with unprecedented performance, power consumption, size and cost. Newport Media is a member of all major mobile TV industry forums and is an active participant in the international standardization process.

Chelsio Communications

Series C in 2005
Chelsio is a technology company focused on solving high performance networking and storage challenges for virtualized enterprise data centers, cloud service installations, and cluster computing environments. Now shipping its fourth generation protocol acceleration technology, Chelsio is delivering hardware and software solutions including Unified Wire Ethernet network adapter cards, unified storage software, high performance storage gateways, unified management software, bypass cards, and other solutions focused on specialized applications. Chelsio is a privately-held subsystems company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Siimpel Corporation

Series B in 2004
Siimpel Corporation has been in the business of innovation since its original founding in 2000 as SiWave. With a heritage from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a background in high-precision navigation grade MEMS sensors, the company has maintained a leadership in technology. In its short history, Siimpel Corporation created the smallest high port count optical switches in the world, packaged MEMS components for NASA's Mars rovers, developed the world's first MEMS horizon sensor, developed the highest precision laser ranging system, and created the world's smallest stages using MEMS technology. A recipient of the ATP (advanced technology program) award from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Siimpel is proud of its history of ground breaking innovation. Since 2004, Siimpel has been applying the high precision MEMS platform technology to enable the drastic reduction in size of high performance digital cameras. Siimpel's innovative products set new standards for the size and performance of digital cameras in mobile platforms.

Greenfield Networks

Series C in 2004
Greenfield Networks provides Ethernet switch silicon technology solutions for enterprise and metro applications primarily in India and internationally. The company offers a series of packet processors; G135 Intelligent Mux, which is a 12-port gigabit Ethernet (GE) intelligent multiplexer for GE linecards for enterprise and metro edge chassis systems; and G900 switch fabric that delivers wirespeed switching performance for its 10 Gbps fabric ports.

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.

Beceem Communications

Series A in 2004
Beceem Communications is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in the emerging WiMAX marketplace. They offer baseband & RF chips as well as complete hardware & software solutions. From the beginning, Beceem has taken a leadership position in everything they do. In 2005, they were the first to market with a pre-WiMAX chipset called the MS100, and followed that success with the first Wave 1 (released January 2006) and Wave 2 (released December 2006) mobile WiMAX chipsets.

Informative

Venture Round in 2004
Informative a marketing company, offers online tools for identifying customer priorities and form brand communities. The company also provides marketing analytics services. It offers survey, community and forum, blog, and profiling services. The company serves advertising agencies, marketing services firms, and media properties, as well as consumer products, media, financial services, pharmaceutical, software, and consumer electronic industries. Informative, Inc. was founded in 1999 as Getwebby.com and changed its name to Cahoots, Inc. in 2000. Further, it changed its name to Informative, Inc. in 2002. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.

Chelsio Communications

Series B in 2002
Chelsio is a technology company focused on solving high performance networking and storage challenges for virtualized enterprise data centers, cloud service installations, and cluster computing environments. Now shipping its fourth generation protocol acceleration technology, Chelsio is delivering hardware and software solutions including Unified Wire Ethernet network adapter cards, unified storage software, high performance storage gateways, unified management software, bypass cards, and other solutions focused on specialized applications. Chelsio is a privately-held subsystems company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Velio Communications

Series C in 2001
Velio Communications, Inc. designs and manufactures high-bandwidth interconnecting semiconductors for integrated telecommunication systems.

Actelis Networks

Series C in 2001
Actelis Networks is the provider of high performance, scalable broadband over copper solutions to Telco, Mobile, and IoT networks. Actelis turns copper into a strategic asset that enables delivering reliable, high-speed Ethernet services and broadband access to more places and devices more quickly, easily, and cost-effectively than can be done by using fiber optics or microwave.

Actelis Networks

Series B in 2000
Actelis Networks is the provider of high performance, scalable broadband over copper solutions to Telco, Mobile, and IoT networks. Actelis turns copper into a strategic asset that enables delivering reliable, high-speed Ethernet services and broadband access to more places and devices more quickly, easily, and cost-effectively than can be done by using fiber optics or microwave.
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