Jack Carsten

Managing Director

47 past transactions

Kytopen

Series A in 2021
Kytopen is a developer of a cell therapy platform designed for non-viral delivery of molecules into hard-to-transfect immune cells. The company's technology combines microfluidics and automation to make non-viral delivery of molecules easier, faster and cheaper through an automated cell engineering platform, enabling researchers to find new discoveries in biology that will lead to cost effective cell and gene therapies.

Atomo Coffee

Seed Round in 2019
Atomo Coffee is a developer of molecular coffee. Atomo has reversed engineered the coffee bean to create a smooth cup of coffee, made of naturally derived ingredients, and more sustainable than current commercial coffee. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Seattle, Washington, United States.

what3words

Venture Round in 2019
What3words is a mapping technology startup that creates a proprietary geocode system for logistics firms. It has divided the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares, each with a unique address made from 3 words. Now people can refer to any precise location – a delivery entrance, a picnic spot, or a drone landing point – using three simple words. What3words is helping improve businesses around the world and paving the way for social and economic progress in developing nations. It can be used via the free mobile app or online map. What3words can also be built into any other app, platform, or website, with just a few lines of code.

Windward

Series C in 2018
WWindward is the leading Predictive Intelligence company fusing AI and big data to digitalize the global maritime industry, enabling organizations to achieve business and operational readiness. Windward’s AI-powered solution allows stakeholders including banks, commodity traders, and major energy and shipping companies, to make real-time, predictive intelligence driven decisions, with a 360° view of the maritime ecosystem and its broader impact on safety, security, finance, and business

Evolve Biosystems

Series C in 2018
Evolve Biosystems is a biotechnology company that specializes in providing microbiome-based products designed to develop, restore, and maintain. The company's platform focuses on solving the gut dysbiosis throughout the human life cycle as well as in various animal species, enabling physicians to maintain the healthy gut microbiome in newborn infants with a consumer-directed home use product, and a hospital-based neonatal ICU product.

Muho.TV

Series A in 2018
Muho.TV is an online basketball media platform. They offer the latest teaching, quarter teaching, and skill teaching. They provide graphics, training videos, and live broadcasts that relate to basketball, enabling users to learn how to play basketball in a convenient way.

Smash.gg

Series A in 2017
The Company provides software to improve the Smash experience for streamers, players, tournament attendees, and spectators (collectively, “General Users”) and for registered users who are tournament organizers (“Tournament Organizers”). The Company provides a platform for enabling connections between General Users and Tournament Organizers and for the collection of payments with respect to the sale of tickets, registrations, merchandise, and services for, and the solicitation of donations with respect to, events registered on the Site from General Users.

Soul Machines

Series A in 2016
Founded in 2016, Soul Machines is a pioneer in the humanization of AI. We use our ground-breaking Biological AI technology to create engaging, empathetic AI Assistants, powered by our patented Digital Brain™. Our revolutionary Soul Machines Studio tools allow anyone to reimagine customer engagement, drive deep interactivity, and create personalized digital experiences. Soul Machines is unique in delivering the full capabilities of human and machine collaboration in an ethical, responsive, and unprecedented way.

Lock8

Venture Round in 2014
Velolock designs and engineers LOCK8 - a hardware and software solution, for cost-effective and user-centric bike sharing and fleet management. LOCK8 uses GPS, GSM and Bluetooth Low Energy to connect you and your bicycle fleet, so you can manage your fleet with absolute ease, while collating big fleet data. Our goal is to accelerate the global bike sharing market; optimising existing fleets and providing cheaper, more intuitive solutions to cities and towns, as well as corporate and university campuses. Our vision, however, is to enable a vast reduction of CO2 emissions through the reduction of motor-vehicle travel in cities; to contribute to a positive shift in health and wellbeing, by making bicycle travel safer and accessible to more people; to reduce the socio-economic inequality that current public transport costs impose.

Teabox

Seed Round in 2014
Teabox designs an online platform intended that organic tea and tea-based products direct from the source. The company's online tea shop delivers fresh Indian teas sourced directly from the tea gardens in Darjeeling, Assam, the Nilgiris and Nepal, enabling consumers to get access to 100% fresh and organic tea without compromising on aroma and flavor.

Aniways

Venture Round in 2014
Aniways has an SDK for adding "intelligence and interaction" to mobile communication services, giving any chat/IM/social networking service an amazing way to monetize their traffic. Aniways allows users to easily add dynamic, expressive and fun emoticons to their conversations.

Aniways

Seed Round in 2013
Aniways has an SDK for adding "intelligence and interaction" to mobile communication services, giving any chat/IM/social networking service an amazing way to monetize their traffic. Aniways allows users to easily add dynamic, expressive and fun emoticons to their conversations.

Kaiima

Private Equity Round in 2013
Kaiima developed a pioneering, non-GMO, technology platform called EP™. EP™, coupled with advanced breeding programs, boosts the inherent productivity and resource usage efficiency of high-impact food and energy crops. The company collaborates with partners around the globe to develop new crop varieties, specifically suited for sustainable agriculture. Kaiima is also active in castor breeding, marketing and sales as well as high-quality vegetable variety development through its subsidiary, Top Seeds. Kaiima is headquartered in the Lower Galilee, Israel.

Medial EarlySign

Series A in 2013
Medial EarlySign develops an AI algorithmic platform for the discovery of clinical insights that indicate the likelihood of disease from basic medical information, such as blood test results, and other EMR data. Called AlgoMarkers, its predictive engines are built in collaboration with healthcare organizations, through the combination of 10s of millions of patient years-worth of data, clinical rigor and some of the most brilliant algorithmic minds. The company develops clinical decision support and population health solutions that can assist in the early prediction of clinical outcomes related to cancers, metabolic, immune and infectious diseases. These tools are designed to place at the fingertips of healthcare organizations only those insights that could prove critical in disease management and prevention empowering them with proactive, predictive and personalized care management capabilities

Discera

Venture Round in 2012
Discera, Inc. is a fabless analog semiconductor company, manufactures and distributes silicon resonators to radio frequency (RF) and timing control markets. It provides CMOS resonator based oscillators, RF circuits, clock frequency devices, and resonator-based frequency control components. The companies products are used in consumer and mobile products, such as cellular radios, cameras, MP3 players, GPS, disk drives, and TV players, as well as used in military equipment. It sells its products through distributors in the United States and internationally.

Sensys Networks

Venture Round in 2011
Sensys Networks is the world's leading provider of wireless traffic detection and integrated traffic data systems. Enabling accurate data acquisition for transportation agencies on an unparalleled scale, Sensys Networks cost-effective wireless solutions provide a flexible, highly scalable unified platform with an unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. With over 150 customers in 40 US states, and 10 countries, our award-winning wireless transportation solutions are delivering on a future of sustainable, effective, and economical mobility solutions on a global scale.

LED Engin

Series D in 2010
LED Engin, Inc., based in California’s Silicon Valley, specializes in ultra-bright, ultra compact solid state lighting solutions allowing lighting designers & engineers the freedom to create uncompromised yet energy efficient lighting experiences. The LuxiGen™ Platform — an emitter and lens combination or integrated module solution, delivers superior flexibility in light output, ranging from 3w to 90w, a wide spectrum of available colors, including whites, multi-color and UV, and the ability to deliver upwards of 5,000 high quality lumens to a target. The small size combined with powerful output allows for a previously unobtainable freedom of design wherever high-flux density, directional light is required. LedEngin’s packaging technologies lead the industry with products that feature lowest thermal resistance, highest flux density and consummate reliability, enabling compact and efficient solid state lighting solutions. LedEngin is committed to providing products that conserve natural resources and reduce greenhouse emissions.

Discera

Series D in 2010
Discera, Inc. is a fabless analog semiconductor company, manufactures and distributes silicon resonators to radio frequency (RF) and timing control markets. It provides CMOS resonator based oscillators, RF circuits, clock frequency devices, and resonator-based frequency control components. The companies products are used in consumer and mobile products, such as cellular radios, cameras, MP3 players, GPS, disk drives, and TV players, as well as used in military equipment. It sells its products through distributors in the United States and internationally.

Siri

Series B in 2009
Siri is now a product of Apple Corp. Siri is a virtual personal assistant incorporated as a feature of [Apple](/organization/apple) iPhones beginning with the 4S generation. Siri was originally developed by [SRI International](/organization/sri-international). SRI spun off Siri, Inc., in 2007, and this company launched a personal assistant app in February 2010. Siri, Inc., was acquired by Apple in 2010, and in October 2011 Apple announced that the iPhone 4S would be using this technology.

Chelsio Communications

Series F in 2009
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.

SpectraLinear

Series C in 2009
SpectraLinear, Inc., a fabless mixed signal IC company, designs, develops, manufactures, and markets timing circuits. The company's products include computer clocks, buffers, zero delay buffers, EMI reduction circuits, and systems clocks for the consumer and PC clock applications. Its products enable various electronic applications, such as digital television, high definition digital television, digital still camera, digital movie camera or camcorders, set-top box, multi function printers, laser and inkjet printers, copiers, notebook and desktop computers, servers, and communication systems, as well as automotive, gaming, cash registers, and other industrial applications. The company serves consumer, computer, and communication markets. It has locations in Istanbul, Turkey; Bangalore, India; Taiwan; and Japan. SpectraLinear, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Right90

Series C in 2008
Right90 is a sales and revenue forecasting software, designed to increase accountability in a company's sales department by actively compiling and analyzing data from different departments within the sales and management branches. Right90, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Foster City, California.

Sensys Networks

Venture Round in 2008
Sensys Networks is the world's leading provider of wireless traffic detection and integrated traffic data systems. Enabling accurate data acquisition for transportation agencies on an unparalleled scale, Sensys Networks cost-effective wireless solutions provide a flexible, highly scalable unified platform with an unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. With over 150 customers in 40 US states, and 10 countries, our award-winning wireless transportation solutions are delivering on a future of sustainable, effective, and economical mobility solutions on a global scale.

iWatt

Series E in 2008
iWatt designs, develops and manufactures power supply control Integrated Circuits (ICs). iWatt technology delivers improvements in size, cost and efficiency. The company's patented techniques set a new standard in power supply performance by reducing component count for lower cost and improved reliability. The iWatt team has made a major breakthrough in power supply control by using digital algorithms to replace traditional analog control solutions.

WhiteHat Security

Series D in 2008
WhiteHat Security has been in the business of securing applications for over 15 years. In that time, we’ve seen applications evolve and become the driving force of the digital business, but they’ve also remained the primary target of malicious hacks. The WhiteHat Application Security Platform is a cloud service that allows organizations to bridge the gap between security and development to deliver secure applications at the speed of business. This innovative platform is one of the reasons why WhiteHat has won numerous awards and been positioned by Gartner as a Leader in application security testing four times in row. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., with regional offices across the U.S. and Europe.

Gear6

Venture Round in 2008
Gear6 sells Memcached solutions enabling high-growth web sites to deliver and scale dynamic applications and content. By focusing on the emerging need for a dedicated web caching tier, Gear6 solutions improve the scalability of web applications and databases, improving quality of service and reducing infrastructure cost.

Chelsio Communications

Series E in 2008
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.

PINC

Series C in 2007
PINC Solutions Corp. specializes in yard management, finished vehicle logistics, and inventory robotics. The company offers a comprehensive suite of software, hardware, and services designed to enhance supply chain efficiency by facilitating the movement of goods. Its cloud-based asset tracking platform, supported by an Internet of Things (IoT) sensor network, provides real-time visibility and actionable insights, enabling businesses to optimize their supply chain operations. PINC's solutions are utilized across various sectors, including automotive, manufacturing, retail, consumer packaged goods, food and beverage, grocery, logistics, and transportation. Founded in 2004, the company is headquartered in Union City, California.

Discera

Series C in 2007
Discera, Inc. is a fabless analog semiconductor company, manufactures and distributes silicon resonators to radio frequency (RF) and timing control markets. It provides CMOS resonator based oscillators, RF circuits, clock frequency devices, and resonator-based frequency control components. The companies products are used in consumer and mobile products, such as cellular radios, cameras, MP3 players, GPS, disk drives, and TV players, as well as used in military equipment. It sells its products through distributors in the United States and internationally.

Identity Engines

Series B in 2006
Identity Engines (idEngines) develops identity-based solutions for securing enterprise networks. It offers Ignition server, a network identity management device to centralize, streamline, and secure access across the network. The company also offers Ignition Portal that provides Web authentication capability to support network access control for various guest and visitor device types, operating systems, and browsers; Ignition Posture that provides endpoint posture checking; Ignition Guest Manager that secures network services for vendors and partners; and Ignition AutoConnect, an automated solution to streamline secure wireless and wired deployments. idEngines was acquired by Avaya Inc/Nortel Networks in December of 2008, and is now part of Extreme Networks through Extreme's acquisition of Avaya's enterprise networking business.

Identity Engines

Series A in 2005
Identity Engines (idEngines) develops identity-based solutions for securing enterprise networks. It offers Ignition server, a network identity management device to centralize, streamline, and secure access across the network. The company also offers Ignition Portal that provides Web authentication capability to support network access control for various guest and visitor device types, operating systems, and browsers; Ignition Posture that provides endpoint posture checking; Ignition Guest Manager that secures network services for vendors and partners; and Ignition AutoConnect, an automated solution to streamline secure wireless and wired deployments. idEngines was acquired by Avaya Inc/Nortel Networks in December of 2008, and is now part of Extreme Networks through Extreme's acquisition of Avaya's enterprise networking business.

Applied MicroStructures

Series B in 2005
Applied MicroStructures Inc. (AMST) designs and manufactures Molecular Vapor Deposition (MVDÂ) tools: a breakthrough proprietary nanotechnology that enables the growth of ultra-thin films with a wide range of functionalities. These films are deposited in a vacuum chamber at low temperatures on a broad spectrum of substrates.

Alignent Software

Series A in 2005
Alignent Software, Inc. provides collaborative roadmapping software solutions. Its products include Vision Strategist, which allows users to enter product and technology information, as well as graphically depicts it in the form of a multi-dimensional roadmap. The company’s products also include Vision Reporter, which exports roadmap data to create presentations, analyze planning data, perform advanced calculations, and extend the use of roadmap data to others. In addition, it offers Roadmap Interchange, which helps organizations to share strategic planning information. The company serves aerospace and defense, industrial manufacturing, communications and electronics, government and military, and medical device and diagnostic industries. Alignent Software, Inc. was formerly known as Strateva Software and changed its name to Alignent Software, Inc. in November 2004. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Carlsbad, California. As of June 25, 2007, Alignent Software, Inc. is a subsidiary of Sopheon plc.

Venturi Wireless

Series C in 2005
Provider of 3G mobile optimization solutions. The company offers mobile broadband optimization solutions to wireless carriers and enterprises worldwide. Its carrier-grade solutions are designed to maximize network efficiency and deliver mobile user experience available for both data and multimedia applications.

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.

NuCore Technologies Inc.

Series E in 2004
Nucore Technology is a developer of digital and analog imaging devices for cameras and video cameras. The company has 72 employees. Nucore Technology, founded in May 1997, has undergone five rounds of equity financing amounting to US$84 million, the company's Web site says.

Golden Gate Technology

Series A in 2004
Golden Gate Technology, Inc. (GGT) develops electronics design software tools that address the advanced design requirements of low-power integrated circuits (ICs). Leading semiconductor companies use GGT software to create multi-million-gate back-end physical designs on time and at spec. GGT's products enable design engineers to reduce IC power consumption and improve power management without sacrificing chip performance and integrity. GGT is headquartered in San Jose, Calif.

OnStation

Venture Round in 2004
OnStation (formerly CarStation.com ) is an online customer relationship management (CRM) solutions for enterprises in the automotive service industry, is redefining the way companies in the $132 billion market manage their customers. OnStation's online CRM solutions enable enterprises to improve profitability by stimulating increased customer visits, spending, loyalty and satisfaction

Applied MicroStructures

Series A in 2004
Applied MicroStructures Inc. (AMST) designs and manufactures Molecular Vapor Deposition (MVDÂ) tools: a breakthrough proprietary nanotechnology that enables the growth of ultra-thin films with a wide range of functionalities. These films are deposited in a vacuum chamber at low temperatures on a broad spectrum of substrates.

iWatt

Series B in 2003
iWatt designs, develops and manufactures power supply control Integrated Circuits (ICs). iWatt technology delivers improvements in size, cost and efficiency. The company's patented techniques set a new standard in power supply performance by reducing component count for lower cost and improved reliability. The iWatt team has made a major breakthrough in power supply control by using digital algorithms to replace traditional analog control solutions.

NuCore Technologies Inc.

Series D in 2003
Nucore Technology is a developer of digital and analog imaging devices for cameras and video cameras. The company has 72 employees. Nucore Technology, founded in May 1997, has undergone five rounds of equity financing amounting to US$84 million, the company's Web site says.

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.

iWatt

Series A in 2001
iWatt designs, develops and manufactures power supply control Integrated Circuits (ICs). iWatt technology delivers improvements in size, cost and efficiency. The company's patented techniques set a new standard in power supply performance by reducing component count for lower cost and improved reliability. The iWatt team has made a major breakthrough in power supply control by using digital algorithms to replace traditional analog control solutions.

NuCore Technologies Inc.

Series C in 2001
Nucore Technology is a developer of digital and analog imaging devices for cameras and video cameras. The company has 72 employees. Nucore Technology, founded in May 1997, has undergone five rounds of equity financing amounting to US$84 million, the company's Web site says.

mDiversity

Series B in 2000
The radio link is the barrier to expansion for wireless communications. Manufacturers need to enhance the spectrum efficiency – capacity, coverage and data rate – by migrating to the highest performance infrastructure. Macrodiversity increases the spectrum efficiency of wireless networks by having a cellular terminal simultaneously communicate with multiple access points. mDiversity's patented distributed architecture and proprietary software enables – for the first time – a cost effective implementation of macrodiversity Founded in early 1999, mDiversity has attracted leading veterans from the wireless community to its management team to spearhead the development of a complete solution for second and third generation (3G) wireless networks. The company is privately held and has raised over $11 million to date. mDiversity has over 30 employees and is based in San Jose, California. mDiversity is breaking down the cost-barriers of macrodiversity with its vision for a complete solution based on an open architecture and industry standards. mDiversity’s proprietary software with a distributed architecture supports a wide range of industry standards such as GSM, TDMA, EDGE, and 3G wide-band CDMA, providing a flexible, scalable solution. mDiversity’s product implementation increases the radio link efficiency, translating into benefits such as: decreasing mobile transmit power by as much as 94%; reducing dropped calls; increasing capacity and data rate by over 100%; expanding coverage by up to 300%.

Native Minds

Venture Round in 2000
NativeMinds is a provider of integrated self-service solutions called virtual representatives or vReps. NativeMinds' vReps humanize online relationships by providing a single, interactive contact point for all customer questions through a natural language dialog. vReps eliminate the need for separate online support channels by combining search, contact us and FAQ's into a single interface enabling companies to increase customer satisfaction and decrease maintenance and support costs.

NuCore Technologies Inc.

Series B in 2000
Nucore Technology is a developer of digital and analog imaging devices for cameras and video cameras. The company has 72 employees. Nucore Technology, founded in May 1997, has undergone five rounds of equity financing amounting to US$84 million, the company's Web site says.
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