iD Ventures America

iD Ventures America (formerly known as Acer Technology Ventures America) is a venture capital business unit of iD SoftCapital Group, a group established by Acer founder Stan Shih and former Acer senior management to offer consulting services, and asset and venture fund management. Their mission at iD Ventures America is to facilitate the Intellectual Development of the New Economy through venture investing.

Ronald Chwang

Chairman and President

Edward Yang

Partner

32 past transactions

BioIntelliSense

Series B in 2021
BioIntelliSense is ushering in a new era of continuous health monitoring and clinical intelligence for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Health Screening. BioIntelliSense's medical-grade Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform seamlessly captures multi-parameter vital signs, physiological biometrics, and symptomatic events through an effortless patient experience. The FDA-cleared BioSticke and BioButton devices make remote monitoring and early detection simple. Through the platform’s advanced analytics, clinicians will now have access to high-resolution patient trending and reporting to enable medical-grade care from the hospital to the home, and all points in-between.

CellMax Life

Series C in 2021
CellMax Life is a biotechnology company that is revolutionizing early cancer detection and prevention. The company’s product portfolio includes a blood test that can detect cancer before it is too late. CellMax Life was founded in 2013 and is based in California, the United States. The company has offices in Silicon Valley (U.S.) and Taiwan and is funded by a venture capital firm in the U.S. and technology industrialists in Taiwan.

Ixcela

Venture Round in 2020
Ixcela operates in the healthcare industry focusing on the biotechnology business. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Bedford, Massachusetts. It is a health and wellness company that helps individuals improve their internal health. Ixcela provides a comprehensive approach to determining gut microbiome dysbiosis and providing actionable solutions to restoring proper gut microbiome health.

GrandPad

Venture Round in 2020
Connecting with others in your world should be simple, easy and fun. But with new complex technology emerging every day, the communication gap is growing. grandPad is the solution. Effortlessly share photos, music, memories and more with friends and family of all ages.

Labrador Systems

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Labrador Systems is a robotics company building a new generation of personal robots to improve the quality of life for millions of people. They are taking the latest tech from those fields to create pragmatic but meaningful applications to support people in everyday life. The company driving the design and implementation of advanced robotics hardware and software systems. Labrador Systems is based in Oak Park, California, USA.

QED Labs, Inc.

Venture Round in 2018
QED Labs, Inc operates in the technology industry.

Carewave Medical

Venture Round in 2018
Carewave Medical is dedicated to providing non-invasive products to alleviate the suffering of those with moderate to severe pain. Its products incorporate the patented Pulse Heat Technology to delivers a revolutionary integrated pain management system.

Physera

Seed Round in 2017
Physera, Inc. is a company focused on delivering digital musculoskeletal care by connecting patients with physical therapists through a mobile application. Founded in 2015 and based in Palo Alto, California, the platform provides patients suffering from musculoskeletal injuries with access to tailored workout plans, along with features such as in-app animations and voice prompts designed to facilitate exercise therapy and alleviate pain. The application collects data to help assess the effectiveness of these routines, enabling physical therapists to create targeted recovery and maintenance plans that can be coordinated remotely. Physera serves a diverse clientele, including patients with muscular pain, self-insured employers, and large health plans. As of May 2020, Physera operates as a subsidiary of Omada Health, Inc.

BBB

Series A in 2016
“Everyone has the equal right of receiving medical services and treatments” BBB Tech headquartered in Silicon Valley is a mobile healthcare tech startup. It manufactured Android-powered real-time mobile blood diagnostic device “Elemark” testing + 50 diagnostic conditions in 2-60 seconds with one drop of blood and an integrated service platform to provide actionable insights. - Established Date : October 20th, 2014 - Performance & Awards ▶1st Winner of 2015 TechCrunch Seoul ▶2015 TechCrunch New York Disrupt Startup Alley ▶2015 Winner of TechinAsia @beGlobal Seoul ▶HAX batch 6, Global Hardware Accelerator Program
ATS Advanced Telematic Systems, in short ATS, is now part of HERE Technologies. Our solutions provide highly secure open automotive over-the-air (OTA) software management with the highest standard of certification to serve as the core of any bidirectional transmission pipe. Due to our unique experience in the automotive industry, we understand the complexity of cloud based back-end systems and the pitfalls of vehicle architectures. As partner of international alliances we spearhead OTA activities inside GENIVI and Automotive Grade Linux (AGL). HERE, the Open Location Platform company, enables people, enterprises and cities to harness the power of location. By making sense of the world through the lens of location we empower our customers to achieve better outcomes – from helping a city manage its infrastructure or an enterprise optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destination safely. To learn more about HERE, including our new generation of cloud-based location platform services, visit http://360.here.com and www.here.com.

Roominate

Seed Round in 2015
Roominate’s mission is to inspire the next generation to have fun with STEM subjects: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, and to help develop spatial and fine motor skills, engage hands-on problem solving skills, boost self-confidence, and teach basic circuitry. Roominate was named TIME's #1 Toy of 2014 and has earned the Oppenheim Platinum award two years running.

Ginkgo Bioworks

Series B in 2015
Ginkgo Bioworks is a biotechnology firm. It is a developer of biological engineering products and custom microbes across multiple markets. It designs, engineer, develops, tests, and licenses organisms. It discovers molecules in flavors, sweeteners, cosmetic ingredients, crop treatments, and pharmaceuticals. It also provides probiotic bacteria to protect the body from dangerous infections, and it generates libraries of molecules. It serves cultured ingredients, carbon mitigation, probiotics, and natural product discovery markets.

Locix

Series A in 2015
Locix develops solutions to provide spatial and contextual awareness to buildings, homes, and connected devices. The company solutions uniquely capture location, visual, and sensor data and combine them with advanced data analytics to provide spatial awareness and enable actionable insights for automated decision making. It is backed by several venture and strategic investors including ID Ventures, University of Tokyo Edge Capital, Murata Manufacturing, NTT Docomo Ventures, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas, iRobot, Yaskawa Information Systems, Yaskawa Electric, and Acer Ventures. Locix was founded in 2015 and is based in Silicon Valley.

MCube

Series C in 2014
mCube is the provider of the world’s smallest MEMS motion sensors, key enablers for the new Internet of Moving Things. As a technology leader, mCube aspires to put a MEMS motion sensor on anything that moves, improving the way consumers live and interact with technology.

LuxVue Technology

Series B in 2012
LuxVue Technology Corporation develops low-power, microLED-based displays for consumer electronics applications. LuxVue Technology Corporation was formerly known as Papierlos Corporation. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Striiv

Series A in 2011
Striiv develops portable fitness devices and mobile-enabled applications that help users be active and healthy.

Zeo

Series C in 2011
Zeo was a manufacturer of a sleep monitor in the form of a headband, that contained an EEG unit monitoring the user's brain waves. The sleep monitor was able to detect and record sleep stages, and awake at the optimal time, in light sleep. Using analytics, users were provided with recommendations based on each individual's sleeping patterns. Zeo has stopped operating in [December 2012](http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/22/sleep-tracking-startup-zeo-says-goodnight/), and Q2 2013, it quietly shut down. According to founder Dave Dickinson, problems included the business model, with a "suboptimal profit margin", invasiveness of the headband device for some user, and friction caused by the user having to log into the website to enter additional data. Moreover, the [sleep data was not necessarily suitable for a small mobile screen](http://mobihealthnews.com/22410/can-personal-health-data-motivate-behavioral-change-it-depends/).

Zeo

Series C in 2009
Zeo was a manufacturer of a sleep monitor in the form of a headband, that contained an EEG unit monitoring the user's brain waves. The sleep monitor was able to detect and record sleep stages, and awake at the optimal time, in light sleep. Using analytics, users were provided with recommendations based on each individual's sleeping patterns. Zeo has stopped operating in [December 2012](http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/22/sleep-tracking-startup-zeo-says-goodnight/), and Q2 2013, it quietly shut down. According to founder Dave Dickinson, problems included the business model, with a "suboptimal profit margin", invasiveness of the headband device for some user, and friction caused by the user having to log into the website to enter additional data. Moreover, the [sleep data was not necessarily suitable for a small mobile screen](http://mobihealthnews.com/22410/can-personal-health-data-motivate-behavioral-change-it-depends/).

Zeo

Series B in 2008
Zeo was a manufacturer of a sleep monitor in the form of a headband, that contained an EEG unit monitoring the user's brain waves. The sleep monitor was able to detect and record sleep stages, and awake at the optimal time, in light sleep. Using analytics, users were provided with recommendations based on each individual's sleeping patterns. Zeo has stopped operating in [December 2012](http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/22/sleep-tracking-startup-zeo-says-goodnight/), and Q2 2013, it quietly shut down. According to founder Dave Dickinson, problems included the business model, with a "suboptimal profit margin", invasiveness of the headband device for some user, and friction caused by the user having to log into the website to enter additional data. Moreover, the [sleep data was not necessarily suitable for a small mobile screen](http://mobihealthnews.com/22410/can-personal-health-data-motivate-behavioral-change-it-depends/).

CHiL Semiconductor

Series C in 2008
CHiL Semiconductor designs, develops and markets intelligent mixed-signal products using digital power techniques. The company is focused on bringing high performance, flexible and efficient power management solutions in high volume to the desktop, server and notebook market.

WiQuest Communications

Series C in 2007
WiQuest Communications is a fabless semiconductor company designing and developing complete WiMedia-based ultrawideband (UWB) solutions focused on ultra high speed, short range applications. WiQuest’s complete solution offering includes chipset, software and reference designs. WiQuest’s technology enables a new class of applications for wireless connectivity to PC, consumer electronics and mobile systems – enabling The New Frontier of Wireless™. WiQuest Communications closed operation on 2008 Oct.

Fortressware

Series A in 2007
Fortressware, Inc. provides solutions to secures data and intellectual property of the outsource providers. It offers The Fortressware Secure Team suite that consists various modules, including Foresee that discovers IP vulnerability at a modular level, determines access policies, specifies the development, and environment configuration; Forewarn, which monitors global activities for potential compromise and compares actual data with plan; forward that creates, controls, administers, manages, and replicates the Fortress Capsule to secure the virtual workspace; and Fortress, which secures the project environment using the Fortress Capsule and to enforce and propagate access policies in real time for policy administration and management. Fortressware, Inc. is based in Los Altos, California.

WiQuest Communications

Series B in 2006
WiQuest Communications is a fabless semiconductor company designing and developing complete WiMedia-based ultrawideband (UWB) solutions focused on ultra high speed, short range applications. WiQuest’s complete solution offering includes chipset, software and reference designs. WiQuest’s technology enables a new class of applications for wireless connectivity to PC, consumer electronics and mobile systems – enabling The New Frontier of Wireless™. WiQuest Communications closed operation on 2008 Oct.

OnVantage

Series B in 2006
As of December 29, 2006, OnVantage, Inc. was acquired by StarCite, Inc. OnVantage, Inc. provides corporate spend management and supplier marketing technology for global professional meetings and events market. The company's products and services include spend management suite, sourcing management, Attendee Management solution, consulting, and sourcing and planning. Through its Marketplace for Meetings, the company connects various Fortune 500 companies, corporations, and associations to a global network of hotel properties and meeting suppliers. The company operates a searched online database for meetings and events, where various meeting professionals conduct searches daily. OnVantage was formed in 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with sales and customer service operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Hong Kong.

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.

iRobot

Venture Round in 2004
iRobot designs and builds robots that empower people to do more. The company's home robots help people find smarter ways to clean and accomplish more in their daily lives. iRobot's portfolio of solutions features proprietary technologies for the connected home and advanced concepts in navigation, mobility, manipulation and artificial intelligence. iRobot was founded in 1990 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology roboticists with the vision of making practical robots a reality. iRobot's home robots are revolutionizing the way people clean – inside and out. More than 15 million home robots have been sold worldwide. The award-winning iRobot Roomba® Vacuum Cleaning Robot is leading the charge. Roomba made practical robots a reality for the first time and showed the world that robots are here to stay. iRobot's acclaimed line of home robots also includes the iRobot Scooba® Floor Scrubbing Robot, the iRobot Braava™ Floor Mopping Robot, the iRobot Mirra™ Pool Cleaning Robot and the iRobot Looj® Gutter Cleaning Robot. In 2015, iRobot generated $617 million in revenue and employed more than 600 of the robot industry's top professionals, including mechanical, electrical and software engineers and related support staff. iRobot stock trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the ticker symbol IRBT. iRobot's corporate headquarters are located in Bedford, Mass. The company also has offices in California, the United Kingdom, Shanghai and Hong Kong.

BCD Semiconductor

Series C in 2004
BCD Semiconductor Corp. markets and sells analog and mixed signal interface circuits. Its products include linear regulator interface circuits, AC/DC and DC/DC switching converters, standard linear interface circuits, motor drivers, and audio power amplifiers. BCD Semiconductor Corp. is based in Fremont, California. BCD Semiconductor Corp. operates as a subsidiary of BCD Semiconductor Manufacturing Limited.

iRobot

Venture Round in 2003
iRobot designs and builds robots that empower people to do more. The company's home robots help people find smarter ways to clean and accomplish more in their daily lives. iRobot's portfolio of solutions features proprietary technologies for the connected home and advanced concepts in navigation, mobility, manipulation and artificial intelligence. iRobot was founded in 1990 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology roboticists with the vision of making practical robots a reality. iRobot's home robots are revolutionizing the way people clean – inside and out. More than 15 million home robots have been sold worldwide. The award-winning iRobot Roomba® Vacuum Cleaning Robot is leading the charge. Roomba made practical robots a reality for the first time and showed the world that robots are here to stay. iRobot's acclaimed line of home robots also includes the iRobot Scooba® Floor Scrubbing Robot, the iRobot Braava™ Floor Mopping Robot, the iRobot Mirra™ Pool Cleaning Robot and the iRobot Looj® Gutter Cleaning Robot. In 2015, iRobot generated $617 million in revenue and employed more than 600 of the robot industry's top professionals, including mechanical, electrical and software engineers and related support staff. iRobot stock trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the ticker symbol IRBT. iRobot's corporate headquarters are located in Bedford, Mass. The company also has offices in California, the United Kingdom, Shanghai and Hong Kong.

HelloSoft

Series A in 2003
HelloSoft (www.hellosoft.com) is one of the world's leading providers of V.VoIP and wireless LAN technologies. HelloSoft supplies both software and emiconductor connectivity intellectual property to semiconductor manufacturers, and supplies software intellectual property to major ODMs/OEMs and also to tier 1 service providers/operators who offer VoIP and Video over IP services. The HelloSoft business model is based on licensing fees and royalty payments. HelloSoft has a workforce of 85 people including an R&D facility in Hyderabad, India with corporate and sales offices in San Jose, California in the heart of Silicon Valley, with sales distributors and representatives worldwide. HelloSoft is led by company founder and CEO, Krishna Yarlagadda, who is supported by an experienced and highly innovative team. Imagination expects Krishna and his team to continue to remain actively involved in developing the HelloSoft product set. In addition Krishna Yarlagadda will assume the role of President, Imagination Technologies USA.

iRobot

Venture Round in 2001
iRobot designs and builds robots that empower people to do more. The company's home robots help people find smarter ways to clean and accomplish more in their daily lives. iRobot's portfolio of solutions features proprietary technologies for the connected home and advanced concepts in navigation, mobility, manipulation and artificial intelligence. iRobot was founded in 1990 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology roboticists with the vision of making practical robots a reality. iRobot's home robots are revolutionizing the way people clean – inside and out. More than 15 million home robots have been sold worldwide. The award-winning iRobot Roomba® Vacuum Cleaning Robot is leading the charge. Roomba made practical robots a reality for the first time and showed the world that robots are here to stay. iRobot's acclaimed line of home robots also includes the iRobot Scooba® Floor Scrubbing Robot, the iRobot Braava™ Floor Mopping Robot, the iRobot Mirra™ Pool Cleaning Robot and the iRobot Looj® Gutter Cleaning Robot. In 2015, iRobot generated $617 million in revenue and employed more than 600 of the robot industry's top professionals, including mechanical, electrical and software engineers and related support staff. iRobot stock trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the ticker symbol IRBT. iRobot's corporate headquarters are located in Bedford, Mass. The company also has offices in California, the United Kingdom, Shanghai and Hong Kong.

VillageBuzz.com

Venture Round in 2000
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