InnoCal Venture Capital

InnoCal Venture Capital is a private venture capital firm located in Costa Mesa, California, founded in 1993. The firm focuses on investments in technology companies, targeting various stages of development, including seed, early stage, later stage, and expansion investments. InnoCal Venture Capital has a particular emphasis on the information technology sector, aiming to support innovative companies and help them grow within the competitive landscape of the tech industry.

Daniel Bassett

Partner

Jay Houlihan

Managing Director

Harry Lambert

Managing Director

31 past transactions

Mojix

Series D in 2015
Mojix is a global leader in item-level intelligence solutions for Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Retail. The firm is leading the way in item-level traceability solutions utilizing its high security, globally scalable cloud-hosted SaaS platform. Founded in 2004, the company has deep domain expertise in serialization technologies such as RFID, NFC, and print based marking systems. Mojix builds business intelligence from event-triggered actions tracking billions of unique identities, following item lifecycles from source to shelf. Companies can leverage the seamlessly integrated data to increase their sales and operational efficiency, reduce major risks and enhance their customer experience. With offices across the US, Latin America and Europe, Mojix is now a recognized expert in end-to-end, item-level track and trace, product authentication and automated inventory management.

SynergEyes

Series C in 2009
SynergEyes®, Inc. was founded in 2001 with a recognized need for a hybrid contact lens that combined the superior visual acuity of a rigid gas permeable lens with the comfort of a soft contact lens. The revolutionary SynergEyes® hybrid contact lens allows you to enjoy the best of both worlds - a stable, high oxygen permeable rigid center that delivers consistent, crisp, clear vision while the outer skirt gives you all the all-day comfort of a soft lens.

Aktino

Series C in 2008
Positron Access Solutions design, manufactures, and markets networking and broadband management equipment to information technology and telecommunication industries. The company's platform enables broadband connectivity and system networking services. It partners with EMBARQ Logistics. Positron Access Solutions was formerly known as Aktino, Inc. and changed its name after its acquisiton by Positron Inc. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. As of May 11, 2009, Aktino, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Positron Inc.

ITM Software

Venture Round in 2007
ITM Software delivers the only truly integrated approach to IT Business Management - one solution and one system of record for comprehensive visibility, coordination and control across IT functions. Serving as the glue connecting the traditional silos of IT information, ITM enables increased transparency, better decisions, more effective spending, and improved business alignment. The company has a single focus on serving the business management needs of IT organizations. Lead by former CIOs and IT leaders, ITM Software brings a unique perspective to the management challenges facing IT today. This experience base, combined with a world-class software development team, translates into products and best-practice expertise that bring a business-centric approach to managing IT. At the core of the ITM offering is the ITM Business Suite, an integrated solution comprised of six components addressing the most critical areas of IT Business Management including people, processes, vendors, assets, financials, projects, and regulatory compliance. Coupled with the ITM Business Suite, the company provides best practice expertise and a proven methodology for helping clients define business objectives and develop and execute on a plan to achieve them. This unique combination of software products and management expertise enables CIOs to drive down IT costs, and increase the bottom line through improved alignment with the business objectives of the enterprise. Founded in 2001 by former CIOs, the Company serves IT organizations within Fortune 2000 corporations, government agencies and universities. ITM Software is privately held and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Mojix

Series B in 2007
Mojix is a global leader in item-level intelligence solutions for Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Retail. The firm is leading the way in item-level traceability solutions utilizing its high security, globally scalable cloud-hosted SaaS platform. Founded in 2004, the company has deep domain expertise in serialization technologies such as RFID, NFC, and print based marking systems. Mojix builds business intelligence from event-triggered actions tracking billions of unique identities, following item lifecycles from source to shelf. Companies can leverage the seamlessly integrated data to increase their sales and operational efficiency, reduce major risks and enhance their customer experience. With offices across the US, Latin America and Europe, Mojix is now a recognized expert in end-to-end, item-level track and trace, product authentication and automated inventory management.

Vativ Technologies

Venture Round in 2007
Vativ Technologies, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company, focused on providing innovative, high-bandwidth, cost-effective, copper interconnect solutions for LAN, WAN, and SAN applications. Incorporating proprietary system architecture and DSP algorithms, Vativ's approach to physical layer interconnect diverges radically from typical analog designs used in devices today. Vativ's novel technology has resulted in several patents filed in both the U.S. and internationally. Their advanced architecture enables increased throughput while providing greater robustness and higher performance margins needed to allow the use of low-cost media interconnects.

Vativ Technologies

Series C in 2006
Vativ Technologies, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company, focused on providing innovative, high-bandwidth, cost-effective, copper interconnect solutions for LAN, WAN, and SAN applications. Incorporating proprietary system architecture and DSP algorithms, Vativ's approach to physical layer interconnect diverges radically from typical analog designs used in devices today. Vativ's novel technology has resulted in several patents filed in both the U.S. and internationally. Their advanced architecture enables increased throughput while providing greater robustness and higher performance margins needed to allow the use of low-cost media interconnects.

Mojix

Venture Round in 2006
Mojix is a global leader in item-level intelligence solutions for Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Retail. The firm is leading the way in item-level traceability solutions utilizing its high security, globally scalable cloud-hosted SaaS platform. Founded in 2004, the company has deep domain expertise in serialization technologies such as RFID, NFC, and print based marking systems. Mojix builds business intelligence from event-triggered actions tracking billions of unique identities, following item lifecycles from source to shelf. Companies can leverage the seamlessly integrated data to increase their sales and operational efficiency, reduce major risks and enhance their customer experience. With offices across the US, Latin America and Europe, Mojix is now a recognized expert in end-to-end, item-level track and trace, product authentication and automated inventory management.

Mojix

Series A in 2006
Mojix is a global leader in item-level intelligence solutions for Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Retail. The firm is leading the way in item-level traceability solutions utilizing its high security, globally scalable cloud-hosted SaaS platform. Founded in 2004, the company has deep domain expertise in serialization technologies such as RFID, NFC, and print based marking systems. Mojix builds business intelligence from event-triggered actions tracking billions of unique identities, following item lifecycles from source to shelf. Companies can leverage the seamlessly integrated data to increase their sales and operational efficiency, reduce major risks and enhance their customer experience. With offices across the US, Latin America and Europe, Mojix is now a recognized expert in end-to-end, item-level track and trace, product authentication and automated inventory management.

SynergEyes

Series B in 2006
SynergEyes®, Inc. was founded in 2001 with a recognized need for a hybrid contact lens that combined the superior visual acuity of a rigid gas permeable lens with the comfort of a soft contact lens. The revolutionary SynergEyes® hybrid contact lens allows you to enjoy the best of both worlds - a stable, high oxygen permeable rigid center that delivers consistent, crisp, clear vision while the outer skirt gives you all the all-day comfort of a soft lens.

DispenseSource

Venture Round in 2006
DispenseSource is a company dominated by energy, industry experience and a commitment to building lasting solutions for their customers' supply management challenges. Their technology and team combine to provide solutions that help businesses gain control of their supply spending. They do this by providing information so that their customers can collaborate with their supply chain partners, vendors and distributors. They provide additional value by creating efficiencies in the way customers track and manage supplies in their organization.

MarginPoint

Series E in 2006
MarginPoint is a provider of cloud-based indirect material management solutions for the industrial market. More than 400 industrial companies currently rely on MarginPoint solutions daily to reduce their indirect material spending and streamline their indirect material management processes. MarginPoint is uniquely focused on integrating the end-to-end indirect material lifecycle to deliver the highest possible ROI for customers. MarginPoint’s SaaS delivery model enables customers to rapidly deploy the solution without any significant up-front IT investment.

Aktino

Series B in 2005
Positron Access Solutions design, manufactures, and markets networking and broadband management equipment to information technology and telecommunication industries. The company's platform enables broadband connectivity and system networking services. It partners with EMBARQ Logistics. Positron Access Solutions was formerly known as Aktino, Inc. and changed its name after its acquisiton by Positron Inc. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. As of May 11, 2009, Aktino, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Positron Inc.

Vativ Technologies

Series B in 2005
Vativ Technologies, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company, focused on providing innovative, high-bandwidth, cost-effective, copper interconnect solutions for LAN, WAN, and SAN applications. Incorporating proprietary system architecture and DSP algorithms, Vativ's approach to physical layer interconnect diverges radically from typical analog designs used in devices today. Vativ's novel technology has resulted in several patents filed in both the U.S. and internationally. Their advanced architecture enables increased throughput while providing greater robustness and higher performance margins needed to allow the use of low-cost media interconnects.

ITM Software

Venture Round in 2005
ITM Software delivers the only truly integrated approach to IT Business Management - one solution and one system of record for comprehensive visibility, coordination and control across IT functions. Serving as the glue connecting the traditional silos of IT information, ITM enables increased transparency, better decisions, more effective spending, and improved business alignment. The company has a single focus on serving the business management needs of IT organizations. Lead by former CIOs and IT leaders, ITM Software brings a unique perspective to the management challenges facing IT today. This experience base, combined with a world-class software development team, translates into products and best-practice expertise that bring a business-centric approach to managing IT. At the core of the ITM offering is the ITM Business Suite, an integrated solution comprised of six components addressing the most critical areas of IT Business Management including people, processes, vendors, assets, financials, projects, and regulatory compliance. Coupled with the ITM Business Suite, the company provides best practice expertise and a proven methodology for helping clients define business objectives and develop and execute on a plan to achieve them. This unique combination of software products and management expertise enables CIOs to drive down IT costs, and increase the bottom line through improved alignment with the business objectives of the enterprise. Founded in 2001 by former CIOs, the Company serves IT organizations within Fortune 2000 corporations, government agencies and universities. ITM Software is privately held and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

ITM Software

Series B in 2003
ITM Software delivers the only truly integrated approach to IT Business Management - one solution and one system of record for comprehensive visibility, coordination and control across IT functions. Serving as the glue connecting the traditional silos of IT information, ITM enables increased transparency, better decisions, more effective spending, and improved business alignment. The company has a single focus on serving the business management needs of IT organizations. Lead by former CIOs and IT leaders, ITM Software brings a unique perspective to the management challenges facing IT today. This experience base, combined with a world-class software development team, translates into products and best-practice expertise that bring a business-centric approach to managing IT. At the core of the ITM offering is the ITM Business Suite, an integrated solution comprised of six components addressing the most critical areas of IT Business Management including people, processes, vendors, assets, financials, projects, and regulatory compliance. Coupled with the ITM Business Suite, the company provides best practice expertise and a proven methodology for helping clients define business objectives and develop and execute on a plan to achieve them. This unique combination of software products and management expertise enables CIOs to drive down IT costs, and increase the bottom line through improved alignment with the business objectives of the enterprise. Founded in 2001 by former CIOs, the Company serves IT organizations within Fortune 2000 corporations, government agencies and universities. ITM Software is privately held and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Confluent Photonics

Series B in 2003
Confluent Photonics Corporation is developing passive and active DWDM optical components for the telecommunications industry based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) semiconductor fabrication techniques. The use of SOI along with the CMOS fabrication infrastructure developed to process SOI enables cost-effective high volume optical telecom component solutions for the access, metropolitan and long haul telecom markets. The compatibility of Confluent optical designs and manufacturing techniques with CMOS fabrication also provides a pathway for the future integration of optics and electronics on the same telecommunications chip. Current optical telecommunication product technologies and designs result in miniaturized optical lab benches lacking thermal and mechanical robustness. In contrast, Confluent is designing and fabricating Telcordia-compliant optical chip components for the automated manufacture of integrated optical circuits. These components are designed to be insensitive to their environment. Using semiconductor-manufacturing techniques provides built in optical alignment, high volume production and low cost.

Arzoon

Venture Round in 2003
Arzoon was founded in September, 1999, by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Farid Dibachi who previously started Diba, a company that pioneered the concept of the Information Appliance and was acquired by Sun Microsystems. In fewer than 10 months Arzoon has employed over 100 transportation and technology experts, and raised $34 million from individual, corporate and leading institutional investors. These include J. W. Seligman Company, Inc., Venrock Associates, Tailwinds Capital Partners 2000 — a venture capital fund of Thomas Weisel Partners LLC, and Garnett Capital. Arzoon's Transportation Management Trading Network™ service automates and synchronizes the full life cycle of processes in the transportation professional's workflow, encompassing procurement, execution, tracking and report generation. Shippers, carriers, customers and suppliers can all utilize their global transportation platform to work together in a networked community. They have created a language of transportation for the Internet that provides standardized processes for interacting with each other across international borders, IT systems and enterprises. As a result, all transportation trading partners can enhance the way they communicate and do business together, improving efficiency, speed and productivity.

DispenseSource

Series B in 2002
DispenseSource is a company dominated by energy, industry experience and a commitment to building lasting solutions for their customers' supply management challenges. Their technology and team combine to provide solutions that help businesses gain control of their supply spending. They do this by providing information so that their customers can collaborate with their supply chain partners, vendors and distributors. They provide additional value by creating efficiencies in the way customers track and manage supplies in their organization.

MarginPoint

Series B in 2002
MarginPoint is a provider of cloud-based indirect material management solutions for the industrial market. More than 400 industrial companies currently rely on MarginPoint solutions daily to reduce their indirect material spending and streamline their indirect material management processes. MarginPoint is uniquely focused on integrating the end-to-end indirect material lifecycle to deliver the highest possible ROI for customers. MarginPoint’s SaaS delivery model enables customers to rapidly deploy the solution without any significant up-front IT investment.

Accruent

Venture Round in 2001
Accruent is a global software company that helps organizations achieve superior performance by transforming how they manage their physical resources. Its innovative, industry-leading cloud-based software and services enable organizations to optimize all stages of real estate, facilities and asset management, from capital planning through to IoT-based monitoring and control. With a proven track record across two decades, Accruent has created the only integrated SaaS-based framework and reporting platform for full lifecycle physical resource management. More than 7,000 global customers depend on Accruent solutions to drive out hidden costs, extend asset lifecycles, protect their brands, ensure compliance and deliver on the missions of their organization. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Accruent serves a wide range of industries in 149 countries around the world.

Northstar Photonics

Series B in 2001
Northstar Photonics, Inc. develops, manufactures, and supplies photonic components. The company offers first generation laser and amplifier products for telecommunications optical networks. It offers pumped optical waveguide rare earth (POWRE) technology provides a platform for developing and producing enhanced performance laser, amplifier, and integrated optical component products.

Confluent Photonics

Series A in 2001
Confluent Photonics Corporation is developing passive and active DWDM optical components for the telecommunications industry based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) semiconductor fabrication techniques. The use of SOI along with the CMOS fabrication infrastructure developed to process SOI enables cost-effective high volume optical telecom component solutions for the access, metropolitan and long haul telecom markets. The compatibility of Confluent optical designs and manufacturing techniques with CMOS fabrication also provides a pathway for the future integration of optics and electronics on the same telecommunications chip. Current optical telecommunication product technologies and designs result in miniaturized optical lab benches lacking thermal and mechanical robustness. In contrast, Confluent is designing and fabricating Telcordia-compliant optical chip components for the automated manufacture of integrated optical circuits. These components are designed to be insensitive to their environment. Using semiconductor-manufacturing techniques provides built in optical alignment, high volume production and low cost.

Archive

Venture Round in 2000
Archive has software to harness the content and creativity from their communities and make their digital marketing more cost-effective. It is a technology company that builds digital community marketing infrastructure. For inquiries, an online inquiry form is available on their website.

Northstar Photonics

Series A in 2000
Northstar Photonics, Inc. develops, manufactures, and supplies photonic components. The company offers first generation laser and amplifier products for telecommunications optical networks. It offers pumped optical waveguide rare earth (POWRE) technology provides a platform for developing and producing enhanced performance laser, amplifier, and integrated optical component products.

IPNet Solutions

Series C in 2000
IPNet Solutions provides us with the flexibility to connect with our trading partners using a multitude of connectivity options, most commonly FTP, AS1 and AS2 and the capability to scale across multiple platforms and document types," said Brian Myatt, EDI development manager, IPNet is an innovator in Internet EDI technologies and is the developer of the award-winning BizManager(TM) line of connectivity solutions.

Thinque Systems

Series B in 2000
Thinque Systems is a developer of mobile enterprise applications and has a history of supplying solutions for Global 2000 companies. Thinque develops and markets mobile enterprise applications for sales force automation and field force automation that reduce field expenses, decrease day's sales outstanding, increase worker efficiency, an drive top line revenue while building customer loyalty. Thinque Systems customers include Colgate-Palmolive, Maybelline, Pepsi Americas and Revlon.

Imagicast

Series C in 2000
Imagicast, Inc. provides strategic merchandising solutions for retailers.

Again Technologies

Venture Round in 2000
Motiva, Inc. is the technology leader for global enterprise incentive management (EIM) software and services, enabling companies to create and manage flexible, highly targeted incentive programs that drive top-line and bottom-line results across the extended enterprise. The Motiva software solution allows businesses to rapidly align performance with strategic objectives for sales, services, channels, customers and suppliers. Founded in 1996, Motiva is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

IPNet Solutions

Venture Round in 1998
IPNet Solutions provides us with the flexibility to connect with our trading partners using a multitude of connectivity options, most commonly FTP, AS1 and AS2 and the capability to scale across multiple platforms and document types," said Brian Myatt, EDI development manager, IPNet is an innovator in Internet EDI technologies and is the developer of the award-winning BizManager(TM) line of connectivity solutions.

Thinque Systems

Series A in 1997
Thinque Systems is a developer of mobile enterprise applications and has a history of supplying solutions for Global 2000 companies. Thinque develops and markets mobile enterprise applications for sales force automation and field force automation that reduce field expenses, decrease day's sales outstanding, increase worker efficiency, an drive top line revenue while building customer loyalty. Thinque Systems customers include Colgate-Palmolive, Maybelline, Pepsi Americas and Revlon.
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