Ironside Ventures

Ironside Ventures is a Massachusetts-based investment firm offering venture capital financing to fast growing companies in the United States. Since establishing their firm in 1998, they have been dedicated to providing sound counsel and superior returns to select institutional investors, high net worth individuals and portfolio company managers based on their hallmarks of trust, transparency, and open collaboration.

16 past transactions

Lefthand Networks

Series C in 2005
LeftHand Networks Inc. offers data storage systems and IP-based storage area networks (SAN). It offers iSCSI SANs that are composed of multiple storage nodes, pooled together into a single storage system; integrated storage systems; and virtual storage systems. The company also offers evaluation software, such as SAN/iQ software and virtual SAN appliance, which aggregate disparate resources into a single, larger storage system. In addition, it provides IT project solutions, including disaster recovery, business continuance, and data center virtualization; application solutions, including data protection manager, exchange server, sharepoint server, SQL server, and VMware; and industry solutions for education, government, financial services, and healthcare industry. The company offers its products through distributors and resellers in the United States, Canada, and Europe. LeftHand Networks was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado with additional offices in Reading, United Kingdom and Zaltbommel, the Netherlands. As of November 13, 2008, LeftHand Networks Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Company.

StarGen

Venture Round in 2005
StarGen, a semiconductor company, provides serial switched interconnect solutions for compute and communications equipment. It offers low-overhead, protocol-agnostic, and open standards-based serial switched architectures. The company also offers a product line for vendors of access communication platforms for voice, data, and video networks, as well as vendors of embedded systems; and AXSys architectures. It serves communications, storage, server, and embedded markets. The company was founded in 1999 as StarBridge Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to StarGen, Inc. in 2000. StarGen, Inc. is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts. As of February 16, 2007, StarGen, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Dolphin Interconnect Solutions AS.

StarGen

Venture Round in 2003
StarGen, a semiconductor company, provides serial switched interconnect solutions for compute and communications equipment. It offers low-overhead, protocol-agnostic, and open standards-based serial switched architectures. The company also offers a product line for vendors of access communication platforms for voice, data, and video networks, as well as vendors of embedded systems; and AXSys architectures. It serves communications, storage, server, and embedded markets. The company was founded in 1999 as StarBridge Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to StarGen, Inc. in 2000. StarGen, Inc. is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts. As of February 16, 2007, StarGen, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Dolphin Interconnect Solutions AS.

Equator Technologies

Venture Round in 2003
Equator Technologies, Inc. is a provider of system-on-a-chip processors for video streaming and image processing applications.

Bluesocket

Venture Round in 2003
Bluesocket provides secure, enterprise level mobile connectivity products and support. Through wireless network and voice products, Bluesocket creates a network infrastructure for across desktops, mobile devices, and enterprise applications.

Lefthand Networks

Series C in 2003
LeftHand Networks Inc. offers data storage systems and IP-based storage area networks (SAN). It offers iSCSI SANs that are composed of multiple storage nodes, pooled together into a single storage system; integrated storage systems; and virtual storage systems. The company also offers evaluation software, such as SAN/iQ software and virtual SAN appliance, which aggregate disparate resources into a single, larger storage system. In addition, it provides IT project solutions, including disaster recovery, business continuance, and data center virtualization; application solutions, including data protection manager, exchange server, sharepoint server, SQL server, and VMware; and industry solutions for education, government, financial services, and healthcare industry. The company offers its products through distributors and resellers in the United States, Canada, and Europe. LeftHand Networks was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado with additional offices in Reading, United Kingdom and Zaltbommel, the Netherlands. As of November 13, 2008, LeftHand Networks Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Company.

Arbor Networks

Series B in 2002
Company Description Arbor Networks secures the world's most demanding and complex networks from DDoS attacks and advanced threats. Solutions Overview Arbor Networks customers gain a micro view of their own network, through their suite of products, combined with a macro view of global Internet traffic and emerging threats, through their ATLAS threat intelligence infrastructure. See, understand and solve more security threats with Arbor Networks. ATLAS provides a comprehensive, aggregated view of global traffic and threats. 330+ service provider customers contribute 120 Tbps of global traffic intelligence, enabling Arbor's Security Engineering & Response Team (ASERT) to develop threat protections that are delivered directly into customer products to stop DDoS attacks and malware campaigns. Arbor DDoS Solutions are proven on the world's most demanding networks. their portfolio offers complete deployment flexibility to meet the needs of any organization, from virtual solutions, network-embedded solutions within Cisco's ASR 9000 routers, to appliances for enterprises and carrier-class scrubbing centers. In Arbor Cloud, they offer a best-practice DDoS defense service that tightly integrates on-premises and cloud-based mitigation in a single solution. Ensure the availability of your critical infrastructure with the world's most broadly deployed DDoS mitigation technology. Arbor Advanced Threat Solutions leverage integrated Netflow and Packet Capture technology for network-wide situational awareness, broad and deep traffic visibility and security intelligence that transforms threat detection and incident response through real-time and historical insights, stunning visualization and forensics. Protect your most critical assets from advanced threats that are within your network right now.

Lefthand Networks

Series B in 2001
LeftHand Networks Inc. offers data storage systems and IP-based storage area networks (SAN). It offers iSCSI SANs that are composed of multiple storage nodes, pooled together into a single storage system; integrated storage systems; and virtual storage systems. The company also offers evaluation software, such as SAN/iQ software and virtual SAN appliance, which aggregate disparate resources into a single, larger storage system. In addition, it provides IT project solutions, including disaster recovery, business continuance, and data center virtualization; application solutions, including data protection manager, exchange server, sharepoint server, SQL server, and VMware; and industry solutions for education, government, financial services, and healthcare industry. The company offers its products through distributors and resellers in the United States, Canada, and Europe. LeftHand Networks was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado with additional offices in Reading, United Kingdom and Zaltbommel, the Netherlands. As of November 13, 2008, LeftHand Networks Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Company.

ChannelWave

Venture Round in 2001
ChannelWave develops market-leading Partner Relationship Management (PRM) solutions that help organizations to reduce costs and increase sales revenues and profits by improving the loyalty and effectiveness of their business partnerships. By automating and scaling business processes between vendors and selling partners, ChannelWave enables businesses to effectively manage multiple sales channels and foster collaboration among partners to better market, sell and service end-customers.

Lefthand Networks

Series A in 2001
LeftHand Networks Inc. offers data storage systems and IP-based storage area networks (SAN). It offers iSCSI SANs that are composed of multiple storage nodes, pooled together into a single storage system; integrated storage systems; and virtual storage systems. The company also offers evaluation software, such as SAN/iQ software and virtual SAN appliance, which aggregate disparate resources into a single, larger storage system. In addition, it provides IT project solutions, including disaster recovery, business continuance, and data center virtualization; application solutions, including data protection manager, exchange server, sharepoint server, SQL server, and VMware; and industry solutions for education, government, financial services, and healthcare industry. The company offers its products through distributors and resellers in the United States, Canada, and Europe. LeftHand Networks was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado with additional offices in Reading, United Kingdom and Zaltbommel, the Netherlands. As of November 13, 2008, LeftHand Networks Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Company.

Connected Corporation

Venture Round in 2001
Connected Corporation is the leading provider of storage software for automated protection, archiving and recovery of distributed data.

MEMSIC

Series B in 2001
MEMSIC Semiconductor Co., Ltd. is a Chinese enterprise that is engaged in the manufacture, research and development, and sale of microelectronic mechanical integration technology chips. MEMSIC is the first inertial sensor company in the world to integrate amicro mechanical system and mixed signal processing circuit into one single chip. MEMSIC utilizes standard CMOS craft and technology to embed additional functionality and create new products. It also enables the products to extend to more MEMS application fields in addition to acceleration sensors. With the combination of standard CMOS processes, MEMSIC has successfully produced over 20 types of level acceleration sensors with lower costs and higher performance.

Astrum Software

Series A in 2001
Astrum Software Corporation delivers enterprise-wide client-to-storage resource management solutions for Windows 2000/NT/9x based systems, storage area network, and network attached storage. The company's StorCast suite includes Storage Asset Manager, which controls storage consumption, monitor system performance, and trend analysis; Reporter, a reporting and forecasting solution; and Interconnect Monitor, a solution for verifying connectivity and availability of systems, devices, ports, and network attached storage through the enterprise and Internet from a central location. Astrum Software Corporation was founded in 1997 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Equator Technologies

Venture Round in 2001
Equator Technologies, Inc. is a provider of system-on-a-chip processors for video streaming and image processing applications.

Spike Broadband Systems

Venture Round in 2000
Spike Broadband Systems is a provider of carrier-grade and fixed wireless services.

Equator Technologies

Series D in 2000
Equator Technologies, Inc. is a provider of system-on-a-chip processors for video streaming and image processing applications.
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