JAIC America

JAIC America is a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley that specializes in early-stage investments across various sectors, including mobile communications, digital media, life sciences, and clean technology. As a subsidiary of Japan Asia Investment Co. Group, JAIC America seeks to support innovative companies that are poised for growth in these dynamic industries. The firm emphasizes identifying and nurturing startups that demonstrate potential for significant impact and advancement in their respective fields.

6 past transactions

Broncus Medical

Series G in 2008
Broncus Technologies is a medical technology company focused on developing minimally-invasive medical devices for emphysema and other lung diseases. Broncus is investigating the Exhale emphysema product line to perform our patented treatment method called Airway Bypass. Airway Bypass could be the first minimally-invasive procedure for the treatment of homogeneous, or diffuse, emphysema, which constitutes the majority of the emphysema patient population. Broncus is currently enrolling patients worldwide in our pivotal EASE Trial investigating a treatment of severe homogeneous emphysema. Broncus is located in Mountain View, CA (San Francisco Bay area). Broncus International is located in Nyon, Switzerland.

UltiZen

Series B in 2008
Ultizen Games Ltd. operates as a game development and offshore game outsourcing company in China. It involves in game design, level design, programming, art design, modeling, animation production, and testing services. The company offers online casual game PC, Xbox360 live arcade game, and U-PAL online casual game platform. Ultizen Games' outsourcing services include art design, 2D art production, 3D modeling, and animation production on various platforms; porting and networking; testing and localization; game development; and IPTV game development. The company serves North American, European, and Japanese companies. Ultizen Games Ltd. was founded in 2005 and is based in Shanghai, China.

RateItAll

Series A in 2008
RateItAll is a distributed consumer rating network powered by widgets, apps, and APIs. It's best described as a distributed [Yelp](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/yelp) for everything. Participating members can earn revenue share via the [Google](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/google) AdSense API, and own all content they contribute. RateItAll also offers visitors to its site the ability to create their own ratings channels (E.G. "Best [TechCrunch](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/techcrunch) Writer"), and then publish those ratings on their own site via RateItAll's stable of widgets.

scanR

Series B in 2007
scanR, Inc. develops handset applications that allow camera phone or digital camera to scan, copy, and fax documents. The company provides scanR service, which produces copies of documents, whiteboards, and business cards; extracts text information; and creates a PDF file, electronic contact, or fax. scanR also offers Office Files (beta) product that allows to upload office files through the uploader in its Web site and enable to read those files on mobile phones, as well as supports Excel, Word, Powerpoint, pdf, WordPerfect, rtf, and csv file formats. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

GCT Semiconductor

Series E in 2006
GCT Semiconductor is a leading fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets innovative integrated circuit solutions for the wireless communications industry. With its proven CMOS radio frequency (RF) and SOC expertise, GCT provides state-of-the-art CMOS RF transceivers and CMOS single-chip Satellite-DMB digital receivers and other SOC solutions serving 3G and 4G mobile handset manufacturers while reducing component cost, lowering power consumption and offering a smaller footprint.

Acologix

Series B in 2004
Acologix, Inc. a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the identification, development, and commercialization of therapeutic compounds for the treatment of osteo-renal diseases. The company was founded as Big Bear Bio, Inc. in 1992 and changed its name to Acologix, Inc. in May 2002. The company is based in Hayward, California.
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