Mayfield V

Mayfield V, established in 1969, is a global venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, with over $2.5 billion under management. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, focusing on technology companies in the enterprise and consumer sectors. Mayfield V seeks to partner with founders from inception, providing extensive experience and resources to build impactful companies. It invests in a broad range of technology subsectors, including artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and human & planetary health, with a typical investment size between $1 and $15 million. The firm also participates in follow-on financing rounds and assists in finding co-investors. Mayfield V has a strong track record, having invested in over 500 companies resulting in 117 IPOs and more than 200 mergers or acquisitions.

Rajeev Batra

Partner

Tim Chang

Venture Partner

Vikram Godse

Partner and Managing Director, India

Nikhil Khattau

Managing Director

Paul Kohli

Vice President of Investment Operations

Tejas Maniar

Operating Partner

Guru Pangal

Venture Partner

Sri Pangulur

Partner

Zareer Shroff

Principal

Vaneeta Varma

CFO

Past deals in Semiconductor

AttoTude

Series B in 2025
AttoTude is a technology company specializing in the development of advanced interconnect solutions for AI and hyperscale data centers. It aims to surpass the limitations of existing data networking systems by creating innovative technology that significantly boosts bandwidth, enhances reliability, and reduces power consumption and costs.

Retym

Series D in 2025
Retym is a semiconductor startup focused on developing innovative technologies for the data center and telecommunications sectors. The company brings together a team of experienced ASIC designers and optical communications specialists to create semiconductor solutions that enhance optical networking and digital signal processing capabilities. By prioritizing the identification and development of disruptive technologies, Retym aims to empower businesses with advanced tools for deep learning and artificial intelligence. Through its efforts, the company seeks to facilitate the construction of next-generation data centers, positioning itself as a key player in the evolution of these critical industries.

Lumilens

Seed Round in 2024
Lumilens creates photonics products designed for high-performance computing.

Recogni

Series C in 2024
Recogni Inc. is an innovative company that specializes in the development of artificial intelligence-based cameras and processors aimed at real-time object identification. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Jose, California, with an additional office in Munich, Germany, Recogni focuses on creating high-performance, low-power inference processing solutions tailored for the automotive industry in both Germany and the U.S. The company’s technology integrates visual and depth sensor data to optimize performance, power efficiency, and visual range for autonomous vehicles. By providing scalable solutions for generative AI and intelligent autonomous platforms, Recogni enables clients to achieve advanced edge processing capabilities and enhances data center efficiency, ultimately supporting the growth of mobility markets.

Alif Semiconductor

Venture Round in 2022
Alif Semiconductor, Inc. is a company dedicated to developing wired and wireless embedded processing solutions aimed at various sectors, including industrial, medical, infrastructure, consumer, automotive, and security. Established in 2019 and based in Pleasanton, California, Alif operates a system-on-chip design center in Irvine, California, as well as a communication technology center in Bengaluru, India. The company focuses on creating low-power, high-performance edge processing tools that enhance connectivity and security in embedded systems. Utilizing ARM’s Cortex-M55 and Ethos-U55 neural processing unit cores, Alif Semiconductor aims to elevate the performance of microcontrollers, making its technologies particularly suitable for Internet of Things applications.

Akeana

Venture Round in 2022
Akeana is a venture-funded startup established in early 2021, specializing in RISC-V semiconductor intellectual property. The company offers a range of CPU cores, including low-end microcontroller cores, mid-range embedded cores, and high-end cores designed for laptops and servers. Akeana's products also feature coherent and non-coherent interconnects and accelerators, emphasizing flexibility, performance, and artificial intelligence capabilities. These offerings enable clients to seamlessly integrate processors into a variety of computing systems, catering to diverse market needs.

Recogni

Series B in 2021
Recogni Inc. is an innovative company that specializes in the development of artificial intelligence-based cameras and processors aimed at real-time object identification. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Jose, California, with an additional office in Munich, Germany, Recogni focuses on creating high-performance, low-power inference processing solutions tailored for the automotive industry in both Germany and the U.S. The company’s technology integrates visual and depth sensor data to optimize performance, power efficiency, and visual range for autonomous vehicles. By providing scalable solutions for generative AI and intelligent autonomous platforms, Recogni enables clients to achieve advanced edge processing capabilities and enhances data center efficiency, ultimately supporting the growth of mobility markets.

NUVIA

Series B in 2020
Nuvia, Inc. is a semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, founded in 2019. The company specializes in designing and manufacturing silicon chips and microprocessors, specifically focusing on server system-on-chip processors tailored for data centers. Nuvia's processors aim to enhance computing performance while improving power efficiency and security, addressing the evolving demands of compute-intensive applications. By developing advanced processing chipsets, Nuvia seeks to deliver substantial performance and energy efficiency improvements, positioning itself as a key player in the next generation of computing technology.

NUVIA

Series A in 2019
Nuvia, Inc. is a semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, founded in 2019. The company specializes in designing and manufacturing silicon chips and microprocessors, specifically focusing on server system-on-chip processors tailored for data centers. Nuvia's processors aim to enhance computing performance while improving power efficiency and security, addressing the evolving demands of compute-intensive applications. By developing advanced processing chipsets, Nuvia seeks to deliver substantial performance and energy efficiency improvements, positioning itself as a key player in the next generation of computing technology.

Fungible

Series A in 2016
Fungible, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing hardware and software solutions for cloud data centers. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India, Fungible aims to enhance data movement through innovative technology. The company's core offering includes a low latency, high throughput, and highly programmable chip designed to optimize data flow in data centers. Additionally, Fungible provides full-stack infrastructure software that leverages standard components, protocols, and interfaces, focusing on improving the economics, security, and reliability of cloud data centers to meet evolving infrastructure demands. The founders of Fungible bring substantial experience from the networking, silicon, and software sectors, positioning the company to make a significant impact in the data center industry.

MIPS

Venture Round in 2016
MIPS Technologies, Inc. specializes in developing compute processors and related intellectual property (IP) that cater to AI-driven markets, including automotive, data centers, and both wired and wireless communications. The company focuses on RISC-V instruction set architectures (ISA), offering designs that are applicable to various sectors through licensing agreements with semiconductor firms and original equipment manufacturers. MIPS provides a range of embedded processors that can be tailored for standard, custom, semi-custom, and application-specific products, facilitating the creation of advanced deep learning applications. Its solutions enhance performance and power efficiency, enabling clients to meet stringent requirements and distinguish their products in competitive markets. MIPS operates sales offices in California, Japan, and Israel, supporting its global reach and client base.

ShineOn

Series C in 2011
Shineon (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise based in China, specializing in the development and manufacturing of high-brightness LED (HB LED) packaging products and chip technologies. The company focuses on delivering high-quality, reliable LED solutions with low thermal resistance and consistent color temperature, catering to various applications including LCD backlighting and solid-state lighting. Shineon's innovative approach includes the creation of optoelectronic devices and module technologies that support high-power and smart lighting systems, as well as miniLED displays for sectors such as virtual production and extended reality. Established by experts in the field, the company is backed by foreign investors and is committed to advancing LED technology without the need for additional electronic components in its lighting solutions.

Pixim

Venture Round in 2008
Pixim is a hardware company specializing in the development of advanced chipsets for video cameras. Its proprietary Digital Pixel System® technology transforms traditional imaging by allowing each pixel to function as an individual camera, continuously adjusting to varying highlights and lowlights within the same scene. This innovative approach enables Pixim's cameras to capture images with superior resolution, natural colors, and clarity, while effectively reducing visual noise such as glare and reflections. The company’s products include digital image sensors, processors, and software that cater to a wide range of applications, including security and video surveillance, network cameras, machine vision, and automotive systems. By providing high-quality imaging solutions, Pixim delivers accurate and actionable information, enhancing users' confidence in their visual data.

Kickfire Analytics

Series B in 2008
Kickfire makes an analytic appliance for the MySQL data warehouse market. With 11 million active installations, MySQL is the world's most popular open source database and its adoption is accelerating. As the amount of data stored in MySQL grows, so too does the requirement to analyze this data for business decision making. However, the technologies required for data warehousing and high-performance query and reporting within the leading proprietary databases such as Oracle and SQL Server don't exist in MySQL. Kickfire has the answer. By combining hardware and software innovations with the ease-of-use of the MySQL open source database, Kickfire brings to market an analytic appliance with unheard of performance, simplicity, and economics. At the core of every Kickfire appliance is a new SQL chip that radically alters the economics of query processing by packing the power of 10s of CPUs into a single chip. Just as NVIDIA moved graphics processing from software to hardware, Kickfire has done the same for database operations. This disruptive innovation facilitates tremendous improvements in speed and reductions in cost and power. With Kickfire, the MySQL data warehouse market now has a fully functional, load-and-go analytic appliance that rivals any of the proprietary database appliances or specialized analytic databases in the world. And there is no expensive hardware buildout or complex tuning required. Kickfire was founded in 2006 by Raj Cherabuddi and Joseph Chamdani, two proven entrepreneurs with more than 50 issued patents. Prior to Kickfire, they founded Sanera Systems, a startup that focused on mission-critical, high-performance SAN switches. Sanera was successfully acquired by McDATA, a public company with $800M in annual revenues, and is now part of Brocade. Backed by blue chip investors Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Mayfield Fund and Pinnacle Ventures, Kickfire is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Pixim

Venture Round in 2007
Pixim is a hardware company specializing in the development of advanced chipsets for video cameras. Its proprietary Digital Pixel System® technology transforms traditional imaging by allowing each pixel to function as an individual camera, continuously adjusting to varying highlights and lowlights within the same scene. This innovative approach enables Pixim's cameras to capture images with superior resolution, natural colors, and clarity, while effectively reducing visual noise such as glare and reflections. The company’s products include digital image sensors, processors, and software that cater to a wide range of applications, including security and video surveillance, network cameras, machine vision, and automotive systems. By providing high-quality imaging solutions, Pixim delivers accurate and actionable information, enhancing users' confidence in their visual data.

Lattice Power

Series B in 2007
Lattice Power (Jiangxi) Corporation is a high-tech enterprise based in Nanchang, China, specializing in the research and production of silicon substrate materials for gallium nitride (GaN) based light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Founded in 2006, the company focuses on innovative LED technologies, offering a wide range of products including high-power LED chips, which have received national recognition for their advanced technology. Lattice Power's product lineup encompasses solutions for commercial lighting, display applications, liquid-crystal display (LCD) backlighting, and vehicle lighting, including interior lights and intelligent driving assistance systems. The company is known for its proprietary GaN blue light emitting diodes with silicon substrates, supported by numerous patents, and maintains a diverse technological foundation that includes sapphire and carborundum substrates. As a subsidiary of Shunfeng International Clean Energy Limited, Lattice Power continues to contribute to the evolution of LED technology, emphasizing cost-effective and efficient lighting solutions.

Ponte Solutions

Series B in 2007
Ponte Solutions, Inc. engages in delivering design-for-manufacturability solutions. It develops and markets model-based software products and design-for-manufacturing solutions that analyze, predict, and reduce the impact of process variability during the manufacture and design of semiconductors. The company’s customers include semiconductor companies, foundries, and design houses. Ponte Solutions, Inc. was formerly known as E-Z-CAD, Inc. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Mountain View, California with an additional office in Yerevan, Armenia. As of May 15, 2008, Ponte Solutions, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Mentor Graphics Corp. (NasdaqNM: MENT). As of May 12, 2008, Ponte Solutions, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Mentor Graphics Corp.

Pixim

Venture Round in 2007
Pixim is a hardware company specializing in the development of advanced chipsets for video cameras. Its proprietary Digital Pixel System® technology transforms traditional imaging by allowing each pixel to function as an individual camera, continuously adjusting to varying highlights and lowlights within the same scene. This innovative approach enables Pixim's cameras to capture images with superior resolution, natural colors, and clarity, while effectively reducing visual noise such as glare and reflections. The company’s products include digital image sensors, processors, and software that cater to a wide range of applications, including security and video surveillance, network cameras, machine vision, and automotive systems. By providing high-quality imaging solutions, Pixim delivers accurate and actionable information, enhancing users' confidence in their visual data.

Tejas Networks

Venture Round in 2007
Tejas Networks Limited is an Indian company that specializes in designing, developing, and manufacturing optical and data networking products. Established in 2000 and headquartered in Bengaluru, the company serves a diverse clientele, including telecommunications service providers, internet service providers, utility companies, defense organizations, and government entities, both domestically and internationally. Tejas Networks offers a wide range of products, including converged packet optical solutions, enterprise Ethernet switches, and high-density metro core platforms. Their offerings also encompass multi-service provisioning platforms, LTE solutions, and advanced GPON elements for optical access networks. Additionally, Tejas Networks provides software solutions for network management and optimization, along with services such as network planning, installation, and customer support. The company's products are utilized in various applications, including access networks and wireless backhaul, contributing significantly to its revenue primarily from the Indian market.

Lattice Power

Series A in 2006
Lattice Power (Jiangxi) Corporation is a high-tech enterprise based in Nanchang, China, specializing in the research and production of silicon substrate materials for gallium nitride (GaN) based light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Founded in 2006, the company focuses on innovative LED technologies, offering a wide range of products including high-power LED chips, which have received national recognition for their advanced technology. Lattice Power's product lineup encompasses solutions for commercial lighting, display applications, liquid-crystal display (LCD) backlighting, and vehicle lighting, including interior lights and intelligent driving assistance systems. The company is known for its proprietary GaN blue light emitting diodes with silicon substrates, supported by numerous patents, and maintains a diverse technological foundation that includes sapphire and carborundum substrates. As a subsidiary of Shunfeng International Clean Energy Limited, Lattice Power continues to contribute to the evolution of LED technology, emphasizing cost-effective and efficient lighting solutions.

Fultec Semiconductor

Series C in 2006
Fultec Semiconductor is a circuit protection semiconductor company based in Mountain View, California, founded in 2001. It specializes in transient blocking devices designed to protect telecommunication and data communication systems from over-voltage and over-current incidents. The company's products provide wide bandwidth circuit protection against various electrical disturbances, including lightning, power induction, power cross, and short circuit events. Fultec's solutions serve multiple applications across sectors such as telecommunications, data communications, sensors, automotive, and power distribution. As of October 2008, Fultec Semiconductor operates as a subsidiary of Bourns, Inc.

Inphi

Series D in 2005
Inphi Corporation is a provider of high-speed analog and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, primarily serving the communications, data center, and computing markets in the United States. The company specializes in products that enhance data transmission capabilities, including amplifiers, encoders, multiplexers, and clock recovery devices, operating at speeds up to 100 Gbps. These solutions are integral to the functionality of servers, routers, switches, and storage systems, addressing bandwidth bottlenecks and optimizing throughput while minimizing latency. Inphi collaborates with system vendors to create proprietary simulation models that predict performance prior to semiconductor fabrication. The company's extensive product line also supports applications in test and measurement equipment and military radar systems. Inphi sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers and indirectly through module manufacturers and original design manufacturers. Founded in 2000 and based in Sunnyvale, California, Inphi was previously known as TCom Communications, Inc. before rebranding in 2001.

Pixim

Venture Round in 2005
Pixim is a hardware company specializing in the development of advanced chipsets for video cameras. Its proprietary Digital Pixel System® technology transforms traditional imaging by allowing each pixel to function as an individual camera, continuously adjusting to varying highlights and lowlights within the same scene. This innovative approach enables Pixim's cameras to capture images with superior resolution, natural colors, and clarity, while effectively reducing visual noise such as glare and reflections. The company’s products include digital image sensors, processors, and software that cater to a wide range of applications, including security and video surveillance, network cameras, machine vision, and automotive systems. By providing high-quality imaging solutions, Pixim delivers accurate and actionable information, enhancing users' confidence in their visual data.

T-RAM Semiconductor

Series C in 2005
T-RAM Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company that specializes in memory products utilizing its proprietary Thin-Capacitively-Coupled-Thyristor (TCCT) technology. This innovative approach enables the production of memory cells that are significantly smaller—one-fourth to one-eighth the size—compared to traditional 6T-SRAM technology. By leveraging its TCCT technology, T-RAM Semiconductor aims to deliver higher density and lower-cost High Performance Synchronous SRAM solutions. These products are designed to meet the discrete and embedded memory requirements of high-performance computer servers, networking, and telecommunications sectors.

Inphi

Series C in 2004
Inphi Corporation is a provider of high-speed analog and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, primarily serving the communications, data center, and computing markets in the United States. The company specializes in products that enhance data transmission capabilities, including amplifiers, encoders, multiplexers, and clock recovery devices, operating at speeds up to 100 Gbps. These solutions are integral to the functionality of servers, routers, switches, and storage systems, addressing bandwidth bottlenecks and optimizing throughput while minimizing latency. Inphi collaborates with system vendors to create proprietary simulation models that predict performance prior to semiconductor fabrication. The company's extensive product line also supports applications in test and measurement equipment and military radar systems. Inphi sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers and indirectly through module manufacturers and original design manufacturers. Founded in 2000 and based in Sunnyvale, California, Inphi was previously known as TCom Communications, Inc. before rebranding in 2001.

Pixim

Series D in 2003
Pixim is a hardware company specializing in the development of advanced chipsets for video cameras. Its proprietary Digital Pixel System® technology transforms traditional imaging by allowing each pixel to function as an individual camera, continuously adjusting to varying highlights and lowlights within the same scene. This innovative approach enables Pixim's cameras to capture images with superior resolution, natural colors, and clarity, while effectively reducing visual noise such as glare and reflections. The company’s products include digital image sensors, processors, and software that cater to a wide range of applications, including security and video surveillance, network cameras, machine vision, and automotive systems. By providing high-quality imaging solutions, Pixim delivers accurate and actionable information, enhancing users' confidence in their visual data.

Inphi

Series B in 2002
Inphi Corporation is a provider of high-speed analog and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, primarily serving the communications, data center, and computing markets in the United States. The company specializes in products that enhance data transmission capabilities, including amplifiers, encoders, multiplexers, and clock recovery devices, operating at speeds up to 100 Gbps. These solutions are integral to the functionality of servers, routers, switches, and storage systems, addressing bandwidth bottlenecks and optimizing throughput while minimizing latency. Inphi collaborates with system vendors to create proprietary simulation models that predict performance prior to semiconductor fabrication. The company's extensive product line also supports applications in test and measurement equipment and military radar systems. Inphi sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers and indirectly through module manufacturers and original design manufacturers. Founded in 2000 and based in Sunnyvale, California, Inphi was previously known as TCom Communications, Inc. before rebranding in 2001.

Wavesplitter

Venture Round in 2002
WaveSplitter Technologies, Inc. specializes in the development, manufacturing, and distribution of both active and passive optical components for broadband networks catering to enterprise and residential markets. The company offers a diverse product range, including passive pump laser combiners, isolators, wavelength division multiplexers, and transceivers designed for various network types such as LANs, metro, access, and long haul. Additionally, it provides HDMI optical extender cables, fused fiber and planar light guide circuit products, and various optical modules. WaveSplitter's offerings aim to enhance the performance and capacity of optical networks while reducing infrastructure costs for its customers. Founded in 1996 and originally known as Applied Fiber Optics, the company is headquartered in Fremont, California, with additional facilities in Taipei, Taiwan, and Shenzhen, China.

Pixim

Series C in 2001
Pixim is a hardware company specializing in the development of advanced chipsets for video cameras. Its proprietary Digital Pixel System® technology transforms traditional imaging by allowing each pixel to function as an individual camera, continuously adjusting to varying highlights and lowlights within the same scene. This innovative approach enables Pixim's cameras to capture images with superior resolution, natural colors, and clarity, while effectively reducing visual noise such as glare and reflections. The company’s products include digital image sensors, processors, and software that cater to a wide range of applications, including security and video surveillance, network cameras, machine vision, and automotive systems. By providing high-quality imaging solutions, Pixim delivers accurate and actionable information, enhancing users' confidence in their visual data.

Clearwater Networks

Series B in 2001
Clearwater Networks (formerly XStream Logic) is developing the industry’s first single-processor packet processing solution capable of performing 7-layer packet processing at 10-Gigabit data rates. XStream’s family of network processors is targeted at solving the critical bottleneck in next-generation network infrastructure equipment: layers 4-7 packet processing. Edge and core routers, content-aware web switches, network attached storage devices, and other networking appliances all require the need to implement advanced services that are beyond the capability of existing semiconductor solutions. XStream ’s products are able to solve a wide variety of applications and advanced services using a simple, single-processor architecture that reduces system complexity and improves customers’ time to market.

Inphi

Series A in 2001
Inphi Corporation is a provider of high-speed analog and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, primarily serving the communications, data center, and computing markets in the United States. The company specializes in products that enhance data transmission capabilities, including amplifiers, encoders, multiplexers, and clock recovery devices, operating at speeds up to 100 Gbps. These solutions are integral to the functionality of servers, routers, switches, and storage systems, addressing bandwidth bottlenecks and optimizing throughput while minimizing latency. Inphi collaborates with system vendors to create proprietary simulation models that predict performance prior to semiconductor fabrication. The company's extensive product line also supports applications in test and measurement equipment and military radar systems. Inphi sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers and indirectly through module manufacturers and original design manufacturers. Founded in 2000 and based in Sunnyvale, California, Inphi was previously known as TCom Communications, Inc. before rebranding in 2001.

Pixim

Series B in 2000
Pixim is a hardware company specializing in the development of advanced chipsets for video cameras. Its proprietary Digital Pixel System® technology transforms traditional imaging by allowing each pixel to function as an individual camera, continuously adjusting to varying highlights and lowlights within the same scene. This innovative approach enables Pixim's cameras to capture images with superior resolution, natural colors, and clarity, while effectively reducing visual noise such as glare and reflections. The company’s products include digital image sensors, processors, and software that cater to a wide range of applications, including security and video surveillance, network cameras, machine vision, and automotive systems. By providing high-quality imaging solutions, Pixim delivers accurate and actionable information, enhancing users' confidence in their visual data.

Lightbit

Venture Round in 2000
Lightbits Labs, Inc., established in 2015, specializes in data storage solutions for enterprise private clouds, Software-as-a-Service, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers. Headquartered in San Jose, California, with additional offices in Israel and New York, the company offers LightOS, a Software Defined Storage solution that integrates with existing datacenter infrastructure, and LightField, a Storage Acceleration Card supporting the LightOS stack. Lightbits' innovative NVMe/TCP protocol enables high-performance block storage, simplifying scalability and reducing costs for cloud-native applications in diverse environments.

Wavesplitter

Venture Round in 2000
WaveSplitter Technologies, Inc. specializes in the development, manufacturing, and distribution of both active and passive optical components for broadband networks catering to enterprise and residential markets. The company offers a diverse product range, including passive pump laser combiners, isolators, wavelength division multiplexers, and transceivers designed for various network types such as LANs, metro, access, and long haul. Additionally, it provides HDMI optical extender cables, fused fiber and planar light guide circuit products, and various optical modules. WaveSplitter's offerings aim to enhance the performance and capacity of optical networks while reducing infrastructure costs for its customers. Founded in 1996 and originally known as Applied Fiber Optics, the company is headquartered in Fremont, California, with additional facilities in Taipei, Taiwan, and Shenzhen, China.

T-RAM Semiconductor

Series A in 2000
T-RAM Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company that specializes in memory products utilizing its proprietary Thin-Capacitively-Coupled-Thyristor (TCCT) technology. This innovative approach enables the production of memory cells that are significantly smaller—one-fourth to one-eighth the size—compared to traditional 6T-SRAM technology. By leveraging its TCCT technology, T-RAM Semiconductor aims to deliver higher density and lower-cost High Performance Synchronous SRAM solutions. These products are designed to meet the discrete and embedded memory requirements of high-performance computer servers, networking, and telecommunications sectors.

Lightspeed Semiconductor

Venture Round in 2000
LightSpeed Semiconductor provides time-to-market, yield, manufacturability, and development expense advantages over cell implementation.

Excess Bandwidth

Series B in 2000
Excess Bandwidth Corp. specializes in developing algorithms that facilitate the connection of Internet voice and data services across multiple devices using copper twisted-pair wires. The company is recognized for creating technology that complies with the G.shdsl/HDSL2 high-speed symmetric DSL specification, which allows for the efficient transmission of high-speed voice and data over a single pair of wires. Established in 1998, Excess Bandwidth is a privately held company that focuses on designing symmetrical digital subscriber line physical-layer chips and mixed signal semiconductors for communications processors. Through its innovative solutions, the company aims to enhance high-bandwidth communications.

NewPort Communications

Series B in 2000
NewPort Communications is a supplier of mixed-signal integrated circuits for the high-speed communications market. The Company's business objective is to develop highly integrated single-chip solutions that enable economic scaling of the existing bandwidth capacity of today's fiber-based networks.

Wavesplitter

Venture Round in 1999
WaveSplitter Technologies, Inc. specializes in the development, manufacturing, and distribution of both active and passive optical components for broadband networks catering to enterprise and residential markets. The company offers a diverse product range, including passive pump laser combiners, isolators, wavelength division multiplexers, and transceivers designed for various network types such as LANs, metro, access, and long haul. Additionally, it provides HDMI optical extender cables, fused fiber and planar light guide circuit products, and various optical modules. WaveSplitter's offerings aim to enhance the performance and capacity of optical networks while reducing infrastructure costs for its customers. Founded in 1996 and originally known as Applied Fiber Optics, the company is headquartered in Fremont, California, with additional facilities in Taipei, Taiwan, and Shenzhen, China.

Clearwater Networks

Series A in 1999
Clearwater Networks (formerly XStream Logic) is developing the industry’s first single-processor packet processing solution capable of performing 7-layer packet processing at 10-Gigabit data rates. XStream’s family of network processors is targeted at solving the critical bottleneck in next-generation network infrastructure equipment: layers 4-7 packet processing. Edge and core routers, content-aware web switches, network attached storage devices, and other networking appliances all require the need to implement advanced services that are beyond the capability of existing semiconductor solutions. XStream ’s products are able to solve a wide variety of applications and advanced services using a simple, single-processor architecture that reduces system complexity and improves customers’ time to market.

Cypress Semiconductor

Venture Round in 1983
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation is a global leader in designing, developing, manufacturing, and marketing embedded system solutions with a focus on high-performance, mixed-signal, and programmable technologies. The company operates in two primary segments: the Microcontroller and Connectivity Division, which offers a wide range of solutions including microcontrollers, wireless connectivity, USB controllers, and capacitive sensing technologies; and the Memory Products Division, which specializes in various memory products such as NOR flash memories, SRAM, and specialty memory devices. Cypress Semiconductor serves diverse markets including automotive, industrial, consumer electronics, telecommunications, and medical applications. Its products facilitate the creation of innovative, differentiated electronic systems, helping engineers to accelerate their time to market. Cypress sells its offerings through a combination of direct sales, distributors, and manufacturing representative firms. Founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation is a subsidiary of Infineon Technologies AG.

Linear Technology

Series A in 1981
Linear Technology Corporation is a renowned analog semiconductor company known for its expertise in designing, manufacturing, and marketing high-performance integrated circuits. The company specializes in creating analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing integrated circuits aimed at addressing complex engineering challenges. Its products serve a wide array of applications across various sectors, including communications, networking, industrial, automotive, computers, medical devices, instrumentation, military, and aerospace systems. By bridging the gap between the analog and digital realms, Linear Technology plays a crucial role in advancing technology solutions that meet the demands of modern electronic systems.

LSI Logic

Venture Round in 1981
LSI is a company that specializes in the design of software and semiconductors, focusing on enhancing storage and networking capabilities in data centers, mobile networks, and client computing environments. As a subsidiary of Avago Technologies, LSI contributes to a broad array of markets, including wireless communications and wired infrastructure. Additionally, LSI manages a venture capital fund based in San Jose, California, which invests in emerging sectors within the United States, particularly targeting areas such as software, communication, networking, and technology, media, and telecommunications. Through its diverse offerings, LSI plays a significant role in developing advanced technologies that support modern digital infrastructures.
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