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Pacifica Fund

Pacifica Fund is a venture capital firm located in Los Altos, California, specializing in early-stage investments in emerging information technology and materials science companies. The firm primarily targets small enterprises requiring funding between $1 million and $5 million, often investing between $1 million and $1.5 million per company. Pacifica Fund focuses on sectors such as energy efficiency, solid-state lighting, and cloud computing, while avoiding investments in content-driven services, biofuels, and coal-related technologies. It seeks to provide "mentor capital," combining financial support with strategic and operational guidance, leveraging the experience of its team in founding startups and managing large divisions. The firm prefers to take an active role by securing board seats in its portfolio companies and considers follow-on investments. With a keen interest in technical differentiation and sustainable business models, Pacifica Fund aims to bridge the funding gap that many entrepreneurs face in transforming innovative ideas into successful ventures.
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Yukio Okamoto

Managing Director and Co-Founder

12 past transactions

Billeo

Series C in 2012
Billeo is a prominent provider of online shopping and bill payment services, established in 2006. The company focuses on enhancing consumer engagement and loyalty for banks, card issuers, and product marketplaces. By offering streamlined solutions for online and mobile shopping, Billeo enables financial institutions and marketplaces to simplify and expedite the payment process for their users. The company's services include the acceptance of Visa credit card payments for automatic bill pay, reinforcing its commitment to facilitating seamless transactions in the digital landscape. Billeo's acquisition by PaymentUs marks a significant development in its evolution within the financial technology sector.

Novariant

Series D in 2008
Novariant, Inc. is a provider of precision steering and positioning solutions based in Fremont, California. Established in 1994, the company specializes in technologies that offer high accuracy and reliability for applications in precision agriculture, construction, automotive, and sensor control industries. Its product offerings include global positioning systems, positioning sensors, intelligent sensor and control systems, steering hardware, and software data services. Notably, Novariant's technology encompasses 7D RTK, a GNSS positioning system that integrates multiple dimensions of information. In 2014, Novariant entered into an agreement to be acquired by AgJunction Inc., enhancing its capabilities in the precision GPS market. The company was previously known as IntegriNautics Corporation until it rebranded in August 2004.

Billeo

Series B in 2007
Billeo is a prominent provider of online shopping and bill payment services, established in 2006. The company focuses on enhancing consumer engagement and loyalty for banks, card issuers, and product marketplaces. By offering streamlined solutions for online and mobile shopping, Billeo enables financial institutions and marketplaces to simplify and expedite the payment process for their users. The company's services include the acceptance of Visa credit card payments for automatic bill pay, reinforcing its commitment to facilitating seamless transactions in the digital landscape. Billeo's acquisition by PaymentUs marks a significant development in its evolution within the financial technology sector.

Bay Microsystems

Series E in 2007
Bay Microsystems, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in designing and developing advanced network solutions, including network architectures, systems, software, and integrated circuits. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in San Jose, California, with an office in Germantown, Maryland, the company offers a range of products such as the ABEx network appliance, which supports various networking protocols like synchronous optical networking and multiprotocol label switching. Additionally, Bay Microsystems develops a suite of network processors, including Chesapeake, Montego, and Biscayne, which enhance packet processing and traffic management capabilities. The company also provides the Lighthouse Tool Suite, a development platform for network processor-based equipment, and BayPort, a demonstration platform for evaluating their processors. By bridging the gap between enterprises and cloud storage systems, Bay Microsystems enables businesses with geo-diverse locations to effectively manage and utilize their distributed data assets.

Intematix

Series C in 2006
Intematix Corporation specializes in the development, manufacturing, marketing, and sale of advanced materials for the light and imaging markets. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Fremont, California, with a technology center in Yang Mei, Taiwan, the company focuses on producing phosphor materials for various lighting technologies, including LEDs, CCFLs, and CFLs, as well as applications in security and detection. Intematix's innovative LED phosphors enable a wide range of color spectrum applications, making them suitable for displays, general lighting, and automotive lighting. Additionally, the company is involved in energy storage and clean energy technologies, offering solutions for fuel cells and batteries, and provides chips and silicones primarily in the greater China market.

Cranite Systems

Series C in 2006
Cranite Systems, Inc. offers access solutions for SMBs, enterprises, and government markets. The company's products include SafeConnect, a remote access solution that enables enterprise connectivity from wireless hotspots and other public wireless, or wired locations; and WirelessWall, a software solution for securing wireless local area networks inside the enterprise. It delivers its products and services through a network of value-added resellers, integrators, and solution providers. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California.

Billeo

Series A in 2006
Billeo is a prominent provider of online shopping and bill payment services, established in 2006. The company focuses on enhancing consumer engagement and loyalty for banks, card issuers, and product marketplaces. By offering streamlined solutions for online and mobile shopping, Billeo enables financial institutions and marketplaces to simplify and expedite the payment process for their users. The company's services include the acceptance of Visa credit card payments for automatic bill pay, reinforcing its commitment to facilitating seamless transactions in the digital landscape. Billeo's acquisition by PaymentUs marks a significant development in its evolution within the financial technology sector.

Novariant

Series C in 2005
Novariant, Inc. is a provider of precision steering and positioning solutions based in Fremont, California. Established in 1994, the company specializes in technologies that offer high accuracy and reliability for applications in precision agriculture, construction, automotive, and sensor control industries. Its product offerings include global positioning systems, positioning sensors, intelligent sensor and control systems, steering hardware, and software data services. Notably, Novariant's technology encompasses 7D RTK, a GNSS positioning system that integrates multiple dimensions of information. In 2014, Novariant entered into an agreement to be acquired by AgJunction Inc., enhancing its capabilities in the precision GPS market. The company was previously known as IntegriNautics Corporation until it rebranded in August 2004.

Clairvoyante

Series B in 2004
Clairvoyante develops PenTile RGBW technology to optimize screen brightness, resolution, and power consumption of flat-panel liquid crystal displays that enables high-brightness and low-power displays that needs to support data-centric 3G applications and contents. Clairvoyante is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2000 by Candice Brown Elliott. The company was acquired by Samsung Electronics on March, 2008.

Triformix

Series A in 2003
Triformix is a producer of optical equipment. They provide products that include fiber communication, medical endoscopes, automotive image sensors, lighting, solar energy, mobile phone lenses, and industrial applications. An online inquiry form is available on the company's website.

NanoNexus

Series C in 2003
NanoNexus, Inc. provides contactor and interconnect products for the electronics industry.

Cranite Systems

Series C in 2002
Cranite Systems, Inc. offers access solutions for SMBs, enterprises, and government markets. The company's products include SafeConnect, a remote access solution that enables enterprise connectivity from wireless hotspots and other public wireless, or wired locations; and WirelessWall, a software solution for securing wireless local area networks inside the enterprise. It delivers its products and services through a network of value-added resellers, integrators, and solution providers. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California.
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