Pacifica Fund

Pacifica Fund is a Silicon Valley venture fund specializing in early investments in select, emerging information technology and materials science companies. They help bridge the funding gap — the hard-to-find $1 to $5 million required by many small companies — with investments of "mentor capital", an approach that supplies capital, strategic and operational advice from their team, as well as access to connections in the US and Asia. Because they have founded and run start-ups, managed divisions of large companies, and run research labs; they understand what you need in the way of capital, strategy, and partnerships. They are uniquely qualified to help you bridge the most significant gap encountered by an entrepreneur — the distance between a great idea and a lasting, successful business.

Yukio Okamoto

Managing Director and Co-Founder

12 past transactions

Billeo Inc.

Series C in 2012
[Acquired by PaymentUs.] Billeo is a leading provider of online shopping and bill pay services since 2006, helping banks, card issuers and product marketplaces better engage, retain, and deepen consumer loyalty. Its services allow financial institutions and marketplaces to simplify and speed up the online and mobile shopping and payment process for their consumers.

Novariant

Series D in 2008
Novariant is a company whose technology provides precision location and machine control solutions in applications that require a high level of accuracy, consistency, and availability. In 2014, Novariant entered into an agreement to be acquired by AgJunction Inc. a precision GPS company out of Hiawatha, Kansas

Billeo Inc.

Series B in 2007
[Acquired by PaymentUs.] Billeo is a leading provider of online shopping and bill pay services since 2006, helping banks, card issuers and product marketplaces better engage, retain, and deepen consumer loyalty. Its services allow financial institutions and marketplaces to simplify and speed up the online and mobile shopping and payment process for their consumers.

Bay Microsystems

Series E in 2007
Bay Microsystems, Inc. designs and develops network solutions that include network architectures, systems, software, and integrated circuits. The company offers ABEx, a network appliance for optical transport and packet switched networks including synchronous optical networking and synchronous digital hierarchy, Ethernet, Internet protocol and multiprotocol label switching, pseudowires, ATM, and InfiniBand. It also designs and develops network processors that include Chesapeake, a single-chip programmable network processor and traffic manager; Montego, a single-chip programmable Internetworking processor; and Biscayne, a programmable classification processor with policing. Additionally, the company offers Lighthouse Tool Suite, a hardware and software development platform for designing network processor based networking equipment and BayPort, a demonstration and evaluation platform for company's network processors. Bay Microsystems was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, California with an additional office in Germantown, Maryland.

Intematix

Series C in 2006
Intematix Corporation engages in developing, manufacturing, marketing, and selling nano, bulk, and thin film materials to light and imaging markets. The company offers phosphors materials for LED, CCFL, CFL, and security/detection applications; lighting solutions; and energy storage/clean energy materials technologies, including fuel cell and battery materials. It also provides chips and silicones in the greater China market. Intematix Corporation was founded in 2000 and is based in Fremont, California with a technology center in Yang Mei, Taiwan.

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 Inc.

Series A in 2006
[Acquired by PaymentUs.] Billeo is a leading provider of online shopping and bill pay services since 2006, helping banks, card issuers and product marketplaces better engage, retain, and deepen consumer loyalty. Its services allow financial institutions and marketplaces to simplify and speed up the online and mobile shopping and payment process for their consumers.

Novariant

Series C in 2005
Novariant is a company whose technology provides precision location and machine control solutions in applications that require a high level of accuracy, consistency, and availability. In 2014, Novariant entered into an agreement to be acquired by AgJunction Inc. a precision GPS company out of Hiawatha, Kansas

Clairvoyante, Inc.

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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