Palisades Growth Capital
Palisades Growth Capital, LLC is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in emerging growth, mid venture, late venture, and growth capital. It does not make investments in media content production companies, biotechnology, semiconductors, clean technology, life sciences, and direct-to-consumer sectors. It seeks to make equity investments in enterprise software, mobile, and technology enabled companies. The firm prefers to invest in technology with a focus on Enterprise and SaaS software, hardware, aerospace and defense, and location technology applications. It invests in media sector with a focus on media hardware, advertising technology, media technology, and other media monetization companies. The firm also invests in telecommunications including broadband infrastructure, and wireless communications including wireless infrastructure and application. It also invests in systems and business services sectors. The firm also invests in technology companies focusing on healthcare, retail, consumer, manufacturing, environmental, and financial sectors. It invests in the Western United States and Southern California regions. The firm seeks to make equity investments between $2 million and $10 million. It typically invests in companies with revenues between $5 million and $50 million, at or near cash flow break-even with significant levels of recurring revenue; as well as operating profit between $1 million and $ 10 million. It prefers to be a lead investor, but would consider syndicated financing with other leading venture capital firms. The firm takes a lead position with board participation in its portfolio companies. It seeks to make minority investments. Palisades Growth Capital, LLC is based at Los Angeles, California.
28 past transactions
Digital Evolution
Series C in 2004
Digital Evolution is a provider of Web Services Management and Security solutions. The company's products and services provide organizations with the ability to take advantage of XML and Web Services in distributed computing environments while ensuring the performance, efficiency and security of an enterprise Web services infrastructure. The company is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, with sales offices in Boston, New York City, and San Francisco.
Polaris Wireless, Inc.
Series B in 2004
Polaris Wireless, Inc. develops and offers software-based 3D location solutions to wireless operators, law enforcement and government agencies, and location-based application companies. The company provides 3D Location Platform, a cloud-based platform enabling applications that locate any mobile device on any network, indoors, and in real-time; and OmniLocate, integration and quicker time-to-market solution. It caters to public safety, hospitality, and healthcare industries. Polaris Wireless, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California with additional offices in Zug, Switzerland and Singapore.
MegaPath Corporation
Venture Round in 2004
Megapath - Network Services business unit provides managed Internet protocol (IP) data, voice, security, and hosted information technology (IT) services.
Visage Mobile
Series C in 2005
A wireless expense management and telecom expense management firm specializing in reducing communications costs using proprietary software and expert analysts. Visage Mobile handles everything from bill analysis across multiple carriers, to fully managed wireless and wireline services.
QLess
Series A in 2017
QLess, Inc. develops Software-as-a-Service queue management solutions. Its solution watches, learns, and forecasts future wait times using various statistical analysis techniques. It serves colleges and universities, and restaurants; DMV; industrial; Fortune 500 companies; and petrochemical, healthcare, government, and retail customers worldwide. The company provides its products through resellers. QLess, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Pasadena, California.
Zinio LLC
Venture Round in 2003
ZINIO brings innovation and inspiration to the world of magazine publishers and consumers by delivering the ultimate digital reading experience on any device. As pioneers of the digital publishing industry for over a decade, ZINIO leads the digital magazine market in breadth of content and accessibility on any platform.
For magazine publishers, ZINIOpro converts print magazines to digital content through a SaaS platform that converts PDF to XML, offering publishers complete flexibility in managing and delivering their content in branded, native magazine applications for tablet, smartphone and desktop, in searchable article databases, or on the growing network of ZINIOpro distribution partners.
For magazine consumers, ZINIO operates online newsstands and award-winning iOS, Android, Windows and Kindle apps in more than 30 languages, providing the broadest selection of digital magazines accessible on any platform that can be read online or offline, synced across multiple devices and searched for archival content.
Omneon
Venture Round in 2004
Omneon Video Networks, Inc. provides digital content storage and processing systems for media companies to enable production and distribution of digital video and audio. It develops, markets, and sells a range of video servers, active storage systems, and related software applications to ingest, process, store, manage, and deliver digital media in various formats. The company's products include Spectrum video servers, MediaGrid active storage systems, and related software applications. Its Spectrum video server is optimized for real-time applications, such as multi-channel broadcast playout. The company's MediaGrid active storage system is used for file-based content storage and provides high-bandwidth simultaneous multi-user access to content, as well as incorporates grid computing capabilities, enabling integrated digital media processing functions, such as format conversion and quality control. Omneon Video Networks' products are integrated with complementary technologies and applications, and offers application programming interfaces. Its products are used by media companies, including multi-national media conglomerates, commercial and public broadcast television networks, content networks, satellite broadcasters, television service providers, local television stations, and mobile television providers. The company sells its products indirectly through system integrators and directly to end user customers in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. Omneon Video Networks was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Nursing Without Walls, Inc.
Series A in 2020
Gento is transforming the way in-home and facilities-based healthcare is delivered by directly connecting providers, clinicians, and patients through our convenient app. By having their sole focus on delivering the best possible care to patients in their homes and facilities, our technology takes care of everything else.
Gento is available in California, Florida, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New York and Texas, and poised to launch nationwide soon.
X1 Discovery, Inc.
Series B in 2019
X1 Discovery, Inc. provides search, eDiscovery, and social media investigation solutions for business and IT environments. It offers X1 Search, a solution for business professional search of desktops, files, email, SharePoint, and others; and X1 Social Discovery, a solution for the investigation and collection of social media evidence. The company also provides X1 Distributed Discovery, a solution for the identification of data for the purpose of compliance and audit, data migration, and business intelligence; and X1 Distributed GRC, a software that gives organizations the capability to access, analyze, and act upon data on an individual’s computer and company networks for the purpose of complying with internal policies, data audits and regulatory requirements. It serves e-discovery, GDPR, audit and compliance, social media collection, government, and business productivity clients. The company offers its solutions through resellers and distribution partners. X1 Discovery, Inc. was formerly known as X1 Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to X1 Discovery, Inc. in September 2011. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Language Weaver
Series B in 2004
Language Weaver, Inc., a human communication solutions company, develops and licenses automated translation solutions for multinationals, government organizations, and translation providers. The company focuses on automated language translation. It offers LW Enterprise Translation Server, an on-site software for language translation within a enterprise; LW Custom Enterprise Translation Server for translations in a specific domain, such as information technology, automotive, medical, and finance; and LW Translation On Demand, an on demand translation service. The company also provides LW Custom Translation On Demand, an on demand translation service hosted on a dedicated server by Language Weaver; and LW Professional Services, which include software training, custom language pair development, and preparation of parallel data.
Docupace Technologies
Private Equity Round in 2016
Docupace is a digital operations technology provider that simplifies how wealth management firms process and digitize data, increasing efficiency, productivity, and profits. With the secure, cloud-based Docupace Platform, the Docupace team provides a suite of digital solutions that helps broker-dealers, RIAs, and their advisors streamline and automate client onboarding, document management, advisor transitions, cybersecurity, and other critical workflows while maintaining SEC and FINRA compliance.
Apacheta Corporation
Series B in 2007
Apacheta delivers mobile workflow applications for consumer packaged goods, manufacturing, maintenance and repair, telecommunications, and transportation markets that can be rapidly customized to fit unique and changing business processes — enabling their customers to streamline their mobile operations, capture new revenue opportunities, and gain a competitive edge.
Founded in late 2002, Apacheta has focused the extensive mobile industry experience of its team to develop a leading-edge mobile architecture that is the underpinning for their mobile workflow applications. These ready-to-use applications dramatically reduce the time, cost and effort required to develop and maintain mobile applications tailored to a particular company’s business processes-making Apacheta the clear choice for fast, cost-effective mobile application deployment.
pSemi
Series C in 2004
pSemi Corporation is a Murata company driving semiconductor integration. pSemi builds on Peregrine Semiconductor's 30-year legacy of technology advancements and strong IP portfolio but with a new mission-to enhance Murata's world-class capabilities with high-performance semiconductors. With a strong foundation in RF integration, pSemi's product portfolio now spans power management, connected sensors, optical transceivers, antenna tuning and RF frontends. These intelligent and efficient semiconductors enable advanced modules for smartphones, base stations, personal computers, electric vehicles, data centers, IoT devices and healthcare. From headquarters in San Diego and offices around the world, pSemi's team explores new ways to make electronics for the connected world smaller, thinner, faster and better.
Micro Power
Series B in 2004
Since their inception nearly 20 years ago, Micro Power has provided customers the highest quality, best performing and most durable power solutions for their portable applications. While their mission to excel in custom battery solutions has remained unchanged, their expertise, capabilities and success have grown along with the markets they serve.
Micro Power works closely with some of the most quality-driven companies on innovative and challenging applications. They've developed more than 1,000 different battery systems, from those using Ni-MH and Ni-Cd batteries to the most advanced Lithium-ion systems and smart battery packs.
Their expertise runs the gamut of advanced battery systems development — from cell characterization, verification and optimization, to fuel gauges, battery management and SMBus communications. Their battery systems are found in the world's leading portable devices — including new-generation portable defibrillators, data collection devices and field instruments.
If you demand a battery system provider with impeccable quality, matchless technical expertise, precision manufacturing, and a long list of loyal customers, you've come to the right place.
GroundTruth
Series C in 2012
GroundTruth is a global location technology company that drives results with real data. They believe in the power of place. Build your brand, increase sales and more by building off what real people are doing in the real world, mapped using their proprietary Blueprints technology. GroundTruth delivers superior consumer insights by seeing more people and places than anyone else, with an unrivaled first-party database of 95 million active monthly users and 17 million active daily users, across 100 million places and points of interest. GroundTruth currently serves 21 countries globally.
Akana by Perforce
Series D in 2006
Akana provides an end-to-end, full lifecycle API management tool for designing, implementing, securing, managing, monitoring, and publishing APIs.
Well-suited for large diverse enterprises and federated API partner ecosystems, Akana can be deployed natively across clouds and on-premises, enables customers to deploy securely via an integrated no-code portal, and provides detailed business analytics.
The Akana API platform has four main components: API analytics, API gateway, developer portal, and API lifecycle management.
Visit our website to learn more about Akana and how we can help you manage and secure APIs in the enterprise.
RingDNA
Series B in 2018
RingDNA is an enterprise sales acceleration engine and AI-powered voice communications platform. Inside sales teams use RingDNA to dramatically increase productivity, engage in smarter sales conversations, gain predictive sales insight and coach reps to success faster than ever before. The company’s array of powerful, transformative and easy-to-use applications are consistently cited as the top solution for teams using Salesforce. RingDNA’s many amazing customers include Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Amazon, Lyft, Twilio and Campaign Monitor.
GroundTruth
Series A in 2008
GroundTruth is a global location technology company that drives results with real data. They believe in the power of place. Build your brand, increase sales and more by building off what real people are doing in the real world, mapped using their proprietary Blueprints technology. GroundTruth delivers superior consumer insights by seeing more people and places than anyone else, with an unrivaled first-party database of 95 million active monthly users and 17 million active daily users, across 100 million places and points of interest. GroundTruth currently serves 21 countries globally.
Visage Mobile
Series B in 2004
A wireless expense management and telecom expense management firm specializing in reducing communications costs using proprietary software and expert analysts. Visage Mobile handles everything from bill analysis across multiple carriers, to fully managed wireless and wireline services.
AiCure, LLC
Series C in 2019
AiCure is an advanced data analytics company that uses artificial intelligence to understand how patients respond to treatments. It enables intelligent decision-making and improving health outcomes. It has developed patented facial recognition and motion-sensing technology to confirm medication ingestion in real-time.
AiCure's platform has the potential to revolutionize the cost-effectiveness of healthcare delivery systems by enhancing treatment and reducing risks. Their software captures and understands video, audio, and behavioral data to establish the link between patients, disease, and treatment.
It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York.
Akana
Venture Round in 2004
Akana provides an end-to-end, full lifecycle API management tool for designing, implementing, securing, managing, monitoring, and publishing APIs.
Well-suited for large diverse enterprises and federated API partner ecosystems, Akana can be deployed natively across clouds and on-premises, enables customers to deploy securely via an integrated no-code portal, and provides detailed business analytics.
The Akana API platform has four main components: API analytics, API gateway, developer portal, and API lifecycle management.
Visit our website to learn more about Akana and how we can help you manage and secure APIs in the enterprise.
Andigilog
Series B in 2007
Andigilog, Inc., a fabless analog and mixed-signal semiconductor company, provides intelligent thermal management solutions. Its products include sensor interface integrated circuits, temperature sensors, system controllers, and brushless DC fan motor controllers. The company’s products are used in personal computers, servers, cell phones, and consumer electronics, as well as in automotive, industrial, biomedical, and security systems. It serves customers in the computing, cellular, consumer, and industrial electronics markets. The company offers its products through a sales network.
Andigilog, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona.
Visage Mobile
Series D in 2005
A wireless expense management and telecom expense management firm specializing in reducing communications costs using proprietary software and expert analysts. Visage Mobile handles everything from bill analysis across multiple carriers, to fully managed wireless and wireline services.
Andigilog
Series A in 2005
Andigilog, Inc., a fabless analog and mixed-signal semiconductor company, provides intelligent thermal management solutions. Its products include sensor interface integrated circuits, temperature sensors, system controllers, and brushless DC fan motor controllers. The company’s products are used in personal computers, servers, cell phones, and consumer electronics, as well as in automotive, industrial, biomedical, and security systems. It serves customers in the computing, cellular, consumer, and industrial electronics markets. The company offers its products through a sales network.
Andigilog, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona.
Hart
Private Equity Round in 2018
Hart, Inc. provides a Healthcare as a Service platform that creates data liquidity to help physicians, systems, providers, payers, governments, clinically integrated networks/ACOs, EMRs, developers, and patients to gain access to health information. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Costa Mesa, California.
Zeel
Series B in 2018
Zeel Networks, Inc. offers Zeel, a solution to book same-day in-home massages with licensed and vetted therapists in New York City, Long Island/The Hamptons, Los Angeles, Miami/Palm Beach, Baltimore, and San Francisco Bay Area, as well as in Nashville, Tennessee. It allows users to book chair massage sessions via its iPhone or Android applications, web site, and mobile site. The company also provides Zeel Spa, a staffing solution for spas, salons, and hotels to book a licensed, vetted Zeel massage therapist to fill vacant appointments due to last-minute staff absences. It also delivers massage on demand services in Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Louisville, Kentucky. Zeel Networks, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in New York, New York.
Avexus
Series B in 2003
Avexus is a provider of software for the maintenance, repair and overhaul industries serving highly engineered assets. The company focused solutions for MRO organizations that serve the Aerospace, Power Generation, Rail and Maritime Industries, with the Impresa enterprise software as the cornerstone of the Avexus Product Solution Suite.
Lucix Corporation
Venture Round in 2003
Lucix is the world leader in Space Communications Payload Electronics
Lucix is a trusted supplier of satellite payload RF units to the major Satellite OEMs, including Astrium, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Loral, MDA, and Orbital Sciences. Their designs are qualified for all of these Satellite Platforms, and cover the frequency range from UHF through L, C, X, Ku, Ka and Q Bands. All hardware is designed, qualified, manufactured, tested and shipped from Lucix facilities in Camarillo, California.
- LNAs
- Oscillators Assemblies (MLOs, Reference Generators)
- Beacons
- Downconverters and Upconverters
- Receivers (fixed and agile)
- Frequency Synthesizers (fixed and agile)
- Power Monitors
- Phase-Locked Dielectric Oscillators (PLDROs)
- Free-Running Dielectric Oscillators (DROs)
- Central Power Supply Units (CPSUs)
Lucix is additionally distinguished by a staff of highly experienced satellite and payload System Engineers and Program Managers, as well as world class RF and Product Design engineers and analysts. This is a team with unparalleled experience that your program can depend on.
