Palomar Ventures

Palomar Ventures, founded in 1999 and based in Ladera, California, specializes in start-ups and early-stage investments in the information technology sector. The firm focuses on investing in companies ranging from silicon to services, including infrastructure software, semiconductors, networking telecom infrastructure, consumer tech, storage, wireless solutions, and security initiatives. With a typical investment size of $2 million to $5 million, Palomar Ventures prefers to lead or co-lead investment rounds and supports follow-on funding. The firm, co-founded by veteran venture capitalists, aims to assist portfolio companies in achieving exceptional growth and market leadership, emphasizing teamwork and strategic insight. Palomar Ventures manages over $500 million in capital and is currently investing Palomar III, a $225 million fund, to support the growth of early-stage IT companies.

Jim Gauer

Managing Director

Robert M. Obuch

Partner

Amanda Reed

General Partner

96 past transactions

Syntricity

Venture Round in 2005
Syntricity, Inc. develops enterprise yield management software solutions for semiconductor companies, test vendors, and wafer foundries. It offers dataConductor, a hosted semiconductor enterprise yield management solution that collects data from diverse manufacturing systems and combines them into a single warehouse to support various phases of the semiconductor product life cycle. The company also provides consulting services, such as implementing best practices, yield analysis, product characterization setup, defining data collection strategy, automation planning, parsers and translators development, business practices assessment and establishment, methodologies establishment, implementation planning, systems analysis, integrations and connectivity requirements, and project and program management services. In addition, it offers implementation services, including system deployment, data integration from multiple suppliers, multi-departmental requirements assessment, parser design, MES data integration, and semiconductor data analysis solutions; and product support services, such as critical problem alerts, access to updates and upgrades, maintenance service packs and patches, telephone support, and on-site services. Syntricity, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in San Diego, California.

NTT Global Networks

Series D in 2005
Virtela is the smart alternative to traditional global carriers and equipment vendors for enterprise networking and virtualized IT services. The company delivers award-winning services via its Virtualized Overlay Network and Virtela Enterprise Services Cloud (ESC) platform, which enables the transition of branch office networking and security services to the cloud. Virtela gives enterprises the benefit of "asset-light" software-defined networking that delivers up to 80% cost savings in upfront capital and 30% savings in ongoing operating expenses. The company's services suite includes global managed network, security, mobility, application acceleration, and IT infrastructure services.

Predixion

Series C in 2013
Predixion was founded on the belief that predictive analytics has the power to create a smarter, safer and healthier world – and access to that power should not be limited to a select few with extensive statistical knowledge. To achieve that vision, Predixion developed a self-service predictive analytics platform called Predixion Insight™ that simplifies the entire predictive process. Predixion Insight is designed for business analysts and other non-technical users to enable broader adoption of predictive analytics, but is powerful and flexible enough for data scientists. In addition, Predixion expedites the “Last Mile of Analytics™” – the deployment of powerful predictions directly to the people who need them to take action – so the value of being predictive is realized immediately. More than 200 companies rely on Predixion to help drive better decisions every day. Founded in 2009, Predixion Software is headquartered in San Juan Capistrano, California with development offices in Redmond, Washington. For more information visit www.predixionsoftware.com.

Lombardi Software

Venture Round in 2004
A suite of business process management software and services in the united states

Paymetric

Series B in 2009
Paymetric, Inc. is the standard in secure and integrated payments. Our innovative payment acceptance solutions expedite and secure the order-to-cash process, improve ePayment acceptance rates, and reduce the scope and financial burden of PCI compliance. Leading global brands rely on Paymetric for the only fully integrated, processor-agnostic tokenization solution, supported by dedicated customer service. Paymetric is a nationally award-winning industry leader recognized for continual innovation, SAP partnership and world-class support since 1998. For more information, visit www.paymetric.com.

Inovys

Series C in 2004
Inovys, a Pleasanton, Calif. company that makes software and hardware for structural testing of semiconductors, was founded in 1999.

Fulcrum Microsystems

Series E in 2008
Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, provides interconnect devices for storage, computing and networking backplane, and interconnect applications in the United States and internationally. The company’s products include FocalPoint, which includes Ethernet switch/router chips; ControlPoint Software Suite that comprises Ethernet bridging, switching, and routing software modules; and PivotPoint SPI-4.2 Interconnect Chip that provides interconnection packet and protocol processing resources on a line card. It serves the original equipment manufacturers. Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc., formerly known as Asynchronous Digital Design, was founded in 2000 and is based in Calabasas, California.

Voxify

Series C in 2005
Voxify enables contact centers to offer self-service for customer phone calls. Voxify Automated Agents are speech applications that offer the lowest risk to deployment and a rapid return on investment. Built from industry-specific templates and patented conversational models, Voxify Automated Agents allow callers to speak naturally – resulting in the best customer service. Voxify offers managed service for both hosted & premise-based deployments.

StoneFly

Series C in 2003
StoneFly pioneered the creation, development, and deployment of the iSCSI storage protocol. Beginning with its registration of the iSCSI.com Internet domain name in March 1996, StoneFly shipped its first iSCSI storage appliance in 2002 and subsequently made iSCSI into the established storage standard which today is used by IT professionals around the world. StoneFly, Inc., headquartered in the Silicon Valley (Hayward) California, was founded to deliver upon the vision of simple and affordable enterprise-class products. Purpose-built, optimized, fully security hardened and tested Enterprise-class products. StoneFly provides physical, virtual, cloud, software as a service (SaaS), consulting, enterprise managed services, cloud migration services, public/private cloud infrastructure, backup, disaster recovery (DR), cloud file/sync collaboration and office in the cloud. StoneFly has been at the forefront of the most advanced and lasting technologies such as iSCSI, fibre channel, object, scale out NAS, hyperconverged, HyperScale, and cloud. StoneFly, Inc. is a subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory, Inc. (DNF), a leading IT company with Security, Defense and Consulting services and has offices in both Northern and Southern California.

Voxify

Venture Round in 2010
Voxify enables contact centers to offer self-service for customer phone calls. Voxify Automated Agents are speech applications that offer the lowest risk to deployment and a rapid return on investment. Built from industry-specific templates and patented conversational models, Voxify Automated Agents allow callers to speak naturally – resulting in the best customer service. Voxify offers managed service for both hosted & premise-based deployments.

Damballa

Series D in 2011
As the experts in advanced threat protection, Damballa discovers active threats that bypass all security prevention layers. Damballa automatically identifies successful infections and pinpoints devices that represent the highest risk to a business. Our patent-pending solutions combine principles of data science and machine learning to discover threats without prior knowledge of them and regardless of device type, OS and threat vector. Damballa protects nearly a billion endpoints globally at enterprises in every major market and for the world’s largest ISP and telecommunications providers. For more information, visit www.damballa.com, or follow us on Twitter @DamballaInc. Watch an analyst interview with Brian Foster, CTO until June, 2015 , here: https://vimeo.com/129326008

KnowNow

Series B in 2001
KnowNow delivers RSS services to large companies. KnowNow's live information management solutions are designed to increase productivity, efficiency, and profitability for companies around the world.

MyBuys

Series B in 2007
MyBuys is the leader in cross-channel personalization for retailers. We help marketers increase their marketing effectiveness by learning what individual shoppers like, then using these insights to present them with the most compelling recommendations and offers, coordinated across every channel -- on e-commerce sites, through email, via display ads, on mobile devices, and on Facebook. More than 300 companies, including 75 of the Internet Retailer Top 500, use MyBuys to sell more. Based in San Mateo, Calif., MyBuys is a privately held company. Visit them online at www.MyBuys.com.

Syntricity

Series B in 2000
Syntricity, Inc. develops enterprise yield management software solutions for semiconductor companies, test vendors, and wafer foundries. It offers dataConductor, a hosted semiconductor enterprise yield management solution that collects data from diverse manufacturing systems and combines them into a single warehouse to support various phases of the semiconductor product life cycle. The company also provides consulting services, such as implementing best practices, yield analysis, product characterization setup, defining data collection strategy, automation planning, parsers and translators development, business practices assessment and establishment, methodologies establishment, implementation planning, systems analysis, integrations and connectivity requirements, and project and program management services. In addition, it offers implementation services, including system deployment, data integration from multiple suppliers, multi-departmental requirements assessment, parser design, MES data integration, and semiconductor data analysis solutions; and product support services, such as critical problem alerts, access to updates and upgrades, maintenance service packs and patches, telephone support, and on-site services. Syntricity, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in San Diego, California.

Silver Creek Systems

Series C in 2005
Silver Creek Systems, Inc. designs and develops automated data mastering solutions. It offers DataLens System, which standardizes, enriches, matches, and repurposes product data from various sources; data service applications (DSA) that capture business rules and apply to data integration tasks; data lenses, a semantics-based approach to identify key information; and DataLens foundry, a pre-configured DSA that extracts, standardizes, and populates search dimensions. The company also provides business solutions, such as automation for information supply chains; and automated data mastering for manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. In addition, it offers IT solutions, including automated data services for product data; and data mastering for product data integration, data quality, and data governance. The company's DataLens System creates data services for SOA, PIM and MDM, search optimization, ETL, data quality, data governance, system consolidation and data migration, and business intelligence applications. It serves companies in retail, distribution, manufacturing, high tech, healthcare, consumer electronics, food services, telecommunications, energy, and other sectors. Silver Creek Systems, Inc. was formerly known as OneRealm, Inc. The company was founded in 1997 and is based in Westminster, Colorado. As of December 2009, Silver Creek Systems, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Oracle Corp..

Ravenflow

Venture Round in 2009
Ravenflow enables enterprises to deliver applications faster. RAVEN software for requirements elicitation and definition quickly builds stakeholder consensus on requirements, reduces the time required for stakeholders to approve specifications, reduces developer rework due to requirements errors, and seamlessly integrates requirements and testing. RAVEN integrates requirements elicitation and definition with the application lifecycle management platforms from IBM Rational, Telelogic, HP Mercury, and also Microsoft Visual Studio.

Fulcrum Microsystems

Venture Round in 2003
Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, provides interconnect devices for storage, computing and networking backplane, and interconnect applications in the United States and internationally. The company’s products include FocalPoint, which includes Ethernet switch/router chips; ControlPoint Software Suite that comprises Ethernet bridging, switching, and routing software modules; and PivotPoint SPI-4.2 Interconnect Chip that provides interconnection packet and protocol processing resources on a line card. It serves the original equipment manufacturers. Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc., formerly known as Asynchronous Digital Design, was founded in 2000 and is based in Calabasas, California.

AlterPoint

Series C in 2006
AlterPoint provides network governance software. It offers NetworkAuthority CMDB that stores inventory of various network assets, configurations, and changes in a vendor-independent database; NetworkAuthority Analytics that includes portals for network security, compliance, and asset lifecycle management; and NetworkAuthority Vulnerability Defense and Compliance Service that offers vulnerability assessment and recommended remediation. The company also provides support, consulting, and education services. It serves banking/finance, education, government, healthcare/pharmaceutical, hospitality/entertainment/recreation, insurance/real estate/legal, manufacturing, retail/distribution, service providers, technology manufacturers, and media sectors.

Lombardi Software

Series D in 2007
A suite of business process management software and services in the united states

SkyeTek

Series C in 2007
SkyeTek delivers a turn-key RFID application that enables real-time management of field-based inventory and resources. This capability allows manufacturers and service providers to track the movement of inventory, assets, and workers in real-time from the factory, through the field, and ultimately to the customer site enabling significant increases in revenue, efficiency, productivity, and compliance. In addition to its MetaFi application service, SkyeTek also provides RFID reader modules as well as comprehensive professional and support services. SkyeTek is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, with sales operations in North America, Europe and Asia.

Voxify

Series C in 2006
Voxify enables contact centers to offer self-service for customer phone calls. Voxify Automated Agents are speech applications that offer the lowest risk to deployment and a rapid return on investment. Built from industry-specific templates and patented conversational models, Voxify Automated Agents allow callers to speak naturally – resulting in the best customer service. Voxify offers managed service for both hosted & premise-based deployments.

Biscotti

Series A in 2010
Biscotti Inc. designs, builds, and markets video calling cameras for office, healthcare, and consumer markets. The company offers cloud-based services that include 1-on-1 calls, home and corporate firewall traversal, Web interface, public SIP address, test call, network test, video mail storage, and live video streaming services. It offers its products for home HDTV video calling, business video conferencing, home monitoring, and other healthcare applications. The company sells its products online. Biscotti Inc. was formerly known as Wham!, Inc. and changed its name to Biscotti Inc. in January 2012. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Plano, Texas.

Bigfoot Networks

Series A in 2008
Bigfoot Networks is a leading networking technology company that develops hardware and software solutions that significantly improve the online gaming experience. Its products are designed to provide maximum network performance for online gaming and other real time applications.

Ravenflow

Venture Round in 2008
Ravenflow enables enterprises to deliver applications faster. RAVEN software for requirements elicitation and definition quickly builds stakeholder consensus on requirements, reduces the time required for stakeholders to approve specifications, reduces developer rework due to requirements errors, and seamlessly integrates requirements and testing. RAVEN integrates requirements elicitation and definition with the application lifecycle management platforms from IBM Rational, Telelogic, HP Mercury, and also Microsoft Visual Studio.

Ace Metrix

Series B in 2009
Ace Metrix offers a live platform enabling companies to access timely, actionable data with real-time advertising campaign optimization. Through its platform companies can now access timely actionable data wherever, whenever they need to, enabling real-time advertising campaign optimization. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in El Segundo, California.

Ravenflow

Series A in 2005
Ravenflow enables enterprises to deliver applications faster. RAVEN software for requirements elicitation and definition quickly builds stakeholder consensus on requirements, reduces the time required for stakeholders to approve specifications, reduces developer rework due to requirements errors, and seamlessly integrates requirements and testing. RAVEN integrates requirements elicitation and definition with the application lifecycle management platforms from IBM Rational, Telelogic, HP Mercury, and also Microsoft Visual Studio.

ExteNet Systems

Debt Financing in 2008
ExteNet Systems designs, builds and operates network infrastructure - primarily using distributed antenna systems. DAS networks by ExteNet Systems are implemented by wireless service providers in a variety of locations and environments. ExteNet is technologically adaptable – which means they can operate CDMA, GSM, UMTS, 3G and 4G within each fiber network that we deploy. They are adept at designing, implementing and operating fiber networks to extend their network’s traditional sites into hard-to-zone areas, or to places where you do not have coverage. Their fiber networks could also be a reasonable backhaul solution for wireless service providers.

Lombardi Software

Series C in 2006
A suite of business process management software and services in the united states

RealOps

Series B in 2006
RealOps, Inc., an information technology management company, provides run book automation and information technology process automation software solutions that streamline and execute critical operational service functions. It offers AutoPilot solutions for problem, change, and service management that automate the repetitive manual tasks that its staff performs every day; and RealOps Automation Management Platform that identifies, performs triage, analyzes, prioritizes, and manages information technology service functions automatically orchestrating interaction with various auxiliary tools and systems to minimize time-consuming and costly manual operational processes. The company also offers assessment and deployment, training and development, and professional services. Its customers include service providers and enterprises global information technology operations environments. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Herndon, Virginia. RealOps, Inc. is a subsidiary of BMC Software, Inc.

Woven Systems

Series A in 2005
Woven Systems™ is an innovative network infrastructure provider focused on designing and building massively scalable Ethernet fabric switching solutions for Enterprise, and Internet data centers. Woven offers the only solutions that use Dynamic Congestion Avoidance to automatically balance traffic for delivering the industry's highest performance and lowest latency — all conveniently packaged in an energy-efficient chassis.

AlterPoint

Series C in 2005
AlterPoint provides network governance software. It offers NetworkAuthority CMDB that stores inventory of various network assets, configurations, and changes in a vendor-independent database; NetworkAuthority Analytics that includes portals for network security, compliance, and asset lifecycle management; and NetworkAuthority Vulnerability Defense and Compliance Service that offers vulnerability assessment and recommended remediation. The company also provides support, consulting, and education services. It serves banking/finance, education, government, healthcare/pharmaceutical, hospitality/entertainment/recreation, insurance/real estate/legal, manufacturing, retail/distribution, service providers, technology manufacturers, and media sectors.

Dedicated Devices

Series A in 2004
Dedicated Devices is a leading manufacturer of reliable whole home media systems. The company was founded in 2003 by former employees of Micron Electronics, Inc. and the company is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.

Network Physics

Venture Round in 2003
As of October 19, 2007, Network Physics, Inc. was acquired by OPNET Technologies Inc. (NasdaqNM:OPNT). Network Physics, Inc. provides real-time performance management solutions for converged networks. Its NetSensory appliances monitor the performance, integrity, and security of the applications infrastructure and enables IT staff to align operations with business priorities; NetSensory Enterprise Architecture, a network application management solution; NetSensory Solution Insight for VoIP delivers real-time and integrated management of voice and data applications; and NetSensory Business Reporter is a software option for the NP-Director platform. It offers solutions for the financial, health care, manufacturing, media, and retail sectors. Network Physics was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California with an additional office in the United Kingdom.

AlterPoint

Series A in 2003
AlterPoint provides network governance software. It offers NetworkAuthority CMDB that stores inventory of various network assets, configurations, and changes in a vendor-independent database; NetworkAuthority Analytics that includes portals for network security, compliance, and asset lifecycle management; and NetworkAuthority Vulnerability Defense and Compliance Service that offers vulnerability assessment and recommended remediation. The company also provides support, consulting, and education services. It serves banking/finance, education, government, healthcare/pharmaceutical, hospitality/entertainment/recreation, insurance/real estate/legal, manufacturing, retail/distribution, service providers, technology manufacturers, and media sectors.

Dorado Corporation

Series C in 2001
Dorado Corporation is a provider of collaborative cloud computing applications and architecture to the financial services industry. The company offers fully automated on-demand solutions for managing and tracking complex integrations and data-intensive transactions for financial institutions. The company’s marquee Enterprise Lending System encompasses the ChannelMaster(TM) mortgage loan origination system and PriceMaster(TM) pricing engine, enabling financial institutions to run and centrally monitor the consumer lending process from lead generation through post-close. Along with the benefits of cloud computing applications—increased functionality and dependability with minimal capital costs, flexible configurations, rapid deployment and agile performance—Dorado’s customers also gain competitive advantage via production workflow enhancements, better control over the product mix and built-in compliance. The company’s pay-for-performance model also provides a more predictably priced alternative to single-point solutions, closed systems and internal development. The company was named a “Hot Banking Technology Company to Watch” by a major research firm in 2009, and has been a Top 50 Mortgage Technology Provider since 2005. Dorado’s customers include tier-one mortgage lenders, leading regional banks and growing financial institutions in the U.S. and Canada.

Silver Creek Systems

Series C in 2007
Silver Creek Systems, Inc. designs and develops automated data mastering solutions. It offers DataLens System, which standardizes, enriches, matches, and repurposes product data from various sources; data service applications (DSA) that capture business rules and apply to data integration tasks; data lenses, a semantics-based approach to identify key information; and DataLens foundry, a pre-configured DSA that extracts, standardizes, and populates search dimensions. The company also provides business solutions, such as automation for information supply chains; and automated data mastering for manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. In addition, it offers IT solutions, including automated data services for product data; and data mastering for product data integration, data quality, and data governance. The company's DataLens System creates data services for SOA, PIM and MDM, search optimization, ETL, data quality, data governance, system consolidation and data migration, and business intelligence applications. It serves companies in retail, distribution, manufacturing, high tech, healthcare, consumer electronics, food services, telecommunications, energy, and other sectors. Silver Creek Systems, Inc. was formerly known as OneRealm, Inc. The company was founded in 1997 and is based in Westminster, Colorado. As of December 2009, Silver Creek Systems, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Oracle Corp..

Dedicated Devices

Series B in 2005
Dedicated Devices is a leading manufacturer of reliable whole home media systems. The company was founded in 2003 by former employees of Micron Electronics, Inc. and the company is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.

Incuity Software

Series A in 2006
Incuity Software, Inc. is a privately-held Delaware corporation founded in 2004 in Mission Viejo, California. Although new as a corporation, the founders and staff of Incuity Software, formerly known as DataWorks Systems, have a long history in the design, development and marketing of industrial automation database and data analysis software products.

Composite Software

Series A in 2002
Composite Software, Inc. disrupted the data integration market with a faster, lower cost data integration approach now known as data virtualization.

Continuous Computing

Venture Round in 2004
Continuous Computing is the global source of integrated platform solutions that enable network equipment providers to overcome the mobile broadband capacity challenge quickly and cost effectively. Leveraging more than 20 years of telecom innovation, the company empowers customers to increase Return on Investment (ROI) by focusing internal resources on differentiation for 3G, Long Term Evolution (LTE), Femtocell and Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) applications. Expertise and responsiveness set the company apart: only Continuous Computing combines best-in-class AdvancedTCA (ATCA) platforms with world-famous TrilliumÂ:registered: protocol software to create highly-optimized, field-proven wireless and packet processing products. www.ccpu.com Continuous Computing is an active member of 3GPP, CP-TA, eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance, ETSI, Femto Forum, Intel Embedded Alliance, PICMG and the SCOPE Alliance.

Motiva

Series D in 2002
Motiva, Inc. is the technology leader for global enterprise incentive management (EIM) software and services, enabling companies to create and manage flexible, highly targeted incentive programs that drive top-line and bottom-line results across the extended enterprise. The Motiva software solution allows businesses to rapidly align performance with strategic objectives for sales, services, channels, customers and suppliers. Founded in 1996, Motiva is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

MyBuys

Series C in 2011
MyBuys is the leader in cross-channel personalization for retailers. We help marketers increase their marketing effectiveness by learning what individual shoppers like, then using these insights to present them with the most compelling recommendations and offers, coordinated across every channel -- on e-commerce sites, through email, via display ads, on mobile devices, and on Facebook. More than 300 companies, including 75 of the Internet Retailer Top 500, use MyBuys to sell more. Based in San Mateo, Calif., MyBuys is a privately held company. Visit them online at www.MyBuys.com.

Netcontinuum

Venture Round in 2005
NetContinuum, Inc. provides application controllers to deploy, secure, and manage enterprise Web applications. Its products include Web application firewalls that enable data center teams to secure existing enterprise applications; and Web application gateways, which provide application security, load balancing, content switching, connection pooling, caching, and GZIP compression to enable deployment of new enterprise applications. The company's controllers are used for managing business risk, DMZ consolidation, application deployment, instant PCI compliance, failed audit recovery, lowering DMZ TCO, and securing FTP. It also offers on-site installation, training, support, and other on-site custom engagements. NetContinuum serves the financial services, government, e-business, media and communications, ASP/software, healthcare, and education sectors. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. As of July 2007, NetContinuum, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Barracuda Networks, Inc.

Encryptanet, Inc.

Series A in 2006
Encryptanet built a lightweight, content control and access cloud service for monetizing digital content called Paycloud. Encryptanet was not a micropayments vendor, but It was the very first micropayments partner for PayPal. The product provided a software-less solution for granting self-expiring, micro-access to digital content as small as a link or an image embedded in a page or for as short as seconds allowing customers to blend premium content with ad supported content to maximize revenues. The solution was unique in that it flipped the user model on its head: content looked and behaved like a free site to premium users without registration, signing in, or browser cookies. Customers included Forbes and several dozen digital content vendors. The company was funded by Palomar Ventures, Sevin Rosen, and friends and family.

Damballa

Series E in 2014
As the experts in advanced threat protection, Damballa discovers active threats that bypass all security prevention layers. Damballa automatically identifies successful infections and pinpoints devices that represent the highest risk to a business. Our patent-pending solutions combine principles of data science and machine learning to discover threats without prior knowledge of them and regardless of device type, OS and threat vector. Damballa protects nearly a billion endpoints globally at enterprises in every major market and for the world’s largest ISP and telecommunications providers. For more information, visit www.damballa.com, or follow us on Twitter @DamballaInc. Watch an analyst interview with Brian Foster, CTO until June, 2015 , here: https://vimeo.com/129326008

CoreObjects Software

Venture Round in 2010
CoreObjects Software, Inc. operates as a development partner that specializes developing commercially deployable products to market. The company engages in strategy and blue printing, product engineering, research and prototyping, user centered design, and production deployment and security assessment services. It focuses on consumer and enterprise applications, and embedded products. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. As of September 8, 2010, CoreObjects Software, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Symphony Service Corp.

Fulcrum Microsystems

Series C in 2005
Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, provides interconnect devices for storage, computing and networking backplane, and interconnect applications in the United States and internationally. The company’s products include FocalPoint, which includes Ethernet switch/router chips; ControlPoint Software Suite that comprises Ethernet bridging, switching, and routing software modules; and PivotPoint SPI-4.2 Interconnect Chip that provides interconnection packet and protocol processing resources on a line card. It serves the original equipment manufacturers. Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc., formerly known as Asynchronous Digital Design, was founded in 2000 and is based in Calabasas, California.

Bigfoot Networks

Series B in 2009
Bigfoot Networks is a leading networking technology company that develops hardware and software solutions that significantly improve the online gaming experience. Its products are designed to provide maximum network performance for online gaming and other real time applications.

Continuous Computing

Venture Round in 2001
Continuous Computing is the global source of integrated platform solutions that enable network equipment providers to overcome the mobile broadband capacity challenge quickly and cost effectively. Leveraging more than 20 years of telecom innovation, the company empowers customers to increase Return on Investment (ROI) by focusing internal resources on differentiation for 3G, Long Term Evolution (LTE), Femtocell and Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) applications. Expertise and responsiveness set the company apart: only Continuous Computing combines best-in-class AdvancedTCA (ATCA) platforms with world-famous TrilliumÂ:registered: protocol software to create highly-optimized, field-proven wireless and packet processing products. www.ccpu.com Continuous Computing is an active member of 3GPP, CP-TA, eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance, ETSI, Femto Forum, Intel Embedded Alliance, PICMG and the SCOPE Alliance.

Voxify

Series B in 2004
Voxify enables contact centers to offer self-service for customer phone calls. Voxify Automated Agents are speech applications that offer the lowest risk to deployment and a rapid return on investment. Built from industry-specific templates and patented conversational models, Voxify Automated Agents allow callers to speak naturally – resulting in the best customer service. Voxify offers managed service for both hosted & premise-based deployments.

Storspeed

Series A in 2007
StorSpeed Inc. develops products that increase network storage performance. StorSpeed Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Entone Inc.

Series B in 2003
Entone provides Hybrid TV and media hub solutions that integrate broadcast television, whole-home digital video recorder (DVR), web media services, personal media sharing, and place-shifting. Initially established in 1999 by the team that deployed one of the first and largest commercial IPTV services, Entone's technology enables service operators to deliver integrated IP-based video and broadband services using existing in-home wiring.

NTT Global Networks

Series B in 2001
Virtela is the smart alternative to traditional global carriers and equipment vendors for enterprise networking and virtualized IT services. The company delivers award-winning services via its Virtualized Overlay Network and Virtela Enterprise Services Cloud (ESC) platform, which enables the transition of branch office networking and security services to the cloud. Virtela gives enterprises the benefit of "asset-light" software-defined networking that delivers up to 80% cost savings in upfront capital and 30% savings in ongoing operating expenses. The company's services suite includes global managed network, security, mobility, application acceleration, and IT infrastructure services.

Zannel

Series B in 2008
Zannel makes the mobile industry's first Instant Media Network(TM), which allows people to instantly and visually communicate what's happening now across mobile and the web, including all major social networks. Zannel won a Webby for Best Mobile Social Network in 2008, serves million of unique visitors per month, has over 50 partnerships with leading operators, media companies, and brands. Founded by the team that built the first large-scale mobile media storefronts in the US, Zannel combines the best of mobile messaging, media sharing, and social networking into an intuitive, compelling user experience. Located in San Francisco, Zannel is backed by USVP, Alloy, and Palomar Ventures.

Netcontinuum

Series C in 2003
NetContinuum, Inc. provides application controllers to deploy, secure, and manage enterprise Web applications. Its products include Web application firewalls that enable data center teams to secure existing enterprise applications; and Web application gateways, which provide application security, load balancing, content switching, connection pooling, caching, and GZIP compression to enable deployment of new enterprise applications. The company's controllers are used for managing business risk, DMZ consolidation, application deployment, instant PCI compliance, failed audit recovery, lowering DMZ TCO, and securing FTP. It also offers on-site installation, training, support, and other on-site custom engagements. NetContinuum serves the financial services, government, e-business, media and communications, ASP/software, healthcare, and education sectors. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. As of July 2007, NetContinuum, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Barracuda Networks, Inc.

Network Physics

Venture Round in 2006
As of October 19, 2007, Network Physics, Inc. was acquired by OPNET Technologies Inc. (NasdaqNM:OPNT). Network Physics, Inc. provides real-time performance management solutions for converged networks. Its NetSensory appliances monitor the performance, integrity, and security of the applications infrastructure and enables IT staff to align operations with business priorities; NetSensory Enterprise Architecture, a network application management solution; NetSensory Solution Insight for VoIP delivers real-time and integrated management of voice and data applications; and NetSensory Business Reporter is a software option for the NP-Director platform. It offers solutions for the financial, health care, manufacturing, media, and retail sectors. Network Physics was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California with an additional office in the United Kingdom.

Bubbly

Series D in 2011
Bubbly Inc. develops Bubbly, a social voice application that connects various users worldwide. Its application specializes in mobile social networks and messaging. The company’s application allows users to follow celebrities and sports stars, and other popular users to listen to updates in their own authentic voice; record audio and preview it instantly; style their voice with cool audio effects and filters; share posts through email, Twitter, and Facebook, as well as on their own blog; and discover and listen to singers, musicians, and talented users from around the world. Its application works across feature phones and smartphones. Bubbly Inc. was formerly known as Bubble Motion, Inc. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Singapore. As of August 22, 2014, Bubble Motion, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Altruist Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Bubbly

Series C in 2009
Bubbly Inc. develops Bubbly, a social voice application that connects various users worldwide. Its application specializes in mobile social networks and messaging. The company’s application allows users to follow celebrities and sports stars, and other popular users to listen to updates in their own authentic voice; record audio and preview it instantly; style their voice with cool audio effects and filters; share posts through email, Twitter, and Facebook, as well as on their own blog; and discover and listen to singers, musicians, and talented users from around the world. Its application works across feature phones and smartphones. Bubbly Inc. was formerly known as Bubble Motion, Inc. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Singapore. As of August 22, 2014, Bubble Motion, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Altruist Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Ace Metrix

Series C in 2014
Ace Metrix offers a live platform enabling companies to access timely, actionable data with real-time advertising campaign optimization. Through its platform companies can now access timely actionable data wherever, whenever they need to, enabling real-time advertising campaign optimization. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in El Segundo, California.

WiQuest Communications

Series A in 2004
WiQuest Communications is a fabless semiconductor company designing and developing complete WiMedia-based ultrawideband (UWB) solutions focused on ultra high speed, short range applications. WiQuest’s complete solution offering includes chipset, software and reference designs. WiQuest’s technology enables a new class of applications for wireless connectivity to PC, consumer electronics and mobile systems – enabling The New Frontier of Wireless™. WiQuest Communications closed operation on 2008 Oct.

Dorado Corporation

Series B in 2000
Dorado Corporation is a provider of collaborative cloud computing applications and architecture to the financial services industry. The company offers fully automated on-demand solutions for managing and tracking complex integrations and data-intensive transactions for financial institutions. The company’s marquee Enterprise Lending System encompasses the ChannelMaster(TM) mortgage loan origination system and PriceMaster(TM) pricing engine, enabling financial institutions to run and centrally monitor the consumer lending process from lead generation through post-close. Along with the benefits of cloud computing applications—increased functionality and dependability with minimal capital costs, flexible configurations, rapid deployment and agile performance—Dorado’s customers also gain competitive advantage via production workflow enhancements, better control over the product mix and built-in compliance. The company’s pay-for-performance model also provides a more predictably priced alternative to single-point solutions, closed systems and internal development. The company was named a “Hot Banking Technology Company to Watch” by a major research firm in 2009, and has been a Top 50 Mortgage Technology Provider since 2005. Dorado’s customers include tier-one mortgage lenders, leading regional banks and growing financial institutions in the U.S. and Canada.

MyBuys

Series A in 2007
MyBuys is the leader in cross-channel personalization for retailers. We help marketers increase their marketing effectiveness by learning what individual shoppers like, then using these insights to present them with the most compelling recommendations and offers, coordinated across every channel -- on e-commerce sites, through email, via display ads, on mobile devices, and on Facebook. More than 300 companies, including 75 of the Internet Retailer Top 500, use MyBuys to sell more. Based in San Mateo, Calif., MyBuys is a privately held company. Visit them online at www.MyBuys.com.

Ace Metrix

Series C in 2012
Ace Metrix offers a live platform enabling companies to access timely, actionable data with real-time advertising campaign optimization. Through its platform companies can now access timely actionable data wherever, whenever they need to, enabling real-time advertising campaign optimization. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in El Segundo, California.

SkyeTek

Series B in 2005
SkyeTek delivers a turn-key RFID application that enables real-time management of field-based inventory and resources. This capability allows manufacturers and service providers to track the movement of inventory, assets, and workers in real-time from the factory, through the field, and ultimately to the customer site enabling significant increases in revenue, efficiency, productivity, and compliance. In addition to its MetaFi application service, SkyeTek also provides RFID reader modules as well as comprehensive professional and support services. SkyeTek is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, with sales operations in North America, Europe and Asia.

Lombardi Software

Series C in 2003
A suite of business process management software and services in the united states

Attensity

Series B in 2003
Attensity is a provider of corporate insight solutions based on proprietary data contextualization for Global 1000 companies. As a pioneer in natural language processing and sentiment analysis, Attensity’s solutions identify relevant and accurate information from multi-channel data sources using highly sophisticated and patented semantic technologies, analytics and context based discovery. Using Attensity’s integrated solutions, enterprise companies can interpret and “understand” massive amounts of structured and unstructured data from many different sources, thereby helping to improve the customer experience, manage brand equity, enhance revenue, mitigate business risk, and help inform business strategies.

KnowNow

Venture Round in 2006
KnowNow delivers RSS services to large companies. KnowNow's live information management solutions are designed to increase productivity, efficiency, and profitability for companies around the world.

Composite Software

Series B in 2003
Composite Software, Inc. disrupted the data integration market with a faster, lower cost data integration approach now known as data virtualization.

Strix Systems

Series D in 2003
Strix Systems designs, develops, and markets enterprise wireless networks that enhance productivity and efficiency by providing users with instant information via continuous, secure connections to company networks.

Motiva

Series C in 2001
Motiva, Inc. is the technology leader for global enterprise incentive management (EIM) software and services, enabling companies to create and manage flexible, highly targeted incentive programs that drive top-line and bottom-line results across the extended enterprise. The Motiva software solution allows businesses to rapidly align performance with strategic objectives for sales, services, channels, customers and suppliers. Founded in 1996, Motiva is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Strix Systems

Series E in 2005
Strix Systems designs, develops, and markets enterprise wireless networks that enhance productivity and efficiency by providing users with instant information via continuous, secure connections to company networks.

Akonix Systems

Series B in 2003
Akonix Systems provides major organizations the only proven, fully integrated, interactive communications platform designed to foster online community and enrich user experience by allowing customers to seamlessly connect with individuals with similar and shared interests. Unlike rigid CRM or single purpose software tools, Akonix CommuniWare Enterprise, is a scalable, extendable, customizable solution that is effective in increasing all relevant measures, such as customer acquisition, retention, brand association and revenue generation.

Strix Systems

Series G in 2006
Strix Systems designs, develops, and markets enterprise wireless networks that enhance productivity and efficiency by providing users with instant information via continuous, secure connections to company networks.

AlterPoint

Series B in 2004
AlterPoint provides network governance software. It offers NetworkAuthority CMDB that stores inventory of various network assets, configurations, and changes in a vendor-independent database; NetworkAuthority Analytics that includes portals for network security, compliance, and asset lifecycle management; and NetworkAuthority Vulnerability Defense and Compliance Service that offers vulnerability assessment and recommended remediation. The company also provides support, consulting, and education services. It serves banking/finance, education, government, healthcare/pharmaceutical, hospitality/entertainment/recreation, insurance/real estate/legal, manufacturing, retail/distribution, service providers, technology manufacturers, and media sectors.

ExteNet Systems

Venture Round in 2010
ExteNet Systems designs, builds and operates network infrastructure - primarily using distributed antenna systems. DAS networks by ExteNet Systems are implemented by wireless service providers in a variety of locations and environments. ExteNet is technologically adaptable – which means they can operate CDMA, GSM, UMTS, 3G and 4G within each fiber network that we deploy. They are adept at designing, implementing and operating fiber networks to extend their network’s traditional sites into hard-to-zone areas, or to places where you do not have coverage. Their fiber networks could also be a reasonable backhaul solution for wireless service providers.

Zannel

Series A in 2006
Zannel makes the mobile industry's first Instant Media Network(TM), which allows people to instantly and visually communicate what's happening now across mobile and the web, including all major social networks. Zannel won a Webby for Best Mobile Social Network in 2008, serves million of unique visitors per month, has over 50 partnerships with leading operators, media companies, and brands. Founded by the team that built the first large-scale mobile media storefronts in the US, Zannel combines the best of mobile messaging, media sharing, and social networking into an intuitive, compelling user experience. Located in San Francisco, Zannel is backed by USVP, Alloy, and Palomar Ventures.

Predixion

Series B in 2011
Predixion was founded on the belief that predictive analytics has the power to create a smarter, safer and healthier world – and access to that power should not be limited to a select few with extensive statistical knowledge. To achieve that vision, Predixion developed a self-service predictive analytics platform called Predixion Insight™ that simplifies the entire predictive process. Predixion Insight is designed for business analysts and other non-technical users to enable broader adoption of predictive analytics, but is powerful and flexible enough for data scientists. In addition, Predixion expedites the “Last Mile of Analytics™” – the deployment of powerful predictions directly to the people who need them to take action – so the value of being predictive is realized immediately. More than 200 companies rely on Predixion to help drive better decisions every day. Founded in 2009, Predixion Software is headquartered in San Juan Capistrano, California with development offices in Redmond, Washington. For more information visit www.predixionsoftware.com.

NTT Global Networks

Series C in 2003
Virtela is the smart alternative to traditional global carriers and equipment vendors for enterprise networking and virtualized IT services. The company delivers award-winning services via its Virtualized Overlay Network and Virtela Enterprise Services Cloud (ESC) platform, which enables the transition of branch office networking and security services to the cloud. Virtela gives enterprises the benefit of "asset-light" software-defined networking that delivers up to 80% cost savings in upfront capital and 30% savings in ongoing operating expenses. The company's services suite includes global managed network, security, mobility, application acceleration, and IT infrastructure services.

Ace Metrix

Series A in 2008
Ace Metrix offers a live platform enabling companies to access timely, actionable data with real-time advertising campaign optimization. Through its platform companies can now access timely actionable data wherever, whenever they need to, enabling real-time advertising campaign optimization. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in El Segundo, California.

Cerebra

Series A in 2004
Cerebra, Inc has develops and commercializes web-based enterprise data management products.

Edgewater Networks

Venture Round in 2008
Edgewater Networks is a market leader in enabling IP-based voice, video, and data services. Service providers, VARs and SIs of all sizes use Edgewater Networks’ solutions to simplify customer premises configurations for quick and smooth installations, reduce time to market and deliver rapid return on invested capital. The company helps customers deliver intelligence at the network edge with its Network Edge Orchestration platform that includes the EdgeView Service Control Center and EdgeMarc Intelligent Edges. The company has over 600 thousand deployed sites globally. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Voxify

Series B in 2003
Voxify enables contact centers to offer self-service for customer phone calls. Voxify Automated Agents are speech applications that offer the lowest risk to deployment and a rapid return on investment. Built from industry-specific templates and patented conversational models, Voxify Automated Agents allow callers to speak naturally – resulting in the best customer service. Voxify offers managed service for both hosted & premise-based deployments.

Intersperse

Series B in 2001
Intersperse is a provider of management solutions for service-oriented enterprise applications. Intersperse Manager is designed to help master the rapidly growing complexity of SOA business systems. It gives developers, operators, and analysts a comprehensive view of all relevant tiers, the ability to proactively monitor and analyze system performance in business contexts, and the control to automatically or directly corrects problems in the production environment. Users can visualize not only application services, but also the ways in which those services are expected to perform, ensuring compliance with established service-level commitments.

Edgewater Networks

Series B in 2005
Edgewater Networks is a market leader in enabling IP-based voice, video, and data services. Service providers, VARs and SIs of all sizes use Edgewater Networks’ solutions to simplify customer premises configurations for quick and smooth installations, reduce time to market and deliver rapid return on invested capital. The company helps customers deliver intelligence at the network edge with its Network Edge Orchestration platform that includes the EdgeView Service Control Center and EdgeMarc Intelligent Edges. The company has over 600 thousand deployed sites globally. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Woven Systems

Series B in 2007
Woven Systems™ is an innovative network infrastructure provider focused on designing and building massively scalable Ethernet fabric switching solutions for Enterprise, and Internet data centers. Woven offers the only solutions that use Dynamic Congestion Avoidance to automatically balance traffic for delivering the industry's highest performance and lowest latency — all conveniently packaged in an energy-efficient chassis.

Damballa

Series C in 2010
As the experts in advanced threat protection, Damballa discovers active threats that bypass all security prevention layers. Damballa automatically identifies successful infections and pinpoints devices that represent the highest risk to a business. Our patent-pending solutions combine principles of data science and machine learning to discover threats without prior knowledge of them and regardless of device type, OS and threat vector. Damballa protects nearly a billion endpoints globally at enterprises in every major market and for the world’s largest ISP and telecommunications providers. For more information, visit www.damballa.com, or follow us on Twitter @DamballaInc. Watch an analyst interview with Brian Foster, CTO until June, 2015 , here: https://vimeo.com/129326008

DATAllegro

Series D in 2008
DATAllegro is an integrated data warehousing provider.

WiQuest Communications

Series C in 2007
WiQuest Communications is a fabless semiconductor company designing and developing complete WiMedia-based ultrawideband (UWB) solutions focused on ultra high speed, short range applications. WiQuest’s complete solution offering includes chipset, software and reference designs. WiQuest’s technology enables a new class of applications for wireless connectivity to PC, consumer electronics and mobile systems – enabling The New Frontier of Wireless™. WiQuest Communications closed operation on 2008 Oct.

WiQuest Communications

Series B in 2006
WiQuest Communications is a fabless semiconductor company designing and developing complete WiMedia-based ultrawideband (UWB) solutions focused on ultra high speed, short range applications. WiQuest’s complete solution offering includes chipset, software and reference designs. WiQuest’s technology enables a new class of applications for wireless connectivity to PC, consumer electronics and mobile systems – enabling The New Frontier of Wireless™. WiQuest Communications closed operation on 2008 Oct.

Voxify

Series D in 2008
Voxify enables contact centers to offer self-service for customer phone calls. Voxify Automated Agents are speech applications that offer the lowest risk to deployment and a rapid return on investment. Built from industry-specific templates and patented conversational models, Voxify Automated Agents allow callers to speak naturally – resulting in the best customer service. Voxify offers managed service for both hosted & premise-based deployments.

KnowNow

Series C in 2003
KnowNow delivers RSS services to large companies. KnowNow's live information management solutions are designed to increase productivity, efficiency, and profitability for companies around the world.

Fulcrum Microsystems

Series D in 2007
Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, provides interconnect devices for storage, computing and networking backplane, and interconnect applications in the United States and internationally. The company’s products include FocalPoint, which includes Ethernet switch/router chips; ControlPoint Software Suite that comprises Ethernet bridging, switching, and routing software modules; and PivotPoint SPI-4.2 Interconnect Chip that provides interconnection packet and protocol processing resources on a line card. It serves the original equipment manufacturers. Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc., formerly known as Asynchronous Digital Design, was founded in 2000 and is based in Calabasas, California.

DATAllegro

Series C in 2006
DATAllegro is an integrated data warehousing provider.

Gluecode Software

Series A in 2004
Gluecode Software operates as an open source application infrastructure company. The company's Java application platform, Gluecode JOE Standard Edition integrates functionality for application development, including an application server, JSP and servlet container, portal framework, and database management system. Its Gluecode JOE simplifies the development and delivery of distributed enterprise applications through integration, certification, and support. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in El Segundo, California.

Gamma Enterprise Technologies

Series A in 2005
As of January 24, 2008, Gamma Enterprise Technologies, Inc. was acquired by Applimation, Inc. Gamma Enterprise Technologies, Inc. provides application data management software solutions for companies running SAP applications. The company’s InfoShuttle suite integrates its application data management solutions to automate, control, and secure the replication of SAP production data in non-production environments. Its applications enable users to create new clients; update existing clients; accelerate testing; secure data for development, test, and training purposes; and operationalize processes. The company’s archiving solutions are designed to store, manage, and retrieve SAP application data. It serves customers in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. Gamma Enterprise Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Woodland Hills, California.

Composite Software

Series A in 2003
Composite Software, Inc. disrupted the data integration market with a faster, lower cost data integration approach now known as data virtualization.