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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Bubbly, previously known as [Bubble Motion](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bubble-motion-2), is a pioneer in mobile social media. Bubbly's product "Bubbly" is a social messaging service where people share text and voice updates with friends, family, fans and followers. Bubbly is like 'Twitter with a voice' and brings social networking to all mobile phones across Asia - and now with their latest iPhone and Android app version, Bubbly is finally available globally. Bubbly has quickly grown to 30M+ users across Asia and is now quickly expanding past that with the launch of their smartphone app version. The latest release of their Bubbly app includes numerous voice filters that allows users to enhance and modify their voices. Many are now calling it the 'Instagram of voice'. Bubbly's investors include Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, JAFCO, Palomar Ventures, Comcast, Northgate Capital and Infocomm Investments. The company is headquartered in Singapore with operations in Silicon Valley, India, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines.
Biscotti, formerly known as Wham!, is a consumer electronics company that designs, builds, and markets high-definition video calling products for the home. Its latest innovation, the Biscotti TV Phone, gives everyone the ability to share real-time experiences from the comfort of their living room, erasing the distance between family and friends. With real-life pictures and sound, the Biscotti TV Phone is magically simple to use for all ages. Plus, you can make unlimited free calls to anyone, anywhere. It’s the next best thing to being there. Biscotti TV Phone was created by a team of scientists in Texas, led by Dr. Matthew B. Shoemake, a pioneer in Wi-Fi wireless and video communications. Biscotti Inc. is privately held and backed by Palomar Ventures of Santa Monica, California.
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.
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
ExteNet Systems they provide service for their customers in mobile network operators (MNOs), real estate owners, property managers, wholesale carriers, enterprises, municipalities, and rural carriers. Their outdoor small cell and DAS networks are indoor networks are deployed in iconic sports and entertainment venues, convention centers, commercial office buildings, college campuses, healthcare facilities, hotels and resorts, and transit systems.
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.
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.
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.
Bubbly, previously known as [Bubble Motion](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bubble-motion-2), is a pioneer in mobile social media. Bubbly's product "Bubbly" is a social messaging service where people share text and voice updates with friends, family, fans and followers. Bubbly is like 'Twitter with a voice' and brings social networking to all mobile phones across Asia - and now with their latest iPhone and Android app version, Bubbly is finally available globally. Bubbly has quickly grown to 30M+ users across Asia and is now quickly expanding past that with the launch of their smartphone app version. The latest release of their Bubbly app includes numerous voice filters that allows users to enhance and modify their voices. Many are now calling it the 'Instagram of voice'. Bubbly's investors include Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, JAFCO, Palomar Ventures, Comcast, Northgate Capital and Infocomm Investments. The company is headquartered in Singapore with operations in Silicon Valley, India, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines.
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 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.
DATAllegro provides integrated data warehousing services.
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.
ExteNet Systems they provide service for their customers in mobile network operators (MNOs), real estate owners, property managers, wholesale carriers, enterprises, municipalities, and rural carriers. Their outdoor small cell and DAS networks are indoor networks are deployed in iconic sports and entertainment venues, convention centers, commercial office buildings, college campuses, healthcare facilities, hotels and resorts, and transit systems.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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..
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 â all conveniently packaged in an energy-efficient chassis.
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.
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.
StorSpeed Inc. develops products that increase network storage performance. StorSpeed Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Lombardi Software, Inc. provides a suite of business process management (BPM) software and services in the United States. Its products include Teamworks 6, a BPM software suite that offers a platform to deliver applications that support process improvement; and Blueprint, a software-as-a-service-based BPM product for companies to map business processes, identify problems, and prioritize improvement opportunities, as well as provides process documentation and workflow diagramming tools. The company also offers process definition and deployment solutions, on-demand assistance, and education services, as well as on-site services, including mapping, modeling analysis and optimization, process design and development, project management, and SOA integration solution reviews. Its customers include financial services, government, healthcare, insurance, life sciences, manufacturing, retail, and telecommunications industries. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
DATAllegro provides integrated data warehousing services.
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.
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.
Encryptanet, Inc.
Series A in 2006
Encryptanet was one of the world's first commercial blockchains. The company built a lightweight, content control and access cloud service for monetizing digital content called Paycloud. Encryptanet was not a micropayments vendor nor a cryptocurrency per se, 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.
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.
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.
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.
Lombardi Software, Inc. provides a suite of business process management (BPM) software and services in the United States. Its products include Teamworks 6, a BPM software suite that offers a platform to deliver applications that support process improvement; and Blueprint, a software-as-a-service-based BPM product for companies to map business processes, identify problems, and prioritize improvement opportunities, as well as provides process documentation and workflow diagramming tools. The company also offers process definition and deployment solutions, on-demand assistance, and education services, as well as on-site services, including mapping, modeling analysis and optimization, process design and development, project management, and SOA integration solution reviews. Its customers include financial services, government, healthcare, insurance, life sciences, manufacturing, retail, and telecommunications industries. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
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.
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 â all conveniently packaged in an energy-efficient chassis.
NTT Global Networks provides telecommunications services. They offer a cloud framework to automatically activate and configure virtualized IT cloud services for branch offices.
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.
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.
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.
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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Lombardi Software, Inc. provides a suite of business process management (BPM) software and services in the United States. Its products include Teamworks 6, a BPM software suite that offers a platform to deliver applications that support process improvement; and Blueprint, a software-as-a-service-based BPM product for companies to map business processes, identify problems, and prioritize improvement opportunities, as well as provides process documentation and workflow diagramming tools. The company also offers process definition and deployment solutions, on-demand assistance, and education services, as well as on-site services, including mapping, modeling analysis and optimization, process design and development, project management, and SOA integration solution reviews. Its customers include financial services, government, healthcare, insurance, life sciences, manufacturing, retail, and telecommunications industries. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
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.
Cerebra, Inc has develops and commercializes web-based enterprise data management products.
Inovys, a Pleasanton, Calif. company that makes software and hardware for structural testing of semiconductors, was founded in 1999.
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.
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.
Composite Software, Inc. disrupted the data integration market with a faster, lower cost data integration approach now known as data virtualization.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Composite Software, Inc. disrupted the data integration market with a faster, lower cost data integration approach now known as data virtualization.
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.
NTT Global Networks provides telecommunications services. They offer a cloud framework to automatically activate and configure virtualized IT cloud services for branch offices.
Lombardi Software, Inc. provides a suite of business process management (BPM) software and services in the United States. Its products include Teamworks 6, a BPM software suite that offers a platform to deliver applications that support process improvement; and Blueprint, a software-as-a-service-based BPM product for companies to map business processes, identify problems, and prioritize improvement opportunities, as well as provides process documentation and workflow diagramming tools. The company also offers process definition and deployment solutions, on-demand assistance, and education services, as well as on-site services, including mapping, modeling analysis and optimization, process design and development, project management, and SOA integration solution reviews. Its customers include financial services, government, healthcare, insurance, life sciences, manufacturing, retail, and telecommunications industries. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
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.
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.
Composite Software, Inc. disrupted the data integration market with a faster, lower cost data integration approach now known as data virtualization.
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.
NTT Global Networks provides telecommunications services. They offer a cloud framework to automatically activate and configure virtualized IT cloud services for branch offices.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.