Pond Venture Partners

Pond Ventures is an investment firm that provides venture capital and investments for tech startups and companies. It also provides its clients with services such as recruiting employees and building a network of customers, suppliers, and partners. Pond Ventures operates three teams in Silicon Valley, London, and Israel.

Richard Irving

Co-Founder and General Partner

Charles Irving

Managing Partner

Jamie Urquhart

Venture Partner

35 past transactions

Constant Therapy Health

Series A in 2016
Constant Therapy Health is a next-generation digital therapeutics company that is improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and delivery of brain rehabilitation. Reaching beyond current clinical strategies, the company utilizes adaptive technology and AI to seamlessly integrate therapy into people’s lives. Its award-winning mobile app, Constant Therapy, is a neurotechnology app for people with brain injury or cognitive disorders that helps them rebuild neural connections by putting the power of recovery in their hands. Constant Therapy offers direct access to clinically-proven exercises that can rebuild cognitive, speech, and language functions anywhere at any time. With over 140 million tasks completed to date by users, the platform has also created the world’s largest brain rehabilitation database, containing data and technology accessible to enterprises that can guide and evolve future therapy practices.

ACCO Semiconductor

Series E in 2014
ACCO Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company that is empowering today's mobile communications products with advanced, high performance and cost compelling CMOS wireless solutions. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California at the heart of 'Silicon Valley', ACCO has developed and patented a groundbreaking and highly innovative CMOS technology. ACCO is applying this technology to provide highly integrated and cost compelling, high-efficiency CMOS power amplifier products for 2G/EDGE/3G/4G mobile handsets not previously considered possible using CMOS technology.

Mekanist

Series B in 2013
Mekanist.net is a Turkish online search engine for finding food, beverages, popular restaurants, cafes, and bars. It provides users with lists of restaurants, enabling them to check customer ratings and reviews on flavors, environment, service, price, and quality.

LiveRail

Series B in 2012
LiveRail is a monetization platform for video publishers. Setting the standard for video advertising technology solutions, the platform provides premium publishers with the products to sell their video inventory across all devices. With over 7 billion monthly impressions, LiveRail is used by major publishers who benefit from sophisticated analytics, advanced controls and transparency ultimately generating maximum yield for every ad impression. Founded in 2007, LiveRail’s senior team is led by its founders Mark Trefgarne and Andrei Dunca. LiveRail Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in New York, New York, and Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Facebook acquired Liverail in July 2014 in a transaction valued at 400-500 million dollars.

Emefcy

Venture Round in 2011
Emefcy, Ltd. develops and manufactures a bio-energy system that produces energy in the form of electricity or hydrogen from wastewater. The company develops MEGAWATTERTM, a wastewater treatment solution based on microbial fuel cell technology that enables direct electricity generation or hydrogen production from wastewater as means for wastewater treatment. Its system directly generates DC electricity by treating wastewater from industrial, agricultural, and municipal sources; performs water and wastewater de-nitrification without polluting the water with organic carbon and bacteria; generates electricity in lagoons and stabilization ponds; and directly produces hydrogen from wastewater. The company's solution is primarily used in pulp and paper, petrochemical processing, food and beverage, and agricultural industries. Emefcy, Ltd. was founded in 2007 and is based in Caesarea, Israel.

LiveRail

Series A in 2010
LiveRail is a monetization platform for video publishers. Setting the standard for video advertising technology solutions, the platform provides premium publishers with the products to sell their video inventory across all devices. With over 7 billion monthly impressions, LiveRail is used by major publishers who benefit from sophisticated analytics, advanced controls and transparency ultimately generating maximum yield for every ad impression. Founded in 2007, LiveRail’s senior team is led by its founders Mark Trefgarne and Andrei Dunca. LiveRail Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in New York, New York, and Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Facebook acquired Liverail in July 2014 in a transaction valued at 400-500 million dollars.

Mirics Semiconductor

Venture Round in 2010
Mirics Semiconductor, Inc. offers semiconductors that enable global platform products for converged broadcast. It provides poly-band tuners for the consumer electronics and cell phone industries. The company also offers evaluation kits, which allow the evaluation of the tuners in a lab environment. Mirics Semiconductor was founded in 2004 and is based in Fleet, the United Kingdom with an additional office in Hampshire.

picoChip

Venture Round in 2010
picoChip provides signal processing products for wireless communications. picoChip offers multi-core DSP, with widely deployed software-defined radio products and a growing range of cost- and performance-optimized ASSP devices.

Broadway Networks

Venture Round in 2010
Broadway Networks, Inc. develops optical subsystems to the equipment vendors for broadband access applications. It offers smart SFPs and EPON sticks that enable equipment vendors to develop and upgrade access equipment products for the FTTx and backhaul market. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in San Jose, California. It also has operations in China.

picoChip

Series E in 2009
picoChip provides signal processing products for wireless communications. picoChip offers multi-core DSP, with widely deployed software-defined radio products and a growing range of cost- and performance-optimized ASSP devices.

Mirics Semiconductor

Venture Round in 2009
Mirics Semiconductor, Inc. offers semiconductors that enable global platform products for converged broadcast. It provides poly-band tuners for the consumer electronics and cell phone industries. The company also offers evaluation kits, which allow the evaluation of the tuners in a lab environment. Mirics Semiconductor was founded in 2004 and is based in Fleet, the United Kingdom with an additional office in Hampshire.

4Home

Series B in 2008
4Home has developed an XML-based software and services platform that OEM hardware vendors and service providers can use to deliver compelling applications and services into the connected home. 4Home's suite of solutions allows users to automate almost any application they want: remotely monitor their homes, get Web-based content on the TV, control home systems from their mobile phones, control all home devices and digital media in one unified user-interface, and track their home energy usage down to the device level. The company feels that "home control services" are the next suite of services to be offered by major broadband providers (after the trifecta of voice, video, and data), and consists of home monitoring, media & entertainment management, home health, and energy management. 4Home received five CES 2008 Innovation awards.

LiveRail

Seed Round in 2008
LiveRail is a monetization platform for video publishers. Setting the standard for video advertising technology solutions, the platform provides premium publishers with the products to sell their video inventory across all devices. With over 7 billion monthly impressions, LiveRail is used by major publishers who benefit from sophisticated analytics, advanced controls and transparency ultimately generating maximum yield for every ad impression. Founded in 2007, LiveRail’s senior team is led by its founders Mark Trefgarne and Andrei Dunca. LiveRail Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in New York, New York, and Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Facebook acquired Liverail in July 2014 in a transaction valued at 400-500 million dollars.

Nanotech Semiconductor

Venture Round in 2008
Nanotech Semiconductor is a fabless chip company, designing and supplying Driver and Receiver ICs for the fiber-optics communications industry. Nanotech Semiconductor was founded in May 2003 by Gary Steele, co-founder and CEO of the UK's first Fabless Chip Company, Acapella Ltd. Gary was also the founder and CEO of Microcosm Communications Ltd., in 1995, the first company to deliver high-speed optical networking components based on pure-CMOS process technology.

Gigle Networks

Series B in 2007
Gigle Semiconductor, Inc. is a startup fabless semiconductor company that develops system-on-chip integrated circuits for home networking applications. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Barcelona, Spain with an additional office in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Mirics Semiconductor

Series B in 2007
Mirics Semiconductor, Inc. offers semiconductors that enable global platform products for converged broadcast. It provides poly-band tuners for the consumer electronics and cell phone industries. The company also offers evaluation kits, which allow the evaluation of the tuners in a lab environment. Mirics Semiconductor was founded in 2004 and is based in Fleet, the United Kingdom with an additional office in Hampshire.

ACCO SA

Series A in 2007
ACCO SA is a French company that designs and manufactures analog and RF semiconductors. The company was founded by [Denis Masliah](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/denis-masliah#/entity) and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

picoChip

Series D in 2007
picoChip provides signal processing products for wireless communications. picoChip offers multi-core DSP, with widely deployed software-defined radio products and a growing range of cost- and performance-optimized ASSP devices.

Nanotech Semiconductor

Series B in 2007
Nanotech Semiconductor is a fabless chip company, designing and supplying Driver and Receiver ICs for the fiber-optics communications industry. Nanotech Semiconductor was founded in May 2003 by Gary Steele, co-founder and CEO of the UK's first Fabless Chip Company, Acapella Ltd. Gary was also the founder and CEO of Microcosm Communications Ltd., in 1995, the first company to deliver high-speed optical networking components based on pure-CMOS process technology.

Acco Brands

Post in 2007
ACCO Brands Corporation’s roots stretch back more than a century. Over the years, our brands have consistently been guided by a spirit of innovation and a commitment to delivering superior, cutting-edge products for our customers. This has enabled us to flourish and grow in a continually evolving office products environment. ACCO Brands Corporation became an independent publicly traded company on August 17, 2005. The Company was formed through the spin-off of the ACCO World office products unit of Fortune Brands (NYSE: FO) and its subsequent merger with General Binding Corporation (GBC). This transaction brought together the complementary businesses, brands and strengths of ACCO and GBC to form the world's largest supplier of branded office products – a global office products powerhouse. As a highly focused office products company, we are now uniquely positioned to capitalize on the opportunities for growth in our industry.

4Home

Series A in 2006
4Home has developed an XML-based software and services platform that OEM hardware vendors and service providers can use to deliver compelling applications and services into the connected home. 4Home's suite of solutions allows users to automate almost any application they want: remotely monitor their homes, get Web-based content on the TV, control home systems from their mobile phones, control all home devices and digital media in one unified user-interface, and track their home energy usage down to the device level. The company feels that "home control services" are the next suite of services to be offered by major broadband providers (after the trifecta of voice, video, and data), and consists of home monitoring, media & entertainment management, home health, and energy management. 4Home received five CES 2008 Innovation awards.

Air Semiconductor

Series A in 2006
At Air we believe that all mobile devices should be aware of their location. In the future, everything from your wrist watch to your cellphone will know its location, in the same way that it knows what time it is today. Air's revolutionary Always-ON technology will - for the first time - enable all battery operated, mobile devices to be continuously aware of their location.

Gigle Networks

Series A in 2006
Gigle Semiconductor, Inc. is a startup fabless semiconductor company that develops system-on-chip integrated circuits for home networking applications. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Barcelona, Spain with an additional office in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

picoChip

Series C in 2005
picoChip provides signal processing products for wireless communications. picoChip offers multi-core DSP, with widely deployed software-defined radio products and a growing range of cost- and performance-optimized ASSP devices.

Nanotech Semiconductor

Series B in 2005
Nanotech Semiconductor is a fabless chip company, designing and supplying Driver and Receiver ICs for the fiber-optics communications industry. Nanotech Semiconductor was founded in May 2003 by Gary Steele, co-founder and CEO of the UK's first Fabless Chip Company, Acapella Ltd. Gary was also the founder and CEO of Microcosm Communications Ltd., in 1995, the first company to deliver high-speed optical networking components based on pure-CMOS process technology.

SealedMedia

Venture Round in 2005
SealedMedia develops document security solutions for applications in finance, banking and insurance, publishing, government, pharmaceutical, and healthcare industries. It offers SealedMedia solution, which enables organizations to seal various document formats for protecting business from information leakage and securing information. SealedMedia was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Beaconsfield, the United Kingdom. The company also has offices in Los Gatos, California; Boston, Massachusetts; and London. As of July 31, 2006, SealedMedia operates as a subsidiary of Stellent Inc.

Transitive

Series C in 2004
Transitive provides cross-platform virtualization and is a pioneer in developing technologies that allow applications compiled for one CPU and operating system to run on platforms using different CPUs and operating systems without any modification to source code or binaries.

picoChip

Series B in 2003
picoChip provides signal processing products for wireless communications. picoChip offers multi-core DSP, with widely deployed software-defined radio products and a growing range of cost- and performance-optimized ASSP devices.

Transitive

Series B in 2003
Transitive provides cross-platform virtualization and is a pioneer in developing technologies that allow applications compiled for one CPU and operating system to run on platforms using different CPUs and operating systems without any modification to source code or binaries.

Essient Photonics

Series A in 2002
Essient Photonics manufactures electronic valves, tubes and electronics component.

SealedMedia

Venture Round in 2001
SealedMedia develops document security solutions for applications in finance, banking and insurance, publishing, government, pharmaceutical, and healthcare industries. It offers SealedMedia solution, which enables organizations to seal various document formats for protecting business from information leakage and securing information. SealedMedia was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Beaconsfield, the United Kingdom. The company also has offices in Los Gatos, California; Boston, Massachusetts; and London. As of July 31, 2006, SealedMedia operates as a subsidiary of Stellent Inc.

picoChip

Series A in 2001
picoChip provides signal processing products for wireless communications. picoChip offers multi-core DSP, with widely deployed software-defined radio products and a growing range of cost- and performance-optimized ASSP devices.

SealedMedia

Venture Round in 2000
SealedMedia develops document security solutions for applications in finance, banking and insurance, publishing, government, pharmaceutical, and healthcare industries. It offers SealedMedia solution, which enables organizations to seal various document formats for protecting business from information leakage and securing information. SealedMedia was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Beaconsfield, the United Kingdom. The company also has offices in Los Gatos, California; Boston, Massachusetts; and London. As of July 31, 2006, SealedMedia operates as a subsidiary of Stellent Inc.

Microcosm Communications

Series B in 1999
Microcosm Communications develops and supplies pure-CMOS & BiCMOS/SiGe integrated circuits for high volume fiber-optic data, LAN and telecommunication physical layer applications. The company has assembled the world's largest analog design team targeted at fiber-optic ICs. Products include high-speed LED, laser and VCSEL drivers, fixed- and variable-gain PIN pre-amps, integrated photo-receivers, post amps/quantizers, clock recovery, and Ethernet/Fast Ethernet transceivers. The company's mission is to offer the highest performance yet lowest cost ICs on a worldwide basis.

Microcosm Communications

Series A in 1998
Microcosm Communications develops and supplies pure-CMOS & BiCMOS/SiGe integrated circuits for high volume fiber-optic data, LAN and telecommunication physical layer applications. The company has assembled the world's largest analog design team targeted at fiber-optic ICs. Products include high-speed LED, laser and VCSEL drivers, fixed- and variable-gain PIN pre-amps, integrated photo-receivers, post amps/quantizers, clock recovery, and Ethernet/Fast Ethernet transceivers. The company's mission is to offer the highest performance yet lowest cost ICs on a worldwide basis.
Spot something off? Help us improve by flagging any incorrect or outdated information. Just email us at support@teaserclub.com. Your feedback is most welcome.