Rustic Canyon Partners

Rustic Canyon Partners is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in exceptional entrepreneurs building transformational companies.The firm typically invests in Internet, digital media, energy and efficiency, consumer web, clean technology, wireless, computer storage and peripherals, security software, and outsourcing sectors.

Babcock, John

Partner

David Travers

Partner

Unterman, Thomas E.

Founding Partner

105 past transactions

Navigating Cancer

Series D in 2019
Navigating Cancer owns and operates a Website for cancer patients and their supporters that allow them to read about the disease, discuss ailments with others, organize personal health records, and track medications and treatments. Navigating Cancer’s mission is to transform healthcare through patient-centered care by using technology to connect every cancer patient to their healthcare team, their own health records, and the right information at the right time. Navigating Cancer’s Patient Engagement Portal provides oncology clinics with a branded, online extension of their care model and helps them save time and money while providing better quality care. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Navigating Cancer

Venture Round in 2019
Navigating Cancer owns and operates a Website for cancer patients and their supporters that allow them to read about the disease, discuss ailments with others, organize personal health records, and track medications and treatments. Navigating Cancer’s mission is to transform healthcare through patient-centered care by using technology to connect every cancer patient to their healthcare team, their own health records, and the right information at the right time. Navigating Cancer’s Patient Engagement Portal provides oncology clinics with a branded, online extension of their care model and helps them save time and money while providing better quality care. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

UrbanSitter

Series C in 2017
UrbanSitter is an app and website that’s making it easier than ever for families to find, book and pay trusted care for the entire household, from backup child care to experienced nannies, tutors, pet sitters, housekeepers, and senior care. Only UrbanSitter taps into a parent’s personal network to connect them with caregivers of friends, co-workers, moms groups and parents from their kid’s school—to find a caregiver they trust. When parents need a last-minute sitter, UrbanSitter comes to the rescue with average response times under three minutes. UrbanSitter is solving the child care and caregiving dilemma for families everywhere.

Factual

Series B in 2015
Factual is the location data company the world’s most valuable brands and tech companies trust to understand and intelligently grow their businesses. Factual provides product and engineering teams, marketers and data analysts access to the world’s most trusted, accurate and comprehensive data on places and people worldwide, transforming products, advertising and businesses with data that puts everything in context.

Navigating Cancer

Series C in 2015
Navigating Cancer owns and operates a Website for cancer patients and their supporters that allow them to read about the disease, discuss ailments with others, organize personal health records, and track medications and treatments. Navigating Cancer’s mission is to transform healthcare through patient-centered care by using technology to connect every cancer patient to their healthcare team, their own health records, and the right information at the right time. Navigating Cancer’s Patient Engagement Portal provides oncology clinics with a branded, online extension of their care model and helps them save time and money while providing better quality care. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Kin Community

Series C in 2014
Kin is a lifestyle entertainment company that develops, creates and distributes lifestyle entertainment in all forms and across all platforms for women in the “Builder” stage of their lives.

Good Technology

Series C in 2014
Good Technology Corporation provides secure mobility solutions for enterprises and governments worldwide. It offers a suite of collaboration applications, such as Good Launcher, a mobile desktop solution for business, Good Work, a mobile workforce for business-class e-mail and collaboration, Good Access, a browser that allows users to access the corporate Intranets and Web applications, and Good Share, a solution that enables mobile business users to access, download, and share documents. It was founded in 1996 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

UrbanSitter

Series B in 2014
UrbanSitter is an app and website that’s making it easier than ever for families to find, book and pay trusted care for the entire household, from backup child care to experienced nannies, tutors, pet sitters, housekeepers, and senior care. Only UrbanSitter taps into a parent’s personal network to connect them with caregivers of friends, co-workers, moms groups and parents from their kid’s school—to find a caregiver they trust. When parents need a last-minute sitter, UrbanSitter comes to the rescue with average response times under three minutes. UrbanSitter is solving the child care and caregiving dilemma for families everywhere.

Dollar Shave Club

Series B in 2013
Dollar Shave Club is a lifestyle brand and e-commerce company that invents and delivers smart, affordable products to make lives easier. Through an exclusive R&D process that includes botanicals and chemists, the company makes all its own products at affordable prices. Dollar Shave Club was founded in 2012 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Emergent Payments

Series C in 2013
Emergent Payments delivers optimized payment solutions in high growth markets. We help merchants and partners grow revenues and open new markets. The company is based in Palo Alto, California with development centers in North Carolina and Shanghai, as well as international offices in Luxembourg, India, China, South Korea, Brazil, Singapore, Malaysia, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Japan. The company sold its Digital Commerce platform (Live Gamer Elements) to Autodesk in 2014, in order to focus on its core payments technology and business. It rebranded as Emergent Payments in early 2015 and invested in the payments platform, team and operations in high growth international markets.

Chromatik

Series A in 2013
Chromatik connects the world's musicians. Their applications enable millions of musicians to play, learn, and share their favorite music through sheet music, guitar tabs, lyrics, and more. Chromatik was acquired by TakeLessons (https://TakeLessons.com) in April 2017.

PlayFirst

Convertible Note in 2013
PlayFirst is the global leader in mobile games for family and friends. PlayFirst develops great mobile games for family and friends, and tens of millions of fans worldwide have played our hit titles. PlayFirst's portfolio of games includes the DASH® series (Diner Dash®, Wedding Dash®, Cooking Dash®, Hotel Dash®, SpongeBob Diner Dash® and Hotel Transylvania Dash®) and Stars series (Mall Stars™).

Ellie

Seed Round in 2013
At Ellie, they are driven by their love for fashion and fitness to create high quality activewear for the modern woman. They launch limited edition collections every month so that the Ellie woman is always staying inspired and on-trend. They create unique, stylish pieces that you can wear when you’re working out or out on the town. Ellie apparel is designed to complement every part of your routine. Whether it’s a unique top for pre and post workout, moisture wicking pieces for intense routines, or accessories to accent your outfit, they have you covered at Ellie.

Transonic Combustion

Series D in 2012
Founded in 2006, Transonic Combustion's TSCi™ fuel injection systems provide global automotive manufacturers with high efficiency fuel delivery technology for their modern engine platforms. The company is backed by Venrock, Khosla Ventures, Rustic Canyon, and Saints Capital. Transonic Combustion is headquartered in Camarillo, Calif.

Dollar Shave Club

Series A in 2012
Dollar Shave Club is a lifestyle brand and e-commerce company that invents and delivers smart, affordable products to make lives easier. Through an exclusive R&D process that includes botanicals and chemists, the company makes all its own products at affordable prices. Dollar Shave Club was founded in 2012 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Meteor Entertainment

Series B in 2012
Meteor Entertainment engages in developing and publishing video games. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

TopFloor

Venture Round in 2012
TopFloor is a place to discover and shop for products you'll love. We take the hassle out and put the fun into your shopping experience. Our hand picked, constantly updated selection of unique fashions, accessories, gifts, and home and family items makes finding new products easy. Entertaining videos make learning about our products fun. Sharing products and sales on your social networks gets your friends in on the action. And then of course there are our limited-time sales that give you the opportunity to buy the great stuff you see on TopFloor at special, friends-only prices. We're more than a place to shop, we're a place where shopping becomes a part of your life.

UrbanSitter

Series A in 2012
UrbanSitter is an app and website that’s making it easier than ever for families to find, book and pay trusted care for the entire household, from backup child care to experienced nannies, tutors, pet sitters, housekeepers, and senior care. Only UrbanSitter taps into a parent’s personal network to connect them with caregivers of friends, co-workers, moms groups and parents from their kid’s school—to find a caregiver they trust. When parents need a last-minute sitter, UrbanSitter comes to the rescue with average response times under three minutes. UrbanSitter is solving the child care and caregiving dilemma for families everywhere.

PayDragon

Seed Round in 2012
With the free PayDragon iPhone or Android app, you can buy an item blocks away from a store and have it ready for you to pick up by the time you arrive. This saves you time and the aggravation of waiting in line just to order and pay.

Dollar Shave Club

Seed Round in 2012
Dollar Shave Club is a lifestyle brand and e-commerce company that invents and delivers smart, affordable products to make lives easier. Through an exclusive R&D process that includes botanicals and chemists, the company makes all its own products at affordable prices. Dollar Shave Club was founded in 2012 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Velocify, Inc.

Series B in 2012
Velocify® provides a sales acceleration software platform that helps high-velocity sales teams turn more prospects into customers. More than 1,500 companies streamline, automate, and optimize their sales processes using Velocify. Velocify’s software delivers a prescriptive approach to selling and surfaces actionable performance insights to ensure salespeople stay focused on activities that lead to more sales. Velocify was voted one of the best sales software products by customers on G2 Crowd and has been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in North America by Inc. and a Best Place to Work by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Velocify intelligent sales automation solutions include Velocify LeadManager™ and Velocify Dial-IQ®. Velocify LeadManager is an intelligent sales automation platform that empowers sales management to quickly deploy world-class selling and lead management strategies across sales teams. Velocify Dial-IQ provides sales teams with a host of outbound dialing and inbound handling features to drive improved productivity, effectiveness, and sales conversion. Velocify was founded in December 2004 and is based in El Segundo, California.

UrbanSitter

Seed Round in 2012
UrbanSitter is an app and website that’s making it easier than ever for families to find, book and pay trusted care for the entire household, from backup child care to experienced nannies, tutors, pet sitters, housekeepers, and senior care. Only UrbanSitter taps into a parent’s personal network to connect them with caregivers of friends, co-workers, moms groups and parents from their kid’s school—to find a caregiver they trust. When parents need a last-minute sitter, UrbanSitter comes to the rescue with average response times under three minutes. UrbanSitter is solving the child care and caregiving dilemma for families everywhere.

Science

Series A in 2011
Science identifies entrenched markets and societal shifts and invests in disruptive companies with new ideas and highly focused teams. The company has co-founded and invested in more than 60 companies, including DollarShaveClub, DogVacay, HelloSociety, FameBit, Mammoth Media, Pray, and PlayVS among others."

LiveGamer

Venture Round in 2011
Live Gamer provides e-commerce solutions for micro-transaction based businesses. It offers monetization solutions that go beyond payments to drive core business metrics and optimize new transaction-based revenue streams. LGI serves web-based, online gaming, social networks, mobile applications, toys, and entertainment companies inf.

Mertado

Series A in 2011
Mertado is a social shopping company that lets consumers discover and buy new products within the online communities that they frequent. Mertado mirrors the real world shopping experience by enabling users to discover unique products that meet their lifestyle needs, and adds a social context around these purchases.

Gaikai

Series C in 2011
Gaikai (Gaikai Inc.) is a next generation video game technology company acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) in 2012. Gaikai is powering SCE video game streaming services including Remote Play (between the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita) and an upcoming cloud-based game streaming service (PlayStation Now). Gaikai is driven by a simple mission: make as many games available to as many people on as many devices as possible, easily and instantly. [Gaikai's Website](http://www.gaikai.com)

Marketfish

Series A in 2011
The Marketfish platform allows marketers to build and execute lead generation campaigns using 3rd party marketing lists.Using patented search algorithms, the tool allows users to discover targeted customer lists, build marketing campaigns, execute the campaign, and measure the performance in real time.

Capella

Venture Round in 2011
Capella is the industry leader of wavelength selective switch (WSS) technology for use in reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADM) and optical cross connect (OXC) applications. Capella's intelligent subsystems provide the best performing wavelength management products on the market offering dynamic, remote reconfigurability with fully integrated optical channel monitoring (OCM), essential technology for next-generation ROADMs.

Fulcrum Bioenergy

Series C in 2011
Fulcrum Bioenergy converts household garbage into low-carbon transportation fuels, including jet fuel, diesel, and ethanol. The company aims to create a clean, low-cost, and sustainable source of domestic transportation fuel. Their approach relies on an abundant and renewable feedstock: municipal solid waste. Using a proven thermochemical process to convert municipal solid waste into ethanol, Fulcrum is leading the next generation of ethanol production. In 2007, E. James Macias and Jim McDermott established the company in Pleasanton, California.

PlayFirst

Venture Round in 2010
PlayFirst is the global leader in mobile games for family and friends. PlayFirst develops great mobile games for family and friends, and tens of millions of fans worldwide have played our hit titles. PlayFirst's portfolio of games includes the DASH® series (Diner Dash®, Wedding Dash®, Cooking Dash®, Hotel Dash®, SpongeBob Diner Dash® and Hotel Transylvania Dash®) and Stars series (Mall Stars™).

Marketfish

Venture Round in 2010
The Marketfish platform allows marketers to build and execute lead generation campaigns using 3rd party marketing lists.Using patented search algorithms, the tool allows users to discover targeted customer lists, build marketing campaigns, execute the campaign, and measure the performance in real time.

Gaikai

Series B in 2010
Gaikai (Gaikai Inc.) is a next generation video game technology company acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) in 2012. Gaikai is powering SCE video game streaming services including Remote Play (between the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita) and an upcoming cloud-based game streaming service (PlayStation Now). Gaikai is driven by a simple mission: make as many games available to as many people on as many devices as possible, easily and instantly. [Gaikai's Website](http://www.gaikai.com)

Perfect Market

Series C in 2010
Perfect Market, Inc. is the provider of digital publishing software solutions for driving traffic, engagement and revenue. Our products and services are utilized by over 200 premium publishers, including LATimes.com, ChicagoTribune.com, NBCNews.com, Mediaite.com and BusinessInsider.com. Perfect Market’s primary product offering is the Digital Publishing Suite, a comprehensive set of tools that address content recirculation, social discovery, search engine optimization, on-site promotions and ad optimization. These tools enable digital publishers to dynamically adapt the experience for each user in real-time, thereby improving the user experience on site and optimizing publisher efforts to drive users towards relevant actions. Perfect Market also offers Audience Development consulting services for publishers looking to augment our software solutions. Idealab founded Perfect Market in 2007 to build upon its achievements in search technology, which includes the creation of the paid search model through Overture Services (acquired by Yahoo! in 2003). In 2008, Perfect Market acquired Media River for its semantic analysis capabilities and fundamental patents covering a broad range of applications. Perfect Market is headquartered in Pasadena, California, with offices in New York City, San Francisco and Bangalore, India, and has raised nearly $30M in from Comcast Ventures, Idealab, Rustic Canyon Ventures, Tribune Company and Trinity Ventures.

InSync Software

Series B in 2009
InSync's software powers the world’s leading RFID, GPS, and sensor-driven asset tracking applications. It helps the enterprises re-imagine applications by leveraging RFID, GPS, condition sensors, cloud computing, and line-of-business processes to address these challenges across diverse industries. It provides a rich set of application building blocks and solution templates ideal for asset-intensive industries across multiple industry verticals including Oil and Gas/Chemicals, Construction, Hi-Tech, Aerospace, and Defense. InSync has been acquired by ORBCOMM.

Transonic Combustion

Series C in 2009
Founded in 2006, Transonic Combustion's TSCi™ fuel injection systems provide global automotive manufacturers with high efficiency fuel delivery technology for their modern engine platforms. The company is backed by Venrock, Khosla Ventures, Rustic Canyon, and Saints Capital. Transonic Combustion is headquartered in Camarillo, Calif.

LoopNet

Post in 2009
LoopNet, Inc. is the leading online marketplace for commercial real estate and businesses for sale in the United States. The LoopNet.com online marketplace enables commercial real estate agents, working on behalf of property owners and landlords, to list properties for sale or for lease by submitting detailed property listing information in order to find a buyer or tenant. Commercial real estate brokers, agents, buyers and tenants use the LoopNet online marketplace to search for available property listings that meet their commercial real estate criteria. By connecting the sources of commercial real estate supply and demand in an efficient manner, LoopNet enables commercial real estate participants to initiate and complete transactions more cost-effectively. LoopNet also delivers technology and information services to commercial real estate organizations to manage their online listing presence and optimize property marketing. LoopNet customers include virtually all of the top commercial real estate firms in the U.S., including CB Richard Ellis, Century 21 Commercial, Coldwell Banker Commercial, Colliers International, The CORE Network, Cushman & Wakefield, First Industrial Realty Trust, Grubb & Ellis, Jones Lang LaSalle, Lee & Associates, Lincoln Property Company, Marcus & Millichap, NAI Global, ONCOR International, Prudential CRES, RE/MAX, Sperry Van Ness, Staubach Retail and TCN Worldwide.

DECA

Series B in 2009
Founded by Michael Wayne and Chris Kimbell, both formerly of Sony Pictures, DECA (Digital Entertainment Company of America) launches as a production house for mainstream digital entertainment. The company received $5 million from Mayfield, Atomico and General Catalyst Partners and will be putting the investment into finding and financing novel digital entertainment web properties. DECA, however, will not serve as a destination for these properties, but rather invest in them and distribute them through their partner's channels. There is little word on what properties they will focus their money on, but they will be announcing their first 3 projects in the fall of 2007. Web video shows are definitely in the cards, with non-video properties on the horizon as well.

Ohai

Venture Round in 2009
Ohai, founded by Susan Wu, is building a Flash-based massively multiplayer online game (MMOG).

TwoFish

Series B in 2008
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Trion Worlds

Series C in 2008
Trion Worlds is the leading publisher and developer of premium games for the connected era. Powered by a breakthrough development and publishing platform, Trion is revolutionizing the way games are developed, played and sold. Trion's world-class team delivers high-quality, dynamic, and massively social games operated as live services across the biggest game genres and devices, including the critically acclaimed blockbuster, Rift™ and the highly-anticipated End of Nations™ and Defiance™. Trion is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., with offices in San Diego, Calif., Austin, Texas, and at Trion Worlds Europe in London, UK.

Perfect Market

Series A in 2008
Perfect Market, Inc. is the provider of digital publishing software solutions for driving traffic, engagement and revenue. Our products and services are utilized by over 200 premium publishers, including LATimes.com, ChicagoTribune.com, NBCNews.com, Mediaite.com and BusinessInsider.com. Perfect Market’s primary product offering is the Digital Publishing Suite, a comprehensive set of tools that address content recirculation, social discovery, search engine optimization, on-site promotions and ad optimization. These tools enable digital publishers to dynamically adapt the experience for each user in real-time, thereby improving the user experience on site and optimizing publisher efforts to drive users towards relevant actions. Perfect Market also offers Audience Development consulting services for publishers looking to augment our software solutions. Idealab founded Perfect Market in 2007 to build upon its achievements in search technology, which includes the creation of the paid search model through Overture Services (acquired by Yahoo! in 2003). In 2008, Perfect Market acquired Media River for its semantic analysis capabilities and fundamental patents covering a broad range of applications. Perfect Market is headquartered in Pasadena, California, with offices in New York City, San Francisco and Bangalore, India, and has raised nearly $30M in from Comcast Ventures, Idealab, Rustic Canyon Ventures, Tribune Company and Trinity Ventures.

Untangle

Series B in 2008
Untangle, a network software and appliance company, provides a new breed of multi-function firewall and Internet management applications that are optimized for the unique needs of smaller organizations. With a free multi-function firewall at its core and a suite of complementary Internet management applications, Untangle’s superior solutions are available at the lowest upfront cost and are easy-to-deploy and manage. Untangle’s proven network software solutions are installed in over 30,000 organizations, protecting more than 2 million people and their computers. With its try-before-you-buy approach, Untangle enables organizations to take control of their network within minutes and at no risk. Untangle is located in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit untangle.com or call (866) 233-2296.

Docstoc

Series B in 2008
Docstoc is an internet company that specializes in the fields of document management, E-commerce platform, and the internet. It features an online portal that offers lesson plans, articles, interactive tools and quizzes, and tutorials to guide aspiring and veteran restaurateurs through planning, starting, and growing a business.

Fulcrum Bioenergy

Series B in 2008
Fulcrum Bioenergy converts household garbage into low-carbon transportation fuels, including jet fuel, diesel, and ethanol. The company aims to create a clean, low-cost, and sustainable source of domestic transportation fuel. Their approach relies on an abundant and renewable feedstock: municipal solid waste. Using a proven thermochemical process to convert municipal solid waste into ethanol, Fulcrum is leading the next generation of ethanol production. In 2007, E. James Macias and Jim McDermott established the company in Pleasanton, California.

ThermaSource

Series B in 2008
ThermaSource specializes in geothermal drilling and consulting. The company provides the geothermal industry with two services: engineering consulting and a fleet of fully staffed and operating drill rigs. Currently, ThermaSource owns eight rigs and operates a total of eleven rigs in the United States and the West Indies.

Capella

Venture Round in 2008
Capella is the industry leader of wavelength selective switch (WSS) technology for use in reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADM) and optical cross connect (OXC) applications. Capella's intelligent subsystems provide the best performing wavelength management products on the market offering dynamic, remote reconfigurability with fully integrated optical channel monitoring (OCM), essential technology for next-generation ROADMs.

Transonic Combustion

Series B in 2008
Founded in 2006, Transonic Combustion's TSCi™ fuel injection systems provide global automotive manufacturers with high efficiency fuel delivery technology for their modern engine platforms. The company is backed by Venrock, Khosla Ventures, Rustic Canyon, and Saints Capital. Transonic Combustion is headquartered in Camarillo, Calif.

Fulcrum Bioenergy

Series A in 2007
Fulcrum Bioenergy converts household garbage into low-carbon transportation fuels, including jet fuel, diesel, and ethanol. The company aims to create a clean, low-cost, and sustainable source of domestic transportation fuel. Their approach relies on an abundant and renewable feedstock: municipal solid waste. Using a proven thermochemical process to convert municipal solid waste into ethanol, Fulcrum is leading the next generation of ethanol production. In 2007, E. James Macias and Jim McDermott established the company in Pleasanton, California.

PlayFirst

Series C in 2007
PlayFirst is the global leader in mobile games for family and friends. PlayFirst develops great mobile games for family and friends, and tens of millions of fans worldwide have played our hit titles. PlayFirst's portfolio of games includes the DASH® series (Diner Dash®, Wedding Dash®, Cooking Dash®, Hotel Dash®, SpongeBob Diner Dash® and Hotel Transylvania Dash®) and Stars series (Mall Stars™).

Hidden City Games

Series B in 2007
Hidden City games is a Seattle-based gaming company focused on online casual, role playing and children's games. The company is best known as the licensor of Bella Sara, a trading card product ever developed for girls.

Velocify, Inc.

Series A in 2007
Velocify® provides a sales acceleration software platform that helps high-velocity sales teams turn more prospects into customers. More than 1,500 companies streamline, automate, and optimize their sales processes using Velocify. Velocify’s software delivers a prescriptive approach to selling and surfaces actionable performance insights to ensure salespeople stay focused on activities that lead to more sales. Velocify was voted one of the best sales software products by customers on G2 Crowd and has been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in North America by Inc. and a Best Place to Work by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Velocify intelligent sales automation solutions include Velocify LeadManager™ and Velocify Dial-IQ®. Velocify LeadManager is an intelligent sales automation platform that empowers sales management to quickly deploy world-class selling and lead management strategies across sales teams. Velocify Dial-IQ provides sales teams with a host of outbound dialing and inbound handling features to drive improved productivity, effectiveness, and sales conversion. Velocify was founded in December 2004 and is based in El Segundo, California.

Dipity

Angel Round in 2007
Dipity is a management platform for publishers to organize articles, blog posts, pictures, videos and other content. Interactive views show are used for anything from online news features to museum kiosks. Dipity allows customers to work with content directly or automatically pull highly relevant content from socially-curated sites like YouTube, Wikipedia, Digg and others using RSS and API integrations. Once created, the interactive tools stays up-to-date, and can be embedded in blogs, social networks, and websites to add an interactive, engaging element to any site.

MerchantCircle

Series B in 2007
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Trion Worlds

Series B in 2007
Trion Worlds is the leading publisher and developer of premium games for the connected era. Powered by a breakthrough development and publishing platform, Trion is revolutionizing the way games are developed, played and sold. Trion's world-class team delivers high-quality, dynamic, and massively social games operated as live services across the biggest game genres and devices, including the critically acclaimed blockbuster, Rift™ and the highly-anticipated End of Nations™ and Defiance™. Trion is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., with offices in San Diego, Calif., Austin, Texas, and at Trion Worlds Europe in London, UK.

Capella

Debt Financing in 2007
Capella is the industry leader of wavelength selective switch (WSS) technology for use in reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADM) and optical cross connect (OXC) applications. Capella's intelligent subsystems provide the best performing wavelength management products on the market offering dynamic, remote reconfigurability with fully integrated optical channel monitoring (OCM), essential technology for next-generation ROADMs.

HyperQuality

Series B in 2007
At HyperQuality, they focus on improving customer experience 24/7. they accomplish this through their proven and innovative methodology for evaluations and surveys, reliable and valid data, and quality assurance software resulting in specific recommendations from the agent to the company–wide level.

Untangle

Series A in 2006
Untangle, a network software and appliance company, provides a new breed of multi-function firewall and Internet management applications that are optimized for the unique needs of smaller organizations. With a free multi-function firewall at its core and a suite of complementary Internet management applications, Untangle’s superior solutions are available at the lowest upfront cost and are easy-to-deploy and manage. Untangle’s proven network software solutions are installed in over 30,000 organizations, protecting more than 2 million people and their computers. With its try-before-you-buy approach, Untangle enables organizations to take control of their network within minutes and at no risk. Untangle is located in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit untangle.com or call (866) 233-2296.

TwoFish

Series A in 2006
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iCopyright

Series C in 2006
iCopyright, Inc. provides an automated rights and permissions licensing system for publishers and users of digital content. Its products and services include CONDUCTOR, a licensing service for content publishers with multiple titles or daily news feeds, which is used by wire services, newspapers, magazines, and trade journals in North America and Europe. The company's products also include CREATORS, a licensing service for small publishers and individual creators, which is used by bloggers, writers, and photographers; and DISCOVERY, a content monitoring and infringement detection service for publishers of articles and images, which is used by content owners to find sites that are using their content. In addition, its products and services include Clip&Copy, the news alerts and press clippings service that pushes publisher content to information consumers and drives new traffic to publisher Websites. Further, the company's products and services include PARTNER CONSOLE, a lead management system, which is used by reprint companies, stock image houses, reprographic rights organizations, copyright collectives, content management system suppliers, and other solutions providers. iCopyright, Inc. was formerly known as Data Depth Corporation and changed its name to iCopyright, Inc. in November 2006. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Issaquah, Washington.

Good Technology

Venture Round in 2006
Good Technology Corporation provides secure mobility solutions for enterprises and governments worldwide. It offers a suite of collaboration applications, such as Good Launcher, a mobile desktop solution for business, Good Work, a mobile workforce for business-class e-mail and collaboration, Good Access, a browser that allows users to access the corporate Intranets and Web applications, and Good Share, a solution that enables mobile business users to access, download, and share documents. It was founded in 1996 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Azaire Networks

Series C in 2006
Azaire Networks, Inc. provides multi-access network solutions for mobile operators and service providers in North America, Europe, and Asia. The company develops wireless local area network based solutions that enable the deployment of multi-access networks to offer mobile broadband services to consumers and business users. Its solutions also enable the users to roam between cellular, metropolitan access, and enterprise access networks. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California with additional offices in Germany, India, and the Netherlands. As of June 10, 2008, Azaire Networks, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of IntelliNet Technologies, Inc.

CaseRev

Series B in 2006
CaseRev provides vendor relationship management solutions. It offers VenCore, a Web-based application, which enables users to search for vendors; create and enforce vendor relationships; make and track referrals; track governance and compliance information; send messages; create and maintain preferred partner lists; capture preferred pricing details for each partner; secure updated partner profiles; capture user ratings for each partner's work; and generate reports about partners' cost, quality, and performance, as well as information about how internal users differ in their use of outside partners.

NanoNexus

Series A in 2006
NanoNexus, Inc. provides contactor and interconnect products for the electronics industry.

MerchantCircle

Series A in 2006
[MerchantCircle](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/merchantcircle) is the place to find great deals, expert advice & competitive quotes from the best local merchants! [MerchantCircle](http://www.merchantcircle.com) was founded in 2005 as an online marketing platform for local business owners, and has grown into the largest online network of local business owners in the Nation. [MerchantCircle](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/merchantcircle) makes it easy for people to find qualified businesses to provide quality services. [MerchantCircle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MerchantCircle) helps people get the advice they need from the real experts; local business owners with tons of real world experience. [MerchantCircle](http://www.merchantcircle.com) delivers competitive quotes for all the services people need on a daily basis. [MerchantCircle](http://www.linkedin.com/organization/merchantcircle) provides small businesses with a web listing page, blogging platform, deal building tools, and many other ways for businesses to connect with new potential customers. Consumers can create profiles on [MerchantCircle](https://twitter.com/#!/MerchantCircle) to clip and keep track of coupons in real time, and post business-specific questions to the network of business owners. "Circle" in the company's name comes from a viral marketing strategy that encourages members (both businesses and consumers) to engage with each other to solve everyday problems. Prior to being acquired by [Reply! Inc.](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/reply-com) in June 2011, [MerchantCircle](http://www.merchantcircle.com) had acquired both [Bloglines](http://www.bloglines.com) and [TimeBridge](http://timebridge.com) to help deliver more offerings to local businesses!

Krugle

Series B in 2006
Krugle provides a search engine specifically designed for developers. In addition, Krugle also offers collaboration tools that allow developers to interact with source code and each other.

IdeaForest

Series C in 2006
IdeaForest is a total web solution provider that offers hosting services that follows trends in self-service technology and a mail server that employs the latest technologies in eliminating e-mail spam and viruses. Its objective is to make web presence for our clients as complete and hassle-free as possible. IdeaForest also provides Manila hosting services and Apache private domain hosting plan for its users. Its servers are located in a facility boasting redundant connections to the internet, redundant power backup and generators, controlled climate, on-call technicians, and full security with camera surveillance. IdeaForest was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in El Segundo, I.L.

LimeLife

Series B in 2006
LimeLife is a digital media company based in the San Francisco Bay area. LimeLife publishes a women's lifestyle site aimed at the young, 25-44 year old "super communicator" generation. It can be accessed on the web at www.LimeLife.com and mobile at m.LimeLife.com. The content is timely and life-relevant, covering the following topics: - Latest celebrity news - Life: politics, world news, green living and the economy - Entertainment news: music, TV, film & video - Fashion trends and shopping deals - Beauty trends - Love & Sex tips - Social shopping functionality LimeLife's editorial is written in a voice that is fresh, smart, sassy and fun. With its history in mobile, LimeLife continues to deliver premium content that includes games, applications, fashion wallpapers and Daily Dose text alerts that are distributed through the major U.S. carriers.

InSync Software

Series A in 2006
InSync's software powers the world’s leading RFID, GPS, and sensor-driven asset tracking applications. It helps the enterprises re-imagine applications by leveraging RFID, GPS, condition sensors, cloud computing, and line-of-business processes to address these challenges across diverse industries. It provides a rich set of application building blocks and solution templates ideal for asset-intensive industries across multiple industry verticals including Oil and Gas/Chemicals, Construction, Hi-Tech, Aerospace, and Defense. InSync has been acquired by ORBCOMM.

PlayFirst

Series B in 2006
PlayFirst is the global leader in mobile games for family and friends. PlayFirst develops great mobile games for family and friends, and tens of millions of fans worldwide have played our hit titles. PlayFirst's portfolio of games includes the DASH® series (Diner Dash®, Wedding Dash®, Cooking Dash®, Hotel Dash®, SpongeBob Diner Dash® and Hotel Transylvania Dash®) and Stars series (Mall Stars™).

US Renewables

Series A in 2005
US Renewables is a private equity and venture capital firm that focuses on investments in renewable energy industry. It seeks to acquire, develop, and manage renewable energy facilities, renewable energy generation projects, and clean fuels projects. The company looks to make investments in the range of $30 to $70 million depending on the stage of the project or company. USRG’s investments range from early stage developments to acquisitions of operating assets. US Renewables was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

ePartners

Venture Round in 2005
ePartners has been giving businesses the power to reach their goals, to grow, and to discover and profit from new areas of potential since 1992. ePartners takes the time to understand your business so it can devise comprehensive solutions—solutions that are tailored to your specific industry and processes and afford a short learning curve for your employees. Empowering your workforce with the tools they need to fulfill their mission and make better decisions, whether they work on the shop floor, at the front desk, or in the executive suite. With help, you align your IT strategy with your business objectives and deploy cost-effective solutions that drive genuine performance improvements across your enterprise.

Good Technology

Series H in 2005
Good Technology Corporation provides secure mobility solutions for enterprises and governments worldwide. It offers a suite of collaboration applications, such as Good Launcher, a mobile desktop solution for business, Good Work, a mobile workforce for business-class e-mail and collaboration, Good Access, a browser that allows users to access the corporate Intranets and Web applications, and Good Share, a solution that enables mobile business users to access, download, and share documents. It was founded in 1996 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

LimeLife

Series A in 2005
LimeLife is a digital media company based in the San Francisco Bay area. LimeLife publishes a women's lifestyle site aimed at the young, 25-44 year old "super communicator" generation. It can be accessed on the web at www.LimeLife.com and mobile at m.LimeLife.com. The content is timely and life-relevant, covering the following topics: - Latest celebrity news - Life: politics, world news, green living and the economy - Entertainment news: music, TV, film & video - Fashion trends and shopping deals - Beauty trends - Love & Sex tips - Social shopping functionality LimeLife's editorial is written in a voice that is fresh, smart, sassy and fun. With its history in mobile, LimeLife continues to deliver premium content that includes games, applications, fashion wallpapers and Daily Dose text alerts that are distributed through the major U.S. carriers.

RiverOne

Venture Round in 2005
RiverOne, Inc. provides supply chain management software and services for trading partners across distributed electronics industry supply chains. The company’s INTERactive software suite enables companies to manage direct materials throughout the product lifecycle, including design review, sourcing, procurement, order lifecycle management, planning, and inventory management. It delivers its services through a WebTop user interface. The company was formerly known as Need2Buy Inc. and changed its name to RiverOne, Inc. in November 2001. RiverOne, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Irvine, California. As of February 21, 2006, RiverOne, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of I2 Technologies, Inc.

SiliconSystems

Series B in 2005
SiliconSystems is the world leader in industrial-grade solid-state storage solutions engineered exclusively for the high performance, high reliability, multi-year product lifecycle requirements of the Enterprise System OEM market. The company's patented and patent-pending SiliconDrive(TM) technology meets the rigorous demands of applications in the netcom, military, industrial, interactive kiosk and medical markets. SiliconSystems is based in Aliso Viejo, California.

HyperQuality

Series A in 2005
At HyperQuality, they focus on improving customer experience 24/7. they accomplish this through their proven and innovative methodology for evaluations and surveys, reliable and valid data, and quality assurance software resulting in specific recommendations from the agent to the company–wide level.

Azaire Networks

Series B in 2004
Azaire Networks, Inc. provides multi-access network solutions for mobile operators and service providers in North America, Europe, and Asia. The company develops wireless local area network based solutions that enable the deployment of multi-access networks to offer mobile broadband services to consumers and business users. Its solutions also enable the users to roam between cellular, metropolitan access, and enterprise access networks. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California with additional offices in Germany, India, and the Netherlands. As of June 10, 2008, Azaire Networks, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of IntelliNet Technologies, Inc.

FieldCentrix

Series B in 2004
FieldCentrix provides mobile field service automation solutions for service lifecycle management. Its management solution, FieldCentrix Enterprise, automates and streamlines manual processes and centralizes disparate applications associated with field service. FieldCentrix delivers solutions for market sectors, including manufacturing, industrial equipment, automation controls, medical devices, high technology, communications, real estate services, and building trade services. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Irvine, California with offices in North America and Europe. As of September 21, 2005, FieldCentrix Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Astea International Inc.

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.

Archcom Delaware Holding

Series B in 2004
Archcom Delaware Holding is engaged in the development and manufacture of optical solutions.

Intrepid by VitalSource

Venture Round in 2004
Intrepid is a cohort learning platform to connect, practice and build skills that develop your people and grow your business. You can create blended, context-rich learning experiences, amplifying content assets with cohort activities, real-world application, and live sessions. The learner experience is collaborative and highly engaging, and the admin interface is powerful and easy to use. Intrepid scales seamlessly from 20 users to tens of thousands, and programs can last days or years. This flexibility means our clients use Intrepid for everything from technical training to leadership development. We’ve helped customers increase sales, reduce new hire time-to-impact, scale customer and partner enablement, increase the impact of strategic change initiatives, improve employee engagement, reduce training costs, improve training efficiency and more.

PlayFirst

Series A in 2004
PlayFirst is the global leader in mobile games for family and friends. PlayFirst develops great mobile games for family and friends, and tens of millions of fans worldwide have played our hit titles. PlayFirst's portfolio of games includes the DASH® series (Diner Dash®, Wedding Dash®, Cooking Dash®, Hotel Dash®, SpongeBob Diner Dash® and Hotel Transylvania Dash®) and Stars series (Mall Stars™).

EM4

Series B in 2003
EM4, Inc. designs, develops, and manufactures optoelectronic components and packages for defense, aerospace, life science, CATV, telecommunication, and industrial markets in the United States and internationally. It offers direct modulation laser transmitters for analog RF over fiber links, high speed detectors, fiber laser pumps and components, fiber amplifier pumps and components, acousto optic modulators, and integrated laser modules.

NanoNexus

Series C in 2003
NanoNexus, Inc. provides contactor and interconnect products for the electronics industry.

Confluent Photonics

Series B in 2003
Confluent Photonics Corporation is developing passive and active DWDM optical components for the telecommunications industry based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) semiconductor fabrication techniques. The use of SOI along with the CMOS fabrication infrastructure developed to process SOI enables cost-effective high volume optical telecom component solutions for the access, metropolitan and long haul telecom markets. The compatibility of Confluent optical designs and manufacturing techniques with CMOS fabrication also provides a pathway for the future integration of optics and electronics on the same telecommunications chip. Current optical telecommunication product technologies and designs result in miniaturized optical lab benches lacking thermal and mechanical robustness. In contrast, Confluent is designing and fabricating Telcordia-compliant optical chip components for the automated manufacture of integrated optical circuits. These components are designed to be insensitive to their environment. Using semiconductor-manufacturing techniques provides built in optical alignment, high volume production and low cost.

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.

Good Technology

Series F in 2003
Good Technology Corporation provides secure mobility solutions for enterprises and governments worldwide. It offers a suite of collaboration applications, such as Good Launcher, a mobile desktop solution for business, Good Work, a mobile workforce for business-class e-mail and collaboration, Good Access, a browser that allows users to access the corporate Intranets and Web applications, and Good Share, a solution that enables mobile business users to access, download, and share documents. It was founded in 1996 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Agribuys

Series C in 2002
Agribuys, the leading provider of supply chain management software and services to the global perishable foods industry, and Foodconnex Worldwide (Foodconnex), an innovative provider of technology to companies in the perishables and food retail markets, announced today that they have merged to form FoodLink Online.

Allegro Networks

Series B in 2002
Allegro Networks, a privately held provider of network routing equipment

iCopyright

Series B in 2002
iCopyright, Inc. provides an automated rights and permissions licensing system for publishers and users of digital content. Its products and services include CONDUCTOR, a licensing service for content publishers with multiple titles or daily news feeds, which is used by wire services, newspapers, magazines, and trade journals in North America and Europe. The company's products also include CREATORS, a licensing service for small publishers and individual creators, which is used by bloggers, writers, and photographers; and DISCOVERY, a content monitoring and infringement detection service for publishers of articles and images, which is used by content owners to find sites that are using their content. In addition, its products and services include Clip&Copy, the news alerts and press clippings service that pushes publisher content to information consumers and drives new traffic to publisher Websites. Further, the company's products and services include PARTNER CONSOLE, a lead management system, which is used by reprint companies, stock image houses, reprographic rights organizations, copyright collectives, content management system suppliers, and other solutions providers. iCopyright, Inc. was formerly known as Data Depth Corporation and changed its name to iCopyright, Inc. in November 2006. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Issaquah, Washington.

Element K

Venture Round in 2001
Element K is focused on the development of online learning software and resources that focus on leadership development, IT certification and performance support, compliance, performance management, and more. Its resources includes case studies, video testimonials, demos, webinars, white papers, and research reports. Element K was acquired by SkillSoft in October 2011. Element K was founded in 1997 and is based in Rochester, New York.

Good Technology

Series E in 2001
Good Technology Corporation provides secure mobility solutions for enterprises and governments worldwide. It offers a suite of collaboration applications, such as Good Launcher, a mobile desktop solution for business, Good Work, a mobile workforce for business-class e-mail and collaboration, Good Access, a browser that allows users to access the corporate Intranets and Web applications, and Good Share, a solution that enables mobile business users to access, download, and share documents. It was founded in 1996 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Envenergy

Series C in 2001
Envenergy offers hardware, software, and networking solutions for energy and facility management. It enables the integration of diverse technologies into a single intelligent and management network. It does this by creating an open platform via its core technology multi-protocol exchange (MPX). The MPX utilizes internet protocol in delivering an enterprise-wide solution in a manner that’s both quick and cost-effective. Envenergy was founded in 2000 and is based in Santa Barbara, California.

Allegro Networks

Series B in 2001
Allegro Networks, a privately held provider of network routing equipment
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