SunBridge Partners

SunBridge Partners is a venture capital firm established in 2004, headquartered in Beachwood, Ohio, with additional offices in California, Tokyo, and North Carolina. The firm specializes in early-stage investments in technology-based companies, particularly in the enterprise software and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) sectors, with a strong focus on facilitating the entry of global leaders into the Japanese market. SunBridge has a successful track record, having co-founded notable companies such as Concur (Japan), Marketo Japan, Demandware Japan, and Kyriba Japan, collectively achieving over $1.3 billion in joint venture valuations. The firm has invested more than $100 million across over 65 portfolio companies, partnering with established parent companies valued at over $195 billion. Through its strategic investments, SunBridge aims to nurture growth success stories in key technology sectors, including media, mobile, big data, and cybersecurity.

Ken Ehrhart

Co-Founder, General Partner

John Gannon

Co-Founder and General Partner

Paul Grim

Co-Founder and General Partner

Allen Miner

Co-Founder and General Partner

32 past transactions

Demandware

Post in 2014
Demandware solutions, comprised of the only enterprise-class, on-demand ecommerce platform and expert services, deliver merchandising effectiveness, proven site reliability and industry best practices that exceed profitability goals. Only Demandware provides a distinct time-to-market advantage for launching multiple ecommerce sites, customizing the consumer experience from content to code, and maintaining sites at the forefront of ecommerce innovation.

Marketo KK

Series A in 2014
Marketo Japan is the Japanese subsidiary of Marketo Expo, a provider of marketing automation software and a platform for investors and employees. It enables users to find customers, to build, sustain, and grow relationships with buyers, and cope with the sheer pace and complexity of engaging with customers in real time across the web, email, social media, online and offline events, video, e-commerce storefronts, mobile devices, and a variety of other channels. Marketo operates in 36 countries.

SAP Concur

Post in 2013
SAP Concur, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, specializes in developing integrated travel and expense management solutions for businesses of all sizes. The company aims to streamline travel, expense, and invoice management through innovative technology that simplifies everyday processes and enhances user experiences. By offering a connected spend management solution, SAP Concur enables organizations to gain clear insights into their spending, allowing for proactive management of expenses. The firm has also established a joint venture in Japan to cater to the growing demand for cloud computing and mobile solutions in the region. Through its global expertise and dynamic partnerships, SAP Concur is committed to helping businesses reduce complexity in their financial operations.

SAP Concur

Post in 2013
SAP Concur, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, specializes in developing integrated travel and expense management solutions for businesses of all sizes. The company aims to streamline travel, expense, and invoice management through innovative technology that simplifies everyday processes and enhances user experiences. By offering a connected spend management solution, SAP Concur enables organizations to gain clear insights into their spending, allowing for proactive management of expenses. The firm has also established a joint venture in Japan to cater to the growing demand for cloud computing and mobile solutions in the region. Through its global expertise and dynamic partnerships, SAP Concur is committed to helping businesses reduce complexity in their financial operations.

Peatix

Seed Round in 2012
Peatix Inc. is a global event registration platform founded in 2011 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It provides event organizers with tools to create, promote, manage, and sell tickets for events of various sizes, ranging from concerts to conferences. The platform enhances the event experience for attendees by facilitating social interactions and event discovery through its mobile applications and website. With a focus on a user-friendly experience, Peatix offers customizable event pages and competitive ticketing fees, making it easier for organizers to manage their events effectively. Since its inception, Peatix has supported over 30,000 events and has expanded its operations to the United States and Singapore, reflecting its commitment to fostering vibrant communities and connecting individuals with diverse experiences.

Bloom Energy

Series G in 2011
Bloom Energy Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells solid-oxide fuel cell systems. It offers Bloom Energy Server, a stationary power generation platform that converts standard low-pressure natural gas or biogas into electricity through an electrochemical process without combustion. The company was formerly known as Ion America Corp. and changed its name to Bloom Energy Corporation in September 2006. Bloom Energy Corporation was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

SilkRoad Technology

Venture Round in 2011
SilkRoad Technology, Inc. is a global provider of cloud-based talent management solutions, offering a comprehensive suite of services designed to help organizations find, attract, develop, and retain talent. Their offerings include the SilkRoad Suite Start for Talent Acquisition, SilkRoad Recruiting for utilizing social channels in recruitment, and SilkRoad Onboarding for employee onboarding. Additionally, the company provides SilkRoad HRMS for managing employee data and SilkRoad Performance for employee performance management. With a focus on user engagement and collaboration, the SilkRoad Life Suite integrates Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, and HRMS solutions through a user-friendly Talent Portal. SilkRoad Technology serves various industries, including financial services, healthcare, education, manufacturing, professional services, and retail. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company has multiple locations across the United States and internationally, including offices in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Japan, and the Philippines.

SAP Concur

Series A in 2011
SAP Concur, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, specializes in developing integrated travel and expense management solutions for businesses of all sizes. The company aims to streamline travel, expense, and invoice management through innovative technology that simplifies everyday processes and enhances user experiences. By offering a connected spend management solution, SAP Concur enables organizations to gain clear insights into their spending, allowing for proactive management of expenses. The firm has also established a joint venture in Japan to cater to the growing demand for cloud computing and mobile solutions in the region. Through its global expertise and dynamic partnerships, SAP Concur is committed to helping businesses reduce complexity in their financial operations.

Alien Technology

Venture Round in 2010
Alien Technology Corporation specializes in the manufacture and supply of radio frequency identification (RFID) products and services, particularly focusing on ultra-high frequency (UHF) solutions. Established in 1994 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company produces a range of UHF passive RFID components, including transceiver chips, tags, antennas, inlays, and readers, utilizing a patented Fluidic Self Assembly (FSA) process for efficient production. Alien Technology's offerings extend to professional services such as item tagging, technical consulting, project management, and system configuration, supporting various industries including retail, logistics, healthcare, and manufacturing. The company operates internationally, with additional offices in regions such as China, Europe, and Australia, and maintains a solutions center in Dayton, Ohio. Alien Technology is recognized for its commitment to reliable and cost-effective RFID solutions that enhance supply chain management, inventory control, and anti-counterfeiting efforts across diverse applications.

IngBoo

Seed Round in 2009
IngBoo is Social Syndication Solution that allows web publishers to connect and share via Search, Tags and Feeds. With IngBoo, web publishers turn social sharing events into ongoing relationships for updates and sharing based on user-expressed interests. For example, a web site may allow users to search for deals. If the user wants to know when the search result changes, the user can connect and receive updates. The updates are delivered to popular destinations like Facebook, Twitter and your email inbox. Similarily, web publishers publish articles that are defined by tags (keywords) and/or categories. Users who "Like" the article will receive updates into their Facebook news feed any time the publisher posts a new article in the same category or, defined by the same tags. Syndicate dynamic content via on-site search, tags and feeds. Social Syndication with user intent significantly increases reach and revisits to your web site!

Alien Technology

Venture Round in 2008
Alien Technology Corporation specializes in the manufacture and supply of radio frequency identification (RFID) products and services, particularly focusing on ultra-high frequency (UHF) solutions. Established in 1994 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company produces a range of UHF passive RFID components, including transceiver chips, tags, antennas, inlays, and readers, utilizing a patented Fluidic Self Assembly (FSA) process for efficient production. Alien Technology's offerings extend to professional services such as item tagging, technical consulting, project management, and system configuration, supporting various industries including retail, logistics, healthcare, and manufacturing. The company operates internationally, with additional offices in regions such as China, Europe, and Australia, and maintains a solutions center in Dayton, Ohio. Alien Technology is recognized for its commitment to reliable and cost-effective RFID solutions that enhance supply chain management, inventory control, and anti-counterfeiting efforts across diverse applications.

Yap

Series A in 2008
Yap pioneered the world's first high accuracy, automated speech recognition platform for "long duration" dialogues. Long duration dialogues are conversations and audio content ranging from 5 seconds to several hours. Yap specializes in accurately transcribing these dialogues for a variety of different scenarios including voicemail-to-text, conference call transcriptions, analysis of customer phone calls and voice-activated mobile messaging. The company was a TechCrunch finalist in 2007. Their management team previously worked on Apple's iPod, Honda's navigational systems, IBM's ViaVoice, Microsoft's Tellme speech division and Nuance's Dragon products. Yap white labels its SaaS platform -- i.e., Yap Speech Cloud(TM) -- to enable diverse use cases, including messaging, call analytics and voicemail-to-text. For example, Microsoft uses Yap for voice-based mobile messaging applications. Their end users can say anything they want to and have Yap's platform transcribe it into text (far more convenient than typing on the fumbling with a devices keypad while driving). MetroPCS also is a Yap customer. Cincinnati Bell, a regional carrier, uses Yap-based technology to convert subscriber voicemails into text. The carrier was a competitive win away from SpinVox (now Nuance). Part of the allure for Yap's service is that it's completely automated. That means there is no need for humans listening to messages, typing them out, and then sending them back out, giving Yap a real advantage in ensuring privacy. Because Yap is completely machine powered, the company is able to offer lower costs, higher speeds and greater consistency.

Gydget

Series B in 2007
Gydget is a company that specializes in providing marketing solutions tailored for the entertainment industry, specifically targeting bands, sports teams, and celebrities. By offering a social marketing platform, Gydget enables its clients to effectively engage with fans across various social networks. Notable users of Gydget's services include prominent figures such as Joss Stone and Beyoncé, as well as teams like the Oakland Raiders. The company originated from Attendio.com, which previously focused on city events information, and has since evolved to cater to the unique promotional needs of the entertainment sector.

Alien Technology

Venture Round in 2007
Alien Technology Corporation specializes in the manufacture and supply of radio frequency identification (RFID) products and services, particularly focusing on ultra-high frequency (UHF) solutions. Established in 1994 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company produces a range of UHF passive RFID components, including transceiver chips, tags, antennas, inlays, and readers, utilizing a patented Fluidic Self Assembly (FSA) process for efficient production. Alien Technology's offerings extend to professional services such as item tagging, technical consulting, project management, and system configuration, supporting various industries including retail, logistics, healthcare, and manufacturing. The company operates internationally, with additional offices in regions such as China, Europe, and Australia, and maintains a solutions center in Dayton, Ohio. Alien Technology is recognized for its commitment to reliable and cost-effective RFID solutions that enhance supply chain management, inventory control, and anti-counterfeiting efforts across diverse applications.

Blue Spark Technologies

Series A in 2007
Blue Spark Technologies develops power source solutions for battery-powered printed electronic systems. It also develops flexible, printed, "green," proprietary power source solutions for battery-powered printed electronic systems. The company was founded as Thin Battery Technologies in 2002 with patented technology and technical leadership from Energizer (Eveready Battery Company). Blue Spark Technologies was founded in 2003 and headquartered in Westlake, Ohio.

W5 Networks

Series B in 2006
W5 Networks, Inc. is a company specializing in wireless systems tailored for the retail industry. Founded in 2005 and based in Sunnyvale, California, it focuses on developing electronic shelf label (ESL) systems that display price information on retail shelves. These innovative systems aim to enhance the shopping experience by providing accurate and dynamic pricing, which can be easily updated and managed.

Alien Technology

Venture Round in 2006
Alien Technology Corporation specializes in the manufacture and supply of radio frequency identification (RFID) products and services, particularly focusing on ultra-high frequency (UHF) solutions. Established in 1994 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company produces a range of UHF passive RFID components, including transceiver chips, tags, antennas, inlays, and readers, utilizing a patented Fluidic Self Assembly (FSA) process for efficient production. Alien Technology's offerings extend to professional services such as item tagging, technical consulting, project management, and system configuration, supporting various industries including retail, logistics, healthcare, and manufacturing. The company operates internationally, with additional offices in regions such as China, Europe, and Australia, and maintains a solutions center in Dayton, Ohio. Alien Technology is recognized for its commitment to reliable and cost-effective RFID solutions that enhance supply chain management, inventory control, and anti-counterfeiting efforts across diverse applications.

Gydget

Series A in 2006
Gydget is a company that specializes in providing marketing solutions tailored for the entertainment industry, specifically targeting bands, sports teams, and celebrities. By offering a social marketing platform, Gydget enables its clients to effectively engage with fans across various social networks. Notable users of Gydget's services include prominent figures such as Joss Stone and Beyoncé, as well as teams like the Oakland Raiders. The company originated from Attendio.com, which previously focused on city events information, and has since evolved to cater to the unique promotional needs of the entertainment sector.

Encirq Corporation

Series B in 2006
Encirq solves marketing's #1 challenge: Delivering Personalization with Privacy™. Encirq is an online marketing services company that has developed a unique data engine to deliver individualized, consumer-centered marketing over the Internet. We use online and offline, real-time individual transactional data in a private and secure environment. Marketers and Encirq cannot see the data. Rather, the data reside on each consumer's personal computer, and filter out marketing messages that are not relevant. The service and technology are extendible to broadband, to other network devices, and eventually can be used to deliver personalized television commercials to individual households. Encirq's data engine does two things: It provides cost-effective access to consumer information not previously available; and it enables personalized real-time marketing programs. We have filed multiple patent applications on Encirq's illumination processes and technology.

Alien Technology

Series H in 2005
Alien Technology Corporation specializes in the manufacture and supply of radio frequency identification (RFID) products and services, particularly focusing on ultra-high frequency (UHF) solutions. Established in 1994 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company produces a range of UHF passive RFID components, including transceiver chips, tags, antennas, inlays, and readers, utilizing a patented Fluidic Self Assembly (FSA) process for efficient production. Alien Technology's offerings extend to professional services such as item tagging, technical consulting, project management, and system configuration, supporting various industries including retail, logistics, healthcare, and manufacturing. The company operates internationally, with additional offices in regions such as China, Europe, and Australia, and maintains a solutions center in Dayton, Ohio. Alien Technology is recognized for its commitment to reliable and cost-effective RFID solutions that enhance supply chain management, inventory control, and anti-counterfeiting efforts across diverse applications.

GaiaX

Venture Round in 2004
GaiaX Asia Corp. is a social media and support solutions provider geared towards businesses. They help companies improve their businesses in two ways: - 1. As a social media strategy partner, and - 2. As their online customer support partner In the digital age, it is important for businesses to effectively connect with their customers and clients through various online media. This is exactly what GaiaX Asia aims to provide businesses; They empower them to connect.

Shicoh

Venture Round in 2004
Shicoh Motor Co. Ltd specializes in the design, development, production, and sale of mini auto-focus voice coil motors (VCMs) and piezoelectric motors. The company offers a range of products including wind, linear, vibration, and zoom motors, which are utilized in handheld devices such as mobile phones and computers, as well as in automobiles. Shicoh is recognized as the originator of the autofocus VCM and holds numerous patents for its innovative designs and technologies. Founded in 1976, the company is headquartered in Jiashan, China, with additional offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Japan, and Korea. Shicoh's motors are known for their compact size, lightweight, durability, and long lifecycle, catering to the demands of modern electronic devices.

istyle

Series B in 2003
istyle, Inc. engages in the management of beauty-related online platform as well as the provision of advertising, marketing, and research services. It operates through the following segments: On Platform, Beauty Service, Global, and Others. The On Platform segment deals with domestic and overseas marketing, as well as premium membership services. The Beauty Service segment manages domestic cosmetics electronic commerce sites in addition to its specialty shop @cosme store. The Global segment includes services developed overseas. The Others segment covers beauty staff dispatching and investment training services. It has overseas subsidiaries including in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and The United States.

OKWave

Venture Round in 2002
OKWAVE, Inc. operates as an Internet question and answer (Q and A) community site in Japan. The company’s services include OKWAVE Professional, a Q and A service by experts in various fields; OKWAVE Guide, a social-how-to community site; OKWAVE.com, a multilingual social community with approximately 20 languages; and OKWAVE advertisement, as well as OKWAVE.jp, support community cloud, and QA services for individuals. It also provides enterprise customer support solutions, such as OKBIZ. FAQ/helpdesk support, community support, site search, and chat and bot services, as well as QA service for corporate customers. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

G-mode

Venture Round in 2001
G-mode Corporation, founded in 2000 and based in Tokyo, Japan, specializes in the planning, development, and production of online and mobile casual games. The company offers consultation services to assist other businesses entering the online gaming market, focusing on game management structure proposals tailored to specific titles. In addition to game development, G-mode is involved in licensing games and creating game sites and social applications. As of April 2015, G-mode operates as a subsidiary of Marvelous Inc.

Macromill

Venture Round in 2000
Macromill, Inc. is a global provider of marketing research and digital marketing solutions, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company specializes in various research methodologies, including online surveys, neuro research to assess neural responses, and offline techniques such as focus groups and interviews. It also offers digital marketing research, medical research, and data analysis services, catering to a diverse range of industries. Macromill has a strong international presence with offices in major cities across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, serving approximately 2,200 leading brands in over 80 countries. Founded in 2000, Macromill is dedicated to transforming data from multiple sources, including social media and enterprise systems, into actionable consumer insights that drive product innovation and enhance brand engagement.

ITmedia KK

Venture Round in 2000
ITmedia is the largest online IT publisher in Japan, offering numerous forums on various subjects, technical articles and case studies. In addition to providing online advice, support and information, the company also offers conference and seminar planning and management.
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