TeleSoft Partners

TeleSoft Partners provides value-added capital for technology, communications and energy value chain companies. Our focus is to help entrepreneurs benefit from our knowledge, contacts and experience -- to help you Make-It-Happen. Over the last two decades, TeleSoft has helped build over 75 companies, of which over 50 companies have been acquired or gone public.

Alan Foster

Managing Director

110 past transactions

Sesame

Series B in 2022
Sesame is an award-winning company that offers Americans quality, convenient health care at half the typical price. The company's AI-enabled marketplace eliminates insurance, allowing healthcare providers to compete on quality, accessibility – and pricing. It is the official telehealth partner of Costco.

Kapital

Seed Round in 2022
Kapital offers a fintech solution for SMBs to simplify their processes, organize their finances, and obtain visibility and access financing. Kapital is on a mission to promote the growth of SMEs, freelancers, and startups by giving them control over their treasury through digital financial services. With Kapital, clients may avoid subcontracting all of their treasury and control and manage everything from corporate spending and payroll distribution to payment of services and suppliers from a single location.

Docker

Series C in 2022
Docker helps millions of developers efficiently and collaboratively build, share, and run applications. The Docker collaborative application development platform provides developers with an unmatched experience for an integrated, reliable, and secure workflow—accelerating app delivery from code to the cloud. Through a combination of the world’s largest marketplace of trusted content and integrations with leading tools, Docker allows teams to rapidly create modern applications.

Tomo

Series A in 2022
Tomo is a fintech startup focused on digitizing residential mortgages and improving the home-buying process through its subsidiaries, Tomo Mortgage and Tomo Real Estate. Tomo Real Estate operates as a modern real estate portal, utilizing AI, visual insights, and data to enhance the home-buying experience.

Facet

Series C in 2021
Facet Wealth, Inc. is a financial services firm that specializes in wealth management and financial planning for small accounts. Established in 2016 and based in Baltimore, Maryland, the company offers a range of services including retirement planning, education planning, income tax planning, estate planning, insurance planning, and asset management. Facet Wealth distinguishes itself by providing personalized financial guidance through dedicated Certified Financial Planners on a subscription basis, making financial planning more accessible and affordable. The firm serves a diverse clientele, including professionals, pre-retirees, and retirees, with a focus on enhancing their financial security and overall prosperity.

Akridata

Series A in 2021
Akridata is revolutionizing AI-powered visual inspection, enabling manufacturers to automate or assist human inspection with human-like judgment and machine-level precision. Our cutting-edge computer vision technology enhances quality control by detecting defects faster, more accurately, and at scale, ensuring higher efficiency and reduced errors across industrial and medical device manufacturing. With AI that sees, thinks, and inspects like an expert, Akridata helps businesses move from manual review to intelligent automation.

Razorpay

Venture Round in 2021
Razorpay is a platform that enables businesses to accept, process, and disburse payments with its product suite. It gives access to all payment modes including credit card, debit card, net banking, UPI and popular wallets including JioMoney, Mobikwik, Airtel Money, FreeCharge, Ola Money, and PayZapp. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.

Play2Pay™

Series A in 2021
Play2Pay™ is a global payments platform that enables mobile phone users to pay their service provider bills by playing games, watching videos and completing special offers on their devices. It’s a fun and rewarding alternative for making payments. Consumers discover new apps and brands, earning points the more they engage and converting time spent into making payments. The payments alternative combines mobile monetization and gamification. Based in Miami, Florida, the company has operations in the United States, United Kingdom, Mexico and Singapore.

Checkout.com

Series C in 2021
Checkout.com provides the fastest, most reliable payments in more than 150 currencies, with in-country acquiring, world-class fraud filters and reporting through one API. Checkout.com can accept all major international credit and debit cards and popular alternative and local payment methods. The company launched in 2012 and now has a team of more than 1700 people across 19 offices worldwide, offering local expertise where it’s needed.

Robinhood

Funding Round in 2020
Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission. The startup offers equity, cryptocurrency, and options trading, as well as cash management accounts. It also provides a stock brokerage platform that democratizes access to the financial markets and aims to make people comfortable storing money and trading stocks using its application.

Diem

Seed Round in 2020
Diem is an independent, not-for-profit membership organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Diem empowers people around the world through the creation of a simple global currency. The Libra Association works to evolve and scale the network and reserve and leads a social impact grant-making program that supports financial inclusion efforts worldwide. The association collaborates with the global community and partners with policymakers to help further the Libra mission.

Compound

Venture Round in 2020
Compound is an open-source interest rate protocol that unlocks new financial applications for developers. Its protocol is a widely used system built on Ethereum, with thousands of users, and dozens of applications integrating Compound. Compound offers a web interface that adjusts money market interest rates based on asset-specific supply and demand. Compound was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

ByteDance

Venture Round in 2019
ByteDance creates and operates various content platforms, including TikTok and Douyin, enabling users to connect, create, and consume content. The company focuses on enriching lives through innovative technology and has expanded its offerings to include tools for content creation and collaboration.

Chipper

Seed Round in 2019
Chipper Cash is a financial services company that features a software application platform that enables free instant cross-border mobile money transfers in Africa as easy as sending a text message. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Inxeption

Series C in 2019
Inxeption is the Industrial Commerce SuperApp. Its secure and scalable cloud-based digital commerce platform brings Capital, Data, Products, and Services on-demand for Industrial and supply chain businesses. Companies of any size in any industry can drive more sales, gain operational visibility, and realize cost savings. Inxeption Commerce Partners enjoy access to sell products on the Inxeption B2B marketplace and to develop new online commerce channels, as well as valuable applications that simplify and streamline logistics and other operations. Inxeption’s challenge to the Industrial sector is: Let's Do Business Better.

Hippo Insurance

Series C in 2018
Hippo Insurance Services offers a different kind of home insurance, built from the ground up to provide a new standard of care and protection for homeowners. Our goal is to make homes safer and better protected so customers spend less time worrying about the burdens of homeownership and more time enjoying their homes and the life within. Harnessing real-time data, smart home technology, and a growing suite of home services, we are creating the first integrated home protection platform. Hippo is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with offices in Austin and Dallas, Texas, and insurance products available to more than 80 percent of U.S. homeowners in 37 states. Hippo Insurance Services is a licensed property casualty insurance agent with products underwritten by various insurance companies.

Modumate

Seed Round in 2018
Modumate is a next-generation 3D design tool helping to modernize architects' workflows, including automation of drafting. The tool automatically creates, annotates, and updates your permit and construction drawings. They making architects 10x more productive and helping them design 10x better buildings. Modumate offers software application for designing and customization of building exteriors and interiors, as well as enables users to tag and schedule display data from the data-complete objects of design. It was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Whoop

Venture Round in 2018
WHOOP is the performance optimization system that tracks recovery, training, and sleeping hours thus helping elite athletes and teams win. The company provides athletes, coaches, and trainers with a continuous understanding of strain and recovery to balance training, reduce injuries, and predict performance. It creates a product that makes individuals and teams perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. The WHOOP Strap 3.0 collects physiological data 24/7 to provide an accurate and granular understanding of the body. Aurelian Nicolae, John Capodilupo, and Will Ahmed established WHOOP in 2012 and in Boston, Massachusetts.

SalesHood

Series A in 2017
Founded in 2013—and recently recognized as one of the Top 50 Sales Products of 2022 by G2— SalesHood is the leading all-in-one sales enablement platform used by hyper-growth companies to boost sales performance. SalesHood is proven to reduce time to ramp, lift quota attainment and accelerate sales velocity. Companies like Drift, Demandbase, Bombora, Omada Health, Sage, Seagate, RingCentral, Tanium, Trinet, and Yext use SalesHood to realize fast revenue outcomes with 100% virtual training, coaching and selling - at scale.

Affirm

Series B in 2015
Affirm is a financial technology services company providing installment loans to consumers at the point of sale. The company was founded with the goal to create honest financial products and services that empower consumers and improve lives. It aims to revolutionize the banking industry to be more accountable and accessible to consumers. Today, Affirm provides shoppers with an alternative to traditional credit cards at the point of sale, giving them the flexibility to buy now and make simple monthly payments for their purchases. Unlike payment options that have compounding interest and unexpected costs, Affirm shows customers upfront exactly what they’ll pay each month—with no hidden fees and no surprises. Affirm partners with over 2,000 merchants to give shoppers the option to pay with Affirm at checkout, including well-known brands across retail, including home furnishings, travel, personal fitness, electronics, apparel and beauty, and more.

Snowflake

Series C in 2015
Snowflake Inc. is a cloud-based data platform that enables organizations to consolidate data into a single source of truth, facilitating meaningful business insights and the development of data-driven applications. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Snowflake offers a data warehouse-as-a-service designed specifically for the cloud. Its innovative architecture allows multiple users to access large volumes of data simultaneously, achieving performance that is significantly faster and more cost-effective than traditional solutions. The platform supports various data workloads and combines the capabilities of data warehousing with the flexibility of big data platforms, ensuring secure and governed access to an extensive network of data. Additionally, Snowflake Ventures invests in growth-stage companies that align with its mission to enhance data utilization and expand opportunities within the Data Cloud.

Navan

Seed Round in 2015
Navan provides travel, expense, and corporate card management to automate manual processes and drive spend visibility. With one of the first enterprise technologies combining the cloud, mobile, and AI to balance business requirements with current standards, the company is reinventing the legacy category of travel and expense.

Peloton

Series C in 2015
Peloton is revolutionizing the fitness industry by merging high design with modern technology to provide access to live and on-demand fitness group classes led by elite NYC instructors. With instant access to classes, performance tracking metrics, and a motivating real-time leaderboard, Peloton is changing the way people get fit through a comprehensive and socially connected experience that makes every workout both efficient and addicting. By merging hardware, software, and content, the company creates the most unique, efficient, and addicting workout experience on the market. Peloton is sold online and in its growing number of showrooms across the country. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York.

Calient Technologies

Venture Round in 2015
Calient provides high-density 3D MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) optical circuit switching for software-defined networks and data centers. Its optical circuit switching technology is used by service providers, cloud computing, content delivery, and government networks. This offers businesses with adaptive photonic switching systems that enable dynamic optical layer optimization in software-defined networks and data centers. The company’s 3D-MEMS switches enable dynamic optical-layer sharing, optimization, and automation of high-performance test, compute, and network resources in data centers, optical transport networks, and DevOps test automation facilities. Calient Technologies was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, California.

Calient Technologies

Venture Round in 2014
Calient provides high-density 3D MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) optical circuit switching for software-defined networks and data centers. Its optical circuit switching technology is used by service providers, cloud computing, content delivery, and government networks. This offers businesses with adaptive photonic switching systems that enable dynamic optical layer optimization in software-defined networks and data centers. The company’s 3D-MEMS switches enable dynamic optical-layer sharing, optimization, and automation of high-performance test, compute, and network resources in data centers, optical transport networks, and DevOps test automation facilities. Calient Technologies was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, California.

Calient Technologies

Venture Round in 2013
Calient provides high-density 3D MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) optical circuit switching for software-defined networks and data centers. Its optical circuit switching technology is used by service providers, cloud computing, content delivery, and government networks. This offers businesses with adaptive photonic switching systems that enable dynamic optical layer optimization in software-defined networks and data centers. The company’s 3D-MEMS switches enable dynamic optical-layer sharing, optimization, and automation of high-performance test, compute, and network resources in data centers, optical transport networks, and DevOps test automation facilities. Calient Technologies was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, California.

Knowledge Adventure

Venture Round in 2013
Knowledge Adventure is the leader in adventure-based 3D virtual worlds for 3-to-10-year-old kids. With its JumpStart and Math Blaster products, kids learn through endless gaming adventures in 3D virtual worlds. By blending learning and entertainment, Knowledge Adventure's adventure-based learning inspires kids' minds through immersed play. For more than 15 years, Knowledge Adventure has set the standard in kids' software by creating the finest educational products for use in the home and the classroom. The company is internationally renowned for its award-winning products. A subsidiary of Knowledge Holdings, Inc., the company is privately-held and based in Torrance, California.

Validity Sensors

Series E in 2012
Founded in 2000, and headquartered in San Jose, California, Validity is the world leader in Natural ID™ authentication, providing fingerprint sensor solutions with the highest levels of performance, security, cost-effectiveness, and design flexibility. Validity’s Natural ID solutions provide an ideal platform for addressing the explosive growth in mobile payment transactions and cloud-based services. Passwords and PINs are ineffective at meeting the needs of end users and service providers as they're either too easy to hack or too hard to remember. Natural ID provides a simple and effective way to optimize usability while providing strong security. Natural ID authenticates a user by their unique human characteristics such as fingerprint, voice, and face. Of these, fingerprints have been proven to provide the best combination of effectiveness, cost, and usability.

Xambala

Venture Round in 2011
Xambala, Inc. delivers message stream processing subsytem for the financial market. The company has a development center in Chennai, India.

Calient Technologies

Venture Round in 2011
Calient provides high-density 3D MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) optical circuit switching for software-defined networks and data centers. Its optical circuit switching technology is used by service providers, cloud computing, content delivery, and government networks. This offers businesses with adaptive photonic switching systems that enable dynamic optical layer optimization in software-defined networks and data centers. The company’s 3D-MEMS switches enable dynamic optical-layer sharing, optimization, and automation of high-performance test, compute, and network resources in data centers, optical transport networks, and DevOps test automation facilities. Calient Technologies was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, California.

Calient Technologies

Venture Round in 2011
Calient provides high-density 3D MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) optical circuit switching for software-defined networks and data centers. Its optical circuit switching technology is used by service providers, cloud computing, content delivery, and government networks. This offers businesses with adaptive photonic switching systems that enable dynamic optical layer optimization in software-defined networks and data centers. The company’s 3D-MEMS switches enable dynamic optical-layer sharing, optimization, and automation of high-performance test, compute, and network resources in data centers, optical transport networks, and DevOps test automation facilities. Calient Technologies was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, California.

Nexant

Venture Round in 2010
Nexant is a provider of intelligent grid software and clean energy solutions–pioneering, developing, and advancing electric power grid and alternative energy technologies and services. Their exclusive focus on energy, combined with their well-respected and experienced professionals, proven technology, and proprietary industry information, has earned them distinctive brand recognition and a reputation as a top energy solutions company.

Validity Sensors

Series D in 2010
Founded in 2000, and headquartered in San Jose, California, Validity is the world leader in Natural ID™ authentication, providing fingerprint sensor solutions with the highest levels of performance, security, cost-effectiveness, and design flexibility. Validity’s Natural ID solutions provide an ideal platform for addressing the explosive growth in mobile payment transactions and cloud-based services. Passwords and PINs are ineffective at meeting the needs of end users and service providers as they're either too easy to hack or too hard to remember. Natural ID provides a simple and effective way to optimize usability while providing strong security. Natural ID authenticates a user by their unique human characteristics such as fingerprint, voice, and face. Of these, fingerprints have been proven to provide the best combination of effectiveness, cost, and usability.

Calient Technologies

Venture Round in 2010
Calient provides high-density 3D MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) optical circuit switching for software-defined networks and data centers. Its optical circuit switching technology is used by service providers, cloud computing, content delivery, and government networks. This offers businesses with adaptive photonic switching systems that enable dynamic optical layer optimization in software-defined networks and data centers. The company’s 3D-MEMS switches enable dynamic optical-layer sharing, optimization, and automation of high-performance test, compute, and network resources in data centers, optical transport networks, and DevOps test automation facilities. Calient Technologies was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, California.

LogLogic

Series D in 2009
LogLogic is the provider of industry's only scalable log and security intelligence platform for the enterprise and cloud. LogLogic, with over 1300 customers, provides solutions that allow customers to collect and analyze terabytes of big data generated by their IT assets and gives Security, IT Ops, and Compliance professionals actionable information at their finger tips to identify issues proactively and make insightful decisions, and also get compliant with various regulations. Currently, LogLogic customers are leveraging its solutions to manage over 1,000 Petabytes (or 1 Exabyte) of data.

Calient Technologies

Venture Round in 2009
Calient provides high-density 3D MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) optical circuit switching for software-defined networks and data centers. Its optical circuit switching technology is used by service providers, cloud computing, content delivery, and government networks. This offers businesses with adaptive photonic switching systems that enable dynamic optical layer optimization in software-defined networks and data centers. The company’s 3D-MEMS switches enable dynamic optical-layer sharing, optimization, and automation of high-performance test, compute, and network resources in data centers, optical transport networks, and DevOps test automation facilities. Calient Technologies was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, California.

Home-Account

Series A in 2009
Home Account Inc., is a mortgage-finding service designed to help America's 75 million borrowers save money and make smart mortgage choices. The service grades and analyzes borrowers' current mortgages, presents scenarios to improve their financial situation, and then matches each borrower to the best mortgage options in the market.

Validity Sensors

Series C in 2009
Founded in 2000, and headquartered in San Jose, California, Validity is the world leader in Natural ID™ authentication, providing fingerprint sensor solutions with the highest levels of performance, security, cost-effectiveness, and design flexibility. Validity’s Natural ID solutions provide an ideal platform for addressing the explosive growth in mobile payment transactions and cloud-based services. Passwords and PINs are ineffective at meeting the needs of end users and service providers as they're either too easy to hack or too hard to remember. Natural ID provides a simple and effective way to optimize usability while providing strong security. Natural ID authenticates a user by their unique human characteristics such as fingerprint, voice, and face. Of these, fingerprints have been proven to provide the best combination of effectiveness, cost, and usability.

Xambala

Series D in 2008
Xambala, Inc. delivers message stream processing subsytem for the financial market. The company has a development center in Chennai, India.

Knowledge Adventure

Series B in 2008
Knowledge Adventure is the leader in adventure-based 3D virtual worlds for 3-to-10-year-old kids. With its JumpStart and Math Blaster products, kids learn through endless gaming adventures in 3D virtual worlds. By blending learning and entertainment, Knowledge Adventure's adventure-based learning inspires kids' minds through immersed play. For more than 15 years, Knowledge Adventure has set the standard in kids' software by creating the finest educational products for use in the home and the classroom. The company is internationally renowned for its award-winning products. A subsidiary of Knowledge Holdings, Inc., the company is privately-held and based in Torrance, California.

Education.com

Series B in 2008
Education.com provides teachers and parents with the learning resources. Their mission is to create a learning experience that inspires a child’s passion, curiosity, and optimism. Over 16 million teachers and parents worldwide have joined Education.com. Their comprehensive curriculum covers core skills across Math, Reading, Writing, ELA, Science, and more.

Qik

Series B in 2008
Qik is an online messenger that allows its users to exchange video messages between individuals or within a group. The first version of the Qik service was launched as a private alpha in January 2008 and then as a public beta in August 2008. Since then the company has expanded its service to support millions of users in over 160 countries and on all the major smartphones (over 140 models) including iPhone, [Android](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/android), [Symbian](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/symbian-software-ltd), [Blackberry](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/blackberry), and Windows Mobile. Qik was founded by [Ramu Sunkara](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/ramu-sunkara), [Bhaskar Roy](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/bhaskar-roy), and [Nikolay Abkairov](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/nikolay-abkairov), and has attracted investments from individuals and companies such as [Marc Andreessen](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/marc-andreessen), [Ben Horowitz](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/ben-horowitz), [Marc Benioff](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/marc-benioff), [Quest Venture Partners](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/quest-venture-partners), and [CampVentures](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/campventures). The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California with an office in Zelenograd, Moscow, Russia. In 2011, Qik, Inc., a Silicon Valley startup, was acquired by Skype Technologies.

LogLogic

Series D in 2008
LogLogic is the provider of industry's only scalable log and security intelligence platform for the enterprise and cloud. LogLogic, with over 1300 customers, provides solutions that allow customers to collect and analyze terabytes of big data generated by their IT assets and gives Security, IT Ops, and Compliance professionals actionable information at their finger tips to identify issues proactively and make insightful decisions, and also get compliant with various regulations. Currently, LogLogic customers are leveraging its solutions to manage over 1,000 Petabytes (or 1 Exabyte) of data.

Validity Sensors

Series B in 2007
Founded in 2000, and headquartered in San Jose, California, Validity is the world leader in Natural ID™ authentication, providing fingerprint sensor solutions with the highest levels of performance, security, cost-effectiveness, and design flexibility. Validity’s Natural ID solutions provide an ideal platform for addressing the explosive growth in mobile payment transactions and cloud-based services. Passwords and PINs are ineffective at meeting the needs of end users and service providers as they're either too easy to hack or too hard to remember. Natural ID provides a simple and effective way to optimize usability while providing strong security. Natural ID authenticates a user by their unique human characteristics such as fingerprint, voice, and face. Of these, fingerprints have been proven to provide the best combination of effectiveness, cost, and usability.

Calient Technologies

Venture Round in 2007
Calient provides high-density 3D MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) optical circuit switching for software-defined networks and data centers. Its optical circuit switching technology is used by service providers, cloud computing, content delivery, and government networks. This offers businesses with adaptive photonic switching systems that enable dynamic optical layer optimization in software-defined networks and data centers. The company’s 3D-MEMS switches enable dynamic optical-layer sharing, optimization, and automation of high-performance test, compute, and network resources in data centers, optical transport networks, and DevOps test automation facilities. Calient Technologies was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, California.

LiteScape Technologies

Series B in 2007
LiteScape Technologies, Inc. provides unified communications software solutions in the United States. Its products include OnCast, which simplifies and automates collaboration, as well as extends the power of enterprise infrastructure directories, Web conferencing, customer relationship management, office applications, e-mail, and PBXs; CallTrack Pro, which allows legal and professional services firms to automatically associate client–matters and project codes to inbound and outbound phone calls; Secure Profile Management, which provides personalized access to communications applications and corporate data on Internet protocol phones; and LiteScape SDK, which brings write once and run anywhere to Internet protocol telephony. The company also offers professional and installation services, training, and technical support services. LiteScape Technologies, Inc. has strategic alliances with Cisco, Microsoft, and WebEx. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Redwood Shores, California.

Xambala

Series C in 2007
Xambala, Inc. delivers message stream processing subsytem for the financial market. The company has a development center in Chennai, India.

Genband

Series C in 2007
GENBAND is a global supplier of IP gateways, session border controllers and FMC security solutions. These high-performance, high-security gateway solutions are at the center of fixed and mobile networks around the globe, evolving, securing and improving communications networks.

Validity Sensors

Series A in 2006
Founded in 2000, and headquartered in San Jose, California, Validity is the world leader in Natural ID™ authentication, providing fingerprint sensor solutions with the highest levels of performance, security, cost-effectiveness, and design flexibility. Validity’s Natural ID solutions provide an ideal platform for addressing the explosive growth in mobile payment transactions and cloud-based services. Passwords and PINs are ineffective at meeting the needs of end users and service providers as they're either too easy to hack or too hard to remember. Natural ID provides a simple and effective way to optimize usability while providing strong security. Natural ID authenticates a user by their unique human characteristics such as fingerprint, voice, and face. Of these, fingerprints have been proven to provide the best combination of effectiveness, cost, and usability.

Calient Technologies

Venture Round in 2006
Calient provides high-density 3D MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) optical circuit switching for software-defined networks and data centers. Its optical circuit switching technology is used by service providers, cloud computing, content delivery, and government networks. This offers businesses with adaptive photonic switching systems that enable dynamic optical layer optimization in software-defined networks and data centers. The company’s 3D-MEMS switches enable dynamic optical-layer sharing, optimization, and automation of high-performance test, compute, and network resources in data centers, optical transport networks, and DevOps test automation facilities. Calient Technologies was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, California.

AmberWave

Series E in 2006
AmberWave, Inc., formerly AmberWave Systems Corporation, engages in the research, development, and licensing of technologies for semiconductor manufacturing. It provides Strained Silicon, a technology that is used in microchips to improve performance and decrease power consumption; and Aspect Ratio Trapping, a technology, which is used to make chips for silicon-based photonics and photovoltaic cells. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Salem, New Hampshire. AmberWave Systems Corporation is a former subsidiary of U.S. Robotics Corp.

VoiceObjects

Series C in 2006
VoiceObjects AG operates as a phone application server company. Its products include VoiceObjects Server, a phone application server that enables carrier-grade deployment and management of over-the-phone voice, video, text, and mobile Web self-service applications; and VoiceObjects Desktop, a GUI-based application for creating, testing, deploying, and monitoring self-service phone portals. The company also offers professional services, including consulting, training, and technical support services. Its customers include banking and financial services, communication, marketing agencies, industrial, travel and support, healthcare, government, entertainment and info-portals, and management service providers in the United States and internationally. The company has strategic partnerships with Alcatel, aperto move, Avaya, BEA, BusinessObjects, Cirquent GmbH, D+S solutions, EXCELSIS, Hermes SoftLab, Hewlett Packard, NextiraOne, Quinary, Sabio, Telenet GmbH, Unisys, and Voxeo. The company was formerly known as OneBridge AG and changed its name to VoiceObjects AG in July 2002. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. As of December 9, 2008, VoiceObjects AG operates as a subsidiary of Voxeo Corporation.

Sierra Design Automation

Series B in 2006
Sierra Design Automation provides IC implementation system solutions to the semiconductor industry. The company offers place-and-route solutions. It also offers Sierra Olympus-SOC, a netlist-to-GDSII system that addresses variations in design modes, process corners, and lithography; and Sierra Pinnacle, an IC implementation solution. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. As of June 11, 2007, Sierra Design Automation, Inc. is a subsidiary of Mentor Graphics Corp

LiteScape Technologies

Series A in 2005
LiteScape Technologies, Inc. provides unified communications software solutions in the United States. Its products include OnCast, which simplifies and automates collaboration, as well as extends the power of enterprise infrastructure directories, Web conferencing, customer relationship management, office applications, e-mail, and PBXs; CallTrack Pro, which allows legal and professional services firms to automatically associate client–matters and project codes to inbound and outbound phone calls; Secure Profile Management, which provides personalized access to communications applications and corporate data on Internet protocol phones; and LiteScape SDK, which brings write once and run anywhere to Internet protocol telephony. The company also offers professional and installation services, training, and technical support services. LiteScape Technologies, Inc. has strategic alliances with Cisco, Microsoft, and WebEx. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Redwood Shores, California.

VoiceObjects

Venture Round in 2005
VoiceObjects AG operates as a phone application server company. Its products include VoiceObjects Server, a phone application server that enables carrier-grade deployment and management of over-the-phone voice, video, text, and mobile Web self-service applications; and VoiceObjects Desktop, a GUI-based application for creating, testing, deploying, and monitoring self-service phone portals. The company also offers professional services, including consulting, training, and technical support services. Its customers include banking and financial services, communication, marketing agencies, industrial, travel and support, healthcare, government, entertainment and info-portals, and management service providers in the United States and internationally. The company has strategic partnerships with Alcatel, aperto move, Avaya, BEA, BusinessObjects, Cirquent GmbH, D+S solutions, EXCELSIS, Hermes SoftLab, Hewlett Packard, NextiraOne, Quinary, Sabio, Telenet GmbH, Unisys, and Voxeo. The company was formerly known as OneBridge AG and changed its name to VoiceObjects AG in July 2002. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. As of December 9, 2008, VoiceObjects AG operates as a subsidiary of Voxeo Corporation.

BayPackets

Series D in 2005
BayPackets' software enables wireless, wireline and cable operators to rapidly bundle and deliver enhanced voice and data services tailored to the needs of their business and consumer customers. Local, long-distance and broadband service providers rely on BayPackets' solutions to profitably expand their market share by efficiently operating new and existing network infrastructure via a single point.

LiteScape Technologies

Series A in 2005
LiteScape Technologies, Inc. provides unified communications software solutions in the United States. Its products include OnCast, which simplifies and automates collaboration, as well as extends the power of enterprise infrastructure directories, Web conferencing, customer relationship management, office applications, e-mail, and PBXs; CallTrack Pro, which allows legal and professional services firms to automatically associate client–matters and project codes to inbound and outbound phone calls; Secure Profile Management, which provides personalized access to communications applications and corporate data on Internet protocol phones; and LiteScape SDK, which brings write once and run anywhere to Internet protocol telephony. The company also offers professional and installation services, training, and technical support services. LiteScape Technologies, Inc. has strategic alliances with Cisco, Microsoft, and WebEx. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Redwood Shores, California.

CreekPath Systems

Series C in 2004
CreekPath Systems was a global provider of policy-based storage automation products that enabled customers to optimize their storage investments. The CreekPath solutions offered policy-based visibility and operational control of the storage assets within a data center. This visibility and control provided customers with a complete understanding of the costs and benefits of key storage assets as well as the impact on the data center.

LogLogic

Series B in 2004
LogLogic is the provider of industry's only scalable log and security intelligence platform for the enterprise and cloud. LogLogic, with over 1300 customers, provides solutions that allow customers to collect and analyze terabytes of big data generated by their IT assets and gives Security, IT Ops, and Compliance professionals actionable information at their finger tips to identify issues proactively and make insightful decisions, and also get compliant with various regulations. Currently, LogLogic customers are leveraging its solutions to manage over 1,000 Petabytes (or 1 Exabyte) of data.

Knowledge Adventure

Series A in 2004
Knowledge Adventure is the leader in adventure-based 3D virtual worlds for 3-to-10-year-old kids. With its JumpStart and Math Blaster products, kids learn through endless gaming adventures in 3D virtual worlds. By blending learning and entertainment, Knowledge Adventure's adventure-based learning inspires kids' minds through immersed play. For more than 15 years, Knowledge Adventure has set the standard in kids' software by creating the finest educational products for use in the home and the classroom. The company is internationally renowned for its award-winning products. A subsidiary of Knowledge Holdings, Inc., the company is privately-held and based in Torrance, California.

Tele Atlas

Series A in 2004
Official Twitter account for Tele Atlas, leading provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location based solutions.

Xambala

Series B in 2004
Xambala, Inc. delivers message stream processing subsytem for the financial market. The company has a development center in Chennai, India.

AmberWave

Series D in 2004
AmberWave, Inc., formerly AmberWave Systems Corporation, engages in the research, development, and licensing of technologies for semiconductor manufacturing. It provides Strained Silicon, a technology that is used in microchips to improve performance and decrease power consumption; and Aspect Ratio Trapping, a technology, which is used to make chips for silicon-based photonics and photovoltaic cells. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Salem, New Hampshire. AmberWave Systems Corporation is a former subsidiary of U.S. Robotics Corp.

Xambala

Series A in 2004
Xambala, Inc. delivers message stream processing subsytem for the financial market. The company has a development center in Chennai, India.

Ikanos

Series E in 2004
Ikanos develops robust, high performance semiconductor and software products. Their advanced communications processors, broadband DSL and other devices power access infrastructure and customer premises equipment for many of the world’s leading network equipment manufacturers and telecommunications service providers. With more than 330 million ports shipped to date, they are enabling the cost-effective delivery of triple- and quadruple-play services to and throughout homes and offices around the world.

Calient Technologies

Series D in 2004
Calient provides high-density 3D MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) optical circuit switching for software-defined networks and data centers. Its optical circuit switching technology is used by service providers, cloud computing, content delivery, and government networks. This offers businesses with adaptive photonic switching systems that enable dynamic optical layer optimization in software-defined networks and data centers. The company’s 3D-MEMS switches enable dynamic optical-layer sharing, optimization, and automation of high-performance test, compute, and network resources in data centers, optical transport networks, and DevOps test automation facilities. Calient Technologies was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, California.

LogLogic

Series A in 2004
LogLogic is the provider of industry's only scalable log and security intelligence platform for the enterprise and cloud. LogLogic, with over 1300 customers, provides solutions that allow customers to collect and analyze terabytes of big data generated by their IT assets and gives Security, IT Ops, and Compliance professionals actionable information at their finger tips to identify issues proactively and make insightful decisions, and also get compliant with various regulations. Currently, LogLogic customers are leveraging its solutions to manage over 1,000 Petabytes (or 1 Exabyte) of data.

Calient Technologies

Series D in 2004
Calient provides high-density 3D MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) optical circuit switching for software-defined networks and data centers. Its optical circuit switching technology is used by service providers, cloud computing, content delivery, and government networks. This offers businesses with adaptive photonic switching systems that enable dynamic optical layer optimization in software-defined networks and data centers. The company’s 3D-MEMS switches enable dynamic optical-layer sharing, optimization, and automation of high-performance test, compute, and network resources in data centers, optical transport networks, and DevOps test automation facilities. Calient Technologies was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, California.

Jungo Software

Series C in 2003
Jungo Connectivity Ltd.develops the residential gateway software platform called OpenRG which enables Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to bring broadband customer premises equipment (CPE) such as residential gateways, SOHO gateways and IADs to market quickly. Jungo also provides software development tools for embedded systems and telephony applications, which have millions of installations in the market to date.

Matrix Semiconductor

Venture Round in 2003
Matrix Semiconductor manufactures and develops 3D memory devices. Its products include Matrix 3-D memory, a memory that enables the fast movement of the market for publishers of digital content, and is used in portable consumer electronic devices. It provides TSOP and SD-based card formats, and designs its packaging for electrical and mechanical compatibility with flash devices. Matrix Semiconductor was established in 1997, headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It currently operates as a subsidiary of SanDisk Corp.

BayPackets

Series C in 2003
BayPackets' software enables wireless, wireline and cable operators to rapidly bundle and deliver enhanced voice and data services tailored to the needs of their business and consumer customers. Local, long-distance and broadband service providers rely on BayPackets' solutions to profitably expand their market share by efficiently operating new and existing network infrastructure via a single point.

Calix

Series E in 2003
Calix cloud and software platforms enable service providers of all types and sizes to innovate and transform. Our customers utilize the real-time data and insights from Calix platforms to simplify their business and deliver experiences that excite their subscribers. The resulting growth in subscriber acquisition, loyalty and revenue creates more value for their businesses and communities. This is the Calix mission; to enable communications service providers of all sizes to simplify, excite and grow.

Sierra Design Automation

Series A in 2003
Sierra Design Automation provides IC implementation system solutions to the semiconductor industry. The company offers place-and-route solutions. It also offers Sierra Olympus-SOC, a netlist-to-GDSII system that addresses variations in design modes, process corners, and lithography; and Sierra Pinnacle, an IC implementation solution. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. As of June 11, 2007, Sierra Design Automation, Inc. is a subsidiary of Mentor Graphics Corp

Aarohi communication

Series B in 2002
Aarohi developed next-generation storage components and processors, used by systems suppliers.

CreekPath Systems

Series B in 2002
CreekPath Systems was a global provider of policy-based storage automation products that enabled customers to optimize their storage investments. The CreekPath solutions offered policy-based visibility and operational control of the storage assets within a data center. This visibility and control provided customers with a complete understanding of the costs and benefits of key storage assets as well as the impact on the data center.

Internet Photonics

Series C in 2002
Internet Photonics, Inc. is an innovative growth company delivering the first carrier-grade Intelligent Wavelength Platforms, which allow network operators (service providers and cable MSOs) to sell profitable high-bandwidth data services alongside existing legacy services.

Kymata

Funding Round in 2002
Kymata Ltd. designs and manufactures optical equipment components.

AmberWave

Series B in 2002
AmberWave, Inc., formerly AmberWave Systems Corporation, engages in the research, development, and licensing of technologies for semiconductor manufacturing. It provides Strained Silicon, a technology that is used in microchips to improve performance and decrease power consumption; and Aspect Ratio Trapping, a technology, which is used to make chips for silicon-based photonics and photovoltaic cells. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Salem, New Hampshire. AmberWave Systems Corporation is a former subsidiary of U.S. Robotics Corp.

AmberWave

Venture Round in 2001
AmberWave, Inc., formerly AmberWave Systems Corporation, engages in the research, development, and licensing of technologies for semiconductor manufacturing. It provides Strained Silicon, a technology that is used in microchips to improve performance and decrease power consumption; and Aspect Ratio Trapping, a technology, which is used to make chips for silicon-based photonics and photovoltaic cells. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Salem, New Hampshire. AmberWave Systems Corporation is a former subsidiary of U.S. Robotics Corp.

Aarohi communication

Series A in 2001
Aarohi developed next-generation storage components and processors, used by systems suppliers.

Ikanos

Series C in 2001
Ikanos develops robust, high performance semiconductor and software products. Their advanced communications processors, broadband DSL and other devices power access infrastructure and customer premises equipment for many of the world’s leading network equipment manufacturers and telecommunications service providers. With more than 330 million ports shipped to date, they are enabling the cost-effective delivery of triple- and quadruple-play services to and throughout homes and offices around the world.

TollBridge Technologies

Series D in 2001
TollBridge Technologies is the market share leader providing voice-over-broadband solutions for next generation carriers, with more than 40,000 lines in active commercial service.

Infolibria

Venture Round in 2001
InfoLibria is the expert Internet infrastructure provider for advanced content distribution and delivery. InfoLibria's solutions enable service providers and carriers to deliver and manage the most demanding broadband and streaming media applications over the Internet including TV-quality video and CD-quality audio.

Jungo Software

Series B in 2001
Jungo Connectivity Ltd.develops the residential gateway software platform called OpenRG which enables Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to bring broadband customer premises equipment (CPE) such as residential gateways, SOHO gateways and IADs to market quickly. Jungo also provides software development tools for embedded systems and telephony applications, which have millions of installations in the market to date.

Sigmatel

Venture Round in 2001
Sigmatel is a semiconductor company that designs, develops, and markets proprietary, mixed-signal integrated circuits, or ICs. Their ICs incorporate significant analog circuitry for manipulating real world signals such as sound and light, as well as digital circuitry for processing data represented by a series of ones and zeroes.

Calient Technologies

Series C in 2001
Calient provides high-density 3D MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) optical circuit switching for software-defined networks and data centers. Its optical circuit switching technology is used by service providers, cloud computing, content delivery, and government networks. This offers businesses with adaptive photonic switching systems that enable dynamic optical layer optimization in software-defined networks and data centers. The company’s 3D-MEMS switches enable dynamic optical-layer sharing, optimization, and automation of high-performance test, compute, and network resources in data centers, optical transport networks, and DevOps test automation facilities. Calient Technologies was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, California.

CreekPath Systems

Series A in 2001
CreekPath Systems was a global provider of policy-based storage automation products that enabled customers to optimize their storage investments. The CreekPath solutions offered policy-based visibility and operational control of the storage assets within a data center. This visibility and control provided customers with a complete understanding of the costs and benefits of key storage assets as well as the impact on the data center.

Lara Networks

Series B in 2000
Lara Technology is a fabless semiconductor manufacturer that designs, develops and markets memory-intensive ASICs for the networking and communications industries.

Novalux

Series C in 2000
Novalux develops, manufactures, and distributes laser systems. The company offers Novalux Extended Cavity Surface Emitting Laser, a surface-emitting semiconductor laser. Its products are used in various applications, such as projection display, specialty lighting, neon sign alternative lighting, and automotive lighting. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. As of January 8, 2008, Novalux, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Arasor International Limited.

Sigmatel

Private Equity Round in 2000
Sigmatel is a semiconductor company that designs, develops, and markets proprietary, mixed-signal integrated circuits, or ICs. Their ICs incorporate significant analog circuitry for manipulating real world signals such as sound and light, as well as digital circuitry for processing data represented by a series of ones and zeroes.

The FeedRoom

Series B in 2000
The FeedRoom is a pioneer in online video communications, and a market leader in live video and digital asset management. With an unparalleled commitment to customer service, The FeedRoom provides flexible online solutions that optimize business and marketing communications for the enterprise, government and media. Industry-leading organizations, such as Autodesk, Barnes & Noble, Boeing, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Hewlett-Packard, MetLife and The Pentagon rely on The FeedRoom's expertise to help engage audiences, build brands, monetize content and manage digital media assets more efficiently.

@link Networks

Series B in 2000
@Link Networks provides small- and medium-sized businesses with secure, high-speed private networks.

Tsola

Series A in 2000
Tsola was founded on the idea that useful information is still too hard to find. Yes, there are mobile phones, pagers, PDAs and laptops. And yes, the Internet has made infinitely more data available. But ultimately, the burden of finding the right information still rests squarely on the shoulders of end users. Internet navigation is still cumbersome. And most information isn't personalized or integrated.

VxTel

Venture Round in 2000
VxTel provides silicon solutions for next-generation carrier networks. The company's products use a unique signal-processing architecture optimized for voice, data and telecommunication, and multimedia applications. By providing key technology for carrier class switches, VxTel will help accelerate the adoption and expansion of packet-based networks for voice and advanced services. The company's current focus is on enabling the highest density voice-over-packet systems supporting hundreds of thousands of channels across the full range of voice processing applications. VxTel, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.

BayPackets

Series A in 2000
BayPackets' software enables wireless, wireline and cable operators to rapidly bundle and deliver enhanced voice and data services tailored to the needs of their business and consumer customers. Local, long-distance and broadband service providers rely on BayPackets' solutions to profitably expand their market share by efficiently operating new and existing network infrastructure via a single point.

Calix

Series B in 2000
Calix cloud and software platforms enable service providers of all types and sizes to innovate and transform. Our customers utilize the real-time data and insights from Calix platforms to simplify their business and deliver experiences that excite their subscribers. The resulting growth in subscriber acquisition, loyalty and revenue creates more value for their businesses and communities. This is the Calix mission; to enable communications service providers of all sizes to simplify, excite and grow.

Calient Technologies

Series B in 2000
Calient provides high-density 3D MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) optical circuit switching for software-defined networks and data centers. Its optical circuit switching technology is used by service providers, cloud computing, content delivery, and government networks. This offers businesses with adaptive photonic switching systems that enable dynamic optical layer optimization in software-defined networks and data centers. The company’s 3D-MEMS switches enable dynamic optical-layer sharing, optimization, and automation of high-performance test, compute, and network resources in data centers, optical transport networks, and DevOps test automation facilities. Calient Technologies was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, California.
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