Vanguard Ventures

DFine is a highly innovative medical device company focusing on providing physicians new and promising therapy for managing compression fractures of the spine while providing patients with much-needed pain relief. In July 2016, the company was acquired by [Merit Medical Systems](/organization/merit-medical-systems-inc).

DFine is a highly innovative medical device company focusing on providing physicians new and promising therapy for managing compression fractures of the spine while providing patients with much-needed pain relief. In July 2016, the company was acquired by [Merit Medical Systems](/organization/merit-medical-systems-inc).

Luminous Networks, Inc. manufactures access network equipment for services providers to deliver shared Ethernet services.

DFine is a highly innovative medical device company focusing on providing physicians new and promising therapy for managing compression fractures of the spine while providing patients with much-needed pain relief. In July 2016, the company was acquired by [Merit Medical Systems](/organization/merit-medical-systems-inc).

Radiance, based in Sunnyvale, CA and founded in 2000, had investors such as Sutter Hill Ventures, Vanguard Ventures, Levensohn Venture Partners, ChevronTexaco Venture Equities and Net Partners, though this sale seems to be more of a fire sale. The company had raised at least $26 million and possibly more over the years. Radiance’s technology helps moves digital video files for the advertising and enterprise sectors. Its product development market has merged with the CMC’s engineering and integrated technology unit.

DFine is a highly innovative medical device company focusing on providing physicians new and promising therapy for managing compression fractures of the spine while providing patients with much-needed pain relief. In July 2016, the company was acquired by [Merit Medical Systems](/organization/merit-medical-systems-inc).

Konarka Technologies, Inc. develops and advances nano-enabled polymer photovoltaic materials for commercial, industrial, government, and consumer applications. It provides standard products to serve portable power needs; and custom solutions, such as roll up chargers, personal accessories, and fold up chargers. The company's products are used in outdoor, portable power, indoor and remote sensing, and mission critical applications. It has strategic partnerships with Air Products, 24 Innovations, Kurz, SkyShades, Chevron, Merck, Toppan Forms, Dupont, Siemens, and the U.S. Air Force. Konarka Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts with business development offices in Asia. It has a research and development facility in Austria. The company has operations in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Polychromixâ is an advanced communications technology company providing modular optical subsystems. Polychromix’s products are based on an innovative core technologies that enable dynamically configurable optical networks.

Artificial Muscle Inc. is a U.S.-based company that develops polymer components, which convert electrical energy into mechanical motion. It offers electro-magnetic actuators for medical, pumps, sensors, optics, energy generation, valves, Braille, and robotics applications. Artificial Muscle Inc. is based in Menlo Park, California.

Casabi provides an end-to-end solution for carriers to deliver any web-based content or service to cordless phones and other smart devices at home. A Casabi-enabled home phone can deliver visual voicemail, Yellow Page search, address book, SMS, email and more. They believe that the rapid penetration of broadband along with new families of connected home devices has created a need for a system that delivers network-driven applications and features to these low-cost device screens. Internet-ready cordless phones, DVRs, refrigerators, photo frames, printers, even digital clocks made “smarter” with a network-driven system that knows what content is relevant and how best to optimize and deliver to each device. Casabi enables all this technology to work together for the first time as it should. We started with phones. Watch where they go next.

Polychromixâ is an advanced communications technology company providing modular optical subsystems. Polychromix’s products are based on an innovative core technologies that enable dynamically configurable optical networks.

Vocera provides mobile communication solutions addressing critical communication challenges facing hospitals today. They help their customers improve patient safety and satisfaction, and increase hospital efficiency and productivity through their Voice Communication solution, Secure Messaging applications and Care Transition solutions. Exclusively endorsed by the American Hospital Association, the Vocera solutions are installed in more than 800 hospitals and healthcare facilities worldwide. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with offices in Tennessee, Canada and the United Kingdom.

DVDPlay develops and manufactures automated and remotely managed DVD rental kiosks. The company's kiosks use software that enables pricing, promotions, inventory management, advertising, and movie trailer insertions, as well as the capture and measurement of retail business metrics. It offers its movie rental kiosks at grocery stores and supermarkets in the United States and Canada. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Campbell, California. As of December 8, 2009, DVDPlay, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of NCR Corp.

Peptimmune is a privately held clinical stage biotechnology company focused on utilizing both novel and proven technologies to improve the therapeutic management of chronic autoimmune and metabolic disorders. The company is developing second generation therapeutics that are expected to result in safer and more effective products for obesity, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and pemphigus vulgaris.

Vormetric is the leader in Enterprise Encryption and Key Management for corporations. Vormetric is growing 40% yr/yr. Vormetric is the only vendor that allows corporations to encrypt ALL DATABASE (all versions) and ALL files across the Enterprise. Vormetric's provide very tight access controls to ensure only authorized users and applications can have access to the data. Vormetric claims more than 1,100 customers, including 17 companies of the Fortune 25. Vormetric technology has received strong market validation for its innovative approach to data security, including selection by IBM as the only database encryption solution for DB2 and Informix on LinuxTM, Unix® and Windows; selection by Symantec to provide the Symantec Veritas NetBackupTM Media Server Encryption Option; partnership with Oracle to secure the execution environment for Oracle® Database Vault.

Browster develops browsing and search enhancement technology. It provides Browster, a tool that pre-fetches content from links on a Web page and makes that content available by mousing-over the link. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Casabi provides an end-to-end solution for carriers to deliver any web-based content or service to cordless phones and other smart devices at home. A Casabi-enabled home phone can deliver visual voicemail, Yellow Page search, address book, SMS, email and more. They believe that the rapid penetration of broadband along with new families of connected home devices has created a need for a system that delivers network-driven applications and features to these low-cost device screens. Internet-ready cordless phones, DVRs, refrigerators, photo frames, printers, even digital clocks made “smarter” with a network-driven system that knows what content is relevant and how best to optimize and deliver to each device. Casabi enables all this technology to work together for the first time as it should. We started with phones. Watch where they go next.

Fabric7 Systems, Inc. designs and builds enterprise servers that integrate compute and networking technologies for the datacenter. The company’s fabric computing architecture unifies compute and network services into a pool of resources. Its servers are designed for enterprise database requirements and electronic design automation.

Hansen Medical was born from the vision of creating a new generation of advanced medical robotics. The Sensei Robotic Catheter System is their first product.

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.

Peptimmune is a privately held clinical stage biotechnology company focused on utilizing both novel and proven technologies to improve the therapeutic management of chronic autoimmune and metabolic disorders. The company is developing second generation therapeutics that are expected to result in safer and more effective products for obesity, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and pemphigus vulgaris.

Luminous Networks, Inc. manufactures access network equipment for services providers to deliver shared Ethernet services.

Vocera provides mobile communication solutions addressing critical communication challenges facing hospitals today. They help their customers improve patient safety and satisfaction, and increase hospital efficiency and productivity through their Voice Communication solution, Secure Messaging applications and Care Transition solutions. Exclusively endorsed by the American Hospital Association, the Vocera solutions are installed in more than 800 hospitals and healthcare facilities worldwide. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with offices in Tennessee, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Radiance Technologies enables the managed delivery of digital packages. The company's first product, the TrueDelivery(TM) System, brings patent-pending digital logistics technology to digital delivery over IP networks.

Fabric7 Systems, Inc. designs and builds enterprise servers that integrate compute and networking technologies for the datacenter. The company’s fabric computing architecture unifies compute and network services into a pool of resources. Its servers are designed for enterprise database requirements and electronic design automation.

Konarka Technologies, Inc. develops and advances nano-enabled polymer photovoltaic materials for commercial, industrial, government, and consumer applications. It provides standard products to serve portable power needs; and custom solutions, such as roll up chargers, personal accessories, and fold up chargers. The company's products are used in outdoor, portable power, indoor and remote sensing, and mission critical applications. It has strategic partnerships with Air Products, 24 Innovations, Kurz, SkyShades, Chevron, Merck, Toppan Forms, Dupont, Siemens, and the U.S. Air Force. Konarka Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts with business development offices in Asia. It has a research and development facility in Austria. The company has operations in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Vormetric is the leader in Enterprise Encryption and Key Management for corporations. Vormetric is growing 40% yr/yr. Vormetric is the only vendor that allows corporations to encrypt ALL DATABASE (all versions) and ALL files across the Enterprise. Vormetric's provide very tight access controls to ensure only authorized users and applications can have access to the data. Vormetric claims more than 1,100 customers, including 17 companies of the Fortune 25. Vormetric technology has received strong market validation for its innovative approach to data security, including selection by IBM as the only database encryption solution for DB2 and Informix on LinuxTM, Unix® and Windows; selection by Symantec to provide the Symantec Veritas NetBackupTM Media Server Encryption Option; partnership with Oracle to secure the execution environment for Oracle® Database Vault.

Artificial Muscle Inc. is a U.S.-based company that develops polymer components, which convert electrical energy into mechanical motion. It offers electro-magnetic actuators for medical, pumps, sensors, optics, energy generation, valves, Braille, and robotics applications. Artificial Muscle Inc. is based in Menlo Park, California.

Polychromixâ is an advanced communications technology company providing modular optical subsystems. Polychromix’s products are based on an innovative core technologies that enable dynamically configurable optical networks.

Percardia is a medical device company that develops therapies for the treatment of coronary artery disease. Its products include VSTENT myocardial implant, a balloon-deployable stainless steel stent. Percardia was founded in 1998 and is based in Merrimack, New Hampshire.

Sylantro Systems is a provider of software used by service providers to deliver hosted VoIP applications and services for business, consumer, and wireless customers. Synergy, Sylantro's carrier-grade software platform, enables service providers to rapidly deliver differentiated, high value, high margin telephony services, ranging from IP Trunking to hosted PBX services and hosted consumer applications.

Established in 1999, Salient Surgical Technologies, Inc. is a global, privately held medical technology company that develops and markets advanced energy devices used in surgical procedures. Salient’s first line of products were monopolar electrosurgical devices used for the treatment of liver cancers. Today, the company’s bipolar AQUAMANTYS® System is used across a wide range of surgical procedures including orthopaedic reconstruction, spine surgery, orthopaedic trauma, and surgical oncology. Comprised of a bipolar electrosurgical generator & pump system and a portfolio of handheld disposable device, the AQUAMANTYS system uses patented TRANSCOLLATION® technology to haemostatically seal soft tissue and bone, enabling surgeons to reduce and prevent surgical blood loss. Salient’s products are sold throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, providing clinical and economic benefits to hospitals, healthcare providers, and patients all over the world. To date, more than 500,000 patients have been treated with TRANSCOLLATION technology.

Luminous Networks, Inc. manufactures access network equipment for services providers to deliver shared Ethernet services.

Eunoe, Inc. is a San Francisco Bay-area medical device company focused on the treatment of neurological disorders through the management of cerebrospinal fluid.

Peptimmune is a privately held clinical stage biotechnology company focused on utilizing both novel and proven technologies to improve the therapeutic management of chronic autoimmune and metabolic disorders. The company is developing second generation therapeutics that are expected to result in safer and more effective products for obesity, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and pemphigus vulgaris.

ZipRealty provides real estate services. They offer proprietary technology and online marketing tools for the brokerage industry. ZipRealty empowers home buyers, home sellers, real estate agents, and third-party brokerages with end-to-end real estate solutions. They provide home buyers and sellers with a combination of its website, mobile app, and personalized local service to search for, buy and sell real estate.

Vormetric is the leader in Enterprise Encryption and Key Management for corporations. Vormetric is growing 40% yr/yr. Vormetric is the only vendor that allows corporations to encrypt ALL DATABASE (all versions) and ALL files across the Enterprise. Vormetric's provide very tight access controls to ensure only authorized users and applications can have access to the data. Vormetric claims more than 1,100 customers, including 17 companies of the Fortune 25. Vormetric technology has received strong market validation for its innovative approach to data security, including selection by IBM as the only database encryption solution for DB2 and Informix on LinuxTM, Unix® and Windows; selection by Symantec to provide the Symantec Veritas NetBackupTM Media Server Encryption Option; partnership with Oracle to secure the execution environment for Oracle® Database Vault.

Radiance Technologies enables the managed delivery of digital packages. The company's first product, the TrueDelivery(TM) System, brings patent-pending digital logistics technology to digital delivery over IP networks.

Polychromixâ is an advanced communications technology company providing modular optical subsystems. Polychromix’s products are based on an innovative core technologies that enable dynamically configurable optical networks.

ZipRealty provides real estate services. They offer proprietary technology and online marketing tools for the brokerage industry. ZipRealty empowers home buyers, home sellers, real estate agents, and third-party brokerages with end-to-end real estate solutions. They provide home buyers and sellers with a combination of its website, mobile app, and personalized local service to search for, buy and sell real estate.

Established in 1999, Salient Surgical Technologies, Inc. is a global, privately held medical technology company that develops and markets advanced energy devices used in surgical procedures. Salient’s first line of products were monopolar electrosurgical devices used for the treatment of liver cancers. Today, the company’s bipolar AQUAMANTYS® System is used across a wide range of surgical procedures including orthopaedic reconstruction, spine surgery, orthopaedic trauma, and surgical oncology. Comprised of a bipolar electrosurgical generator & pump system and a portfolio of handheld disposable device, the AQUAMANTYS system uses patented TRANSCOLLATION® technology to haemostatically seal soft tissue and bone, enabling surgeons to reduce and prevent surgical blood loss. Salient’s products are sold throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, providing clinical and economic benefits to hospitals, healthcare providers, and patients all over the world. To date, more than 500,000 patients have been treated with TRANSCOLLATION technology.

MEMS Optical, a Huntsville, Ala., maker of microlenses, microlens arrays, and microelectromechanical systems, will use the proceeds to build additional manufacturing facilities and expand into new markets.

iVAST International spent five years building the most comprehensive media-based system integration, distribution and reseller channel network across Asia Pacific, Australia, Europe, South America, and the United States, along with a substantial list of end user clients, including @NetHome Japan, Bluewave Technology, China Education TV, China Telecom, Dawning Computer, Dentsu, DNP, Hiroshima University, Japan Business TV, Memory-Tech, NTT Communications, Oriental Telemedia, Sony, Teleman Communications, and Yahoo.

Luminous Networks, Inc. manufactures access network equipment for services providers to deliver shared Ethernet services.

ZipRealty provides real estate services. They offer proprietary technology and online marketing tools for the brokerage industry. ZipRealty empowers home buyers, home sellers, real estate agents, and third-party brokerages with end-to-end real estate solutions. They provide home buyers and sellers with a combination of its website, mobile app, and personalized local service to search for, buy and sell real estate.

Luminous Networks, Inc. manufactures access network equipment for services providers to deliver shared Ethernet services.

Blaze is developing a fiber optic transceiver that uses wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) techniques to improve the distance and capacity of multimode fiber (MMF).

Established in 1999, Salient Surgical Technologies, Inc. is a global, privately held medical technology company that develops and markets advanced energy devices used in surgical procedures. Salient’s first line of products were monopolar electrosurgical devices used for the treatment of liver cancers. Today, the company’s bipolar AQUAMANTYS® System is used across a wide range of surgical procedures including orthopaedic reconstruction, spine surgery, orthopaedic trauma, and surgical oncology. Comprised of a bipolar electrosurgical generator & pump system and a portfolio of handheld disposable device, the AQUAMANTYS system uses patented TRANSCOLLATION® technology to haemostatically seal soft tissue and bone, enabling surgeons to reduce and prevent surgical blood loss. Salient’s products are sold throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, providing clinical and economic benefits to hospitals, healthcare providers, and patients all over the world. To date, more than 500,000 patients have been treated with TRANSCOLLATION technology.

Sylantro Systems is a provider of software used by service providers to deliver hosted VoIP applications and services for business, consumer, and wireless customers. Synergy, Sylantro's carrier-grade software platform, enables service providers to rapidly deliver differentiated, high value, high margin telephony services, ranging from IP Trunking to hosted PBX services and hosted consumer applications.

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.

SkyGo provide an infrastructure that enables business-to-consumer (B2C) companies, such as wireless carriers, Internet businesses and credit card companies, to realize revenue through wireless marketing and mobile commerce.

ZipRealty provides real estate services. They offer proprietary technology and online marketing tools for the brokerage industry. ZipRealty empowers home buyers, home sellers, real estate agents, and third-party brokerages with end-to-end real estate solutions. They provide home buyers and sellers with a combination of its website, mobile app, and personalized local service to search for, buy and sell real estate.

flypaper.com is a ASP that provides re-brandable web-hosted customer collaboration applications, including private-label e-mail, group calendars, document sharing, issue trackers, group discussion, newsletters, surveys, help desks, and more. flypaper.com's unique "pay-as-you go" pricing model meets the needs of both large and small eBusinesses.

Luminous Networks, Inc. manufactures access network equipment for services providers to deliver shared Ethernet services.

Luminous Networks, Inc. manufactures access network equipment for services providers to deliver shared Ethernet services.

ShopTok adds properties, photos, and videos to the assortment to make it more user-friendly. Customers can reserve certain product locations to attract niche users. In the private Business Manager dashboard, it measures gain.

Blaze is developing a fiber optic transceiver that uses wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) techniques to improve the distance and capacity of multimode fiber (MMF).

Cooking.com sells more than 90,000 kitchen products, all backed by a 100% satisfaction guarantee. In addition to being a store, the site has a large collection of recipes and community features. The company was founded by a team who previously worked together at The Walt Disney Corporation. Cooking.com also operates online stores for many big brands including [Starbucks](http://www.starbucksstore.com) (starbucksstore.com), [Betty Crocker](http://www.bettycrockerstore.com) (bettycrockerstore.com), [Pillsbury](http://www.pillsburystore.com) (pillsburystore.com) and the store for the Food Network.

Cooking.com sells more than 90,000 kitchen products, all backed by a 100% satisfaction guarantee. In addition to being a store, the site has a large collection of recipes and community features. The company was founded by a team who previously worked together at The Walt Disney Corporation. Cooking.com also operates online stores for many big brands including [Starbucks](http://www.starbucksstore.com) (starbucksstore.com), [Betty Crocker](http://www.bettycrockerstore.com) (bettycrockerstore.com), [Pillsbury](http://www.pillsburystore.com) (pillsburystore.com) and the store for the Food Network.

Tut Systems, Inc. delivers advanced content processing and distribution products as well as comprehensive system integration services for deploying next-generation data and video services over broadband networks. Service providers, content providers and government agencies worldwide use Tut Systems solutions to deliver broadcast-quality video over broadband networks.

Ciena is the network specialist. They collaborate with customers worldwide to unlock the strategic potential of their networks and fundamentally change the way they perform and compete. With focused innovation, Ciena brings together the reliability and capacity of optical networking with the flexibility and economics of Ethernet, unified by a software suite that delivers the industry's leading network automation. They routinely post recent news, financial results and other important announcements and information about Ciena on their website.

Ciena is the network specialist. They collaborate with customers worldwide to unlock the strategic potential of their networks and fundamentally change the way they perform and compete. With focused innovation, Ciena brings together the reliability and capacity of optical networking with the flexibility and economics of Ethernet, unified by a software suite that delivers the industry's leading network automation. They routinely post recent news, financial results and other important announcements and information about Ciena on their website.