VenGlobal Capital

VenGlobal Capital was a venture capital firm located in Cupertino, California, specializing in early-stage investments. The firm targeted companies with experienced management teams and clear market opportunities, particularly in sectors such as wire-line and wireless communications, internet software, and productivity enhancement software. VenGlobal Capital focused on businesses that demonstrated competitive advantages through proprietary technological innovations.

James Lung

General Partner

Phil Mak

General Partner

11 past transactions

CoAdna

Series B in 2007
CoAdna Photonics is a manufacturer based in Sunnyvale, California, specializing in dynamic and tunable fiber-optic solutions for dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) optical networks. The company develops advanced components, including wavelength-selective switches and reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers, which enhance the performance of DWDM systems. With over 40 years of research and development in liquid crystal technology, CoAdna leverages its expertise to offer cost-effective and innovative solutions that support data center networking and improve cross-connect architecture for clients.

Auvitek International

Series B in 2006
Auvitek International, Ltd is a privately-owned fabless semiconductor company specializing in advanced digital television signal demodulation technology. The company develops integrated circuits tailored for the digital television and multimedia convergence markets, providing market-leading HDTV receiver and interface solutions. Their product offerings include the AU852X series, which features demodulation integrated circuits for various applications such as ATSC, digital cable, and terrestrial signals, as well as the AU88XX series, which encompasses single-chip demodulators designed for multi-carrier and single-carrier signals. Auvitek International's commitment to performance is supported by a global network of direct sales, distributors, and field support personnel, ensuring that manufacturers of digital televisions, set-top boxes, and PC-TV applications receive exceptional design support and product performance.

AirMagnet

Series B in 2002
AirMagnet is a security and troubleshooting Wireless LAN software provider. Other products include WLAN site survey and design, RF interference detection, remote diagnostics, and the voice over WiFi analysis software.

Averant

Venture Round in 2002
Averant, Inc. is a startup electronic design automation (EDA) company specializing in verification technology for integrated circuits (ICs) and digital intellectual property (IP). Founded in 1997 and based in Hayward, California, the company addresses the challenges posed by increasing design complexity, which can lead to significant errors if not verified before production. Averant's key products include Solidify, a static functional verification engine that offers vectorless verification and code coverage; SolidAC, which detects common design issues; SolidPC, an automatic verifier for AMBA protocol compliance; and SolidTC, which ensures the accuracy of timing constraints. These solutions enable companies in various sectors, including internet networking, telecommunications, and consumer electronics, to ensure the functional correctness of their designs, thereby mitigating risks associated with post-production errors. Averant sells its products directly in the United States and through distributors in Europe and Asia. The company was formerly known as HDAC, Inc. before rebranding in May 2000.

Sequence Design

Venture Round in 2002
Sequence Design, Inc. is a provider of software solutions focused on power and signal integrity for system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Founded in 1995 and based in Santa Clara, California, the company specializes in a range of tools that enhance power efficiency and integrity in SoC designs. Its offerings include the Power-Aware SoC Design Flow, which supports power-aware design from the system level to signoff, and a suite of tools known as PowerTheater that improves power efficiency. Additionally, Sequence Design provides Columbus-RLC Extraction for nanometer designs, Columbus-Turbo for standard-cell designs, Columbus-AMS for analog extraction, and CoolTime, which allows for concurrent analysis of various electrical integrity aspects in nanometer SoC designs. The company's tools cater to designers in sectors such as wireless, graphics, mobile computing, networking, and ASIC markets. Sequence Design was previously known as Frequency Technology, Inc. and adopted its current name in January 2000. As of August 2009, it operates as a subsidiary of Apache Design Solutions, Inc.

ViaQuo

Venture Round in 2002
ViaQuo Corporation specializes in providing internet-based distributed access permissioning software designed for data protection. The company's flagship product, ViaSeal, is a web-based platform that allows enterprises to control and secure their information and digital content across the organization. This software enables various entities, including carriers, internet service providers, content vendors, enterprises, and exchanges, to seal and tamper-proof digital packages of media or sensitive enterprise information for secure distribution over the internet.

Luxnet

Venture Round in 2001
Luxnet Corporation, established in 1999 and headquartered in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, specializes in designing, developing, and manufacturing optical semiconductor devices and packaged optical components. Its primary products include laser diodes, photodiodes, transmitters, receivers, and optical sub-assemblies, which are predominantly used in high-speed voice video and data communications for networking, storage, and cable TV applications. Luxnet serves customers globally, with business operations spanning Taiwan, China, and the United States.

Get2Chip

Venture Round in 2000
Get2Chip is a developer of Volare, an architectural platform designed for chip manufacturers and intellectual property (IP) providers. The company focuses on enabling rapid system-level synthesis, facilitating the design and development of complex systems-on-chip (SoC). Get2Chip offers an integrated front-end design environment that streamlines various stages of the design process, encompassing electronic system level (ESL), register transfer level (RTL), and gate-level design. By consolidating tasks that are typically handled by separate synthesis tools, floor planners, and static timing analyzers, Get2Chip enhances efficiency and reduces time-to-market for its clients in the semiconductor industry.

Allayer Technologies

Venture Round in 2000
Allayer Technologies Corp. designs, manufactures, markets and supports advanced semiconductor products that improve the edge network system by providing silicon solutions that make switches smarter and links between workgroups faster. The corporate name -- pronounced "All-layer" --represents the company's long-range intention to provide silicon solutions for all levels of the OSI networking model. Founded in 1997, Allayer uses a Modular Systems Standard Product or MSSP approach to design the most flexible, high performance and scalable ICs for Ethernet LAN switching and fiber optics applications. Allayer products are used by systems OEMs who manufacture local area networking equipment in the edge network that provides the interface between individual workstations or workgroups and the enterprise network backbone system.

Symmetry Communications

Venture Round in 2000
Symmetry Communications is creating the "Information Super Sky Way" of seamless global IP-based services for mobile wireless users. They are a leading provider of wireless packet data solutions for Internet and next-generation telecommunications services. Their packet data solutions enable wireless network operators to provide flexible service differentiation and new data services to market quicker than ever before.

Allayer Technologies

Venture Round in 1999
Allayer Technologies Corp. designs, manufactures, markets and supports advanced semiconductor products that improve the edge network system by providing silicon solutions that make switches smarter and links between workgroups faster. The corporate name -- pronounced "All-layer" --represents the company's long-range intention to provide silicon solutions for all levels of the OSI networking model. Founded in 1997, Allayer uses a Modular Systems Standard Product or MSSP approach to design the most flexible, high performance and scalable ICs for Ethernet LAN switching and fiber optics applications. Allayer products are used by systems OEMs who manufacture local area networking equipment in the edge network that provides the interface between individual workstations or workgroups and the enterprise network backbone system.
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