Vesbridge Partners

Vesbridge Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage and seed/startup investments. The firm invests in networking technology and information technology infrastructure sectors. The company invests in disruptive technologies with a focus on wireless or mobility, digital media, web services, and security or data center, enterprise IT, storage, and wireless telecommunication services. Additionally, they invest in plastic products, electrical equipment, metalworking machinery and equipment; retailing and healthcare. Vesbridge Partners was founded by Jeff Hinck in 1988 and is headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts.

Jennifer Ellis

VP of Finance

Staffan Ericsson

Venture Partner

Tom Rowbotham

Venture Partner

31 past transactions

StarGen

Venture Round in 2005
StarGen, a semiconductor company, provides serial switched interconnect solutions for compute and communications equipment. It offers low-overhead, protocol-agnostic, and open standards-based serial switched architectures. The company also offers a product line for vendors of access communication platforms for voice, data, and video networks, as well as vendors of embedded systems; and AXSys architectures. It serves communications, storage, server, and embedded markets. The company was founded in 1999 as StarBridge Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to StarGen, Inc. in 2000. StarGen, Inc. is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts. As of February 16, 2007, StarGen, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Dolphin Interconnect Solutions AS.

Visage Mobile

Series C in 2005
A wireless expense management and telecom expense management firm specializing in reducing communications costs using proprietary software and expert analysts. Visage Mobile handles everything from bill analysis across multiple carriers, to fully managed wireless and wireline services.

LockPath, Inc.

Series B in 2012
LockPath is a market leader in corporate governance, risk management, regulatory compliance (GRC) and information security (InfoSec) software. Built on the patented Dynamic Content Framework (DCF), LockPath’s flexible, scalable and fully integrated suite of applications is used by organizations to automate business processes, reduce enterprise risk and demonstrate regulatory compliance to achieve audit-ready status. The applications are designed to manage all facets of compliance and information security programs, including policies and procedures, risk assessment and mitigation, incident tracking and remediation, vulnerability management, third-party management, business continuity planning and audit preparation. LockPath serves a client base of global organizations ranging from small and midsize companies to Fortune 10 enterprises in more than 15 industries. LockPath is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas. Visit http://www.lockpath.com for more information.

Atrica

Series F in 2006
Atrica provides carrier Ethernet solutions for metropolitan area networks. Its products include carrier Ethernet core switches, carrier Ethernet aggregation switches, carrier Ethernet edge switches, and service platform for Ethernet networks. The company also provides Ethernet Internet access, Ethernet transparent LAN, T1 private line, Ethernet private line, and Ethernet private network services. Further, it provides solutions for incumbent local service providers, competitive carriers, cable operators, and enterprises.

Acopia Networks

Series D in 2006
Acopia Networks provides intelligent file virtualization solutions. It offers Acopia ARX series intelligent file virtualization devices that automate data management tasks and eliminates the disruption associated with storage management operations; and FreedomFabric network operating system software, which allows enterprises to manage unstructured file data by automating various storage management tasks and eliminating the disruptions associated with those tasks.

MetraTech

Venture Round in 2012
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Picolight

Venture Round in 2006
Picolight Incorporated designed and manufactured high-bandwidth optical transceivers and components. The company offered ethernet and fiber channel transceivers and optical transit and receivers. It catered to the local area networking, optical switches and computer systems, and optical metro applications sectors. The company was founded in 1995 and was based in Louisville, Colorado.

Bluesocket

Series B in 2005
Bluesocket provides secure, enterprise level mobile connectivity products and support. Through wireless network and voice products, Bluesocket creates a network infrastructure for across desktops, mobile devices, and enterprise applications.

LockPath, Inc.

Series A in 2011
LockPath is a market leader in corporate governance, risk management, regulatory compliance (GRC) and information security (InfoSec) software. Built on the patented Dynamic Content Framework (DCF), LockPath’s flexible, scalable and fully integrated suite of applications is used by organizations to automate business processes, reduce enterprise risk and demonstrate regulatory compliance to achieve audit-ready status. The applications are designed to manage all facets of compliance and information security programs, including policies and procedures, risk assessment and mitigation, incident tracking and remediation, vulnerability management, third-party management, business continuity planning and audit preparation. LockPath serves a client base of global organizations ranging from small and midsize companies to Fortune 10 enterprises in more than 15 industries. LockPath is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas. Visit http://www.lockpath.com for more information.

Aegis Semiconductor

Series D in 2006
Aegis is a privately held company that builds solutions for embedded monitoring of advanced optical networks. The company's Active Thin Films are manufactured using proven high-volume processes with demonstrated high yield and superb uniformity. Aegis's solutions benefit from the reliability of solid-state, silicon-based design, extreme scalability, and low-cost packaging architectures.

RipCode

Series C in 2009
RipCode provides a realtime transcoding software for video clips and streaming. RipCode's technology processes simultaneous transcode paths. This consolidated, high concurrency processing enables RipCode to supplant existing servers and reduce overall hardware, storage and energy use. RipCode supports live mobile video or video on-demand transcoding for mobile and user generated content applications. RipCode enables video to be dynamically transcoded and served to a customer on any screen size as they request it, giving viewers an expansion of content choices while reducing an operator's server hardware, storage and energy use.

RedShift BioAnalytics

Series A in 2006
RedShiftBio provides an infrared technology with advanced data analytics to facilitate better, faster decision making in biopharmaceutical development from discovery to market via the direct measurement of previously undetectable change in protein structural attributes critical to drug product efficacy and quality. It has developed a Microfluidic Modulation Spectroscopy (MMS) platform in response to a customer’s request for a better solution, and rather than repurpose outdated tools and methods designed originally for other applications. They started a new and developed MMS from the ground up specifically with the protein scientist in mind. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Metconnex

Venture Round in 2006
Metconnex develops integrated optical modules for optical networks. The company offers products such as wave switching modules for wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) networks. It was founded in 2002 and is based in Ottawa, Canada.

RipCode

Series A in 2006
RipCode provides a realtime transcoding software for video clips and streaming. RipCode's technology processes simultaneous transcode paths. This consolidated, high concurrency processing enables RipCode to supplant existing servers and reduce overall hardware, storage and energy use. RipCode supports live mobile video or video on-demand transcoding for mobile and user generated content applications. RipCode enables video to be dynamically transcoded and served to a customer on any screen size as they request it, giving viewers an expansion of content choices while reducing an operator's server hardware, storage and energy use.

Bluesocket

Venture Round in 2006
Bluesocket provides secure, enterprise level mobile connectivity products and support. Through wireless network and voice products, Bluesocket creates a network infrastructure for across desktops, mobile devices, and enterprise applications.

Picolight

Series H in 2005
Picolight Incorporated designed and manufactured high-bandwidth optical transceivers and components. The company offered ethernet and fiber channel transceivers and optical transit and receivers. It catered to the local area networking, optical switches and computer systems, and optical metro applications sectors. The company was founded in 1995 and was based in Louisville, Colorado.

Acopia Networks

Series C in 2004
Acopia Networks provides intelligent file virtualization solutions. It offers Acopia ARX series intelligent file virtualization devices that automate data management tasks and eliminates the disruption associated with storage management operations; and FreedomFabric network operating system software, which allows enterprises to manage unstructured file data by automating various storage management tasks and eliminating the disruptions associated with those tasks.

MetraTech

Series B in 2000
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Picolight

Series H in 2005
Picolight Incorporated designed and manufactured high-bandwidth optical transceivers and components. The company offered ethernet and fiber channel transceivers and optical transit and receivers. It catered to the local area networking, optical switches and computer systems, and optical metro applications sectors. The company was founded in 1995 and was based in Louisville, Colorado.

FusionOne

Series A in 2008
FusionOne provides mobile content portability, helping mobile subscribers transfer their content between mobile devices and sharing their content with popular internet applications-anytime, anywhere. FusionOne's products currently support millions of subscribers on many major carriers worldwide. Founded in 1998, FusionOne is headquartered in San Jose, California with additional offices in Tallinn, Estonia. For more information, visit www.FusionOne.com.

Visage Mobile

Series D in 2005
A wireless expense management and telecom expense management firm specializing in reducing communications costs using proprietary software and expert analysts. Visage Mobile handles everything from bill analysis across multiple carriers, to fully managed wireless and wireline services.

Storspeed

Series A in 2007
StorSpeed Inc. develops products that increase network storage performance. StorSpeed Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Austin, Texas.

The Fab Shoes

Venture Round in 2012
The Fab Shoes is an e-commerce platform that features a collection of women’s shoes, handbags, and accessories. Every month its team of designers prepares a personalized recommendation of trendy accessories that is adapted to its users’ style and advises its users how to combine them. The Fab Shoes was launched in 2012 by [Pablo Szefner](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/pablo-szefner#/entity), [Francisco de la Calle](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/francisco-de-la-calle#/entity), and [Xisco Calle](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/xisco-calle#/entity). The platform is based in Hospitalet De Llobregat, Spain.

Enstratius

Series A in 2011
Enstratius(Formerly Enstratus) provides cloud infrastructure management for public, private, and hybrid cloud operations aligned with enterprise governance and security needs. Enstratius provides users with a single access-controlled view across all corporate cloud resources. Users with the appropriate access rights may directly provision virtual machines across multiple clouds or they can deploy fully-automated applications from a cloud-independent service catalog. Features of Enstratius include: self-service provisioning/de-provisioning of cloud resources, multi-currency cost/chargeback tracking, customizable role-based access controls, single login to manage all cloud resources, support for enterprise authentication systems including SAML 2.0 and OpenID, automated encryption of all cloud data in transit and at rest with all keys stored outside of the cloud, full application automation including auto-scaling, auto-recovery, cloud bursting, and disaster recovery, and a service catalog of pre-configured applications with the ability to publish your own. Enstratius supports the following public clouds: Amazon Web Services, AT&T Synaptic Storage, Bluelock, Cloud Central, CloudSigma, GoGrid, Google Storage, IBM, Microsoft Azure Storage, NTT, Rackspace, and Terremark. Enstratius supports the following private cloud platforms: Atmos Storage, Citrix/Cloud.com, [Eucalyptus], [Nimbula], OpenStack, and Zimory.

Aegis Lightwave

Series D in 2006
Aegis Lightwave is a privately held company that builds cost-effective solutions for intelligent optical networks. Aegis Lightwave offers the broadest and most cost-effective selection of optical channel monitors that are specifically designed for reconfigurable optical networks featuring 40/100G transmission. The optical channel monitor product line is ideal for original equipment manufacturers looking to achieve the necessary cost targets for embedded DWDM monitoring.

MetraTech

Series D in 2005
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Visage Mobile

Series B in 2010
A wireless expense management and telecom expense management firm specializing in reducing communications costs using proprietary software and expert analysts. Visage Mobile handles everything from bill analysis across multiple carriers, to fully managed wireless and wireline services.

RipCode

Series B in 2007
RipCode provides a realtime transcoding software for video clips and streaming. RipCode's technology processes simultaneous transcode paths. This consolidated, high concurrency processing enables RipCode to supplant existing servers and reduce overall hardware, storage and energy use. RipCode supports live mobile video or video on-demand transcoding for mobile and user generated content applications. RipCode enables video to be dynamically transcoded and served to a customer on any screen size as they request it, giving viewers an expansion of content choices while reducing an operator's server hardware, storage and energy use.

MetraTech

Series C in 2004
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ITKO

Series B in 2007
The iTKO LISA software suite offers a complete solution for testing Service-Oriented Architectures. Unlike conventional UI- and code-oriented testing tools, LISA was built from the ground up to test the many heterogeneous components and workflows that make up SOA applications.