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Aardvark (acquired by Google)
GOOG

San Francisco, CA

Aardvark is a new search service that leverages Internet communication tools and your expanded circle of friends to speed you answers to subjective queries, when opinion is more important than hard facts.

Actel*
ACTL

Sunnyvale, CA

Actel is dedicated to becoming the field programmable gate array (FPGA) provider of choice. Actel is the world's leading supplier of FPGAs based on antifuse technology.

 

Actional Corporation (acquired by Progress Software)
PRGS

Mountain View, CA

Actional Corporation is the leading provider of SOA enablement solutions. Actional addresses the specific challenges of securing, deploying and managing service-oriented environments, from early Web services projects to enterprise wide SOA initiatives.

Acumos* (acquired by Cirrus Logic)
CRUS

Austin, TX

Cirrus Logic is a premier supplier of high-performance analog circuits and advanced mixed-signal chip solutions. The company's products, sold under its own name and the Crystal product brand, enable system-level applications in mass storage, audio, and precision data conversion.

Adaptec*
ADPT

Milpitas, CA

Adaptec, Inc. is the market leader with host I/O, RAID and CD recording software products that transfer, manage, and protect data.

 

Adchemy

Redwood City, CA

Adchemy is revolutionizing the world of online customer acquisition. Adchemy is the first company to truly combine data on the Web with advanced scientific algorithms to give marketers powerful products designed to increase qualified users and reduce acquisition costs.

Alibre

Richardson, TX


Alibre Inc. offers Alibre Design, an interactive design application built for the Internet, which provides 3D mechanical design, real-time collaboration and data sharing and management. The online, CAD-neutral environment of Alibre Design enables companies to securely share precise design data -- reducing costs, shortening manufacturing cycles, improving productivity and driving quality.

Atheros Communications
ATHR

Sunnyvale, CA


Atheros Communications is the leading developer of networking technologies for secure, high-performance wireless local area networks. As the industry innovator and market-share leader in wireless OFDM technology compliant with the IEEE 802.11 specifications, Atheros is driving transparent connections among electronic devices in the office, home and on the road.

Be (acquired by Palm)
PALM

Mountain View, CA

Developed the Be operating system for digital media applications.

Bill.com, Inc.

Palo Alto, CA

Bill.com is a web-based service that automates tedious, time consuming bill workflow, bill payment, and business document filing tasks while keeping all of your information synchronized with popular accounting systems.

Blippy, Inc.

Palo Alto, CA

Blippy is a social network where people share and discuss the things they buy. Blippy's mission is to build community around everyday purchases, making them more meaningful and useful.

BroadLogic

Milpitas, CA

Broadlogic is a fabless semiconductor company focused on providing advanced System-On-Chip solutions that perform as advanced wideband receiver front-ends for digital Set-Top Boxes, Cable Modems, PVRs, Home Gateways, Home Media Centers and Game Consoles.

Cobalt Networks

Mountain View, CA

Cobalt Networks, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems (SUNW) in November 2000, was a pioneer in the network server appliance market. Cobalt's business has become the core of the Server Appliance Business Unit of Sun Microsystems. It delivers fully integrated server appliances that offer turnkey services easily, reliably and cost effectively.

Compaq Computer*
CPQ

Houston, TX

Compaq develops and markets hardware, software, solutions, and services, including industry-leading enterprise computing solutions, fault-tolerant business-critical solutions, enterprise and network storage solutions, commercial desktop and portable products and consumer PCs.

 

Crystal Decisions (acquired by Business Objects)
BOBJ

San Jose, CA and Paris, France

Crystal Decisions was a leading business intelligence software provider that was acquired by Business Objects in 2003.

 

Cygnus Solutions (acquired by Redhat)
RHAT

Durham, NC

Cygnus Solutions was a leading open-source software support and custom engineering company that was acquired by RedHat in January 2000

 

Devicescape Software

Brisbane, CA

Devicescape Software is a leading supplier of software for wireless device manufacturers and service providers.

Done Right! (Acquired by LendingTree)
TREE

Pasadena, CA

Launched in 2004, Done Right! currently maintains online home improvement professional service directories across the nation. The little orange book was first introduced in San Diego in 2005, then Denver, Houston, Dallas/Fort Worth and Chicago were also added in 2007. Since that time, the Done Right Directory® has added 33 markets across the US, bringing the total to 38.

DotNetNuke

San Mateo, CA

DotNetNuke® is an open source web application framework ideal for creating, deploying and managing interactive web, intranet and extranet sites. With a rapidly growing community of over 630,000 registered users, a legion of dedicated professional developers, and an active commercial ecosystem, DotNetNuke® continues to strengthen its leadership position on the Microsoft platform.

Ebates

San Francisco, CA

Ebates is a next-generation Internet shopping portal, which gives its members cash back when they shop online.

Encentuate (acquired by IBM)
IBM

Foster City, CA

Encentuate is an enterprise access security company. Their mission is to help enterprises simplify, strengthen, and track access across their digital assets and physical infrastructure.

 

Enuvis (acquired by SiRF)
SIRF

South San Francisco, CA

Enuvis, which developed GPS technology for wireless carriers and mobile equipment manufacturers, was acquired by SiRF in 2003.

Evite (acquired by IAC)
IACI

Pasadena, CA

Evite is an online invitation service that was acquired by the Ticketmaster division of InterActiveCorp.

Frame Technology* (acquired by Adobe)
ADBE

San Jose, CA

Founded in 1982, Adobe Systems builds award-winning software solutions for Web and print publishing.

 

Genoa (acquired by Finisar)
FNSR

Milpitas, CA

Genoa, which developed semiconductor technology for optical telecommunications, was acquired by Finisar in 2003.

 

Grand Junction Networks* (acquired by Cisco)
CSCO

San Jose, CA

Grand Junction Networks (acquired by Cisco) CSCO
Location: San Jose, CA
Cisco Systems is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet.

Gravity

Santa Monica, CA

Gravity is building the internet’s Interest Graph by enabling people to come together around shared interests and engage in meaningful conversations.

Guru

San Francisco, CA

Guru combines the right mixture of science, technology, and human interaction, to deliver objectively qualified talent better, faster, and at a dramatically reduced price compared to traditional staffing firms.

Inrix

Kirkland, WA

Inrix addresses the need for nationwide, real-time, predictive traffic information across a variety of platforms, devices and distribution channels.

Intuit *
INTU

Mountain View, CA

Intuit is the leader in e-finance, including financial software and Web-based services.

 

Iridigm Display Corp. (acquired by Qualcomm)
QCOM

San Francisco, CA

Iridigm Display Corporation produces revolutionary reflective displays for a variety of mobile device applications. Iridigm was acquired by Qualcomm in 2004.

 

Jaxtr (acquired by Sabse Bolo)

Menlo Park

Jaxtr has become the world's largest social communications company. Over 10 million people in 220 countries use jaxtr to receive calls from people visiting their social networking pages, to make calls to their friends and family worldwide and to get to know fellow jaxtr members on café jaxtr, the world's largest talk network.

Listen (acquired by Real Networks)
RNWK

San Francisco, CA

Listen is the leading independent music service provider that creates, bundles, and distributes world-class content and media delivery applications online. Listen's primary product, Rhapsody, is the only service that seamlessly integrates high-fidelity on-demand playback, professionally programmed Internet radio, rich contextual music information, and extensive editorial recommendations into a single application. Listen was acquired by RealNetworks in 2003.

Livemocha

Bellevue, WA

Livemocha is the world’s largest language learning community, with millions of members from over 200 countries. Livemocha is redefining language learning, with interactive online courses that use simple social networking with native language speakers to provide tips for improvement.

Liveops

Santa Clara, CA

LiveOps provides best-in-class on-demand call center technology, as well as virtual call center services through our network of over 20,000 independent home agents, to hundreds of companies in both direct response and enterprise markets.

Luxtera

Pasadena, CA

Luxtera is developing breakthrough photonics products. The company's technology is rooted in Caltech developments in the field of nanophotonics: optical structures an order of magnitude smaller than those traditionally used in integrated optical devices.

 

Magnum Semiconductor

Fremont, CA

Magnum Semiconductor is a spinout of the Cirrus Logic Video Division which pioneered MPEG video recording and enables high volume, affordable DVD Recorders.

 

MainStreet Networks *

MainStreet Networks is a market innovator in supplying on-premise gateway systems, applications and services to rural electric cooperatives, municipal utilities, and other energy service companies.

 

MetroFi

Mountain View, CA

MetroFi is a wireless broadband provider building community area networks that change the landscape of broadband access. MetroFi leverages Wi-Fi standards to deliver affordable "go-anywhere" broadband services.

Microdisplay Corporation

San Pablo, CA

Microdisplay Corporation develops, manufactures and markets low cost, high-performance, single panel Liquid-Crystal-On-Silicon displays.

 

Microsoft *
MSFT

Redmond, WA

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing.

 

Mimosa Systems (acquired by Iron Mountain)
NYSE: IRM

Santa Clara, CA

Mimosa Systems provides immediacy, discovery & continuity for enterprise information. Mimosa combines fine-grained, immediate recovery with self-service archival access for messaging and similar data, leveraging cost-effective disk technologies. Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange unifies data protection, mailbox extension and archiving in a single solution, assuring email continuity and regulatory compliance.

 

MMC Networks* (acquired by Applied Micro Circuits)

Sunnyvale, CA

MMC Networks, the pioneer and market leader of the Network Processor industry, architects, designs and markets high-performance, open-architecture, software-programmable Network Processors optimized for networking applications.

 

NeoPath Networks (acquired by Cisco Systems)

Santa Clara, CA

NeoPath is developing an enterprise-class layer 7 multi-protocol NAS switch that aggregates independent NAS servers and provides advanced manageability features to the overall NAS storage system.

 

NetCell

San Jose, CA

NetCell is a storage semiconductor company.

 

Netopia *

Alameda, CA

Netopia, Inc. is a market leader in providing small, growing organizations with their Internet presence, including high-speed DSL connectivity solutions and new generation web site services.

 

Nomis Solutions

San Bruno, CA

Nomis Solutions' mission is to develop, implement and support price optimization software solutions that create sustainable improvements in profitability for companies within the financial services industry.

 

Notiva (acquired by Oracle)
ORCL

San Mateo, CA

Notiva is developing enterprise software to optimize the financial supply chain. With Notiva's software, enterprises with high transaction volume will be able to better manage AR and AP, while gaining greater visibility into their trade relationships and the flexibility to optimize the economics of those relationships.

 

Ohai

Developing the next big thing in accessible, massively multiplayer online games.

Openlane

Mesa, AZ

AutoTradeCenter provides web-based software, technology and related services to the automotive remarketing industry. Core AutoTradeCenter services are online auctions and related support; statistical analysis, forecasting and predictive modeling; and related consulting, training and remarketing support.

PacketTrap (acquired by Quest Software, Inc.)
QSFT

San Francisco

PacketTrap provides affordable enterprise class network and application management software that improves performance across our customer's most complex networks. PacketTrap's flagship solution, PacketTrap Perspective, provides IT professionals with a 360 degree view of their single and multi-site networks and allows them to manage and maintain their infrastructure from a single interface.

Paradise Electronics (acquired by Genesis Microchip)

San Jose, CA

Paradise Electronics, a developer and supplier of graphics IC's was acquired by Genesis Microchip (GNSS) in 1999.

 

PayCycle (acquired by Intuit)
INTU

Palo Alto, CA

PayCycle is a small business payroll ASP. PayCycle dramatically reduces the complexity and cost of payroll management for accountants and their small business clients.

Pixazza

Mountain View, CA

Pixazza generates incremental revenue for companies by "visual commerce enabling" the images directly on their web site.

Postini (acquired by Google)
GOOG

Redwood City, CA

Postini develops and markets email services, including automatic virus detection and junk mail screening, to enterprises and internet service providers.

PrintPaks (acquired by Mattel)
MAT

Printpaks designed arts and crafts software and supplies for children.

 

PulseCore Semiconductor (acquired by ON Semiconductor)
ONNN

Campbell, CA

PulseCore Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company focused primary on PLL based clock synthesizers, fanout buffers, and spread spectrum EMI reduction. www.pulsecoresemi.com

 

Quantum *
DSS

Milpitas, CA

Quantum Corporation is the world's leading storage supplier in five of the seven markets it serves.

 

Radlan Computer Communications (acquired by Marvell)
MRVL

Santa Clara, CA

Radlan, which developed routing-based embedded software and network applications, was acquired by Marvell in 2003.

Reconnex (acquired by McAfee)
MFE

Sunnyvale, CA

Reconnex is the leader in information monitoring and protection appliances designed for any organization that wants to protect its brand, maintain compliance, or secure sensitive information. Reconnex's simple-to-deploy appliance delivers accurate detection while protecting an enterprise before, during, and after any threat to corporate privacy or intellectual property. A privately held company based in Silicon Valley, Calif., Reconnex protects information for over one million users today. www.reconnex.net

Scintera

Santa Clara, CA

Scintera is pioneering a new paradigm in high frequency signal processing.   The demand for ever higher bandwidths and spectral efficiency presents the need for complex signal processing at high speed and low power.  Scintera’s team is commercializing their Gigahertz Signal ProcessorTM platform, a breakthrough technology that changes the rules of complex signal processing. Implemented in standard CMOS, Scintera’s platform performs analog signal processing at the RF carrier frequency enabling lower power, cost and complexity.

 

Seagate Technology
STX

Scotts Valley, CA

Seagate is the world's largest manufacturer of disk drives, magnetic discs and read-write heads, and a leader in Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions.

 

Sequence Design *

Santa Clara, CA

Sequence Design develops, markets and supports interconnect-driven design solutions that unleash the power of advanced semiconductor processes.

 

Shopping.com (acquired by eBay)
EBAY

Brisbane, CA

Shopping.com, the leading shopping search engine and the fifth largest shopping service in the world, is made up of the combined entities of Epinions and Dealtime.

Silicon Architects* (acquired by Synopsys)

Mountain View, CA

Synopsys, Inc. is the leading supplier of electronic design automation (EDA) solutions to the global electronics market.

 

Silicon Image
SIMG

Cupertino, CA

Silicon Image (SIMG) provides semiconductor solutions that, among other applications, enable the all-digital connectivity between computers and digital flat panel monitors.

 

Six Apart

San Francisco, CA

Six Apart Ltd. is the company behind the Movable Type publishing system and the TypePad personal weblogging service. Six Apart's sole focus is to create tools that enable millions of individuals, organizations and corporations to participate in the web's full potential by publishing their ideas on the Internet with simple, yet powerful software and services.

SkyPilot

Santa Clara, CA

SkyPilot Networks is a leading provider of carrier-class broadband wireless equipment that enables service providers, municipalities, and public safety agencies to rapidly deploy cost-effective network services, including last-mile Internet access, voice over IP, Wi-Fi hotspots, video surveillance, and other wireless applications. The SkyPilot solution utilizes a patented multi-hop point-to-multipoint architecture that synchronizes high-gain directional antennas to extend reach, mitigate interference, and maximize spectral efficiency. The result is a highly scalable, reliable, and deterministic broadband wireless network that simplifies design, increases deployment flexibility, and dramatically reduces equipment and operating costs. SkyPilot has proven scalability and reliability with over 35,000 units shipped to customers in over 50 countries.

Splunk Technology

San Francisco, CA

Splunk Technology is building a disruptive new approach to managing IT infrastructure.

 

Stratus Computer *

Maynard, MA

Stratus Computer offers the world's most proven range of continuously available computer platforms, application solutions, and professional services for mission-critical business operations.

 

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. As you click Stumble!, we deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended by your friends or one of 6 million+ other websurfers with interests similar to you. Rating these sites you like, automatically shares them with like-minded people – and helps you discover great sites your friends recommend.

Summit Microelectronics

Campbell, CA

Summit designs and develops semiconductors that manage the power functions in communication systems equipment that forms the backbone of the networking and Internet infrastructure.

 

Sun Microsystems *
ORCL

Palo Alto, CA

Sun Microsystems is a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet.

 

SuVolta (formerly DSM Solutions)

SuVolta (formerly DSM Solutions) is developing low power CMOS semiconductor technology.


 

Swoopo

Germany

Swoopo is an internet company with a unique, worldwide business model. We are the creators of “Entertainment Shopping“ on the internet, and, one of the first companies to combine e-commerce and entertainment.

Sybase *
SY

Emeryville, CA

Sybase is one of the largest global independent software companies. Sybase helps businesses integrate, manage and deliver applications, content, and data anywhere they are needed.

 

Symantec *
SYMC

Cupertino, CA

Symantec is a world leader in Internet security technology that provides content security solutions to enterprise organizations and helps companies manage and support workforces that use laptop computers and other mobile devices.

 

Technorati

San Francisco, CA

Technorati provides search and notification services for active content on the Internet. Technorati monitors over 1.8 million sources (weblogs, RSS) with over 10,000 new sources added each day.

Telocity

Cupertino, CA

Telocity is a telecommunications services company providing Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) service that can be self-installed by end users.

Tickle (acquired by Monster)
MWW

San Francisco, CA

Tickle (formerly Emode) is a member services company that fulfills the consumer's need for connection to friends and family with data-driven services centered on the individual. Attracting more than 3 million members strictly through word of mouth, Emode has quickly become a model for successful viral marketing. Tickle was acquired by Monster Worldwide in May of 2004.

Topica

San Francisco, CA

Topica provides turn-key solutions for email newsletter publishers, from multinational media companies to individuals publishing news about a hobby or interest.

Trumba

Seattle, WA

Trumba is creating a new type of calendar service -- the connected calendar -- that connects all the different aspects of our users' lives -- work, family, community and fun--into one easy-to-use and access calendar, and keeps people connected to others through the events they share.

Tumbleweed Communications (acquired by Axway)

Redwood City, CA

Tumbleweed is a leading provider of advanced messaging solutions for business communications.

TZero Technologies

Sunnyvale, CA

TZero is a fabless semiconductor company developing chips for ultra-wideband communications.

 

Ubicom

Mountain View, CA

Ubicom
Location: Mountain View, CA
Ubicom is developing low-cost embedded microprocessors and software platforms for embedded communications applications.

Unity Semiconductor

Sunnyvale, CA

Unity is developing next-generation memory technology.

 

ValiCert (acquired by Tumbleweed Communications)
TMWD

Mountain View, CA

ValiCert is a software and services company that enables trust and interoperability of digital certificate applications. ValiCert was acquired by Tumbleweed Communications.

 

VideoEgg

San Francisco

VideoEgg is a new kind of rich media advertising network that guarantees brand engagement. Our network consists of over 100 million uniques across hundreds of leading sites, blogs, and gaming sites, as well as social and mobile applications. We provide outstanding consumer reach and accountable online advertising for brands.

Virsto Software

Mountain View, CA

Virsto developed an entirely new type of storage solution for the unique needs of virtual servers.

Visio * (acquired by Microsoft)
MSFT

Redmond, WA

Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing.

 

WePay

WePay helps group collect and manage money.

Xilinx *
XLNX

San Jose, CA


Xilinx is the leading innovator of complete programmable logic solutions, including advanced integrated circuits, software design tools, predefined system functions delivered as cores, and unparalleled field engineering support

Xirrus

Thousand Oaks, CA

Xirrus is the leader in Switching Without Wires™. Xirrus' long term sustainable differentiation is based upon RF innovation. This focus on RF innovation (specifically RF isolation, management, and shaping) has enabled us to develop the Wi-Fi Array based architecture that delivers more coverage, bandwidth, throughput, and support for more users on a per device and per system basis far and above any other offering. The Wi-Fi Array platform (HW and SW) and the patents that protect it have successfully "positioned" Xirrus as the only viable replacement for wired Ethernet to the desktop for the enterprise moving forward.

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