Industry Sector: Semi-Conductors/Telecom
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Adaptive (acquired by Metawave Communications): Adaptive Telecom specializes in increasing network capacity for wireless carriers. Its 3G compatible adaptive smart antenna technology is embedded into base station equipment to provide low cost implementation of adaptive smart antennas for wireless communication systems.
Industry Sector: Network Hardware/Networking and Cloud
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt
Real Networks (Listen.com): Akamba Corporation develops Internet infrastructure products that redefine expectations for busy Internet sites. Its solutions transform data centers by addressing the server performance issues.
Industry Sector: Software and Systems
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt
Alibre: Alibre, Inc. provides geometric design software solutions. It offers professional CAD software solutions that include geometric design solutions, such as sheetmetal design, surfacing, configuration, direct editing, dynamic, vault, and extra import/export solutions; and geometric design elements, including 3D model creation, 2D documentation, part library, rendering, and import/export elements.
Industry Sector: Semi-Conductors
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Apache Systems, Inc.: Apache Systems, Inc. manufactures and markets embedded memory switch controllers. The company produces system-on-silicon chips for high speed networking.
Industry Sector: Wireless and Communications/Semi-Conductors
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Atheros: Atheros is a developer of semiconductors for network communications, particularly wireless chipsets.
Industry Sector: Software and Systems
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt
Be, Inc.: Be Inc. offers BeOS, an operating system designed for digital media applications and Internet appliances. BeOS allows users to simultaneously operate multiple audio, video, image processing and Internet-based software applications while maintaining system stability, media quality and processor performance.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Broadlogic (acquired by Broadcom): Consumers are demanding the delivery of high quality, personalized video content—whenever they want, wherever they are. The exploding market for new types of content and new ways of delivering it is profoundly changing today’s digital media and video services industries. BroadLogic’s innovative semiconductor-based solutions empower cable operators to transform their services economically and at scale. With our help, they can quickly and cost-effectively transition to an all digital network and expand network capacity for personalized and unicast services.
Industry Sector: Semi-Conductors
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Broadlogic: BroadLogic Network Technologies, Inc. designs and supplies video-processing mixed signal semiconductors for broadband network operators. It offers video-on-demand, digital-video, voice, and high-speed data services to consumers.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
CameraWorld: Founded in 1977 and a thriving mail order camera dealer since 1979, cameraworld.com launched its first Web site in 1995. The company began offering product through its site in 1997, and quickly became the dominant force in online camera retailing.
Industry Sector: Software and Systems
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Centerlex (TurboLinux): Turbolinux is a Japanese Linux distribution targeting Asian users.
Industry Sector: Network Hardware
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt
Cobalt Networks: Cobalt Networks was a maker of low-cost Linux-based servers. Founded in 1996 in Mountain View, California under the name Cobalt Microserver, the company pioneered easy-to-use server appliances featuring secure web user interfaces, designed for Internet service providers (ISPs) and small to medium-sized businesses.
Industry Sector: Sofware and Systems/SAAS
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
Cygnus Solutions: Cygnus Solutions, originally Cygnus Support, was founded in 1989 by John Gilmore, Michael Tiemann and David Henkel-Wallace to provide commercial support for free software. Its tagline was: Making free software affordable.
Industry Sector: Financial Services/Software and Systems
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt
eCash: DigiCash’s eCash allows consumers to make anonymous payments of any amount–and anonymity differentiates eCash against other e-cash schemes. DigiCash’s intellectual property assets include patents, protocols, and software systems that also could be used for applications, like online electronic voting or private scrip issued by a particular retailer.
Industry Sector: Semi-Conductors
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Escalade: Escalade created software that would make the design of application-specific integrated circuits simpler.
Industry Sector: SAAS/Social
Lead Investment Professional: Andrew Anker
Evite: Evite.com pioneered the concept of online activity planning. With its interactive online invitations, and tools for consensus-building, inter-group communication, and in the future, aggregated buying power and peer-to-peer transactions, Evite.com is fast becoming the most fun and effective way to get people together, build excitement and increase attendance at gatherings large and small.
Industry Sector: Storage Systems
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt
Exabyte (Ecrix): Ecrix Corporation is an innovator in tape storage and the developer of VXA, a breakthrough tape technology that features advanced backup and restore capabilities in products that deliver market leading price/performance and reliability.
Industry Sector: Semi-Conductors
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Genoa (acquired by Finisar): Founded in 1998, Genoa has developed novel linear semiconductor optical amplifiers (LSOAs) for amplifying DWDM wavelengths for both metro and telecom applications. As a byproduct of that technology, they have also developed a unique approach for making long wavelength vertical cavity emitting lasers (VCSELs).
Industry Sector: SAAS
Lead Investment Professional: Andrew Anker
ImproveNet: ImproveNet, Inc. provides online home improvement services to homeowners, home improvement professionals, and manufacturers of building materials and home products.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
Intrinsic Graphics (acquired by Vicarious Visions): Intrinsic Graphics Inc. provides a software platform for delivering real-time 3D applications on next generation game consoles, personal computers, advanced TV set-top boxes and future generation handheld devices.
Industry Sector: Semi-Conductors
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt
MCMS: MCMS, Inc. provides electronics manufacturing services to original equipment manufacturers primarily in the data communications, telecommunications, and computer/memory module industries.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt
Openlane: Openlane, Inc. is a leading online auction company in North America for automotive dealers to buy and sell wholesale vehicles. The company offers end-to-end auto remarketing solutions to auto manufacturers, captive finance companies, lease and daily rental companies, financial institutions and wholesale auto auctions throughout the United States and Canada.
Industry Sector: Semi-Conductors
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt
Paradise: Paradise Electronics, Inc. engages in the design, development, and marketing of analog and digital mixed signal integrated circuits for controlling flat panel monitors.
Industry Sector: SAAS/Security
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
Postini: Postini was an e-mail, Web security, and archiving service. It provided cloud computing services for filtering e-mail spam and malware (before it was delivered to a client’s mail server), offered optional e-mail archiving, and protected client networks from web-borne malware.
Industry Sector: Consumer/Sofware and Systems/eCommerce
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
PrintPaks: Founded in 1995, PrintPaks, Inc. is focused on the rapidly-growing multimedia craft category. PrintPaks kits utilize the power of home computers and printers to enable consumers to design, personalize, and assemble a wide variety of creative crafts, including jewelry, pop-up greeting cards, refrigerator magnets, tee shirts, and holiday decorations.
Industry Sector: SAAS/eCommerce/Software and Systems
Lead Investment Professional: Andrew Anker
Real Networks (Listen.com): Listen.com operates the Rhapsody subscription service and has distribution relationships with several broadband Internet providers, online music sites and PC and consumer electronics manufacturers.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
Shopping.com (ePinions): Epinions.com was a general consumer review site established in 1999. At Epinions, visitors could read new and old reviews about a variety of items to help them decide on a purchase.
Industry Sector: Semi-Conductors
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Silicon Image: Silicon Image is a provider of semiconductors for the mobile, consumer electronics and personal computers (PCs).
Industry Sector: Semi-Conductors
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
Summit Microelectronics: Summit Microelectronics, Inc. designs and manufactures integrated circuits that incorporate analog and digital technologies. It offers integrated power management solutions for consumer, communications, and computing markets and applications.
Industry Sector: Telecom/SAAS
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Telocity: Telocity is a nationwide provider of residential broadband services and applications to and throughout the home.
Industry Sector: SAAS/Media and Content
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Topica: Founded in January 1998, Topica Inc. makes it easier for people to find, manage and participate in email lists.
Industry Sector: Software and Systems/Security
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt and John Johnston
Tumbleweed Communications (Valicert): Tumbleweed Communications Corp. provided secure messaging and secure file transfer solutions for enterprise and government customers.
Industry Sector: SAAS
Lead Investment Professional: Andrew Anker
Unicru (Guru): Guru.com is a freelance marketplace. It allows companies to find freelance workers for commissioned work.
Industry Sector: Telecom/Software and Systems
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Wireless Online: The company develops and commercializes breakthrough wireless telecommunications technologies to increase coverage, expand capacity and improve quality in wireless data networks.