PORTFOLIO COMPANIES


Newport Imaging Corporation is pioneering digital imaging solutions for next generation consumer products. Newport’s technology will fundamentally alter the way we capture and view digital media, enabling new classes of Audio/Visual products. Newport also enables the integration of its scalable platform in both wireless and wired applications.
Ravenflow is determined to revolutionize the way that software requirements and business processes are developed, validated, and managed. It is well-known that requirements errors are the primary cause of project failure and budget overruns. Businesses and solution providers need a way to identify and correct requirements errors before they become costly mistakes. Ravenflow fills that need by offering a suite of products that help people specify, validate, and manage requirements.
RealOps, Inc., RealOps, Inc., a leader in IT service management, delivers proven Run Book Automation and IT Process Automation software that streamlines and accelerates execution of critical operational service functions. RealOps bridges people, process, and technology within IT service management - enabling customers to minimize service downtime, prioritize operations response in accordance with varied service levels, and reduce overall operating costs. RealOps customers include leading service providers and enterprises with highly complex, global IT operations environments. Headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, RealOps, Inc. can be found on the web at www.realops.com.
Silver Creek Systems Since 1997, Silver Creek Systems has been providing innovative software addressing the complex task of improving the quality of enterprise data. Silver Creek Systems' semantic transformation platform extracts concepts, context, and meaning from core business data and automates the transformation to make it more understandable and usable throughout the enterprise. Key applications, for example, supply chain systems, yield more of the benefits they were designed to deliver because the hindrances created by poor quality data are removed.
SkyeTek’s ReaderWare™ is an open-architected software suite that unlocks the traditionally black-box nature of RFID reader hardware. ReaderWare is available for both HF and UHF reader designs, including the SkyeTek M8 UHF reader module and its M1 series of HF reader modules. ReaderWare enables SkyeTek to work with OEM customers across all the stages of embedding RFID reader functionality, from the developer kit, through modules, to an integrated reference design and software license.
Storspeed is developing products that dramatically increase network storage performance.
Strix Systems has developed a systems approach that delivers smart, flexible, and secure networking for the wireless Enterprise marketplace. Strix Systems delivers solutions that move wireless switching, routing, and mesh networking out of the wiring closet and into the air. The Access/One™ Network combines multiple radio technologies - 802.11b/a/g and 802.15.1 Bluetooth - and uses innovative system software in a mesh network to distribute intelligence and switching throughout the network.
Syntricity's dataConductor software and hosting service allows semiconductor manufacturers to securely and effectively manage, analyze and act on huge amounts of product test data while collaborating internally and externally with people in multiple geographic time zones.
Virtela is an Internet protocol service provider of managed virtual private networks (IP-VPNs), firewalls, performance monitoring, and other value-added services to large Fortune 2000-scale businesses. Virtela employs several technological enhancements to produce lower costs, greater security, and more reliable service level agreement (SLA) support than competing frame relay and global IP services.
Voxify® enables contact centers to offer self-service for customer phone calls. Voxify Automated Agents® are speech applications that offer the lowest risk to deployment and a rapid return on investment. Built from industry-specific templates and patented conversational models, Voxify Automated Agents allow callers to speak naturally - resulting in the best customer service. Voxify offers managed services for both hosted & premise-based deployments. Millions of callers around the globe speak daily to Voxify Automated Agents when calling such companies as Continental Airlines, Hammacher Schlemmer, and Wyndham International.
WiQuest is a leading fabless semiconductor company that develops complete solutions for the emerging ultrawideband (UWB) market. WiQuest's products are designed to comply with the WiMedia Alliance specifications for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN) as well as for Wireless USB applications. WiQuest is a Contributing member of the WiMedia Alliance and an Adopter Member of the USB Implementers Forum. The WiQuest team are industry experts with proven track records in the design and manufacture of high speed wireless OFDM communications systems and bring that recognized expertise to this market.
Woven Systems provides 10G Ethernet server switches for enterprise datacenter and HPC (High-Performance Computing) customers with low latency, high bandwidth, and switch fabric capacity that scales to support thousands of servers, at a cost per server comparable to today's 1G Ethernet switches. Woven's server switches provide high-performance and low cost products that seamlessly integrate with existing corporate Ethernet infrastructure.
Zannel is a mobile social entertainment network that allows users to virally share content across mobile phones, PCs and other connected devices. Zannel was founded by the team which built the largest mobile media platform in the United States, delivering over 100 million transactions per year. US Venture Partners and Palomar Ventures invested $6M in the Series A Financing. Alloy Ventures recently led a $10M Series B round.