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Presto
Mountain View, CA
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Invested: November
2006
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Presto was founded in 2004 to help families and
friends stay connected by making it easier to share digital
content. Led by a world-class team of consumer product
and technology veterans from AOL, Intuit, Ofoto/Kodak,
Palm, Procter & Gamble, TiVo, WebTV/Microsoft and
Yahoo!, Presto is redefining digital delivery through
a unique service that automatically prints the digital
content you want to enjoy, without a computer or Internet
connection. Publishing partners for Presto's first product,
the Presto Service and HP Printing Mailbox, include Dow
Jones & Company, Meredith Corporation and Tribune
Media Services. The company, based in Mountain View, Calif.,
received venture funding from Clearstone Venture Partners,
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Vanguard Ventures.
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DVDPlay
Campbell, CA |
Invested: April 2006
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DVDPlay is a self-service retail company, initially
offering DVD’s for rent from kiosks. The company
is transforming the DVD rental business by offering unprecedented
convenience, rental costs that are less than one third
the industry standard and only the most current titles.
DVDPlay’s proprietary retail kiosks offer retailers
a new source of revenue as well as a compelling reason
for a consumer to visit and return to the store. Total
automation and small retail footprint yield excellent
business economics.
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Fabric7
Mountain View, CA |
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Founded in May 2002, Fabric7 is delivering a new class
of application and service delivery platforms for enterprise
datacenters. The company's products are based on an innovative
architecture that unifies leading edge ideas in computing,
network services, I/O interconnects, virtualization, and
datacenter resource management.
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Artificial
Muscle, Inc.
Menlo Park, CA
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Invested: February
2004
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Artificial Muscle, Inc. (AMI) is an early stage
smart materials company that will design and manufacture
new solid-state actuator components for use in speakers,
generators, motors, pumps, valves and solenoids using
a fundamentally new, patented, electro-active polymer
(EAP) technology that will allow engineers to design smaller,
lighter, cheaper, and more efficient products.
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Radiance
Technologies
Los Altos, CA
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Invested: March
2002
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Radiance Technologies is an enterprise software
company enabling the reliable, efficient, and secure delivery
of digital packages over IP networks. The Radiance "True
Delivery" solution enables enterprises to deliver larger,
higher quality content over existing network infrastructure
at least cost. Target customers include global enterprises.
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Vormetric
(formerly Sotera Networks)
San Jose, CA
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Invested: July
2001
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Vormetric is developing innovative solutions for
the protection of corporate information on high-speed
storage networks. The company's patent-pending, wire-speed
encryption architecture protects stored data without interfering
with data management or imposing any performance penalty.
The company's products allow corporations to build Secure
Storage Networks, a new class of storage network designed
to meet the growing need for information protection.
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WebCriteria
Portland, OR
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Invested: December
2000
Acquired by Coremetrics
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WebCriteria provides hosted software applications that
help companies understand how to change their websites
to improve customer success and business results. The
company helps website business owners make more informed
decisions regarding their website design investments by
providing objective, measured insight into what customers
are doing on their sites, and how their site design is
impacting visitor success. Target markets include Fortune
500 companies, Global 2000 companies and the interactive
design agencies that service them.
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zipRealty
Emeryville, CA
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Invested: July
1999
Nasdaq: ZIPR |
zipRealty is the first and leading online brokerage that
allows people to manage and perform the home buying and
selling process over the Internet. The company provides
customers with the necessary tools to complete the transaction
by using an intuitive, user-friendly, step-by-step process,
and offers significant commission discounts over traditional
brick and mortar brokerages. The customer base includes
buyers and sellers of residential real estate.
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Cooking.com
Santa Monica, CA
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Invested: March
1999
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Cooking.com is the leading online retailer of best-of-brand
cooking-related products and specialty foods. The site
offers around-the-clock accessibility to one of the broadest
product selections of top brand, cooking-related items
on the Web. Additionally, Cooking.com provides thousands
of recipes, cooks' tips and technique videos, Community
Kitchen (an online forum), and feature articles and menus
from renowned chefs, cookbook authors and restaurateurs,
creating a unique destination for people who love to cook
and enjoy gourmet food.
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Cobalt
Networks
Mountain View, CA |
Invested: September
1997
Acquired by Sun Microsystems
Nasdaq: SUNW |
Cobalt is a pioneer in service appliance technology.
The company’s primary focus is on Linux-based appliances
that master a single function such as Web hosing or managing.
The target markets include small and midsized businesses,
departmental intranets, educational organizations, ISPs,
web developers, and remote offices.
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Digital
Island
San Francisco, CA |
Invested: March
1997
Acquired by Cable & Wireless
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Digital Island is a pioneer in global data delivery
networks. The company provides the benefits of virtual-server
distribution, which distributes data from a managed, central
server array over dedicated, high-bandwidth connections
to local markets worldwide, thereby eliminating the need
for dedicated resources to manage application servers,
and provides a high-performance, cost-effective alternative
to private corporate application servers. The target market
includes multinational corporations actively using the
Internet to deploy business-critical applications globally.
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ImageX.com
Kirkland, WA |
Invested: December
1996
Nasdaq: IMGX |
ImageX.com is unique provider of web-enabled printing
services. Its private Web sites enable customers to order,
modify, and proof company-branded templates for printed
marketing and promotional materials over the Internet.
The company’s target market is companies with over
100 employees.
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PhDx
Albuquerque, NM
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Invested: June
1994
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PhDx is a provider of applications services to
healthcare enterprises via the Internet. Its ASP model
offers customers demonstrable improvements in patient
care by creating efficiencies within an organization,
sharing real-time outcomes reports across the continuum
of healthcare, measuring the effectiveness of their patient
programs or medical products, and data analysis for predictive
modeling. Target customers are medical products and pharmaceutical
companies, and their customers, which include integrated
delivery systems, physician groups, and managed care organizations.
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Network
Appliance
Sunnyvale, CA
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Invested: September
1993
Nasdaq: NTAP |
Network Appliance is a pioneer in network-attached
storage. Its software is optimized for file server performance,
reliability, and manageability and offers substantially
better performance than it's competitors. Customers
include technology companies, universities, financial
institutions, and government agencies.
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DataBeam
White Plains, NY |
Invested: March
1992
Acquired by IBM
NYSE: IBM |
Databeam is a pioneer in PC videoconferening. The
company is a provider of real-time collaboration and distance
learning software and developers platforms. Customers
include Fortune 500/Global 2000 companies and educational
institutions.
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Macromedia
San Francisco, CA
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Invested: March
1992
Nasdaq: MACR |
Macromedia is a leader in Internet media technology.
The company's products include authoring tools to enable
creative and learning professionals to combine text, images,
2D and 3D graphics, animation, sound, and video into a
variety of interactive multimedia applications. The Company's
customers, from developers to enterprises, use Macromedia
solutions to help build compelling and effective Websites
and eBusiness applications.
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Tricord
Systems
Plymouth, MN
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Invested: July
1988
Nasdaq: TRCD |
Tricord Systems is a producer of a family of network
servers for use with IBM-compatible PCs. These servers
are networked with personal computer operating environments
and extend the PC environments into the mainframe and
supercomputer tiers of computing. Target customers are
companies that put together PC networks for medium-sized
and large corporations.
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Aldus
San Jose, CA |
Invested: January
1984
Acquired by Adobe
Nasdaq: ADBE |
Aldus is a pioneer for desktop publishing for personal
computers. The Company's software allows users to design,
edit and lay out high-quality printed communications such
as newsletters, brochures, manuals and other more complex
technical documents, on a personal computer and send output
to a printer or typesetter. Its market is low-end desktop
publishing.
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Pyramid
Technology
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Invested: December
1982
Acquired by Siemens
NYSE: SI |
Pyramid Technology Corporation is a pioneer in
the Unix minicomputer market. Its products include high-end,
large-scale enterprise servers that deliver mainframe-class
performance and reliability, availability and serviceability
(RAS) for the open enterprise client/server environment.
The products can also access two UNIX environments, allowing
for the development of the software program in one system
and testing it for compatibility in another.
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