• Xceedium

  Led · Series B · Jun 2012

  Xceedium provides Zero Trust privileged identity and access management products (Xsuite) used by large enterprises and global government agencies to control and monitor privileged network access and meet security and compliance requirements. The company’s offerings secure privileged user and application-to-application passwords and include monitoring capabilities to help customers address standards such as PCI DSS, FISMA, NIST-800.53, HIPAA and NERC CIP. Xceedium’s products are FIPS 140-2 Level 2 and Common Criteria EAL4+ certified. The company announced a $12 million Series B financing extension to fuel continued growth and expansion, with specific emphasis on cloud-based initiatives. As part of that cloud push Xceedium launched Xsuite Cloud, a privileged identity and access management platform designed to protect organizations using Amazon Web Services alongside existing datacenter infrastructure. Management said the funding and new offering position Xceedium to capitalize on growing demand as customers adopt cloud and hybrid architectures. Xceedium develops GateKeeper, an appliance-based solution that secures and audits privileged access to IT infrastructure. The product is designed to let mid-sized enterprises and federal government agencies enforce access control on vendors, contractors and IT administrators whether inside or outside the network. GateKeeper contains users so they have access only to the resources they need and creates an audit trail to support compliance with HIPAA, PCI, FISMA and other regulations. The company said it will use the new capital to drive sales and marketing expansion and to accelerate ongoing development of GateKeeper. The announcement positions Xceedium to expand commercial and government deployments of its access-control appliance.

• BinOptics

  Participated · Equity · Dec 2011

  BinOptics manufactures Fabry-Perot (FP) and Distributed Feedback (DFB) lasers and monolithically integrated photonic components for transceivers and other photonic equipment. The company ships products with modulation speeds up to 10 Gbps and has shipped more than 25 million FP and DFB lasers into high-growth markets such as EPON and GPON. BinOptics uses proprietary, patented manufacturing processes to produce low-cost, integrated laser devices and also offers custom integrated components that reduce cost, size, and power by replacing discrete components with a monolithic chip. The company employs over 50 people and plans to hire additional engineers and technicians in 2012. To support product-line expansion and accelerate development of new products and materials, BinOptics closed a new funding round in which both new and existing investors participated.

• Vyatta

  Participated · Equity · Nov 2011

  Vyatta offers enterprise-focused network routing, security, and traffic management software that enables enterprises to segment and secure virtualized environments. Its software leverages Intel and AMD hardware and runs in VMware, Xen, and Hyper‑V virtual environments. The company says its offering allows the network to provide the same elasticity and mobility as the application infrastructure it supports. Vyatta was founded in 2005. The company recently raised $12 million in new funding, bringing total funding to more than $45 million. Vyatta intends to use the new capital to scale its sales and engineering efforts. Vyatta builds open-source network software and packages it into routers, switches, firewall devices and VPN boxes. The company positions itself as an alternative to Cisco, using the tagline “The Open-Source Alternative to Cisco.” Vyatta first launched in 2006 and is based in Belmost, Calif. Its routers have been reported to help enterprises significantly cut networking costs. Financially, Vyatta has just raised nearly all of a planned $10.3 million equity round and previously brought in $11 million two years earlier. The company continues to sell both software and hardware networking products while expanding its customer adoption through cost-saving positioning.

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