Keynote Ventures
3000 Sand Hill Road, Bldg. 1, Ste. 185, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, United States
Overview
KeyNote Ventures is a venture capital firm located in Menlo Park, California. Their goal is to help entrepreneurs create leading information technology companies. They principally invest in early stage businesses where new technologies play a major role and where they have particular expertise. The portfolio company needs to have a strong management team and the potential to become a market leader. In selecting their investments they think about technology globally but invest locally. They have over 40 years of cumulative experience in venture capital investing and close to 70 years of substantial operating background at senior executive levels in each of the industries within KeyNote's investment focus. Their strategy has been and will continue to be investing primarily as a lead investor in syndications with other top tier venture capital firms. They provide entrepreneurs funding, but also a network of people and resources, locally and internationally, that provide strategic counsel and operating support for their startups. In this way their global network expands and leverages their portfolio's reach.
- Total investments
- 3
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 0
Sector focus
- Enterprise Software
- Venture Capital
- Web Hosting
Investment portfolio
- Link_A_ Media
Participated · Series D · Aug 2011
Link_A_Media Devices develops semiconductor system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for the data storage market, with mixed-signal processing and iterative data recovery technologies for HDD and SSD OEMs. The company led adoption of low-density parity check (LDPC) technology in the mobile HDD market; its LDPC-based SoC products have been shipping in mainstream 2.5-inch mobile HDD products since last year. It also designs custom SoC SSD controllers based on its FlashLINK2 NAND controller platform, addressing applications from low-power mobile devices to high-performance enterprise SSDs. Its second-generation Adaptive DSP Error Recovery, enhanced write technology, and advanced error correction are said to extend SLC and MLC NAND endurance by 20 to 30 times baseline while maintaining high performance. The company intends to use new funding to accelerate development and commercialization of new products and to expand its current customer base. Link_A_Media is based in Santa Clara, Calif. Link_A_Media Devices Corporation is a Santa Clara, CA-based company that provides data recovery and transport technologies for storage devices. Its core products focus on recovering data and facilitating data transport for storage hardware. The company secured an $18M Series C to commercialize and bring its products to market. Management intends to use the proceeds to ramp volume sales and extend its technology leadership in the storage market. As part of the financing, Chris Schaepe, managing director of Lightspeed Venture Partners, joined the company's board of directors. The round includes strategic partners and corporate venture participants aimed at supporting the company's market entry.
- Blazent
Participated · Equity · Jun 2010
Blazent is a San Mateo, CA-based provider of IT Outsourcing Governance solutions that deliver measurable controls and trusted visibility into information technology outsourcing (ITO) contracts. Its platform addresses the lack of measurable controls and trusted visibility in ITO contracts, an issue that results in strained relationships between service providers and enterprise customers. Service providers including CSC, HP Enterprise Services, and IBM Global Services use Blazent to deliver and monitor engagements around the world. The company secured $10m in funding to support its growth and expansion into new markets. The new capital is intended to help Blazent expand its market presence and governance offerings.
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