• Impinj

  Led · Equity · Jul 2012

  Impinj provides UHF RFID solutions for identifying, locating and authenticating items, offering a range of products including high-performance tag chips, readers, reader chips, software, antennas and RFID subsystem integration. The company is led by William T. Colleran, Ph.D., president and CEO, and is based in Seattle, WA. It recently closed a $21M equity financing and expects to raise additional funding to bring the total to $24M by mid-August. Impinj intends to use the funding to expand sales, marketing, product development and manufacturing operations. Core product development and manufacturing appear to be priorities as it scales commercial efforts. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article.

• Return Path

  Participated · Equity · Jan 2009

  Return Path provides email data analytics and Email Optimization services and has launched Email Fraud Protection, a security and brand protection solution to block phishing and other abuse. Its cooperative network covers roughly 2.5 billion email accounts, about 70% of the worldwide total, and the company serves more than 2,500 leading brands. Return Path is adding analytic capabilities to analyze transactional trends and competitive campaign interactions from its growing digital consumer data. The company plans to continue investing in products and to bring solutions based on these capabilities to market in 2015. Return Path has posted 40 consecutive quarters of revenue growth and employs more than 420 people across 12 global offices. Return Path offers an array of email-management services, including whitelisting of trusted email transfers and an anti-spam feedback-loop product. The company recently expanded its anti-spam feedback loop to Yahoo Mail. That feedback-loop app lets marketers see how many recipients mark their emails as spam and adjust campaigns accordingly. Its products are used by Comcast, Cox, USA.net and Mailtrust. Return Path positions itself as both a tool for advertisers to improve deliverability and for consumers to detect disguised spam. Financially, the company raised $6 million in its fifth round of financing.

• deCarta

  Participated · Equity · May 2008

  deCarta provides a location-based services platform and applications, including local search integrated with online maps. Its services target mobile network operators, mobile handset OEMs and local search providers and generate revenue from subscriptions and location-based advertising. The company lists customers such as Samsung, Opera Software, Telstra/Sensis, SingTel/Optus and T-Mobile. deCarta intends to use new funding to expand marketing, sales and engineering to accelerate growth in the mobile local search and location-services market. Planned product activity includes the roll-out of the deCarta MapSearch offerings. The company is based in San Jose, CA. deCarta is a San Jose startup that builds a mapping platform and software to let companies integrate mapping, routing and spatial search into their applications. Its technology has been used by Google, Ask.com, Verizon and Sprint. The company is in the midst of a third round of funding and has reported $10.5 million raised so far as part of that round. The coverage describes the current raise as $10.5 million of a planned $21 million in the new third round, and notes the company raised $15 million last year as the first part of this third round. Named backers in the article include Norwest Venture Partners, Mobius Venture Capital and Cardinal Venture Capital.

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