Pacifica Fund
480 California Avenue Suite 104, Palo Alto, California, 94306, United States
Overview
Pacifica Fund is a Silicon Valley venture fund specializing in early investments in select, emerging information technology and materials science companies. They help bridge the funding gap — the hard-to-find $1 to $5 million required by many small companies — with investments of "mentor capital", an approach that supplies capital, strategic and operational advice from their team, as well as access to connections in the US and Asia. Because they have founded and run start-ups, managed divisions of large companies, and run research labs; they understand what you need in the way of capital, strategy, and partnerships. They are uniquely qualified to help you bridge the most significant gap encountered by an entrepreneur — the distance between a great idea and a lasting, successful business.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
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- Active investors
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Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Intematix
Participated · Equity · Nov 2006
Intematix develops customizable, patented phosphors and remote phosphor components, including its ChromaLit™ remote phosphor systems, to improve color quality, consistency and thermal performance in LED lighting and displays. Its phosphors enable white light comparable to conventional sources and ChromaLit systems have demonstrated more efficient cooling that enables compact light‑bulb solutions. The company is headquartered in Fremont, California and maintains R&D, manufacturing, business and support operations in the United States, Asia and Europe. Intematix announced it received $16.2 million in funding to support continued growth. The company plans to use the proceeds for facility expansion, working capital and development of its phosphor and ChromaLit product lines. Company executives framed the investment as enabling Intematix's growth trajectory as LED adoption and light‑quality demands increase. Intematix is a material discovery company based in Fremont that specializes in supplying phosphors used for solid-state lighting and displays. Its core products are phosphors for LEDs and display applications. The company raised $16.5 million in a third round of venture capital. The financing was led by Crosslink Capital and Samsung Ventures and included new investor Presidio STX, a Sumitomo Corporation subsidiary, with participation from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, East Gate Capital and Pacifica Fund. The article positions Intematix in a market benefiting from rapid advances in LEDs, referencing Haitz’s Law and comparing LED progress to Moore’s Law. Solid-state lighting, which uses LEDs, is noted as more energy-efficient than traditional lighting and described as a technology of the future.
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