• Liqid

  Participated · Series A · May 2017

  Liqid develops the Liqid Matrix composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI) software platform that enables cloud-like speed and flexibility for data center infrastructure. The platform lets users configure, deploy, and scale physical bare-metal servers in seconds and reallocate accelerators and storage resources via software as needs evolve. Liqid positions its technology as a solution to rigid traditional architectures, improving resource utilization and reducing power and cooling requirements. The company says the capital will be used to identify, create, and pursue evolving market opportunities for CDI solutions amid AI-driven changes across on-prem, cloud, and edge environments. In 2021 Liqid more than doubled its workforce, surpassed 100 customers, and reported 1034% revenue growth from 2017 to 2020. Its customers and partners include the US Department of Defense, Dell Technologies, NVIDIA, Broadcom, and Intel Corporation, and the company is based in Broomfield, Colorado. Liqid’s core product, Liqid Matrix™, is a composable infrastructure software platform that lets users configure, deploy, and scale physical bare‑metal servers in seconds and reallocate accelerators and storage via software. The platform targets AI, HPC, cloud, and edge workloads and emphasizes higher utilization, faster time‑to‑results, and sustainability benefits versus traditional static data center architectures. Liqid says its solutions can deliver 2–3x improvements in utilization and materially reduce energy, water use, and CO2 emissions. In 2021 the company more than doubled its workforce, surpassed 100 customers, and reported 1,034% revenue growth from 2017 to 2020. Customers and partners include the US Department of Defense, Dell Technologies, NVIDIA, Broadcom, and Intel. Liqid intends to use new capital to expand internationally, grow its salesforce and support functions, increase OEM and channel marketing, and accelerate its software development roadmap to maintain market leadership. Liqid offers a software-defined composable infrastructure platform and Command Center orchestration that lets users build dynamic bare-metal servers and reallocate NVMe, GPU, FPGA, Intel Optane, CPU, and networking resources on demand. The platform composes across major fabric types including PCIe Gen3, PCIe Gen4, Ethernet, and InfiniBand. Liqid maintains OEM and technology partnerships with vendors such as Dell Technologies, Inspur, NVIDIA, Phison, Toshiba, Marvell, Intel, Jabil, and KingstonDigital. The company says it recently doubled quarter-over-quarter revenue, achieved record profit, and recorded a record number of customers and deployments. Liqid will use new funding to accelerate growth by increasing budgets for operations, sales, marketing, engineering, and other business-critical functions and to address an expanding number of industry verticals. Liqid builds an on-demand composable infrastructure (CI) platform that pools and composes compute, networking, storage, and graphics processing over a PCIe-based fabric to enable bare-metal server reconfiguration. Its flagship Liqid CI Platform and Liqid Grid fabric switch allow IT administrators to orchestrate and instantly reallocate physical datacenter resources. The company planned general availability of its platform in 2017 and intends to use new funding to accelerate product development, hire engineering talent, and expand sales and marketing. Liqid frames its technology as a solution to the motherboard/chassis limitations that lock resource allocation at purchase. It has OEM partnerships with Kingston Technology and Inspur and cites Phison Electronics as a strategic partner. Liqid is headquartered in Lafayette, Colo. Liqid is operating in stealth to deliver an innovative solution for real-time resource management in data centers, aiming to help organizations keep pace with rapidly changing IT demands. The company positions its product to evolve current data center architectures and improve how resources are allocated and managed. Liqid says its financing will accelerate product development and time to market while enabling it to build out its team. Leadership frames the technology as a potential industry transformer for handling growing volumes of data. The announcement highlights the company’s focus on research and development as the near-term priority. No operating metrics or revenues were disclosed in the articles.

• Umbo Computer Vision

  Participated · Seed · Mar 2016

  Umbo Computer Vision builds AI-powered autonomous video security systems for businesses and public safety. Its product suite includes Umbo Light, a fast-learning AI that recognizes human behaviors critical to security (intrusion, tailgating, occupancy, wall scaling); Umbo TruePlatform, a cloud-based security management platform; and AiCameras that run Light AI on the edge or integrate with existing IP cameras via TruePlatform. The company plans to use new funding to accelerate global sales expansion and to improve its portfolio of AI-powered security products. Umbo is led by CEO Shawn Guan and maintains offices in San Francisco, London, and Taipei. The company has raised a total of $17.6M to date following the most recent round. Umbo Computer Vision is a San Francisco–based artificial intelligence company led by CEO Shawn Guan that provides autonomous video security products. Its core product, Light, is an autonomous vision intelligence platform accessible from desktops and mobile phones that understands events in real time. The company has processed over 2 billion live security images and recorded over 1.5 million user sessions to date. Umbo intends to use the new funding to continue development of Light, expand its product portfolio, advance computer vision R&D and recruit talent. Light recently added spatial-temporal information on top of scene-parsing to detect behavioral-related events and help identify suspicious activity before crimes occur. The platform can now detect and alert on unauthorized entry, physical violence, loitering, wall-scaling, and people and vehicle tally, with additional behavioral detections planned. Umbo CV develops AI-powered security cameras and a cloud-based management platform that identify suspicious activity and scan for anomalies across multiple cameras. The Taipei- and San Francisco-based startup has shipped its system to clients in Dubai, the United States, and Europe and plans to begin mass manufacturing next month. It has received $1.4 million in pre-orders and letters of intent from customers. The company raised a $2.8 million seed round and will use the funding for research and hiring. Founders include CEO Shawn Guan, CTO Ping-Lin Chang, and chief scientist Tingfan Wu, who have doctoral backgrounds in robotic vision. Umbo CV aims to differentiate from competitors like Huawei, Seagate, and AISight by combining images from multiple cameras to detect anomalies rather than relying solely on geometric models.

No current team members are available.