SunAmerica Ventures
1 SunAmerica Center 37th Floor, Los Angeles, CA, 90067, United States
Overview
At SunAmerica Ventures, their goal is to build world-class technology companies by forming successful partnerships with outstanding entrepreneurs. They provide the experience, relationships and capital that growing companies need to succeed. SunAmerica Ventures offers entrepreneurs the opportunity to work with a small, experienced venture capital team with the resources of a global financial services company. They know that speed is a requirement in today’s business environment and they have the ability to access these resources in a flexible, responsive manner. With a venture capital fund of $850 million, they can provide the capital necessary for almost any technology business. They also leverage a network of relationships that have grown out of their participation in more than 30 venture capital and private equity funds. Due to their involvement in these funds, they are able to provide their portfolio companies with broad market intelligence and expanded partnering opportunities.
- Total investments
- 2
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 0
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
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.
Team
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