• Zenverge

  Participated · Equity · Dec 2013

  Zenverge is a Santa Clara, California–based fabless semiconductor company that develops advanced content networking ICs built around its patented ZEN architecture. Its ICs are deployed in operator gateways, media servers and cloud infrastructure to enable pay-TV services and a ubiquitous TV Everywhere experience. The company supports streaming of live and recorded content to tablets, smartphones, game consoles and streaming clients, as well as seamless wireless TV and optimized DVR storage. Led by CEO Amir Mobini, Zenverge focuses on content networking solutions for home media gateways and related digital media devices. The company closed an $11M financing to support a revenue ramp and to enhance its portfolio of content networking ICs for the home media gateway market. Zenverge is a Santa Clara, California-based fabless semiconductor company focused on Advanced Content Networking ICs built around its patented ZEN architecture. The company describes the ZEN architecture as a core technology for next-generation digital media devices. Led by CEO Amir Mobini, Zenverge closed a financing (amount undisclosed) to support its growth. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate deployment of media gateways through its list of tier-1 operators. Zenverge also plans to accelerate its roadmap of higher-performance ICs and lower-cost system solutions. No operating metrics or revenue figures were disclosed in the article. Zenverge develops Advanced Media ICs built around the patented ZEN architecture to power next‑generation digital media devices such as HDTVs, Blu‑ray recorders, set‑top boxes, multimedia NAS devices, headless gateways, media streamers and movers, portable device adapters, PCs and network video equipment. Led by CEO Amir Mobini, the company supplies silicon targeted at cable, telco and satellite markets and intends to develop unified solutions for those markets. Following the financing, Zenverge plans to use the proceeds to accelerate support and growth, expand adoption of its existing products, develop unified solutions for cable, telco and satellite markets with Entropic, and continue its development activities. The company is headquartered in Cupertino, California. Its core product strategy centers on the ZEN architecture as the foundation for its Advanced Media IC lineup. No operating metrics were disclosed in the article. Zenverge develops Advanced Media integrated circuits for consumer and professional applications. The company is headquartered in Cupertino, California. It closed a $30M Series C round to support growth. Zenverge will use the new capital to ramp production and expand marketing and development activities. The funding is intended to broaden the company’s product offerings. Ken Lawler of Battery Ventures joined the company’s board in conjunction with the financing.

• Zest Labs

  Participated · Series A · Sep 2011

  Intelleflex provides on-demand data visibility solutions for cold chain and asset management, led by President and CEO Peter Mehring. Its XC3 Technology™ RFID products enable temperature monitoring for fresh produce, perishable food and pharmaceuticals, as well as asset tracking, personnel monitoring, retail and healthcare applications. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA. It closed a $9M Series A extension to support growth in the fresh produce and pharmaceutical cold chain, asset tracking and personnel monitoring markets. Funds will also be used to expand partner and channel marketing programs throughout the Americas, Europe and selected markets in Asia. Backers include Third Point Ventures and existing investors Arcapita Ventures, New Venture Partners and the Woodside Fund; Third Point Ventures' Rob Schwartz will join Intelleflex’s board. Intelleflex provides on-demand data visibility solutions through its XC3 Technology platform. The company leverages patented technology that it says delivers a disruptive price/performance model and a low-cost extended-capability solution. Its offering targets the perishable food and pharmaceutical cold supply chain, citing a multi-billion-dollar market opportunity where about one third of temperature-sensitive products are wasted. Intelleflex recently closed a financing to support growth. The new capital will be used to expand sales and marketing and to accelerate key vertical-market initiatives with strategic partners. Intelleflex is a Santa Clara, CA–based provider of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) solutions, products and technologies. The company received an $8M equity financing in the initial close of an investment round. The financing was led by New Venture Partners with participation from Arcapita Ventures, Morgenthaler Ventures and The Woodside Fund. President and CEO Peter Mehring said the proceeds will be used to complete and launch the next-generation product set, scheduled for introduction early next year, and to fund ongoing operations and expansion. The article did not disclose revenue, user metrics, prior financing details, or other financial metrics.

• PowerReviews

  Participated · Equity · May 2011

  PowerReviews offers review-collection, organization, and analysis technology for retailers and e-commerce sites, and also operates consumer-facing Buzzillions.com. Launched in 2007, the company aggregates over 15 million product reviews on Buzzillions and is growing by around 1 million reviews per month. It recently added a Facebook integration to incorporate consumers' social graphs into the product-review process. PowerReviews was awarded its second patent related to its SaaS commenting product, enabling displayed content to be crawlable by search engines. Customers include Staples, REI, ESPN, Callaway and Jockey. The company raised new funding to support product development and expand sales operations. PowerReviews provides customer review technology that lets retailers and e-commerce sites add Amazon-like product review features to their websites. The company also operates consumer-facing site Buzzillions.com, which aggregates over ten million product reviews from partner retailers. Last year it launched two social products for retailers — BrandConnect, which tracks social-web mentions of brands, and Social Megaphone, which lets customers post reviews to Facebook, Twitter and blogs. PowerReviews was founded in 2007 and its customers include Staples, Drugstore.com, Walgreens, Diapers.com, Callaway and Jockey. The company brought on CEO Pehr Luedtke last fall. It plans to use the new funding to fuel customer acquisition and new product development. PowerReviews offers user-generated product review solutions for e-commerce sites and operates Buzzilions.com. Since its launch in April 2007, the number of reviews and products on Buzzilions has tripled; the site now hosts more than 400,000 reviews across 125,000 products from over 1,000 e-commerce sites. PowerReviews says traffic driven through Buzzilions converts at nearly twice the rate of other shopping portals. The company emphasizes easy integration and offers a free version of its product. It competes with Bazaarvoice and addresses the need for third-party review systems for retailers. PowerReviews supplies merchants with free product-review software and aggregates that partner-generated content on its consumer site, Buzzillions. The company has 120 merchants using its software and about 140,000 reviews covering roughly 45,000 unique products. Reviews are highly structured via around 8,000 product templates; users select and answer tag-driven prompts, and the system can recommend products based on selected tags. PowerReviews sells traffic from Buzzillions back to its merchant network on a CPC or CPA basis and offers a white-label version of Buzzillions to content sites in exchange for revenue share. The company positions this flow—free onsite review tools, aggregated consumer content, and traffic monetization—as its core business model. The article reports that PowerReviews raised $6.2 million from Menlo Ventures and Draper Richards in December 2005.

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