Engineering New Markets and Strong Businesses
We invest in early-stage and breakthrough ventures that have the promise to create new market opportunities.
Enterprise
Hara Software
Hara provides environmental and energy management solutions which help organizations grow and profit while optimizing natural resource consumption and reducing environmental impact.
Redwood City, CA
IronPlanet
Each year hundreds of millions of dollars worth of used construction equipment is sold through IronPlanet to businesses all over the world.
Pleasanton, CA
Jive Software
Jive offers large companies Web-based, Social Business Software that enables collaboration among employees and with customers.
Palo Alto, CA
Ketera Technologies
A leading provider of spend analysis solutions with an "on demand" business model.
Santa Clara, CA
MetricStream
Enterprise Quality and Compliance Management Solutions.
Redwood Shores, CA.
New Vine Logistics
Proprietary fulfillment systems that enable fully compliant consumer-direct wine shipping across most of the United States.
Napa, CA
Ocarina (acquired by Dell)
Ocarina reduces data footprint with the world’s first file-aware storage optimization solution for online data.
San Jose, CA
RPX Corporation
RPX Corporation is the first defensive patent aggregator. RPX acquires patent rights and provides them as a defensive patent aggregation for an annual membership fee to reduce technology companies’ patent risks and costs created by non-practicing entities (NPEs).
San Francisco, CA
SpikeSource
Integrating open source middleware components for customers and providing service and support around these integrated stacks.
Redwood City, CA
Verdiem
Verdiem's SURVEYOR software provides measurable energy and cost savings through network-level control over PC and monitor power settings. SURVEYOR consistently reduces PC energy consumption by 30%-50%.
Seattle, WA
Vertica Systems
Vertica Systems has developed a very fast, highly scalable data warehouse database.
Billerica, MA
Virsa (acquired by SAP, April 2006)
Real time enterprise compliance solutions.
Xsigo
Xsigo Systems has developed the industry's first hardware-based solution that's purpose-built to virtualize I/O. Xsigo helps IT directors manage infrastructure quickly, precisely, and easily. I/O can be deployed when and where it's needed—in seconds, rather than days or weeks.
Sunnyvale, CA

