Engineering New Markets and Strong Businesses
We invest in early-stage and breakthrough ventures that have the promise to create new market opportunities.
Public Companies
May 1, 1986Cypress Semiconductor
Programmable logic devices.
San Jose, CA
March 1, 1986Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle)
Workstations and Internet software.
Mountain View, CA
May 1, 1985Linear Technology
Designs, manufactures and markets a broad line of standard high performance integrated circuits. Principal product categories include amplifiers, battery management, data converters, high frequency, interface, voltage regulators and voltage references.
Milpitas, CA
October 1, 1983Lotus Development (IBM)
Security-rich software that enables businesses to communicate, collaborate and increase productivity.
Cambridge, MA
May 1, 1983LSI Logic
Customer-specific integrated circuits.
Milpitas, CA
February 1, 1983VLSI Technology (acquired by Phillips Electronics NV)
December 1, 1982Quantum
Mass storage systems.
Milpitas, CA
October 1, 1980Genentech
Developing novel medicines for serious and life-threatening diseases.
South San Francisco, CA