INVESTMENT BY SECTOR: Biomedical/health |
Business services |
Consumer goods/services/media | Hardware/industrial/energy |
Networking/telecommunications | Semiconductors | Software: Part I |
Part II
SEMICONDUCTORS
| Recipient/Amount | Primary venture capital investors | Product | ||
| Alien Technology , Morgan Hill, $4,530,000 | Advanced Equities Capital Partners * New Enterprise Associates * Rho Ventures * SunBridge | Radio frequency identification (RFID) products and services | ||
| Artificial Muscle, Menlo Park, $20,230,200 | ARCH Venture Partners * AllianceBernstein * ChevronTexaco Technology Ventures * NGEN Partners * SRI International * Vanguard Ventures | Actuator devices based on electro-active polymers | ||
| Cradle Technologies, Sunnyvale, $2,522,100 | Cardinal Venture Capital * Investor Growth Capital * NeoCarta Ventures | Microprocessor platform for stream processing applications | ||
| Crossing Automation¹, Mountain View, $3,086,100 | Intel Capital * Tallwood Venture Capital | Wafer automation | ||
| GTronix, Fremont, $10,250,000 | JAFCO Ventures * Menlo Ventures | Analog semiconductor technology | ||
| iWatt, Los Gatos, $12,600,000 | Horizon Ventures * VantagePoint Venture Partners | Power management integrated circuits | ||
| Luminescent, Technologies, Palo Alto, $9,000,000 | Adams Capital Management. * Sevin Rosen Funds | Lithography technology for the semiconductor industry | ||
| LV Sensors, Emeryville, $7,000,000 | J.P. Morgan Partners | Car brake sensors | ||
| Magnum Semiconductor, Milpitas, $27,000,000 | August Capital Management * Cirrus Logic * Gold Hill Venture Lending Partners * Investcorp Technology Investments Group * Investor Growth Capital * KTB Ventures * WK Associates | Chips, software, and platforms for consumer entertainment systems | ||
| Nanomix , Emeryville, $8,036,000 | Alta Partners * Apax Partners Worldwide * EnerTech Capital * SVM STAR Ventures Management * Sevin Rosen Funds | Computer-related components and nanostructures | ||
| PINC, Solutions, Berkeley, $4,500,000 | Horizon Ventures * Sutter Hill Ventures | Real-time asset-visibility solutions | ||
| Ponte Solutions , Mountain View, $500,100 | Mayfield Fund * U.S. Venture Partners | Model-based software product solutions | ||
| Rapport, Redwood City, $7,008,000 | TechFarm Ventures | Low-cost massively parallel chips configurable for computer-intensive applications at low power | ||
| SemiSolutions¹, Los Gatos, $750,000 | Band of Angels | Semiconductor materials | ||
| Silicon Genesis , San Jose, $25,000,000 | Lake Street Capital | Silicon-on-insulator process technology | ||
| SiPort, Santa Clara, $20,530,200 | Intel Capital * Lightspeed Venture Partners * Morgenthaler Ventures * New Venture Partners | Digital radio semiconductors | ||
| SiTime, Sunnyvale, $20,000,100 | JAFCO Ventures * New Enterprise Associates * SVB Capital | Fabless integrated circuit company | ||
| Solaicx, Santa Clara, $27,143,200 | Applied Ventures * Big Sky Partners * D.E. Shaw Technology Ventures * Firsthand Capital Management * Greenhouse Capital Partners * Labrador Ventures * Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners | Silicon wafers for the photovoltaic industry | ||
| Stretch, Sunnyvale, $12,000,000 | Menlo Ventures * Oak Investment Partners * Worldview Technology Partners | Software-configurable processors | ||
| Synfora , Mountain View, $5,500,000 | ATA Ventures * Foundation Capital * U.S. Venture Partners * Xilinx | Automation design software of application specific processors | ||
| Tymphany , Cupertino, $11,000,100 | American Capital Strategies * VantagePoint Venture Partners | Audio-related semiconductors | ||
| Unity Semiconductor , Sunnyvale, $3,400,000 | August Capital Management | Develops memory technology | ||
| UPEK, Emeryville, $7,000,000 | Diamondhead Ventures * Earlybird Venture Capital * Sofinnova Ventures | Silicon-based fingerprint security solutions | ||
| ViVOtech, Santa Clara, $15,000,000 | Alloy Ventures * Draper Fisher Jurvetson * First Data * Nokia Growth Partners | Wireless payment software-and-chips devices | ||
| Xelerated, Santa Clara, $7,125,200 | Accel Partners * Alta Partners * Amadeus Capital Partners * Atlas Venture * Sixth Swedish National Pension Fund | Fabless semiconductor company | ||
| Xoomsys, Cupertino, $8,021,000 | Benchmark Capital * Duff Ackerman & Goodrich * Morgenthaler Ventures | Electronic design automation software for semiconductors |
