Networking, communication, Telecom systems and security startups

As cable and telco service providers compete to own the communications and entertainment experience in the digital home, competitive differentiation has moved from linear and on-demand video applications and to real-time communicatons and content applications. Service providers are now focusing on adding real-time applications to their service portfolios.

Finjan is a leading provider of secure web gateway solutions for the enterprise market. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Finjan operates globally via distributors and value-added resellers. Finjan’s installed based comprises millions of enterprise users worldwide, including Fortune 1000 companies in the finance, banking, insurance, healthcare, airline, and high-tech sectors, as well as large government agencies. Through our award-winning web security appliances, Finjan protects our customers’ vital data assets from the growing cybercrime threat.

FilesX Inc. is the leader in Next-Generation Data Protection solutions for Remote and Branch Offices. We recognize that not all data is created equally, and our solutions can be tuned to meet the specific protection, retention and recovery profiles needed by each of your applications.

DisplayLink was founded in 2003 by Dr. Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Martin King who believed that there had to be a much easier and faster way to connect multiple monitors to a computer. They believed that technology should not hinder a user’s ability to accomplish and enjoy more in a simple fashion.

Blue Lane Technologies is headquartered in Cupertino, CA. The company provides solutions that secure virtual and physical data centers with zero footprint, zero downtime and zero tuning. Since January 2007 Blue Lane has won Best of Interop in security as well as Infoworld's Technology of the Year, also in security. Blue Lane has won numerous other awards, including the AO 100 Top Private Company Award for 2006 and 2007. It is also a 2006 Gartner Cool Vendor in Security and Privacy.

Atrica, Inc., founded in February 2000, has emerged as the prominent market visionary and leading provider of Carrier Ethernet solutions for Metropolitan Area networks. Atrica's mission is to help carriers worldwide realize dramatic cost savings and enable compelling new business services based on its Carrier Ethernet solution. Atrica is widely recognized by leading service providers and industry influencers for taking a strong industry leadership position, evangelizing and delivering on its compelling vision: combine the performance and cost-effectiveness of Ethernet with crucial carrier-class features to change the landscape of Metro Area Networks and carrier services.

Alacritech, Inc., led by industry visionary Larry Boucher, began in 1997 to provide data acceleration solutions that enable the highest performance and efficiency in networked systems. After conceiving the idea of the SCSI interface and writing its initial specifications, Boucher conducted early work that led to the development of SCSI over Ethernet. When he envisioned the technical and cost advantages of using hardware acceleration for data delivery, he founded Alacritech with a handpicked team of engineers.

Service providers worldwide rely on SS8 Networks® to help build unified communication services and to meet government mandated requirements for lawful traffic interception. As a long term supplier of voice messaging solutions, SS8 products can be used as stand-alone service solutions, or as an integral part of an IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) network.

Oakley Networks was acquired by Raytheon Company in October 2007 and renamed Raytheon Oakley Systems, and integrated into the Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems division. The Raytheon Oakley platform combines network observation and threat detection with industry-leading endpoint protection that can be immediately implemented to protect product designs, customer databases, financial plans, and other critical assets.

LifeLock is the industry leader in the rapidly growing field of Identity Theft Protection. We are based in Tempe, Arizona. Our company is led by experienced and successful entrepreneurs and industry experts. We are backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, one of the leading venture capital firms in the world. We serve tens of thousands of consumers in every state of the union, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.