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Ciena
Ciena

Ciena Corporation offers leading network infrastructure solutions, intelligent software and a comprehensive services practice.

  • Investment Year 1994
  • Exit Year 1997
  • Sector Data Infrastructure, Mobile/Communications
  • Geography North America - East
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VeriSign
VeriSign

The leading provider of trusted infrastructure services to Web-site owners, enterprises, service providers and individuals.

  • Investment Year 1994
  • Exit Year 1998
  • Sector Consumer Web, Data Infrastructure, Security
  • Geography North America - West
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Box
Box

Box is a cloud-based enterprise content collaboration platform for people and businesses to share their documents from anywhere and from any device.

  • Investment Year 2011
  • Sector Cloud Computing/Software, Data Infrastructure
  • Geography North America - West
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BladeLogic (acq. by BMC)
BladeLogic (acq. by BMC)

Software providing a secure, easy-to-use interface for systems administrators to meet the demands of increasingly complex system infrastructures while reducing server downtime. BladeLogic went public in 2007 (NASDAQ: BLOG) and was acquired by BMC in 2008.

  • Investment Year 2001
  • Exit Year 2007
  • Sector Data Infrastructure, Security
  • Geography North America - East
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Endeca (acq. by Oracle)
Endeca (acq. by Oracle)

Innovative search and navigation platform for online data exploration.  In December 2011, Endeca was acquired by Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL).

  • Investment Year 2000
  • Exit Year 2011
  • Sector Data Infrastructure
  • Geography North America - East
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SendGrid
SendGrid

SendGrid provides a cloud-based email infrastructure that relieves businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems.

  • Investment Year 2012
  • Sector Cloud Computing/Software, Data Infrastructure, Mobile/Communications
  • Geography North America - West
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BroadSoft
BroadSoft

Broadsoft is the leading provider of service-delivery and creation systems for next-generation communication networks. In June 2010, it went public (NASDAQ: BSFT).

  • Investment Year 1998
  • Exit Year 2010
  • Sector Data Infrastructure, Mobile/Communications
  • Geography North America - East
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GFI
GFI

GFI is a diversified SMB Software company offering a number of solutions including remote connection, support, and security products.  In 2010 they merged with BVP portfolio company Teamviewer.

  • Investment Year 2010
  • Sector Cloud Computing/Software, Data Infrastructure, Mobile/Communications
  • Geography Europe
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Sonus Networks
Sonus Networks

Developed carrier-class, voice-infrastructure products for the public network.

  • Investment Year 1996
  • Exit Year 2000
  • Sector Data Infrastructure, Mobile/Communications
  • Geography North America - East
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Vertica Systems (acq. by Hewlett Packard)
Vertica Systems (acq. by Hewlett Packard)

Vertica is a revolutionary database system that dramatically improves query performance for data warehouse applications. In March 2011, it was acquired by Hewlett Packard (NYSE: HPQ).

  • Investment Year 2005
  • Exit Year 2011
  • Sector Data Infrastructure
  • Geography North America - East
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Axis Network Technology (acq. by Ace Technology)
Axis Network Technology (acq. by Ace Technology)

Axis Network Technology is developing a compact, digital radio platform for mobile-broadband networks. In 2010 it was acquired by Korea's Ace Technology.

  • Investment Year 2007
  • Exit Year 2010
  • Sector Data Infrastructure, Mobile/Communications
  • Geography Europe
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Traffix Systems (acq. by F5)
Traffix Systems (acq. by F5)

Traffix developed the first Diameter Signaling Controller for balancing the signaling loads on mobile networks  In 2012, Traffix Systems was acquired by F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV).

  • Investment Year 2011
  • Exit Year 2012
  • Sector Data Infrastructure, Mobile/Communications
  • Geography Israel
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Netli (acq. by Akamai)
Netli (acq. by Akamai)

First company to offer a service that reliably and transparently enabled global sub-second response time to Web-enabled applications, providing LAN-like performance over WANs.

  • Investment Year 2002
  • Exit Year 2007
  • Sector Data Infrastructure, Mobile/Communications
  • Geography North America - West
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Syncsort
Syncsort

A leading developer of high-performance data management and data- warehousing software in use around the globe.

  • Investment Year 2008
  • Sector Cloud Computing/Software, Data Infrastructure
  • Geography North America - East
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Parallels (fka SWsoft)
Parallels (fka SWsoft)

Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, operating system, and virtualization platforms.

  • Investment Year 2005
  • Sector Cloud Computing/Software, Data Infrastructure
  • Geography Emerging Markets
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Storwize (acq. by IBM)
Storwize (acq. by IBM)

Storwize provides a unique, transparent, real-time storage compression solution that dramatically boosts available storage space. It was purchased by IBM in August 2010.

  • Investment Year 2008
  • Exit Year 2010
  • Sector Data Infrastructure
  • Geography Israel
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Metalogix
Metalogix

Metalogix is the leading provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange and legacy enterprise content environments.

  • Investment Year 2008
  • Sector Cloud Computing/Software, Data Infrastructure
  • Geography Europe
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ICOT
ICOT

Manufacturer of data-communications equipment.

  • Investment Year 1969
  • Exit Year 1972
  • Sector Data Infrastructure, Mobile/Communications
  • Geography North America - West
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Hadapt
Hadapt

Hadapt offers an adaptive analytical platform for performing complex analytics on structured and unstructured data, all in one cloud-optimized system.

  • Investment Year 2011
  • Sector Cloud Computing/Software, Data Infrastructure
  • Geography North America - East
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Mellanox Technologies
Mellanox Technologies

Leading supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity solutions and services for servers and storage. In 2007, Mellanox completed its IPO on NASDAQ (MLNX).

  • Investment Year 2001
  • Exit Year 2007
  • Sector Data Infrastructure, Hardware
  • Geography Israel
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InsightSquared
InsightSquared

Data intelligence for small and medium businesses.

  • Investment Year 2011
  • Sector Cloud Computing/Software, Data Infrastructure
  • Geography North America - East
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NBX (acq. by 3Com)
NBX (acq. by 3Com)

Designer of technology for carrying voice and data on a single network.

  • Investment Year 1996
  • Exit Year 1999
  • Sector Data Infrastructure, Mobile/Communications
  • Geography North America - East
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Densbits
Densbits

Advanced Flash memory controller technology using proprietary error correction.

  • Investment Year 2010
  • Sector Data Infrastructure, Hardware
  • Geography Israel
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Enforta
Enforta

Russia’s leading wireless ISP for small and medium sized businesses.

  • Investment Year 2008
  • Sector Data Infrastructure, Mobile/Communications
  • Geography Emerging Markets
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Vasona Networks, Inc.
Vasona Networks, Inc.

Vasona Networks is developing software that improves mobile carrier infrastructure efficiency.

  • Investment Year 2011
  • Sector Data Infrastructure, Mobile/Communications
  • Geography North America - West
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Trigo (acq. by IBM)
Trigo (acq. by IBM)

Creator of enterprise-software solutions for product-information management. Founded by current Bessemer partner Byron Deeter who joined BVP a year after selling the company to IBM.

  • Investment Year 2000
  • Exit Year 2004
  • Sector Cloud Computing/Software, Data Infrastructure
  • Geography North America - West
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Veritas
Veritas

Developed storage-management and software-quality tools for use in open systems.

  • Investment Year 1990
  • Exit Year 1993
  • Sector Data Infrastructure, Security
  • Geography North America - West
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Netsys (acq. by Cisco)
Netsys (acq. by Cisco)

Developed pioneering network-infrastructure management and performance-analysis software that could simulate network design in order to optimize capacity and performance.

  • Investment Year 1994
  • Exit Year 1996
  • Sector Data Infrastructure, Mobile/Communications
  • Geography North America - East
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Celcore (acq. by DSC Communications)
Celcore (acq. by DSC Communications)

Developed distributed network architecture for cellular systems, designed to scale across areas with varying subscriber density.

  • Investment Year 1993
  • Exit Year 1997
  • Sector Data Infrastructure, Mobile/Communications
  • Geography North America - East
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Infinio Systems
Infinio Systems

Infinio Systems is developing storage caching software to increase performance in virtual environments.

  • Investment Year 2013
  • Sector Cloud Computing/Software, Data Infrastructure
  • Geography North America - East
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Intigua
Intigua

Virtualizes the IT management layer through controlling agents to simplify the management of enterprise IT infrastructure.

  • Investment Year 2012
  • Sector Cloud Computing/Software, Data Infrastructure
  • Geography North America - East
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VideoServer
VideoServer

Developed the first successful wide-area communications switch for video-conferencing among different platforms and encoding methods.

  • Investment Year 1990
  • Exit Year 1995
  • Sector Data Infrastructure, Mobile/Communications
  • Geography North America - East
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Sirocco Systems (acq. by Sycamore Networks)
Sirocco Systems (acq. by Sycamore Networks)

One of the pioneering developers of metropolitan-area, optical-networking equipment.

  • Investment Year 1997
  • Exit Year 2000
  • Sector Data Infrastructure, Mobile/Communications
  • Geography North America - East
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StreamBase (fka Grassy Brook)
StreamBase (fka Grassy Brook)

Delivers the world's first stream-processing engine for real-time data processing. 

  • Investment Year 2003
  • Sector Data Infrastructure, Financial Services
  • Geography North America - East
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SystemSoft
SystemSoft

Developer of system-level software that managed computer utilities including power, connectivity, data and disk organization.

  • Investment Year 1991
  • Exit Year 1994
  • Sector Data Infrastructure
  • Geography North America - East
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Pirus Networks (acq. by Sun Microsystems)
Pirus Networks (acq. by Sun Microsystems)

Developer of storage and networking products.

  • Investment Year 2000
  • Exit Year 2002
  • Sector Mobile/Communications, Data Infrastructure
  • Geography North America - East
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