Portfolio
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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
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 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)
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)
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 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 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 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
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 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 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 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)
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
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 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 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 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
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 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
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
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)
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
Advanced Flash memory controller technology using proprietary error correction.
- Investment Year 2010
- Sector Data Infrastructure, Hardware
- Geography Israel
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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 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)
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
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)
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)
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 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
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
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)
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)
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
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)
Developer of storage and networking products.
- Investment Year 2000
- Exit Year 2002
- Sector Mobile/Communications, Data Infrastructure
- Geography North America - East
