Levensohn Venture Partners typically invests in companies with developed products that are beyond the seed/start-up investment stage and are typically generating initial commercial revenues. We seek companies that have finished work on their core technology, defined their markets and have at least one significant customer.
LVP is looking for companies that address large segments of the digital information network with highly differentiable technology and capital-efficient business models. Since our founding in 1996, we've invested in 29 companies in their early commercialization stages, including Akros Silicon, Atheros, BigFix, Commerce One, Covigo, Informative, Interwoven, Intuitive Surgical, KnowNow, Radiance, Rapt, Reconnex, ShotSpotter, Ubicom, Velosel and Veraz Networks. Click on link below each overview for more information about our companies.
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Akros Silicon Inc., ("Akros" is Greek word for "edge"), a developer of highly integrated and innovative mixed signal and digital processing ICs for converged Ethernet networking and power applications, enables intelligence at the edge of the network in the fast growing Internet appliance arena. A fabless semiconductor company located in Folsom, California, Akros Silicon Inc. focuses on developing highly disruptive and innovative integrated circuits using advanced mixed analog and digital signal processing, digital signal processing and algorithmic techniques. Akros' highly differentiated and IP-protected integration, using standard high volume CMOS process technology, opens a huge opportunity for new silicon solutions for use in the fast growing Internet and network appliance marketplace.
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The BigFix Enterprise Platform provides systems management technology that provides systems administrators with powerful prescriptive tools. The first application, BigFix Patch Manager, monitors critical security updates and proactively scans all computing devices on the network to detect which, if any, need a particular fix. This is a significant problem for all enterprises.
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BroadLogic designs and manufactures broadband communications semiconductors for the cable customer premises equipment market. The company's first product is a monolithic, multi-channel tuner demodulator that will enable multiple broadband streams into the home without replacement of operator infrastructure.
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Capella delivers intelligent subsystems for managing traffic through the intersections of next-generation optical networks. As the traffic in optical networks evolves toward IP dominated content driven by the explosion of broadband services, the ability to route, monitor, protect, and maintain optical wavelengths dynamically, remotely, and reliably is essential. Only Capella's WavePath® Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS) with integrated optical channel monitoring (OCM) provides this comprehensive functionality enabling carriers the flexibility and scalability to easily grow their networks while reducing capital and operational expenses associated with planning, deployment, provisioning, and maintenance.
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More Fortune 1000 companies entrust KnowNow to deliver enterprise-class Web 2.0 solutions that increase timely and profitable business decisions than any other vendor. By allowing users to specify the information they want delivered, when and where they want it, as it happens, KnowNow unlocks and delivers the most critical information to create unprecedented business opportunities.
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Levanta is a leader in Linux management and data virtualization. Levanta's unique technology marries change control with data virtualization, delivering dramatically faster and more flexible control of Linux on commodity hardware, racks, blades, boxes, virtual machines, and even mainframes. Levanta's customers include industry leaders in financial services, entertainment, government, retail and telecommunications.
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Radiance is trusted for the toughest, most mission-critical data delivery challenges in the world. The company’s TrueDelivery System is the industry’s first enterprise-class Managed Delivery software solution, enabling guaranteed, secure, auditable, and bandwidth-optimized file delivery across any IP network. That’s why Radiance is "The software that delivers."
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Rapt Inc. is the industry standard provider of advertising yield management solutions. These solutions help companies achieve and sustain profit and revenue growth objectives through the deployment of intellectual property-rich technology and advisory services. Rapt's software enables companies to price, predict, and provision their advertising assets, while Rapt's advisory services help companies design and implement best-practice revenue management processes across their organization. Rapt's client base includes CNET Networks, Dow Jones & Company, Fox Interactive Media, Microsoft, MTV Networks, NBC Universal, The New York Times Company, Reuters, The Weather Channel Interactive, Yahoo!, and others.
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Reconnex enables companies to guard against information security breaches that originate within an organization. By pioneering the only enterprise security platform of its kind that has the capacity to run at gigabit speeds, is non-invasive and can be deployed in hours not weeks; businesses now have a realistic and cost-effective solution to assess their operational and compliance risks. With Reconnex, companies across various industries and government agencies now have the demonstrable proof they need to show they are in continuous compliance with real-time monitoring, detection and reporting of compliance risks.
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Satmetrix is the leading global provider of on-demand software applications and consulting services to measurably improve customer loyalty and link these results to financial benefits. As the co-developer of Net Promoter® the company's solutions enable companies to gather trustworthy data on customer experience, derive actionable insights, integrate this information into the daily work flow of employees and establish an ongoing dialogue within the customer community. The company has deployed more than 700 enterprise solutions in 40 languages.
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ShotSpotter, Inc., the leading developer of gunshot location systems and technology, is based in Santa Clara, CA. ShotSpotter’s flagship product, which detects gunfire across large urban areas using a small number of inexpensive and easy-to-deploy sensors, currently protects the citizens of cities nationwide, from Los Angeles, CA to Washington, DC. Its products recently assisted the FBI and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office in identifying and capturing the Columbus, OH highway sniper suspect. In 2000, ShotSpotter was honored for its technology vision and leadership when it won the Computerworld Smithsonian Laureate Award, having been nominated by William H. Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation, and the Smithsonian added its technology to the museum’s permanent collection. With technology covered by numerous patents, the company also offers products to the law enforcement, homeland security and military markets. ShotSpotter technology has consistently produced arrests and weapons confiscations nationwide and has helped reduce gunfire and crime rates in cities that deploy it.
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Ubicom, Inc. is making ubiquitous communications a reality, through wireless network processor and software platforms that enable all electronic devices to be connected to each other— securely, cost-effectively and transparently. With headquarters in Mountain View, California, Ubicom also has offices in Belgium, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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Veraz Networks is a supplier of next generation softswitch solutions based on the ipVerse ControlSwitch platform. These solutions empower service providers and application developers to rapidly deploy new, revenue-generating services. The ipVerse ControlSwitch platform acts as an open, intelligent network operating system for integrated voice and data communications services. (Pascal Levensohn / Jeff Karras)
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