Levensohn Venture Partners has invested in Digital Media, Security and Demand-Side CleanTech companies, concentrating on early stage companies.
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.
(Pascal Levensohn / Steve Reale) |
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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.
(Steve Reale) |
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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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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 Technologies, Inc. (SST), the leading developer of gunshot location systems and technology, is based in Santa Clara, CA. SST’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.
(Pascal Levensohn) |
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