# Alta Berkeley Venture Partners

> Alta Berkeley Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Software and Hardware. See 17 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Nov 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Feb 2013
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Nov 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/alta-berkeley
- Website: http://www.altaberkeley.com

Alta Berkeley Venture Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed and startup and early stage. The firm also provides bridge financing. It targets its investments in communication and computing technology and medical technology sectors. Within communication and computing technology sectors, the firm focuses on semiconductor, components, system, and software level of integration. Within medical technology, it focuses on medical devices, bio-chips, and bio informatics. The firm primarily invests in Europe and Israel. It initially invests between $1.5 million and $3 million and then average investment goes up to between $4 million and $8 million. The firm prefers to take a lead role in its investments. However in syndicates, it acts as both a lead investor and a co-investor. The firm prefers to invest for a period between four and seven years and seeks to exit its investment through public offerings, acquisitions, and trade sales in the United States and Europe. Alta Berkeley Venture Partners was founded in 1982 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in Geneva, Switzerland.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $7.5M–$47M |
| Series C | $11M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 29% |
| Hardware | 3 | 18% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 18% |
| Semiconductor | 3 | 18% |
| Optical Communication | 3 | 18% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 8 | 47% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 24% |
| Series C | 3 | 18% |
| Series A | 2 | 12% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 24% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 24% |
| Israel | 3 | 18% |
| Germany | 1 | 6% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bryan Wood | Founder and Managing General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryan-wood-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OurCrowd | OurCrowd sources and evaluates startup deals and venture funds across multiple sectors to offer direct investment options to its network. Its professionals conduct due diligence and provide market insights for each presented opportunity to assist users in building diversified portfolios. Beyond capital allocation, the entity facilitates strategic introductions and mentorship to support the growth of its portfolio companies. The platform allows for investment across various currencies and includes a reporting system for tracking performance and lifecycle updates. | $5.5M | Series A | Feb 06, 2013 | http://www.ourcrowd.com |
| Polatis | Polatis is a provider of optical switching technology. Founded in 2005 as the merger of leading optical technology companies from Cambridge Massachusetts and Cambridge UK, Polatis combined products, technologies and resources to create new solutions for modern fiber-based networks. | $2.7M |  | Feb 02, 2012 | http://www.polatis.com |
| Xtellus | Xtellus, Inc. provides reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADM) technology and dynamic optical modules for agile optical networking systems. It offers wavelength selective switches, wavelength blockers, edge wavelength selective switches, and ROADM modules with integrated power monitoring and muxes/demuxes; and liquid crystaloptical processors. Xtellus, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Morris Plains, New Jersey. It has manufacturing and development facilities in Israel and South Korea. The company also has a research and development facility in Jerusalem, Israel. As of December 17, 2009, Xtellus, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Oclaro, Inc. | $8.3M |  | Mar 27, 2008 | http://www.xtellus.com |
| DuneNetworks | Dune Networks is a fabless semiconductor supplier of networking devices which facilitate the building of Data Center, Enterprise and Carrier Ethernet Switching Platforms. They provide switching solutions which are scalable in capacity, port rate and service schemes, effectively extending the life cycle of packet platforms from 3 years (legacy-basedsystems) to 10 years and beyond, subsequently revolutionizing the economics of packet network deployment. | $12M | Series B | Jan 14, 2008 | http://www.dunenetworks.com |
| Camero | Founded in 2004, Camero (Camero-Tech Ltd.) is a pioneer and leader in development and marketing of Radar based imaging systems. Camero’s resources draw on decades of experience providing solutions to major government and commercial customers. The company has a solid track-record of technological innovation and timely solution delivery to itsworldwide customers. | $14M | Series B | Jan 09, 2007 | http://camero-tech.com |
| m-spatial | As of January 20, 2009, m-spatial ltd. was acquired by mxData Ltd. m-spatial ltd. operates as a local search company for mobile operators, directory service providers, and personal navigation providers. It offers Local Search & Share, which offers a customized Web/mobile local search and share service for branding; Spacemark, whichencapsulates various local search and share in a consumer facing service; and Local Search & Discovery Engine for brands with existing applications offering access to local information via Web, mobile or satnav. m-spatial ltd. was founded in 2000 and is based in Cambridge, the United Kingdom. The company serves the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands markets. | $1.6M |  | Feb 28, 2006 |  |
| Mempile | Mempile developed removable storage technology for the healthcare, public, entertainment, security, financial & business sectors. It focused on developing optical storage that is designed to hold up to one Terabyte of information on a single removable disc. The company offered its products for use in applications, such as home archiving,entertainment, public sector, business compliance, healthcare & video monitoring. Mempile had a development center in the United States & a business development unit in Japan. Mempile was founded in 2000 and was based in Yehuda, Israel. It closed down as of January 2009. | $10.5M | Series C | Nov 16, 2005 | http://www.mempile.com |
| Frontier Silicon | Frontier Silicon Limited, a fabless semiconductor company, develops and supplies semiconductor, module, and software solutions for digital radio and connected audio systems. It offers digital radio and audio baseband network processors, digital audio system-on-chip, mobile TV/DAB baseband IC, triband dual-mode radio receiver IC, andprogrammable multimedia processors; digital radio tuner modules, module for Internet radio/network streaming, personal digital radio tuner module, and miniature mobile digital radio receivers; and platforms for profile 1/iPod docking radio, receiver, connected audio with Internet radio. The company also provides DAB/FM/WiFi radio receivers, portable radio receivers, CD-based systems, IPod DAB adaptors, and evaluation systems; and Internet radio enhanced users interface, IR 2.0 connected audio software, and digital audio software. In addition, it offers single-chip T-DMB RF receiver and baseband demodulators, multistandard baseband demodulator IC, T-DMB baseband demodulator IC, and triband dual-mode T-DMB RF receiver IC; SDIO/USB modular dongle, modular evaluation kits, and evaluation kits; and mobile TV drivers and adaptation layer for host processors. The company offers its products in China, Hong Kong, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.Frontier Silicon Limited was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Watford, United Kingdom. It has locations in Cambridge, Dublin, Shannon, and Hong Kong. | $28M |  | Feb 28, 2005 | http://www.frontier-silicon.com |
| Siliquent Technologies | Siliquent Technologies, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company dedicated to expanding Ethernet's applications across the entire enterprise - for storage, high-performance computing, and all networking applications. The company's new 10GbE processors are designed to enable a new generation of intelligent NICs that make it possible to runstorage, networking and clustering over a single physical Ethernet interface - creating the unified wire. Founded in 2001. | $21M | Series B | Sep 30, 2004 |  |
| Mempile | Mempile developed removable storage technology for the healthcare, public, entertainment, security, financial & business sectors. It focused on developing optical storage that is designed to hold up to one Terabyte of information on a single removable disc. The company offered its products for use in applications, such as home archiving,entertainment, public sector, business compliance, healthcare & video monitoring. Mempile had a development center in the United States & a business development unit in Japan. Mempile was founded in 2000 and was based in Yehuda, Israel. It closed down as of January 2009. | $11.6M | Series B | Mar 03, 2004 | http://www.mempile.com |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Israel Seed Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/israel-seed-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jerusalem-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Apax Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apax-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- Millennium II Materials Technology Fund — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [3i Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3i-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Alta Berkeley Venture Partners invest in?

Alta Berkeley Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Hardware and Manufacturing startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What round sizes does Alta Berkeley Venture Partners invest in?

Alta Berkeley Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $7.5M–$47M at Series B and $11M–$12M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Alta Berkeley Venture Partners's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Alta Berkeley Venture Partners took part in.

### How do I contact Alta Berkeley Venture Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Alta Berkeley Venture Partners?

The team at Alta Berkeley Venture Partners includes Bryan Wood (Founder and Managing General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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