# Athena Technology Ventures

> Athena Technology Ventures is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Retail and Internet. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Sep 2003
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.athenatv.com

Athena Technology Ventures is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Retail and Internet. Based in Palo Alto, California, Athena Technology Ventures makes investments in early stage companies in the global communications industry. Athena's portfolio includes companies focusing on semiconductors, network systems, telecom services, Internet infrastructure and infraservices, and e-commerce. The principals and support staff bring abroad array of technical, financial, and operational experience to making each investment decision, and supporting each portfolio company.Their main investors are corporate partners from Asia, and market leaders in semiconductor manufacturing, network systems, consumer electronics, telecom, and Internet. Athena often leverages its contacts in Asia to help portfolio companies develop manufacturing or distribution partnerships.Athena's sister fund in Korea invests in Asian-based start-ups, and transpacific technology companies, subsidiaries, and joint ventures.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Retail | 1 | 17% |
| Internet | 1 | 17% |
| Shopping | 1 | 17% |
| Software | 1 | 17% |
| Wireless | 1 | 17% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 67% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |
| Series C | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ProfitLogic | ProfitLogic engages in the development and marketing of retail profit optimization software solutions. It offers retail profit optimization, price optimization, and inventory planning software solutions for all retail verticals, which include assortment and allocation, pricing, in-season inventory management, promotions and marketing, andperformance assessment and management solutions. The company provides applications to help retailers make profitable allocation, planning, and pricing decisions; and a marketer of profit optimizations systems. ProfitLogic, Inc. was formerly known as Technology Strategy, Inc. (TSI). The company was founded in 1983 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | $5M | Series C | Sep 26, 2003 |  |
| CENiX | CENiX, inc. is a designer and automated manufacture of next generation high-speed optoelectronic interfaces. | $34M | Series B | Oct 23, 2001 |  |
| Technology Strategy | TSI provides retailers with solutions that bring precision and predictability to inventory investment and pricing strategies. Its mathematical optimization models help retailers understand the likely impact of all buying and pricing decisions on their bottom line and enable them to make decisions that lead to maximum gross margin. | $14.5M | Series B | Sep 28, 2000 |  |
| The Online Asset Exchange | The Online Asset Exchange is an internet-based surplus equipment marketplace, which offers extensive support services to its members. | $25M | Series B | Aug 16, 2000 |  |
| The Online Asset Exchange | The Online Asset Exchange is an internet-based surplus equipment marketplace, which offers extensive support services to its members. | $15.6M | Series A | Oct 01, 1999 |  |
| Chameleon Systems | Chameleon Systems is a privately held fabless semiconductor company that designs, markets and sells programmable system-on-a-chip solutions for the communications electronics markets. Headquartered in San Jose, California, the company has developed the industry´s first reconfigurable communications processor (RCP)--an ideal solution fordata-intensive Internet, DSP, wireless basestations, voice compression, software-defined radio, and other high-performance embedded telecom and datacom applications. The Chameleon RCP solution allows data and telecom equipment vendors to create customized communications signal processors to increase performance and channel count, more quickly adapt to new requirements and standards, reduce time-to-market, lower development costs and reduce risk. | $17.2M | Series B | Aug 02, 1999 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Delphi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/delphi-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [JIF Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jafco-asia) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Nomura Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nomura-securities) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sigma Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sigma-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- AK Investments — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Athena Technology Ventures invest in?

Athena Technology Ventures invests primarily in Retail, Internet and Shopping startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Athena Technology Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Athena Technology Ventures closed in Sep 2003. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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