# Brentwood Venture Capital

> Brentwood Venture Capital is a VC fund in Menlo Park backing Health Care and Internet. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Jul 2008
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Brentwood Venture Capital is a principal investment firm. The firm continues to manage its existing portfolio. It created Redpoint Ventures to make new investments in information technology and Versant Ventures in healthcare. Brentwood Venture Capital is based in Menlo Park, California.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 4 | 25% |
| Internet | 3 | 19% |
| Software | 2 | 13% |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 13% |
| Audio | 1 | 6% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 5 | 31% |
| Series C | 4 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 19% |
| Series D | 2 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 63% |
| India | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OraMetrix | OraMetrix, Inc. provides 3-D technology solutions for facilitating and improving the quality of orthodontic care. It offers an orthodontic treatment system that allows the use of precision digital tools throughout the diagnosis, treatment planning and monitoring, and arch wire customization processes of the orthodontic treatment. OraMetrix, Inc.was formerly known as Orthotel, Inc. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Richardson, Texas with an additional office in Berlin, Germany. | $20M | Series C | Jul 02, 2008 |  |
| Extraprise | Extraprise, Inc. operates as a systems integrator and business process outsourcer in customer management. Its insight-to-interaction solutions combine data management, business insight, demand generation, and customer management. The company was formed in 1997 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional offices in the UnitedStates and Europe. | $5.1M |  | Aug 23, 2005 |  |
| FieldCentrix | FieldCentrix provides mobile field service automation solutions for service lifecycle management. Its management solution, FieldCentrix Enterprise, automates and streamlines manual processes and centralizes disparate applications associated with field service. FieldCentrix delivers solutions for market sectors, including manufacturing, industrialequipment, automation controls, medical devices, high technology, communications, real estate services, and building trade services. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Irvine, California with offices in North America and Europe. As of September 21, 2005, FieldCentrix Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Astea International Inc. | $8.9M | Series B | Apr 05, 2004 |  |
| Entelos | Entelos is the leading provider of predictive biosimulation for drug discovery and development. We provide advanced biosimulation capabilities that make discovery more efficient and increase clinical success.For over 15 years, we have enabled R&D organizations to predict better paths to success by simulating systems biology. Our solutionsinclude mechanism-based, mathematical models; virtual patients and populations; biosimulation software; and biosimulation expertise. | $25M | Series C | Sep 06, 2001 |  |
| Antrim Design Systems | Antrim develops and markets portable mixed-signal intellectual property, design software, and expert design services for telecom, multimedia, and consumer products. Utilizing top-down methodologies, the company is delivering libraries, design tools, and services that automate the design of mixed-signal integrated circuits with a level of efficiencypreviously unattainable. | $11M | Series D | May 21, 2001 |  |
| BioSpace | BioSpace has provided essential insights, opportunities and tools to connect innovative life sciences organizations and talented professionals who advance health and quality of life across the globe. | $10M | Series B | Aug 24, 2000 |  |
| Entelos | Entelos is the leading provider of predictive biosimulation for drug discovery and development. We provide advanced biosimulation capabilities that make discovery more efficient and increase clinical success.For over 15 years, we have enabled R&D organizations to predict better paths to success by simulating systems biology. Our solutionsinclude mechanism-based, mathematical models; virtual patients and populations; biosimulation software; and biosimulation expertise. | $14.6M | Series B | May 05, 2000 |  |
| StreamSearch.LIVE | THE COMPANY HAS RELAUNCHED AS STREAMSEARCH LIVEStreamSearch, patent pending, reinvents itself and sets out to create a new media platform leveraging live internet video transmissions. We intend to help define this infant industry. Founded in 1999, funded with $32 Million, now relaunched with the best of the old, an optimized new and a dash offuturistic. Many of the original team members, who went off to run ventures of their own, have rejoined the company in its rejuvenated mission. We have also set out to put the .LIVE extension on the map as the .com’s have become stagnant. “If It Moves, It’s .LIVE,” is our intention. LIVE has just begun and StreamSearch is uniquely positioned to be a dominant player in the space.Founded in 1999, StreamSearch established itself as, The Remote Control of the Web: the Internet’s most comprehensive source for audio and video. The Company had millions of LICENSED streaming and downloadable files in every category including entertainment, news, sports, music, movies and more, thereby creating a search engine for audio and video. It produced the Blair Witch 2 and Mission Impossible 2 online movie launches and so much more.The company had raised $32M from Rare Medium Group, Brentwood Venture Capital, Advantage Capital, SAC, Putnam, The McClatchy Company, Gannett Company, and Thomas Weisel Partners.It was headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, with offices in New York and Los Angeles. The company grew to 250 employees and a $100M valuation. We became known for producing the first ever Film and Music Festival on the Net with the awards ceremony at the Playboy Mansion. This led to us producing the Sundance Film Festival online.“This Rudy “Never Quit” on his vision, that now has been updated to LIVE. We are beginning to assemble exactly the team to be a dominant player in the space. Exciting times!”Stay tuned!Rob Shambro | $20M | Series C | Mar 07, 2000 |  |
| OurHouse | OurHouse is an online retailer that provides its clients with hardware products and advice from its official online platform. The company partnered with Ace Hardware, a retailers' cooperative based in Oak Brook, Illinois, and the United States. OurHouse was founded in 1999. | $62.4M | Series D | Feb 16, 2000 |  |
| Antrim Design Systems | Antrim develops and markets portable mixed-signal intellectual property, design software, and expert design services for telecom, multimedia, and consumer products. Utilizing top-down methodologies, the company is delivering libraries, design tools, and services that automate the design of mixed-signal integrated circuits with a level of efficiencypreviously unattainable. | $15M |  | Feb 11, 2000 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Oak Investment Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oak-investment-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Abingworth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abingworth-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Amerindo Investment Advisors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amerindo-investment-advisors) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Boulder Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boulder-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CRV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crvvc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [EDF Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edf-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Brentwood Venture Capital invest in?

Brentwood Venture Capital invests primarily in Health Care, Internet and Software startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 16 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 Brentwood Venture Capital last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brentwood Venture Capital closed in Jul 2008. Shizune tracks 16 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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