Broadcom
VC Fund
San Jose, United States
Broadcom is a VC fund in San Jose focused on Semiconductor and Wireless. Broadcom Inc. is a global infrastructure technology leader built on 50 years of innovation, collaboration and engineering excellence. With roots based in the rich technical heritage of AT&T/Bell Labs, Lucent and Hewlett-Packard/Agilent, Broadcom focuses on technologies that connect their world. Through the combination of industryleaders Avago Technologies, LSI, Broadcom Corporation, Brocade and CA Technologies, the company has the size, scope and engineering talent to lead the industry into the future.Broadcom is focused on technology leadership and category-leading semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. The company is a global leader in numerous product segments serving the world’s most successful companies.Broadcom Inc. combines global scale, engineering depth, broad product portfolio diversity, superior execution and operational focus to deliver category-leading semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions so its customers can build and grow successful businesses in a constantly changing environment.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Broadcom invests in
Stages Broadcom invests in
Countries Broadcom invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series D
- $10M–$24M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Semiconductor 3 (50%)
- Wireless 2 (33%)
- Music 1 (17%)
- Video 1 (17%)
- Consulting 1 (17%)
Stage
- Series D 2 (33%)
- Series A 1 (17%)
- Series B 1 (17%)
- Series C 1 (17%)
- Series E 1 (17%)
Country
- Israel 2 (33%)
- United States 2 (33%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Michael E. Hurlston
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mobile Connectivity Products Division
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Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mobile Connectivity Products Division | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Oliver L. Sims III
Americas Technical Sales Leader
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Americas Technical Sales Leader | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Anthony Maslowski
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
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Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Bret Jordan
Technical Director & Master Engineer, Office of the CTO
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Technical Director & Master Engineer, Office of the CTO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Henry Samueli
Chief Technical Officer
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Chief Technical Officer | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
| See all 11 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Tilera
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Tilera Corporation, a fabless semiconductor company, designs multicore embedded processors for networking, digital multimedia, and wireless infrastructure markets. The company offers multicore processors for processing and power requirements, multicore software development tools, and boards. Its products include TILEPro, a multicore processor,which delivers the performance computing for embedded applications, such as networking, wireless infrastructure, and digital multimedia processing; multicore development environment, a multicore programming solution; and TILExpress PCIe production cards. Tilera Corporation was founded in 2004 and is based in San Jose, California. It has locations in Westborough, Massachusetts and Beijing, China. | $25M / Series C / Mar 08, 2010 | |
Wisair
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Wisair is a fabless semiconductor company providing single-chip based Ultra Wideband (UWB) and Wireless USB solutions for personal computing, consumer electronics, and mobile devices. | $24M / Series D / Feb 26, 2008 | |
BroadLight
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BroadLight leads delivery of end-to-end (E2E) Passive Optical Network (PON) technology through its comprehensive and innovative product solutions consisting of highly integrated semiconductor devices, embedded and application software, reference designs and support tools.Their company is delivering complete E2E BPON and GPON component solutionsfor the central office (CO) and customer premise equipment (CPE). These solutions help equipment companies bring standards-based PON products quickly to service providers and with low risk.BroadLight has been supplying the PON industry with components longer than any other company and is the most experienced in turning up BPON and GPON. As one of the pioneers in GPON, BroadLight's ground-breaking first to market product line is now delivering the majority of today's GPON solutions worldwide. | $12M / Series E / Sep 11, 2007 | |
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BroadLight
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BroadLight leads delivery of end-to-end (E2E) Passive Optical Network (PON) technology through its comprehensive and innovative product solutions consisting of highly integrated semiconductor devices, embedded and application software, reference designs and support tools.Their company is delivering complete E2E BPON and GPON component solutionsfor the central office (CO) and customer premise equipment (CPE). These solutions help equipment companies bring standards-based PON products quickly to service providers and with low risk.BroadLight has been supplying the PON industry with components longer than any other company and is the most experienced in turning up BPON and GPON. As one of the pioneers in GPON, BroadLight's ground-breaking first to market product line is now delivering the majority of today's GPON solutions worldwide. | $10M / Series D / Nov 17, 2005 | |
M-Stream
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M-Stream develops chips for improved reception of voice, video, music and heavy multimedia for second, 2.5, and third-generation cellular communication systems. The start-up raised $1.5 million in its first round of financing in March 2003, at which time it also signed its first agreement with Broadcom. Aside from the $750,000 injection, the dealincluded an option to buy the company depending on its reaching certain goals. | $1.5M / Series A / Mar 05, 2003 | |
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The xSides Corporation
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The xSides Corporation delivers unique and simple computer navigation by tapping into unused digital real estate. | $15M / Series B / Nov 30, 1999 |
Co-Investors
Azure Capital Partners
2 deals together
Delta Ventures
2 deals together
Advent Venture Partners
1 deal together
Amerindo Investment Advisors
1 deal together
Apax Partners
1 deal together
Applied Ventures
1 deal together
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FAQ
What does Broadcom invest in?
Broadcom invests primarily in Semiconductor, Wireless and Music startups, most often at Series D and Series A stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Broadcom's check size?
Broadcom typically joins rounds of $10M–$24M at Series D. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Broadcom participates in.
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Who are the partners at Broadcom?
The team at Broadcom includes Michael E. Hurlston (Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mobile Connectivity Products Division), Oliver L. Sims III (Americas Technical Sales Leader) and Anthony Maslowski (Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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