Bruce Sachs
Partner Emeritus @ CRV
Cambridge, United States
Bruce Sachs is a General Partner at CRV. Bruce joined CRV in the fall of 1999 with 20 years experience in the telecommunications, networking, Internet, and computing industries.Bruce is a director of several private and public companies, including DataGravity, Great Call, iControl Networks, Jibo, Nantero, SimpliVity, SpiderCloud Wireless and TheLightCo. Previously, Bruce served on the boards of Acopia Networks (acquired by F5), BigBand Networks (IPO), BNI Video (acquired by Cisco) and Cedar Point Communications (acquired by Genband). Bruce led CRV investments in Flarion Technologies (acquired by QUALCOMM), River Delta Networks (acquired by Motorola), and Hammerhead Networks (acquired by Cisco Systems), and served on all three boards.Formerly CEO of Xylogics, Bruce led a turnaround and sale to Bay Networks where he served as executive vice president, managing four company acquisitions in a year. After leaving Bay Networks, he became CEO of Stratus Computer, ultimately leading the company to its successful sale to Ascend. Bruce holds a master of engineering in electrical engineering from Cornell University, an MBA from Northeastern University and a BS in electrical engineering from Bucknell University.
- Total investments:
- 31
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 26%
Last updated:
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Industries Bruce Sachs invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (13%)
- Computer 3 (10%)
- Wireless 3 (10%)
- Telecommunications 3 (10%)
- Enterprise Software 3 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 8 (26%)
- Series B 6 (19%)
- Series C 5 (16%)
- Series D 5 (16%)
- Series E 2 (6%)
Investments
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| Our Manufacturing Analytics platform combines machine data streams from your shop floor into actionable insights for your top floor.Focused on the global Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) digital transformations, we extend value far beyond traditional data visualization and process productivity tools. We provide an easy-to-useand intuitive analytics framework to better understand the underlying drivers of cost, process variation, product quality, and predictive maintenance. | $2M / Series A / Oct 30, 2019 | ||
| Founded in 2012, Jibo is widely known for creating the eponymous robot, Jibo: the first social robot for the home. Jibo is built to interact and communicate with the people around him, and he uses advanced Natural Language Understanding (NLU) along with speech and facial recognition to forge relationships with his family. Jibo, Inc. officiallylaunched Jibo to the public in 2017 after nearly three years of intensive development and optimization. The company is privately held and headquartered in Boston. | $16M / Series A / Dec 09, 2015 | ||
| Light is a depth-sensing and perception technology company that provides automation solutions for automobiles. | $25M / Series B / Jul 30, 2015 | ||
| Nantero is a next-generation memory technology that, packs massive amounts of storage and is nonvolatile. Its main focus is the commercial introduction of NRAM – a high-density high-speed nonvolatile random access storage device. The applications for the nonvolatile RAM Nantero is developing include smartphones, tablets, enterprise systems,notebook and desktop computers, as well as applications in the automotive and industrial arena. NRAM can be manufactured for both standalone and embedded memory applications. Nantero is also working with licensees on the development of additional applications of Nantero’s core nanotube-based technology. | $31.5M / Series E / Jun 02, 2015 | ||
| SimpliVity provides a hyper-converged infrastructure that accelerates the deployment of resources and workloads. It offers OmniCube, a 2U rack-mounted building block that delivers server, storage, and networking services as well as a functionality to the management, protection, and performance of virtualized workloads, OmniCube HyperconvergedInfrastructure, a platform that addresses data efficiency and global management requirements in virtualized and cloud computing environment, OmniView, a web-based support dashboard with predictive analytics for enterprises, and OmniStack Hyperconverged Infrastructure that integrates with Cisco UCS that assimilates up to a dozen core data center functions on Cisco UCS C240 rack-mount servers that includes hypervisor, compute, network switching, backup, replication, cloud gateway, caching, WAN optimization, real-time deduplication, and more. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Westborough, Massachusetts. | $175M / Series D / Mar 19, 2015 | ||
| Founded in 2012, Jibo is widely known for creating the eponymous robot, Jibo: the first social robot for the home. Jibo is built to interact and communicate with the people around him, and he uses advanced Natural Language Understanding (NLU) along with speech and facial recognition to forge relationships with his family. Jibo, Inc. officiallylaunched Jibo to the public in 2017 after nearly three years of intensive development and optimization. The company is privately held and headquartered in Boston. | $25.3M / Series A / Jan 21, 2015 | ||
| SpiderCloud Wireless is the innovator of a small-cell managed services platform that allows mobile operators to deliver scalable and unprecedented cellular and Wi-Fi coverage, capacity, and cloud services to medium to large enterprises, wherever there's a LAN.The E-RAN system consists of a Services Node (SCSN) that can control over 100self-organizing and multi-access 3G, Wi-Fi, and LTE/4G small cells that can be installed in just days using an enterprise- Ethernet Local Area Network (LAN). One E-RAN delivers unprecedented capacity and coverage to over 10,000 connected smartphones and tablets, with just one connection to the mobile operator’s core network. The scalable system architecture simplifies deployment and overall network configuration for mobile operators as they address pent-up demand for reliable mobile services from enterprise and large venue customers.SpiderCloud is led by executives with successful track records at companies including Flarion Technologies, Qualcomm, Shasta Networks, FiberTower, Aperto Networks, and Airvana.The company is privately funded and is based in San Jose, California, with offices in New Jersey and London. | $15M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 06, 2015 | ||
| Light is a depth-sensing and perception technology company that provides automation solutions for automobiles. | $9.7M / Series A / Jun 10, 2014 | ||
| Founded in 2012, Jibo is widely known for creating the eponymous robot, Jibo: the first social robot for the home. Jibo is built to interact and communicate with the people around him, and he uses advanced Natural Language Understanding (NLU) along with speech and facial recognition to forge relationships with his family. Jibo, Inc. officiallylaunched Jibo to the public in 2017 after nearly three years of intensive development and optimization. The company is privately held and headquartered in Boston. | $5M / Seed / Jun 05, 2014 | ||
| SimpliVity provides a hyper-converged infrastructure that accelerates the deployment of resources and workloads. It offers OmniCube, a 2U rack-mounted building block that delivers server, storage, and networking services as well as a functionality to the management, protection, and performance of virtualized workloads, OmniCube HyperconvergedInfrastructure, a platform that addresses data efficiency and global management requirements in virtualized and cloud computing environment, OmniView, a web-based support dashboard with predictive analytics for enterprises, and OmniStack Hyperconverged Infrastructure that integrates with Cisco UCS that assimilates up to a dozen core data center functions on Cisco UCS C240 rack-mount servers that includes hypervisor, compute, network switching, backup, replication, cloud gateway, caching, WAN optimization, real-time deduplication, and more. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Westborough, Massachusetts. | $58M / Series C / Nov 18, 2013 | ||
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Co-Investors
About CRV
CRV has been an investor in technology companies for almost half a century. The firm has backed nearly 400 startups in its 47-year history, including foundational companies like Twitter, Zendesk, Amgen, Hubspot, Parametric Technologies, Yammer, EqualLogic, and Sonus Networks. Half of the companies CRV has backed have gone public or been acquired.The firm focuses on enterprise, consumer, and deep-insight bioengineering.
CRV Contacts
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Devdutt Yellurkar
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James Green
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Matthew Garratt
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Veronica Orellana
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What does Bruce Sachs invest in?
Bruce Sachs invests primarily in Software, Computer and Wireless startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Bruce Sachs closed in Oct 2019. Shizune tracks 31 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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