# CrossBridge Venture Partners

> CrossBridge Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Software. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Bruno, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jul 2007
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.crossbridgevp.com

CrossBridge Venture Partners is a VC fund in San Bruno focused on Software and Enterprise Software. CrossBridge is a private equity fund managed by a group of highly experienced investment professionals at CrossBridge Ventures who have successfully teamed together in the past. The primary aim is to earn substantial capital gains by linking the explosive growth of Silicon Valley technology companies to the Asian markets.CrossBridgeemploys the same Investment Strategy that produced 50% net annualized returns over a ten-year period ending December 1999. Over one-half of the investments made by the Fund Managers resulted in an IPO because of the excellent deal flow generated from their co-investment partners (leading U.S. venture capital firms) and their network of contacts in Asia and the U.S.The Funds focus is on early to late stage investments in U.S. companies and in their subsidiaries located in Asia. Targeted industries include communications, software, Internet, service, and semiconductors.The CrossBridgeAdvantage is a hands-on approach that offers portfolio companies both timely and strategic access to the world's second largest market. Management consists of former senior partners at Silicon Valley Bank, JAFCO, and Techno-Venture in Tokyo who have extensive experience in venture capital investing in the United States and Asia.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 38% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 38% |
| Optical Communication | 2 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 25% |
| CRM | 1 | 13% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 3 | 38% |
| Series B | 2 | 25% |
| Series D | 1 | 13% |
| Series E | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 63% |
| Canada | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Herman A. White, Jr. | Partner | 0 | — |
| Katsuhiko Saito | Partner | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bay Microsystems | Bay Microsystems, Inc. designs and develops network solutions that include network architectures, systems, software, and integrated circuits. The company offers ABEx, a network appliance for optical transport and packet switched networks including synchronous optical networking and synchronous digital hierarchy, Ethernet, Internet protocol andmultiprotocol label switching, pseudowires, ATM, and InfiniBand. It also designs and develops network processors that include Chesapeake, a single-chip programmable network processor and traffic manager; Montego, a single-chip programmable Internetworking processor; and Biscayne, a programmable classification processor with policing. Additionally, the company offers Lighthouse Tool Suite, a hardware and software development platform for designing network processor based networking equipment and BayPort, a demonstration and evaluation platform for company's network processors. Bay Microsystems was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, California with an additional office in Germantown, Maryland. | $16M | Series E | Jul 31, 2007 |  |
| Tak Imaging | TAK'ASIC is an innovator in dedicated imaging processors and solutions. | $10M | Series C | Apr 25, 2005 |  |
| YeePay | YeePay is a Chinese third-party payment service provider.YeePay is focused on innovating and promoting value-added financial services that enable consumers and merchants to make and receive payments securely, conveniently, and cost effectively. YeePay’s payment services provide a single platform integrating both online and offline electronicpayments. It enables consumers and businesses to make and receive payments through the internet, mobiles, and telephones.Besides text-messaging payment service and mobile-prepaying service, YeePay launched a telephone-payment service that makes offline payments possible and that facilitates electronic payments for conventional industries.YeePay was founded by Beijing Rongtong Information Technology Corporation in August 2003. | $2.5M | Series A | Jan 01, 2005 |  |
| Tropic Networks | Tropic Networks, Inc. designs, develops, and markets regional and metro-area optical networking equipment for telephony, data, and cable applications. The company offers Wavelength Tracker, an optical transport solution that leverages SONET/SDH familiarity to deliver optical layer intelligence; and various services for Tropic Networks platformand its related products, including network design, planning and installation, operation and maintenance consulting, and evaluation and modeling of network architecture, as well as training and planned upgrades. It also provides Networks TRX-24000, a metro optical transport platform that delivers dense wavelength division multiplexing and optical add-drop multiplexing for a host of services in a package. The company offers metro-optimized network solution for carriers to plan, manage, and scale the MAN; and to address the need for bandwidth expansion, optical transport, wavelength identification, and wavelength management in regional and metropolitan-area optical networks. Its metro optical networking solution streamlines the underlying optical layer architecture of DWDM/ODAM networks. Tropic Networks, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. | $33M | Series D | Jul 28, 2004 |  |
| Orchestria | Orchestria, a leader in Information Protection and Control, provides the software and solutions to help organizations protect and control this critical resource wherever it is stored or used and significantly reduce the risks associated with uncontrolled information. Orchestria addresses a broad set of risks while optimizing the operational burdensassociated with the detection and remediation of these risks. Orchestria helps customers prevent data loss, address messaging compliance concerns, and enforce information classification and control. | $10M | Series C | Jan 26, 2004 |  |
| iolon, inc. | iolon, Inc., is a privately held optical networking components company. The company provides high performance tunable devices for advanced fiber optic networks. iolon s initial product is a high-powered, external cavity, tunable laser source ideal for high bit rate, long haul applications. Future product lines include tunable filters, opticalswitches, polarization controllers, spectral monitors and universal transponders. iolon s platform technology enables advanced automation for high volume manufacturing based on patented micro-optics, MEMS and advanced servo control technologies. | $7.6M | Series C | Apr 25, 2002 |  |
| SteelEye Technology | SteelEye is a leading provider of data and application availability management solutions for business continuity and disaster recovery. The SteelEye LifeKeeper family of application-focused data replication, high availability clustering and disaster recovery solutions are easy to deploy and operate, and enable enterprises of all sizes to ensurecontinuous availability of business-critical applications, servers and data. | $20M | Series B | Jul 16, 2001 |  |
| iolon, inc. | iolon, Inc., is a privately held optical networking components company. The company provides high performance tunable devices for advanced fiber optic networks. iolon s initial product is a high-powered, external cavity, tunable laser source ideal for high bit rate, long haul applications. Future product lines include tunable filters, opticalswitches, polarization controllers, spectral monitors and universal transponders. iolon s platform technology enables advanced automation for high volume manufacturing based on patented micro-optics, MEMS and advanced servo control technologies. | $53M | Series B | Mar 01, 2001 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Goldman Sachs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goldman-sachs) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- Bank of America Securities — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does CrossBridge Venture Partners invest in?

CrossBridge Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Optical Communication startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 8 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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### Who are the partners at CrossBridge Venture Partners?

The team at CrossBridge Venture Partners includes Herman A. White, Jr. (Partner) and Katsuhiko Saito (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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