# Crystal Internet Venture Funds

> Crystal Internet Venture Funds is a VC fund in Cleveland backing Software and Email. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cleveland, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Mar 2007
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.crystalventure.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/854500264639042

Crystal Internet Venture Funds is a VC fund in Cleveland focused on Software and Email. Crystal Ventures has grown into a family of funds with international offices in North America and Asia that facilitate the pervasive growth and development of worldwide innovation - with special concentration on North America and Asia. They see technological innovation as a global event, but with strong localized flavor imperative to itsmaturation.Crystal partners with companies that support trans-Pacific synergetic operations with proven technology and products, market potential, exemplary management teams, and unique resources particular to Silicon Valley, Taiwan, Singapore, and mainland China.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 22% |
| Email | 1 | 11% |
| Video | 1 | 11% |
| Mobile | 1 | 11% |
| Internet | 1 | 11% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 22% |
| Series B | 2 | 22% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 22% |
| Series C | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Informative | Informative a marketing company, offers online tools for identifying customer priorities and form brand communities. The company also provides marketing analytics services. It offers survey, community and forum, blog, and profiling services. The company serves advertising agencies, marketing services firms, and media properties, as well as consumerproducts, media, financial services, pharmaceutical, software, and consumer electronic industries. Informative, Inc. was founded in 1999 as Getwebby.com and changed its name to Cahoots, Inc. in 2000. Further, it changed its name to Informative, Inc. in 2002. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, California. | $1.5M |  | Mar 01, 2007 |  |
| LGC Wireless | LGC Wireless, Inc. develops in-building wireless voice/data coverage and capacity solutions, and compact GSM and CDMA networks. It offers distributed antenna systems and wireless LAN solutions; Network Systems for public operators, equipment manufacturers, and specialized GSM applications; and modular products and services, such as basestation subsystems, network switching solutions, value-added services, wireless data support, and operations and maintenance applications. The company also provides CDMA-based network products that offer wireless voice and always-on data services. In addition, it offers professional services, including needs assessment, preliminary design and budget, site survey, final design and quote, carrier liaison, installation, project management, commissioning, remote monitoring, troubleshooting, onsite support maintenance, and extended warranty services. LGC Wireless offers its solutions for hospitality/entertainment/casino, corporate, government/public space, maritime, transportation, education, healthcare, and sporting events/arenas industries. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. It has operations in North America, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, the United Kingdom, Africa, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, China, and Japan. As of November 30, 2007, LGC Wireless, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of ADC Telecommunications Inc. | $13M | Series B | Sep 03, 2005 |  |
| Synacor | Synacor's online content, portal and comprehensive front-end technology solutions enable MSOs, ISPs and telecommunications companies to bundle, promote and deliver narrowband and broadband premium content and services as part of existing Internet access products. Its solutions offer the combined strength of a flexible portal framework, arobust provisioning platform, a unified back-end and a network of in-demand standard and premium content enabling service providers to maintain critical contact with consumers as they shift from screen-to-screen while seeking increasingly personalized entertainment experiences. | $5.5M |  | Oct 21, 2004 |  |
| Astoria Software | Astoria is a developer of content management systems for dynamic product documentation. The company's mission is to simplify the effort and reduce the costs of creating, managing, and publishing the world's most complex, business-critical content and documents by providing a complete end-to-end solution that includes authoring, contentmanagement, and rendering systems, provided as an integrated solution and hosted on-demand. | $11.4M | Series A | Apr 02, 2004 |  |
| Synacor | Synacor's online content, portal and comprehensive front-end technology solutions enable MSOs, ISPs and telecommunications companies to bundle, promote and deliver narrowband and broadband premium content and services as part of existing Internet access products. Its solutions offer the combined strength of a flexible portal framework, arobust provisioning platform, a unified back-end and a network of in-demand standard and premium content enabling service providers to maintain critical contact with consumers as they shift from screen-to-screen while seeking increasingly personalized entertainment experiences. |  |  | Feb 12, 2004 |  |
| Exavio | Exavio manufactures IP video-smart network devices for digital media distribution throughout broadcast and post production facilities. The company also offers IP-based streaming devices for streaming media services, such as cable VOD, nPVR, and business communications solutions. Its products include ExaMax media server platform that providesdigital media distribution and interoperates in dissimilar file structures and operating systems. Exavio, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It has engineering offices in Beijing. | $14.3M | Series A | Apr 29, 2003 |  |
| Synacor | Synacor's online content, portal and comprehensive front-end technology solutions enable MSOs, ISPs and telecommunications companies to bundle, promote and deliver narrowband and broadband premium content and services as part of existing Internet access products. Its solutions offer the combined strength of a flexible portal framework, arobust provisioning platform, a unified back-end and a network of in-demand standard and premium content enabling service providers to maintain critical contact with consumers as they shift from screen-to-screen while seeking increasingly personalized entertainment experiences. | $6.5M | Series C | Mar 25, 2003 |  |
| Ejasent | Ejasent offers a pay-as-you-use service in which companies can receive on-demand computer processing power for their applications. The company also sells this technology to companies that want to use it for their own networks | $10M | Series D | Aug 08, 2002 |  |
| KnowledgeFirst | KnowledgeFirst, an Internet education-related financial and transactional services marketplace for college and graduate students. | $12M | Series B | Jul 19, 2000 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Walden International](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/walden-international) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Access Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/access-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Advantage Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advantage-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Rand Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rand-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AllegisCyber](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allegis-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Crystal Internet Venture Funds invest in?

Crystal Internet Venture Funds invests primarily in Software, Email and Video startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 9 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 Crystal Internet Venture Funds last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Crystal Internet Venture Funds closed in Mar 2007. Shizune tracks 9 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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