Dado Banatao
Managing Partner & Founder @ Tallwood Venture Capital
San Francisco, United States
Dado Banatao is a Series A investor at Tallwood Venture Capital in San Francisco focused on Semiconductor and Software. Dado Banatao is the managing partner of Tallwood Venture Capital. With his past experiences as an entrepreneur, Dado provides Tallwood with a unique perspective in technology investments. Tallwood invests in unique and hard-to-do semiconductor technology solutions for computing, communication, and consumer platforms.Prior to forming Tallwood,Dado was a venture partner at the Mayfield Fund. He co-founded three technology startups: S3 (SBLU), Chips & Technologies (INTC) and Mostron. He also held positions in engineering and general management at National Semiconductor, Seeq Technologies, Intersil and Commodore International. Dado pioneered the PC chip set and graphics acceleration architecture that continue to be two of the foundation technologies in every PC today. As an engineer, he is credited with developing several key semiconductor technologies and is regarded as a Silicon Valley visionary.Dado serves as Chairman of Ikanos (IKAN), Inphi Corporation and Quintic Corporation and is on the board of directors of Alphion Corporation, Wave Semiconductor and Wilocity. He also served as Chairman and led investments in SiRF Technology, acquired by CSR; (CSR); Marvell Technology Group (MRVL); Acclaim Communications, acquired by Level One (INTC); Newport Communications, acquired by Broadcom (BRCM); Cyras Systems, acquired by Ciena (CIEN); and Stream Machine, acquired by Cirrus Logic (CRUS)Dado holds a B.S.E.E., cum laude, from the Mapua Institute of Technology in the Philippines and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 18%
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Industries Dado Banatao invests in
Stages Dado Banatao invests in
Countries Dado Banatao invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Semiconductor 3 (27%)
- Software 2 (18%)
- Electronics 2 (18%)
- Manufacturing 2 (18%)
- Telecommunications 2 (18%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (27%)
- Series B 2 (18%)
- Series C 2 (18%)
- Series D 1 (9%)
- Funding Round 1 (9%)
Country
- United States 6 (55%)
- Philippines 1 (9%)
Investments
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| Experts in IT and the academe built the team of Xepto Education. Together, we put edtech pedagogy at the forefront of service design. As we marry education and technology, we aim to empower educators and learners through equal access to world-class, high-quality tools and platforms for teaching, training, and development. | Series A / Mar 08, 2019 | ||
| Altia Systems is an award winning, venture-backed company based in Cupertino, California and creator of the PanaCast™ system. PanaCast™ is a unique experience that enables anyone on desktop or mobile to communicate in interactive, real-time Panoramic-HD 200 degree field-of-view video that replicates the human panoramic perspective. | $6.7M / Series A / Oct 28, 2013 | ||
| Striiv, a Redwood City, CA-based start-up that develops portable fitness devices. | Series A / Sep 07, 2011 | ||
| Redfern Integrated Optics develops and manufactures optical transmitters based on proprietary PLANEX (Planar External Cavity Laser) technology, which enables high performance at low cost for various applications.RIO planar ECL consists of a gain chip and a planar waveguide circuit (PLC) with Bragg grating which forms a laser cavity. This hassignificant advantages such as; very narrow spectral linewidth, low phase noise and RIN, optimized chirp, low wavelength sensitivity to temperature and bias current, and low power consumption. | $7.5M / May 13, 2008 | ||
| Redfern Integrated Optics develops and manufactures optical transmitters based on proprietary PLANEX (Planar External Cavity Laser) technology, which enables high performance at low cost for various applications.RIO planar ECL consists of a gain chip and a planar waveguide circuit (PLC) with Bragg grating which forms a laser cavity. This hassignificant advantages such as; very narrow spectral linewidth, low phase noise and RIN, optimized chirp, low wavelength sensitivity to temperature and bias current, and low power consumption. | $7M / Dec 06, 2006 | ||
| Redfern Integrated Optics develops and manufactures optical transmitters based on proprietary PLANEX (Planar External Cavity Laser) technology, which enables high performance at low cost for various applications.RIO planar ECL consists of a gain chip and a planar waveguide circuit (PLC) with Bragg grating which forms a laser cavity. This hassignificant advantages such as; very narrow spectral linewidth, low phase noise and RIN, optimized chirp, low wavelength sensitivity to temperature and bias current, and low power consumption. | $8.4M / Series C / Jul 13, 2005 | ||
| Inphi Corporation provides high-speed analog semiconductor solutions for the communications and computing markets in the United States. It offers products that perform a range of functions, such as amplifying, encoding, multiplexing, demultiplexing, retiming, and buffering data and clock signals at speeds up to 100 Gbps. These products are enablersfor servers, routers, switches, storage, and other equipment that process, store, and transport data traffic. Its products are also used in test and measurement equipment and military radar systems that capture and process high-speed and ultra-broadband signals. The company's product line includes clock and data recovery, clock fanout, demultiplexer, D flip flops, differential amplifiers, differential encoders, isolation memory buffer, latched comparator, logic gates, modulator driver, multiplexer, phase-lock loop, prescalers, register buffers, RZ converter, serializer-deserializer, and trans-impedance amplifier. Inphi sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and indirectly to OEMs through module manufacturers, original design manufacturers, and sub-systems providers. The company was formerly known as TCom Communications, Inc. and changed its name to Inphi Corporation in February 2001. It was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. | $24M / Series B / Jun 04, 2002 | ||
| Silicon Access Networks is a provider of an ultra-high performance chipsets for terabit routers and communication silicon to the networking and telecommunications market. | $39M / Series D / Mar 04, 2002 | ||
| Silicon Access Networks is a provider of an ultra-high performance chipsets for terabit routers and communication silicon to the networking and telecommunications market. | $56M / Series C / Oct 03, 2000 | ||
| Silicon Access Networks is a provider of an ultra-high performance chipsets for terabit routers and communication silicon to the networking and telecommunications market. | $28M / Series B / Feb 08, 2000 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Tallwood Venture Capital
Tallwood Venture Capital focuses on investments in differentiated technologies and products that they believe will have a significant impact on the semiconductor industry. They seek out talented entrepreneurs and potent ideas likely to make a real difference in semiconductor and semiconductor-related markets.By offering deep semiconductorknowledge, direct operating experience and a high degree of availability, Tallwood builds close, active working relationships with their portfolio companies.They have over $600 million currently under management. This capital management level puts Tallwood Venture Capital on par with the semiconductor segments of the largest venture capital firms in the industry.
Tallwood Venture Capital Contacts
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Dado Banatao
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Hailong Sun
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Luis Arzubi
General Partner
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Stella Pan
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What does Dado Banatao invest in?
Dado Banatao invests primarily in Semiconductor, Software and Electronics startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 11 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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