# DRW Venture Partners

> DRW Venture Partners is a VC fund in Austin backing Internet, Software and E-Commerce. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Nov 2013
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.dainrauscherwessels.com/

DRW Venture Partners is a VC fund in Austin focused on Internet and Software. Dain Rauscher Wessels (DRW™) is a knowledge-driven equity capital markets group dedicated to providing investment banking and brokerage services in five core industry sectors. Because expertise is critical in understanding the changing landscape, we concentrate our research on focused groups of emerging high-growth companies within these sectors.This discipline allows us to generate creative investment banking, equity sales, and equity trading ideas for our clients.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 3 | 33% |
| Software | 2 | 22% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 22% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 22% |
| B2B | 1 | 11% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 3 | 33% |
| Series C | 2 | 22% |
| Series H | 1 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 11% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Spring | Spring was founded on the belief that local commerce should be easier than it is. By innovating on the intersection between the customer and the merchant – the transaction – we can unlock value for both parties.That means richer, actionable intelligence for our merchant partners – and richer rewards for their loyal customers.With offices inChicago, San Francisco and Nashville, Spring launched in 2013 focusing on major metropolitan areas. We're rapidly expanding our market coverage so if you are a merchant interested in working with us, please visit Spring for Merchants for more information. If you are a customer, check back often to see when Spring is coming to you! | $2.3M |  | Nov 01, 2013 |  |
| PowerDsine | Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC) offers a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor and system solutions for communications, defense & security, aerospace and industrial markets. Products include high-performance, radiation-hardened and highly reliable analog mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs, SoCs and ASICs; power management products;timing and voice processing devices; RF solutions; discrete components; security technologies and scalable anti-tamper products; Power-over-Ethernet ICs and midspans; as well as custom design capabilities and services. Microsemi is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif., and has approximately 3,000 employees globally. | $30M | Series H | Feb 01, 2002 |  |
| AirPrime | The company develops code division multiple access chipsets for wireless voice and data products. | $40M | Series C | Sep 11, 2001 |  |
| Onix Microsystems | OniX Microsystems designs, develops, and supplies micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)-based all-optical switching engines for telecommunications equipment suppliers. Its products cover optical switching needs, including network protection and provisioning, optical add and drop multiplexing, and optical cross connects. It also offers MEMS designand photonic packaging services. OniX Microsystems was founded in 1998 and was headquartered in Richmond, California. | $95M | Series C | Aug 06, 2001 |  |
| Cybrant | Cybrant provides configuration, pricing, quoting, guided selling, and solution design software applications. The company’s software applications are used to simplify the sale of complex products, services, and solutions. Cybrant was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. | $14M | Series C | Mar 13, 2001 |  |
| Adexa | Founded in 1994 by Dr. Cyrus Hadavi, who continues to serve the company as CEO and Chairman of the Board. Adexa has been the most innovative company in offering planning solutions that significantly improve the supply chains of many Fortune 1000 manufacturing companies in five continents for over 2 decades. Adexa’s comprehensive planning solutionsextend S&OP both horizontally and vertically such that high level plans are gradually and seamlessly converted to actual execution. Adexa’s unified data model allows modeling of the supply chain at the highest network level and/or as detailed as the equipment level to optimize production. No matter at what level you use Adexa’s planning solutions, financial metrics are displayed to show the financial ramifications of your operational decisions. From demand planning to network planning and multi Echelon inventory optimization to factory planning and even sequencing, all in one integrated environment, Adexa enables accurate modeling of the supply chain to the extent that each plan that is produced is 100% executable.Adexa’s Attribute Based Planning allows user-defined dynamic constraints and significantly enhances the speed of runs by orders of magnitude. Incremental planning and response planning as well as ATP/CTP are performed in sub-seconds. Ability to plan and execute flawlessly (i.e. S&OP and S&OE) is a unique feature of Adexa that Gartner defines as the 5th or the highest stage of Supply Chain Maturity. In addition to offering the most comprehensive planning solutions, Adexa has recently added Machine Learning and AI techniques in order to make its planning solutions to evolve to become Self-Correcting Supply Chain Planning® such that the system detects the underlying trends in the supply chain and automatically adjusts the model and the decisions made. This approach enables the supply chains to become much more risk-resilient and detect issues far ahead of time avoiding unnecessary risks which would otherwise be inevitable.Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Adexa has international offices across Canada, Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Adexa’s global customer base includes hundreds of industry leaders including; General Motors, Hitachi, Johnson & Johnson, Seagate, Hanes, Maytag, Philips, Morton Salt, Boehringer Ingleheim, Siemens, Boeing, Unilever, Schlumberger, Boeing, Panasonic, Toshiba, TSMC, Sharp Rainbow Chicken, and AMD. | $20M | Private Equity | Aug 28, 2000 |  |
| Partnerware | Partnerware maximizes speed-to-market™ for channel-focused companies with the leading B2B Partner Relationship Management (PRM) solution, delivering measurable channel results in Internet time. As a multi-channel sales approach becomes critical in delivering value-added solutions to the marketplace, the need for PRM has grown dramatically.Partnerware provides distinct benefits for companies looking to leverage the power of indirect - Faster channel execution (from channel recruiting to product launches)- Measurable results from partner programs, channel marketing funds, and partner sales efforts- Increased market responsiveness to leap frog and stay ahead of competition- Easy implementation by deploying Web-based Partner Relationship Management solutions in Internet time | $32M | Series B | Jul 11, 2000 |  |
| beenz.com | Beenz.com is an online marketing tool designed to attract and maintain the attention of online consumers. | $39.5M | Series B | Jun 07, 2000 |  |
| Campus Pipeline | Campus Pipeline™ creates a campus that never closes — a virtual face-to-face connection between the institution and its constituents. Campus Pipeline's open enterprise architecture effectively links students, faculty, alumni, and administrators to the information they need when they need it, making their jobs, academic endeavors, andeducational activities uniquely positive and powerful experiences.At the most basic level, every company is established to provide a solution to a problem in the marketplace. Campus Pipeline is no exception, and the problems facing their market— the higher education community.With these problems in mind, the Campus Pipeline solution was conceived in the spring of 1997 by their founders— Jeff Jones, William Borghetti, and Mitch Brinton. The company was officially incorporated in the summer of 1998 with a mission to revolutionize education by connecting the collegiate community.Now, backed by a remarkable network of corporate relationships and a growing number of committed and talented team members, Campus Pipeline is well on its way to achieving its vision and solving some of higher education's most serious problems. | $55M | Series B | Mar 30, 2000 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Dain Rauscher Wessels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dain-rauscher-wessels) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [3Com](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3com) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Adams Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adams-capital-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Advanced Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advanced-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Amerindo Investment Advisors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amerindo-investment-advisors) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Avaya](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avaya) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does DRW Venture Partners invest in?

DRW Venture Partners invests primarily in Internet, Software and E-Commerce startups, most often at Series B and Series C 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 DRW Venture Partners last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for DRW Venture Partners closed in Nov 2013. 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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