# Information Technology Ventures

> Information Technology Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Internet. See 31 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 31
- Last investment: Jul 2018
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.itventures.com/

Information Technology Ventures is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Internet. Information Technology Ventures researches and invests in information. Information Technology Ventures is a U.S.-based company that was founded by Sam Lee.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 29% |
| Internet | 4 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 13% |
| Wireless | 3 | 10% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 10% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 10 | 32% |
| Series C | 5 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 16% |
| Series A | 4 | 13% |
| Series D | 2 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sam Lee | Co - Founder & General Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-lee-4 |
| Sam Lee | Co - Founder & General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-lee-12 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rescale | Rescale is a cloud simulation platform that enables research scientists and engineers to build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations.The high-performance computing cloud platform delivers intelligent computing for digital R&D and enables more than 300 customers from startups to Fortune 50 enterprises to accelerate design cycles and time tomarket. Rescale gives research scientists and engineers the ability to run their simulation and artificial intelligence workloads on the cloud provider of their choice, using specialized hardware architectures and software templates optimized for their use cases, without any set-up or maintenance. Investors such as Initialized Capital, Keen Venture Partners, SineWave Ventures, Data Collective, ITV Ventures, Jump Capital, and M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures), as well as Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Quiet Capital, Streamlined Ventures, Translink Capital, Two Roads Group, Y Combinator, Hitachi Ventures, Nautilus Venture Partners, NVIDIA, Republic Labs, and Samsung Catalyst Fund backs Rescale.In 2011, Joris Poort and Adam McKenzie headquartered the company in San Francisco, California. | $32M | Series B | Jul 24, 2018 |  |
| Juvo | Juvo was founded with an overarching vision: to establish financial identities for the billions of people worldwide who are creditworthy, yet financially excluded. In partnership with mobile network operators, Juvo’s proprietary Identity Scoring technology uses data science, machine learning and game mechanics to create an identity-basedrelationship with anonymous prepaid users, opening up access to otherwise unattainable mobile financial services. Juvo is a privately held company backed by global business leaders and luminaries in the world of tech, mobile and finance. Its executive team comprises accomplished industry leaders across the data science, consumer internet, financial services and mobile telecom fields. | $14M | Series A | Sep 09, 2016 |  |
| SkyBitz | SkyBitz, Inc., a mobile asset management company, delivers real-time tracking and information management solutions. It provides system hardware, such as mobile terminals, power management, and sensors. The company also offers service plans, including Basic Tracking that provides location reporting based on a configurable schedule; and Smart SensorTracking, which incorporates a patented Smart Sensor in the GLS 210. In addition, it offers SkyBitz Partner and Leasing Application, a hosted solution that provides leasing companies the ability to track the location of unleased assets, as well as access to tracking solutions for their leasing customers. The company serves transportation, rail, intermodal, marine, energy, and heavy equipment industries. SkyBitz, Inc. was formerly known as Eagle Eye, Inc. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Sterling, Virginia. | $10M | Series D | Feb 07, 2007 |  |
| Monterey Design Systems | Monterey Design Systems provides electronic design automation (EDA) software that enables integrated circuit designers to take their circuits from completed logic design to manufacturing ready output. | $10.2M |  | Jul 30, 2003 |  |
| 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. | $15M | Series E | Aug 23, 2002 |  |
| Virtual Silicon Technology | Virtual Silicon Technology is a provider of SIP solutions to manufacturers and designers of system-on-chip semiconductors. | $20M | Series C | Feb 11, 2002 |  |
| Monterey Design Systems | Monterey Design Systems provides electronic design automation (EDA) software that enables integrated circuit designers to take their circuits from completed logic design to manufacturing ready output. | $20M |  | Feb 08, 2002 |  |
| StarVOX | StarVox products are sold and serviced through major solution providers such as Hewlett Packard as a complete, factory-integrated IP telephony solution for service providers. The HP/StarVox Next Generation Telephony Solution combines StarVox software with HP's Open Call Multi Controller application platforms and Cisco Powered Networkequipment, making it a carrier-grade, industry-standard solution that will allow a full range of value-added services and upgrades | $10M | Series D | Dec 03, 2001 |  |
| Ishoni Networks | Ishoni Networks develops broadband engines for residential and business customers. | $35M | Series C | Mar 05, 2001 |  |
| Chameleon Systems | Chameleon Systems is a privately held fabless semiconductor company that designs, markets and sells programmable system-on-a-chip solutions for the communications electronics markets. Headquartered in San Jose, California, the company has developed the industry´s first reconfigurable communications processor (RCP)--an ideal solution fordata-intensive Internet, DSP, wireless basestations, voice compression, software-defined radio, and other high-performance embedded telecom and datacom applications. The Chameleon RCP solution allows data and telecom equipment vendors to create customized communications signal processors to increase performance and channel count, more quickly adapt to new requirements and standards, reduce time-to-market, lower development costs and reduce risk. | $47M | Series C | Feb 05, 2001 |  |

10 of 31 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Information Technology Ventures invest in?

Information Technology Ventures invests primarily in Software, Internet and Information Technology startups, most often at Series B and Series C 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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### Who are the partners at Information Technology Ventures?

The team at Information Technology Ventures includes Sam Lee (Co - Founder & General Partner) and Sam Lee (Co - Founder & General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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