# J & W Seligman

> J & W Seligman is a VC fund in New York backing Internet, Software and E-Commerce. See 47 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 47
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/columbiamgmt
- Website: http://www.seligman.com

J & W Seligman is a VC fund in New York focused on Internet and Software. Seligman's commitment to the development of innovative investment products — including the nation's first growth mutual fund, pioneering single-state municipal funds, and one of the country's premier technology funds — defines their past and informs their future. Their ongoing research into the nature of investment risk — begunin the early 1990s — has resulted in the Seligman Time Horizon Matrix® asset allocation strategy that redefines the relationship between risk and reward over time. The strategy offers investors a variety of investment solutions for goals ranging from college savings to retirement planning. Whether you select Seligman for one investment product, or as a comprehensive asset manager, they believe they can help you reach your goals.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 15 | 32% |
| Software | 10 | 21% |
| E-Commerce | 7 | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 6 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 13% |

72 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 16 | 34% |
| Funding Round | 13 | 28% |
| Series B | 8 | 17% |
| Series D | 4 | 9% |
| Private Equity | 4 | 9% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| EPIC Microsystems | Epic Microsystems develops advanced technology that boosts energy efficiency and computing performance in data centers. | $21M | Series A | Mar 25, 2026 |  |
| Silver Peak Systems, Inc. | Silver Peak products give you the power to quickly migrate to an enterprise-grade WAN that leverages the Internet, while dramatically improving application performance and lowering networking costs.Silver Peak software unifies the cloud, the Internet and the enterprise WAN on a single fabric. This provides IT with complete visibility and controlover the new cloud-driven network while ensuring consistent performance for every enterprise and Software as a Service (SaaS) application. Silver Peak solves network bandwidth, distance and quality challenges, which helps customers backup and recover more data in less time, gain faster access to cloud and enterprise applications, and safely migrate enterprise apps from costly, complex private links to the Internet. Unlike traditional WAN optimization, Silver Peak correlates information about cloud services and Internet weather to intelligently route traffic over a secure, optimal path. Silver Peak deploys quickly and easily on any hypervisor and can save customers up to 80% in WAN optimization costs by switching to a Silver Peak software subscription. | $21M | Series D | Jan 15, 2008 |  |
| ZettaCom | ZettaCom, Inc. manufactures and supplies chipset solutions to core multi-service switch and router original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). | $19.2M | Series C | Jul 09, 2003 |  |
| Double-Take Software | Double-Take Software offers affordable workload optimization products that are simple to use and enable you to move workloads for migration, continuously backup and recover data and applications, ensure workload availability or easily manage desktop and server workloads in physical and virtual environments, regardless of platform or location. | $15M | Series B | Jan 14, 2003 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Nextest Systems | Nextest Systems Corporation was founded in 1997 and shipped its first product in 1998. Nextest is a low-cost leader in the design and manufacture of ATE for non-volatile memory, microcontrollers, ASIC and System-On-a-Chip (SOC) semiconductors. Nextest's products address the growing demand from manufacturers for testing equipment with increasedthroughput, reliability, functionality and capacity, while reducing the time to market and cost of test. The company employs approximately 150 employees with sales and support offices worldwide. To date, Nextest has shipped over 1000 systems globally! | $20M |  | Dec 18, 2001 |  |
| Metro Optix | Metro-Optix develops hardware for telecommunications companies that want to transition from circuit-based services to cell- and packet-based services. The hardware essentially reduces the number of hardware boxes needed, such as routers, which the networks feed into. | $54M | Series C | Oct 10, 2001 |  |
| Acta technology | Acta technology offers enterprises with a real-time data integration platform that enables them to communicate with their customers, suppliers, employees, and partners. Acta technology is acquired by Business Objects. Acta technology was founded in 1997 and is based in Mountain View, California. | $25M |  | Aug 08, 2001 |  |
| ZettaCom | ZettaCom, Inc. manufactures and supplies chipset solutions to core multi-service switch and router original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). | $47.5M | Series B | Jun 19, 2001 |  |
| Telenisus | Telenisus is a technology firm that provides e-commerce internet solutions to its clients. It was founded in 1999 and is based in Illinois. | $45M | Series C | Apr 03, 2001 |  |

10 of 47 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Integral Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/integral-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Goldman Sachs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goldman-sachs) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Amerindo Investment Advisors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amerindo-investment-advisors) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- BancBoston Ventures — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Chase Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chase-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does J & W Seligman invest in?

J & W Seligman invests primarily in Internet, Software and E-Commerce startups, most often at Series C and Funding Round stage. Most of the 47 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 J & W Seligman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for J & W Seligman closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 47 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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