John Cadeddu
Managing Director @ Duff, Ackerman and Goodrich
San Francisco, United States
John Cadeddu is a Series B investor at Duff, Ackerman and Goodrich in San Francisco focused on Software and Hardware. John Cadeddu is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of DAG Ventures and the Co-Founder and General Partner of Corner Ventures. Prior to joining DAG in 1999, John was a Managing Director at Amsterdam Pacific, an investment bank specializing in media and telecommunications.While at Amsterdam Pacific Corporation, John worked with BBU Mezzanine FundI and BBU Mezzanine Fund II, where he sourced, supported and exited mezzanine investments across a number of industries.Previously, John worked at Octel Communications (now Lucent Technologies) and Tandem Computers (now H-P) in marketing and strategic planning roles He also worked at JP Morgan in both capital markets and corporate finance.John received a B.A. from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. John led DAG II's investments into Raza Microelectronics, Agami, Tropos Networks, Qlusters, Centrata, Kovio, Pedestal Networks, Trapeze Networks, Topspin Communications and Entrisphere.He also serves on the board at Trapeze Networks, Qlusters, Pedestal Networks and Entrisphere.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 42%
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Industries John Cadeddu invests in
Stages John Cadeddu invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (33%)
- Hardware 2 (17%)
- Internet 2 (17%)
- SaaS 1 (8%)
- AgTech 1 (8%)
Stage
- Series B 5 (42%)
- Series C 4 (33%)
- Series D 3 (25%)
Country
- United States 6 (50%)
- Israel 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Beewise offers robotic beehives that operate with minimal human intervention, by utilizing AI-powered precision robotics. The company's solution automates all beekeeping activities in order to increase yield, reduce colony loss, and eliminate the use of chemical pesticides. We are the first comprehensive solution that keeps bees alive, inspite of all the stressors and challenges they face, allowing them to thrive, pollinate, and produce honey. | $80M / Series C / Mar 30, 2022 | ||
| Fabric enables retailers to offer same-day delivery at profitable unit economics, empowering retailers to drive revenue and customer loyalty with a network of micro-fulfillment centers that serve as local inventory hubs, close to end-customers. Leveraging advanced software, robotics, and automation, Fabric’s solution empowers retailers todrastically improve their consumer experience while improving operational efficiency and driving costs down. | $110M / Series B / Feb 25, 2020 | ||
| Eventbrite develops an online platform that lets users find and create events. Its platform helps them plan events, such as event academies, classes and workshops, conferences, endurance, food and drink, music, nonprofits and fundraisers, performing and visual arts, politics, and reunions. Eventbrite's platform also lets users sell tickets,register online, post events, manage events online, register for events for free online, and search San Francisco events. Moreover, the company offers mobile application opportunities. | $20M / Series D / Oct 06, 2010 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Spatial Photonics develops and manufactures microdisplays for business and consumer projection display applications. Its microdisplays comprise reflective digital light modulators that control and modulate the light intensity. | $26M / Series B / Aug 31, 2007 | ||
| As of July 14, 2008, Qlusters, Inc. went out of business. Qlusters, Inc. Qlusters, Inc. provides data center technology and services. The company offers openQRM, a data center provisioning and management software for software provisioning and managing virtual environments. Qlusters, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is based in Palo Alto, Californiawith additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel; and New York, New York. | $10.4M / Series C / Aug 08, 2007 | ||
| 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. | $17M / Series C / Jan 29, 2007 | ||
| 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. | $13M / Series B / Jan 31, 2006 | ||
| As of July 14, 2008, Qlusters, Inc. went out of business. Qlusters, Inc. Qlusters, Inc. provides data center technology and services. The company offers openQRM, a data center provisioning and management software for software provisioning and managing virtual environments. Qlusters, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is based in Palo Alto, Californiawith additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel; and New York, New York. | $16M / Series B / Aug 08, 2004 | ||
| netVmg is an intelligent route control software company that enables companies to control internet performance levels in order to achieve business objectives such as cost reduction and application performance improvement.The company’s product portfolio includes hardware platforms such as the FCP 500 for mid-sized enterprises, and the FCP 100for smaller sites.netVmg was founded in May 2000 and was acquired by Internap Newtwork Services Corporation in 2003. | $5.6M / Series D / Mar 04, 2003 | ||
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About Duff, Ackerman and Goodrich
Duff Ackerman & Goodrich ("DAG") is a private investment firm formed in 1991. They manage private equity and venture capital funds.
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What does John Cadeddu invest in?
John Cadeddu invests primarily in Software, Hardware and Internet startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 12 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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