# Legend Ventures

> Legend Ventures is a VC fund backing Web Hosting and Telecommunications. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bethesda, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- Website: http://www.legendventures.com

Legend Ventures is a VC fund in Bethesda focused on Web Hosting and Telecommunications. Legend Ventures invests in early-stage New Media, Telecommunications and Information Technology Companies.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Legend Ventures. Shizune tracks 4 team members at Legend Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/legend-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Web Hosting | 2 | 40% |
| Telecommunications | 2 | 40% |
| Video | 1 | 20% |
| Internet | 1 | 20% |
| Security | 1 | 20% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 3 | 60% |
| Angel | 1 | 20% |
| Series B | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 80% |
| China | 1 | 20% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cal Simmons | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cal-simmons |
| Danny Krifcher | Partner | 0 | — |
| Duncan Butler | Managing Director | 0 | — |
| Verne Harnish | Partner | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Thin Red Line | Thin Red Line dedicates the software and hardware opportunities of the AR track. | $50M | Angel | Nov 23, 2022 | https://www.thinredline.com.cn/ |
| Sezmi | The company has been developing a video entertainment platform that aggregates content from a variety of sources-traditional TV programming, HDTV, movies, internet video, and on-demand viewing- and allows personalization and advanced navigation. Building B, in plans to roll out the platform currently, claims that the platform does not require a PC or additional infrastructure to implement. The company's management team contains prior senior executives from entertainment companies CBS, NBC, MTV Networks, Nickelodeon, Paramount, Showtime and Viacom. | $25M | Series C | Nov 16, 2009 | http://www.sezmi.com |
| Aztek Networks | Aztek Networks is a supplier of telecommunications products that allow service providers to consolidate the number of legacy voice switches in network while providing a migration path to IP broadband networks. Aztek's 5000-series products allow service providers, through switch consolidation, to reduce operating costs associated with theirolder switches while maintaining reliable voice connectivity. Aztek Networks draws on its 25-year heritage as Aztek Engineering to bring patented ESA switch and migration products to the telecommunications industry. Aztek's mission is to provide solutions to telecommunications service providers that address the balance between declining wireline subscribers and the costs of maintaining and operating reliable legacy voice networks. | $7.5M | Series B | Aug 22, 2007 | http://www.azteknetworks.net |
| Arxan Technologies | Arxan, a global trusted leader providing the industry’s most comprehensive application protection solutions, works with organizations looking to protect critical applications that deployed “into the wild.” Arxan currently protects more than one billion application instances across many industries including financial services, mobile payments,healthcare,automotive, gaming, and entertainment. Unlike legacy security providers that relying on perimeter-based barriers to keep bad actors out or that require device management controls, Arxan products protect at the application-level from the inside out. This approach protects the source and binary code to expand the corporate perimeter of trust. Arxan provides a broad range of patented security capabilities such as a dynamic app policy engine, code hardening, obfuscation, white-box cryptography and encryption, and threat analytics. | $13M | Series C | Mar 05, 2007 | http://arxan.com/ |
| Overture Networks | Overture Networks develops and manufactures high-speed carrier ethernet edge and aggregation solutions. Its products combine packet-switched and circuit-switched areas into a single architecture-at cost points to offer carrier Ethernet services to any size location over copper, fiber, or optical transport. | $7.5M | Series C | Jun 01, 2006 | http://www.overturenetworks.com |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [TDF Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tdf-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Morgenthaler Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morgenthaler-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ATM Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atm-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BlueRun Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bluerun-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DJI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dji) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [EDF Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edf-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Legend Ventures invest in?

Legend Ventures invests primarily in Web Hosting, Telecommunications and Video startups, most often at Series C and Angel stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Legend Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Legend Ventures?

The team at Legend Ventures includes Cal Simmons (Partner), Danny Krifcher (Partner) and Duncan Butler (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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