# Lucent Venture Partners

> Lucent Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Software and Internet. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Jan 2006
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.lucentventurepartners.com

Lucent Venture Partners is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Internet. Lucent Venture Partners, LLC. is a venture capital subsidiary of Lucent Technologies with offices in Palo Alto, California, Waltham, Massachusetts, Murray Hill, New Jersey and Reston, Virginia. Formed in 1998, the group invests in early-stage technology companies in high-growth communications areas such as optical, data and wireless networking,semiconductors, communications software, professional services and e-commerce.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 31% |
| Internet | 5 | 19% |
| Manufacturing | 5 | 19% |
| Telecommunications | 5 | 19% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 15% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 9 | 35% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 27% |
| Series C | 6 | 23% |
| Series A | 3 | 12% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 69% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Israel | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| John Hanley | Managing Partner | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kailight Photonics | Kailight Photonics develops optical modules for the telecommunications industry. It offers tunable optical signal regenerator, an optical component that operates with regenerators, optical switches, add/drop multiplexers, and cross-connects. The company's optical transmission, signal regeneration, and wavelength conversion technologyprovides optical-networking solutions for systems vendors. It provides its products to long-haul network market segments. The company, formerly known as Chilight Technologies, was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Rehovot, Israel with an additional office in Dallas, Texas. As of May 15, 2007, Kailight Photonics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Optium Corporation. | $4.5M | Series B | Jan 18, 2006 |  |
| BTI Systems | BTI delivers solutions that transform the economics, performance and innovation of global networks through intelligent networking software and systems. Leading content, cloud and service providers choose BTI to drive improved operational efficiencies and profitably deliver high-value services to businesses and consumers around the globe. With morethan 380 customers, BTI is headquartered in North America, and operates regional sales, marketing, and R&D centers of excellence throughout the world. | $16.4M | Series C | Jan 05, 2006 |  |
| Omneon | Omneon Video Networks, Inc. provides digital content storage and processing systems for media companies to enable production and distribution of digital video and audio. It develops, markets, and sells a range of video servers, active storage systems, and related software applications to ingest, process, store, manage, and deliver digital media invarious formats. The company's products include Spectrum video servers, MediaGrid active storage systems, and related software applications. Its Spectrum video server is optimized for real-time applications, such as multi-channel broadcast playout. The company's MediaGrid active storage system is used for file-based content storage and provides high-bandwidth simultaneous multi-user access to content, as well as incorporates grid computing capabilities, enabling integrated digital media processing functions, such as format conversion and quality control. Omneon Video Networks' products are integrated with complementary technologies and applications, and offers application programming interfaces. Its products are used by media companies, including multi-national media conglomerates, commercial and public broadcast television networks, content networks, satellite broadcasters, television service providers, local television stations, and mobile television providers. The company sells its products indirectly through system integrators and directly to end user customers in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. Omneon Video Networks was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. | $10.5M |  | Apr 16, 2004 |  |
| CipherMax | CipherMax, Inc. provides enterprise-class storage security solutions for securing information assets and achieving compliance with government regulations. The company offers CipherMax CM140T, a storage security system for tapes that provides line-speed encryption processing and centralized security administration solutions for legacy and LTO-4drives. It also provides CipherMax CM180D, a compact storage security system to integrate high performance encryption with SAN access control and 16-ports connectivity for fabric-based protection of sensitive data on disks; CipherMax CM250, an enterprise storage security system to integrate into existing SANs with 64-ports connectivity; and CipherMax CM500, a system for securing disk-based stored data for enterprise data centers with high port count storage environments. In addition, it offers SANCruiser, a secure storage management software for the management of systems, SAN, and security functions in an enterprise storage environment; and KeyCruiser, a key lifecycle management system for the secure administration of data encryption keys. CipherMax, Inc. was formerly known as MaXXan Systems, Inc. and changed its name to CipherMax, Inc. in 2007. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in San Jose, California. | $20M | Series C | Oct 10, 2003 |  |
| 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 |  |
| BayPackets | BayPackets' software enables wireless, wireline and cable operators to rapidly bundle and deliver enhanced voice and data services tailored to the needs of their business and consumer customers. Local, long-distance and broadband service providers rely on BayPackets' solutions to profitably expand their market share by efficientlyoperating new and existing network infrastructure via a single point. | $21.7M | Series C | Mar 10, 2003 |  |
| Alopa Networks | Alopa is a pioneer and leader in the design, development, and deployment of infrastructure software solutions for end-to-end activation, management, and assurance of digital services over cable. Alopa Networks has been an industry driver in developing operations support software (OSS) solutions for broadband service providers that acceleratetime-to-market for advanced network-based services and applications, including Internet telephone (VoIP), differentiated access, security, multimedia, and more. Alopa's combined family of products automates the complete life cycle of subscriber acquisition and service management by facilitating service creation, deployment, and assurance and security functions while, at the same time, accelerating revenue and lowering operating and capital expenses. Its flagship Alopa MetaServ(TM) platform is currently the only industry solution that automates the entire subscriber life cycle -- from equipment qualification through service creation and activation to customer support -- and integrates all layers of the IT infrastructure, including billing, order entry, customer care, and network management. It also provides secure provisioning for both PacketCable(TM) and CableHome(TM) networks, offering a framework for VoIP, multimedia services, and interactive gaming. | $12.5M | Series C | Jul 18, 2002 |  |
| Wayport | Wayport operates WiFi hotpots for partners since 1998 with key investors Seven Rosen Funds, New Enterprise Associates, Millennium Technology Ventures and Scale Venture Partners. | $15M |  | Mar 11, 2002 |  |
| Maxxan Systems | MaXXan Systems is the first company to create next-generation networking infrastructure technologies specifically to meet the needs of businesses deploying large-scale storage networks. Businesses at the enterprise level are faced with extreme data growth rates and spiraling costs for managing data. MaXXan products will bring more scalability,reliability and intelligence to storage networks while reducing the cost of management, deployment and ownership of those networks. | $20M | Series B | Oct 10, 2001 |  |
| CipherMax | CipherMax, Inc. provides enterprise-class storage security solutions for securing information assets and achieving compliance with government regulations. The company offers CipherMax CM140T, a storage security system for tapes that provides line-speed encryption processing and centralized security administration solutions for legacy and LTO-4drives. It also provides CipherMax CM180D, a compact storage security system to integrate high performance encryption with SAN access control and 16-ports connectivity for fabric-based protection of sensitive data on disks; CipherMax CM250, an enterprise storage security system to integrate into existing SANs with 64-ports connectivity; and CipherMax CM500, a system for securing disk-based stored data for enterprise data centers with high port count storage environments. In addition, it offers SANCruiser, a secure storage management software for the management of systems, SAN, and security functions in an enterprise storage environment; and KeyCruiser, a key lifecycle management system for the secure administration of data encryption keys. CipherMax, Inc. was formerly known as MaXXan Systems, Inc. and changed its name to CipherMax, Inc. in 2007. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in San Jose, California. | $20M | Series A | Oct 09, 2001 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Lucent Venture Partners invest in?

Lucent Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Internet and Manufacturing startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 26 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 Lucent Venture Partners?

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