# Pond Ventures

> Pond Ventures is a VC fund in San Jose backing Wireless and Manufacturing. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Jose, United States
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Mar 2016
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/PondVentures
- Website: http://www.pondventures.com

Pond Ventures is an investment firm that provides venture capital and investments for tech startups and companies. It also provides its clients with services such as recruiting employees and building a network of customers, suppliers, and partners. Pond Ventures operates three teams in Silicon Valley, London, and Israel.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Wireless | 3 | 15% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 15% |
| Semiconductor | 3 | 15% |
| Mobile | 2 | 10% |
| Telecommunications | 2 | 10% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 20% |
| Series B | 3 | 15% |
| Series E | 2 | 10% |
| Series C | 1 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 10% |
| Spain | 1 | 5% |
| Israel | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jamie Urquhart | Venture Partner | 2 | — |
| Charles Irving | managing partner | 0 | — |
| Kent Godfrey | Partner | 0 | — |
| Sandra Ralston | Finance / Compliance Officer | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Constant Therapy Health | Constant Therapy Health is a next-generation digital therapeutics company that is improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and delivery of brain rehabilitation. Reaching beyond current clinical strategies, the company utilizes adaptive technology and AI to seamlessly integrate therapy into people’s lives. Its award-winning mobile app, ConstantTherapy, is a neurotechnology app for people with brain injury or cognitive disorders that helps them rebuild neural connections by putting the power of recovery in their hands. Constant Therapy offers direct access to clinically-proven exercises that can rebuild cognitive, speech, and language functions anywhere at any time. With over 140 million tasks completed to date by users, the platform has also created the world’s largest brain rehabilitation database, containing data and technology accessible to enterprises that can guide and evolve future therapy practices. | $2M | Series A | Mar 10, 2016 |  |
| ACCO Semiconductor | ACCO Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company that is empowering today's mobile communications products with advanced, high performance and cost compelling CMOS wireless solutions.Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California at the heart of 'Silicon Valley', ACCO has developed and patented a groundbreaking and highly innovativeCMOS technology. ACCO is applying this technology to provide highly integrated and cost compelling, high-efficiency CMOS power amplifier products for 2G/EDGE/3G/4G mobile handsets not previously considered possible using CMOS technology. | $11.1M | Series E | Mar 18, 2014 |  |
| Emefcy | Emefcy, Ltd. develops and manufactures a bio-energy system that produces energy in the form of electricity or hydrogen from wastewater. The company develops MEGAWATTERTM, a wastewater treatment solution based on microbial fuel cell technology that enables direct electricity generation or hydrogen production from wastewater as means for wastewatertreatment. Its system directly generates DC electricity by treating wastewater from industrial, agricultural, and municipal sources; performs water and wastewater de-nitrification without polluting the water with organic carbon and bacteria; generates electricity in lagoons and stabilization ponds; and directly produces hydrogen from wastewater. The company's solution is primarily used in pulp and paper, petrochemical processing, food and beverage, and agricultural industries. Emefcy, Ltd. was founded in 2007 and is based in Caesarea, Israel. |  |  | Jun 28, 2011 |  |
| Mirics Semiconductor | Mirics Semiconductor, Inc. offers semiconductors that enable global platform products for converged broadcast. It provides poly-band tuners for the consumer electronics and cell phone industries. The company also offers evaluation kits, which allow the evaluation of the tuners in a lab environment. Mirics Semiconductor was founded in 2004 andis based in Fleet, the United Kingdom with an additional office in Hampshire. | $13M |  | Jul 13, 2010 |  |
| picoChip | picoChip provides signal processing products for wireless communications. picoChip offers multi-core DSP, with widely deployed software-defined radio products and a growing range of cost- and performance-optimized ASSP devices. |  |  | Jun 14, 2010 |  |
| picoChip | picoChip provides signal processing products for wireless communications. picoChip offers multi-core DSP, with widely deployed software-defined radio products and a growing range of cost- and performance-optimized ASSP devices. |  | Series E | Nov 18, 2009 |  |
| Mirics Semiconductor | Mirics Semiconductor, Inc. offers semiconductors that enable global platform products for converged broadcast. It provides poly-band tuners for the consumer electronics and cell phone industries. The company also offers evaluation kits, which allow the evaluation of the tuners in a lab environment. Mirics Semiconductor was founded in 2004 andis based in Fleet, the United Kingdom with an additional office in Hampshire. | $7M |  | Jan 26, 2009 |  |
| Nanotech Semiconductor | Nanotech Semiconductor is a fabless chip company, designing and supplying Driver and Receiver ICs for the fiber-optics communications industry.Nanotech Semiconductor was founded in May 2003 by Gary Steele, co-founder and CEO of the UK's first Fabless Chip Company, Acapella Ltd. Gary was also the founder and CEO of Microcosm CommunicationsLtd., in 1995, the first company to deliver high-speed optical networking components based on pure-CMOS process technology. | $5M |  | Aug 12, 2008 |  |
| Gigle Networks | Gigle Semiconductor, Inc. is a startup fabless semiconductor company that develops system-on-chip integrated circuits for home networking applications. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Barcelona, Spain with an additional office in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. | $20M | Series B | Nov 28, 2007 |  |
| Mirics Semiconductor | Mirics Semiconductor, Inc. offers semiconductors that enable global platform products for converged broadcast. It provides poly-band tuners for the consumer electronics and cell phone industries. The company also offers evaluation kits, which allow the evaluation of the tuners in a lab environment. Mirics Semiconductor was founded in 2004 andis based in Fleet, the United Kingdom with an additional office in Hampshire. | $12M | Series B | Aug 06, 2007 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Pond Ventures invest in?

Pond Ventures invests primarily in Wireless, Manufacturing and Semiconductor startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 20 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 Pond Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Pond Ventures?

The team at Pond Ventures includes Jamie Urquhart (Venture Partner), Charles Irving (managing partner) and Kent Godfrey (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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