# RWI Group

> RWI Group is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Software, Internet and Education. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Dec 2004
- Lead investor: 21%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://rwigroup.com/

RWI Group is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Internet. Provides venture capital and expertise to early-stage, technology-based businesses specializing in communications.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 29% |
| Internet | 2 | 14% |
| Education | 2 | 14% |
| Health Care | 2 | 14% |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 14% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 29% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 21% |
| Series A | 2 | 14% |
| Series D | 2 | 14% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Barosense | BaroSense is committed to develop and commercialize novel anti-obesity products that provide a meaningful contribution to this leading healthcare problem facing the United States today. BaroSense was conceived in order to create a safe, simple, effective, and minimally invasive alternative to the surgical treatment of obesity - an innovativeapproach to assist those people who need help beyond traditional diets, and who wish to avoid extensive, irreversible surgery. | $6.2M | Series B | Dec 22, 2004 |  |
| BlueArc | BlueArc is a leading provider of high performance unified network storage systems to enterprise markets, as well as data intensive markets, such as electronic discovery, entertainment, federal government, higher education, Internet services, oil and gas and life sciences. Their products support both network attached storage, or NAS, and storagearea network, or SAN, services on a converged network storage platform. Aquired by HDS as of September 7th 2011. | $47M | Series D | Jul 18, 2003 |  |
| Dexcom | DexCom, Inc. is a leader in continuous glucose sensing technologies, and focuses 100% on these technologies. Founded in 1999, DexCom’s roots stem from the pioneering 1967 research on implanted glucose sensors at the University of Wisconsin. DexCom started with a focus on creating an implantable Sensor that the body would not reject and that wouldperform for a long period of time. | $30M | Series C | Jun 03, 2002 |  |
| iReady | iReady is a manufacturing company that specializes in developing silicon based TCP/IP stack processing solutions. Their products are HDL designed implementations that can be reused in OEM designs. The company's patented TCP/IP stack technology provides full transport off-load for high performance Ethernet networking.iReady wasfounded by Mike Johnson in 1996 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. | $19M |  | Apr 02, 2002 |  |
| Cybrant | Cybrant provides configuration, pricing, quoting, guided selling, and solution design software applications. The company’s software applications are used to simplify the sale of complex products, services, and solutions. Cybrant was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. | $14M | Series C | Mar 13, 2001 |  |
| Xporta | Founded in 1999 and based in Santa Clara, Calif. - the heart of Silicon Valley - Xporta was started to make commerce more effective by delivering a real-time Universal Landed Cost solution that accurately reflects the total delivered costs of goods both domestically and internationally, while taking into account source, destination and routing.Through innovative integration of proprietary technology and partnerships with industry leaders, Xporta provides automated calculation of shipping, insurance, taxes, duties and other charges via a fully hosted and maintained solution. | $15.5M | Series B | Jan 10, 2001 |  |
| Pluris | Pluris is defining the next-generation IP core infrastructure. The Teraplex architecture's scalability, fault-tolerance, and performance deliver service providers a future free of forklift upgrades. | $100M | Series D | Nov 09, 2000 |  |
| Tsola | Tsola was founded on the idea that useful information is still too hard to find. Yes, there are mobile phones, pagers, PDAs and laptops. And yes, the Internet has made infinitely more data available. But ultimately, the burden of finding the right information still rests squarely on the shoulders of end users. Internet navigation is stillcumbersome. And most information isn't personalized or integrated. | $9M | Series A | Jul 25, 2000 |  |
| nQuire Software | nQuire Software started with a revolutionary vision: to combine the power of people, information, and the Internet to profoundly change the blueprint of decision making forever. This was realized by a team of visionaries and industry-leading technologists who blended their experience in creating some of the industry's most successful andinnovative Internet and enterprise solutions. Together, they've created a new generation of technology that makes it as easy to access the structured data needed for decision making as it is to get information via the Web.nQuire Software, Inc. is Revolutionizing Decision Making for the Internet era. | $8.5M | Series B | Jun 12, 2000 |  |
| iReady | iReady is a manufacturing company that specializes in developing silicon based TCP/IP stack processing solutions. Their products are HDL designed implementations that can be reused in OEM designs. The company's patented TCP/IP stack technology provides full transport off-load for high performance Ethernet networking.iReady wasfounded by Mike Johnson in 1996 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. | $20M |  | May 30, 2000 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Crescendo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crescendo-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Bay Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bay-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- Telos Venture Partners — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- St. Paul Venture Capital — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ABN AMRO Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abn-amro) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Alliance Capital Ventures — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does RWI Group invest in?

RWI Group invests primarily in Software, Internet and Education startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 14 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 RWI Group last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for RWI Group closed in Dec 2004. Shizune tracks 14 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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