# Sun Microsystems

> Sun Microsystems is a VC fund backing Software and Enterprise Software. See 16 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Clara, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Jan 2008
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/sun-microsystems_1062
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/sunmicrosystems
- Website: http://www.sun.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oracle

Sun Microsystems is a multinational vendor of computers, computer software and hardware, and information technology services. Sun is a proponent of open systems in general and UNIX in particular and a major contributor of open source software. Sun filed its initial public offering on March 4, 1986, and it used the stock symbol SUNW until 2007,when it began to use JAVA to promote brand recognition. Sun was purchased by

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 56% |
| Enterprise Software | 4 | 25% |
| Telecommunications | 3 | 19% |
| Content | 2 | 13% |
| Big Data | 2 | 13% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 6 | 38% |
| Series C | 5 | 31% |
| Series B | 1 | 6% |
| Series D | 1 | 6% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 75% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |
| France | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bob Stephens | Team Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-stephens |
| Daniel Fedick | Primary Support Engineer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-fedick |
| Daniel Miller | Senior Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-miller-5 |
| Greg Sitters | Team Member | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-sitters |
| Martin Flynn | Software development, Project management, and web application development | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martin-flynn |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Greenplum Software | Greenplum, Inc., a data warehousing company, develops database software for business intelligence and data warehousing applications. It offers Greenplum Database that supports multi-terabyte data warehousing demands; and Greenplum Network, a customer and partner portal that delivers instant download access to database products. The companyprimarily serves telecommunications and banking industries. | $27M | Series C | Jan 01, 2008 |  |
| ServiceSource | ServiceSource International, Inc. (NASDAQ: SREV) is the global leader in recurring revenue management. By leveraging big data to give companies a complete view of their customers, ServiceSource’s cloud application Renew OnDemand and managed services offerings drive higher subscription, maintenance, and support revenue, improved customerretention, and increased business predictability. By integrating cloud services, managed services and renewal-ready data, ServiceSource provides end-to-end management and optimization of the recurring revenue process, including data management, quoting, selling, and business intelligence. As of December 31, 2013, ServiceSource managed over 145 engagements across more than 70 customers, representing over $11 billion in recurring revenue opportunity under management. On average, ServiceSource customers increase renewal rates by 15 points and increase sales efficiency by 20%. | $66M | Private Equity | Jan 30, 2007 |  |
| Syndeo Corporation | Syndeo Corporation was formed in 1999 to empower communications providers like cable operators to drive additional value over their next-generation converged networks by offering VoIP (voice-over-IP) services. The company's Syion Call Management Server combines revenue-generating features with a carrier-grade softswitch platform thatscales linearly to large numbers of subscribers. Syndeo has raised $98 million to date from a consortium of cable operators, strategic, and financial investors. | $75M | Series C | Apr 15, 2002 |  |
| DynamicSoft | DynamicSoft provides carrier-class infrastructure software for packet-based wireline and wireless communications networks. The company's infrastructure solutions enable carriers and communications application service providers to deploy telephony applications and converged services over Internet protocol-based networks. Its dynamicsoft ServiceEngine allows mobile carriers to deliver voice and data services over packet network, as well as provides a migration path to various IP 3G network environments; supports various services, such as voice, multimedia messaging, instant messaging, and presence; and consolidates common functions, which include customer data storage, authentication, authorization, provisioning, and service interaction. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in East Hanover, New Jersey. | $18M | Series C | Mar 15, 2002 |  |
| Timesys Corporation | Timesys is a pioneer and industry leader in open source software security, development tools, and engineering services and consulting, spanning the embedded software market. With Timesys’ expertise, OEMs, ODMs, and design houses cut development costs and accelerate time-to-market for devices and IoT systems and applications using embedded Linux,Android, FreeRTOS, Zephyr, and other open source solutions. | $15.5M |  | Mar 11, 2002 |  |
| Mellanox Technologies | Mellanox Technologies is a supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for servers and storage that optimize data center performance. Mellanox products deliver market-leading bandwidth, performance, scalability, power conservation and cost-effectiveness while converging multiple legacy network technologies into one future-proof solution. Forthe best in performance and scalability, Mellanox is the choice for Fortune 500 data centers and the world's most powerful supercomputers. Founded in 1999, Mellanox Technologies is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and Yokneam, Israel. | $56M | Series C | Feb 11, 2002 |  |
| Embedix | Embedix is focused on the development of natural flax fibers in composite applications. It offers FlaxTape, FlaxPly, FlaxPreg, and FlaxPreg T-UD. Embedix was acquired by Metrowerks Inc in December 2002. Embedix was founded in July 1999. | $20M |  | Aug 20, 2001 |  |
| Graviton | Graviton, Inc. was a high-tech, privately-held, development-stage company located in La Jolla, California. Graviton was a pioneer in the emerging “sensornetics” industry – producing small, aspirin-sized sensors to expand the capacity of the public and private sectors to manage buildings, infrastructure, and other elements of the engineered world.Graviton developed sensor technology to keep managers informed, used wireless communications to provide operations data and real-time connections, and provided managed information services to keep managers in control. Graviton’s integrated solutions were designed to expand the “common sense” of managers and decision-makers at every level by generating, transmitting, and managing new data to provide more accurate, timely, and actionable intelligence to better inform everyday decision-making. In 2003, Graviton merged with Xsilogy, a provider of wireless sensor network technologies and applications. | $35M | Series D | Aug 14, 2001 |  |
| Andes Networks | Andes Networks, a provider of next generation SSL acceleration platforms, has introduced a dramatic set of breakthrough technologies for SSL-accelerated traffic on the Internet. | $22M | Series B | Feb 12, 2001 |  |
| Cygent | Cygent is the first Internet software company to offer a comprehensive eBusiness Support System (eBSS) for the communications industry. They link wholesalers and retailers of communications services to each other and to their customers across all interaction points. They create a speed-to-market advantage for communications service providers byaccelerating their move to online business and enabling rapid deployment of new products and services. | $40M | Series C | Jul 26, 2000 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Sun Microsystems invest in?

Sun Microsystems invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Telecommunications startups, most often at Funding Round and Series C stage. Most of the 16 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 Sun Microsystems?

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### Who are the partners at Sun Microsystems?

The team at Sun Microsystems includes Bob Stephens (Team Member), Daniel Fedick (Primary Support Engineer) and Daniel Miller (Senior Vice President), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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