# SunAmerica Ventures

> SunAmerica Ventures is a VC fund in Los Angeles backing Software and Information Technology. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Aug 2011
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.sunamericavc.com

SunAmerica Ventures is a VC fund in Los Angeles focused on Software and Information Technology. At SunAmerica Ventures, their goal is to build world-class technology companies by forming successful partnerships with outstanding entrepreneurs. They provide the experience, relationships and capital that growing companies need to succeed.SunAmerica Ventures offers entrepreneurs the opportunity to work with a small, experienced venturecapital team with the resources of a global financial services company. They know that speed is a requirement in today’s business environment and they have the ability to access these resources in a flexible, responsive manner.With a venture capital fund of $850 million, they can provide the capital necessary for almost any technology business. They also leverage a network of relationships that have grown out of their participation in more than 30 venture capital and private equity funds. Due to their involvement in these funds, they are able to provide their portfolio companies with broad market intelligence and expanded partnering opportunities.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 30% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 30% |
| Internet | 2 | 20% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 20% |
| Information Services | 2 | 20% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 5 | 50% |
| Series C | 2 | 20% |
| Series D | 2 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Link_A_Media Devices | Link_A_Media Devices (LAMD) is the new leader in developing and manufacturing custom System-on-Chip (SOC) solutions for peripheral data storage devices, which include hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state-drives (SSDs). The SoC solution integrates the Read/Write Channel, disk controller functions, microprocessor(s) and memories, and servoprocessing for HDD application on a single chip. | $16M | Series D | Aug 10, 2011 |  |
| Crownpeak | By joining forces with ActiveStandards, Crownpeak becomes the only cloud-first Digital Experience Management (DXM) platform with native Digital Quality Management (DQM).Crownpeak’s DXM platform, along with fully integrated DQM, works with nearly any technology, enabling companies to launch complex, dynamic, enterprise-scale sites in as littleas six weeks. This human-centered approach to technology is a whole new way to delight not just IT and marketing teams, but customers as well.In addition, Crownpeak is the only enterprise DXM platform purpose-built to scale as a company grows, simplifying the managing and deployment of global sites by any size team, across all digital touchpoints.Many of the world's largest brands including Shell, Hewlett-Packard, Sony, Nestle, Thomson Reuters and Oracle, rely on Crownpeak to deliver engaging experiences that delight customers, promote loyalty and deliver results. How can we help you?Trusted Technology and Expertise• Faster and easier deployment• Quick and easy upgrades• Lower Total Cost of Ownership• Unparalleled security and scalability• Visionary leadershipFounded in 2001, Crownpeak is a privately-held corporation based in Los Angeles, California. Crownpeak has been recognized by Gartner as a Web Content Management “Visionary” for its commitment cloud delivery, been named to EContent’s 100 Most Influential Companies list, and has won eWeek’s prestigious Analysts Choice Award and InfoWorld’s Product of the Year award. | $6M | Series B | Jun 01, 2008 |  |
| Link_A_Media Devices | Link_A_Media Devices (LAMD) is the new leader in developing and manufacturing custom System-on-Chip (SOC) solutions for peripheral data storage devices, which include hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state-drives (SSDs). The SoC solution integrates the Read/Write Channel, disk controller functions, microprocessor(s) and memories, and servoprocessing for HDD application on a single chip. | $22M | Series B | Apr 09, 2008 |  |
| Touchdown Technologies | Touchdown Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures, and supports MEMS probecards. The company offers ACCU-TORQ probe, a torsional contactor; and GIGA-TORQ probecards for DRAM applications. Its products support the production wafer test needs of semiconductor manufacturers. Touchdown Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as Integrated Micromachines,Inc. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Baldwin Park, California. | $22.1M | Series D | Feb 25, 2008 |  |
| Corus Pharma | Corus Pharma is a biotech and specialty drug company that focuses on respiratory and infectious diseases. In other words, it is a development stage biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the development and commercialization of novel applications and formulations of known therapeutics to treat severe respiratory diseases. The products of thecompany are Corus 1020 and 1030. Corus 1020 is designed to treat respiratory infections in cystic fibrosis patients, using an inhalable form of an antibiotic called aztreonam. Corus 1030 is inhaled lidocaine for the treatment of patients suffering from the severe persistent forms of asthma.Corus Pharma is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2001 and the company was acquired by Gilead Sciences on October 22, 2006. | $65M | Series C | Apr 13, 2004 |  |
| Verbind | Verbind is the leading supplier of real-time eMarketing solutions that empower firms to target customers, deliver messages, and build long-lasting profitable relationships with their customers. The end results are collaborative one-to-one personal interactive relationships on the basis of individual patterns of behavior. Verbind's real-timesolution produces the most complete and timely information for targeting who, what and when to communicate most effectively. By synthesizing and evaluating offline and online interactions, monitoring activity and non-activity, and automatically sending messages when they are most relevant, companies are able to not only track when customer behavioral trends reveal business opportunities and threats, but are also able to reach the right customer with the right message at the right time. That means messages are automatically delivered when the window of opportunity opens, not after it's shut. Even if that window is open for only an instant. This solution helps marketers manage and maximize the lifetime value of each customer, by developing personal relationships with customers who communicate with them through historically impersonal means, such as via the Internet and call centers. | $35M | Series C | Aug 02, 2000 |  |
| SeeCommerce | SeeCommerce enables business managers and trading partners to continuously manage and improve business performance. | $20M |  | Mar 21, 2000 |  |
| mValue.com | Los Angeles-based MVALUE.com, Inc. (www.MVALUE.com) was founded in 1999 to give web surfers privacy, control and cash while offering web retailers access to targeted customers in a privacy-protected environment. The Company's primary application the MVALUE Panel, serves as an on-line companion to consumers—protecting their privacy and enablingthem to earn cash when they surf the Net.Consumers are becoming more and more concerned with maintaining their personal privacy and controlling their personal information on the web. MVALUE.com has created a consumer-to-business marketplace where the consumer decides which companies get their data and what value they receive for exchanging it. Marketers are able to obtain online profiles of their actual customers, and their competitor's customers, in a permission based way. | $5.5M | Series B | Mar 09, 2000 |  |
| Creative Planet | Creative Planet is the leading provider of business-to-business Internet services and resources for creative professionals. With its suite of project management applications, production databases, information services and Internet resources, Creative Planet offers a powerful, comprehensive service enabling the creative process.Creative Planethas focused significant resources on improving efficiencies in the film, television, music video and commercial production process. The company is leveraging its industry-standard applications to create an end-to-end Internet-based production management solution and marketplace. | $25M | Series B | Oct 27, 1999 |  |
| Baseline StudioSystems | Studio Systems operates an online entertainment industry database and offers information services to the entertainment and media industries on a subscription basis.It offers Studio System, an online information system that allows retrieval of television and film information, including talent, representation, below and above the line credits,projects in various stages of development, contact information, box office, and ratings. The system also provides reports such as client rosters, literary sales, and location start/wrap dates. It offers its information system for international publicity, agency, production, film commission, studio, distributor, and third party vendor clients.It also offers ScriptLog, a script management system to manage the story department; and In Hollywood, which provides film industry professionals with information on films in development, relevant contact information, and the production scenes. In addition, it develops tools that facilitate entertainment companies to manage internal research.Based in Santa Monica, California, Studio Systems, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of The New York Times Company. | $25M | Series B | Oct 24, 1999 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ares Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ares-management) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [JPMorgan Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j-p-morgan-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Keynote Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keynote-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Adams Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adams-capital-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Altos Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altos-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anthem Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthem-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does SunAmerica Ventures invest in?

SunAmerica Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Internet startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 10 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 SunAmerica Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for SunAmerica Ventures closed in Aug 2011. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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