# TI Ventures

> TI Ventures is a VC fund in Dallas backing Internet and Software. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dallas, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Oct 2021
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/texas-instruments/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/txinstruments
- Website: http://www.ti.com/tiventures
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/texasinstruments

TI Ventures is a VC fund in Dallas focused on Internet and Software. TI Ventures operates as an investment arm of advanced processor and networking technologies, sensors and low-power wireless technologies, energy management, energy harvesting, and semiconductor-based cleantech solutions.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series C | $6.5M–$12M |
| Series D | $4M–$26M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 2 | 18% |
| Software | 2 | 18% |
| Semiconductor | 2 | 18% |
| Internet Radio | 2 | 18% |
| Telecommunications | 2 | 18% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series D | 3 | 27% |
| Series C | 2 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 18% |
| Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Series B | 1 | 9% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 64% |
| Israel | 1 | 9% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 9% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Charlie Tobin | Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charlie-tobin |
| Jean-Louis Trochu | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jean-louis-trochu |
| Madison Pedigo | Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mr-madison-pedigo |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BigOmics | BigOmics Analytics offers a cloud-based self-service data analytics platform for the healthcare industry. | $1.4M | Seed | Oct 01, 2021 |  |
| BigOmics | BigOmics Analytics offers a cloud-based self-service data analytics platform for the healthcare industry. | $430K | Seed | Mar 05, 2021 |  |
| NetEffect Sytems | NetEffect, Inc. operates as a network connectivity solutions company. The company develops and provides multi-gigabit Ethernet products. It offers iWARP Ethernet Channel Adapters, which simplify datacenter management by enabling a single, consolidated fabric for networking, storage, and clustering applications. The company's products implementIETF for Ethernet, while maintaining with existing Ethernet infrastructure in data center. It also provides data networking, cluster computing, and storage networking solutions. The company has strategic partnerships with ABAQUS; Blade.org; Ciara Technologies; Critical Software; Evergrid; Force10 Networks; Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc.; Fulcrum Microsystems; HP BladeSystem Solution Builder; Quadrics; VMware; and Woven Systems. The company was formerly known as Banderacom, Inc. and changed its name to NetEffect, Inc. in 2004. NetEffect, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Austin, Texas. On August 27, 2008, NetEffect Inc. filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. As of October 14, 2008, NetEffect, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Intel Corporation. | $12M | Series C | May 08, 2007 |  |
| Fulcrum Microsystems | Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, provides interconnect devices for storage, computing and networking backplane, and interconnect applications in the United States and internationally. The company’s products include FocalPoint, which includes Ethernet switch/router chips; ControlPoint Software Suite that comprisesEthernet bridging, switching, and routing software modules; and PivotPoint SPI-4.2 Interconnect Chip that provides interconnection packet and protocol processing resources on a line card. It serves the original equipment manufacturers. Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc., formerly known as Asynchronous Digital Design, was founded in 2000 and is based in Calabasas, California. | $16.8M | Series D | Mar 02, 2007 |  |
| SURF Communication Solutions | SURF Communication Solutions (SURF) is an industry leader in high-capacity multimedia processing solutions. Since 1996, SURF has designed, developed, and marketed high-density, multimedia processing technologies in a wide variety of formats, for telecommunication infrastructure, military deployments and CTI applications.SURF’s products havedelivered the integral technology behind many of the leading vendor’s multimedia servers and gateways and have been deployed to operators and service providers worldwide. SURF-powered multimedia applications are delivering next-gen services to millions of end-users every day.SURF's new SURF-HMP is a multimedia communications platform for NFV/SDN and next-gen WebRTC/LTE deployments. | $8M |  | Aug 02, 2006 |  |
| SURF Communication Solutions | SURF Communication Solutions (SURF) is an industry leader in high-capacity multimedia processing solutions. Since 1996, SURF has designed, developed, and marketed high-density, multimedia processing technologies in a wide variety of formats, for telecommunication infrastructure, military deployments and CTI applications.SURF’s products havedelivered the integral technology behind many of the leading vendor’s multimedia servers and gateways and have been deployed to operators and service providers worldwide. SURF-powered multimedia applications are delivering next-gen services to millions of end-users every day.SURF's new SURF-HMP is a multimedia communications platform for NFV/SDN and next-gen WebRTC/LTE deployments. | $4M | Series D | Oct 19, 2005 |  |
| Speakeasy | Speakeasy is one of the nation's leading broadband voice (VoIP), data and IT service providers. Speakeasy helps small businesses succeed by offering simplified voice and data solutions that improve the customer experience, increase employee productivity and help cut costs. Based in Seattle, Speakeasy has provided award-winning customer servicesince 1994 and joined the Best Buy family of companies in April 2007, working with Best Buy For Business to champion technology for small businesses throughout the U.S. | $6.5M | Series C | Aug 15, 2002 |  |
| Corero Network Security | Corero Network Security is dedicated to improving the security of the Internet through the deployment of its innovative First Line of Defense® DDoS protection solutions. Corero SmartWall® Threat Defense System provides their customers with real-time protection against a continuously evolving spectrum of DDoS attacks that have the potential toimpact any Internet connected business. Corero provides the opportunity to enhance defense-in-depth security architectures with an important additional layer of security capable of inspecting traffic arriving from the Internet and alerting and or blocking attack traffic before it impacts your environment.The goal of the Corero First Line of Defense DDoS protection solution is to protect the customer’s network infrastructure, online services and confidential data against DDoS attacks. Corero solutions are designed to be always on providing automatic attack mitigation with continuous threat visibility and network forensics. The Corero First Line of Defense solution provides comprehensive, real-time DDoS protection against the latest breed of attacks, including network and application layer DDoS attacks, volumetric, multi-vector attacks and access attempts from IP addresses with a bad reputation or from unwanted geo-locations. These varied cyber-threats have the potential to challenge traditional network security defenses and compromise networks.With varied mitigation bandwidth licensing options, Corero provides the most comprehensive peer-point protection, at industry disrupting economic scale. Corero real-time DDoS protection can be obtained at a fraction of traditional solutions. | $25.7M | Series D | Aug 08, 2000 |  |
| iBiquity Digital Corporation | IBiquity Digital develops and licenses a digital HD Radio technology for AM and FM audio and data broadcasting in the United States and internationally. Its HD radio technology allows digital radio signals to ride the same airwaves as analog AM and FM radio broadcasts. The company provides a Gigaware Navigation Control HD Radio Receiver accessoryand a Gigaware HD Radio application for iPhone and iPod touch users to receive HD Radio FM broadcasts. iBiquity Digital Corporation was formerly known as USA Digital Radio, Inc. The company was founded in 1991 and is based in Columbia, Maryland, with additional offices in Basking Ridge, New Jersey; and Pontiac, Michigan. | $41M |  | May 09, 2000 |  |
| USA Digital Radio | USA Digital Radio is a developer of digital audio broadcast technology or iDABTM. | $41M | Private Equity | May 02, 2000 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Granite Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/granite-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Acequia Capital (AceCap)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acequia-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Infinity Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/infinity-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ADM Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adm-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Allegro Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allegro-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ares Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ares-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does TI Ventures invest in?

TI Ventures invests primarily in Internet, Software and Semiconductor startups, most often at Series D and Series C stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is TI Ventures's check size?

TI Ventures typically joins rounds of $6.5M–$12M at Series C and $4M–$26M at Series D. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds TI Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact TI Ventures?

Public channels for TI Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at TI Ventures?

The team at TI Ventures includes Charlie Tobin (Vice President), Jean-Louis Trochu (Partner) and Madison Pedigo (Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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