Worldview Technology Partners
VC Fund
San Mateo, United States
Worldview Technology Partners is a leading venture capital firm focused on investing in and building leading U.S. technology companies. Our comprehensive business development services help our portfolio companies succeed in U.S. and international markets. With a 15-year track record of successful technology investing and close to $1.4 billionunder management, the Worldview team—now on our fourth fund—has both the experience and the resources to invest in a broad range of information technology markets, including communications, semiconductors, Internet/digital media, wireless, enterprise infrastructure and software. We’re proven. Our team has earned a reputation for investing in winning companies. These successes include 3PAR, AFC, Ciena, Corvis, Cyras, DigitalThink, Infinera, MMC, NVIDIA, Redstone, Silicon Spice, Simplex Solutions, Tellium, Tivoli and WFI. Our investments have led to 25 IPOs and more than a dozen successful acquisitions. We offer insight and expertise. Worldview’s partners bring diverse insights gained by years of experience as successful entrepreneurs, technology investors and executives in both start-ups and established firms. Our focused, long-term investment strategy in communications, semiconductor, Internet/digital media, wireless, enterprise infrastructure and software companies has helped us build deep technology and industry expertise.
- Total investments:
- 59
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
Last updated:
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Industries Worldview Technology Partners invests in
Stages Worldview Technology Partners invests in
Countries Worldview Technology Partners invests in
Contacts
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Ajit shah
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Dan Dumais
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Irwin Gross
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Michael Orsak
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Pete Goettner
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (15%)
- Telecommunications 8 (14%)
- Internet 6 (10%)
- Optical Communication 6 (10%)
- Manufacturing 5 (8%)
Stage
- Series B 14 (24%)
- Series C 12 (20%)
- Series D 8 (14%)
- Series A 6 (10%)
- Funding Round 6 (10%)
Country
- United States 31 (53%)
- Canada 1 (2%)
- United Kingdom 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Ajit shah
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
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Dan Dumais
Vice President
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Vice President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Irwin Gross
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Michael Orsak
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Pete Goettner
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Bigstep
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Bigstep.com is a cloud provider dedicated to making professional analytics solutions accessible to companies of all sizes. It enables businesses, large and small, to get started with a production-ready big data environment in just a few clicks, all in the Full Metal Cloud, purpose built for big data.Bigstep.com was founded in 2013 by Lucas Roh,serial entrepreneur, and founder of Hostway Corporation and Affinity Global. It is headquartered in London and operates infrastructure in the U.K. and Germany. | $2.2M / Seed / Mar 15, 2016 | |
Visage Mobile
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A wireless expense management and telecom expense management firm specializing in reducing communications costs using proprietary software and expert analysts. Visage Mobile handles everything from bill analysis across multiple carriers, to fully managed wireless and wireline services. | Series C / May 03, 2012 | |
Stretch
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Stretch, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, designs, develops, and supplies software configurable processors and development tools for compute-intensive applications. Its products include channel DVR add-in cards; channel capture cards; and DVR capture cards that provide video and audio capture, real-time display, and hardware compressionfeatures for DVR designers. The company also offers Stretch IDE, which provides an intuitive development flow, and focuses on programming and system configuration, as well as integrates compiler, debugger, assembler, profiler, linker, and editor tools under an intuitive graphical interface; Stretch reference design kits that are designed for the customers to evaluate a reference design and start the preliminary design of their own products; and Intelligent Encoder software development kit, a video processing and compression solution, which is optimized for the Stretch family of software configurable processors. Its products are used in security and surveillance, broadcast video, wireless communication, and industrial imaging applications. Stretch, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Sunnyvale, California with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan; and Krefeld, Germany. | $5M / Series C / Feb 02, 2012 | |
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Visage Mobile
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A wireless expense management and telecom expense management firm specializing in reducing communications costs using proprietary software and expert analysts. Visage Mobile handles everything from bill analysis across multiple carriers, to fully managed wireless and wireline services. | $4.5M / Series B / Feb 23, 2010 | |
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Stretch
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Stretch, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, designs, develops, and supplies software configurable processors and development tools for compute-intensive applications. Its products include channel DVR add-in cards; channel capture cards; and DVR capture cards that provide video and audio capture, real-time display, and hardware compressionfeatures for DVR designers. The company also offers Stretch IDE, which provides an intuitive development flow, and focuses on programming and system configuration, as well as integrates compiler, debugger, assembler, profiler, linker, and editor tools under an intuitive graphical interface; Stretch reference design kits that are designed for the customers to evaluate a reference design and start the preliminary design of their own products; and Intelligent Encoder software development kit, a video processing and compression solution, which is optimized for the Stretch family of software configurable processors. Its products are used in security and surveillance, broadcast video, wireless communication, and industrial imaging applications. Stretch, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Sunnyvale, California with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan; and Krefeld, Germany. | $10M / Series B / Nov 11, 2009 | |
QSecure
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QSecure is the platform company whose SmartStripeâ„¢ electronic powered credit cards prevent the use of stolen card data without changing retail systems or card holder behavior. QSecure's patented, magnetic media chip and authentication solutions are designed to allow card issuers to deliver solutions to protect card data without requiringchanges to the card processing environment.QSecure's initial solution is based on a proprietary chip that is embedded in the magnetic stripe and creates a unique number on the magnetic stripe each time the card is used. The unique number for each transaction is authenticated by the card issuer in real time using QSecure's patented authentication technology. | $10M / Series D / Oct 05, 2009 | |
Ooma
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Ooma (NYSE: OOMA) creates powerful connected experiences for businesses and consumers, delivered from its smart cloud-based SaaS platform. For businesses of all sizes, Ooma provides advanced voice and collaboration features that are flexible and scalable. For consumers, Ooma provides PureVoice HD voice quality, advanced functionality andintegration with their mobile devices. Ooma’s groundbreaking home security solution delivers a full range of wireless security sensors and a smart video camera, putting consumers in charge of protecting their homes. Learn more at www.ooma.com. | $19M / Series D / Jun 23, 2009 | |
LogLogic
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LogLogic is the provider of industry's only scalable log and security intelligence platform for the enterprise and cloud. LogLogic, with over 1300 customers, provides solutions that allow customers to collect and analyze terabytes of big data generated by their IT assets and gives Security, IT Ops, and Compliance professionals actionableinformation at their finger tips to identify issues proactively and make insightful decisions, and also get compliant with various regulations. Currently, LogLogic customers are leveraging its solutions to manage over 1,000 Petabytes (or 1 Exabyte) of data. | $8.8M / Series D / May 26, 2009 | |
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Ooma
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Ooma (NYSE: OOMA) creates powerful connected experiences for businesses and consumers, delivered from its smart cloud-based SaaS platform. For businesses of all sizes, Ooma provides advanced voice and collaboration features that are flexible and scalable. For consumers, Ooma provides PureVoice HD voice quality, advanced functionality andintegration with their mobile devices. Ooma’s groundbreaking home security solution delivers a full range of wireless security sensors and a smart video camera, putting consumers in charge of protecting their homes. Learn more at www.ooma.com. | $16M / Series C / Sep 23, 2008 | |
Fulcrum Microsystems
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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. | $29.2M / Series E / May 02, 2008 | |
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FAQ
What does Worldview Technology Partners invest in?
Worldview Technology Partners invests primarily in Software, Telecommunications and Internet startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 59 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Worldview Technology Partners includes Ajit shah (Partner), Dan Dumais (Vice President) and Irwin Gross (General Partner), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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