YankeeTek Ventures
VC Fund
Cambridge, United States
YankeeTek Ventures is a VC fund in Cambridge focused on IaaS and SaaS. YankeeTek Ventures founded in early 2000, is a venture capital fund for early-stage technology companies. YankeeTek helps entrepreneurs launch their start-ups by providing comprehensive resources, strategic advice, and an extensive network of business relationships to rapidly grow their ideas into strong, successful companies. Fund investorsinclude 3Com, Compaq, Nortel Networks, Novell and The Yankee Group. Several venture capital funds are also invested in YankeeTek, including Advanced Technology Ventures, Advent International, Bain Capital, Battery Ventures, Boston Millennia Partners, HarbourVest Partners, and TH Lee Putnam Ventures.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries YankeeTek Ventures invests in
Stages YankeeTek Ventures invests in
Countries YankeeTek Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Series A
- $1M–$20M
- Series B
- $16M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- IaaS 1 (14%)
- SaaS 1 (14%)
- Energy 1 (14%)
- Hardware 1 (14%)
- Software 1 (14%)
Stage
- Series B 3 (43%)
- Series A 2 (29%)
- Series C 1 (14%)
- Funding Round 1 (14%)
Country
- United States 3 (43%)
- Japan 1 (14%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Based on new, highly active nanoscale material initially developed at MIT, A123Systems' low impedance Nanophosphate electrode technology provides a competitive advantage over alternative high power technologies.A123's cell and electrode designs lower cost/watt and cost/watt-hour. They have higher voltage than other long-lifesystems, enabling lower pack cost. Their long life leads to reduced lifecycle and system costs resulting in greater overall price-performance .Competitors include | $30M / Series B / Feb 01, 2006 | ||
Aegis Semiconductor
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Aegis is a privately held company that builds solutions for embedded monitoring of advanced optical networks. The company's Active Thin Films are manufactured using proven high-volume processes with demonstrated high yield and superb uniformity. Aegis's solutions benefit from the reliability of solid-state, silicon-based design, extremescalability, and low-cost packaging architectures. | $10M / Series C / May 06, 2004 | |
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Aegis Semiconductor
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Aegis is a privately held company that builds solutions for embedded monitoring of advanced optical networks. The company's Active Thin Films are manufactured using proven high-volume processes with demonstrated high yield and superb uniformity. Aegis's solutions benefit from the reliability of solid-state, silicon-based design, extremescalability, and low-cost packaging architectures. | $16M / Series B / Mar 11, 2002 | |
| Egenera designs, develops and delivers cloud management and infrastructure virtualization software. | $30M / Series B / Jan 02, 2002 | ||
| Chinook Communications, the Unified Communications solution for small-to-medium-sized businesses, delivers a complete communications package, including integrated Internet telephone service, direct to business owners. Based in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, WA they help owners of small and mid-sized businesses to access affordable,subscription-based communications services. Choose a Unified Communications solution to integrate all of your communications tools and streamline your business operations. The result is increased employee productivity and satisfaction, improved customer relationships, and an increase to your bottom line. Chinook Communication service packages are customized to meet your company’s needs – whether you have 10 or 500 employees. | $17M / Apr 02, 2001 | ||
| Egenera designs, develops and delivers cloud management and infrastructure virtualization software. | $20M / Series A / Oct 01, 2000 | ||
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Aegis Semiconductor
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Aegis is a privately held company that builds solutions for embedded monitoring of advanced optical networks. The company's Active Thin Films are manufactured using proven high-volume processes with demonstrated high yield and superb uniformity. Aegis's solutions benefit from the reliability of solid-state, silicon-based design, extremescalability, and low-cost packaging architectures. | $1M / Series A / Sep 01, 2000 |
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FAQ
What does YankeeTek Ventures invest in?
YankeeTek Ventures invests primarily in IaaS, SaaS and Energy startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does YankeeTek Ventures invest in?
YankeeTek Ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$20M at Series A and $16M–$30M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not YankeeTek Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds YankeeTek Ventures took part in.
When did YankeeTek Ventures last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for YankeeTek Ventures closed in Feb 2006. Shizune tracks 7 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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