# YankeeTek Ventures

> YankeeTek Ventures is a VC fund in Cambridge backing IaaS, SaaS and Energy. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Feb 2006
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://yankeetek.com

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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $1M–$20M |
| Series B | $16M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| IaaS | 1 | 14% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |
| Energy | 1 | 14% |
| Hardware | 1 | 14% |
| Software | 1 | 14% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 3 | 43% |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Series C | 1 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 43% |
| Japan | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| A123 Systems | 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 | 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 |  |
| Aegis Semiconductor | 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 | Egenera, Inc. designs, develops, and delivers cloud management and infrastructure virtualization software to enterprises, service providers, and government agencies throughout the world. The company's main product line is the Egenera Cloud Suite, which consists of PAN Cloud Director, PAN Manager and PAN Domain Manager. Egenera Cloud Suite is acomplete cloud management platform designed to enable enterprises and service providers to design, deploy, manage and protect IT as a cloud service. Egenera also provides consulting and training services related to its products and technologies. Egenera software runs on servers from all the major providers and the company has OEM relationships with Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM and NEC. Egenera maintains over 50 partnerships with the world’s leading technology companies including Citrix, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu Technology Solutions, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP and VMware.Companies around the globe use Egenera to manage and protect their most mission critical business services, including some of the world’s leading cloud service providers, financial services firms, healthcare organizations and government agencies. The company is privately held and has approximately 110 employees. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Boxborough, Massachusetts. | $30M | Series B | Jan 02, 2002 |  |
| Chinook Communications | 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 | Egenera, Inc. designs, develops, and delivers cloud management and infrastructure virtualization software to enterprises, service providers, and government agencies throughout the world. The company's main product line is the Egenera Cloud Suite, which consists of PAN Cloud Director, PAN Manager and PAN Domain Manager. Egenera Cloud Suite is acomplete cloud management platform designed to enable enterprises and service providers to design, deploy, manage and protect IT as a cloud service. Egenera also provides consulting and training services related to its products and technologies. Egenera software runs on servers from all the major providers and the company has OEM relationships with Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM and NEC. Egenera maintains over 50 partnerships with the world’s leading technology companies including Citrix, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu Technology Solutions, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP and VMware.Companies around the globe use Egenera to manage and protect their most mission critical business services, including some of the world’s leading cloud service providers, financial services firms, healthcare organizations and government agencies. The company is privately held and has approximately 110 employees. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Boxborough, Massachusetts. | $20M | Series A | Oct 01, 2000 |  |
| Aegis Semiconductor | 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 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Stata Venture Partners (SVP)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stata-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alta Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alta-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Goldman Sachs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goldman-sachs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Megunticook Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/megunticook-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Spectrum Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spectrum-equity-investors) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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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 is YankeeTek Ventures's check size?

YankeeTek Ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$20M at Series A and $16M–$30M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds YankeeTek Ventures participates 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.

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