CRESCENDO PORTFOLIO COMPANIES

Over the last decade, Crescendo Ventures has grown by supporting talented entrepreneurs in their drive to create market-defining technology companies. Working alongside management, Crescendo’s investment professionals have been involved with helping over one hundred early-stage technology companies achieve success.






Algety Telecom
(acquired by Corvis, NASDAQ: CORV)

World’s first commercial grade Soliton-based long-haul optical transmission system.

 

 



Allied Riser Communications
(acquired by Cogent Communications Group, ASSE: COI)

Recognized as market’s first commercial BLEC (Building Local Exchange Carrier).

 

 



BroadSoft
BroadSoft is the leading provider of IP Centrex voice application and server solutions. BroadWorks, the company's flagship product, allows service providers to rapidly and economically design and deploy web-enabled enhanced telephony services to their customers.

 



Callidus Software (NASDAQ: CALD)
Category-creating provider of incentive management software.

 

 



CIENA Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN)
Leading optical networking systems company.

 

 



CoSine Communications (NASDAQ: COSN)
CoSine's IPSX™ service processing switches pioneered the edge-switching market.

 

 



Cybrant Corporation (NASDAQ: BLUED)
Cybrant Corporation was an early leader in providing intelligent ecommerce infrastructure solutions.

 

 



Digital Island (NASDAQ: ISLD)
Leading provider of global neworking services.

 

 



Ejasent
(acquired by Veritas, NASDAQ: VRTS)

Ejasent was a leader in providing utility computing solutions that enabled businesses to improve server efficiency, application performance and financial return on their IT investment.

 

 



Endwave (NASDAQ: ENWV)
Leading provider of wireless network equipment components.

 

 



Entera
(acquired by CacheFlow, NASDAQ: CFLO)

Pioneering internet content delivery solution provider.

 

 



Extricity Software
(acquired by Peregrine, NASDAQ: PRGNQ)

Internet-based application integration solutions.

 

 



Fujant, Inc. (acquired by Celient)
Leading designer of amplifiers and antennas for the wireless industry.

 

 



Industree
(acquired by Scientific-Atlanta, NYSE: SFA)

Broadband access equipment innovator.

 

 



IPCell Technologies
(acquired by Cisco Systems, NASDAQ: CSCO)

Networked multimedia service delivery technologies.

 

 



iReady Corporation
(acquired by Nvidia; NASDAQ: NVDA)

TCP/IP technology platform leader.

 

 



LightSpeed International
(acquired by Cisco Systems, NASDAQ: CSCO)

Market-leading voice and data integration solution provider.

 

 



NetCentrex
NetCentrex is a leader in the IP Centrex application provisioning market.

 

 



NuSpeed Internet Systems
(acquired by Cisco Systems, NASDAQ: CSCO)

Technology leader providing networked communications storage solutions.

 

 



OneSecure
(acquired by NetScreen, NASDAQ: NSCN)

Network security solutions company.

 

 



Oplink Communications (NASDAQ: OPLK)
Leading designer and manufactures of fiber optic networking components and integrated optical modules.

 

 



Paxera
(acquired by NeoPhotonics)
Leading providers of ultra-widely tunable lasers for the communications industry.

 

 



Relevance
(acquired by Documentum, NASDAQ: DCTM)

Content management solution platform.

 

 



SealedMedia
SealedMedia provides digital asset and content security solutions designed to enable the next generation of enterprise security management.

 

 



Sistina Software
(acquired by Red Hat, NASDAQ: RHAT)

Open source file management system

 

 



SOISIC
SOISIC is a fabless semiconductor company bringing SOI technology characteristics to the wireless markets with low-power consumption requirements.

 

 



SPANSlogic
Spans Logic is a fabless semiconductor company working on advanced computing solutions.

 

 



Symmorphix
(acquired by SpringWorks)

Leading APIC provider.

 

 



Tut Systems (NASDAQ: TUTS)
Pioneering xDSL solution provider.

 



Velogic, Inc.
(acquired by Keynote Systems, NASDAQ: KEYN)

Web site performance management solution provider.

 

 



VIA NET.WORKS, Inc. (NASDAQ: VNWI)
Leading network service provider serving the SME market.

 

 



WhereNet
(acquired by Zebra Technologies, NASDAQ: ZBRA)
A leading global provider of active radio frequency identification based wireless solutions.

 

 



XIOtech Corp.
(acquired by Seagate Technology, NYSE:SEG)

XIOtech developed the industry’s first commercially available Storage Area Network (SAN) and was the first to develop virtualized storage solutions.

 

 


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