Funded Companies
Since 1998, CommonAngels has funded 39 companies with over $43 million from CommonAngels and over $200 million from co-investors.
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Representative recent investments include:
(Sold to Tech Target, $40M, Dec 2004) Bitpipe Communications, Inc., the leading source for in-depth IT content, helps IT firms market and distribute their literature on the Web.
Other investors include:
Reuters,
MTDC,
Claflin Capital
Carbonite was founded in 2005 in order to provide Internet-based Backup for Everyone™. Although data loss is a very common problem, few people backup their PCs: existing methods of backup are tedious, time consuming and often too expensive. Furthermore, most don’t provide protection against PC theft, damage and natural disasters.
At Carbonite, we believe PC users shouldn’t have to think about backup. Our mission is to provide an inexpensive, reliable and truly easy-to-use solution for the mainstream PC user; one that is simple, safe and always on™.
www.carbonite.com
Other investors include:
3i
Menlo Ventures
Cambria Pharmaceuticals is focused on discovering innovative treatments for serious and progressively disabling neurological disorders. The company exploits recent discoveries in the genetic basis of these disorders to engineer novel disease models and identify first-in-class disease-modifying compounds. Cambria leverages collaborative relationships with academic institutions and patient-focused foundations to advance its programs in ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and other serious neurological diseases.
Other investors include:
Biogen Idec New Ventures
(Sold to Kodak, Apr 2008) Design2Launch (“D2L”) is a leader in Graphic Lifecycle Management for the Consumer Goods (CG), Pharmaceutical, and Advertising industries. D2L’s software solutions accelerate communication and collaboration between marketing and creative teams. From print to packaging to web content D2L’s solutions are helping leading global companies increase visibility and accountability and gain more control of their marketing and creative processes. D2L’s market proven solutions have dramatically increased speed-to-market, reduced operating costs and eliminated errors for many global market leaders.
Other investors include:
Golden Seeds
New York Angels
Frame Media is the leader in content and tools for wireless digital picture frames. Frame Meida brings millions of digital frames to life by working closely with frame manufacturers to transform these devices into dynamic information appliances with superb tools and content. A frame owner can program a unique stream of content that is updated dynamically, marrying their own photos with fresh content including news, sports, weather, traffic, stock quotes, horoscopes and imagery from leading sources such as National Geographic and The Associated Press.
Other Investors Include:
Longworth Venture Partners
Launchpad Venture Group
Walnut Venture Associates
GateRocket’s technology significantly lowers the time and cost for engineers to verify FPGA designs, taking advantage of a significant shift in the $200 billion global semiconductor industry from ASICs to programmable chips
HNW is the premier solutions company focused exclusively on the high-net-worth market and provides start-to-finish marketing solutions for client companies.
HNW's shareholders include:
Aberdare Ventures,
Wand Venture Partners,
Wit Soundview Ventures
Insightix goes well beyond the limitations of existing solutions by enabling an enterprise to see and control each and every device across its entire IT infrastructure. The complete, accurate and real-time network information unobtrusively obtained by Insightix solutions enables an enterprise to achieve and maintain:complete IT asset inventory, accurate network topology, real-time change detection, and full network access control.
www.insightix.com
Other investors include:
Softbank Capital
Interactive Supercomputing Corporation develops software that minimizes Time from the Prototype Idea to Production Solution of computationally intensive problems using parallel processing.
www.interactivesupercomputing.com
Other investors include:
Ascent Venture Partners
Flagship Ventures
Fletcher Spaght Ventures
Rock Maple Ventures
Nimbit allows independent musicians to organize the business of music. Never before have they been able to do so much, so fast, and from one place.
Outside The Classroom delivers online health and life-skills solutions to colleges and universities.
Other investors include:
Sherbrooke Capital
Angel Healthcare Investors
The OwnerIQ Network helps you locate user manuals, how-to guides, help instructions and owner's manuals. The OwnerIQ Network contains user manuals and other product information for thousands of manufacturers and hundreds of thousands of products.No need to keep that drawer full of bulky paper manuals anymore!
Other investors include:
Atlas Venture
MTDC
Permessa"! Corporation (formerly DYS Analytics) provides enterprise-class products and services that manage today's top messaging platforms. Allowing corporate IT to take control of their IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Sametime, QuickPlace, and Microsoft Exchange networks, Permessa solutions dramatically reduce administration costs, improve service quality, create and enforce policies, strengthen security and resolve delivery issues associated with their mission-critical messaging systems.
Other investors include:
Walnut Ventures
PermissionTV is a state-of-the-art technology platform for downloading video to consumers over the Internet. It is a complete, end-to-end solution for distributors needing a turnkey system but it can also be used as the core technology for those who already have some of their own components, such as an existing user database.
www.permissiontv.com
Other investors include:
Castile Ventures
Inflection Point Ventures
MTDC
Point Judith Capital
Venture Capital Fund of New England
Sand Video (sold to Broadcom, NASAQ: BRCM April 2004, $77.5M) is a fabless semiconductor manufacturer building real-time video compression technology based on the emerging H.264/MPEG-4 part 10 video compression standard.
Other investors include:
Baker Capital
Navigator Technology Ventures
Skyhook Wireless provides a software-only positioning system that leverages a nationwide database of known Wi-Fi access points to calculate the precise location of any Wi-Fi enabled device.
Other investors include:
Bain Capital Ventures
Intel Capital
RRE Ventures
TimeTrade Systems operates a Web-based scheduling service that lets service establishments accept and confirm appointments in real time on the Internet.
Other investors include:
Ascent Venture Partners
Tizor provides a scalable management cockpit to watch your data servers, your critical data, and every access to them — throughout your enterprise.
Other investors include:
Masthead Venture Partners
Navigator Technology Ventures
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Longworth Venture Partners
Vela makes mobile inspection management systems that dramatically accelerates inspection of construction, capital projects and capital equipment. Vela's solution combines mobility software with RFID tagging to allow construction project managers, contractors, architects and engineers to access job status information across a variety of parameters.
www.velasystems.com
Other investors include:
Commonwealth Capital Ventures
Grandbanks Capital
Launchpad Venture Group
WorldWinner (sold to Fun Technologies, March 2006, $23M) allows participants to experience the thrill of competition in fast-action online tournaments and instantly win cash prizes each time they are the champion.
Other investors include:
Zero Stage Capital,
Benchmark Capital,
HarbourVest Partners, LLC.
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