Asset Management Company invests in both the Information Technology and Life Science sectors. We lead most of our initial investments and often invest in the first institutional round. While most of our investments our located in the Northern California area, we also invest throughout the west coast and rest of the U.S. alongside strong local lead investors.

Amgen (AMGN) Amgen develops and sells therapeutics based on advances in cellular and molecular biology	Apollo One of the first vendors of graphical workstations in the 1980s.
Applied Biosystems (ABI) A global biotechnology tools company dedicated to improving the human condition. They develop systems, consumables and services that enable researchers to accelerate scientific exploration.	Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) AMCC designs, manufactures and sells high performance semiconductors for use in high-speed computer applications, such as SONET, ATM, Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel networking.
Archive Archive Corp, 1980 (4.4X) computer tape drive manufacturer.	Biogen IDEC (BIIB) IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corporation is a leader in the development of targeted immunotherapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases. The company's products act chiefly through immune system mechanisms, exerting their effect by binding to specific, readily targeted immune cells in the patient's blood or lymphatic system.
BindView) BindView provides a platform infrastructure for sensor data that can be used throughout manufacturing, distribution, retail, transportation, and warehousing operations.	Boole and Babbage (sold to BMC Software) (BMC) BMC delivers enterprise-wide software solutions for service level management of distributed applications.
Celera Genomics (CRA) Celera Genomics' mission is to discover and develop meaningful new therapies that improve human health. Celera is applying their diverse genomics, bioinformatics, proteomics, medicinal chemistry and biology technology platforms to identify and validate drug targets, and to discover novel therapeutics.	Coherent Laser Coherent Laser COHR. One of the world's leading suppliers of photonics-based solutions to a broad range of commercial and scientific research customers
Conductus (acquired by STI) Manufacturer of thin superconductors for very high speed digital devices, magnetic field sensors, and interconnection between ICs and PCBs.	CV Therapeutics (CVTX) CV Therapeutics is engaged in the discovery and development of novel small molecule drugs for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The Company is pioneering a new biomedical discipline, molecular cardiology, which applies advances in molecular biology and genetics to identify and delineate new mechanisms of cardiovascular disease and hence new targets for drug discovery.
Enteric Medical (acquired by Boston Scientific) (BSX) Enteric has developed minimally invasive surgical treatments for gastro-esophageal reflux disease ("GERD").	EndoVx EndoVx is developing a novel medical device system for non-invasively treating obesity. The proprietary procedure is quick and done on an out-patient basis.
Fusion Medical Technologies (acquired by Baxter BioScience) (BAX) Fusion is developing surgical sealants for procedures which initially include those in cardiovascular, vascular, orthopedics, and neurosurgery specialties.	Hybritech Inc. Hybritech pioneered monoclonal antibody based diagnostic assay formats and the use of monoclonal antibodies for treating human diseases.
IDEXX IDEXX 40X Developer of biotechnology-based detection systems for animal health applications.	InteKrin Therapeutics InteKrin Therapeutics is pursuing the clinical development of therapeutics for diabetes, obesity and metabolic disorders. The company focuses on high value therapeutics addressing significant unmet medical needs in large markets.
Koronis Pharmaceuticals Koronis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Koronis) develops technologies for the prevention and treatment of chronic viral diseases, with a particular focus on those caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV).	Latitude Communications (acquired by Cisco Systems) (CSCO) Cisco Systems is a leading provider of of networking and communications products worldwide. The company provides products for transporting data, voice, and video within buildings and across campuses. Its offerings include routers, which interconnect computer networks by moving data, voice, and video from one network to another; and switching systems that are used to build local-area networks (LAN), metropolitan-area networks, and wide-area networks.
Novare Surgical Novare is a developer of temporary occlusion management devices for use in traditional and evolving cardiovascular and vascular procedures. The company's atraumatic surgical clamps reduce the risk of clamp-related vascular injury and related neurological events.	Nuance Communications (NUAN) Nuance designs and sells advanced voice recognition software which can run on a variety of industry leading IVR and telephonic platforms.
Parametric Parametric 1996. (PMTC) provides Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) engineering CAD/CAM software and content management and dynamic publishing solutions to more than 50,000 companies worldwide.	Pharmacyclics (PCYC) Pharmacyclics is developing energy-potentiating drugs to improve radiation therapy and chemotherapy of cancer, and to enable or improve the photodynamic therapy of certain cancers and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
PMC-Sierra (PMCS) PMC-Sierra produces high-speed broadband communications and storage semiconductors, and MIPS-powered microprocessors for service provider, enterprise, storage, and wireless networking equipment.	Prime Advantage Aggregating the demand for industrial products and business services online in order to drive volume discounts and rebates for buyers, and increased revenues and market share for suppliers.
Qume Qume 1975 (20X) Manufacturer of computer peripherals.	Remedy (now owned by BMC) (BMC) BMC is a leading provider of information technology asset and service management software solutions that are designed for organizations in the private and public sectors. The companyís asset management solutions include asset tracking, expense control, process automation, and asset optimization services. Its service solutions comprise service establishment, service control, service alignment, and service optimization.
Ross Stores Ross Stores is a chain of American off-price department stores. It is the nation's third largest off-price retailer (behind T.J. Maxx and Marshalls)	Tandem Computer (now owned by Hewlett Packard) (HPQ) Hewlett-Packard Company provides products, technologies, solutions, and services to consumers, businesses, and governments worldwide. Its divisions include the Personal Systems Group (PSG), Imaging and Printing Group (IPG), Enterprise Storage and Servers (ESS), HP Services (HPS), HP Financial Services (HPFS), Software, and Corporate Investments.
Teradyne (TER) Teradyne's business is the creative application of systems technology to practical problems in the design, production, and servicing of electronics. Founded in 1960, Teradyne has a long history of technical innovation. Today Teradyne is a diversified company, with 2000 sales of more than $3 billion and more than 10,000 employees worldwide. Teradyne is the world's largest supplier of automatic test equipment (ATE) for the electronics and telecommunications industries.	Verity (VRTY) (acquired by Autonomy) Verity provides enterprise search software that enables organizations to discover, analyze and process all the information within their enterprises. The company's solutions deliver integrated search, classification, recommendation, monitoring and analytics across the real-time flow of enterprise information, along with self-service Q & A interfaces.
ViaCyte, Inc. (formerly Novocell) ViaCyte is a leader in the research and development of encapsulated cellular transplants for the treatment of diabetes and other diseases.	Virtio (acquired by Synopsys) (SNPS) Virtio delivers software models of embedded systems for early embedded software development using virtual prototyping technology. These software models, called virtual platforms, act as an early replacement for physical boards for software development. Virtual platforms change the way embedded software is developed.