Noventi
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Noventi Ventures is a venture capital
firm founded in 2002 by Giacomo Marini
and it was previously known as CIR Ventures.
The Noventi team includes: Giacomo Marini
, Masa Ishii, Pierluigi Zappacosta
.
Venture capital
Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...
firm founded in 2002 by Giacomo Marini
Giacomo Marini
Giacomo Marini is founder and Managing Director at Noventi, an early-stage technology venture capital firm, based in Silicon Valley....
and it was previously known as CIR Ventures.
The Noventi team includes: Giacomo Marini
Giacomo Marini
Giacomo Marini is founder and Managing Director at Noventi, an early-stage technology venture capital firm, based in Silicon Valley....
, Masa Ishii, Pierluigi Zappacosta
Pierluigi Zappacosta
Pierluigi Zappacosta is a Venture Partner with Noventi and Vice President of Business Development at Sierra Sciences....
.
Portfolio
Noventi Ventures provided venture capital and active support for the following companies:| Name | First Invested | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active Optical MEMS | 2003 | MEMS-based optical telecom components | Acquired by Oclaro |
| Aurora Algae | 2006 | Algae fuel Algae fuel Algae fuel might be an alternative to fossil fuel and uses algae as its source of natural deposits. Several companies and government agencies are funding efforts to reduce capital and operating costs and make algae fuel production commercially viable... biofuels production systems |
Private |
| Bitfone | 2003 | Mobile and FOTA firmware-over-the-air devices management | Acquired by Hewlett-Packard Hewlett-Packard Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including... |
| Celltick | 2001 | Mobile phones broadcast applications | Private |
| Easy Market | 2000 | Travel management solutions for agents and end-users | Acquired by TUI Travel TUI Travel TUI Travel PLC is a FTSE 250 international leisure travel group listed on the London Stock Exchange. It was formed on 3 September 2007 by the merger of First Choice Holidays PLC and the Tourism Division of TUI AG, which owns 55.09% of the company, operating in 180 countries and serving 30m... |
| Ecrio | 1999 | Mobile middleware for handset manufacturers and operators | Private |
| Heliovolt HelioVolt HelioVolt Corporation is a privately held U.S. energy company in the solar energy sector. It manufactures photovoltaic solar modules using a thin film semiconductor process based on Copper Indium Gallium Selenide to produce photovoltaic modules... |
2007 | CIGS-based photo voltaic panels | Private |
| Kasenna Kasenna Kasenna is a Video On Demand company based in California that was spun off of Silicon Graphics in 2000.- Products :* MediaBase: Video On Demand and NPVR server* vFusion: manage clusters of MediaBase video servers, and content distribution... |
2002 | Video servers | Acquired by Espial Espial A Canadian company founded in 1997, Espial Group Inc. is a provider of on-demand TV software and software services including programming and technical support to telco, cable and hospitality operators as well as to consumer electronics manufacturers.-Products:... |
| Iriscube | 2002 | Independent information systems service provider | Acquired by Reply |
| Lexy | 2007 | Innovative voice applications for mobile phones | RIP |
| M7 | 2003 | Web applications development platform | Acquired by BEA Bea - Aviation :*British European Airways*Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile, the French agency responsible for investigating aviation accidents- People :* Augustin Bea , a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church... (now Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems... ) |
| Lumenergi | 2008 | Lighting controllers and management systems | Private |
| Minerva Networks Minerva Networks Minerva Networks, Inc. is an American company based in Silicon Valley that develops video compression technology and broadcast systems used for delivery of video services over broadband IP networks, interactive television services, and video conferencing.... |
2003 | IPTV and Connected TV middleware software | Private |
| Neato Robotics Neato Robotics Neato Robotics is a robotics company located in Newark, California. Their product, the Neato XV-11 robotic vacuum cleaner, began selling in 2010 for $399.00... |
2006 | Robotic house cleaning devices | Private |
| Sygate | 2001 | Endpoint security for enterprise networks | Acquired by Symantec Symantec Symantec Corporation is the largest maker of security software for computers. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock market index.-History:... |
| Teltier | 2001 | Presence-based mobile phone services | Acquired by dynamicsoft / Cisco Cisco Cisco may refer to:Companies:*Cisco Systems, a computer networking company* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore... |
| Windspire Energy | 2008 | Small very efficient vertical wind turbines | Private |