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On the strength of its vision for content-aware next-generation networking, CloudShield
Technologies has received backing from the top-rated venture firms in the industry:
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About ComVentures
ComVentures,
a venture capital firm with more than $1.5 billion under management,
specializes in early-stage investments in the communications market.
ComVentures focuses its investment expertise on pioneering, progressive
companies that capitalize on the constant drive to build next-generation
components, systems, software, and services.
ComVentures' investment professionals have deep technical,
financial, and "hands-on" entrepreneurial experience. ComVentures
consistently uncovers groundbreaking communications technologies,
helps lead and grow its portfolio companies, and assists these
companies in deploying new technologies in an ever-changing
marketplace. For more detailed information, visit us at
www.comventures.com.
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About Foundation Capital
We're not investment bankers. We're not obsessed with money. And because of
that, we're able to keep our focus where it belongs: on the many different facets of creating and building
successful enterprises. To that effort we bring our own real-world experience at startups, our contacts
and a commitment to work at your side to create a company we can all be proud of. We'll see to it that you
get access to industry leaders, potential customers, prospective partners, world-class board members
and candidates for key management positions. And we'll do all that because great people are what it takes
to build great companies. We're here to help build yours.
For more detailed information, visit us at www.foundationcap.com.
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About Paladin Capital Group
Paladin Capital is a private equity investment firm dedicated to achieving superior
long-term capital appreciation, typically through privately negotiated equity and equity related
transactions in private and, in certain cases, public companies.
Collectively, Paladin's Principals have completed over 100 direct and co-investments in a wide
range of industries, including financial services, the internet, telecommunications, undersea and
terrestrial fiber optic cables and systems, health care, assisted living, entertainment,
transportation, technology facilities maintenance, defense/aerospace, apparel and shipbuilding.
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About TPG Ventures
TPG
Ventures is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping
talented entrepreneurs build world class companies. It strives
to be the best partner for its portfolio companies by bringing
deep domain knowledge, relevant operating experience and a network
of contacts.
TPG Ventures invests in companies with compelling value
propositions that solve real customer problems. The company’s
product or service should be highly differentiated, have the
ability to achieve market leadership and remain differentiated
over time.
In 2001, TPG Ventures closed its first institutional fund
with over $440 million in capital. TPG Ventures typically
invests up to $20 million over the life of a project including
an initial investment of $5 to 10 million. The company is
currently focused on information technology and life sciences
companies.
TPG Ventures is an affiliate of Texas Pacific Group, a private
equity investment firm founded by David Bonderman, James G.
Coulter and William S. Price, III in 1993 with offices in
San Francisco, Fort Worth, and London. Texas Pacific Group
and its affiliated partnerships have aggregate committed capital
of more than $7.0 billion, with more than $2.5 billion invested
in technology and telecommunications worldwide.
TPG Ventures further expands Texas Pacific Group's family
of funds currently investing in these sectors, which already
includes Tarrant Venture Partners, eVolution Global Partners
and certain allocations from the TPG Partners III, L.P./T3
Partners, L.P. funds.
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About SVIC
SVIC is in
business to create, operate and grow network technology, applications,
and managed services companies. The company's focus is on building
companies that will create the next generation of Internet infrastructure.
Research, operating talent, capital and ideas are combined to
create the technologies, applications and services that will
drive the next generation Internet.
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About Xilinx
Headquartered in San Jose, California, Xilinx
is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: XLNX) with approximately
2,600 employees, with nearly half of its engineers dedicated
to software development.
Xilinx leads one of the fastest growing segments of the semiconductor
industry - programmable logic devices. Xilinx develops, manufactures,
and markets a broad line of advanced integrated circuits,
software design tools and intellectual property. Customers
use the automated tools and intellectual property -- predefined
system-level functions delivered as software cores -- from
Xilinx and its partners to program the chips to perform custom
logic operations.
Founded in 1984, Xilinx pioneered a revolutionary new technology,
the field programmable gate array (FPGA), and shipped its
first commercial product in 1985. Today, Xilinx fulfills more
than half the world demand for FPGAs. Xilinx also markets
complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs), which are faster
than FPGAs for some applications but have fewer logic resources.
Xilinx programmable logic solutions help minimize risks for
manufacturers of electronic equipment by shortening the time
required to develop and bring new products to market. Customers
can design and verify their unique circuits in Xilinx programmable
devices much faster than they can by using traditional methods
where the logic circuits are fixed once the chip is manufactured.
Moreover, because Xilinx devices are standard parts that are
ready to be programmed, customers are not required to wait
for prototypes or pay large up-front engineering costs, as
with fixed logic or ASICs. Xilinx products are used in a wide
array of digital electronic applications ranging from wireless
base stations to DVD players.
Unlike traditional semiconductor companies that have a few
hundred customers, Xilinx has more than 7,500 customers worldwide
and more than 50,000 design starts. The company counts among
its customers, global leaders such as Alcatel, Cisco Systems,
EMC, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lucent Technologies,
Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Nortel, Samsung, Siemens, Sony, Sun
Microsystems and Toshiba.
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