Networking, Storage & Telecommunications

Although as a company Foundation Capital has grown up in the age of the Internet, many of our partners and venture professionals bring a deeper experience and longer history in the networking and infrastructure sector.

This serves us well as we seek to identify entrepreneurial partners who understand that today's computers — of all kinds—have essentially become communications tools. And that as we continue to discover new ways to digitally connect with one another, it will take new ways of thinking to reflect these realties: specifically, the kind of vision needed to keep our networks operating, secure, and robust in a world of ever-more sophisticated technological challenges.

Current Investments

	Calix Calix is the largest telecom equipment supplier focused solely on access solutions for broadband service delivery. Service providers deploy Calix access systems to enable a rich set of information, communication, and…	READ MORE
	Conviva Conviva is the technology leader in coordinated Internet video distribution, providing a high-quality user-experience achieved from server-based streaming with tremendous cost and scalability benefits. Founded by…	READ MORE
	Dust Networks Dust Networks, the leader in standards-based intelligent wireless sensor networking (WSN), provides ultra low-power, highly reliable systems to industrial automation vendors in a range of markets. The company’s…	READ MORE
	GridIron Systems GridIron Systems enables you to turn your performance-challenged IT environment into the fastest data serving infrastructure on the planet! The GridIron TurboCharger™ appliance…	READ MORE
	Sanrad SANRAD delivers iSCSI storage solutions optimized for server virtualization environments. The company’s unique technology provides high-availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery solutions tightly integrated with…	READ MORE
	ShoreTel ShoreTel develops leading, next-generation telephone systems based on a LAN-attached telephone switch complete with Java-based telephone applications including call control, voice mail, system and personal…	READ MORE

Prior Investments by members of the FC Team

Adaptec, Inc. IPO: 6/11/86	Applied Digital Access IPO: 3/29/94	Arroyo Video Solutions Acquired by Cisco Systems
Aspect Telecommunications Corporation IPO: 5/1/90	Auspex Systems, Inc. IPO: 5/11/93	Bridge Communications IPO: 5/85? Acquired by 3Com
Grand Junction Networks Acquired by Cisco	Grid Systems Acquired by Tandy	Kalpana Acquired by Cisco
NetEdge Acquired by Larscom	Netrix Systems IPO: 9/22/92	Network Appliance IPO: 11/21/95
Network Computing Devices, Inc. IPO: 6/4/92	Network Equipment Technologies IPO: 1/23/87	One Touch Systems Acquired by Hughes
OnStream Networks Acquired by 3Com	Optilink Acquired by DSC	Peribit Networks Acquired by Juniper
Precept Software Acquired by Cisco	Primary Access Acquired by 3Com	Rapid City Acquired by Bay Networks
Synernetics Acquired by 3Com	Traverse Networks Acquired by Avaya	Vivace Acquired by Tellabs
WhereNet Acquired by Zebra Technologies	CloudShield Acquired by SAIC	Rohati Acquired by Cisco