Meir Barel

STAR Ventures GmbH (STAR) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1991 by Meir Barel. The firm is headquartered in Gruenwald, Germany with additional offices in Herzliya Pituach and Texas.

Mercado Software, Inc. provides e-commerce search and navigation services. It offers product discovery and merchandising solutions. The company is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Acopia Networks, Inc. provides data file management. The company provides networking products, which include automatic, policy-driven, data migration, tiering, load balancing and replication across multi vendor storage environments. Its products include intelligent file virtualization which integrates into existing Network Attached Storage (NAS), Windows, UNIX and Linux environments. The company was founded by Cheng Wu in December, 2002 and is headquartered in Lowell, MA.

Teneros, Inc. provides software-as-a-service email continuity, security, and archiving solutions. It specializes in messaging technology, application continuity appliances and disaster recovery appliances. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.