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Focus Management, Inc. (Focus Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Steve Bird, Kevin J McQuillan and James Boettcher. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Sequence Design, Inc. manufactured electronic design automation equipment. The company offered Power-Aware SoC Design Flow, which enables power-aware SoC design from system level to signoff; Power Theater, a set of power tools that creates power efficiency for SoC designs; Columbus-RLC Extraction for nanometer SoC designs; Columbus-Turbo, an extraction for nanometer standard-cell designs; Columbus-AMS, a RLC extraction for analogs; and CoolTime, a cell-based electrical integrity solution for concurrent analysis of voltage drop, power, electromigration, timing, and signal integrity for nanometer SoC designs. The company was founded in 1995 and was headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

Quartics designs, develops and markets proprietary integrated circuits based on its patented Qvu™ architecture, which has established a new category of video processors, the system on a chip (SoC) video processing unit (VPU), designed specifically to deliver advanced digital video solutions, including superior video playback quality and advanced functionality enabling installation of custom software applications such as 2d to 3D video conversion, HD video chat, gesture recognition and video search. Qvu™-enabled video processing solutions are available to OEM and ODM companies worldwide and have been adopted by some of the world's largest consumer electronics companies. Quartics' revolutionary Qvu™ architecture allows consumer electronics manufacturers to deliver an unsurpassed HD quality video experience previously not possible with existing video solutions. Quartics' Qvu™ technology is poised to become the industry standard for next-generation video processing for personal computers, HDTVs, set-top boxes and other video-enabled consumer electronic devices. Quartics is a fabless semiconductor company located in Irvine, CA, with offices in India, China and Taiwan. Quartics was formed in 2003 to focus on a programmable semiconductor architecture for high-performance video processing, with the aim of overcoming the significant challenges of modern digital video processing.

MarkMonitor, Inc. provides enterprise brand protection solutions. The firm specializes in domain management, anti-piracy, and fraud. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Mimosa Systems, Inc. provides information immediacy, discovery, and continuity services. It enable corporations to manage email, files, SharePoint, Instant Messages (IM) and other enterprise content. The company was founded by Roy D’Souza and Thirumalai M. Ravi in 2003 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Industry Ventures LLC (Industry Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Johan Douwe Swildens and Tom Litle. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Located in Rosemont, Illinois, Comdisco Ventures, Inc. is the venture capital arm of Comdisco Holding Co., Inc. (PK: CDCO