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Members of the Tech Coast Angels make individual investment decisions. We consider a "TCA Member Investment" a company that has followed our decision process and received financing by two or more of our members. The number of our members who have invested in each of our portfolio companies ranges from 2 to over 30. Below is a partial list of our members' portfolio (sorted from most recent to oldest). Click here for a TCA portfolio pin map (Google Maps)
 
 
Investment Portfolio
Inlustra

Manufacturer of Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductor substrates, which are critical for the production of high-performance electronic devices such as blue lasers and high-brightness blue, white, and green light emitting diodes (LEDs).

Eefoof

A community driven website built around one principal rule: the authors of Internet content should be paid for their work and not have it exploited for others' gain. With other sites, signing a sponsorship contract means you lose the ownership of your content. Not here. 

Soda Head

Dynamic online community where users leverage their collective wisdom to better understand and predict issues or events and/or to make better decisions.  Founded by a former MySpace executive and launching in the Spring of 2007. 

Clupedia

A web based viral / peer-to-peer marketing platform that will be launching in the Spring of 2007.

IYIA Technologies

Founded in to develop and market the Wound Treatment System (formerly named MISTYô), a proprietary, patent-pending device for treating patients with slow healing foot wounds, primarily diabetic foot ulcers. The Wound Treatment System has been 510k-cleared by the FDA and is expected to enter the market in early 2006 after completing clinical trials underway in San Marcos and Santa Ana, Calif.

Organic To Go

Delivering delicious American cuisine direct to our target customers (corporations, universities and catering to the entertainment industry) that is organic & natural food at fair value pricing.

Nine Star

Action Sports Center, a “category-killer” multi-channel retailer for the snowboarding, surfing, skateboarding, inline skating and BMX biking enthusiasts.

EZ-Apps

EZ-Assure™ is a Web-based managed solution for access control and monitoring physical security. It enables you to monitor, track, administer and report on who entered which access points and the events that internal and external security staff are responsible for recording during their shifts.

N-Spine

NFlex is an engineered rod and spacer system that has been designed to precisely control the motion of unstable vertebral segments of the lumbar spine. The system allows controlled spinal motion in flexion, extension and lateral bending, while limiting axial rotation and shear to very small amounts, these characteristics are similar to healthy lumbar spine motion. No other device on the market or in clinical trials can make the same claim.

Transcepta

The process of manual invoice generation, combined with delays is mailing or manually faxing these invoices to your customers, can result in slow and inefficient invoice cycles. Transcepta™ has developed a business-to-business electronic invoice presentment and payment solution that solves many billing and payment-related issues faced by businesses of all sizes.

Vigilistics

Enterprise class software developed for food and beverage manufacturers for factory control automation. The new Bioterrorism Act, requires all food manufactures to record the source ingredients of each lot of finished product. Vigilistics software also tracks products, materials, utilities, and processes from receipt of raw materials to the finished package.

Zag.com - VC Funded by Anthem, Arcturus Capital, Capital One, and GRP

Zag is building an end–to-end online auto buying platform that will significantly improve the shopping and buying experience for customers, while providing a more efficient sales and fulfillment process for dealers. Zag provides this platform as a private-label turnkey solution to auto dealers and affinity buying groups. The Company emphasizes transparency throughout the autobuying process and engages customers in shopping and buying online using its strong systems and a central call center.

Heartland Resources

Heartland Resource Technologies (HRT) has developed and markets a low cost soy based adhesive product Soyad which replaces traditional resins used in engineered wood products manufacturing. In addition to much lower costs it utilizes an environmentally friendly renewable resource. Forty percent of a traditional resin can be replaced with the lower cost HRT Soyad and produce boards of comparable physical properties at equal or faster assembly times. Successfully the concept in OSB, particleboard plywood and molded products.

MindBody Software

Web-based business services that integrate all aspects of a service business’ operation with web booking and e-commerce. MindBody Software manages Yoga and Pilates Studios as well as Retreat Centers, Day Spas, Dance Studios and Personal Trainers looking to transform their businesses online.

Make It Work

The neighborhood computer support company providing onsite services and support for home computer users, small business and the mobile workforce. Unlike any computer services company you have ever dealt with your experience will change the way you think of customer service.

Airsis

An emerging leader in the rapidly growing remote asset management (RAM) industry. Solutions enabling customers to track, monitor and manage mission-critical assets located in widely dispersed areas. Mobile assets such as trucks and trailers, railcars, construction equipment, oilrigs; and fixed assets such as communication towers, pipelines, utility meters, field generators, and environmental monitors.

Orion Data Corp

Forecasting and data analysis software used in major web and print publications such as Yahoo; television and radio sports analysts; as well as professional handicappers throughout the world for Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, and Fantasy Sports. The first product, StatShark is the only publicly available system that takes a professional, scientific approach to sports analysis.

Progressive Beverages

Progressive Beverages is a brand marketing firm specializing in contemporary premium wine and spirits imported from Asia. Asia 's Answer to Vodka (soju)- distilled 4x from the finest barley, rice and pure spring water. Han is cold-filtered to create clean, balanced, and refreshing cocktails. The company is the developer and exclusive worldwide brand owner of HAN.

Media Matchmaker

A proprietary online system, which connects producers of film, television, DVDs and digital entertainment with media agencies and brands seeking integration, promotional and sponsorship opportunities. Media Matchmaker’s real-time service will make it much easier for qualified producers and media buyers to find potential partners ready to negotiate and close deals.

CUPIM - Funded by Liberty Partners

This is the first and only State Approved/licensed University offering higher education programs in Executive Protection, Counterterrorism Studies, and Intelligence Operations Management. The institute administers various industry specific, university level graduate and post graduate degrees and post secondary certification programs.

Regene Med

RegeneMed, Inc. is accelerating the development of safer, more effective drugs by providing integrated high throughput platforms incorporating engineered human tissue-based assays. RegeneMed possesses patented, proprietary, core technologies enabling the in vitro growth of engineered human tissues, including liver, GI tract, bone marrow and blood-brain barrier. These tissue-based in vitro model systems will accelerate drug development, the first and critical application to debottleneck ADME/Tox evaluation, the leading cause of drug failures facing the pharmaceutical industry.

InnoZen

InnoZen, Inc. discovers, develops, and markets, or out licenses, innovative over-the-counter (OTC) health products that fulfill unmet consumer need. InnoZen developed the first oral strip to deliver drug active ingredients. This proprietary technology is currently being used in new Chloraseptic® Relief Strips™ and has many potential applications in both the human and veterinary markets.

Orfid

An organic electronics company with a unique technology that will enable the manufacture of new products such as light-weight and flexible displays, smart labels and intelligent packaging. Electronic products made with organic components will be dramatically less costly to manufacture and more versatile than today’s silicon-based products.

CADForce - VC Funded by Rincon Venture Partners

CADFORCE provides outsourced drafting and architectural services to American architects and home builders and delivers those services in an offshore facility in Calcutta, India priced at 70% less than the cost of doing it in the US. CADFORCE takes architectural drawings, sketches, and files from its customers through a web enabled platform, completes many of the cumbersome, yet critical, components of the construction documentation process faster, cheaper, and better than can be done in the US alone.

CODA Genomics - VC Funded by Monitor Ventures

Takes a biology process that normally yields an entire array of unspecific products, and through extensive computer optimization and a step-wise process, directs an assembly of the desired product in a way that is so thermodynamically favored that ONLY the desired products are made. Research programs around the world are being advanced by CODExpresstm Gene Kits for simple and error-free assembly of custom synthetic genes. Using a CODExpress Gene kit you can easily and reliably express custom proteins in your own lab with your own gene constructs and variants.

Docufide

Docufide’s manages the ordering, processing, and delivery of student records from schools to authorized destinations. The first product Secure Transcript, provides a unique and highly efficient electronic environment for sending secure transcripts between high schools and colleges and universities. Docufide is determined to reduce the pain associated with student records management - and to become an ally in your battle with paper.

LandRoller

LandRoller, Inc. is a start-up that has invented, engineered and patented a revolutionary all-terrain skate technology. It’s the first major skating innovation in 25 years. LandRoller’s patented inclined wheel technology angles two side-mounted large wheels so that they touch the ground below the center line of the boot and maintain a low center of gravity. This configuration results in greater stability, better maneuverability, longer glide time and a smoother ride.

Integrien - VC Funded by Clearstone Ventures

IT Software to monitor, manage and heal technology-based business systems for maximum operating integrity. Low-impact agentless software architecture monitors, visually presents, and reports the operating health of a complete business information technology system, including the network nodes, servers, appliances, applications and databases that comprise enterprise IT.

Planetwide Games - OTCBB: SPHG.OB

Provider of innovative software applications, proprietary online technology and online video games. The company's applications, games and self-publishing platform for user generated content easily integrates into DVD home entertainment products, video games, music industry CD's, internet portals, online photo sharing websites, major game publishers platforms and developers' titles, or can be sold separately through digital downloads and retail box sales.

PedAlign

PedAlign is a technology platform that enables doctors to provide high-quality orthotics with an easy-to-use scanning system. PedAlign was founded out of the increasing need to simplify the orthotics ordering and management procedures at the Podiatrist office. From the beginning our mission has been clear: Increase revenues and productivity of podiatrists by leveraging technology to prescribe and manage the highest quality custom orthotics.

Teresis Media Management

A multi-media, digital workflow, content management service provider to the entertainment industry. Teresis products and services enable television, film productions and advertising agencies to work securely and more efficiently saving time and money. Teresis provides digitizing, encoding, transcoding, digital asset management, logging, transcription, MPEG compression, DVD authoring, digital archiving and media storage services.

Ceyx Technologies - VC funded by Shepherd Ventures

Ceyx Technologies is an optical communications company that makes cost-efficient laser control systems for optical communications transceivers. The company’s core product integrates proprietary firmware and algorithms onto a circuit, creating the first intelligent, cost-efficient, inter-operable, and reliable laser transceiver control system.

Cognition

Cognition has developed and patented the most advanced linguistically based (natural language processing) search engine technology to date. The software interprets the meaning of a question presented in English allowing a computer to present the answer from one of Cognition's databases instantly.

H2Scan VC Funded by Chrysalix

H2scan systems are a solid-state solution that detects concentrations of hydrogen gas with or without oxygen present in concentrations from 10 parts per million to 100%. The fundamental technology of H2scan sensor systems was developed by the U.S. National Laboratory at Sandia.

Opticon Medical

Opticon Medical designs and develops innovative, cost-effective products for short-term urinary management and chronic urinary incontinence. The Company has five FDA cleared products and a rich new product pipeline that positions the Company to address several important segments of the urinary management market.

DAX Solutions

Digital asset management solutions for collaborating the exchange of ideas, content and documentation from concept development through to final distribution. It is specifically designed for the unique workflows of creative industries: Film Studios & Libraries, Broadcast and Cable Networks, Production and Distribution Companies, Stock Footage Libraries, Post-Production Facilities, Talent & Literary Agencies, Advertising Agencies.

Leisure Link - VC Funded by Mission and Clearstone Ventures

Developing the industries first Global Distribution System [GDS] for the vacation rental industry that will allow traditional and online travel agencies through Expedia, AOL, Yahoo, Travelocity to reserve vacation rental properties in real-time.

Vital Therapies - VC Funded by Valley Ventures

Vital Therapies, Inc. (VTI), based in San Diego, is developing a hybrid therapy for liver support. The human liver cell-based ELAD® Liver Support System augments the metabolic functions of a patient’s liver, thereby enabling a bridge to transplant or recovery.

Sponge Tech

SpongeTech, Inc.’s patent pending technology infuses sponges with glycerin and olive oil based soap to provide 3 unique and important benefits to consumers: 30 showers from each SpongeablesTM, Dense creamy lather and clean rinse-off in both hard and soft water, Exfoliation, massage, cleansing, and soft skin in one step. (Soap ’n Sponge All-in-OneTM) It provides retailers such as Nordstrom, La Costa, Pure Beauty and H2O with a new category of daily use personal care.

Bluebeam Software

A spin-off of Alliance Spacesystems Inc. (ASI), an aerospace engineering company founded in 1997 by engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Bluebeam Software invents, develops, and commercializes software that addresses the unique needs of engineers and architects. As the trusted standard in PDF technology for architects and engineers, Bluebeam produces the highest quality and easiest to use products in the marketplace, allowing project teams to immediately improve communication and collaboration with virtually no learning curve.

H20 Audio

A leading provider of waterproof cases, headsets, and accessories for Apple iPod and mp3 players, supporting use in water, snow and other extreme environments. H2O Audio provides patented waterproof headsets and housings, allowing consumers to significantly enhance their action sports experience.

WiSpry - VC funded by Shepherd, American River & Blue Print Ventures

Irvine based Wispry was formed through a spin-off of the RF/Wireless business unit of Coventor, Inc., the market-leading MEMS software company. WiSpry is developing low-cost high-performance components and modules for radio frequency (RF) system manufacturers. Based on the company's core competencies in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology and manufacturing, Wispry’s products will enable system designers to achieve the architectural innovation required for the growing diversity of mobile and fixed applications and networks.

ADVENTRX Pharmaceuticals - (AMEX Ticker ANX)

Focused on introducing new technologies for anticancer and antiviral treatments that improve the performance of existing drugs and address significant problems such as drug resistance. The Company has three products moving into clinical trials, all of which can qualify for the FDA's Fast Track Approval status.

Property Bureau

Law enforcement agencies have property rooms full of stolen or forfeited goods. The rightful owners are not easily identified, and once merchandise is no longer needed as evidence, it must be disposed of properly. Property Bureau is a leading Internet Auction Services Company serving law enforcement in the United States. The company maintains the only nationwide registry available to the general public for recovering lost or stolen goods on Stealitback.com. We record the serial number of each item that we receive and check these numbers against our national registry. If there is a match, we will contact the owner and return the item.

Practice Technologies - VC funded by Rustic Canyon Partners

Portfolio of innovative software products and services that deliver effective solutions for the legal profession. RealPractice™ is an n-tier application that combines the functionality of a knowledge management system with the practicality of a web-based work product retrieval system -leveraging existing knowledge to improve existing business processes.

Rights Line

Enterprise software enabling control of the full intellectual property life-cycle in real-time, from management, negotiation, licensing and reporting of rights of all types and forms, to the contractual relationships and agreements created with its customers, vendors and partners that market, sell, manufacture or use the IP and/or derivative products. The software manages the supply chain of intellectual property rights in the same way that ERP software manages the supply chain of hard goods.

IP3 Networks (Acquired by Second Rule LLC)

IP3 Networks develops best-in-class broadband subscriber management products. IP3’s flagship product, NetAccess, is a customizable billing, provisioning, and authentication gateway that enables service providers and corporate enterprises to easily manage and control public access to the Internet.

Phatnoise - (Acquired by Harmin)

Revolutionizing the way people enjoy digital media by developing next-generation entertainment devices and technologies that give consumers "anytime, anywhere" access to their music and media collections at home, at work, and most importantly, on the road. Bridging the automotive and media industries as a guiding technology partner, PhatNoise harnesses the power of digital media and creates a new entertainment experience for consumers in the environment where they want it the most: The automobile.

Language Weaver - VC funded by Centre Palisades Ventures

The first company to commercialize statistical machine translation technology. In contrast to current commercial systems, the Language Weaver statistical translation system uses statistical/cryptographic techniques that automatically learn how texts are translated from one language into another.

CaseStack - VC funded by Clarity Partners

Business Process Outsourcing (“BPO”) company providing turn key logistics services to mid-sized companies that sell products to retailers, distributors and other manufacturers. CaseStack combines an advanced transportation and warehousing system with proprietary, web-based software to provide unique, end-to-end fulfillment services that enable customers to reap the benefits and economies of a sophisticated, global logistics system - without all the infrastructure costs.

Luxim - VC Funded by Sequoia Capital

The Luxim LiFiTM lamp provides an intelligent lighting solution for high definition television, home theater and other projection display systems. Luxim’s patented electrode-less lamp provides a source of stable, repeatable, full-spectrum illumination for thousands of hours of operation, delivering true color fidelity and system reliability with less than 10% reduction in light intensity over its 10,000 hour lifetime.

Voyager Systems (Acquired by Advanced Technology Systems)

Bringing data security to the mobile enterprise world. Voyager Systesms enables public safety agencies to give law enforcement officers in the field mobile access to critical databases and other sources of key information, allowing them to transmit and receive data using off-the-shelf wireless and wired devices (PDAs, handsets, laptops, etc.).

V-Enable - VC Funded by SoftBank Capital & Palisades Ventures

A leading provider of mobile speech search solutions optimized for accessing and presenting content and information over mobile networks. V-ENABLE's patent-pending mobile speech search allows mobile users to simply search using their voice and receive personalized content and information in a visual format on their mobile phone. The V-ENABLE mobile speech search interface software is a unique client-server solution, available for carriers, application developers and publishers using BREW, JAVA, SYMBIAN, WAP, xHTML platforms. Mobile speech search applications, powered by V-ENABLE technology, are currently available on Verizon Wireless, ALLTEL, U.S. Cellular, and Leap Communications.

Blue Titan Software - Acquired by SOA Software

The company was founded to address the unique requirements of Mission-Critical Web services, which enables companies to realize the promises of service-oriented computing architectures while delivering the needed performance, manageability, and security required for enterprise computing environments. Customers include Fortune 500 stalwarts and delivers its technology to market through a network of partners that include some of the leading enterprise computing companies such as IBM and BEA Systems.

Tag Digital Media (Formerly Trellion)

CDROM solution that marries the benefits of rich media content (full motion video, CD-quality audio, and enhanced visualizations) with patent-pending tagging™ technology for Internet-driven updates. TagCD leverages the capacity of the CDROM to integrate traditional media such as video, audio and print into a single interactive environment. By integrating the unique benefits of TV, Radio, Print and the Internet, TagCD is establishing a new high response solution for companies seeking to maximize the return on investment on their customer acquisition and customer retention dollars.

DriveCam - VC Funded by Menlo Ventures

DriveCam Video Systems develops fleet safety technology that improves driving performance and lowers operating costs for commercial fleets. The company markets fleet safety programs and services that integrate in-vehicle video technology, driving performance management software, and driver counseling to reduce the cost of poor driving

Q3DM (Acquired by Beckman Coulter)

Company provides High Throughput Microscopy platforms capable of scanning cell preparations on slides or contained in multi-well plates with subcellular optical resolution and multiparametric analysis. The $1.5 million in Series A financing was led by Aztec Venture Network and members of the Tech Coast Angels.

Dispatch & Tracking Solutions

Dispatch & Tracking Solutions, LLC (DTS) is the leading provider of dispatch solutions catering exclusively to business to business and electronic data interchange technology for the towing industry. Using solutions from DTS, all parties to a tow can be interconnected through an online system that manages the towing and impounding process from start to finish.  

Payment Protection Systems (Merged with Sekurus, Inc)

Payment Protection Systems, Inc. (PPS), a manufacturer of ON TIME, the patented starter interrupt system that ensures timely collection of customer car payments.  The system is a legal electronic payment protection unit that uses microprocessor-based technology that will remind the vehicle operator when payments are due, and it will disable the vehicle if payments are not made.

Akiva

Innovator of collaboration software and services that help organizations transform ideas into results. Akiva’s technology and services enable enterprises to organize and implement ideas from employees, customers, partners and suppliers to dramatically improve business performance through rapid innovation and reduced expenses. The company is the lead developer of Silk, the first “enterprise class” open collaboration platform and provides support, professional services and commercial licensing of the solution for corporate, government and educational marketplaces.

Pictage (Acquired by Apax Partners)

Pictage has become the premier aplication service provider for professional event photographers by offering a comprehensive digital system for the showcasing, purchase and production of professional images directly over the Internet. These web-based services increase revenue, decrease cost and save time for the creative professional, allowing them to focus on their passion, not their process. TCA members led the company's Series A round of $1.2 Million. Seed investor Allbrook & Co. and investors affiliated with the University Angels also participated.

Airborne1

 

Airborne 1 Corporation provides advanced LiDAR technology and asset management for partners in the photogrammetry, surveying and mapping fields. From Turnkey Services, to Software/Training, Rentals, and Fractional Ownership Plans, Airborne 1 enables professionals worldwide to effectively enter the LiDAR market without having to incur the high costs of owning a sensor. Airborne 1’s digital mapping services and solutions include a dedicated team of LiDAR surveying experts, state-of-the-art Optech ALTM sensors, LiDAR data processing analysis and application development, as well as LiDAR field survey coordination and project management.


Green Dot Corp. - VC funded by Sequoia Capital

Formerly Next Estate Communications, Inc., is a pioneer in prepaid financial products and services and is America's first and largest provider of association-branded prepaid debit cards sold at retail stores. It is also the owner and operator of the Green Dot Financial Network, one of America's largest retail-based cash acceptance networks. Green Dot's MasterCard® and Visa® prepaid debit card products are carried by more than 45,000 retailers in all fifty states including major chains such as Walgreens, RadioShack, Rite Aid, CVS/pharmacy, Dollar General, and many other leading chains. From everyday use, travel, online and student use, Green Dot prepaid debit cards can be used wherever MasterCard or Visa debit cards are accepted.

TransDecisions - (Acquired by Servigistics)

A company dedicated to providing transportation applications and decision support technologies for enterprise Internet computing. The solutions combine the best spatial information management technologies with state-of-the-art transportation management and decision analysis software.

E Team (Acquired by NC4)

Develops and markets web-based applications that allow enterprises and public agencies to manage emergency incidents involving corporate facilities, data centers, major events, and disasters. The products include fully geo-referenced mapping information and are deployed on a 24/7 basis at several major corporations as well as city, state and federal governments including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Philadelphia, Louisiana, Arizona, Utah and the Federal Departments of Defense and Transportation. The company has a fully developed wireless handheld product that was developed as part of a DOD contract.

One Stop Systems

Designs and manufactures custom, and semi-custom computing systems and components in CompactPCI, PCI/ISA and VME-based architectures.

Controltec

Innovative software solutions for state and local governments, school districts, subsidized childcare agencies and childcare providers. KinderTrack™ is Controltec’s flagship product. It is a software system designed to automate and streamline all aspects of subsidy management for childcare, including case management, childcare provider management, scheduling, eligibility determination, reporting, payment processing, and correspondence.


IPNet Solutions (Acquired by Inovis)

In summer 2003, Inovis acquired IPNet Solutions, a leading provider of IP-based EDI integration software. The addition of IPNet, with its SOA-architected, next-generation B2B gateway, positioned Inovis as one of the only vendors capable of providing solutions with all of the technology and services necessary to implement a hybrid trading community across our integrated B2B platform.

Pacific Merchantile Bank - (IPO - Nasdaq Ticker PMBC)

Pacific Merchantile Bank is a new bank serving the business community in Southern California. It is the first bank to be chartered in Orange County in fifteen years. Pacific Merchantile is a 'high-tech, high personal touch' service-oriented bank. The company offers business, personal and internet banking services. Tech Coast Angels members played a key role in the startup financing of the bank.

Advanced Monitors

Advanced Monitors Corporation designs and manufactures innovative medical diagnostic products for veterinarians and pet owners. The Vet-Temp® and Pet-Temp® Instant Ear Thermometers make temperature measurement and health monitoring a quick and easy procedure. The Tele-View® Wireless Otoscope (for veterinary professionals) allows the clinician to easily display ear pathology to pet owners via any television or computer.


IndX (Acquired by Siemens)

Software development company that designs and markets solutions for operations intelligence. The IndX flagship product, XHQ integrates information from disparate enterprise sources and presents it graphically in a browser to enable real-time monitoring of all enterprise activities and operations. IndX is changing the way people see the important issues that really affect their business.

High Tower Software - Funded by Liberty Partners

High Tower Software provides advanced security event management solutions that quickly improve organizational security while simplifying processes for network and security administrators. The company's flagship product, High Tower® Security Event Manager, leverages patented analytic technology to intelligently assess security risk conditions, reduce false positives, and deliver a streamlined view of active threats to the enterprise network.

Sandpiper Networks (Acquired by Cable & Wireless)

Sandpiper Networks, which helps publishers deliver content via the internet and web hosting firm Digital Island and agreed to merge in a stock-for-stock deal valued at about $630.5 million in October of 1999.

  
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