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JVP focuses on venture-backed Data Networking, Wireless, IP and Optical Communications, and Enterprise Software companies. Our clients may often have an initial presence in Japan through a small subsidiary, a joint- venture, or reseller/OEM agreements, but typically lack the experienced and entrepreneurial local management team capable of growing the business to its potential while working in-tandem with the parent.


 Mobile

Endtone
Endtone's flaship technology is the disconnect tone. Similar to ringtones, disconnect tones are heard when wireless users hang up or are
accidentally dropped from the network. Music, voices, sounds and video are all disconnect tone options. Disconnect tones can be used as notifications when electronic payment transactions are completed, and they can also embed advertisements, two fast growing mobile media market segments.

www.endtone.com


envIO Networks
envIO Networks enables mobile operators, subscribers, and content providers to benefit from personalizing music and allowing subscribers to create and enjoy social networks based on common music interests.

www.envionetworks.com
 

Geodesic
Geodesic is a publicly-traded company specializing in creating emerging
mobile technologies and applications. Mundu IM is a mobile and desktop
communications application that enables mobile to mobile, desktop to
mobile and mobile to desktop IM communication across all major IM
services and across all mobile and IP networks. Mundu IM supports
integrated e-mail, SMS, Rich Text, News, RSS, VoIP, and Avatars. Mundu
Radio is a mobile Internet Radio application with over 50,000 Channels,
featuring personalization of play-lists, digital MP3 streaming playback,
and support for GPRS, CDMA, 3G and WiFi.

www.geodesic.com
 

 
July Systems
The July Meta-Service System (JMSS) is a 3G compliant service delivery platform that allows operators to rapidly deploy and deliver premium mobile data services, by tying together various entities in the operator ecosystem and making them extensible to third parties. JMSS is architected to flexibly manage multiple third parties, business models and relationships that are involved in the delivery of premium services.

www.julysystems.com


Megisto Systems
Megisto Systems is building infrastructure for the mobile data network core, the critical point where IP services are delivered to mobile subscribers. Megisto's Mobile Internet Service Gateway delivers a subscriber-and service-aware core that helps operators create, deliver, and charge for personalized, value-added services. Mobile operators can use Megisto's infrastructure products to fully realize the profit making potential of their data networks.

www.megisto.com


PacketVideo
At PacketVideo, we supply th e world’s leading handset manufacturers with embedded device software that transforms a mobile phone into a fully-featured multimedia appliance.  Our innovative software enables mobile phone users to watch live TV or video-on-demand, buy, download or stream and play music, capture and store digital pictures, record home movies, and make two-way videophone calls. Our handset client software enables mobile operators to offer compelling multimedia services directly to individual mobile users.

More than 50 million PacketVideo-powered multimedia phones have already been shipped by the world’s largest handset manufacturers including BenQ-Siemens, LGE, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson.  In addition, our service-enabling multimedia software solutions are in use by some of the industry’s most innovative mobile operators including NTT DoCoMo in Japan, Orange in France, and Verizon Wireless in the United States.

www.packetvideo.com


Pulse Mobile
Pulse Mobile is a leading provider of multimedia messaging and user-generated content creation technologies for mobile and web applications. Our patent-protected Veepers™ Content Engine (VCE) platform is also a powerful personalization engine for user-generated mobile imaging and video services and also automatically transforms static two-dimensional (2D) facial images into animated three-dimensional (3D) characters with synchronized audio - either recorded or via text-to-speech.

Veepers technology enables new types of mobile applications including Veepers Visual Voicemail, Veepers Messaging, Veepers Wallpapers and Veepers VideoTones

www.pulse3d.com


Sonim Technologies
Sonim offers a VoIP-based, server and client platform for easy integration with IMS network systems and mobile terminals, providing value-added voice and enabling services that create significant competitive advantages in features, performance and usability. Sonim is a leading developer of IP-based Push-to-Talk solutions, providing servers and clients that are compliant with the PoC standards. Push-to-Talk provides wireless users with real-time, instant voice communication with one or many individuals or groups, similar to a walkie-talkie. Sonim's Direct Voice Messaging (DVM) solutions adds messaging capability to Push-to-Talk, enabling subscribers to use the intuitive PoC user interface to also send and receive voice messages. DVM is a great compliment to PoC, enhancing the user satisfaction of PoC services, and is backward compatible to existing PoC phones. Sonim also provides enhanced DVM clients providing an enhanced DVM user experience.

www.sonimtech.com
 
 
 Communications and Data Networking Infrastructure
 
Acopia Networks
Acopia Networks' ARX™ (Adaptive Resource Switch) products virtualize existing file storage into a unified global namespace that is centrally managed, with real-time data management policies that ensure existing resources are optimally utilized. Our standards-based approach works across heterogeneous file servers, enabling enterprises to better utilize existing systems while transforming their data centers into "on-demand" resources yielding significant infrastructure cost savings in the process.

www.acopia.com


Axiom Systems, Ltd.
Axiom provides integrated service provisioning software, integrating a powerful work-flow manager with a highly-flexible inventory management system, and a robust service activation platform. Axiom's fully integrated solution and pre-packaged elements for specific services (including SDH, DSL, Wireless, IPVPN and MetroEthernet) dramatically improve financial viability of old and new telco services by accelerating time to market and profit.

www.axiom-eu.com


Bomgar, Inc.
Bomgar Corporation specializes in appliance-based remote desktop access solutions for support professionals. Bomgar's solutions allow support professionals to connect to remote clients and co-workers via the Internet. We are the only industry provider of an appliance-based solution, supplying companies with proven security architecture and the ability to scale efficiently. Bomgar™ enables on-demand incident resolution through the Bomgar Box™, which provide three scalable remote support solutions for any size remote help desk.

www.bomgar.com


Belkin
Our product mix includes award-winning innovations for easy-to-set-up networking solutions, accessories for iPodR players and XM player devices, and the first CableFree USB Hub. Our PureAVR brand, a line of cables, power, and digital wireless accessories, extracts the full performance potential from high-end home theater equipment, while offering elegant designs and advanced features.

www.belkin.com
 

Chantry Networks
Chantry Networks is a leading provider of secure integrated mobility management solutions for WLAN. Unlike traditional Layer 2 switch-based offerings, Chantry Networks’ BeaconWorks provides wireless connectivity directly over IP (Internet Protocol). This approach enables out-of-the-box compatibility with leading wired network infrastructure, provides the foundation for wireless voice over IP (VoIP) and gives customers a future-proof solution for converged wireless networks. The entire line of BeaconWorks products includes Chantry’s innovative VNSWorks technology for intelligent wireless subnets that enable differentiated provisioning and policing between different types of user groups, over one physical network. This approach enables companies to use wireless with their existing network security and VPN solutions, and provides unmatched functionality that is absolutely critical to large enterprises.

www.chantrynetworks.com


Cicero Networks
Cicero Networks is a leading provider of wireless VoIP solutions enabling telecommunication service providers to deliver fixed mobile convergence services to their enterprise and residential customers. Cicero Network’s delivers end-to-end SIP-based solutions which optimise the delivery of carrier-grade voice and other media services over alternative wireless networks including Wi-Fi, 3G and WiMAX. Founded in 2002, the company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

www.ciceronetworks.com


CipherOptics
CipherOptics, the leading innovator of gigabit-speed IPSec appliances, protects data in transit as it travels over IP networks. CipherOptics' IPSec appliances secure data as it travels between sites over untrusted high-speed IP networks. We differentiate ourselves from router add-ons, VPN blades and multi-purpose perimeter security devices by providing: Gigabit Ethernet/Fast Ethernet IPSec encryption (AES and 3DES), Packet filtering, Virtually no latency, and Wire-speed (1.9 Gbps) full-duplex throughput.

www.cipheroptics.com


ClearCube
ClearCube delivers centralized computing solutions that integrate blades, access devices and client management software to give organizations full control over end user computing. The ClearCube solution is simple: condense the PC into an Intel-based "blade" form-factor, house it in a chassis and centralize it in a secure location. A small user port connects the monitor, keyboard, mouse and USB peripherals to the blade across a wired or wireless network. Users can also access their blades through a variety of industry standard access devices (e.g., tablets, PDAs) via a web browser.

www.clearcube.com


Cloudshield Technologies
CloudShield develops programmable packet processing applications servers or Open Network Services Platforms (ONSPs) for high-speed network applications and services. Partners interface with the ONSPs at a systems level—no microcoding—and they are applications ready. The net result is that new applications and new features can be rapidly developed and applied to high-throughput network environments, avoiding long expensive custom hardware and low level software development cycles.

www.cloudshield.com


Gold Wire Technology
Gold Wire Technology is a leader in infrastructure integrity assurance solutions for Global 2000 enterprises, Federal government agencies, and managed service providers. Our award-winning Formulator family of products enables today's technology-driven enterprises to meet critical business requirements for standards compliance, security, and availability.  As the first and only solution in the industry that simultaneously controls and enforces infrastructure access and operational processes within a multi-vendor IT architecture, the Formulator product family secures the infrastructure and assures its business integrity.

www.goldwiretech.com


Narad Networks
Narad Networks designs outdoor Ethernet Switches used in the Access Network, for high bandwidth connection between core/metro network and customer premises. As the only deployed ethernet over coax solution in the market, Narad's products can also be deployed in fiber, wireless, and dsl environments. Using vacant spectrum on fiber and/or coax, Narad's solutions lowers cap ex costs and improves cost per bandwidth. Leveraging the advantages of carrier class Ethernet, Narad provides scalability, granularity, reliability, and hardened QoS.

www.naradnetworks.com
 


Network Intelligence
Network Intelligence Corporation's enVision® and Private I® software solutions collect event log data from security and network devices to create a complete picture of network usage, verify security policy compliance, generate alerts for possible security breaches, and analyze and report on network performance. Our solutions offer necessary and often mandated additional security required to protect extremely sensitive and private information.

www.network-intelligence.com


Pronto Networks
Pronto Networks provides carrier-class Operations Support Systems (OSS) that enable network operators to deploy and manage large public hot spot networks. The company's software handles provisioning, configuration, authentication, access control, security, pre-paid and post-paid billing, and roaming settlement for large public WLAN networks, in addition to remotely managing and updating multi-vendor hardware and Wi-Fi switches.

www.prontonetworks.com


RF Code
RF Code is a premier developer of hybrid RFID data management software and solutions. Our TAVIS™ software suite is a comprehensive management platform for Auto-ID data collection and distribution. Since 1997, we have designed high-performance, low cost active RFID systems for that accurately manage and track physical assets, information and personnel.

www.rfcode.com


Top Layer Networks Inc.
Top Layer Networks developed the first application switch, the AppSwitch. The AppSwitch recognizes applications and prioritizes, limits or guarantees bandwidth, and switches at wire speed. AppSwitch also allows users to augment data network security, provide more accurate application accounting, more intelligent server load balancing, and other capacity enhancements.

www.toplayer.com


Tropos Networks, Inc
Tropos Networks, Inc, is a leading supplier of systems used to build metro-scale Wi-Fi networks. Tropos products enable network operators, service providers and government departments to provide ubiquitous, metro-scale, broadband, wireless data coverage for users in any locale. Tropos solution creates a truly wireless network, free from the requirement of per node wired connectivity associated with Wi-Fi hot spot deployments using access points. Tropos products enable larger coverage areas, decreased installation costs and decreased operational costs.

www.troposnetworks.com


KDDI R&D Laboratories
KDDI Labs is the research and development division of KDDI, the second largest fixed-line and wireless carrier in Japan. KDDI Labs was founded in 1998 and merged with Kyocera DDI Institute of Future Telecommunications in 2001. Their areas of expertise include optical devices for lightwave communications, long-span optical transmission technology, multimedia mobile access communications, radio technology, fixed-line and IP network management and design, and graphics and content compression and transmission technologies.

www.kddlabs.co.jp/english


Oki Network Technologies
Oki Network Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oki America. It was established in 1996 to introduce a wide range of cutting-edge telecommunications and networking solutions to businesses in the United States and throughout the world. Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (Japan) was founded in 1881 to design and manufacture telephone systems in Japan and has been at the forefront of technological excellence for more than a century
.

www.okint.com

 Software

Atalasoft
Atalasoft provides document imaging technology for software developers
in two core products. Atalasoft's web imaging technologies reduces the
complexities involved in developing document processing, viewing, and
workflow applications for the web. DotImage are Developer toolkits
(APIs) for .NET software developer. Atalasoft also developed
NitroViewer, a Web-based Image Viewer that can be plugged into
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems without any programming.
Atalasoft's technologies can be categorized into five areas; Document
Capture, Document Processing and Cleanup, Document Intelligence,
Document Annotation, and Document Viewing. Atalasoft also has scanning
partnerships with Canon, Fujitsu, Kodak, and Panasonic.

www.atalasoft.com
 


Carbonite
Carbonite is an always-on, simple to-use online backup service priced for individuals and small businesses. Carbonite’s online backup service starts automatically and works quietly and continuously in the background protecting data. If data has been accidentally erased, Carbonite still has a copy. You can restore deleted files with just a few clicks on your PC. If your PC crashes, just visit our website to recover lost files. Your data is stored safely at our secure remote backup centers. No one can see your data but you because your files are encrypted before they leave your computer. And it will never slow down your PC or Internet connection.

www.carbonite.com
 


Maxager Technology
Founded in 1996, Maxager’s patented enterprise profit optimization (EPO) solutions help leading chemicals, metals, electronics and other asset-intensive manufacturers such as Dow, Nucor, Owens-Illinois and Siliconware Precision Industries increase cash and profit worth 3% to 5% of revenue. Uncovering profit gain opportunities that are obscured by traditional “margin only” analysis, Maxager uses both margin and production velocity information to analyze history and generate realistic forward modeling that provides management teams an entirely new level of control over Return on Assets (ROA) — the key driver of shareholder value. Maxager’s unique technology calculates precisely how fast each product, customer, or market generates cash and profit from the assets, allowing managers to truly optimize product mix & customer mix profitability, sales & profit planning, strategic pricing, and production planning. New customers typically begin reaping benefits within 30 days. Maxager is headquartered near San Francisco with offices in Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.maxager.com or +1.888.MAXAGER (+1.888.629.2437). International please call +1.415.454.1000.

www.maxager.com


Trinity Convergence
Trinity designs, develops and licenses comprehensive VoIP, Video over IP, and Music over IP software solutions that help equipment manufacturers accelerate their time-to-market, streamline the product development process, and future-proof their product offering. The company's software has been used for wireless and wireline video phones, IP phones, dual mode handsets (cellular/wifi), home networking equipment, and other emerging multimedia consumer and enterprise class networking equipment.
 
www.trinityconvergence.com


Triple Point Technologies, Inc.
Triple Point Technology has been the leading provider of commodity trading solutions since 1993. Today more than 70 of the world's most sophisticated commodity companies rely on Triple Point software to manage every aspect of their trading business. From risk management to physical delivery and financial settlement, Triple Point solutions combine leading-edge technology with acute industry expertise to streamline operations and maximize opportunities

www.tpt.com

 Semiconductor Technologies

Luxtera
Luxtera, a fabless semiconductor company, is building a profoundly new class of silicon products that will change the way computers link together to form networks. The same CMOS Photonics™ technology will later transform the way chips interconnect to form computers.
Our chips—which are fabricated in an industry standard CMOS wafer foundry—seamlessly combine the immense computational power of VLSI electronics with the long reach and nearly inexhaustible bandwidth of fiber optic communications.

As the only company in the world that has fused the complementary realms of electronics and photonics into silicon monolithic integrated circuits, Luxtera has emerged as the recognized leader in silicon photonics.

www.luxtera.com


LVL7 Systems, Inc.
LVL7 is the expert in networking software. LVL7's FASTPATH® software products leverage silicon programmability and enable networking equipment vendors to reduce product development cycles by six to 12 months, saving an estimated $1.5 million in cost.  LVL7's FASTPATH® software solution is ideally suited for networking equipment vendors that create infrastructure products such as access devices, Layer 2 - Layer 7 enterprise switches, routers and wireless or optical switches. LVL7's competitive advantage resides in the intellectual property base of its FASTPATH software. The FASTPATH software suite contains more than one million lines of code, consisting of microcode, device drivers, applications and protocols. LVL7 is the only company to provide a flexible and scalable architecture that works across multiple platforms and operating systems.

www.lvl7.com


Tanner Research, Electronic Design Automation Division
Tanner Research, Inc., founded in 1988, is a leader in various facets of microelectronic design. The company has provided innovative electronic design automation software solutions to over 12,000 engineers in 35 countries. Tanner EDA develops and markets electronic design automation software for designers of mixed-signal and analog IC, ASIC, and MEMS circuits. Our
L-Edit Pro layout and verification software and T-Spice Pro design entry and simulation software provide a complete and cost-effective design solution. Tanner Tools are easy-to-use and truly affordable, with a powerful range of features and industry-standard file formats. With over 13,000 licenses sold worldwide these are the best and most reliable products for IC design on Windows.

www.tanner.com

 Other

AlphaSmart
AlphaSmart designs computers specifically for the K-12 educational market. The Dana series continues the traditions of ultra-light portability, long battery life, and fundamental simplicity, combining the convenience and affordability of a handheld device with the benefits of a lightweight notebook computer. Dana's expandability, communications options, and thousands of applications suit it to a wide range of uses.

www.alphasmart.com


Brookfield Engineering Laboratories
Brookfield is the world's leading manufacturer of rotational viscometers for lab and on-line process applications. Most QC, R&D, and Process Engineering Departments make Brookfield their universal choice for viscosity measurement.

www.brookfieldengineering.com


Cimtek
Cimtek is the leader in reducing the cost of launching new electronic products through innovative test and design. We offer solutions to complex test problems to a variety of industries including Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Medical, Avionics and emerging markets. CIMTEK enables manufacturers to detect product failure early in the product launch process and ensure OEM's do not risk product and brand failure or incur costly warranty claims.

www.cimtek.com


Kinetic Concepts Inc
Kinetic Concepts, Inc. is a global medical technology company with leadership positions in advanced wound care and therapeutic surfaces. The Company designs, manufactures, markets and services a wide range of proprietary products that can significantly improve clinical outcomes while reducing the overall cost of patient care by accelerating the healing process or preventing complications.

www.kci1.com





Former Clients of our Professionals:

Chipcom
Banyan Systems
Wellfleet
FTP Software
Cheyenne Software
NetGenesis
Progress Software
PSDI - Project Software and Development, Inc.
Artel Video Systems
NovaSoft
Merge Technologies
SanCastle