Investors

Staccato Communications Inc. is a privately held, venture backed corporation. On November 20, 2008 Staccato Communications and Artimi announced a merger between the two companies. The new entity will maintain the Staccato name. In addition to the merger, Staccato closed $20 million in a new round of equity financing which will allow the company to continue to deliver innovative UWB solutions to the market. We invite you to check back periodically to see if any developments have been announced. Staccato investors include:

Allegis Capital

Allegis Capital focuses on investments in early stage information technology investments in California. Allegis has raised $500 million in capital and is a leader in working with major corporations to create strategic advantage for its investors and portfolio companies. Its 33 corporate partners include A&E Networks, BestBuy, Boeing, Comcast, Dow Jones & Co., Eastman Chemical, Fujitsu, General Electric, Hearst, Honda, Motorola, Rogers Communications, Siemens, Societe Generale, Sun Microsystems and other multinational companies. Allegis Capital maintains offices in Palo Alto and Santa Monica, Calif.

Amadeus Capital Partners

Amadeus Capital Partners is one of Europe's leading technology venture capital firms. Since its inception in 1997, the firm has backed companies across the technology spectrum in industries that include communications and networking hardware and software, cleantech, medtech, computer hardware and software, media, and e-commerce. Amadeus has £460m under management, with active investments in around 40 companies at any time. Amadeus offers its investee companies more than just capital -- it offers vision, imagination, experience and a network of contacts across the globe.

Global businesses built by Amadeus include Cambridge Silicon Radio Ltd, now CSR plc (LSE:CSR), the leading producer of single chip bluetooth radios for short range connections, and Solexa Ltd, the developer of next generation genetic analysis systems, merged into Illumina, Inc. (ILMN) to create the world-leader in gene-sequencing technology.

Bay Partners

Bay Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm with over $1 billion in capital under active management. Since 1976, Bay Partners has invested in more than 200 infrastructure technology companies. The firm focuses its investments in wireline, wireless, and enterprise services, software, equipment, and components/semi-conductors. Examples of Bay's portfolio companies include Brocade Communications, Digital Island, Informatica, Exodus Communications, SonicWALL, and WebLogic/BEA Systems.

Charles River Ventures

Founded in 1970, Charles River Ventures (CRV) is one of the nation's oldest and most successful early-stage venture capital firms with approximately $1.6 billion under management. CRV is dedicated to helping exceptional entrepreneurs turn their ideas into the next category leaders in the data communications and software and services sectors. Over the past 10 years, CRV funds have been ranked among the industry's top performers. This superior investment record includes leading companies such as Cascade, Chipcom, CIENA, iBasis, Sonus Networks, SpeechWorks International and Vignette. CRV has offices in Boston, MA and Menlo Park, CA.

Formative Ventures

Formative Ventures, headquartered in Menlo Park, California, is a venture capital firm that invests in emerging-technology start-up companies in areas such as communications, wireless, and Internet solutions. With approximately $100 million in capital under management, Formative's partners developed a passion to engage with early-stage companies during their "formative" years, when a company's initial strategy and pursuit toward market leadership first come together. Some of the Company's previous investments include Zyray Wireless (acquired by Broadcom), InnoCOMM Wireless (acquired by Nation Semi), IP Infusion (acquired by Access Corporation), Pyxis Technologies and Silicon Clocks. Formative is backed by some of the venture industry's most prestigious institutional limited partner investors.

Intel Capital

With an overall strategy to enable innovation, Intel Capital seeks out and invests in promising technology companies worldwide. We focus on both established and new technologies that help to develop industry standard solutions, drive global Internet growth, facilitate new usage models, and advance the computing and communications platforms.

As part of Intel Corporation, Intel Capital calls on some of its best and brightest to evaluate prospective investments, offer business and technology guidance to our portfolio companies, and provide unrivaled access to the latest developments in the industry. We are among the largest venture capital entities in the world with offices in established and emerging markets around the world.

Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested more than U.S. $4 billion in approximately 1,000 companies in more than 30 countries. In that time, about 160 portfolio companies have been acquired by other companies and another 150 have gone public on various exchanges around the world. Last year alone, Intel Capital invested more than U.S. $130 million in about 110 deals with approximately 40 percent of its investments made outside the United States.

Interwest Partners

InterWest Partners, founded in 1979, is a leading diversified venture capital firm focused on building long-term relationships with entrepreneurs and portfolio companies. Currently investing its ninth fund, IW IX, a $600 million fund, InterWest has more than $2 billion of capital raised since inception. InterWest has 16 investing partners in Menlo Park, CA and Dallas, TX, who bring together deep domain knowledge in life sciences and information technology. The firm's investments in information technology include CIENA (CIEN), Copper Mountain Networks (CMTN), Crystal Semiconductor (acquired by Cirrus Logic, CRUS), Cyrix (CYRX; acquired by National Semiconductor (NSM), Lightera (acquired by CIENA), PlaceWare (acquired by Microsoft, MSFT), SiTera (acquired by Vitesse, VTSS), Silicon Graphics (SGI), Stratacom (STRM; acquired by Cisco, CSCO) and Xilinx (XLNX).

Khosla Ventures

Khosla Ventures offers venture assistance, strategic advice and capital to entrepreneurs. The firm helps entrepreneurs extend the potential of their ideas in both traditional venture areas like the Internet, computing, mobile, and silicon technology arenas but also supports breakthrough scientific work in clean technology areas such as bio-refineries for energy and bioplastics, solar, battery and other environmentally friendly technologies. Vinod Khosla was formerly a General Partner at Kleiner Perkins and founder of Sun Microsystems. Vinod has been labeled the #1 VC by Forbes and Fortune recently labeled him as one the nation's most influential ethanol advocates, noting "there are venture capitalists, and there's Vinod Khosla." Vinod Khosla founded the firm in 2004 and was joined by partners David Weiden and Samir Kaul, as well as chief scientific officer Doug Cameron in 2006. Khosla Ventures is based in Menlo Park, California.

Noble Venture Finance

Noble is an independent UK investment bank dedicated to helping small and mid-cap companies grow. It provides services to more than 200 private and public companies, and acts as adviser, sponsor and broker to more than 40 companies. Noble is the exclusive UK member of Global M&A www.globalma.com the leading global partnership of independent corporate finance houses which services the growing market for international mid market M&A activity. Noble Venture Finance is managed by the investment management arm of Noble and is a leading European provider of asset-based and working capital finance to fast growing and privately held venture capital backed companies.

Oak Investment Partners

Established in 1978, Oak Investment Partners is a venture capital firm with a strong track record as a stage-independent investor. To date, Oak has funded more than 350 companies with aggregate annual revenues in excess of $60 billion. Oak's investment strategy focuses on growth opportunities in enterprise application and infrastructure software, communications equipment and services, data storage, outsourced services, financial services technology, and healthcare services. Located in Westport, CT, and with offices in Minneapolis, MN, and Palo Alto, CA, Oak concentrates on building long-term relationships with experienced management to develop successful companies that deliver consistent performance over time such as AthenaHealth, Compaq, Genzyme, Parametric Technology Corporation, PictureTel (now part of Polycom), Polycom, SanDisk, Seagate Technologies, Sybase, Synopsys, Telica (acquired by Lucent), Wellfleet (acquired by Nortel) etc.

Vision Capital

Vision Capital is a Trans-Atlantic fund providing growth capital for leading technology companies. Vision invests in promising European and US technology companies and then takes an active, hands-on approach in expanding these businesses across the Atlantic.