Investors

Staccato Communications Inc. is a privately help corporation financed with three rounds of venture capital totaling $77.5 million USD, with the latest investment being announced in October 2007. 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.

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.

Fujitsu Limited

Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting device technologies, highly reliable computing and communications products, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts uniquely position Fujitsu to deliver comprehensive solutions that open up infinite possibilities for its customers' success. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) reported consolidated revenues of about 4.8 trillion yen (U.S. $40.6 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2006.

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).
KTB Ventures

KTB Ventures

KTB Ventures is the United States operation of KTBnetwork, the largest private equity firm based out of Korea with approximately $5 billion of capital under management. Founded in 1981, KTB has invested in more than 600 companies worldwide, including over 40 companies in the United States. KTB's representative investments in the US include Xylan, Alteon, Centillium, Sonus Networks, Copper Moutain, Terayon, Berkana and Airespace. KTB has produced numerous global success stories through its investments in Asia including Internet Auction (acquired by eBay), JobKorea (acquired by Monster), Integrant Technologies (acquired by Analog Devices), Focus Media (Nasdaq: FCMN), Gravity (Nasdaq: GRVY) and Pantech Curitel (a leading mobile handset company listed on the Korea Stock Exchange). KTB has offices in Palo Alto, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo and Singapore.

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.