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Historical Investments
 

 Blaze DFM > www.blaze-dfm.com 
 
    Blaze DFM provides software solutions to fabless semiconductor companies, integrated device manufacturers, and silicon foundries.

Initial investment: EDV co-led the first round of venture capital funding for Aprio, which was acquired by Blaze DFM in 2007. EDV then provided Series B funding to Blaze DFM.

 
 Compellent Technologies (NYSE: CML) > www.compellent.com 
 
    Compellent is a leading provider of enterprise-class network storage solutions that are highly scalable, feature rich and designed to be easy to use and cost effective. Compellent's Storage Center is a Storage Area Network (SAN) that is designed to significantly lower storage and infrastructure capital expenditures, reduce the skill level and number of personnel required to manage information and enable continuous data availability and storage virtualization.

Initial Investment: EDV co-led Compellent’s first round of funding.
 
 Cortina Systems > www.cortina-systems.com 
 
    Cortina Systems is a leading supplier of intelligent communication solutions to the Core, Metro, Access and Enterprise market segments. With state-of-the-art, high-speed analog-digital integration, Cortina delivers a wide suite of products that address its customers’ performance, density and flexibility needs, enabling faster time to- market, longer time-in-market, and increased revenue opportunities.

Initial Investment: EDV co-led Cortina’s first round of venture capital funding.
 
 RipCode > www.ripcode.com 
 
    RipCode's innovative on-demand video transcoding appliance revolutionizes the process of re-purposing video into multiple viewing formats. It eliminates the need for broadcasters, syndicators or user generated video sites to pre-transcode and store multiple file formats of their entire video library. RipCode enables video to be dynamically transcoded and served to a customer on any screen size as they request it, giving viewers an expansion of content choices while reducing an operator's server hardware, storage and energy use.

Initial Investment: EDV co-led RipCode's first round of venture capital financing.
 
 Storspeed > www.storspeed.com 
 
    Storspeed is designing a disruptive technology at the intersection of storage and networking.
 
 WireCache > www.wirecache.com 
 
    WireCACHE designs, builds and markets transparent DBMS™ software products that transparently improve the capacity and performance of merchant relational DBMSs by a factor of two or more.

Intitial Investment: EDV led WireCache’s second round of venture capital financing.
 

>See EDV's Historical Investments in Semiconductors & Systems

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