HighBAR Ventures
Encyclopedia
HighBAR Ventures is a venture capital
firm founded by noted Sun Microsystems
co-founders Bill Joy
, Andy Bechtolsheim
together with entrepreneur and former Sun executive Roy Thiele-Sardiña
. The firm's name references an acronym of the first name of the firm's three co-founders ('B', 'A' and 'R').
Venture capital
Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...
firm founded by noted Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...
co-founders Bill Joy
Bill Joy
William Nelson Joy , commonly known as Bill Joy, is an American computer scientist. Joy co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003...
, Andy Bechtolsheim
Andy Bechtolsheim
Andreas von Bechtolsheim is an electrical engineer who co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and was its chief hardware designer....
together with entrepreneur and former Sun executive Roy Thiele-Sardiña
Roy Thiele-Sardiña
Roy Thiele-Sardiña is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist.-As Entrepreneur:Sardiña holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an M.B.A...
. The firm's name references an acronym of the first name of the firm's three co-founders ('B', 'A' and 'R').
Investments
HighBAR's most notable investments include:- Mirapoint
- RegroupRegroupRegroup is a communications platform for organizations that offers forums, group management, mailing list management, intranet, emergency messaging, group SMS, text messages, and social media....
- TapulousTapulousTapulous, Inc. is an American software and video game developer and publisher headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company as part of the Disney Interactive Media Group...
(sold to Disney) - Soonr
- RedSeal Systems
- Privasys
- Eidogen-Sertanty
- Brocade Communications (NASDAQ: BRCD)
- Tasmania Networks, acquired by Cisco
- CDS, acquired by Maxtor
- Viathan/Dantz, acquired by EMC Corporation
- BrightMail, acquired by Symantec
- CAW Networks, acquired by Spirent
- SANLight, acquired by Quantum
- Neopath Networks (formerly Metadata Systems), acquired by Cisco Systems
- Ingrian Networks (Acquired by SafeNet)