Tech Company Financing Transactions

Gear6 Funding Round

Gear6 secured a $10 million Series B financing round on 3/26/2008. Investors included Horizon Ventures, InterWest Partners and U.S. Venture Partners.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
3/26/2008
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$10,000,000
Round
Series B
Investors

Horizon Ventures (Lead Investor) (Douglas Tsui)

InterWest Partners (Khaled Nasr)

U.S. Venture Partners (David Liddle)

Proceeds Purpose
The funds will be used to bolster the company's market expansion being fueled by increasing demand for its CACHEfx line of scalable caching appliances.

Company Information

Company Status
Acquired or Merged
Industry
Enterprise IT
Mailing Address
440 Bernardo Avenue
Mountain View, CA 94043
USA
Email Address
Overview
Founded in 2002 as Engineered Intelligence, the company developed high-performance computing solutions using distributed, clustered architectures, which were deployed in conjunction with top-tier OEM partners.
Profile
Gear6 LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
Gear6 Company Twitter Account
Company News
Gear6 News
Facebook
Gear6 on Facebook
YouTube
Gear6 on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Tom Shea
  Tom Shea LinkedIn Profile  Tom Shea Twitter Account  Tom Shea News  Tom Shea on Facebook
Executive Vice President
Joaquín Ruiz
  Joaquín Ruiz LinkedIn Profile  Joaquín Ruiz Twitter Account  Joaquín Ruiz News  Joaquín Ruiz on Facebook
VP - Engineering
Martin Patterson
  Martin Patterson LinkedIn Profile  Martin Patterson Twitter Account  Martin Patterson News  Martin Patterson on Facebook
VP - Finance
Elliot Carpenter
  Elliot Carpenter LinkedIn Profile  Elliot Carpenter Twitter Account  Elliot Carpenter News  Elliot Carpenter on Facebook


 

 

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