Tech Company Financing Transactions

WiSpry Funding Round

Blueprint Ventures, American River Ventures and Shepherd Ventures participated in a $6.5 million Series A venture round for WiSpry. This venture round closed on 2/23/2005.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
2/23/2005
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$6,500,000
Round
Series A
Investors

Blueprint Ventures (Lead Investor) (Bart Schachter)

American River Ventures (Harry Laswell)

Shepherd Ventures

Proceeds Purpose
The money will fund the continued growth of the company as it ramps the development, production and sales of landmark RF tunable filter and RF switch products for the cellular phone handset market.

Company Information

Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Semiconductors
Mailing Address
20 Fairbanks 198
Irvine, CA 92618
USA
Email Address
Overview
WiSpry is a fabless, radio frequency (RF) semiconductor company headquartered in Irvine, California and was formed in October 2002 through a spin-off of the RF/Wireless business unit of Coventor, Inc., the market-leading MEMS software company.
Profile
WiSpry LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
WiSpry Company Twitter Account
Company News
WiSpry News
Facebook
WiSpry on Facebook
YouTube
WiSpry on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Russ Johnsen
  Russ Johnsen LinkedIn Profile  Russ Johnsen Twitter Account  Russ Johnsen News  Russ Johnsen on Facebook
Chief Technical Officer
Arthur Morris
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VP - Engineering
Shawn Cunningham
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VP - Regulatory Affairs
Mark Johnson
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