About ATA Ventures
ATA Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2003. It is primarily based out of San Francisco, United States. As of Oct 2015, ATA Ventures has invested in 48 companies. It primarily invests in Series B round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Enterprise Infrastructure and High Tech. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series B round of Jolata Overall, ATA Ventures portfolio has seen 1 IPO and 22 acquisitions including key companies like Actelis, Adesto and Zoosk. A lot of funds co-invest with ATA Ventures, with names like Leapfrog Ventures sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. ATA Ventures has team of 2 people including 1 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Series A, Series B & 4 more
Portfolio IPOs
Portfolio Acquisitions
Portfolio Soonicorns
ATA Ventures' List of Top Investments
ATA Ventures has a portfolio of 48 companies. Their most notable investments are in Milyoni and Cswitch.Their portfolio spans across United States, Canada and Israel. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Infrastructure, High Tech and 12 other sectors, across stages such as Series A, Series B and 4 more. Here is the list of top investments by ATA Ventures:1. Actelis
Provider of networking solutions for intelligent traffic, rail, and city systems. The company delivers connectivity for apartments, businesses, and residential broadband. It offers backhaul services integrating industry, IoT, city, and campus Wi-Fi. Product offerings include Ethernet switches, fiber optic switches, and power over Ethernet switches. The company provides cybersecurity, broadband amplifiers, repeaters, and enclosures. Its technology includes fiber optics, G.fast, G.hn, G.SHDSL, and VDSL2. The company offers Ethernet networking, carrier Ethernet, and cybersecurity solutions.
Key facts about Actelis
- Founded Year: 1998
- Location: Fremont (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $7.76M as on Dec 31, 2024
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $162M
- Employee Count: 91 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: Saints Capital, Adams Street Partners and 15 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Sep 29, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Public
2. Adesto
Adesto Technologies is a semiconductor company that develops next-generation ultra-low-power embedded non-volatile memory technology CBRAM (Conductive Bridge RAM). Their technology offers storage that typically a hundred times less than standard flash cells without sacrificing performance. Their storage solutions are resistant to threshold levels of gamma and electron beam sterilization allowing medical applications. They also license their technology as well. Their contract manufacturers include United Microelectronics Corporation, Altis Semiconductor S.N.C, Amkor Technology, Inc.
Key facts about Adesto
- Founded Year: 2007
- Location: Sunnyvale (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $118M as on Dec 31, 2019
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $75M
- Investors: Adams Street Partners, Wellington and 8 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Sep 18, 2019, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
3. Zoosk
Zoosk is an online dating service available in 25 languages and 80 countries. Zoosk has an iOS and Android app and a desktop chat client. Uses big data and algorithmic recommendations technology to help users find partners. Its “proprietary Behavioral Matchmaking engine” learns from users’ clicks, messaging, and other actions to help produce more accurate matches. In August 2014, Zoosk added its Photo Verification service. Until November 2014, Zoosk charged no fee to start using the app and to send one message to another person. Since November 2014, contact and interaction beyond the first message per person requires a premium (i.e., paid) subscription. Has 50 million registered users as of June 2011.
Key facts about Zoosk
- Founded Year: 2007
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $43.5M
- Employee Count: 101 as on Dec 31, 2022
- Investors: Crossroads Liquidating Trust, Crosslink Capital and 8 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series E, Jan 27, 2012, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
AI and cloud-based business managemnt tool for healthcare professionals. The company has developed software that assists predictive analysis and business data analysis. It has features for business optimization, economic data management, market data trend analysis, and more.
Key facts about Sikka Technologies
- Founded Year: 2004
- Location: San Jose (United States)
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $18.8M
- Employee Count: 45 as on Dec 31, 2022
- Investors: Moneta Ventures, Sierra Ventures and 1 Other
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Jun 18, 2015, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Visage provides a security solution for enterprise mobility management. Visage's core product is, MobilityCentral is a SaaS offering that aggregates and organizes data about users, mobile spend and devices and presents it in a simple, centralized, web-based dashboard. The data and custom reporting from MobilityCentral delivers improved company productivity, competitiveness and both immediate and long-term cost savings. MobilityCentral is also “open for integration” with other enterprise data such as expense reporting and mobile device management (MDM) to address the rapid growth of employee-owned devices (“BYOD”) in the workplace.
Key facts about Visage Mobile
- Founded Year: 2001
- Location: Larkspur (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $103M
- Employee Count: 27 as on Dec 31, 2022
- Investors: Worldview Technology Partners, Nomura and 11 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series E, Sep 18, 2013, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
ATA Ventures' Investments by Stage
ATA Ventures has made 18 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $5.71M, 14 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $14.1M and 5 investments in Series C stage with an average round size of $12.5M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Series A | 18 |
Series B | 14 |
Series C | 5 |
Seed | 2 |
Series D | 1 |
Others | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
ATA Ventures' Investments by Sector
ATA Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Semiconductors, Enterprise Infrastructure, High Tech and Consumer. Notably, it has invested in 40 Tech companies, 36 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 25 Software companies and at least 11 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 16 |
Semiconductors | 8 |
Enterprise Infrastructure | 7 |
High Tech | 6 |
Consumer | 5 |
Others | 26 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
ATA Ventures' Investments by Geography
ATA Ventures has made most investments in United States (40), followed by Canada where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 40 |
Canada | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
ATA Ventures' recent investments
ATA Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by ATA Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Oct 21, 2015 | United States | Series B | 2345 | [+1] | |
Oct 13, 2015 | United States | Series C | 5877 | [+3] | |
Jun 18, 2015 | United States | Series C | 9108 | - | |
Feb 24, 2015 | United States | Series B | 2449 | ||
Oct 07, 2014 | United States | Series D | 7780 | [+2] |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in ATA Ventures' Portfolio
1 of ATA Ventures' portfolio company became public - Actelis. It got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ), in May 2022 at marketcap of $67.5MHere are ATA Ventures' portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
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May 13, 2022 | Jan 27, 2005 | Series D | 8344 |
Acquired companies in ATA Ventures' Portfolio
22 companies from ATA Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was NeoPhotonics in Nov 2021 by Lumentum for $*****.Here are ATA Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 06, 2021 | Mar 17, 2004 | Series B | 8279 | |
May 04, 2021 | Feb 23, 2010 | Series E | 7483 | |
May 06, 2020 | - | - | 1672 | |
Feb 20, 2020 | Oct 25, 2011 | Series C | 7778 | |
Mar 21, 2019 | Nov 01, 2007 | Series A | 2270 |
Team profile of ATA Ventures
ATA Ventures has a team of 2 members located in United States. ATA Ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of ATA Ventures
Over the past 22 years, 156 investors have co-invested in ATA Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before ATA Ventures: 180 Degree Capital, DFJ and 43 others have invested in rounds before ATA Ventures. There are 2 companies where 180 Degree Capital has invested before ATA Ventures and 2 companies where DFJ has invested before ATA Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of ATA Ventures: 57 investors entered a company along with ATA Ventures. These include investors like Leapfrog Ventures (3 companies).
- Invested after ATA Ventures: A total of 54 investors have invested in ATA Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Adams Street Partners (2 companies), Crossroads Liquidating Trust (2 companies) and DuPont (2 companies).
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