About Crosspoint Venture Partners
Crosspoint Venture Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 1970. It is primarily based out of Redwood City, United States. As of Jul 2017, Crosspoint Venture Partners has invested in 41 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 Retail and Telecom. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series A round of Buy It Installed Overall, Crosspoint Venture Partners portfolio has seen 1 IPO and 22 acquisitions including key companies like CallidusCloud, Sound Physicians and ShoreTel. A lot of funds co-invest with Crosspoint Venture Partners, with names like Accel sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Crosspoint Venture Partners has team of 3 people including 3 partners.Key Metrics
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Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
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Series B, Series A & 4 more
Portfolio IPOs
Portfolio Acquisitions
Crosspoint Venture Partners' List of Top Investments
Crosspoint Venture Partners has a portfolio of 41 companies. Their most notable investments are in Buzzsaw and Electron Economy.Their portfolio spans across United States, Bangladesh, Israel and 1 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Retail, Telecom and 16 other sectors, across stages such as Series B, Series A and 4 more. Here is the list of top investments by Crosspoint Venture Partners:
Cloud-based sales, marketing, learning, and customer experience solutions. It enables organizations to stimulate their lead to money process with a complete suite of solutions that identify the right leads, ensure proper territory and quota distribution, enable sales forces, automate CPQ and streamline sales compensation. HCL, Verizon, Lenovo, and DirectTV are some of its clients.
Key facts about CallidusCloud
- Founded Year: 1996
- Location: Pleasanton (United States)
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $89.3M
- Employee Count: 442 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Goldman Sachs, Invesco and 6 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Aug 18, 2011, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
Physician-led clinical teams delivering uncompromising care and innovative healthcare solutions. The organization builds exceptional clinical partnerships to unlock quality, affordable, dignified care. They offer a range of specialties including emergency medicine, hospital medicine, critical care, anesthesia, telemedicine, and accountable care. They provide custom practice solutions designed to improve hospital and patient outcomes. Their approach is powered by physician leadership and strengthened by business acumen, addressing healthcare challenges with sustainable solutions. They focus on collaboration, accountability, empathy, and ingenuity to drive clinical excellence and improve patient care. They leverage technology to create transparency and accountability, striving to be a respected multi-specialty medical group.
Key facts about Sound Physicians
- Founded Year: 2001
- Location: Tacoma (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $2.22B
- Employee Count: 2,778 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Athyrium Capital Management, Versant Ventures and 13 Others
- Latest Funding Round: PE, Jun 28, 2018, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
3. ShoreTel
Shoretel provides IP phone systems and unified communications solutions for on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments. The company offers integrated voice, video, data, and mobile applications. It also provides ShoreTel Mobility for smartphone users that allows the user to communicate from any location, ShoreTel Communicator that enables to communicate through video, voice, and instant messaging, conferencing and collaboration solutions.
Key facts about ShoreTel
- Founded Year: 1996
- Location: Sunnyvale (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $100M - $500M as on Jun 30, 2017
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $88.3M
- Employee Count: 10 - 49 as on Mar 01, 2026
- Investors: Icon Ventures, Foundation Capital and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Jan 22, 2003, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
4. E2open
Provider of cloud-based, end-to-end supply chain management and solutions. The company's platform offers channel, planning, global trade, logistics, and supply functionalities. It facilitates visibility and collaboration across supply chain touchpoints. The platform integrates business processes, streamlines workflows, and breaks down information silos. It also offers partner network for manufacturing, logistics, and distribution.
Key facts about E2open
- Founded Year: 2000
- Location: Foster City (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $500M - $1B as on Feb 28, 2025
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Employee Count: 3,019 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Cross Creek, Francisco Partners and 13 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Conventional Debt, Apr 08, 2022, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
5. DemandTec
AI-powered retail pricing platform optimizing pricing, promotions, and markdown strategies. This is a complete end-to-end pricing platform designed to empower retailers in optimizing their pricing strategies, promotions, and markdown approaches. It facilitates seamless collaboration between retailers and suppliers, streamlining promotional activities for maximum efficiency. The platform offers solutions for pricing, promotions, collaboration, and markdowns, all driven by machine learning. It provides actionable data, tips, and thought leadership through blogs, case studies, reports, and webinars. This platform is a SaaS offering, providing tools for retailers to lead the market with winning pricing, execute impactful promotions, streamline trade collaboration, and build advanced markdown strategies. It leverages Artificial Intelligence to provide data-driven insights and optimization across the entire pricing lifecycle.
Key facts about DemandTec
- Founded Year: 1999
- Location: San Carlos (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Employee Count: 160 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Altos Ventures Management, Cargill and 4 Others
- Latest Funding Round: PE, Sep 04, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
Crosspoint Venture Partners' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Crosspoint Venture Partners has invested in 41 companies over the last 28 years, with an average of 0 new investment annually in the last 10 years. Its most recent first time investment was in Buy It Installed and most recent follow-on round was in Aktino.Crosspoint Venture Partners' Investments by Stage
Crosspoint Venture Partners is primarily an Early Stage Investor investor majorly investing in Series B (18) rounds where average round size is $415M, Series A (7) rounds where average round size is $88.4M and Series C (3) rounds where average round size is $131M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Series B | 18 |
Series A | 7 |
Series C | 3 |
PE | 2 |
Series D | 1 |
Others | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Crosspoint Venture Partners' Investments by Sector
Crosspoint Venture Partners has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Retail, Consumer, Telecom and Vertical SaaS. Notably, it has invested in 29 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 23 Tech companies, 14 Software companies and at least 6 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 9 |
Retail | 7 |
Consumer | 4 |
Telecom | 4 |
Vertical SaaS | 4 |
Others | 20 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Crosspoint Venture Partners' Investments by Geography
Crosspoint Venture Partners has made most investments in United States (31), followed by Bangladesh where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 31 |
Bangladesh | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Crosspoint Venture Partners' recent investments
Crosspoint Venture Partners has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Crosspoint Venture Partners:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Jul 03, 2017 | United States | Series A | 9488 | [+2] | |
Aug 17, 2008 | United States | Series C | 2557 | ||
Nov 14, 2006 | United States | Series D | 7882 | ||
Mar 01, 2006 | United States | Series A | 4112 | ||
Feb 02, 2006 | United States | Series B | 3639 | [+1] |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in Crosspoint Venture Partners' Portfolio
1 of Crosspoint Venture Partners' portfolio company became public - Certive. It got listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE), in May 2011.Here are Crosspoint Venture Partners' portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
May 20, 2011 | Feb 02, 2006 | Series B | 4825 |
Acquired companies in Crosspoint Venture Partners' Portfolio
22 companies from Crosspoint Venture Partners' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was E2open in May 2025 by WiseTech Global for $*****.Here are Crosspoint Venture Partners' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
May 25, 2025 | Oct 29, 2003 | Series E | 5979 | |
Nov 11, 2019 | Feb 05, 2001 | Series B | 6871 | |
Apr 21, 2018 | May 07, 2002 | Series B | 1619 | |
Jan 29, 2018 | Feb 09, 1999 | Series B | 9126 | |
Jul 27, 2017 | Jul 28, 1998 | Series B | 3714 |
Team profile of Crosspoint Venture Partners
Crosspoint Venture Partners has a team of 3 members including 3 Partners located in United States. Crosspoint Venture Partners' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of all team members in Crosspoint Venture Partners:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Partner | West Hollywood | - | - | |
Partner | Redwood City | - | ||
Partner | Los Gatos | - |
Co-investors of Crosspoint Venture Partners
Over the past 28 years, 113 investors have co-invested in Crosspoint Venture Partners's portfolio companies. This includes only funds.
- Invested before Crosspoint Venture Partners: Palm Ventures, Comdisco and 6 others have invested in rounds before Crosspoint Venture Partners. There is 1 company where Palm Ventures has invested before Crosspoint Venture Partners and 1 company where Comdisco has invested before Crosspoint Venture Partners.
- Top Co-investors of Crosspoint Venture Partners: 59 investors entered a company along with Crosspoint Venture Partners. These include investors like Accel (5 companies).
- Invested after Crosspoint Venture Partners: A total of 46 investors have invested in Crosspoint Venture Partners's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Waud Capital Partners (2 companies), Morgan Stanley (2 companies) and Bank of America (2 companies).
Recent News related to Crosspoint Venture Partners
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Buy It Installed grabs fundingPE Hub•Aug 03, 2017•Buy It Installed, Skyview Ventures, Tech Coast Angels, ACE fund and 1 other
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Aktino Raises $14.2 Million - PE HubPE Hub•Aug 17, 2008•Aktino, Crosspoint Venture Partners, InnoCal Venture Capital, Foundation Capital and 2 others
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Tarari raises $14M, unveils new network chipsSan Diego Union-Tribune•Jan 28, 2006•Tarari, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, Morgan Stanley, Intel Capital and 2 others
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Callidus Software Secures Additional $8M in FundingPR Newswire•Jan 13, 2003•CallidusCloud, Crescendo Ventures, Crosspoint Venture Partners, Invesco and 1 other
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Tarari Takes In $2 MillionThe Wall Street Journal•Dec 02, 2002•Tarari, Miramar Digital Ventures, Crosspoint Venture Partners
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Tropian, Sanera Systems Raise New Venture FundingThe Wall Street Journal•Oct 02, 2001•Tropian, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, and 12 others
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Shoreline, Hire.com Complete
Rounds of Venture Funding - WSJThe Wall Street Journal•Jun 26, 2001•ShoreTel, Lehman Brothers, Crosspoint Venture Partners, Foundation Capital and 4 others
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WinCom Systems Launches With $32.9 MillionPR Newswire•May 01, 2001•Wincom Systems, Crosspoint Venture Partners, TPG
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Kenamea Closes $32 Million Series C RoundPR Newswire•Apr 16, 2001•Kenamea, Crosspoint Venture Partners, Azure Capital, Palm Ventures and 1 other
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Callidus Software(TM) Announces Equity Financing Totaling $26 MillionPR Newswire•Apr 10, 2001•CallidusCloud, Crosspoint Venture Partners, Crescendo Ventures, Goldman Sachs and 1 other
