About NeoCarta Ventures
NeoCarta Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 1999. It is primarily based out of San Mateo, United States. As of Jul 2009, NeoCarta Ventures has invested in 21 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 Enterprise Infrastructure. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series D round of Narus Overall, NeoCarta Ventures portfolio has seen 14 acquisitions including key companies like Everyday Health, Cavium Networks and P2 Energy Solutions. A lot of funds co-invest with NeoCarta Ventures, with names like Sierra Ventures sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio.Key Metrics
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Rounds of Entry
Series B, Series C & 3 more
Portfolio Acquisitions
NeoCarta Ventures' List of Top Investments
NeoCarta Ventures has a portfolio of 21 companies. Their most notable investments are in Meru Networks and Meru Networks.Their portfolio spans across and United States. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Retail, Enterprise Infrastructure and 10 other sectors, across stages such as Series B, Series C and 3 more. Here is the list of top investments by NeoCarta Ventures:Everyday Health is a web and mobile-based platform that provides information regarding health & wellness. Has a portfolio of products that spans the health spectrum from medical to lifestyle information for consumers and doctors. Additionally provides video-based content and broadcasts weekly TV series on ABC stations. Their YouTube channel has 30k+ subscribers. Provides premium packages for employers and health insurance companies.
Key facts about Everyday Health
- Founded Year: 2002
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $100M - $500M as on Dec 31, 2015
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $104M
- Employee Count: 547 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: SLW, Foundation Capital and 15 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Aug 06, 2015, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
Intelligent networks using ARM and MIPS processors. It offers a fabless semiconductor company developing ARM based and MIPS based networks, video, and security processors and SoCs. It has also won 2012 and 2013 GSA awards for the most respected public semiconductor company. Cavium has acquired 5 companies with its latest acquisition being Xpliant.
Key facts about Cavium Networks
- Founded Year: 2001
- Location: San Jose (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $500M - $1B as on Dec 31, 2017
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $77.5M
- Employee Count: 344 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Saints Capital, State48 Ventures and 8 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Mar 04, 2011, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
Provider of software and data solutions for oil and gas companies. The company provides financial and accounting management software, geospatial data, land asset management tools, well lifecycle management solutions, environmental solutions, safety solutions, and other services to both the upstream and midstream oil and gas sectors. Additionally, it offers business process outsourcing, mapping services, training, and more.
Key facts about P2 Energy Solutions
- Founded Year: 1999
- Location: Denver (United States)
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $60M
- Employee Count: 427 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Goldman Sachs, L Catterton and 13 Others
- Latest Funding Round: PE, Oct 07, 2013, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
4. DataSynapse
Datasynapse offers products that provide a set of services to applications that run on a server cluster. Its product GridServer offers distribution management and monitoring of multiple workloads over a cluster. The company also provides products that can be used to manage software licenses, do hardware provisioning and load balancing as jobs are running on the grid.
Key facts about DataSynapse
- Founded Year: 2000
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $44.2M
- Employee Count: 10 - 49 as on Mar 01, 2026
- Investors: Goldman Sachs, NeoCarta Ventures and 10 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Dec 11, 2008, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
Sandburst Corporation provided semiconductor solutions for scalable packet switching and routing systems. The company specialized in the design and development of scalable packet switching and routing systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) that are deployed in enterprise core and metropolitan Ethernet networks. It provided a complete switching and routing solution, which included a packet processor, traffic management capabilities and switch fabric. The company was acquired by Broadcom in 2006 to improve capabilities in Metro Ethernet market.
Key facts about Sandburst Corporation
- Founded Year: 1991
- Location: California City (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $71M
- Employee Count: 5 as on Jun 30, 2026
- Investors: Intel, Investor Growth Capital and 11 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Feb 15, 2005, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
NeoCarta Ventures' Investments by Stage
NeoCarta Ventures has made 7 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $14.9M, 5 investments in Series C stage with an average round size of $25M, 4 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $12.4M, 4 investments in Series D stage with an average round size of $24.8M and 1 investment in PE stage with an average round size of $60M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Series B | 7 |
Series C | 5 |
Series A | 4 |
Series D | 4 |
PE | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
NeoCarta Ventures' Investments by Sector
NeoCarta Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Infrastructure, High Tech, Retail and Consumer. Notably, it has invested in 18 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 18 Tech companies, 9 Software companies and at least 6 companies focusing on Tech hardware.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 7 |
Enterprise Infrastructure | 5 |
High Tech | 3 |
Retail | 3 |
Consumer | 2 |
Others | 11 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
NeoCarta Ventures' Investments by Geography
NeoCarta Ventures has made most investments in United States (20), followed by Canada where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 20 |
Canada | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
NeoCarta Ventures' recent investments
NeoCarta Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by NeoCarta Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Jul 17, 2009 | United States | Series D | 4865 | [+3] | |
Apr 20, 2009 | United States | Series E | 6794 | [+6] | |
Mar 12, 2009 | United States | Series E | 5268 | ||
Feb 10, 2009 | United States | Series E | 4861 | [+3] | |
Mar 03, 2008 | United States | Series C | 1299 | [+4] |
Acquired companies in NeoCarta Ventures' Portfolio
14 companies from NeoCarta Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was July Systems in Jun 2018 by Cisco for $*****.Here are NeoCarta Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 19, 2018 | Sep 13, 2002 | Series A | 9292 | |
Nov 20, 2017 | Jul 31, 2003 | Series C | 2050 | |
Nov 09, 2017 | Jul 19, 2005 | Series B | 7160 | |
Oct 21, 2016 | Mar 29, 2006 | Series B | 4964 | |
May 26, 2015 | Apr 22, 2004 | Series B | 1353 |
Co-investors of NeoCarta Ventures
Over the past 26 years, 130 investors have co-invested in NeoCarta Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes only funds.
- Invested before NeoCarta Ventures: Rho Capital Partners, Time Warner Investments and 33 others have invested in rounds before NeoCarta Ventures. There is 1 company where Rho Capital Partners has invested before NeoCarta Ventures and 1 company where Time Warner Investments has invested before NeoCarta Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of NeoCarta Ventures: 67 investors entered a company along with NeoCarta Ventures. These include investors like Sierra Ventures (2 companies).
- Invested after NeoCarta Ventures: A total of 28 investors have invested in NeoCarta Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Hercules Capital (2 companies), Intel Capital (2 companies) and Goldman Sachs (2 companies).
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Meru Networks lands $87 million for virtual wireless service | VentureBeatVentureBeat•Aug 07, 2009•Meru Networks, Clearstone Venture Partners, NeoCarta Ventures, BlueStream Ventures and 4 others
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Waterfront Media Closes $25 Million in Series D Financing Led by Scale Venture PartnersBusiness Wire•Sep 26, 2007•Everyday Health, Scale Venture Partners, Rho Ventures, Foundation Capital and 3 others
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DBS Raises Series D - PE HubPE Hub•Aug 06, 2007•DBS Communication, NeoCarta Ventures, Sierra Ventures, MK Capital and 3 others
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Meru Networks raises $27.6M | VentureBeatVentureBeat•Mar 05, 2007•Meru Networks, Clearstone Venture Partners, NeoCarta Ventures, BlueStream Ventures and 2 others
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Meru raises $25M | FierceWirelessfiercewireless.com•May 01, 2006•Meru Networks, Clearstone Venture Partners, NeoCarta Ventures, BlueStream Ventures and 1 other
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Meru Networks snags $12M third round | FierceWirelessfiercewireless.com•Jun 15, 2005•Meru Networks, BlueStream Ventures, Dot Edu Ventures, Brainheart and 3 others
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