AFCO Ventures' charter is to invest in exceptional early-stage technology companies that are co-sponsored by top-tier venture capital firms. We are most interested in investment opportunities where we can provide meaningful value creation through our capital, the experience of our investment professionals and our network of business relationships that we maintain throughout all of Asia.


41st Parameter — Scottsdale, Arizona
Provides highly accurate, non-intrusive Internet fraud solutions for financial institutions and merchants.
www.the41.com


Aperto Networks — Milpitas, California
Aperto is a leading provider of next-generation broadband wireless access and WiMAX systems.
www.apertonetworks.com


Attributor — Redwood City, California
Attributor's content tracking and programming platform enables publishers to build value with their content wherever it appears on the Internet. With Attributor, publishers can now program when, how and where their content is presented across the Web and social networks.
www.attributor.com


Avnera — Beaverton, Oregon
Avnera is a provider of high-performance system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for consumer electronics.
www.avnera.com


Brion Technologies — Santa Clara, California
Brion provides innovative products and services for next-generation lithography.
www.briontech.com


Calypto Design Systems — Santa Clara, California
Calypto is an EDA company focused on bridging the gap between electronic system-level design and integrated circuit (IC) implementation. Calypto's technology reduces IC design verification time and costs and increases flexibility in design and architectural optimization.
www.calypto.com


ClairMail — Novato, California
ClairMail optimizes any mobile phone for two-way customer interaction via text messaging – giving customers direct access to their accounts and giving financial institutions direct access to their customers.
www.clairmail.com


Conformia Software — Sunnyvale, California
Conformia develops and markets Product Conformance Management (PCM) software solutions. This enables businesses to simultaneously monitor and improve scientific innovation, business performance, production and compliance goals.
www.conformia.com


Cortina Systems — Sunnyvale, California
Cortina develops and supplies a suite of solutions for efficient port connectivity across multiple networking and telecommunication sectors.
www.cortina-systems.com


DATAllegro — Aliso Viejo, California
DATAllegro offers data warehouse appliances with the best price and performance in the industry.
www.datallegro.com


Devicescape Software — Brisbane, California
Devicescape provides embedded and enterprise platforms that enable its customers to create wireless devices which are easy to use and work well as part of a larger network.
www.devicescape.com


FireEye — Menlo Park, California
FireEye, Inc. provides the world's only malware control system designed to secure networks from targeted malware. Our solutions bring advanced network security together with state-of-the-art virtualization technology to combat crimeware and protect customer data, intellectual property and company resources - solving critical business needs without taxing your IT administration.
www.fireeye.com


GroundWork Open Source — San Francisco, California
GroundWork Open Source is the undisputed leader in open source systems and network monitoring and management software, providing the widest coverage at the lowest possible cost. They bring all the advantages of open source software to business-critical network and systems management and combine those with superior functionality, documentation, and professional support to give you unprecedented visibility of your entire IT infrastructure.
www.groundworkopensource.com


GTronix — Fremont, California
GTronix is a fabless IC manufacturer dedicated to providing analog technology to extract real-world sensory information for portable consumer electronic products.
www.gtronix.com


Infinera — Sunnyvale, California
Infinera offers carrier-grade systems for a new optical architecture: the Digital Optical Network. Using the world's first, large-scale photonic integrated circuits, Infinera transforms analog optical networks into digital ones to reduce cost, increase flexibility and simplify operations.
www.infinera.com


Mimosa Systems — Santa Clara, California
Mimosa provides next-generation content and email archiving, compliance and disaster recovery.
www.mimosasystems.com


Miradia — Santa Clara, California
Miradia has developed a micro-display technology that enables high-quality displays to be manufactured with high-volume, low-cost semiconductor production methods.
www.miradia.com


Neterion — Cupertino, California
Neterion's technology is focused on exponentially improving high-speed networking, storage and computing systems by deploying 10 Gigabit Ethernet in an evolutionary, cost-effective manner.
www.neterion.com


oodle — San Mateo, California
Oodle is the leading search engine for local classifieds. Oodle helps consumers find what they want in every major classifieds category: personals, cars, real estate, apartments, jobs, merchandise, pets, and tickets.
www.oodle.com


PostPath — Mountain View, California
PostPath is dedicated to the creation of a better email and collaboration infrastructure - better for users, better for IT departments, and better value.
www.postpath.com


Proofpoint — Cupertino, California
Proofpoint is the leading provider of enterprise-class messaging security solutions that protect organizations from the threats and risks of both inbound and outbound email and other messaging streams.
www.proofpoint.com


Quellan — Santa Clara, California
Quellan specializes in analog components that improve the performance and functionality of electronic equipment by removing channel impairments and noise. Quellan serves the Enterprise, Telecom, Broadcast, Automotive and Consumer Electronics markets.
www.quellan.com


RedSeal Systems — Redwood City, California
RedSeal Systems is a leading provider of innovative security risk management solutions that provide instant visibility into all potential threats.
www.redseal.net


Scintera Networks — San Jose, California
Scintera has developed the Advanced Signal-Processing Platform (ASPP), which enables very high-speed signal processing at 10 Gigabits per second and beyond.
www.scintera.com


SiTime — Sunnyvale, California
SiTime is the leader in providing silicon timing, clock, and RF chips which incorporate Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) timing reference devices inside standard silicon electronic chips, eliminating the need for quartz crystals.
www.sitime.com


Solidcore Systems — Palo Alto, California
Solidcore is the leading provider of change control for critical systems. Solidcore's S3 Control software is the industry's first and only solution to automate the enforcement of change management policies.
www.solidcore.com


Symwave — San Diego, California
Symwave is a fabless semiconductor company that designs and markets a broad line of high-performance analog/mixed-signal ICs targeting the PC/laptop, mobile device and display markets.
www.symwave.com


Voltage Security — Palo Alto, California
Voltage delivers the leading enterprise privacy management platform for protecting all forms of digital business communication.
www.voltage.com


WorkMetro — San Jose, California
WorkMetro is the nation’s premier locally-focused online recruiting site for employers and staffing firms.
www.workmetro.com


Xambala — San Jose, California
Xambala delivers high-throughput, low-latency message stream processing subsystems for the financial marketplace.
www.xambala.com




Joe Horowitz
General Partner

Tsunesaburo "Sunny" Sugaya
General Partner
Head of Business Development

Tom Mawhinney
General Partner

Aaron Cheatham
General Partner

Debby Meredith
Venture Partner

Ben Shih
Principal


Yoichiro "Joe" Takami
Chief Financial Officer