DBL Portfolio
XDx Corporate Office |
XDx is a novel molecular diagnostics company whose mission is to improve patient care by developing molecular diagnostics that translate an individual’s immune status into clinically actionable information. The Company has developed an accurate blood-based diagnostic test to detect rejection in heart transplant patients. The test measures the level of gene expression for the set of genes most closely involved in the immune response of heart transplant tissue rejection. The test will partially replace biopsies, which are more costly, painful, invasive/risky, subjective, non-quantitative and slower to detect organ rejection. XDx is developing similar tests for other organ transplants such as lung transplants, as well as tests for autoimmune disorders. In addition to the Bay Area Equity Fund, investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Texas Pacific Group, New Leaf Venture Partners, Burrill and Company, Integral Capital Partners, Intel Capital Partners and Duff Ackerman and Goodrich. |
Peninsula Pharmaceuticals |
Peninsula is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of antibiotics to treat life-threatening infections. The Company’s mission is to develop optimal anti-infective therapies that offer improved efficacy, dosing and safety characteristics over existing therapies. In addition to the Bay Area Equity Fund, investors include Canaan Partners and Domain Associates. |
Five Prime Therapeutics |
FivePrime is discovering and developing novel therapeutic proteins and antibodies by systematically screening all relevant proteins in the human body to find the best protein for treatment of a given clinical indication. FivePrime’s ProScreen Engine enables the rapid production and screening of all therapeutically relevant proteins in medically-focused assays at the highest quality standards in the industry. This powerful approach is the polar opposite of the industry’s traditional "one protein at a time". The ProScreen Engine comprises the definitive protein collection and screening process for biologics discovery and is unprecedented in its efficiency, quality and scale. In addition to the Bay Area Equity Fund, investors include Domain Associates, Versant Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Texas Pacific Group, HealthCap and Advanced Technology Ventures. |
Bentek |
Bentek delivers high-complexity, low-volume subsystems and assemblies to capital equipment and emerging high-tech industrial customers. Bentek provides turnkey design, manufacturing and service of electronic/electrical modules and systems that range from intelligence-based controllers to fully integrated units. In addition to the Bay Area Equity Fund, investors include Fundamental Capital and Pacific Community Ventures. |
Labcyte |
Labcyte Inc. is a laboratory instrumentation company with a novel approach to dispensing small volumes of liquids for life sciences applications. Labcyte's acoustic dispensing technology uses a focused beam of acoustic energy to eject nanoliter-scale droplets of fluid from one plate to another, with high accuracy at low volumes and reduced consumables costs. In addition to the Bay Area Equity Fund, investors include Alloy Ventures, Abingworth, New Leaf Venture Partners and Cross Atlantic Partners. |
SunPower Systems |
PowerLight Corporation is one of the world’s largest integrator/installers of large photovoltaic (PV) solar electric projects. PowerLight designs, manufactures, installs and maintains commerical-grade, large-scale, grid-connected solar power systems. The company was founded in 1991 and has over 75 US and international patents issued or pending covering its technologies, including lightweight non-invasive PV roof systems and single-axis ground-based tracking arrays. |
Tesla Motors |
Tesla Motors designs and sells electric cars that break the compromise between performance and efficiency, combining world-class automotive design and Silicon Valley technology with an innovative sales and support strategy. The company's first car is an all-electric roadster with exceptional performance, mileage, and range, and with zero emissions. Tesla's patented and proprietary technologies change the automotive energy equation. In addition to the Bay Area Equity Fund, investors include Vantage Point Venture Partners, Technology Partners, Valor Equity Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Daimler and Elon Musk. |
Revolution Foods (510) 596-9024 |
Revolution Foods transforms school food service by providing healthy food, nutrition education, and operational support for schools in California. The mission of Revolution Foods is to dramatically improve the food and food service experience in schools, by being the first company to provide the combination of tasty, quality food, nutrition education, and operational support to schools at a price that fits the requirements of the National School Lunch Program. The impact of Revolution Foods in communities it serves is to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity, to improve overall health among children, and to enhance the educational experience for all students. In addition to the Bay Area Equity Fund, investors include Catamount Ventures, New Schools Venture Fund and The Westly Group. |
InSpa Corporation |
Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, InSpa is the nation's fastest-growing chain of mass-market day spas. The company opened it's first Bay Area location in Santana Row, San Jose in the Fall of 2006. InSpa emphasizes simplicity, quality and value and believes that everyone should be able to enjoy the health and emotional benefits of spa services in a welcoming environment. InSpa's bath, body and skincare lines are available at all InSpa locations. |
MeeVee, Inc. |
MeeVee has created an integrated search and discovery platform for video entertainment built upon a personalized navigation system and patented metadata generation technology. MeeVee has patented IP and technology to look prospectively into the granular details of programming information to find content segments of interest to viewers before they are broadcast or become public information. The result is a comprehensive television search and personalization service for multiple platforms (e.g., PC, TV, DVR, Set-Top Boxes and mobile devices). In addition to the Bay Area Equity Fund, investors include Walden VC, Labrador Ventures and B&E DeRosthschild Ventures. |
Pandora |
Pandora's mission is to define what radio is in a connected world. Pandora is an online unicast radio station which instantly creates personalized streaming stations tailored specifically for each user. Users can influence the station by giving songs "thumbs-up" or "thumbs-down". Users can create up to 100 different stations. The company began in 2000 when founder, Tim Westergren, launched The Music Genome Project to create the most comprehensive analysis of music ever. Pandora is bringing its extraordinary catalog of music analysis to the masses, using it to drive effective personalized music discovery and a unique on-line listening experience in a $30 billion radio market, capitalizing on an industry-wide transition from broadcast to internet and from radios to PCs and mobile devices. In addition to the Bay Area Equity Fund, investors include Walden VC, Crosslink Capital, Labrador Venutres, King Street and Greylock Partners. |
BrightSource Energy |
Brightsource Energy, Inc. (formerly Luz II) is a builder and operator of renewable power plants for industrial and utility customers in the United States. The company's energy generation approach is based on solar-thermal created steam supplemented with gas, providing more stable and more profitable power generation for utilities than other types of renewable energy like wind, hydro and photovoltaic. In addition to the Bay Area Equity Fund and the DBL Equity Fund-BAEF II, investors include VantagePoint Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Morgan Stanley. |
SolarCity |
SolarCity is the leading provider of solar energy systems that deliver reliable power to homes and businesses. SolarCity's growth is driven by its standardized approach to installation, innovative regional marketing initiatives, increasing homeowner and business owner demand for clean power, rising electricity rates and favorable solar energy system incentives. In addition to the Bay Area Equity Fund, investors include Elon Musk, Morgan Stanley and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. |
eMeter |
eMeter provides energy efficiency software and integration services that allows utilities to manage and utilize the data collected from automated utility meters. eMeter’s software platform enables applications such as enhanced billing, outage restoration, load monitoring and demand response. eMeter's software provides utilities with detailed dynamic electricity usage information which can be used to identify unaccountable energy use and losses, as well as to support innovative programs that reduce the need to build power plants used for peak demand days only. In addition to the Bay Area Equity Fund, investors include Foundation Capital and Sequoia Capital. |
LiveScribe |
Livescribe is fundamentally changing the way people capture, access and share information with pen and paper. Founded in 2007, Livescribe has developed a breakthrough low-cost mobile computing platform which includes the award-winning Pulse smartpen, dot paper, smartpen applications, Livescribe Desktop software, Livescribe Online Community, and development tools.Since its launch in April 2008, the Pulse smartpen has won multiple awards, including Popular Science’s Best of What’s New 2008, Popular Mechanic’s 2008 Breakthrough Award, and MacWorld’s Best of Show in 2009. In addition to the DBL Equity Fund-BAEF II, investors include VantagePoint Venture Partners and Aeris Capital. |
