Vertex Ventures is a venture capital firm that specializes in early-stage investments, particularly in startups at the Seed and Series A levels. Based in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in San Francisco, the firm focuses on enterprise and infrastructure sectors, particularly software infrastructure, developer tools, data security, and vertical SaaS. Vertex Ventures operates as a global network of operator-investors, managing portfolios across the U.S., China, Israel, India, and Southeast Asia. The firm positions itself as a trusted partner to innovative entrepreneurs, leveraging its extensive operating experience and access to essential resources such as capital, talent, and strategic partnerships to help build globally competitive businesses.
Unit 2113-2116, Level 21, China World Tower 1, No. 1 Jian Guo Men Wai Avenue, Beijing 100004, China
345 S. California Avenue Palo Alto, California 94306
Sandeep Bhadra
Partner
Jeff Chang
Managing Director
Piyush Kharbanda
General Partner
James Lee
Managing Director
Genping Liu
Partner
Kanika Mayar
Partner, Investment
Yanai Oron
General Partner
Domenic Perri
Partner
Insik Rhee
General Partner
Chase Roberts
Principal
Emanuel Timor
General Partner
Hanming Wang
Senior Associate
Zhijin Xia
Partner
Ying XU
General Partner
David Heller
Managing Partner
Past deals in Intellectual Property
Vectara
Seed Round in 2023
Vectara is a provider of a generative AI product platform that enables the integration of advanced AI features into various applications. Its offering includes a serverless Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) API platform designed to embed generative AI functionality into chatbots and other products, relying on a robust hybrid-search core. This platform ensures accurate and contextually relevant responses, addressing critical challenges for enterprise adoption such as reducing hallucination, enhancing explainability, enforcing access control, and allowing real-time updates of knowledge. Vectara's technology also emphasizes data security and supports multilingual capabilities, making it suitable for a broad range of applications including conversational AI, question-answering, and semantic search. Through its innovative platform, Vectara helps businesses create effective AI-driven experiences while maintaining compliance with intellectual property and bias considerations.
Vectara
Seed Round in 2022
Vectara is a provider of a generative AI product platform that enables the integration of advanced AI features into various applications. Its offering includes a serverless Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) API platform designed to embed generative AI functionality into chatbots and other products, relying on a robust hybrid-search core. This platform ensures accurate and contextually relevant responses, addressing critical challenges for enterprise adoption such as reducing hallucination, enhancing explainability, enforcing access control, and allowing real-time updates of knowledge. Vectara's technology also emphasizes data security and supports multilingual capabilities, making it suitable for a broad range of applications including conversational AI, question-answering, and semantic search. Through its innovative platform, Vectara helps businesses create effective AI-driven experiences while maintaining compliance with intellectual property and bias considerations.
PatSnap
Series E in 2021
PatSnap is an innovation intelligence platform that specializes in providing insights related to intellectual property (IP) and research and development (R&D). Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Singapore, the company serves over 10,000 customers across more than 50 countries. Its platform utilizes artificial intelligence to deliver comprehensive market, technology, and competitive intelligence, along with detailed patent insights. This allows innovators to identify new opportunities, assess risks, track competitors, and make informed decisions throughout the product development process, from ideation to commercialization.
Chipscreen
Venture Round in 2015
Chipscreen is an integrated biotech company focused on the discovery and development of novel small molecule pharmaceuticals. Established in 2001 as a Sino-foreign joint venture, the company was founded by a group of esteemed Chinese returnees with academic and industrial expertise. Chipscreen employs a proprietary chemical genomics-based discovery platform to create a diverse portfolio of clinical and preclinical programs across various therapeutic areas. The company emphasizes a science-driven approach, strong pipeline development, and expertise in intellectual property and regulatory matters. Its business strategy involves either developing drug candidates independently or in partnership with other organizations throughout the research, preclinical, and clinical stages.
PatSnap
Series A in 2014
PatSnap is an innovation intelligence platform that specializes in providing insights related to intellectual property (IP) and research and development (R&D). Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Singapore, the company serves over 10,000 customers across more than 50 countries. Its platform utilizes artificial intelligence to deliver comprehensive market, technology, and competitive intelligence, along with detailed patent insights. This allows innovators to identify new opportunities, assess risks, track competitors, and make informed decisions throughout the product development process, from ideation to commercialization.
Sidense
Series C in 2013
Sidense is a prominent developer of silicon-proven embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP). The company specializes in one-time programmable (OTP) memory and logic NVM, which are designed to enhance a variety of electronic products. Sidense's IP cores facilitate code storage and processor configuration, allowing semiconductor and systems companies to differentiate their products while optimizing design efficiency. By integrating these IP cores into system-on-chip (SoC) designs, clients can achieve a smaller footprint and improved performance in their electronic offerings.
Sidense
Series C in 2011
Sidense is a prominent developer of silicon-proven embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP). The company specializes in one-time programmable (OTP) memory and logic NVM, which are designed to enhance a variety of electronic products. Sidense's IP cores facilitate code storage and processor configuration, allowing semiconductor and systems companies to differentiate their products while optimizing design efficiency. By integrating these IP cores into system-on-chip (SoC) designs, clients can achieve a smaller footprint and improved performance in their electronic offerings.
Sidense
Series B in 2010
Sidense is a prominent developer of silicon-proven embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP). The company specializes in one-time programmable (OTP) memory and logic NVM, which are designed to enhance a variety of electronic products. Sidense's IP cores facilitate code storage and processor configuration, allowing semiconductor and systems companies to differentiate their products while optimizing design efficiency. By integrating these IP cores into system-on-chip (SoC) designs, clients can achieve a smaller footprint and improved performance in their electronic offerings.
Sidense
Series A in 2008
Sidense is a prominent developer of silicon-proven embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP). The company specializes in one-time programmable (OTP) memory and logic NVM, which are designed to enhance a variety of electronic products. Sidense's IP cores facilitate code storage and processor configuration, allowing semiconductor and systems companies to differentiate their products while optimizing design efficiency. By integrating these IP cores into system-on-chip (SoC) designs, clients can achieve a smaller footprint and improved performance in their electronic offerings.
APProtect
Series A in 2006
APProtect Ltd. provides anti-piracy protection solutions for consumer and business software developers and publishers. It offers Trusted Server Protection products to protect CAD tools and scientific applications in companies, universities, and other organizations; Online Software Protector family of products for protecting consumer software; and splitting machine software, which operates on a binary and splits it into two parts. The company also provides splitting, site installation, and server hosting services. APProtect Ltd. was founded in 2004 and is based in Haifa, Israel.
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