Table 1: Quantum Technology Ventures' Storage Investments
| Company | Description | Total Funding | Other Investors |
| 3ware Inc. | IP storage switch/server | $57 million | Selby Venture Partners, Vantage Point Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates |
| Alacritech Inc. | iSCSI accelerator adapters | $35.4 million | Berkeley International Capital Corp., Munder Capital Management, Needham Capital Partners, Alloy Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Redpoint Ventures |
| Alvesta Inc. | High-speed optical interconnect tranceivers | $32 million | Enterprise Partners, Intel, Hamarex Holdings, Cypress Semiconductor |
| Aristos Logic Corp. | Storage network ASICs | $33.5 million | J.P. Morgan & Co., TPG Ventures, Infineon Technologies AG |
| Confluence Networks Inc. | Data-center virtualization appliance | $16 million | Redpoint Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Beachhead Capital |
| Nishan Systems Inc. | IP storage switch | $90 million | Lightspeed Ventures, Raza Ventures, Dell |
| Rhapsody Networks Inc. | IP storage switch | $62 million | Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital, Morgan Stanley Technology Ventures, Oracle, Amerindo Investment Advisors |
| Sierra Logic Inc. | Storage network ASICs | $5.25 million | TPG Ventures |
| Sotera Networks Inc. | Storage encryption | $4 million | Vanguard Venture Partners |
| Voltaire Inc. | InifiniBand-to-IP connectivity | $22.5 million | Baker Capital, Pitango Venture Capital, Tamir Fishman Ventures, The Challenge Fund Etgar LP |
| Z-force Inc. | NAS virtualization appliance | $16 million | Allegis Capital, Alloy Ventures, Rock Creek Capital Ventures |
Steve Foster, general partner at TPG Ventures, which invested in Aristos Logic and Sierra Logic Inc. with QTV, says that what QTV's investment partners bring to early-stage startups is real experience from the storage industry.
"They know an awful lot of people, and they have instincts about what will actually sell in the market -- and what it will take to get adopted by the big OEMs," Foster says.
Domengeaux joined QTV in March 2001 from Rivio Inc., an application service provider (ASP) targeting small businesses, where he headed marketing and sales. Prior to that, he was in charge of marketing Quantum's Snap network-attached storage line, and he also spent three years at PC storage peripheral maker Iomega Corp.
QTV's three other principal investors are Randy Meals, formerly the COO of Nishan; Steve Schlossareck, previously director of business development at Quantum; and Roy Vella, also previously at Rivio, among other startups.
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