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Summerhill Venture Partners has backed over 40 management teams and has built a track record of success since 1987.  The firm has played an active role in assisting portfolio companies through IPOs and acquisitions. Our active investments portfolio list is below.



Arbor Networks
Lexington, MA
www.arbornetworks.com

Arbor Networks is a leading provider of security and network management solutions for global business networks, including more than 70 percent of the world's internet service providers and many of the largest enterprise networks in use today. Arbor delivers secure service control solutions that both protect global networks from the edge to the core from a host of threats, as well as help customers gain network-wide visibility they can translate into actionable business intelligence to generate new forms of revenue and maintain competitive advantage. Arbor's solutions give customers a single, unified view into their networks' performance, helping them quickly detect anomalous behavior, mitigate threats and enforce policy.  Co-investors: Canaan Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Flagship Ventures, Atlas Ventures, Battery Ventures and SAIC Venture Capital.


Intellon
Florida / Toronto
www.intellon.com

Intellon is a market leader in powerline communications, providing HomePlug® compliant and other powerline integrated circuits for home networking, networked entertainment, BPL access, smart grid management and other commercial applications. Intellon created and patented the baseline technology for HomePlug 1.0, and is a major contributor to the baseline technology for the new 200-Mbps HomePlug AV powerline standard. With over ten million HomePlug ICs sold, Intellon is the market share leader in the HomePlug IC market. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Ocala, Florida, with offices in San Jose, California and Toronto, Canada.  Co-investors: Fidelity Ventures, Comcast Interactive Capital, Intel Capital, Motorola Ventures and Goldman Sachs Capital.

JumpTap
Massachusetts
www.JumpTap.com

JumpTap is a Cambridge, MA based company that seeks to maximize carrier value from mobile search. While search has transformed the way people use the Internet, mobile search is an untapped value source for mobile operators. JumpTap provides mobile carriers with the technology, content, and advertising inventory to immediately launch a carrier branded search experience. Through a centralized search box, users can easily search and access a variety of content including carrier portals, mobile commerce items, mobile web sites, yellow pages, white pages, shopping comparison, news/sports/weather, and more. JumpTap's marketing platforms deliver relevant results to users while supplying new revenue streams to carriers. Co-investors: Redpoint Ventures, Valhalla Partners and General Catalyst Partners.

NextPoint Networks
Gaithersburg
www.nextpointnetworks.com

NextPoint Networksdelivers global, fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) border platforms and secure interconnectivity solutions that enable mobile and fixed line operators to interoperate. NextPoint's technology platform, products and solution suites address the evolving needs of mobile and fixed line operators for increasing security and intelligence at the network edge to deliver secure voice, data and multimedia over a scalable platform. Over 550 service providers and enterprises worldwide use NextPoint’s IntelliConnect System across multiple, diverse network technologies and operating systems to manage technical complexities, optimize business economics, and remove partnership hurdles. Co-investors: Safeguard Scientifics, Core Capital, Mid Atlantic Venture, One Equity Partners (OEP), Jerusalem Venture Partners and American Capital.

Radian6
Fredericton
www.radian6.com

Radian6 provides social media monitoring solutions that uniquely integrate viral behavior measurement capabilities. Its solutions enable corporations as well as the public relations, marketing and advertising agencies that service them to monitor, manage and effectively engage in social media conversations online. Co-investors include: Brightspark and BDC Capital.

Sandbridge Technologies
Tarrytown, NY
www.sandbridgetech.com

Sandbridge Technologies is a fabless semiconductor company with a mission to simplify the development and improve the features-to-cost ratio of next generation wireless devices. The company has developed a radically innovative DSP platform that provides the first flexible alternative to dedicated baseband and multi-media hardware in mobile devices.  Co-investors: Tallwood Venture Capital, Doughty Hanson & Co., Samsung Ventures, Castile Ventures and Crossbridge Ventures

Simpler Networks
Montreal / New Jersey
www.simplernetworks.com


Simpler Networks is a technology leader driving the automation of copper distribution frames in central offices and street cabinets in fiber-to-the-node environments. Its revolutionary MEMS-based system enables local service providers to automate the last mile and deploy advanced services competitively, accelerate revenues and reduce costs.  Co-investors: Highland Capital Partners, Kodiak Venture Partners, Fonds de la Solidarite and Lothian Partners.


Sylantro Systems
Silicon Valley
www.sylantro.com


Sylantro Systems offers the leading multiplay application feature server enabling rich hosted IP communication services across fixed, mobile, and cable networks. Sylantro customers include AT&T, China Netcom, KT, Nuvox, QWEST, StarHub, Swisscom and others. Sylantro is headquartered in Campbell, CA.  Co-investors: Accel Partners, Azure Capital Partners, Bank of America, CIT Group, Hook Partners, JP Morgan, Mayfield, Pyramid Technology Ventures and Vanguard Ventures.


Third Brigade
Ottawa
www.thirdbrigade.com

Third Brigade specializes in providing host intrusion defense systems to organizations that need to detect and prevent attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in mission critical systems. Third Brigade Deep Security allows businesses to apply comprehensive security profiles to hosts that protect against known and zero-day attacks using deep packet inspection. It helps ensure compliance and the 24-7 availability of critical systems, provides a virtual patch for software vulnerabilities, and allows organizations to deliver Internet-based services with greater security and confidence. Unlike other host intrusion detection and prevention systems, Third Brigade Deep Security provides broader, faster and simpler protection.  Co-investors: Celtic House Venture Partners and BDC Venture Capital.

Trust Digital
McLean
www.trustdigital.com

Trust Digital is the leading provider of smartphone security management software for securing enterprise data that resides at the edge of the network where smartphones and PDAs have access to corporate information. By implementing Trust Digital’s policy-based software solution, corporations eliminate the regulatory and financial risks associated with the accidental or malicious disclosure of data.  Recipient of the 2007 SC Magazine Award for Best Mobile Device Security Solution, Trust Digital’s customer base includes Government and Global 2000 organizations.  Co-investors: Core Capital, TD Capital and Avansis Partners.

Vantrix
Montreal
www.vantrix.com/

Vantrix makes video work. The company's focus is to deliver the best customer experience on a mobile phone. Vantrix overcomes the technology hurdles of providing video on demand, live TV, video alerts, user-generated content, video share, and any other type of multimedia in mobile and other digital platforms. The company offers solutions which help customers choose and implement the right business model for their multimedia services. Vantrix is headquartered in Montreal with offices in New York, London, Dubai and Bangalore. Co-investors: BDC Capital, Entrepia Ventures, Innovacom Venture Capital, JK&B Capital and VoiceAge Corp.