Altos Ventures
Portfolio
Section
Current
Past
Software
Services
Systems & Components
Supply Chain
Company
Axis Systems (Verisity)
Mtone Wireless
Nishan Systems (McData)
Pixo (Sun Microsystems)
Soundpipe (Comdial)
Vapro
Yosemite Technologies
Overview
Pixo developed software for wireless phone manufacturers, carriers and content providers. Pixo’s OS platform was also licensed by Apple to create the iPod. Altos was the sole venture investor in the company’s seed round when it had one employee, a lead architect and software engineer out of Apple in his first start-up.

Altos Partners
Ho Nam

Co-Investors
Bay Partners
ComVentures
Conexant
Status
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INVESTED: 1996

STATUS: Acquired by Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW) in 2003.
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