Tech Company Financing Transactions

Pica8 Funding Round

Pica8 secured a $12.5 million Series B financing round on 10/1/2014. Backers included VantagePoint Capital Partners, Pacific Venture Partners and private investors.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
10/1/2014
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$12,500,000
Round
Series B
Investors

VantagePoint Capital Partners (Lead Investor) (Patricia Splinter)

Pacific Venture Partners

Proceeds Purpose
The funding will help Pica8 to support its accelerated software development and ongoing go-to-market strategies to help continue its momentum within the emerging software defined networking (SDN) market.

Company Information

Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Networking
Mailing Address
1032 Elwell Ct. 105
Palo Alto, CA 94303
USA
Email Address
Overview
Pica8 is fulfilling the promise of true software-defined networking (SDN) by providing the world's first open, hardware-independent switching system. Pica8's open switches transform the data center by decoupling hardware from software.
Profile
Pica8 LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
Pica8 Company Twitter Account
Company News
Pica8 News
Facebook
Pica8 on Facebook
YouTube
Pica8 on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
James Liao
  James  Liao LinkedIn Profile  James  Liao Twitter Account  James  Liao News  James  Liao on Facebook
Chief Operating Officer
Niraj Jain
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VP - Engineering
Lin Du
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VP - Finance
Lu Feng
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VP - Marketing
Jeffrey Paine
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