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Kasenna Acquired by Espial (2008 amount undisclosed )

1196 Borregas Avenue Suite 100
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
USA
650.943.8600

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Company Summary

Management Team

Management

Technology: Sanjay Mehta (8/23/06)

Sales/Marketing: John Hammock

Not listed on the website: (May no longer be at the company) Keith Beckwith*

Board

Outside board: (May no longer be on the board) Satish Menon (Yahoo! Chief Architect)

; Ted Mocarski (Key Venture Partners Managing Director)

; Saurabh Srivastava (Artiman Ventures Partner)

; Howard Bubb (Ambric CEO/Chairman)

; Steven M. Krausz (U.S. Venture Partners)

; John Shoch (Alloy Ventures General Partner)

Advisory board: Bobby Kandaswamy (Intel Capital Investments)

Former outside board: Mark Gray (Kasenna Chairman)

Company

Business description: Kasenna is a software technology company building a leading edge, standards-based video delivery platform for acquiring, managing, distributing and delivering audio and video content over IP, ATM and HFC networks. Kasenna has a rich history (since 1993), expertise and patent-portfolio in broadband video delivery, having pioneered one of the industry's first ever video-on-demand systems. Kasenna's award-winning MediaBase product line runs on industry-standard platforms (Linux, IRIX, Solaris) and allows its customers to deploy scalable and cost-effective video-on-demand solutions across multiple markets including cable, telecommunications, enterprise, hospitality, government, education and broadcast.

Customers include: CenturyTel; Harmonic; Jazztel; Surewest Communications; Telenor; Adelphia; Cavalier Telecom

; Celestine Hotel; Charter Communications

; China Netcom; Clarksville, Tennessee Department of Electricity

; Clear Lake; CLvision; Comcor-TV; COMSPAN USA; Content-House

; CTV Telecom

; DTC Communications

; e.BISCOM

; Emirates Palace Hotel; ETRI; FastWeb; Hutchinson; Iceland Telecom; INS; Kentucky Telephone; Leo Palace 21; LINCOR

; Mid Hudson Cable; NHK; NOB Cross Media Facilities; NTS Communications; NU-Telecom; OCN Shanghai Cable; Paul Bunyan Telephone; PrimeTel; SaskTel; Tennessee Telephone; The Kansai Electric Power Company; Thunderworx

; Time BroadBand; TVSierre

; Western Illinois Video

Partners include: Amino; Ascential Software; Catena Networks; Democrasoft; GE Access; Harmonic; HP; Huawei

; IBM; Informix Software; LSI; Minerva Networks; Myrio; Next Level Communications; Optibase; RealNetworks; Red Hat; Scientific-Atlanta; Sigma Designs; Silicon Graphics; Sun Microsystems; TANDBERG Television; Tivella; Unwired Planet; WebWare; Accedo

; ADM; AegiSoft; Arel; ECI Telecom; GCT-AllWell Technology; i3 micro technology; ImpressTek; Irdeto; Kreatel; Kreatel Communications; mGen; Pace Micro; PixStream; Plexuscom; VBrick Systems; XIOtech

Capital

Rounds: 5

Recent Fundings: Sep 2007 Feb 2006

Capital raised: 65.7M

Last Round: 6.7M

Ownership: Acquired by Espial (2008 amount undisclosed

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VCs include: Alloy Ventures; AsiaTech Management; Intel Capital

; U.S. Venture Partners; Key Venture Partners; Rein Capital; OM Technology Investments; Artiman Ventures; Noventi; Digital Ventures; Dresdner Kleinwort Capital; Entertainment Media Ventures; R.B. WebberAndCo.; The Entrepreneurs' Fund

Corporate investors: Silicon Graphics; Sun Microsystems

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Overview

Record updated: Feb 2009

Sector: Communications

Year Founded: 1993

Headcount: 76-100 as of Mar 2006

Rounds: 5

Recent Fundings: Sep 2007 Feb 2006

Capital Raised: 65.7M

Last Round: 6.7M

Ownership: Acquired by Espial (2008 amount undisclosed

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