Bridgescale invests in technology companies that require equity to accelerate growth. The additional capital is used to scale businesses to their full potential by maximizing organic growth opportunities, acquiring other assets, entering new markets, and spinning out from a parent corporation.

Our investment opportunities originate from some of the most prestigious early-stage venture capital portfolios, from non-venture-backed, bootstrapped businesses addressing similar growth markets and from corporate divestitures or spin-outs.

We are active across a broad range of technology sectors such as consumer Internet, digital media, semiconductors, communications hardware, software and related services. As a team, we bring specialized knowledge, experience and relationships across all areas of technology, which enable us to identify significant growth opportunities in this complex, dynamically changing industry.

Our typical investment company profile varies based on origination and stage. We have flexibility with respect to investment size, which enables us to lead deals for venture- backed startups in which we expect the existing investors to invest their pro-rata share, as well as lead investments into bootstrapped companies and corporate divestitures in which we may expand the round through our large network of financial syndicate partners.

We are active across a broad range of information technology, media and communication sectors based on the core investment themes for growth:

• Broadband enabled services
• Digital Media Convergence
• Software as a Service
• Communication Infrastructure
• Mobility
• Clean Energy

As a team, we bring specialized knowledge, experience and relationships across all areas of technology, which enable us to identify significant growth opportunities in this complex, dynamically changing industry.

History of Success

Bridgescale is a new firm with a proven team that has a distinguished track record of company building and investment success. Our investment team combines operational and domain expertise typical of early-stage investing with the financial and capital markets expertise essential for mid- to late-stage companies. We have more than 75 combined years of operational, venture capital and investment banking experience including broad transaction expertise spanning early-stage to public-market transactions. We have invested in more than 65 companies that were either acquired or went public including Atheros, CNET, FormFactor, Geocities, ONI Systems, Pivotal Technologies, Quantum Effects Design, SupportSoft and Sycamore. In addition, we have advised on M&A and financing transactions representing in excess of $25 billion in transaction value.

High-Value Network

Through our years of investing, advising and operating we have built a broad and global network spanning the entire information technology industry ecosystem. With these proprietary and high- value relationships, we can help our portfolio companies with customer acquisition, business development, recruiting and M&A transactions.

Technology Focused

We are 100 percent technology focused, with deep vertical expertise in consumer Internet, digital media, semiconductors, communications hardware, software and related services.

Bridgescale is strategically located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California, which is in close proximity to the highest concentration of technology startups in the world and where one finds the most active private company technology investors. This focus and access to so many exciting investment opportunities gives Bridgescale a unique ability to identify leading investment prospects and also serves as a potential relationship channel for startups should they like to partner.

Flexible, Creative Deal Structuring

We have been involved with numerous transactions and are very experienced in structuring complex transactions. We can leverage this experience to be creative on structure and process so that we can accommodate all shareholders’ interests. In addition, our investment appetite as measured in dollars is very flexible to accommodate the needs of the management teams, previous investors and the divesting corporation. We are comfortable with minority equity positions, full or partial recapitalizations, acquisition financings and buyouts.