Investors

Applied Identity's investors have created some of Silicon Valley's most successful networking and security ventures.

Bay Partners is an early stage Venture Capital firm located in Silicon Valley. Bay has been building successful technology companies since 1976, funding over 350 startups. Bay leverages the operating backgrounds of its partners and its extensive network of executives and advisors to help outstanding entrepreneurs create the leaders in new high growth market segments. Notable successes from Bay's portfolio include Brocade, Concord Communications, Exodus, Sonicwall, Placeware, Informatica, Web Logic(BEA) and NetScaler. Bay is currently investing its eleventh venture fund and has over $1 billion under active management.

Sigma Partners, a high technology venture capital firm with over a billion dollars under management, helps entrepreneurs transform ideas into substantial, profitable businesses. Sigma's partners have experience as successful CEOs, entrepreneurs and technologists. Their deep operating and technical insight helps build teams and strategies that produce sustainable value and successful outcomes. Sigma tends towards early stage investments because of the value that they can bring to the process of building teams, strategies and markets. www.sigmapartners.com

Globespan Capital Partners is a leading global venture capital firm investing in information technology companies, focused on a balanced investment strategy across all segments of the IT sector. With offices in Boston and Palo Alto, as well as a business development office in Tokyo , the company is uniquely positioned in the US venture capital industry to provide portfolio companies access to global markets, customers and partners. www.globespancapital.com

Over its 23 year history as an early-stage venture firm, OVP has been funding industry leading start ups. In that period, OVP has invested in more than 98 companies and has driven 22 successful IPO's and 28 mergers and acquisitions. The firm has raised seven venture funds and currently has $700 million in capital under management. OVP's focus is on investments in the areas of communications, software, electronics, computational biology, and nanotechnology. For more information, please go to: www.ovp.com