Aktino is backed by blue chip venture capital firms including Crosspoint Ventures, Foundation Capital, Huntington Ventures, Innocal Venture Capital, Miramar Ventures, Shea Venture Capital, Silver Creek Ventures and Ventana.

Foundation Capital is a premier venture capital firm committed to providing exceptional service to entrepreneurs, helping them build truly great companies. The firm takes a hands-on approach, partnering with start-ups in their formative stages and helping them establish relationships with industry leaders and attract key individuals to their management teams. Foundation Capital has participated in the building of over 65 companies with a total market value of over $11 billion. The only established venture firm with more years of operating experience than venture experience among the partners, Foundation Capital offers unequaled value to entrepreneurs in the areas of e-commerce, telecommunications and Internet technologies.

Crosspoint Venture Partners, a leading early-stage venture capital firm, leverages its base of $2 billion to provide the financial means and strategic guidance that enables development and growth of important new enterprises. The firm focuses on two emerging market segments: B2B, including Vertical Service Providers, Enablers and Exchanges, as well as the Communications Infrastructure segment. Crosspoint's portfolio has achieved record returns with landmark investments in Ariba, Inc., Avanex Corporation, Brocade Communications Systems, Covad Communications, PairGain Inc., Digital Island, Inc., Efficient Networks, Inc., Foundry Networks, Inc., and Juniper Networks, Inc. Formed in 1970, the company has offices in both Woodside and Irvine, California.

Miramar Venture Partners is a newly formed $81 million venture fund that is focused on early and expansion stage investing in information technology companies. We are interested particularly in emerging companies in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Our partners and many of our investors have deep roots in Southern California and share a common purpose of supporting entrepreneurs and technology development in the region.

InnoCal is a private venture capital firm funded by institutional and private investors. InnoCal focuses its resouces on investing in early stage information technology with the majority of their investments located in Southern California.

Silver Creek's investment strategy is to provide resources and guidance to outstanding management teams that are building market-leading companies in the information technology arena. By focusing on specific markets where they have expertise, limiting the number of deals in their portfolio, and working together as a team, the General Partners at Silver Creek have consistently provided the resources that entrepreneurs require to achieve success. The General Partners recognize that today's investment climate demands a focused investment strategy. The General Partners have experienced a number of venture capital investment cycles over the past two decades and have produced top quartile investment returns throughout this period.

J.F. Shea Venture Capital is one of the most respected venture capital firms in the country. Starting in 1968, their investments in private start-up companies have grown into such industry leaders as Compaq Computer, Hambrecht & Quist, Altera, Brocade, WR Hambrecht Co and Exodus. J. F. Shea Venture Capital, is a division of the construction company, J.F. Shea Co., Inc., one of the oldest and largest privately held businesses in the country.

Huntington Ventures provides comprehensive support to early-stage companies in the highly competitive sectors of optical networks, information technology, and telecommunications. Huntington's approach to investment is based on principles of teamwork, guidance, and capital, and features access to a network of diversely qualified professionals. The Huntington strategy is a balanced one: it places equal value on human capital and venture capital.

Since 1984, Ventana has established five international private equity funds focused on technology investments in the U.S. The company is positioned as an investment leader in California technology companies and is supported by an extensive network of world-class research universities, global technology related companies and business leaders. Founded in 1974 by Thomas O. Gephart, the firm's Chairman, Ventana is located in Southern California's Technology Coast.