HighBAR Ventures

HighBAR Ventures is a venture capital firm founded by Sun Microsystems co-founders Bill Joy and Andy Bechtolsheim together with Roy Thiele-Sardiña.^[1] The firm's name is an acronym of the first names of the firm's three co-founders ('B', 'A' and 'R').

Investments

HighBAR's investments include:

BrightMail,^[2] acquired by Symantec^[3]
CAW Networks, acquired by Spirent
CDS, acquired by Maxtor
Clustrix^[4]
Eidogen-Sertanty ^[5]
Ingrian Networks^[6](Acquired by SafeNet)^[7]
Mirapoint^[8]
Neopath Networks ^[9](formerly Metadata Systems), acquired by Cisco Systems^[10]
Privasys
RedSeal Systems
Regroup^[11]
SANLight, acquired by Quantum
Soonr^[12]
Tapulous ^[13] (sold to Disney)^[14]
Tasmania Networks, acquired by Cisco
Viathan/Dantz, acquired by EMC Corporation
Vyatta ^[15]

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