Staffan Ericsson

Vesbridge Partners LLC (Vesbridge Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Jeff Hinck and Zenas Hutcheson. The firm is headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

Verrillon, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets fiber optic components. It offers optical fibers for harsh environments, such as temperature and pressure monitoring systems, gyroscopes, fiber lasers and communication components and modules. The firm also provides fibers that are encapsulated in a variety of metallic tubes; avionic cabled fibers for intra avionic platform communications; harsh environment optical fibers for extreme well conditions and custom fiber optic solutions. The company was founded in 2000 by Abdel Soufiane and is headquartered in Duncan, SC.

Vivo Software, Inc. (Waltham, MA) is a provider in enabling the Web video publishing and new Web-based businesses. Founded in 1993 by expertising in video and audio signal processing technology, Vivo develops and markets VivoActive software, the commercially available solution for producing and viewing low-bandwidth, on-demand streaming media (video and audio) over the World Wide Web using standard Web servers. Vivo’s patented compression technology also is licensed to PictureTel Corp., which uses it as the basis for PC-based videoconferencing products.

PictureTel LLC develops, manufactures, and markets videoconferencing systems. It offers video streaming, visual, and data collaboration technologies to facilitate businesses, schools, medical facilities, government, and other organizations. It is a subsidiary of Polycom, Inc. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Andover, MA.

Aegis Lightwave, Inc. builds solutions for optical networks that are used for video, data communications, telecommunications and other fast growing markets. Aegis delivers channel-monitoring products to an international customer base of optical networking systems manufacturers that enable service providers to deploy high bandwidth video services such as High Definition TV, IPTV, and Video-on-Demand. The company is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts.