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Solarflare Communications

www.solarflare.com

Region
Southern California

Fund
Anthem Venture Partners I

Industry
Semiconductor

Contributing Partners
Brian Mesic

About the Company

Solarflare is the pioneer in high-performance, low-latency 10GbE server networking solutions. Our architectural approach combines hardware and software to deliver high-performance server adapter products and application acceleration middleware for superior performance in a wide range of applications including high frequency trading, high performance computing, cloud computing, storage and virtualized data centers. Our products are used globally by many of the world's largest companies, and are available from leading distributors and value-added resellers. Solarflare is headquartered in Irvine, California with an R&D site in Cambridge, UK.

Company Heritage

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02/07/12
Need Network Processing? Solarflare Puts it on the Cloud

02/03/12
SPECvirt Virtualization Performance Benchmark Record Achieved Using Solarflare 10GbE Server Adapter

01/30/12
Solarflare Names one of SoCal's Hottest Companies

05/31/11
NEA Sprinking Seeds in Consumer Tech

01/27/11
Solarflare ramps up Cambridge & California operations

10/01/10
Accelerator Delivers High Throughput with 50 Percent Reduced Latency

09/22/10
Solarflare Doubles Market Share to Become the Fastest-Growing 10GbE Ethernet Adapter Vendor, According to Recent Report

09/15/10
Solarflare Accelerates HPC Applications

09/10/10
The Solarstorm 10GbE Cards Provide Impressive Latency and Performance Improvements on Feed Handler Servers

09/05/10
The Fastest 10 Gigabit Ethernet Network for Virtualization and Cloud Computing

08/25/10
The 10GBASE-T Industry Transition Led by Solarflare

08/16/10
Solarflare Ships to Fortune 100 Customers, Leading the 10GBASE-T Industry Transition

06/15/10
Solarflare Unveils Solarstorm Dual-Port, Triple-Speed 10GBASE-T Server Adapter

05/15/10
Solarflare samples 40-nm quad-port 10GBASE-T PHY chip

01/26/10
Solarflare's Stern Talks Network Adapters

12/07/09
Solarflare, Cloudsoft, Citrix Partner to Build High-Speed Clouds

11/27/09
The Future Of Data Center Connectivity

10/27/09
10GBase-T coming to your motherboard

10/09/09
Pour On The Speed

08/27/09
Solarflare Unleashes New 10GbE Controllers

08/24/09
Solarflare integrates 10GBase-T on a single chip

08/24/09
Solarflare's Hot New Release

04/13/09
Killer Perf! XenServer, Nehalem and Solarflare

03/18/09
Solarflare Willing To Mention The 'I' Word

03/10/09
Emerging trends in high-speed interfaces

02/10/09
Solarflare CTO to Speak on Energy Efficient 10GBASE-T Transceiver Design at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference

02/04/09
Data Center Market to Evolve in 2009, Witnessing Volume Adoption of 10 Gigabit Ethernet

01/26/09
CommScope Enterprise Solutions Showcases Server Virtualization over 10GBASE-T Technology at Cisco Networkers

12/22/08
Solarflare Nets $44M

12/03/08
Solarflare Now Shipping Sub 4 Watt, Production-Ready 65nm Triple-Speed 10GBASE-T Silicon

06/17/08
Investors go all in on Solarflare chip bet

04/14/08
Chip Enables 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switches with Higher Density

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FEATURED TESTIMONIAL

As an entrepreneur in northern California, I sought out a venture investor like Anthem from Southern California to round out my list of backers.

With Anthem as my partner, I now have access to a deep network in the Los Angeles technology and media worlds, as well as an investor with the kind of operational experience and commitment to the entrepreneur that I would demand from any venture capital firm.

Mark Housley, Glimmerglass