Investment

YAS provides entrepreneurs, founders, researchers, with the means to enhance and successfully develop their visions into exciting and rewarding realities. YAS has been providing the following investment philosophy and services:

  • Angel/Seed round financing
  • Proven advice on the steps necessary to create a successful company
  • Help create a solid business plan, product road map, marketing strategy, operation plan, infrastructure, company logistic and experienced staff to convert a theory into a growing company faster and for less.
  • Emphasizes the key attributes of executive leadership for building “a quality team”

YAS professionals will focus their expertise on creating successful start-up companies and validating business strategies and providing an environment that creates a solid corporate structure. In effect, we equip visionary founders of start-up companies with outstanding technical strategy, world class market positioning and financial planning, resulting in a best-in-class roadmap from start up through intermediate rounds to a successful result faster than anyone. This focus and experience in seed round financing enables entrepreneurs to accelerate the growth and success of their firm and to develop the optimal profile of strong business returns for their team for the next round of financing.

YAS is particularly interested in investing in companies participating in the convergence of voice, data and video services to address emerging telecommunications markets. YAS initiatives are further enhanced by its Consulting and Research arms for a full suite of professional entrepreneurial offerings.

Portfolio examples includes but not limited to:

  • Broadsoft – VOIP – IPO Q2, 2010.
  • Illume Software – Mobile application software – Active
  • Wild Blue – Acquired by Viasat, Inc 2009
  • Copanion – Accounting software – Active
  • Entropic – Home Networking silicon vendor – IPO
  • Endeca – Acquired by Oracle 2011
  • Broadband Access System – Carrier Class Headend – Acquired by ADC
  • Stargus – Network monitoring software – Acquired by C-Cor
  • True Chat – Acquired by Terayon Corporation
  • Sirocco – Acquired by Sycamore
  • Sycamore. Advisory Role – IPO early 2000
  • LANcity– “Founder of First Cable Modem” – Acquired by Bay Networks

    • Services

    Success Stories


    Oracle to pay $1.1B for Endeca - Oct 24, 2011 Boston Business Journal by Kyle Alspach, VC Editor - Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) plans to pay $1.1 billion to acquire privately-held Endeca Technologies Inc., according to a document obtained by the Boston Business Journal related to the deal.Read More...

    Oracle to Buy Endeca Technologies - On October 18, 2011, Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Endeca, a leading provider of unstructured data management, web commerce and business intelligence solutions. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close before the end of 2011. Read More...

    Acquisition - How 7 founders invented BAS “the most successful start up in 2 years”. Paul Nikolich, one of the founders shares the success stories, where Chris Grobicki was an employee and Rouzbeh Yassini was a board member of BAS. Read more...

    IPO - As board member and original series A investor, Rouzbeh Yassini was member of the team which navigated successful IPO of Entropic from 2001 to 2008. Read More...

    Global Standards - In 1996, Rouzbeh Yassini accepted the challenge of overseeing the creation of a cable industry standard for modem technology. With his know-how and guidance and tireless work of many individuals and 100’s of vendors the Data Over Cable Services Interface Specification (DOCSIS) was created thru CableLabs (first global standards in 50 years) and remains the basis for almost all cable modem deployments worldwide. By 2003, the DOCSIS initiative had created a multi-billion dollar Broadband opportunity for cable operators, a $35 modem for the industry (a major price reduction from $18,000 in ‘88), and a new formula for technological innovation. 950+ million cable modems were deployed by 2010. Read more...

    Start Up - An entrepreneurial team of technologists came up with a novel way to improve documentation workflow using OCR. After developing their initial concept based on innovations in optical scanning & business logic the founders of this startup approached YAS for help with Venture Community. We worked with them to create a viable business plan with presentation materials to provided introductions to a number of VCs. Following successful funding YAS continued to support the company by providing executive consulting until a full management team was in place, at which point the YAS team moved to an advisory role. Read more...

    Strategic - YAS partners helped a major service provider to develop a five-year strategic plan. YAS came to the project with many years of industry experience and knowledge and quickly assimilated themselves with the internal team to provide key contributions in both technology and business areas. The YAS team was able to review the strategy from an independent perspective, validate the major directions and make suggestions on technology choices and timing resulting in an improved plan and a higher confidence level from the operator’s executive management team.

    Development - The YAS team assisted a major MSO in developing first industry specification for a new consumer video display product. YAS managed this project and coordinated inputs from the MSO’s business and technical teams as well as the vendor community over 4 years period. We provided program management, technical expertise and executive leadership to drive the program to a successful completion on time and within budget, enabling the operator to save Billions of dollars in capital equipment. Read more...

    IEEE - Paul Nikolich as the Chair of IEEE 802 is in charge of the global standardization. Read more...