Sectors we invest in

› Clean Technology

Intel Capital's cleantech focus includes energy generation and storage, transportation, consumption, transmission, and distributions. Recent investments include Trony Solar and NP Holdings in China; Sulfurcell in Germany; SpectraWatt; and GridNet (both in the U.S.). Intel has a long history of commitment to the environment and has applied technology innovation to drive energy-efficiencies within its own products and operations.

› Consumer Internet

Here we seek out investments in Internet and web-based applications, services, and related infrastructure companies that target consumers. Areas covered by the sector include e-commerce, online media and gaming, search, social networking, location-based services, and advertising. We assess companies of all stages and have a global focus but seek only to invest in those companies with high potential to achieve outstanding financial returns and to make a significant impact on the Intel's ecosystem.

› Digital Enterprise

Includes enterprise, data center, embedded, communications infrastructure, and visual computing. Investment areas include servers, storage/information management, clients, data center technologies, HPC, MVS infrastructure software (manageability, virtualization, security), cloud computing, embedded solutions, and visual computing. Investments targeted at all levels of integration: Silicon, software, platform, and solutions. Investments must be able to demonstrate immediate and sustainable improvement on key attributes such as TCO, business value, availability, security, flexibility, utilization, standards, and energy efficiency.

› Digital Home

Intel Capital’s primary investment focus for the digital home includes PC gaming, advertising, digital media and content distribution, networking, connectivity, and ease of use. Our team is also investigating relatively new areas of investment such as home control and automation, distance learning, education, new applications, services, and storage.

› Manufacturing, Memory, and Health

Supports investments relating to a variety of business units including Intel’s Technology and Manufacturing Group, NAND Solutions Group, and Digital Health Group. In manufacturing, interests include semiconductor process equipment, process materials and consumables, packaging solutions, test equipment and consumables, and electronic design automation (EDA) tools. Areas of memory focus include new disruptive memory technologies, new devices and applications using non-volatile memory, and complementary chips such as memory controllers. In health, we are interested in home healthcare solutions, molecular diagnostic technologies, and medical devices.

› Mobility

Responsible for investing in technologies to deliver the next generation platform elements of notebooks, netbooks, and mobile Internet devices. All aspects of wireless communications, with emphasis on infrastructure, equipment, spectrum and operators worldwide for WiMAX enabling the mobile Internet are key to these advancements. We focus on promoting an applications and content framework to support next generation mobile platforms that deliver a compelling user experience. Advancing the development of "system-on-a-chip" and hardware platform capabilities across a broad range of categories is a key investment thesis.

› Software & Services

Areas of investment include Open Source, Web 2.0, business Internet, cloud computing, software as a service, cleantech software, connected visual computing, graphics, mobility solutions, and business intelligence. This team has a strong operational background and takes a hands-on approach to help our portfolio companies from initial investments toward successful exits. Intel Capital has over 70 active investments in software and services. Representative exits include Datallegro, VMWare, JBoss, and MySQL.