Berkeley Design Automation is a privately-held company with funding from:

Bessemer Venture Partners
Bessemer Venture Partners, with offices in Calif., Mass. and New York, is the leading national, early-stage venture capital firm in technology and Internet infrastructure. The firm manages more than a billion dollars of venture funds, carrying on a tradition of hands-on, active venture investing that has continued since 1911. Many leading-edge companies, including Cascade, Ciena, Flarion, OMM, Parametric, QED, Sirocco, Sonus Networks and VeriSign selected BVP as their early-stage venture partner. 

Woodside Fund
Woodside Fund is a leading venture capital firm that excels in developing seed- and early-stage technology companies. Founded in 1983, the Fund attributes its long record of success to the high value it places on building productive partnerships with entrepreneurs, investors and other service providers. Typically a lead investor, Woodside Fund invests from $5 million to $15 million in early-stage companies focused on enterprise software and network infrastructure located in Northern California and the West Coast. Woodside Fund has five funds and actively manages more than $300 million in investments.

Panasonic Venture Group
The Venture Group of global consumer electronics leader Panasonic creates technology partnerships between private companies and research and development units of Panasonic. To promote strong strategic alliances, venture capital investments are made in companies that present a technology based advantage to Panasonic. The Venture Group is based in San Jose, California.

NTT Corporation
NTT FINANCE is the venture-capital entity in the NTT Group involved in net investment in Japanese and overseas venture companies. Leveraging the advantages they have as a member of the NTT Group, NTT FINANCE focuses their investments on ventures in IT-related fields including semiconductors/components, hardware (e.g., telecom equipment, production machinery) and software (e.g., OS, middleware, applications) and in Infotech areas such as services, content, logistics, e-commerce, biotechnology, medicine, nanotechnology, robotics. By playing to their strengths, they aim to increase the success rate and provide support to the companies they invest via their own financial services and the network of NTT Group companies.