[jpdoctor]

Crunchbase is pretty incomplete before 2004 it seems.

Several of the comm companies I checked were missing.

Edit: Upon further testing, it seems that many of the communications wipeouts ($40+M) from that era are missing. It's almost as if the people who funded them don't want the magnitude of the mistakes in the record.

Here's an example: Photonex, raised $170M [1] over the course of their lifetime and not a trace on crunchbase of who the culprits were.

Another quick example: Solinet [2] raised a pile of dough (they later renamed themselves Ceyba).

[1] http://www.lightreading.com/ip-convergence/photonex-scores-h...

[2] http://www.lightreading.com/ip-convergence/solinet-systems-s...