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2.19.13GENBAND and Samsung Mobile Form Alliance to Deliver Enhanced Unified Communications Solutions
1.24.13OLO Secures Additional $5 Million in Series B Funding from PayPal
10.01.12Twisted Pair Solutions Partners with Raytheon
9.27.12Genband ranked #1 in Wall Street Journal's "Next Big Thing"
9.24.12McKesson to Acquire MedVentive, a Leader in Population and Risk Management Solutions
7.09.12KnowledgeTree Closes $4.75 Million Venture Capital Round
5.07.12Univa CEO Gary Tyreman on the Evolution of HPC, Big Data and Cloud
10.26.11MedVentive Closes $12 Million in New Funding
2.04.11Cisco to Acquire Inlet Technologies for $95 Million
1.25.11Univa Closes Additional $7 Million in Funding Led by Core Capital
8.17.10Infinite Power Solutions Raises $20 Million In Series C
5.25.10McAfee to Acquire Trust Digital
4.09.10MedVentive Completes Oversubscribed Series C Funding Totaling $10 Million
10.21.09Equifax to Acquire IXI Corporation for $124 Million
1.12.09Rally Software Acquires 6th Sense Analytics
12.16.08Core Capital Partners Participates in $5 Million Round for JackBe
12.15.08Roundbox Secures Over $20 Million in Series C Financing
11.18.08Rollstream Secures $6 Million in Series B Capital Led by Core Capital
11.13.08Core Capital's Tom Wheeler Named to FierceWireless List of Top U.S. Wireless Innovators of All Time
GENBAND AND SAMSUNG MOBILE FORM ALLIANCE TO DELIVER ENHANCED UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS SOLUTIONS Frisco, TX (February 19, 2013) – GENBAND, a leading developer of multimedia and cloud communications solutions, today announced a unique alliance with Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC (Samsung Mobile) that creates a significant evolution for the enterprise communications experience. By integrating Samsung Mobile’s market-leading SAFE™ (Samsung for Enterprise) designated devices with GENBAND’s SMART OFFICE mobile Unified Communications (UC) applications, these companies are bringing a “SAFE, SMART, and SIMPLE” user experience to the enterprise, creating mobile solutions that extend or even replace the standard office communications environment. The solution delivers voice, data, video communications and collaboration capabilities on Samsung SAFE devices to fully mobile-enable the enterprise market. “This alliance with GENBAND brings powerful new communications capabilities to the enterprise, fortifying today’s mobile workforce with unprecedented on-the-go productivity,” said Tim Wagner, Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Sales at Samsung Mobile. “Our SAFE solution, which enhances security for enterprise devices, combined with GENBAND’s industry leading UC software and service provider expertise, offers enterprise customers a holistic, innovative and cost-effective desk phone complement or replacement solution that will allow employees to carry their communications environment with them, whether inside or outside of the office.” SAFE represents Samsung Mobile’s ever-growing family of enterprise solutions that include the necessary security and feature enhancements suitable for business use – on highly desirable devices recognized worldwide. “Enterprise communications are quickly evolving to include mobile devices and the cloud, yet services are not integrated, making enterprises primed for the next wave of disruptive, innovative mobile UC technologies,” said Sam Waicberg, Chief Marketing Officer at GENBAND. “Our relationship with Samsung, complemented by our SMART multimedia portfolio and partner ecosystem, clearly differentiates this solution from competitive offerings by simplifying and enhancing the enterprise user experience. Our vision is consistent with the vision of many CIO’s – a mobile tablet as the primary voice and multimedia communications device bundled with a carrier grade, cloud-based UC service. GENBAND plans to offer Samsung Mobile devices through its service provider customers and large systems integrator partners. Enterprises will have access to GENBAND’s Innovation Exchange™, ensuring a constant stream of new UC solutions developed specifically for the enterprise community and industry verticals. “Together with Samsung Mobile we are offering our 600 service provider customers and channel partners turnkey solutions for SAFE, SMART, and SIMPLE unified communications,” said Charlie Vogt, President and CEO for GENBAND. “Our Samsung alliance and Making Networks Smarter approach will define the ultimate mobile office communications environment for the next decade and beyond.” For more information on the Samsung-GENBAND solution, visit http://www.GENBAND.com/company/safe-smart-simple. About GENBAND About Samsung Telecommunications America About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
GENBAND is a global leader in smart networking solutions from the Core to the Edge to the Experience for top service providers and enterprises in over 80 countries. The company’s technology improves IP networks by making them more scalable, secure, profitable and efficient. GENBAND’s market-leading technology supports multimedia voice, data and video sessions and fixed-mobile unified communications applications that scale on public and private networks. With a flexible, cloud-ready platform, GENBAND’s IMS, edge and application solutions help its customers compete effectively by increasing revenues, improving profitability, and attracting and retaining customers. To learn more, visit us on the web at http://www.GENBAND.com.
Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC, (Samsung Mobile) a Dallas-based subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., researches, develops and markets wireless handsets, wireless infrastructure and other telecommunications products throughout North America. For more information, please visit http://www.samsung.com.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in technology, opening new possibilities for people everywhere. Through relentless innovation and discovery, we are transforming the worlds of televisions, smartphones, personal computers, printers, cameras, home appliances, LTE systems, medical devices, semiconductors and LED solutions. We employ 236,000 people across 79 countries with annual sales exceeding KRW 201 trillion. To discover more, please visit http://www.samsung.com.
OLO SECURES ADDITIONAL $5 MILLION IN SERIES B FUNDING FROM PAYPAL New York, NY (January 24, 2013) – OLO, the fastest-growing digital commerce engine for restaurants, today announced a $5 million dollar Series B financing from PayPal and existing investors. The New York-based company is hiring as it aggressively scales operations for a breakout year in 2013. OLO allows customers to order and pay from restaurant websites and mobile apps, so that they can Skip the Line® at the restaurant of their choosing. OLO transmits the prepaid order directly to the restaurant point-of-sale (POS) system. The company has recently seen a surge in mobile ordering from existing clients on its platform, with hundreds of restaurants receiving over 50% of digital orders through mobile. OLO is committed to serving as an open and independent commerce platform that allows restaurants to choose whichever payment types they would like to accept – a common carrier for digital commerce. OLO accepts all major credit cards, many stored-value cards, and digital wallet providers. "OLO is already profitable and is taking on this Series B funding round to scale up in the fast-growing digital commerce market," said Noah Glass , Founder and CEO of OLO. "As our existing restaurant clients are seeing the majority of digital transactions ordered by smartphone, new restaurant brands are getting excited about digital commerce." OLO just reached 2 million end users, including customers from such restaurant giants as Five Guys Burgers & Fries and Cold Stone Creamery, doubling its total user base in less than 12 months. The company expects to announce a series of large chain deals in Q1 2013, in addition to recent deals with chains such as Dickey's Barbecue Pit, Noodles & Co., and Veggie Grill from the last quarter. "As consumers embrace mobile as the everyday way to shop and pay, companies like OLO are helping brands like Cold Stone Creamery and Five Guys Burgers & Fries to harness the power of mobile commerce," said Hill Ferguson, Vice President of Global Product for PayPal. "With OLO, restaurants have an innovative way to accept prepaid online and mobile orders and reduce waiting times for their customers. We are excited about the opportunities ahead for OLO and PayPal." Since the company's founding in June 2005, OLO has raised $13.75M in total funding from David Frankel (who seeded OLO and is now Managing Partner at Founder Collective), RRE Ventures, Core Capital Partners, and PayPal. About OLO
OLO empowers restaurants to accept orders and payments from everywhere, so that customers can Skip the Line®. Since 2005, OLO has perfected its digital commerce engine with the input of millions of consumers, thousands of restaurant owners, and dozens of iconic restaurant brands. Today, OLO provides online and mobile ordering and payment capabilities for top brands like Cold Stone Creamery and Five Guys Burgers & Fries as well as thousands of restaurants nationwide. Learn more at http://www.olo.com.
Seattle, WA (October 1, 2012) – Twisted Pair Solutions Inc., a recognized leader in critical communication applications for secure, real-time collaboration anywhere, on any device, today announced that it has partnered with Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) to help first responders securely communicate on a variety of hand-held devices. Police, fire and emergency rescue workers will be able to communicate with each other on smartphones, tablets and even conventional two-way radios over any secure radio and WiFi network. Twisted Pair’s patented WAVE software will be integrated with Raytheon’s Next Generation Interoperability Server (NGIS) -- allowing smartphones and tablets to securely connect to existing Land Mobile Radio (LMR) infrastructure and enabling existing infrastructure to expand and securely transmit critical voice and data through the use of 4G/LTE devices. The new WAVE and NGIS integration for P25 augments the existing integration between WAVE and Raytheon’s ACU line of radio interoperability systems. "Our partnering with Raytheon will deliver new, economical choices for law enforcement communications," said Tom Guthrie, president and CEO of Twisted Pair. “Our Police and Fire customers want to use existing devices and networks so they can be included in conversations that today they can’t be due to the extremely high price of P25 radios. Our joint efforts will provide flexible access to critical communications from commercial devices in an integrated and secure manner and ensure all appropriate users are involved in critical communications.” Raytheon’s NGIS provides interoperability between LMR radios, landline and VoIP phones, P25 systems via ISSI, and broadband 4G/LTE networks. WAVE is a critical communications solution for a mobile workforce that enables seamless real-time communications between existing and emerging technologies. WAVE has been widely deployed by the Department of Defense, federal government and law enforcement agencies worldwide. “By incorporating the WAVE application onto our server, first responders can communicate in real-time on any device, anywhere,” said TJ Kennedy, director of Public Safety and Security for Raytheon’s Network Centric Systems business. “Together we provide a low-cost solution for police departments that are running out of spectrum on their existing infrastructure and need to increase their capabilities.” About Twisted Pair Seattle, WA (October 1, 2012) – Twisted Pair Solutions Inc., a recognized leader in critical communication applications for secure, real-time collaboration anywhere, on any device, today announced that it has partnered with Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) to help first responders securely communicate on a variety of hand-held devices. Police, fire and emergency rescue workers will be able to communicate with each other on smartphones, tablets and even conventional two-way radios over any secure radio and WiFi network. Twisted Pair’s patented WAVE software will be integrated with Raytheon’s Next Generation Interoperability Server (NGIS) -- allowing smartphones and tablets to securely connect to existing Land Mobile Radio (LMR) infrastructure and enabling existing infrastructure to expand and securely transmit critical voice and data through the use of 4G/LTE devices. The new WAVE and NGIS integration for P25 augments the existing integration between WAVE and Raytheon’s ACU line of radio interoperability systems. "Our partnering with Raytheon will deliver new, economical choices for law enforcement communications," said Tom Guthrie, president and CEO of Twisted Pair. “Our Police and Fire customers want to use existing devices and networks so they can be included in conversations that today they can’t be due to the extremely high price of P25 radios. Our joint efforts will provide flexible access to critical communications from commercial devices in an integrated and secure manner and ensure all appropriate users are involved in critical communications.” Raytheon’s NGIS provides interoperability between LMR radios, landline and VoIP phones, P25 systems via ISSI, and broadband 4G/LTE networks. WAVE is a critical communications solution for a mobile workforce that enables seamless real-time communications between existing and emerging technologies. WAVE has been widely deployed by the Department of Defense, federal government and law enforcement agencies worldwide. “By incorporating the WAVE application onto our server, first responders can communicate in real-time on any device, anywhere,” said TJ Kennedy, director of Public Safety and Security for Raytheon’s Network Centric Systems business. “Together we provide a low-cost solution for police departments that are running out of spectrum on their existing infrastructure and need to increase their capabilities.” About Twisted Pair MCKESSON TO ACQUIRE MEDVENTIVE, A LEADER IN POPULATION AND RISK MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS McKesson and MedVentive Performance Management and Care Coordination Expertise Support Better Health 2020 Strategy Atlanta, GA (September 24, 2012) – Today McKesson announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MedVentive, a leading provider of population and risk management tools that drive transparency in healthcare cost and quality. MedVentive’s solutions will augment McKesson’s capabilities and experience to support providers as they become clinically integrated, engage physicians and patients to reduce costs, and transition to risk-bearing models such as accountable care. These areas are core to Better Health 2020™, McKesson Technology Solutions’ strategy to support customers’ use of information technology for better business, better care and better connectivity. Based in Waltham, Mass., MedVentive was founded in 2005 by Jonathan Niloff, MD, formerly an associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School. MedVentive serves health systems, multispecialty clinics and payers nationwide, including large West Coast risk-based providers, some of the largest U.S. hospital systems, major academic medical centers and provider-based payers. This year Gartner named MedVentive as one of its Cool Vendors in Healthcare Providers, which recognizes companies for providing innovative and potentially transformative solutions that can benefit health system providers. MedVentive’s SaaS solutions, MedVentive® Risk Manager and MedVentive® Population Manager, will be strong additions to the McKesson Enterprise Intelligence™ suite of solutions to help healthcare organizations understand and manage the quality, cost and efficiency of providing patient care across settings, conditions and/or other providers. For example, Self Regional Health System in Greenwood, S.C., and Centra Health in Lynchburg, Va., both demonstration sites for McKesson’s accountable care offering, will use McKesson’s and MedVentive’s integrated operational performance, population and network analytics solutions. These solutions are designed to help Self Regional and Centra Health manage quality and cost as they transition to an accountable care service delivery model and assume financial risk for their employee populations. “More healthcare providers are beginning to assume risk as we move to value-based reimbursement,” said Pat Blake, executive vice president and group president of McKesson Technology Solutions. “Whether it’s for their employee population, a Medicare shared savings plan, or a defined disease state group, providers must understand the risk they are assuming. What providers really need – and McKesson’s solutions will help offer – is a true picture of the total cost of delivered care based on clinical documentation and claims data across all care settings.” The McKesson and MedVentive solutions also are designed to enable providers to proactively manage the clinical health of at-risk patient populations by identifying gaps in patient care and delivering actionable information to the physician and care team. “The industry has long been interested in combining insights derived from claims, clinical and population data to manage risk. With the rise of ACOs and patient centered medical homes, this need extends to any organization that has a vested interest in performance-based care delivery models,” Blake added. “Managing risk and outcomes for patient populations will remain a key focus for providers and payers alike,” said MedVentive’s Dr. Niloff. “Together MedVentive and McKesson will offer the expertise and tools to help improve the quality of care, create financial transparency, and support care collaboration across the continuum.” Healthcare reform continues to shine a spotlight on accountability for care quality, cost and risk management. To deliver healthcare in 2020 and beyond, organizations will need to optimize clinical, financial and operational performance; coordinate care across settings and stakeholders; navigate new payment models; and manage technology assets to provide a solid foundation for growth beyond the four walls of the health system. These critical success factors are the tenets of McKesson Technology Solutions’ Better Health 2020 strategy. “Because of our ability to draw on solutions and expertise across various markets, McKesson is well-positioned to lead the industry in coordinating care between various stakeholders,” Blake said. “Our goal with Better Health 2020 is to guide customers through their current crossroads – meaningful use, ICD-10 and others – and equip them for success as they deal with cost reduction, begin to coordinate care, collaborate with payers and manage complex payment models.” About McKesson About MedVentive Raleigh, NC (July 9, 2012) – Raleigh, N.C.—July 9, 2012 — KnowledgeTree, a leading provider of cloud-based solutions that help companies “rule their documents,” today announced the closing of a $4.75 million Series B round of venture capital investment. This round includes River Cities Capital Funds, Core Capital Partners, Hatteras Funds, and lead Series A investor Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa. KnowledgeTree will use the new funds to capitalize on significant interest in the company’s social and enterprise-focused document management solutions. KnowledgeTree makes organizations across hundreds of global clients more efficient. Its cloud-based tools help companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, Inmarsat, and Vanderbilt University create, discover, and manage business documents anywhere. Delivered through the browser as software-as-a-service (SaaS) and through powerful mobile applications, KnowledgeTree can be customized by business users without developer support, providing rapid return on investment. The company’s solutions solve the document management challenge by uniting structured and social tools. This allows global teams to co-author documents efficiently, discover valuable content across the organization, and accelerate the approval of critical business documents. In addition to the funding, KnowledgeTree will gain two additional members to its board of directors. Edward McCarthy, Raleigh-based managing director of River Cities Capital Funds, and Will Dunbar, managing director of Core Capital Partners, will join the board. “Every single organization struggles to create, organize, and manage its business documents. That's why this is a multi-billion dollar market,” said McCarthy. “But what makes this opportunity special is KnowledgeTree's enterprise-ready, cloud-based solution. The team has already proven that potent combination at hundreds of companies globally. Now I’m excited to see it further disrupt the historic players in this space.” “At many of the world’s largest organizations, KnowledgeTree has proven the value of a “structured social” approach to managing documents,” said Daniel Chalef, chief executive officer of KnowledgeTree. “With the new funding, KnowledgeTree will rapidly scale our success in customer acquisition while evolving our product’s features to meet the market’s need for business-centric and social document management tools.” About KnowledgeTree About River Cities Capital Funds About Core Capital About Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa About Hatteras Funds MEDVENTIVE CLOSES $12 MILLION IN NEW FUNDING Waltham, MA (October 26, 2011) – MedVentive announced today the completion of a $12 million Series D investment, led by two new provider-based investors. National Healthcare Services (NHS) and CHV II, LP, both focused on transformative technology for the healthcare market, were joined by MedVentive’s existing investors, which include Clarian Health Ventures, Core Capital Partners, Excel Venture Management, HLM Venture Partners and Long River Ventures. Including Clarian Health Ventures, MedVentive now has the backing of three of the nation’s most prestigious hospital investors. The investment validates MedVentive’s accelerating innovation and strong company position as the leading provider of population and risk management solutions for health plans and providers. “We have been evaluating organizations in the ACO space extensively,” said Brant Heise, representative of NHS. “Through rigorous market analysis, we determined that MedVentive is uniquely positioned in the healthcare field for its ability to support health plans and providers and focus on population and provider-centered risk management. It is evident that MedVentive’s tools can greatly help our provider organizations achieve core business goals.” NHS is the investment arm of MemorialCare Health System in California. MemorialCare has been recognized as one of the nation’s most innovative health systems by such organizations as Thomson Reuters and The Governance Institute. CHV II is a strategic venture fund investing on behalf of four of the largest non-profit health systems in the country. The fund’s objectives are to support strategic investments that have the potential to transform the healthcare industry, and significantly enhance the quality of patient care. “We are delighted to welcome NHS and CHV to the MedVentive investment syndicate,” commented Nancy J. Ham, MedVentive President and CEO. Both are exceptional provider-based investors with an emphasis on bringing tools to market that will support the delivery of cost effective and efficient care,” she added. “Their investment is a true vote of confidence in MedVentive’s growth and success.” MedVentive is extremely well positioned to meet the market needs for clinical integration, population management and management of financial risk for achieving stated quality and utilization goals. For more than a decade, MedVentive has been helping leading healthcare organizations support clinical integration initiatives and successfully manage their quality, utilization, pharmacy, and physician incentive programs. Its clients have achieved significant results using the MedVentive suite of Web-based applications to engage physicians and to optimize quality performance at the patient and population levels. About National Healthcare Services (NHS) About CHV II, LP About MedVentive CISCO TO ACQUIRE INLET TECHNOLOGIES FOR $95 MILLION San Jose, CA (February 4, 2011) – Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately-held Inlet Technologies, a leading provider of Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) digital media processing platforms. Based in Raleigh, N.C., Inlet will strengthen the capabilities of Cisco's Videoscape TV platform, allowing service and content providers to deliver compelling video experiences to any device over any Internet Protocol (IP) network. "Service and content providers have a tremendous opportunity to deliver exciting video experiences as media consumption increases across mobile, desktop, and smart devices," said Enrique Rodriguez, senior vice president and general manager, Cisco's Service Provider Video Technology Group. "Cisco's Videoscape platform will play a key role in reinventing the TV experience, and the acquisition of Inlet will enable our customers to leverage the network as a platform to deliver innovative video experiences to consumers on any device." Cisco Videoscape is a comprehensive TV platform for service providers that brings together digital TV and online content with social media and communications applications to create a truly immersive home and mobile video entertainment experience. Inlet's advanced ABR technology, which is used in streaming multimedia over managed and unmanaged networks, adapts the quality of the video stream based on real-time network conditions. Inlet brings to Cisco a strong team that understands the complexities of delivering ABR video over IP networks to any device. Upon the close of the acquisition, Inlet employees will be integrated into Cisco's Service Provider Video Technology Group. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay approximately $95 million in cash and retention-based incentives in exchange for all shares of Inlet. The acquisition is subject to various standard closing conditions and is expected to be complete in the first half of calendar year 2011. About Cisco Systems UNIVA CLOSES ADDITIONAL $7 MILLION IN FUNDING LED BY CORE CAPITAL Lisle, IL (January 25, 2011) — Univa, the data center optimization company, today announced it has secured $7M in new financing to accelerate the company’s market strategy. Participating in the funding are new investors Core Capital Partners and Hatteras Funds as well as incumbent investors River Cities Capital Funds, ARCH Venture Partners, New World Ventures and Appian Ventures. "Core Capital believes the market for virtualization and data center efficiency will be a top driver for corporate IT spending in the near term," said Mark Levine, managing director, Core Capital Partners. “We’re excited to join Univa’s existing investors at this inspiring time as the company positions itself as a leading solution provider in data center optimization.” "This vote of confidence in Univa’s business plan during such difficult economic times speaks well of our opportunity to capitalize on our stated data center optimization strategy,” said Gary Tyreman, president and CEO of Univa. "The investors in Univa believe in the plan that the management team has laid out," said Rik Vandevenne, director, River Cities Capital Funds. “Data center optimization remains a challenge for practically every organization and Univa has created a comprehensive solution unmatched in the marketplace. We are confident Univa will compete at an unprecedented level this year.” Univa recently announced its strategy and development plans for improving the operational efficiency of data centers. The cornerstone of Univa’s approach is its unique ‘continuous optimization’ capability, which lets companies achieve unparalleled levels of efficiency through improved resource sharing, amplified efficiency of people and processes, and increased application and license utilization. As a result companies are able to achieve an unprecedented level of ROI on existing resources through faster time-to-results and by keeping larger costs under control. Univa is currently the only provider to offer such a broad level of integrated capabilities within the context of traditional, dynamic and cloud data centers that directly address the effects of the changing infrastructure. About Univa Corporation INFINITE POWER SOLUTIONS RAISES $20.0M IN SERIES C FINANCING Littleton, CO (August 17, 2010) - Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. (IPS) today announced that it has successfully completed its series C round of financing—raising $20 million. In response to growing customer demand, the new capital will be used to expand the company’s manufacturing capacity, accelerate the build out of its global sales channels and further support advanced research and development of its eco-friendly, THINERGY® solid-state rechargeable energy storage devices. Existing financial investors D. E. Shaw Ventures, Polaris Venture Partners and Core Capital Partners co-led the financing, which also included new investor Generation Investment Management and participation by Applied Ventures, LLC, and two additional strategic investors. Earlier investors in the company included Texas Instruments and In-Q-Tel. Generation Investment Management is an independent, sustainable investment firm headquartered in London, UK. Its approach is based on the idea that the incorporation of sustainability factors, such as economic, environmental, social and governance criteria will drive a company's returns over the long term. “We are excited to have Generation join our group of financial and corporate investors who have recognized the game-changing attributes of our rechargeable, safe and reusable thin-film energy storage devices,” commented Ray Johnson, IPS’ president and CEO. “This financing provides us with the capital to continue the build out and expansion of our operational capabilities and global market presence.” "IPS brings breakthrough rechargeable energy solutions to the universe of small devices," said Alexander Wong, Head of D. E. Shaw Ventures. “IPS’ products enable a plethora of novel applications in multiple markets including wireless, consumer, medical and defense.” About Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. About Generation Investment Management, LLP MCAFEE TO ACQUIRE TRUST DIGITAL Santa Clara, CA (May 25, 2010) - McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately owned Trust Digital. Trust Digital is a leading technology provider of enterprise mobility management and security software targeting Global 2000 companies and is deployed by a growing number of businesses to deliver mission critical data to the point of service using Apple iPhones and iPads. McAfee expects that Trust Digital's strong foot-hold in the mobile security market will extend McAfee's endpoint market, addressing a wide range of mobile operating systems including iPhone OS, Android, Web OS, Windows Mobile, and Symbian. IT organizations rely on Trust Digital to secure, rapidly deploy and centrally manage smartphones, as well as a new generation of always-available line of business applications and services. Following the completion of this proposed acquisition, McAfee(R) expects to couple Trust Digital's enterprise mobility management solution with McAfee's endpoint protection capabilities to deliver the industry's first comprehensive mobile security solution. Customers will benefit from centralized management and reporting of the integrated technologies through the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator(R) (ePO(TM)) console. With the proliferation of smartphones in the enterprise, paired with an increase in demand for real-time access to information via these devices, the ability to manage and support security policy that enables productivity is a significant priority for CIOs today. Rapid adoption of smartphones has changed how users in industries like healthcare, pharmaceutical and financial services work. Secure, immediate access to critical information on mobile applications is a core component enabling a productive workforce. Enterprises want to increase revenues, profits and productivity through empowering their workforce, without compromising their security. "The acquisition of Trust Digital's industry-leading enterprise mobility management solutions will extend the current McAfee security portfolio beyond the traditional endpoint, addressing the rapidly expanding mobile security market," said Dave DeWalt, president and chief executive officer, McAfee. "Once completed, Trust Digital's industry leading enterprise mobility management solutions combined with leading McAfee antivirus, antispyware, host intrusion prevention, policy auditing and firewall technologies, will enable McAfee to address the mobile workforce by mitigating the risks associated with vulnerable or malicious mobile applications downloaded by employees. Through this acquisition, we believe McAfee can expand its reach into new markets, secure new platforms and strengthen its leadership position." "Business users are thrilled by the capabilities of iPhones, smartphones and tablets and are quickly adopting them as their handheld computers, but their IT counterparts must now find tools to effectively secure and manage them," said Mark Shull, chief executive officer, Trust Digital. "The integration of Trust Digital with McAfee will enable enterprises to rapidly deploy new mobility devices such as smartphones across diverse mobile environments cost effectively and with the highest level of security. Together, we will enable IT to say yes to the iPhone and Android." About McAfee, Inc. About Trust Digital MEDVENTIVE COMPLETES OVERSUBSCRIBED SERIES C FUNDING TOTALING $10 MILLION WALTHAM, MA (APRIL 09, 2010) - WALTHAM, MA – April 9, 2010 – MedVentive announced today the completion of its oversubscribed Series C fundraising. The $10 million in capital is targeted to fuel the company’s next phase of product innovation, which will expand the ability of its technology to reduce costs to purchasers while improving the quality of care to patients. In particular, MedVentive is uniquely capable of supporting health plans and providers in their move to the healthcare industry’s newest value‐based purchasing models – such as Accountable Care Organizations (ACO), global payments, and clinically integrated networks. New investor Clarian Health Ventures (CHV), the for‐profit investment arm of Indiana's largest health care system, Clarian Health Partners, Inc., provides a strong strategic partner for MedVentive. Kyle Salyers, Managing Director of Clarian Health Ventures commented, “We selected MedVentive for our portfolio because our philosophy is not just financially supporting innovative approaches to solving crucial healthcare issues, but being active contributors to the company’s success through a strong commercial relationship. Incentives in the health care market will increasingly be tied to performance, and the delivery system must have the data and analytical tools to measure and improve quality. MedVentive’s solutions are uniquely positioned to provide this capability across care settings and across target patient populations. ” Core Capital Partners, a leading early‐stage venture fund headquartered in Washington, D.C., expanded their earlier, unannounced investment in MedVentive’s Series C round. “Core is extremely pleased with MedVentive’s progress – technology advancements, market expansion, client initiatives, extension of their team, and overall growth. We expanded our investment with MedVentive to support their continued leadership in technology solutions focused on improving the quality of care and performance, while reducing medical expense,” said Mark Levine, Managing Director at Core Capital Partners. “We are delighted to welcome Clarian Health Ventures and Core Capital to the MedVentive investment syndicate”, commented Dr. Enrico Petrillo, Managing Director at Excel Venture Management, which co‐led the Series C financing with HLM Venture Partners. “Along with Excel, HLM Venture Partners and Long River Ventures, we have built an outstanding team to support MedVentive’s growth. The quality of the investors and the oversubscribed nature of the round are a testament to MedVentive’s competitive edge and its ability to lower costs in the healthcare system while improving outcomes for patients.” MedVentive has more than twelve years of experience in solving today’s critical challenge of improving patient care while reducing costs. From our beginnings within CareGroup serving over 450,000 patients to our spin‐out in 2005 as an independent entity to commercialize proven and physician‐friendly solutions, MedVentive has always been laser‐focused on delivering clinical and financial outcomes, not on technology or data sharing for its own sake. Today MedVentive provides a comprehensive technology platform that enables physician collaboration, data transparency, and proactive care improvement on a community basis. With a proven ROI, both in terms of increased quality of care and lowering costs, MedVentive clients are leading the industry in achieving real world results. About Clarian Health Ventures Excel Venture Management About HLM Venture Partners About Long River Ventures About MedVentive EQUIFAX TO ACQUIRE CORE CAPITAL PORTFOLIO COMPANY IXI CORPORATION FOR $124 MILLION Atlanta, GA (October 21, 2009) - Equifax Inc. (NYSE:EFX) announced today that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire IXI Corporation, a leader in collecting, analyzing and delivering consumer wealth and asset data. Equifax will pay $124 million in cash for the company. With its proprietary measures of wealth, assets, income, spending and other data, IXI helps its clients better segment households, resulting in improved marketing and customer management. IXI’s client base includes leading companies in the financial services industry such as banks and brokerage firms and emerging opportunities in the insurance and healthcare industries. IXI’s data, sourced through more than 95 leading banks, brokerage firms and other financial entities, is the most comprehensive database of invested and deposited consumer wealth in the country. IXI directly measures data on more than $10 trillion in U.S. consumer assets and investments, representing more than 42 percent of all U.S. consumer invested assets. "Bringing together the differentiated data and analytic capabilities of each of the companies will allow us to deliver a deeper view of the consumer that includes wealth, credit, income, spending and other demographic data ," said Dann Adams, president, Equifax Consumer Information Solutions. "The caliber and breadth of intelligence and data we’ll offer will significantly improve the opportunities for our clients to acquire, expand and retain customer relationships." IXI’s unique capabilities combined with Equifax’s expertise will allow the companies to offer more differentiated and in-depth income, wealth and other data, helping companies improve their marketing, collections, portfolio monitoring and customer management efforts across all product segments. About Equifax With a strong heritage of innovation and leadership, Equifax continuously delivers innovative solutions with the highest integrity and reliability. Businesses – large and small – rely on us for consumer and business credit intelligence, portfolio management, fraud detection, decisioning technology, marketing tools, and much more. We empower individual consumers to manage their personal credit information, protect their identity, and maximize their financial well-being. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Equifax Inc. operates in the U.S. and 14 other countries throughout North America, Latin America and Europe. Equifax is a member of Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500® Index. Our common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EFX. About IXI Corporation Through its exclusive network of more than 95 leading U.S. financial institutions, IXI directly measures approximately $10 trillion in U.S. consumer assets and investments, comprising over 42% of all U.S. invested assets. IXI combines its patented process for collecting and classifying consumer asset data with proprietary measures of income, spending, and credit, to create the most reliable and granular financial database available today. Using this unrivalled database, IXI builds solutions that provide firms financial and economic insight for every U.S. household. IXI is a privately held company headquartered in McLean, Virginia. It was recently named to the Deloitte Touche 500 Fastest Growing Technology companies list. To learn more, visit www.ixicorp.com. RALLY SOFTWARE ACQUIRES 6TH SENSE ANALYTICS Acquisition boosts Rally’s capabilities for complete visibility and predictability across the Agile development lifecycle Boulder, CO (January 12, 2009) - Rally Software Development Corp.®, the Agile lifecycle management leader, today announced that it has acquired the assets of 6th Sense Analytics, Inc., provider of an on-demand automated metrics collection and analysis solution for development organizations. The acquisition of 6th Sense Analytics' product capabilities and team of experienced developers will build on Rally's recent 2008.6 product release to deliver more access to project data and easier ways to report progress and quality across the Agile development lifecycle. "If you can't accurately measure software delivery, then you can't improve it," said Tim Miller, CEO of Rally. "We're thrilled that we were able to take advantage of this opportunity to incorporate 6th Sense Analytics' rich reporting capabilities to the Rally platform, as well as add a phenomenal development team to our staff." In December, Rally introduced its sixth product release of 2008, which was all about the power of real-time project information in driving Agile development for distributed teams. Rally Release 2008.6 gives Agile organizations more access to project data, deeper integration with other development and management systems and easier ways to report progress and quality. The acquisition of 6th Sense Analytics will build upon the 2008.6 product release to add rich analytics and trending to Rally's Agile application lifecycle management platform. "Having built an on-demand analytics engine for software development, we felt that Rally and 6th Sense were an excellent fit," said Todd Olson, co-founder and president of 6th Sense Analytics. "We're excited to kick-off Rally's remote development operations in North Carolina and use our analytics expertise to give development teams the information to build faster and cut costs in 2009." About Rally CORE CAPITAL PARTNERS PARTICIPATES IN $5 MILLION ROUND FOR JACKBE Funding Bolsters Growth Strategy for Enterprise Mashup Software Leader Washington, D.C. (December 16, 2008) – Core Capital Partners, a leading venture capital firm that invests in high-growth technology companies, today announced its participation in a $5 million round of funding for JackBe, a leading provider of enterprise mashup software. The capital will support sales and marketing initiatives for JackBe’s award-winning enterprise mashup software product, Presto. JackBe’s enterprise mashup software solves the quintessential information problem: accessing and combining data from disparate internal and external data sources and software systems to support timely decision-making. JackBe enables application developers and end users to make more effective decisions and independently complete daily tasks through self-service data access while meeting the toughest enterprise security and governance requirements. “Mashups can greatly enhance the enhance productivity, adaptability and return-on-assets of an enterprise. JackBe’s Presto Enterprise Mashup Platform delivers on this promise with a scalable, secure enterprise-grade solution,” said Pascal Luck, managing director of Core Capital Partners. “As an award-winning thought-leader in this market, JackBe is uniquely positioned for significant growth.” Luis Derechin, CEO of JackBe, added: “Our continued relationship with Core Capital Partners reinforces our position in the enterprise mashup industry. Core Capital Partners plays a critical role in shaping our corporate development initiatives and JackBe’s collaboration with Core enables us to further accelerate our mission of transforming this innovative web concept into a practical business solution.” About JackBe ROUNDBOX SECURES OVER $20 MILLION IN SERIES C FINANCING Florham Park, NJ (December 15, 2008) - Roundbox, Inc., the leader in mobile broadcast software, today announced it secured over $20 million in financing in a round that reflects an increase in shareholder value. Montagu Newhall Associates led the financing round with additional funding from existing investors Core Capital Partners, Polaris Venture Partners, and RRE Ventures. The round also closed with an investment from strategic investor ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC), a leader in advanced IT solutions and outsource services based in Japan. Along with the equity investment, Silicon Valley Bank has provided venture debt financing. The company will use the funding to enhance and extend their position in the mobile broadcast market with key investments in the areas of product development and customer delivery. “Roundbox has proven to be a leader in enabling the delivery of mobile broadcast services. We are delighted to join the Roundbox team, and excited about the company’s momentum and position in the market,” said Jim Lim, general partner at Montagu Newhall Associates. “Roundbox and CTC share a common vision for mobile broadcast in Japan,” said Junichi Maruta, general manager of telecom systems planning division at CTC. “Together we have successfully delivered mobile broadcast demonstrations for KDDI and other service providers. This investment reinforces our commitment to Roundbox and this partnership.” “In these economically challenging times, those companies who can advance and forge ahead, will be the leaders in the markets they serve,” said Roundbox co-founder and CEO Dennis Specht. “With this strong syndicate and round, we will continue to work with our investors, customers, and partners to execute on our long-term vision and build a market-leading company.” About ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) About Montagu Newhall Associates About Polaris Ventures About RRE Ventures About SVB Financial Group About Roundbox ROLLSTREAM SECURES $6M IN SERIES B FUNDING LED BY CORE CAPITAL Fairfax, VA (November 18, 2008) - RollStream Inc., the leading provider of enterprise community management solutions, today announced it has secured $6 million in Series B funding. The investment was led by Washington, DC based Core Capital, with participation from existing investor Vienna, VA based Grotech Ventures. In conjunction with this new investment, Will Dunbar, Managing Director at Core Capital, has been named to RollStream’s Board of Directors. Both venture capital firms have impressive track records for leading high-potential technology companies to success. “We are pleased to secure this latest round of funding. Raising capital in today’s tough economic climate is a significant achievement and a direct reflection of our efforts to solve the last great problem in global supply chains: inefficient human interaction, stated Kristin Muhlner, CEO of RollStream. RollStream delivers an innovative solution for enterprise community management. Unlike systems that simply deliver business transactions between trading partners, RollStream optimizes business relationships by accelerating person-to-person interaction across the extended supply chain. The hosted software solution enables businesses to reduce the cost to manage large partner communities by speeding collaboration and communication amongst manufacturers, suppliers, distributors and customers. RollStream customers use the solution to centralize trading partner contact and credential information; to manage partner registration, on-boarding and maintenance; and to streamline one-to-many and one-to-one performance or compliance initiatives. “As global supply chains continue to face increased financial, regulatory and competitive pressures, they must consider solutions like RollStream to increase the profitability of their business relationships,” said Will Dunbar of Core Capital. “As the early leader in the growing enterprise community management market, RollStream is poised to revolutionize this space, and Core Capital is excited to work with the company as it expands its reach.” “RollStream understands how the Software as a Service model can help companies affordably improve trading partner communication and collaboration. This, combined with an impressive record for delivering significant ROI to customers like Tesco and Owens & Minor, continues to drive our interest to invest,” said Steve Frederick, of Grotech Ventrues. RollStream already has over 19,000 registered trading partners and 50,000 human contacts distributed across multiple vertical industries. The funding will be used to accelerate the development of innovative solutions and to power RollStream’s continued growth throughout North America. About Rollstream, Inc. CORE CAPITAL'S TOM WHEELER NAMED TO FIERCEWIRELESS LIST OF TOP U.S. WIRELESS INNOVATORS OF ALL TIME Introducing the Top U.S. Wireless Innovators of All Time (November 13, 2008) - Last month the U.S. wireless industry officially marked the 25th anniversary of the day the first cellular system opened for business in Chicago. Many of the industry's movers and shakers gathered in Chicago on Oct. 14 for the Wireless History Foundation's gala celebrating the anniversary. That monumental event triggered a lot of discussion (and reminiscing) among the FierceWireless editorial team. With the 25th anniversary in mind, we decided it was time to honor the contributions of some of the wireless industry's foremost leaders and innovators with the FierceWireless list of Top U.S. Wireless Innovators of All Time. The people on this list were selected by the FierceWireless editors with some input from our readers. And because FierceWireless is primarily a U.S.-based publication, this list is focused on innovators who helped shape the U.S. wireless industry. These innovators are true wireless pioneers but they were not just selected for their past contributions. They were also chosen because many are still active in the wireless industry today, making sure that their legacy lives on. Martin Cooper, often referred to as the "father of cell phone," led the list. Other innovators included Arlene Harris, Dale Hatfield, Irwin Jacobs, Craig McCaw, Morgan O'Brien, Herschel Shosteck, Denny Strigl, and Andrew Viterbi, one of the founders of Qualcomm. See the full list here.
Twisted Pair is the recognized leader in critical communications. Our WAVE software empowers mobile workforces with critical communication applications for secure, real-time collaboration anywhere on any device. Built on a battle-tested communications interoperability platform, WAVE delivers voice, video, location, presence and other forms of data deployed as an enterprise product or cloud-based service throughout commercial, public sector and defense organizations. WAVE has been proven in thousands of the most complex deployments around the world to help integrate and manage a truly unified communications system so that office-based and mobile workers can simply talk, make decisions and act. For more information, visit http://www.twistpair.com.
Twisted Pair is the recognized leader in critical communications. Our WAVE software empowers mobile workforces with critical communication applications for secure, real-time collaboration anywhere on any device. Built on a battle-tested communications interoperability platform, WAVE delivers voice, video, location, presence and other forms of data deployed as an enterprise product or cloud-based service throughout commercial, public sector and defense organizations. WAVE has been proven in thousands of the most complex deployments around the world to help integrate and manage a truly unified communications system so that office-based and mobile workers can simply talk, make decisions and act. For more information, visit http://www.twistpair.com.
McKesson Corporation, currently ranked 14th on the FORTUNE 500, is a healthcare services and information technology company dedicated to making the business of healthcare run better. We partner with payers, hospitals, physician offices, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies and others across the spectrum of care to build healthier organizations that deliver better care to patients in every setting. McKesson helps its customers improve their financial, operational, and clinical performance with solutions that include pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply management, healthcare information technology, and business and clinical services. For more information, visit http://www.mckesson.com.
While healthcare was evolving the concept of an accountable care organization, MedVentive was busy operating as one. MedVentive was founded as the Provider Service Network (PSN) in 1997 by the CareGroup Healthcare System, an integrated, at-risk network of 4,500 physicians and eight hospitals that cared for more than 450,000 at-risk patients. Our origins as an ACO give MedVentive a deep understanding of provider organizations and the healthcare environment. Having been an at-risk provider network, MedVentive is uniquely qualified to support an organization’s transition from a fee-for-service payment environment to risk-based contracting, and provide the clinical integration/population management infrastructure necessary to be successful under this new model.
KnowledgeTree helps companies turn documents into business assets. Hundreds of global companies use KnowledgeTree to create, discover, and manage the business documents they depend on every day. Our cloud-based tools are structured for business and boost collaboration, with no developers required. That means our clients save thousands of dollars per employee each year. Find out why Network World called KnowledgeTree one of the 10 SaaS companies to watch. And learn why Miramax Films, Alcatel-Lucent, Genesys, Fuji Chemical, and many other global companies use KnowledgeTree to bring order to their business documents. KnowledgeTree is venture-backed and headquartered in Raleigh, NC. The company can be found online at www.knowledgetree.com.
River Cities has a proven track record of partnering with management teams to build some of the most successful venture backed M&A and IPO exits throughout the Midwest and Southeast. With over $460 million under management and over 85 investments conducted over fifteen years, River Cities has established itself as a preferred partner among the regional entrepreneurial and broader venture capital communities. River Cities invests in expansion stage information technology and healthcare companies with revenues from $2 - $20 million. Software, Software as a Service, technology enabled services, healthcare services and medical devices are of particular interest. The firm is now making investments on behalf of its most recently raised Fund V. www.rccf.com
Core Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Washington, DC. The firm currently manages $350 million and provides capital to high-growth technology companies. Core Capital focuses on the kinds of disruptive, "core" technologies that enable or enhance data and communication, financing emerging opportunities in wireless, security, video, internet media, and software. To date, the firm has backed over 40 companies, with successful investments in a wide range of information technologies and business services. www.core-capital.com.
Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa, based in Cape Town, South Africa, is the largest technology focused venture capital fund in Africa with most of its capital committed by SAP co-founder and Chairman Prof. Dr. Hasso Plattner. Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa, led by Marc Balkin, invests in innovative software, telecommunications, internet and clean energy companies in emerging markets with the potential to grow globally. The portfolio includes eight companies, including KnowledgeTree and fast-growing African mobile telecommunications company Inala Technologies. We turn local technologies into global assets. More information can be found at www.hp-ventures.co.za.
Hatteras Funds provides unique alternative investment solutions for financial advisors and their clients. We believe that all investors should have access to the same sophisticated investment approach and superior portfolio management talent as the largest institutions. A boutique alternative investment specialist founded in 2003, Hatteras Funds offers a suite of innovative products designed to help financial advisors allocate to alternative investments. The Raleigh, N.C.-based firm manages over $2 billion in alternative investment strategies for a broad range of institutions, endowments, pensions and high net worth individuals. For more information, please visit www.hatterasfunds.com.
National Healthcare Services (NHS) is a strategic investment company wholly owned by the MemorialCare Health System in California. The goal of NHS is to invest in companies that provide innovative products, services and technology to hospitals and physicians that have the potential to enhance operating and clinical performance. To learn more, please visit www.nationalhealthcareservices.com.
CHV II, LP, is a limited partnership that invests in healthcare technology, services and medical device sectors on behalf of four of the largest non-profit health systems in the country.
For more than a decade, MedVentive has worked with leading provider and health plan organizations to develop and deploy innovative, clinically sophisticated approaches to successfully reduce healthcare costs and improve the quality of patient care. MedVentive offers a fully-integrated suite of business & clinical intelligence and outreach applications that support best-in-class pay for performance programs, physician efficiency profiling and information-sharing, quality intervention, pharmacy management, and point-of-care decision support tools – all built on a risk-adjusted data foundation. Provider groups and health plans use MedVentive technology and services to identify their greatest healthcare improvement opportunities and to act quickly and efficiently to effect change through flexible, tailored solutions. For more information, please visit www.medventive.com.
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Information about Cisco can be found at www.cisco.com.
Univa, the Data Center Optimization Company, is the leading provider of optimization and management software for traditional, dynamic and cloud data centers. Our award-winning products are used by Global 2500 companies to improve resource sharing, amplify the efficiency of people and processes, and increase application and license utilization. Univa offers the industry’s broadest, most innovative and integrated product set for managing shared, high-demand data center resources. From workload management to policy-driven provisioning across physical, virtual and cloud resources, only Univa provides a proven combination of enterprise-class capabilities, industry expertise, and community sponsorship. Univa is headquartered in Lisle, Illinois with offices worldwide. Information about Univa can be found at www.univa.com.
Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. (IPS)—a U.S.-based, clean-technology company—is a leader in manufacturing solid-state, rechargeable, thin-film micro-energy storage devices for a variety of micro-electronic applications. Founded in 2001, IPS is privately held with corporate headquarters and manufacturing in Littleton, Colo. The company markets its revolutionary family of thin-film Micro-Energy cell (MEC) products under its THINERGY® brand. The company is the only ISO 9001 certified manufacturer of solid-state, thin-film batteries. The company’s energy storage products, with unrivalled performance, size and service life, displace coin cells, supercapacitors, and other micro-batteries in a variety of applications. The company’s THINERGY MECs and INFINERGY® Micro Power Modules (MPMs) uniquely enable ambient energy-harvesting solutions to create miniature, autonomous, perpetual power supplies to address the growing demand among customers in the wireless sensor, active RFID, powered smart card, medical device, consumer electronics, automotive and civil/military/aerospace markets. THINERGY and MEC are registered trademarks of IPS.
Launched in 2004, Generation Investment Management LLP is an independent, private, owner-managed partnership with offices in London, New York and Sydney. Generation's investment approach is based on the idea that sustainability factors — economic, environmental, social and governance criteria — will drive a company's returns over the long term. By integrating sustainability issues with traditional analysis, Generation aims to deliver superior investment returns.
Generation Investment Management LLP is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Services Authority. For more information, visit www.generationim.com.
McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the world's largest dedicated security technology company. McAfee is committed to relentlessly tackling the world's toughest security challenges. The company delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that help secure systems and networks around the world, allowing users to safely connect to the Internet, browse and shop the web more securely. Backed by an award-winning research team, McAfee creates innovative products that empower home users, businesses, the public sector and service providers by enabling them to prove compliance with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify vulnerabilities, and continuously monitor and improve their security. For more information, visit www.mcafee.com
Trust Digital is the leading provider of enterprise mobility management (EMM®) software for Global 2000 companies, and today Trust Digital is being deployed by the growing number of businesses using the Apple iPhone® to deliver mission critical data to the point of service. IT organizations rely on Trust Digital's solution to secure, rapidly deploy and centrally manage their smartphones, while also enabling their use with native IT services and applications. Trust Digital is the trusted mobility company. For more information, please visit our website, www.trustdigital.com.
Clarian Health Ventures (CHV) is a venture capital firm affiliated with Clarian Health Partners, Indiana’s largest health care system. CHV invests in early stage health and life sciences companies that align with the strategic objectives and mission of Clarian Health. For more information, please visit www.clarianhealthventures.com.
About Excel Venture Management builds companies that apply transformative life science technologies to solve problems in healthcare and beyond. The Excel investment portfolio is balanced across healthcare IT and services, diagnostics, and medical devices, plus life science platforms that address adjacent markets including energy, chemicals, defense and agriculture. The majority of the team’s prior investments, which include some of the world’s premier healthcare and life science companies, are thriving and over half have achieved successful exits generating billions in value. For more information, please visit www.excelvm.com.
HLM Venture Partners is a leading venture firm providing capital to emerging companies focused on health care service, health care information technology and medical devices. HLM Venture Partners supports entrepreneurs as they turn innovative ideas into market‐leading businesses, offering guidance on financial structuring and mergers, resource allocation and deployment, strategic planning, strategic introductions and recruitment. For more information, please visit www.hlmvp.com.
Long River Ventures invests in seed and early stage companies in technology, healthcare, and other related sectors. Formed by a group of experienced entrepreneurs and venture capitalist, Long River is designed and structured to invest smaller amounts of capital, usually as the first institutional investor in rounds of under $5MM. While we do make investments in the major metropolitan markets, our primary geographic focus is on the smaller cities and research centers of New England. For more information, please visit www.longriverventures.com.
For more than a decade, MedVentive has worked with leading provider and health plan organizations to develop and deploy innovative, clinically sophisticated approaches to successfully reduce healthcare costs and improve the quality of patient care. MedVentive offers a fully‐integrated suite of business & clinical intelligence and outreach applications that support best‐in‐class pay for performance programs, physician efficiency profiling and information‐sharing, quality intervention, pharmacy management, and point‐of‐care decision support tools – all built on a risk‐adjusted data foundation. Provider groups and health plans use MedVentive technology and services to identify their greatest healthcare improvement opportunities and to act quickly and efficiently to effect change through flexible, tailored solutions. For more information, please visit www.medventive.com.
Equifax empowers businesses and consumers with information they can trust. A global leader in information solutions, we leverage one of the largest sources of consumer and commercial data, along with advanced analytics and proprietary technology, to create customized insights that enrich both the performance of businesses and the lives of consumers.
For over 15 years, IXI has helped the nation’s leading financial services and consumer marketing firms optimize marketing efforts, manage risk, identify growth markets, and enhance practice and performance management. IXI solutions enable marketing, sales, and risk management executives to differentiate and target consumer households based on measures of wealth, income, spending, credit, investment style, share-of-wallet, and share-of-market.
Rally is the Agile lifecycle management leader dedicated to making development organizations leaner and more responsive to customer needs. According to a study by QSM Associates, teams that rely on Rally's Agile lifecycle management products and services are 50% faster to market and 25% more productive than plan-based, waterfall projects. Rally's products were honored with three consecutive Jolt Product Excellence Awards (the industry's Oscars) in 2006, 2007 and 2008. The company's end-to-end solutions for Agile development also include Agile University, the largest source for Agile training, and Agile Commons, the largest collaborative Web 2.0 community dedicated to advancing software agility. For more information, visit www.rallydev.com.
JackBe delivers trusted mashup software that empowers organizations to create, customize and collaborate through enterprise mashups for faster decisions and better business results. JackBe’s innovative Enterprise Mashup Platform, Presto, provides dynamic mashups that leverage internal and external data while meeting the toughest enterprise security and governance requirements. Presto provides enterprise mashups delivered to the user in 3 clicks versus 3 months. For more information, visit www.jackbe.com.
Established in 1972, ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) provides advanced IT solutions and offers various outsourcing services, such as operations by its own data centers. CTC supports such market segments as telecommunications, broadcasting, finance, retail, distribution, manufacturing, education, government, medicine, pharmaceutical, chemicals and apparel. CTC has formed partnerships with more than 200 leading IT companies from nine countries. These partnerships range from those with global multinational IT companies to those with highly focused venture businesses. Around 6,500 people work for CTC throughout Japan, and our service edge lies in offering one-stop 7 x 24 support in approximately 100 service centers. www.ctc-g.co.jp/en/
Montagu Newhall Associates, founded in 2000, manages four venture capital funds with a combined total of over $900 million in committed capital. Investors in these partnerships, which include family offices, corporate pension funds, endowments, foundations and other venture capitalists, are provided access to diversified portfolios of top-tier venture capital funds and a select number of high quality, later-stage, direct venture capital investments. The Montagu Newhall Associates team leverages its substantial network, relationships and investment experience to provide a superior venture capital product to its investors. For more information, visit www.montagunewhall.com.
Established in 1996, with offices in Waltham and Seattle, Polaris has over $3 billion under management. Polaris Venture Partners have helped build numerous market leading companies, including Accordant Health Services, Advanced Inhalation Research, Akamai Technologies, Allaire, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, American Superconductor, Aspect Medical Systems, Avici Systems, Centra Software, Classifieds2000, deCODE genetics, Exchange.com, Matrics, Microbia, Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Paradigm Genetics, Powersoft, PSCI, SolidWorks and TransForm Pharmaceuticals.
New York-based RRE Ventures, founded in 1994 by Jim Robinson III, Jim Robinson IV and Stuart Ellman, invests in entrepreneurial technology companies placing special emphasis on e-commerce, software, communications and related enterprises that can become industry leaders in rapidly growing markets. With $600 million under management, RRE combines significant capital resources with a proven track record of successful managerial, financial and technical experience, in addition to corporate contacts that create value for its portfolio companies.
For 25 years, SVB Financial Group and its subsidiaries, including Silicon Valley Bank, have been dedicated to helping entrepreneurs succeed. SVB Financial Group is a financial holding company that serves emerging growth and mature companies in the technology, life science, private equity and premium wine industries. Offering diversified financial services through Silicon Valley Bank, SVB Analytics, SVB Capital, SVB Global and SVB Private Client Services, SVB Financial Group provides clients with commercial, investment, international and private banking services. The Company also offers funds management, broker-dealer transactions, asset management and a full range of services for private equity companies, as well as the added value of its knowledge and networks worldwide. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., SVB Financial Group operates through 27 offices in the U.S. and five internationally. More information on the Company can be found at www.svb.com.
Roundbox is the leading provider of mobile broadcast software solutions for mobile operators and handset manufacturers. Their products enable mobile operators to provide consumers innovative services that take advantage of next generation broadcast networks. Roundbox’s product innovations help operators provide consumers with services such as mobile TV, emergency notification, radio, and data services delivered continuously and with breakthrough economics. For more information, visit www.roundbox.com.
RollStream is the leader in enterprise community management. RollStream delivers an online solution for accelerating communications and collaboration across the global supply chain. Industry leaders like McKesson Medical-Surgical, Owens & Minor and Tesco use RollStream to significantly reduce the cost and time required to onboard partners, communicate operational changes, and rollout sales and marketing initiatives. Learn more at www.rollstream.com.