Broadview Capital Partners

Broadview Capital Partner is a global M&A advisor focused on the information, communications and healthcare technology industries. The firm offers advice on merger and acquisition transactions, restructuring, and strategic private placements. Broadview Capital Partner was founded by Stephen Bachmann in 1999 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Steven Brooks

Managing Director

13 past transactions

Cogent Communications Group, Inc. is a facilities-based provider of Internet access and Internet Protocol (IP) communications services, primarily serving small and medium-sized businesses, communications service providers, and various organizations in North America and Europe. The company operates a robust network optimized for transmitting data via IP, connecting approximately 21,300 customers with its services. Cogent offers dedicated internet access and virtual private networking solutions to corporate clients, particularly in high-rise office buildings, which include law firms, financial services, and advertising firms. Some of its customers also include bandwidth-intensive users such as universities and commercial content providers, with internet access speeds reaching up to ten Gigabits per second. Notably, Cogent carries over one-fifth of the world's internet traffic, underscoring its significant role in the global internet infrastructure.
Good Technology is the leader in enterprise handheld computing software and service, using industry standards to provide the corporate applications enterprises need on the handhelds they choose over the networks they prefer. The company's GoodAccess and GoodLink products extend mission-critical enterprise applications—including Microsoft Exchange, Oracle, salesforce.com and Siebel—to mobile employees when an where they need them, using end-to-end AES encrypted, FIPS 140-2 certified security, and cradle-free, real-time synchronization. GoodLink and GoodAccess are combined enterprise software and service that run on a variety of devices and networks, freeing customers from vendor lock-in, and allowing maximum flexibility.

Cogent Communications

Series C in 2001
Cogent Communications Group, Inc. is a facilities-based provider of Internet access and Internet Protocol (IP) communications services, primarily serving small and medium-sized businesses, communications service providers, and various organizations in North America and Europe. The company operates a robust network optimized for transmitting data via IP, connecting approximately 21,300 customers with its services. Cogent offers dedicated internet access and virtual private networking solutions to corporate clients, particularly in high-rise office buildings, which include law firms, financial services, and advertising firms. Some of its customers also include bandwidth-intensive users such as universities and commercial content providers, with internet access speeds reaching up to ten Gigabits per second. Notably, Cogent carries over one-fifth of the world's internet traffic, underscoring its significant role in the global internet infrastructure.

Red Herring

Venture Round in 2001
Red Herring, Inc. is a media company founded in 1993 and headquartered in San Mateo, California. It focuses on covering innovation, technology, financing, and entrepreneurial activity, providing insights into how these elements shape the business landscape. The company offers a digital magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters, and organizes events for technology leaders both in the United States and internationally. Red Herring's team of journalists and research specialists report on various sectors including startups, mobile technology, enterprise solutions, and consumer trends. By delivering in-depth analysis and reporting on the global innovation economy, Red Herring aims to connect technology innovators, venture investors, and business decision-makers, helping them navigate the evolving technological landscape.

United Messaging

Series C in 2000
United Messaging, Inc. provides enterprise messaging solutions that deliver hosted e-mail and collaboration services to business enterprises internationally. It provides electronic messaging network, consulting, and mailgration services, as well as hosted Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes/Domino, and Internet Messaging applications. United Messaging, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Malvern, Pennsylvania with additional offices in West Chester, Pennsylvania; and London, England. It has a network operations center in Malvern, Pennsylvania, as well as engineering facilities in Chantilly, Virginia.

Cogent Communications

Series B in 2000
Cogent Communications Group, Inc. is a facilities-based provider of Internet access and Internet Protocol (IP) communications services, primarily serving small and medium-sized businesses, communications service providers, and various organizations in North America and Europe. The company operates a robust network optimized for transmitting data via IP, connecting approximately 21,300 customers with its services. Cogent offers dedicated internet access and virtual private networking solutions to corporate clients, particularly in high-rise office buildings, which include law firms, financial services, and advertising firms. Some of its customers also include bandwidth-intensive users such as universities and commercial content providers, with internet access speeds reaching up to ten Gigabits per second. Notably, Cogent carries over one-fifth of the world's internet traffic, underscoring its significant role in the global internet infrastructure.

BOPS

Venture Round in 2000
BOPS is engaged in the development and licensing of broadband digital signal processors, intellectual property cores, and compiler and software tool products. These products are used in system-on-chip-based applications in the internet, multimedia, and wireless communications markets. BOPS was founded in 1997 and is based in Mountain View, California, United States.

NeoPlanet

Series B in 2000
The NeoPlanet Browser puts the best of the Web at your fingertips.

Click To Market

Series A in 2000
Click To Market is the leading provider of infrastructure for capturing customer and community intentions. They empower e-businesses and marketplaces to make better and smarter decisions faster by leveraging collective real-time intention and opinion data.

Riptech

Venture Round in 2000
RIPTech, Inc., the premiere information security Application Service Provider (ASP), was founded in 1998 by leading security professionals. RIPTech’s staff has played a key role in securing hundreds of organizations and has protected some of the nation’s most sensitive information while ensuring the security of multi-billion dollar financial systems and e-commerce platforms. RIPTech’s Secure Outsourced Solutions (SOS) is based on the powerful eSentry technology. It combines proprietary technology with security solutions from leading vendors to deliver comprehensive 24X7 security. RIPTech delivers best-of-breed information and network security without customers acquiring additional in-house security expertise or assuming burdensome network infrastructure and maintenance costs.

Business Engine

Series C in 2000
As of February 8, 2007, Business Engine, Inc. was acquired by PlanView, Inc. Business Engine, Inc. offers portfolio management solutions for information technology (IT), and research and development companies. It offers solutions for IT planning and control, such as project portfolio management, IT financial management, application portfolio management, and business process management; new product development; and program management systems that integrate technical performance requirements, resource planning, and schedules. Its products include Business Engine Network, a Web-based environment for corporate planning, financial control, and project execution; and Planview Micro-Frame Program Manager, which is a project management solution that enables organizations to estimate the proposal or program baselines out-of-the-box proposals, baseline, forecast, resource, and government reports. The company, through its consulting partners, offers strategic planning, process improvement, transition management, technology enablement, project management, system integration, and application implementation services. In addition, it provides operating systems, databases, applications, and software development tools. The company serves aerospace and defense, financial service, manufacturing and telecommunications, pharmaceutical and healthcare, and retail industries. It has strategic partnership with UGS Corp. The company was formerly known as Micro-Frame Technologies, Inc. and it changed its name to Business Engine, Inc. in October, 1998. Business Engine, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Red Herring

Venture Round in 2000
Red Herring, Inc. is a media company founded in 1993 and headquartered in San Mateo, California. It focuses on covering innovation, technology, financing, and entrepreneurial activity, providing insights into how these elements shape the business landscape. The company offers a digital magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters, and organizes events for technology leaders both in the United States and internationally. Red Herring's team of journalists and research specialists report on various sectors including startups, mobile technology, enterprise solutions, and consumer trends. By delivering in-depth analysis and reporting on the global innovation economy, Red Herring aims to connect technology innovators, venture investors, and business decision-makers, helping them navigate the evolving technological landscape.
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