Ascent Venture Partners

Ascent is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage, emerging technology companies. At Ascent, they don’t jump on the latest trends in general technology. Instead, they remain dedicated to investing in a singular space with enormous market potential -- enterprise IT innovation. Their singular focus on enterprise IT, combined with their 28 years of experience and over 100 early stage investments, has yielded powerful results that speak to their deep knowledge, expertise, commitments and networks. Today, enterprise IT is in the midst of tremendous disruption. Between the shift to the cloud, mobility, consumerization of IT, data analytics and entirely new security architectures, both major challenges and tremendous opportunities abound. Over the next decade, the enterprise IT market will be transformed by these disruptive trends, providing lucrative opportunities for innovative early stage companies to emerge, develop new markets, and become the dominant IT companies of the future. They have a firm-wide commitment to backing companies that have courageous ideas about how technology can transform business and create market-leading companies along the way. Their partners, funds and extensive network are dedicated entirely to supporting companies in the enterprise IT arena, and helping them to be the best they can be. Ascent invests in early stage companies in the east coast with initial investment ranging from $2 million to $5 million.

Luke Burns

General Partner

Christopher W. Dick

Managing Director

Brian J. Girvan

General Partner

Christopher W. Lynch

Partner

Baiyin Murphy

Principal

106 past transactions

Connectbase

Series B in 2021
Connectbase utilizes location-based insights and automation to buy and sell connectivity. Its platform drives growth for the clients by increasing visibility to the market, managing location, and driving engagement as the system of record where connectivity providers connect and pass by in the commercial market.

RapidMiner

Venture Round in 2020
RapidMiner builds a software platform for data science teams that unites data prep, machine learning, and predictive model deployment. Organizations can build machine learning models and put them into production faster than ever before on a single platform. RapidMiner eliminates the complexities of cutting edge data science by making it easy to deploy the latest machine learning algorithms and innovative technologies like Tensorflow, Hadoop, and Spark. More than 300,000 data scientists in over 150 countries use RapidMiner products on-premise or in the cloud to drive revenue, reduce costs, and avoid risks. For more information, visit www.rapidminer.com.

Connectbase

Series A in 2019
Connectbase utilizes location-based insights and automation to buy and sell connectivity. Its platform drives growth for the clients by increasing visibility to the market, managing location, and driving engagement as the system of record where connectivity providers connect and pass by in the commercial market.

BestDoctor

Series A in 2019
BestDoctor is a healthcare company that creates tech insurance products for people and for businesses. Among insurtech companies in Europe it has the 2nd highest number of users. Within 4 years, the company has become a strong player in the b2b-market through innovations in risk management, customer-centric product development and digital medical service. Every day, our doctors perform more than 30 telemedicine consultations, and more than 200 insured users are treated in partner clinics across the country. So our smart algorithm records and processes this data to optimize risks and prices. More than 100 corporate clients from IT, retail, pharmaceuticals, travel, media and other industries are already using our solution. Due to this, in 2019 BestDoctor was included in the world ranking of “Top 17 Health Insurance Startups”.

empow

Series B in 2018
Empow is a cyber-security startup that introduces a new approach to the security arena. It secures the organizations from attacks using the security tools effectively. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

gr8 People

Series B in 2018
gr8 People is delivering the Unfair Advantage in How the World Recruits Talent. gr8 People is 100 percent purpose-built to deliver the unfair advantage RPO and Corporate companies demand to compete for talent around the world. All-in-one, more powerful, but remarkably simple. It’s the breakthrough platform that brings sourcing, marketing, hiring and onboarding strategies to life; significantly improving productivity, empowering the free flow of information, and driving better talent decisions faster. It’s everything talent professionals need to Recruit gr8. All in One Place.

Connectbase

Series A in 2018
Connectbase utilizes location-based insights and automation to buy and sell connectivity. Its platform drives growth for the clients by increasing visibility to the market, managing location, and driving engagement as the system of record where connectivity providers connect and pass by in the commercial market.

Sidecar

Series C in 2017
Sidecar is an e-commerce marketing company that builds the advanced technology retailers need to optimize cross-channel online shopping campaigns. With a team of data science and e-commerce experts, our state-of-the-art machine learning engine, and a massive volume of data, Sidecar is the magic behind retail's most efficient and powerful online shopping campaigns.

TimeTrade

Series E in 2017
Industry leader in Enterprise SaaS scheduling. 400 Enterprise customers worldwide. Over 450,000,000 appointments booked with consumers and businesses. . TimeTrade's appointment-centric customer experience solution enables customers to convert digital first touch interactions into a high-value, in-person meeting. The company has a worldwide cloud delivery network and it's solutions are used in 39 countries around the world. It's patented Customer Engagement Cloud technology includes an edge provision able high frequency scheduling engine that hyper scales to hundreds of millions of appointments.

Splash

Series B in 2016
Splash provides event marketers and field marketing teams with the tools they need to design, create, and execute virtual, in-person, and hybrid event programs that create memorable experiences, engage attendees, and drive business value.

Promoboxx

Series A in 2016
Promoboxx is a software platform for brands to engage their independent retailers with brand-compliant digital marketing, driving better business outcomes by reaching the right consumers via the trusted channel of brands’ local retailers. With Promoboxx, channel managers and brand marketers can easily organize and engage their retailer networks; build, manage, and optionally fund organic and paid digital campaigns through their local retailers; then report and assess the business outcomes and KPIs. Over 85 leading brands including The North Face, New Balance, and Chevrolet have used Promoboxx to deliver more than 3 million campaigns across over 27,000 retailers.

Codeship

Series A in 2016
Codeship's continuous integration platform operates B2D portal that delivers hosted continuous integration and deployment for web applications. It shortens the development cycles thus reducing the risk of bugs and increasing innovation. It helps software companies to develop a better product faster by taking care of the testing and release process. Codeship automates software deployment and all the necessary tasks involved with it.

Pwnie Express

Series B in 2016
Born and raised in the security community, we're on a roll and just getting started. In late 2009, the original team of Pwnies - Dave Porcello, Gabe Koss, and Oliver Weis - placed the Pwn Plug on the original site (Dave's blog) with little expectation of what was to come. From those humble beginnings, we have focused on providing full threat detection of every wireless and wired device in and around your workplace. We are the only company that detects rogue, misconfigured, and unauthorized devices across wired and wireless spectrums. By automating wireless and wired device detection, our solutions continuously detect the devices on or around your network that are open pathways for attackers. Pwnie Express is led by industry veterans with deep security testing and product development experience. Security assessment is our lifeblood, and we believe in making it simple to do the easy things, and possible to do the hard stuff. With Pwn Pulse, a distributed security assessment service, and our award-winning sensors, security teams can get the answers they need in a timely and effective manner.

RapidMiner

Series C in 2016
RapidMiner builds a software platform for data science teams that unites data prep, machine learning, and predictive model deployment. Organizations can build machine learning models and put them into production faster than ever before on a single platform. RapidMiner eliminates the complexities of cutting edge data science by making it easy to deploy the latest machine learning algorithms and innovative technologies like Tensorflow, Hadoop, and Spark. More than 300,000 data scientists in over 150 countries use RapidMiner products on-premise or in the cloud to drive revenue, reduce costs, and avoid risks. For more information, visit www.rapidminer.com.

Vee24

Series B in 2015
Vee24 is a developer of a web-based customer engagement platform designed to increase e-commerce sales and improve customer service. It specializes in the fields of software, e-Commerce, and video chat. Vee24 helps leading brands deliver great person-to-person customer experiences that accelerate their digital business. Vee24’s digital customer experience platform — powered by high-definition video chat, text chat, AI-enabled chatbots, co-browsing, screen sharing, online appointment setting, and more — enables customer-centric teams to grow online sales, deliver better customer service, and build brand loyalty. Brands can seamlessly connect their virtual and in-person experience using this omni-channel customer engagement platform. Vee24 is headquartered in Boston, MA with European headquarters in Macclesfield, England. Vee24 customers include leading industry brands in the retail, automotive, and financial services sectors.

RapidMiner

Series B in 2015
RapidMiner builds a software platform for data science teams that unites data prep, machine learning, and predictive model deployment. Organizations can build machine learning models and put them into production faster than ever before on a single platform. RapidMiner eliminates the complexities of cutting edge data science by making it easy to deploy the latest machine learning algorithms and innovative technologies like Tensorflow, Hadoop, and Spark. More than 300,000 data scientists in over 150 countries use RapidMiner products on-premise or in the cloud to drive revenue, reduce costs, and avoid risks. For more information, visit www.rapidminer.com.

Knoa Software

Series B in 2014
Knoa Software Task Mining delivers solutions that generate unique insights for the optimization of enterprise software and processes to support a company’s business objectives and digital transformation initiatives. Knoa’s patented software provides actionable metrics to ensure organizations realize the full value of their enterprise application investment. Knoa'sTask Mining solution delivers true end-to-end observability for critical business processes across enterprise applications, delivering strong and measurable ROI. The solution enables companies to identify process improvement opportunities, monitor process compliance and design automation strategies based on a holistic and user-centric view of as-is processes. Knoa has a long-term partnership with SAP (Solution Extension). SAP resells Knoa Task Mining and the product is integrated with SAP Signavio Process Mining. Key use cases include Cloud Migration, Task Mining, Employee Productivity, RPA, and HelpDesk responsiveness, whether it’s SAP, Oracle, or other enterprise applications. Knoa is committed to harnessing the power of generative AI for business process transformation and other use cases. Knoa provides solutions that help hundreds of corporations and government organizations throughout the world. Knoa partners with global and regional service providers, hosting, and technology leaders.

Invaluable

Series D in 2014
Invaluable is the world’s leading online marketplace for fine art, antiques and collectibles. Working with more than 4,000 of the world’s premier auction houses, dealers and galleries, Invaluable helps buyers from 200 countries connect with the things they love. With best-in-class online bidding technology, along with a fixed-price retail platform, Invaluable provides sellers with e-commerce and marketing solutions, as well as auction management software. Recently called “one of the fastest growing e-commerce sites in the art world” by Blouin ArtInfo, Invaluable has also been recognized by Deloitte’s 2015 Technology Fast 500™ and the 2015 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® program. Headquartered in Boston, Invaluable also has offices in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium and Australia.

CloudLock

Series C in 2014
CloudLock is a cloud data security company that provides enterprise-class solutions designed to give organizations control over their data in the public cloud, without requiring invasive in-band technology, complicated overhead, or unanswered regulatory risk. It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Terascala

Venture Round in 2013
Headquartered in Boston, Terascala is the fast data company. Terascala storage appliances dramatically accelerate the time to insight for organizations that rely on simulation, analysis, and modeling tools to bring new products and innovation to market. Exclusively available through strategic partners Dell, EMC, and NetApp, Terascala storage appliances provide on-demand throughput at multiple gigabytes per second while leveraging industry-leading storage platforms for long-term data protection.

Perspecsys

Series B in 2013
PerspecSys provides privacy, residency and security solutions for the cloud. Backed by leading venture capital funds, PerspecSys’ Cloud Protection Gateway solutions permit cloud applications to be easily adopted throughout the enterprise. With PerspecSys, sensitive data never leaves a company’s control, eliminating the risks of data transfer, processing, and storage so organizations can realize the benefits of mission-critical cloud computing services.

Perspecsys

Series B in 2013
PerspecSys provides privacy, residency and security solutions for the cloud. Backed by leading venture capital funds, PerspecSys’ Cloud Protection Gateway solutions permit cloud applications to be easily adopted throughout the enterprise. With PerspecSys, sensitive data never leaves a company’s control, eliminating the risks of data transfer, processing, and storage so organizations can realize the benefits of mission-critical cloud computing services.

Verivo Software

Venture Round in 2013
Verivo is an enterprise mobility platform allowing companies to centrally build, deploy, manage, and update their apps securely. It is a provider of enterprise mobility software, Verivo Software helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to centrally build, deploy, manage, and update their mobile apps – rapidly, securely, and across multiple devices. Hundreds of companies in numerous industries around the world rely on Verivo’s platform to drive their mobility initiatives.

Fidelis

Venture Round in 2013
Fidelis has launched a Learning Relationship Management (LRM) product that is in use by public companies and major universities. We are in the early growth stages of taking our product to market and are hiring. LRM is a new category of product that fills a major void in the education technology market by helping organizations to organize complex learning relationships and ensure that all learners benefit from them. Student Information Systems and Learning Management Systems are essential to execute the transactions of modern education and they drive efficiency and standardization. But they do so at the expense of relationships. And we think that relationships are absolutely essential to learning. People are motivated to learn because the content is related to their long term goals. They learn in context of their relationships with peers, teachers, mentors, and a community of other learners. They learn because they want to progress and form relationships with companies and societies that require expertise and credentials. If you analyze the most pernicious problems in education from the skills gap to attrition to professional development, you’ll find inadequate learning relationships to be at the root cause of everything. Most learning organizations understand this and are trying to fill that relationship void with Customer Relationship Management software. But CRM is designed for sales and is insufficient to the task of managing learning relationships because CRMs treat the contact as a passive participant to be acted upon by sales people. Fidelis’ LRM recognizes that learners have to be active drivers of their own success and provides them a beautiful way to organize the relationships that they need to succeed. Given how important learning is to every organization, to society, and to democracy, we think that someone is going to build a multi-billion dollar company selling LRMs - we hope it's us.

Knoa Software

Series A in 2012
Knoa Software Task Mining delivers solutions that generate unique insights for the optimization of enterprise software and processes to support a company’s business objectives and digital transformation initiatives. Knoa’s patented software provides actionable metrics to ensure organizations realize the full value of their enterprise application investment. Knoa'sTask Mining solution delivers true end-to-end observability for critical business processes across enterprise applications, delivering strong and measurable ROI. The solution enables companies to identify process improvement opportunities, monitor process compliance and design automation strategies based on a holistic and user-centric view of as-is processes. Knoa has a long-term partnership with SAP (Solution Extension). SAP resells Knoa Task Mining and the product is integrated with SAP Signavio Process Mining. Key use cases include Cloud Migration, Task Mining, Employee Productivity, RPA, and HelpDesk responsiveness, whether it’s SAP, Oracle, or other enterprise applications. Knoa is committed to harnessing the power of generative AI for business process transformation and other use cases. Knoa provides solutions that help hundreds of corporations and government organizations throughout the world. Knoa partners with global and regional service providers, hosting, and technology leaders.

ScaleBase

Series B in 2012
ScaleBase enables next generation applications that require big data transactional processing, without changing the existing infrastructure. The ScaleBase Data Traffic Manager dynamically manages and scales standard relational databases to meet changing business demands. ScaleBase virtualizes a distributed database environment, removing complexity, delivering real-time elasticity and increasing availability – all without requiring any changes to the existing infrastructure.

HubCast

Series B in 2012
HubCast is the only worldwide digital print delivery network - an innovative way for communication professionals to get their sales and marketing materials printed anywhere around the globe faster, cheaper, and better than ever before.

Terascala

Series B in 2012
Headquartered in Boston, Terascala is the fast data company. Terascala storage appliances dramatically accelerate the time to insight for organizations that rely on simulation, analysis, and modeling tools to bring new products and innovation to market. Exclusively available through strategic partners Dell, EMC, and NetApp, Terascala storage appliances provide on-demand throughput at multiple gigabytes per second while leveraging industry-leading storage platforms for long-term data protection.

CloudLock

Series B in 2012
CloudLock is a cloud data security company that provides enterprise-class solutions designed to give organizations control over their data in the public cloud, without requiring invasive in-band technology, complicated overhead, or unanswered regulatory risk. It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Start.io

Series A in 2012
Start.io is a mobile data platform. Start.io (formerly StartApp) enables organizations to uncover insights and make data-driven decisions that enhance strategies and drive growth. Start.io’s direct integration with one million mobile apps provides access to unprecedented levels of global first-party data, which can be leveraged to understand and predict behaviors, identify new opportunities and fuel strategic business decisions.

Verivo Software

Venture Round in 2012
Verivo is an enterprise mobility platform allowing companies to centrally build, deploy, manage, and update their apps securely. It is a provider of enterprise mobility software, Verivo Software helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to centrally build, deploy, manage, and update their mobile apps – rapidly, securely, and across multiple devices. Hundreds of companies in numerous industries around the world rely on Verivo’s platform to drive their mobility initiatives.

ClickFox

Series C in 2010
ClickFox is the market leader in journey analytics and the only specialized journey solution certified in Hadoop. With over a decade of expertise monetizing the world’s largest customer interaction sources, we have proven success transforming big data into connected, dynamic journeys delivering billions in incremental revenue, operational efficiencies, NPS and C-SAT improvements to our clients.

TimeTrade

Series D in 2010
Industry leader in Enterprise SaaS scheduling. 400 Enterprise customers worldwide. Over 450,000,000 appointments booked with consumers and businesses. . TimeTrade's appointment-centric customer experience solution enables customers to convert digital first touch interactions into a high-value, in-person meeting. The company has a worldwide cloud delivery network and it's solutions are used in 39 countries around the world. It's patented Customer Engagement Cloud technology includes an edge provision able high frequency scheduling engine that hyper scales to hundreds of millions of appointments.

Everyday Solutions

Venture Round in 2010
Everyday Solutions, Inc. provides GPS-based vehicle tracking solutions designed for student transportation markets. It offers GPS-based vehicle and student tracking solutions to pupil transportation marketplace in the United States and Canada. The company provides real-time tracking solution insuring route compliance, driver safety compliance, student attendance tracking, automatic parent notifications, and management reporting. Everyday Solutions has strategic partnership with Sprint Nextel, Trapeze Software Group, VersaTrans Solutions, Transfinder, Orbit Software, EDULOG, and U.S. Computing. The company was founded in 2000 as Everyday Wireless, Inc. and changed its name to Everyday Solutions, Inc. in July 2008. Everyday Solutions, Inc. is headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts.

StrikeIron

Venture Round in 2010
StrikeIron is the leader in Data-as-a-Service (DaaS), delivering data quality and communications solutions via our cloud platform IronCloud. We provide address verification, email verification, phone validation, phone append, SMS text messaging, and sales tax solutions to customers in a variety of markets. Our solutions are delivered as Web services that can be easily integrated into any application or system. Additionally, our solutions are pre-integrated into leading platforms like: Salesforce.com, Magento, Informatica, Oracle CRM On-Demand, and more. Visit us on the web at http://www.strikeiron.com or follow us on Twitter @StrikeIron.

Invaluable

Venture Round in 2009
Invaluable is the world’s leading online marketplace for fine art, antiques and collectibles. Working with more than 4,000 of the world’s premier auction houses, dealers and galleries, Invaluable helps buyers from 200 countries connect with the things they love. With best-in-class online bidding technology, along with a fixed-price retail platform, Invaluable provides sellers with e-commerce and marketing solutions, as well as auction management software. Recently called “one of the fastest growing e-commerce sites in the art world” by Blouin ArtInfo, Invaluable has also been recognized by Deloitte’s 2015 Technology Fast 500™ and the 2015 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® program. Headquartered in Boston, Invaluable also has offices in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium and Australia.

Cedar Point Communications

Debt Financing in 2009
Cedar Point Communications provides integrated voice over Internet protocol and multimedia switching technologies for the service provider and enterprise telecommunication industries. Its products include SAFARI C3, a media switching system, which delivers Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) capabilities that support the anticipated migration to IMS architecture for converged networks; and SAFARI eMG, a media gateway that delivers flexibility. The company also provides training, customer, and solution services. Cedar Point Communications serves information technology departments and network operators, cable operators and telecommunications carriers, and enterprise customers and educational institutions. Cedar Point Communications, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Derry, New Hampshire with an additional office in Meersburg, Germany.

WebLayers

Venture Round in 2009
WebLayers develops software and provides services for automated IT and service oriented architecture (SOA) governance. Based on an extensive collection of standards-based pre-built policies, WebLayers helps Fortune 500 companies and government agencies begin their governance effort in design time, where it will have the most impact, and enforce it through deployment. WebLayers, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Nova Ventures

Venture Round in 2009
Nova Ventures Group Corp. provides a full range of executive management services to both Nova Instruments LLC and Nova Metrix LLC. Nova Ventures Group has proven successful at increasing shareholder value through focused acquisition and strategic integration. Nova Instruments and Nova Metrix have grown and strengthened their competitive position in their respective markets through strategic assistance provided by Nova Ventures Group and its management team.

BEZ Systems

Series D in 2008
BEZ Systems, Inc provides predictive performance management (PPM) solutions for enterprises to profile application performance, compare change and growth alternatives, and forecast results for productivity and business continuity. The company's products include BEZVision, an automated management solution that enables information technology (IT) managers, and other IT professionals to deliver application and database services to the business; BEZPlus that allows DB2 UDB customers to understand, analyze, and predict the impact of infrastructure changes on service delivery, as well as facilitates customers to predict the performance of Teradata database applications; and BEZ Oracle 10g Grid Control Management Plug-In, which provides various data collection for BEZVision to build profiles of various applications/line-of-businesses. Its professional services include application assurance programs, new application certifications, application and database performance, active data warehouse performance management and capacity planning, DBMS and hardware platform justification, and data warehouse hardware upgrade. BEZ Systems, Inc serves customers in the retail, transportation, insurance, financial services, healthcare, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, government, and information services markets. The company offers its products and services in North America, South America, and Europe through its direct sales organization and indirect channel partners. BEZ Systems, Inc was founded in 1983 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Knoa Software

Venture Round in 2008
Knoa Software Task Mining delivers solutions that generate unique insights for the optimization of enterprise software and processes to support a company’s business objectives and digital transformation initiatives. Knoa’s patented software provides actionable metrics to ensure organizations realize the full value of their enterprise application investment. Knoa'sTask Mining solution delivers true end-to-end observability for critical business processes across enterprise applications, delivering strong and measurable ROI. The solution enables companies to identify process improvement opportunities, monitor process compliance and design automation strategies based on a holistic and user-centric view of as-is processes. Knoa has a long-term partnership with SAP (Solution Extension). SAP resells Knoa Task Mining and the product is integrated with SAP Signavio Process Mining. Key use cases include Cloud Migration, Task Mining, Employee Productivity, RPA, and HelpDesk responsiveness, whether it’s SAP, Oracle, or other enterprise applications. Knoa is committed to harnessing the power of generative AI for business process transformation and other use cases. Knoa provides solutions that help hundreds of corporations and government organizations throughout the world. Knoa partners with global and regional service providers, hosting, and technology leaders.

Fidelis Cybersecurity

Series B in 2008
Since 2002, Fidelis has had one mission: Empower security teams with integrated, automated and intelligent technology so that they successfully protect the world’s most sensitive data. Fidelis is the leader in automated detection and response. The Fidelis Elevate platform dramatically improves the effectiveness and efficiency of security operations by delivering comprehensive network visibility, intelligent deception, alert validation, and automated response across networks and endpoints. Fidelis is trusted by the most important brands in the world. See what you’ve been missing. Visit www.fidelissecurity.com.

ClickFox

Series B in 2008
ClickFox is the market leader in journey analytics and the only specialized journey solution certified in Hadoop. With over a decade of expertise monetizing the world’s largest customer interaction sources, we have proven success transforming big data into connected, dynamic journeys delivering billions in incremental revenue, operational efficiencies, NPS and C-SAT improvements to our clients.

Nova Technologies Corp

Seed Round in 2008
Nova Technologies Corp is a provider of metering technology and flow monitoring services for the water and wastewater markets.

Verivo Software

Series B in 2007
Verivo is an enterprise mobility platform allowing companies to centrally build, deploy, manage, and update their apps securely. It is a provider of enterprise mobility software, Verivo Software helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to centrally build, deploy, manage, and update their mobile apps – rapidly, securely, and across multiple devices. Hundreds of companies in numerous industries around the world rely on Verivo’s platform to drive their mobility initiatives.

Revulytics

Series B in 2007
Revulytics offers cloud-based software usage analytics that give software producers deep visibility into how their products are being used and misused, providing them with actionable intelligence to generate revenue, optimize product development, and make data-driven decisions across their business. Its compliance analytics solution and turnkey services are used by leading software vendors to increase license revenue and globally reduce software piracy. Its software usage analytics solution provides valuable insight into product usage and environments, enabling product managers and developers to build better products. Revulytics software usage analytics has supported customer compliance programs generating more than $2.4 billion in new license revenue since 2010.

HubCast

Series A in 2007
HubCast is the only worldwide digital print delivery network - an innovative way for communication professionals to get their sales and marketing materials printed anywhere around the globe faster, cheaper, and better than ever before.
As of September 22, 2009, Interactive Supercomputing, Inc. was acquired by Microsoft Corporation. Interactive Supercomputing, Inc. develops and commercializes Star-P, an interactive parallel computing platform for automatic parallelization and interactive execution of desktop simulation applications in biomedical, financial, and government laboratory research sectors. Its Star-P software platform allows users performing scientific, engineering, or analytical computation on array or matrix-based data to use parallel architectures, such as multi-core workstations, multi-processor systems, distributed memory clusters, and/or utility/cloud-based environments. The company also offers customer support and professional services, as well as application consulting, and enterprise installation and training services. It offers its products through authorized resellers in the United States and internationally. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

TimeTrade

Series C in 2007
Industry leader in Enterprise SaaS scheduling. 400 Enterprise customers worldwide. Over 450,000,000 appointments booked with consumers and businesses. . TimeTrade's appointment-centric customer experience solution enables customers to convert digital first touch interactions into a high-value, in-person meeting. The company has a worldwide cloud delivery network and it's solutions are used in 39 countries around the world. It's patented Customer Engagement Cloud technology includes an edge provision able high frequency scheduling engine that hyper scales to hundreds of millions of appointments.

WebLayers

Series C in 2007
WebLayers develops software and provides services for automated IT and service oriented architecture (SOA) governance. Based on an extensive collection of standards-based pre-built policies, WebLayers helps Fortune 500 companies and government agencies begin their governance effort in design time, where it will have the most impact, and enforce it through deployment. WebLayers, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

StrikeIron

Series C in 2007
StrikeIron is the leader in Data-as-a-Service (DaaS), delivering data quality and communications solutions via our cloud platform IronCloud. We provide address verification, email verification, phone validation, phone append, SMS text messaging, and sales tax solutions to customers in a variety of markets. Our solutions are delivered as Web services that can be easily integrated into any application or system. Additionally, our solutions are pre-integrated into leading platforms like: Salesforce.com, Magento, Informatica, Oracle CRM On-Demand, and more. Visit us on the web at http://www.strikeiron.com or follow us on Twitter @StrikeIron.

Terascala

Series A in 2007
Headquartered in Boston, Terascala is the fast data company. Terascala storage appliances dramatically accelerate the time to insight for organizations that rely on simulation, analysis, and modeling tools to bring new products and innovation to market. Exclusively available through strategic partners Dell, EMC, and NetApp, Terascala storage appliances provide on-demand throughput at multiple gigabytes per second while leveraging industry-leading storage platforms for long-term data protection.

BEZ Systems

Series C in 2006
BEZ Systems, Inc provides predictive performance management (PPM) solutions for enterprises to profile application performance, compare change and growth alternatives, and forecast results for productivity and business continuity. The company's products include BEZVision, an automated management solution that enables information technology (IT) managers, and other IT professionals to deliver application and database services to the business; BEZPlus that allows DB2 UDB customers to understand, analyze, and predict the impact of infrastructure changes on service delivery, as well as facilitates customers to predict the performance of Teradata database applications; and BEZ Oracle 10g Grid Control Management Plug-In, which provides various data collection for BEZVision to build profiles of various applications/line-of-businesses. Its professional services include application assurance programs, new application certifications, application and database performance, active data warehouse performance management and capacity planning, DBMS and hardware platform justification, and data warehouse hardware upgrade. BEZ Systems, Inc serves customers in the retail, transportation, insurance, financial services, healthcare, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, government, and information services markets. The company offers its products and services in North America, South America, and Europe through its direct sales organization and indirect channel partners. BEZ Systems, Inc was founded in 1983 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Placemark Investments

Series D in 2006
Placemark Investments develops, implements, and supports wealth solutions, including Unified Managed Account platforms and retirement solutions for broker/dealers, registered investment advisors, banks, and family offices. As the separate account industry’s leading independent overlay portfolio manager, Placemark coordinates multiple investment vehicles such as separately managed accounts, mutual funds, and ETFs into a single customized portfolio, Placemark provides a solution for firms seeking to expand and capture more fee-based business.

Guardium

Series D in 2006
Guardium, the database security company, delivers the most widely-used solution for preventing information leaks from the data center and ensuring the integrity of enterprise data. The company's enterprise security platform is now installed in more than 450 data centers worldwide, including 5 of the top 5 banks; 3 of the top 5 insurers; top government agencies; 2 of the top 3 retailers; 15 of the world's top telcos; 2 of the world's favorite beverage brands; the most recognized name in PCs; a top 3 auto maker; a top 3 aerospace company; and a leading supplier of business intelligence software. Guardium has partnerships with Accenture, ArcSight, BMC, EMC/RSA, IBM, McAfee, Microsoft, Oracle, Sybase and Teradata, with Cisco as a strategic investor, and is a member of IBM's prestigious Data Governance Council and the PCI Security Standards Council. Founded in 2002, Guardium was the first company to address the core data security gap by delivering a scalable, cross-DBMS enterprise platform that both protects databases in real-time and automates the entire compliance auditing process.

Bluesocket

Venture Round in 2006
Bluesocket provides secure, enterprise level mobile connectivity products and support. Through wireless network and voice products, Bluesocket creates a network infrastructure for across desktops, mobile devices, and enterprise applications.

Nova Analytics

Venture Round in 2006
Nova Analytics Corporation engages in the design, development, manufacture, and integration of laboratory, field, and online instrumentation. It provides bench meters, portable meters, ion selective electrodes, modular systems, multi-parameter portable meters, laboratory meters, automatic titrators, hotplates and stirrers, spectrophotometers, and portable analyzers. The company also offers parameter measuring systems, temperature/humidity and pressure data loggers, water level loggers, flow probes, water samplers, digital refractometers, saccharimeters, and hand held and optical refractometers and polarimeters.

The Corporate Marketplace

Venture Round in 2005
TCMPi, The Corporate Marketplace, Inc. is a leading supplier of brand name products for rewards & incentives programs and corporate gifts. Since their founding in 2000 they have helped more than 2,700 companies bring the value of brand name products to their customers. From large-scale loyalty programs to highly customized corporate gifts, TCMPi combines world class brands, innovative technologies, and dedicated support to ensure that their customers can always offer the right product, at the right price, at the right time.

Verivo Software

Series A in 2005
Verivo is an enterprise mobility platform allowing companies to centrally build, deploy, manage, and update their apps securely. It is a provider of enterprise mobility software, Verivo Software helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to centrally build, deploy, manage, and update their mobile apps – rapidly, securely, and across multiple devices. Hundreds of companies in numerous industries around the world rely on Verivo’s platform to drive their mobility initiatives.

Guardium

Series C in 2005
Guardium, the database security company, delivers the most widely-used solution for preventing information leaks from the data center and ensuring the integrity of enterprise data. The company's enterprise security platform is now installed in more than 450 data centers worldwide, including 5 of the top 5 banks; 3 of the top 5 insurers; top government agencies; 2 of the top 3 retailers; 15 of the world's top telcos; 2 of the world's favorite beverage brands; the most recognized name in PCs; a top 3 auto maker; a top 3 aerospace company; and a leading supplier of business intelligence software. Guardium has partnerships with Accenture, ArcSight, BMC, EMC/RSA, IBM, McAfee, Microsoft, Oracle, Sybase and Teradata, with Cisco as a strategic investor, and is a member of IBM's prestigious Data Governance Council and the PCI Security Standards Council. Founded in 2002, Guardium was the first company to address the core data security gap by delivering a scalable, cross-DBMS enterprise platform that both protects databases in real-time and automates the entire compliance auditing process.
Cedar Point Communications provides integrated voice over Internet protocol and multimedia switching technologies for the service provider and enterprise telecommunication industries. Its products include SAFARI C3, a media switching system, which delivers Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) capabilities that support the anticipated migration to IMS architecture for converged networks; and SAFARI eMG, a media gateway that delivers flexibility. The company also provides training, customer, and solution services. Cedar Point Communications serves information technology departments and network operators, cable operators and telecommunications carriers, and enterprise customers and educational institutions. Cedar Point Communications, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Derry, New Hampshire with an additional office in Meersburg, Germany.
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Cymfony

Series D in 2005
Cymfony, a Kantar Media company, provides market influence analytics by scanning and interpreting the millions of voices at the intersection of social and traditional media. Their third generation listening and influence platform, Maestro, integrates innovative technology with expert analysis to identify the people, issues, and trends impacting your business - at the speed of the market.

Network Intelligence

Series C in 2005
Network Intelligence Corporation provides security information and event management solutions. Its products include enVision that collects and protects data, as well as provides security and compliance analysis, and reporting and alerting solutions; Intelligence Engine software/hardware network security appliances for security information and event management market; and LogSmart Internet Protocol Database, which provides architecture to collect and protect the data from various Internet protocol devices. The company's strategic partners include Microsoft; NetworkAppliance; IBM; EMC2; EDS; Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd.; and Juniper Networks. Network Intelligence Corporation was formerly known as OpenSystems.com, Inc. and changed its name to Network Intelligence Corporation. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Westwood, Massachusetts. It also has offices in Rancho Santa Margarita, California; Chicago, Illinois; Alpharetta, Georgia; Seabrook, Texas; Arlington, Virginia; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Paris, France; and London.

Bluesocket

Series B in 2005
Bluesocket provides secure, enterprise level mobile connectivity products and support. Through wireless network and voice products, Bluesocket creates a network infrastructure for across desktops, mobile devices, and enterprise applications.

ZoomInfo

Series A in 2004
ZoomInfo provides access to more direct dials and email addresses than any other B2B contact provider. Verified professional and business profiles come fully loaded with detailed information about prospects, including web mentions, employment history, and direct access to colleagues, people can engage ideal buyer personas and accounts in a more meaningful way. ZoomInfo uses its diverse portfolio of proprietary technology, a community of 300,000+ users, and third-party integrations to collect, organize, validate, and publish a comprehensive directory of business data in the marketplace. ZoomInfo's mission is to provide every company with a 360-degree view of their ideal customer, empowering each phase of their go-to-market strategy, and driving their ability to hit their number.
Cedar Point Communications provides integrated voice over Internet protocol and multimedia switching technologies for the service provider and enterprise telecommunication industries. Its products include SAFARI C3, a media switching system, which delivers Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) capabilities that support the anticipated migration to IMS architecture for converged networks; and SAFARI eMG, a media gateway that delivers flexibility. The company also provides training, customer, and solution services. Cedar Point Communications serves information technology departments and network operators, cable operators and telecommunications carriers, and enterprise customers and educational institutions. Cedar Point Communications, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Derry, New Hampshire with an additional office in Meersburg, Germany.

Placemark Investments

Venture Round in 2004
Placemark Investments develops, implements, and supports wealth solutions, including Unified Managed Account platforms and retirement solutions for broker/dealers, registered investment advisors, banks, and family offices. As the separate account industry’s leading independent overlay portfolio manager, Placemark coordinates multiple investment vehicles such as separately managed accounts, mutual funds, and ETFs into a single customized portfolio, Placemark provides a solution for firms seeking to expand and capture more fee-based business.

Synovia Solutions

Venture Round in 2004
Synovia Solutions develops tools that fleet managers need to improve safety, savings, and service. It offers GPS tracking systems in over 100,000 vehicles across North America, tracking fleets with more than 5,000 vehicles. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Network Intelligence

Series B in 2003
Network Intelligence Corporation provides security information and event management solutions. Its products include enVision that collects and protects data, as well as provides security and compliance analysis, and reporting and alerting solutions; Intelligence Engine software/hardware network security appliances for security information and event management market; and LogSmart Internet Protocol Database, which provides architecture to collect and protect the data from various Internet protocol devices. The company's strategic partners include Microsoft; NetworkAppliance; IBM; EMC2; EDS; Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd.; and Juniper Networks. Network Intelligence Corporation was formerly known as OpenSystems.com, Inc. and changed its name to Network Intelligence Corporation. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Westwood, Massachusetts. It also has offices in Rancho Santa Margarita, California; Chicago, Illinois; Alpharetta, Georgia; Seabrook, Texas; Arlington, Virginia; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Paris, France; and London.

Bluesocket

Venture Round in 2003
Bluesocket provides secure, enterprise level mobile connectivity products and support. Through wireless network and voice products, Bluesocket creates a network infrastructure for across desktops, mobile devices, and enterprise applications.
Cedar Point Communications provides integrated voice over Internet protocol and multimedia switching technologies for the service provider and enterprise telecommunication industries. Its products include SAFARI C3, a media switching system, which delivers Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) capabilities that support the anticipated migration to IMS architecture for converged networks; and SAFARI eMG, a media gateway that delivers flexibility. The company also provides training, customer, and solution services. Cedar Point Communications serves information technology departments and network operators, cable operators and telecommunications carriers, and enterprise customers and educational institutions. Cedar Point Communications, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Derry, New Hampshire with an additional office in Meersburg, Germany.

Security Source

Venture Round in 2003
Security Source is a provider of video-based security and loss prevention solutions. It offers comprehensive video, access control, and alarm programs for multi-location businesses. They also provide project management and consultation services.

eCopy

Venture Round in 2002
eCopy provides a standard document imaging platform that securely transforms paper documents into business value. eCopy solutions extend the use of office multifunction peripherals (MFPs) and scanners while leveraging investments in network infrastructure. A consistent, easy-to-use process enables anyone in an organization to transform paper-based information into secure digital files that easily integrate with electronic workflows, simplify user collaboration, and protect business continuity, with audit trails that facilitate regulatory compliance.

Network Intelligence

Series A in 2002
Network Intelligence Corporation provides security information and event management solutions. Its products include enVision that collects and protects data, as well as provides security and compliance analysis, and reporting and alerting solutions; Intelligence Engine software/hardware network security appliances for security information and event management market; and LogSmart Internet Protocol Database, which provides architecture to collect and protect the data from various Internet protocol devices. The company's strategic partners include Microsoft; NetworkAppliance; IBM; EMC2; EDS; Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd.; and Juniper Networks. Network Intelligence Corporation was formerly known as OpenSystems.com, Inc. and changed its name to Network Intelligence Corporation. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Westwood, Massachusetts. It also has offices in Rancho Santa Margarita, California; Chicago, Illinois; Alpharetta, Georgia; Seabrook, Texas; Arlington, Virginia; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Paris, France; and London.
Cedar Point Communications provides integrated voice over Internet protocol and multimedia switching technologies for the service provider and enterprise telecommunication industries. Its products include SAFARI C3, a media switching system, which delivers Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) capabilities that support the anticipated migration to IMS architecture for converged networks; and SAFARI eMG, a media gateway that delivers flexibility. The company also provides training, customer, and solution services. Cedar Point Communications serves information technology departments and network operators, cable operators and telecommunications carriers, and enterprise customers and educational institutions. Cedar Point Communications, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Derry, New Hampshire with an additional office in Meersburg, Germany.

Synchronoss Technologies

Series A in 2002
Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. provides multi-channel transaction management solutions to the communications services and digital content marketplaces primarily in North America. It offers ActivationNow and ConvergenceNow platforms, which are hosted services delivered over the Internet or a dedicated communication channel that provides work flow management. The company's ActivationNow and ConvergenceNow platforms comprise PerformancePartner Portal, a graphical user interface that enables the entry of transaction data into the gateway; Gateway Manager, which provides the capability to fulfill multiple transactions; WorkFlow Manager that provides interaction with third-party relationships, as well as enables communications service providers (CSPs) to have a single transaction view, including data from third-party systems; and Visibility Manager, which offers a centralized reporting platform for intelligent analytics around the workflow, transaction management information, historical trending, and mobile reporting for users to receive critical transaction data on mobile devices.

Exchange Solutions

Series A in 2001
Exchange Solutions delivers intelligent customer engagement programs. Built on a proprietary platform, their approach is unique and delivers quicker results, better ROI, and deeper customer engagement than traditional engagement or loyalty programs.

Business Layers

Series D in 2001
The company initially planned to raise $20 million. Business Layers develops software designed to determine the equipment needs of employees, ranging from computers to cell phones, and then configures the devices with such things as email, access to CRM applications and software tools. The software also monitors these configurations to limit or expand access, as needed.

Integral Access

Series D in 2001
Integral Access engages in developing, manufacturing, and marketing network access systems for communication applications, including integrated voice, and data delivery software and equipment.

Synchronoss Technologies

Series A in 2001
Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. provides multi-channel transaction management solutions to the communications services and digital content marketplaces primarily in North America. It offers ActivationNow and ConvergenceNow platforms, which are hosted services delivered over the Internet or a dedicated communication channel that provides work flow management. The company's ActivationNow and ConvergenceNow platforms comprise PerformancePartner Portal, a graphical user interface that enables the entry of transaction data into the gateway; Gateway Manager, which provides the capability to fulfill multiple transactions; WorkFlow Manager that provides interaction with third-party relationships, as well as enables communications service providers (CSPs) to have a single transaction view, including data from third-party systems; and Visibility Manager, which offers a centralized reporting platform for intelligent analytics around the workflow, transaction management information, historical trending, and mobile reporting for users to receive critical transaction data on mobile devices.

Adaptive Silicon

Series B in 2001
Adaptive Silicon licenses Programmable Logic Cores for the purpose of adding programmability to system-on-chip devices. This programmability permits multiple designs to be built on a single silicon die and enables products to be re-programmed after they are built and in service.

Business Layers

Venture Round in 2000
The company initially planned to raise $20 million. Business Layers develops software designed to determine the equipment needs of employees, ranging from computers to cell phones, and then configures the devices with such things as email, access to CRM applications and software tools. The software also monitors these configurations to limit or expand access, as needed.

Sensitech

Venture Round in 2000
Sensitech® is a world leader in supply chain visibility. Their innovative monitoring products and services help to maintain the quality, integrity and security of their customers' valuable products at every step in their journey, all around the world. For more than 25 years, leading companies in the food, pharmaceutical, industrial, consumer goods, and other industries have relied on Sensitech to help protect their products—and their bottom lines.

Kenetec

Venture Round in 2000
Kenetec Inc was founded in 1999 to address the shift in network intelligence. Since the Telecommunications Act of 1996 opened competition in the local loop, service providers have worked to create broadband access networks for bandwidth-intensive applications. Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) have had limited success entering the broadband services market.

Ardence Inc

Venture Round in 2000
Ardence is a provider of solutions that enables IT administrators to provision PCs, servers, and web services on-demand from a centrally managed source. Ardence software can support a dynamic desktop infrastructure, in which both the operating system (OS) and applications are delivered to a bare metal machine from virtual disks on a centralized server.

UNICOM Engineering

Venture Round in 2000
UNICOM Engineering develops and sells innovative appliances that leverage industry expertise and technical excellence. UNICOM Engineering offers everything software developers need to deploy their application as a complete platform solution. UNICOM Engineering's legacy of delivering both physical and virtual appliances has made UNICOM Engineering one of the most trusted software deployment partners in the industry. UNICOM Engineering, a wholly owned subsidiary of UNICOM Global, is a leading provider of purpose-built application platforms, appliances and lifecycle deployment services for software developers and OEMs serving storage, security and communications markets worldwide. UNICOM Engineering is best known for their solution design technologies, integration expertise and their unique deployment capabilities. All of UNICOM Engineering's turnkey platforms and appliances are designed for longevity and backed by lifecycle management services. UNICOM Engineering creates products and business solutions that solve deployment challenges, accelerate time to market, reduce ownership costs and increase business efficiencies. With more than 30 standard products from which to choose, UNICOM Engineering has the largest selection of turnkey platforms and appliances in the industry. Customers use UNICOM Engineering's solution design and system integration services to deploy the best-fit, form and functional platform for their application. Whether it’s a robust enterprise security appliance or a highly integrated carrier-grade rack mount system, UNICOM Engineering offers its customers a complete highly managed solution. UNICOM Engineering’s commitment to quality workmanship and efficient business operations are governed by their compliance to ISO 9001, ISO 13485 and TL 9000 standards. This assures that customers receive high-reliability products and services that meet or exceed industry standards. By partnering with us, UNICOM Engineering customers can more rapidly deploy application-ready solutions with greater integrity and reliability. UNICOM Engineering's high availability solutions are designed to maximize the buyer’s return on investments and reduce maintenance, service and support costs. UNICOM Engineering’s Application Management services play an integral role in our charter to deliver network-ready, lifecycle-optimized platforms. It allows software vendors and OEMs to better develop and deploy secure, hardened solutions for either physical or virtual application environments. UNICOM Engineering’s clients use Application Management services to centralize OS and patch management; consolidate support processes; accelerate deployments and create a distinct competitive advantage. End-users benefit from its award-winning health, update and backup capabilities – all of which make appliances easier to maintain and support. Application Management services are used to solve the security, reliability and management problems that ISVs otherwise experience when attempting to update, monitor, track and backup appliances in the field. When UNICOM Engineering’s Application Management services are bundled with Windows Hardening or UNICOM Engineering’s Linux Packaging Service, both the system and the application enjoy greater integrity, longevity and performance.

Synchronicity

Venture Round in 2000
Synchronicity continues to fuel its impressive growth with successful customers and strong industry alliances. Today over 120 design organizations, including thirteen of the top fifteen semiconductor companies, are using Synchronicity software to connect and manage their design chains. By constructing key links like at ARM, UMC, inSilicon and VCX, our solutions have become the de facto standard for moving design information in and between companies. Technology and marketing partnerships have also been forged with EDA leaders such as Cadence, Synopsys and Mentor and recognizing the potential of this market and our leadership in it, Intel, Cadence and Synopsys made strategic investments in us. Synchronicity's success has come by ensuring our customers' success and that means providing solutions that dramatically improve design productivity. Synchronicity is uniquely positioned to help development teams through better IP distribution and support, design reuse, project collaboration and design management.

Forefield

Venture Round in 2000
Forefield develops software for online communication between financial institutions and their clients.

VST Technologies

Venture Round in 1999
VST Technologies develops and manufactures environmentally products designed to reduce the harmful fugitive volatile organic compounds vapors emitted at the gasoline dispensing facility segment of the petroleum industry. Their product includes low permeation, flex fuel, standard, and vapor recovery hoses, safety breakaways, nozzles, and underground storage tank pressure management processors.

RAScom

Venture Round in 1999
Provider of remote access servers for organizations that need to deploy network access to telecommuters, contractors, remote office workers and small branch offices. The company is a data communications equipment vendor focused on delivering open systems remote access servers. Acquired by Excel Switching in 1999

Indus River Networks

Venture Round in 1999
Indus River Networks provides vendor management, spam protection, network, cloud computing, and printer management services. They also offer web filtering and firewalling, as well as enterprise level security for small businesses.

Concord Music

Venture Round in 1999
Concord Music Group is an independent music label and rights management company headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. Founded in 1969, it oversees a diverse portfolio of well-known music labels, including Concord Records, Concord Jazz, Fantasy, Rounder, and Stax. The company is involved in the management and acquisition of sound recordings and music publishing, and it represents a variety of artistic works, including plays and musicals. In addition to its label operations, Concord organizes music tours for artists and licenses music for various media applications, such as films, television shows, video games, and ringtones. Concord Music Group was acquired by Concord Bicycle Music in 2015 and continues to play a significant role in the music industry.
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