Private Equity Round in 2020
LeadScope develops and markets a chemoinformatics application that provides access to research data. It offers toxicity databases, data management and decision support solutions, and Leadscope databases. The company also provides In silico tox, data mining, HTS analysis, lead optimization, and compound acquisition solutions. It serves national labs; pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, and consumer products companies; and regulatory agencies in the United States, Canada, and Europe.
Quassar Capital is a firm with a broad presence in the US, founded in 2012, which manages $23.6 billion in assets. Our people have extensive experience in various fields such as applied mathematics, statistical methods, financial markets, as well as advanced programming with a quantitative approach, which has allowed a sustained growth in recent years always betting on the most innovative technology and which is reflected in the excellent results towards our investors. Delivering high-quality returns requires unwavering focus, continuous adaptation to dynamic conditions, and the active pursuit of market opportunities. To achieve this, we invest significantly in technology and infrastructure and bring together diverse perspectives and approaches. Quassar Capital, L.P. a Cabrera Capital Markets, LLC company.
Deem is a technology platform for the business travel industry focusing on travel, car service, and expense solutions. Its mission is to make business travel less complicated for travelers, less costly for employers, and more profitable for service providers.
Quadstone
Venture Round in 2003
Quadstone provides customer analytic software to enterprises in the United States and Europe. The company’s product, Quadstone System, enables enterprises to model and diagnose customer behavior. It caters to marketing, telecommunications, and financial services sector. The company’s clientele includes Barclays, Merrill Lynch, Globe Telecom, BT, Maersk Sealand, Experian CustomerInfo, Shop Direct, and Fidelity Investments.
CyberArk Software is a cybersecurity company that specializes in protecting organizations from targeted cyber threats by focusing on privileged access management and identity security. Founded in 1999 by Udi Mokady and based in Newton, Massachusetts, CyberArk serves approximately 9,000 clients, including more than half of the Fortune 500 companies, across various sectors and countries. The company offers a range of security solutions designed to prevent attack escalation and safeguard critical information assets, infrastructure, and applications. In recent years, CyberArk has shifted from traditional on-premises licenses to a subscription-based revenue model, enhancing its ability to provide ongoing security support. Additionally, CyberArk Ventures, its venture capital arm, invests in early-stage cybersecurity technology and software firms globally.
Y Media Corporation uses semiconductor-imaging expertise to enable the impact of pictures to be embedded into any application. Y Media's multi-media device portfolio includes high-density image sensors ideal for high-resolution digital still cameras and video applications like HDTV, as well as a line of highly integrated image sensors specifically designed to make possible image communications in mobile consumer electronics. Delivering portable vision that flow easily from one medium to another, Y Media gives OEMs the opportunity to lower system-level costs, expand market share, and add key product differentiators.
Catena Networks develops broadband access systems that enable service providers to deploy voice, data, and video services. The company's products include The CNX-5 Broadband DSL System, a card-for-card upgrade solution for Lucent SLC-5 Digital Loop Carriers and The CN1000 Broadband Loop Carrier that enables service providers to deploy integrated plain old telephone service (POTS) and digital subscriber line (DSL) services and deliver voice, data and video services over copper and fiber infrastructures. It caters to local exchange carriers, postal telephone and telegraph operators, and other service providers. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in California, US with an additional office in Morrisville, North Carolina.
Pluris is defining the next-generation IP core infrastructure. The Teraplex architecture's scalability, fault-tolerance, and performance deliver service providers a future free of forklift upgrades.
Inspired Capital plc aim is to make borrowing natural and affordable for every small business. They are making it easier, faster and smoother for small businesses to get the funds they need. They want to make sure every small business gets the right product with the minimum of fuss and delay that will allow them to run their business as they want. Whether they want to open a new branch, employ another member of staff, invest in new equipment or just keep their cash flow ticking over, their lending products are here to help. Over the long term.
Private Equity Round in 2000
VelQuest Corporation is the global leader in lab execution and instrument data capture software for pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers. VelQuest solutions for lab information management, lab execution, batch record execution, and electronic data capture replace manual paper-based documentation processes, helping manufacturers to improve efficiency and reduce GMP compliance risks in quality and manufacturing operations.
Intira Corporation is an IT infrastructure, e-business and netsourcing platform.
Encirq solves marketing's #1 challenge: Delivering Personalization with Privacy™. Encirq is an online marketing services company that has developed a unique data engine to deliver individualized, consumer-centered marketing over the Internet. We use online and offline, real-time individual transactional data in a private and secure environment. Marketers and Encirq cannot see the data. Rather, the data reside on each consumer's personal computer, and filter out marketing messages that are not relevant. The service and technology are extendible to broadband, to other network devices, and eventually can be used to deliver personalized television commercials to individual households. Encirq's data engine does two things: It provides cost-effective access to consumer information not previously available; and it enables personalized real-time marketing programs. We have filed multiple patent applications on Encirq's illumination processes and technology.
deNovis Inc. is a leading provider of advanced transaction processing and information management solutions for the health insurance and health care benefits administration industry. deNovis's highly innovative claims processing and data management software enables commercial and government health plans to reduce administrative costs, expand their range of products and services, increase speed-to-market of new products and enhance the quality of customer service. The company's flagship software product—eHD™—serves as the core administrative platform for health plans and is designed to deliver the sophistication necessary to meet both existing and emerging needs of commercial, Medicare and Medicaid healthcare benefits administrators. deNovis is also known for its technical innovations, including HICL™ technology, which allows complex healthcare transaction systems to be programmed by business analysts rather than computer programmers, using English language commands and the actual policies and business rules of the health plan. deNovis's customer roster includes large commercial insurers and the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services—the nation's largest purchaser of healthcare and a provider of healthcare benefits to almost 80 million Americans. The company's strategic alliance partners include IBM Corporation and Deloitte Consulting. deNovis enterprise solutions for health plans are available for installation at customer locations or can be delivered on an outsourced or remote-hosted basis. The company is privately held and is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts.
TransMedics provides technology and clinical service solutions, service for heart and lung transplant volume, clinical outcomes, and reduce learning curves.
Allegis Corporation is a leading Partner Relationship Management firm that develops e-business solutions.
Y Media Corporation uses semiconductor-imaging expertise to enable the impact of pictures to be embedded into any application. Y Media's multi-media device portfolio includes high-density image sensors ideal for high-resolution digital still cameras and video applications like HDTV, as well as a line of highly integrated image sensors specifically designed to make possible image communications in mobile consumer electronics. Delivering portable vision that flow easily from one medium to another, Y Media gives OEMs the opportunity to lower system-level costs, expand market share, and add key product differentiators.
Canesta is the inventor of revolutionary, low-cost electronic perception technology that is the foundation for the "other side of 3-D" – true 3-D perception as input to everyday devices, rather than the widely-understood 3-D representational technologies as output. Canesta's 3-D input technology, based upon tiny, CMOS 3-D imaging chips or "sensors", enables fine-grained, 3-dimensional depth-perception in virtually any kind of consumer device such as PCs, TVs, game consoles, and mobile phones, as well as automotive, industrial, and other products. Such products can then react on sight to the actions or motions of individuals and objects in their field of view, gaining levels of functionality and ease of use that were simply not possible in an era when such devices were blind. Numerous applications are under active development by Canesta's OEM customers and partners, including consumer electronics, PC, TV, building automation, security, robotics, automotive, and others. Such customers and partners include Hitachi, Honda, Optex, Optronic, Quanta, SMSC, and others which have yet to be announced. Canesta is located in Sunnyvale, CA. The company has filed in excess of fifty patents, 40 of which have been granted so far The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.
Ecrix develops data-storage tape products for computing systems, network configurations, and application environments. It offers VXA, a tape storage solution. Ecrix was acquired by Exabyte Corporation in August 2001. Ecrix was founded in 1996 by Juan Rodriguez and Kelly Beavers. It is based in Boulder, Colorado.
How2TV, an online rich media solution provider service for brick-and-mortar manufacturers, retailers and e-commerce sites.
CreditTrade B2B financial exchange for authorized intermediaries and traders of credit-based derivatives and syndicated loans.
Gigex operates as a promotions company specialized in the distribution of product demos and trailers to key consumer and media networks across the internet. The company offers services such as guaranteed delivery of large files, servers, call-to-action emails, and product performance metrics. Additionally, it also launches game titles. It serves game publishers, developers, and e-tail and retail sites. Gigex was incorporated in 1994 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
CyberArk Software is a cybersecurity company that specializes in protecting organizations from targeted cyber threats by focusing on privileged access management and identity security. Founded in 1999 by Udi Mokady and based in Newton, Massachusetts, CyberArk serves approximately 9,000 clients, including more than half of the Fortune 500 companies, across various sectors and countries. The company offers a range of security solutions designed to prevent attack escalation and safeguard critical information assets, infrastructure, and applications. In recent years, CyberArk has shifted from traditional on-premises licenses to a subscription-based revenue model, enhancing its ability to provide ongoing security support. Additionally, CyberArk Ventures, its venture capital arm, invests in early-stage cybersecurity technology and software firms globally.
SportsYA offers the best sports news, about video games and esports, tourism, technology, and the economy, as well as analysis and reviews of casinos and electronic bets. It is a sports portal serving the Hispanic market.
Complient Corporation, based in Cleveland, is the nation's premier provider of AED programs and actively manages hundreds of corporate and government AED programs representing more than 3,000 AED devices. Complient trains lay people to save lives and prepares them to respond to commonplace medical emergencies. To date, over 250,000 individuals have been trained on AED operation and CPR by its 150 dedicated full- and part-time trainers on staff covering all 50 states in the United States. Since its inception in 1997, over $50 million in equity venture capital has been invested to develop Complient's web-based technology infrastructure and AED program management service business. For more information, visit www.complient.com.
As per the transaction announced on April 21, 2008, Instill Corporation was acquired by iTradeNetwork, Inc. Instill Corporation provides spend intelligence solutions for the foodservice industry. It offers supply chain information services, which automates the collection of transactional and process-oriented data from its customers trading partners. The company also provides a suite of hosted applications that helps its customers in managing various business processes, including trade spend management, food spend management, quality and regulatory compliance, promotion management, procurement, food safety, and vendor and product management. It offers its solutions to foodservice manufacturers, operators, and distributors. Instill Corporation was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.
Informio,Inc trial service delivers Internet content and voice applications through any wireless phone. It has been developed by people who pioneered voice messaging systems and the World Wide Web. Find out about what they're doing by subscribing to their mailing list.
Yeyeye.com, a music music and entertainment portal in Latin America and the U.S. Latin market.
TANTAU Software Inc. is a leading provider of software and services that enable enterprises to conduct high-volume, secure, mobile ecommerce transactions while maintaining direct access to their customer. TANTAU's blue-chip customer base includes major financial institutions and stock exchanges around the world. Strategic alliances include Nokia, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, NEON Systems and Baltimore Technologies. TANTAU is a member of the WAP Forum and Radicchio, the global industry consortium that promotes security for wireless ecommerce. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, TANTAU is a global company with development and sales offices around the world, including Australia, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Having a solid infrastructure and the resources to support your organization can make the IT journey easier. As an enterprise service provider (ESP), i-bridge can assist you with full service enterprise hosting. Our state of the art hosting facilities can support enterprise outsourcing, applications outsourcing, or even remote management of operations. I-bridge has been focused on building and managing high availability ERP and related enterprise environments since 1992 and has applied that experience to our own hosting facilities since 1998. The i-bridge ESP solution is far more than a facility to place your applications or IT operations; they take responsibility for managing your environment. With a focus on process, best practices, and highly trained professionals, they ensure that your mission critical enterprise applications are operated to the most demanding standards.
Hookt is the premier online destination for hip-hop music, news, culture, fashion and shopping targeting the 15-34 demographic. Hookt's e-commerce store is making history with product offerings including hip-hop fashion from leading designers and brands, CD's, vinyl, DVD's, video games and accessories, all delivered in 48 hours. The site offers the ultimate blend of the 3 "C's:" Content, Community & Commerce. Hookt offers interactive tools such as the Beat Bomb and Tag Line machine, which allows users, respectively, to create their own beats and graffiti. Content offerings include MP3's and music videos from major and independent artists, daily news and record reviews, artist interviews, fashion reviews, runway shows and fashion advice. Hookt's strategic partners include Puff Daddy and Eminem.
AppGenesys, an eInfrastructure management services provider, focuses on the complex process of staging, systems testing and deploying Web initiatives for Fortune-class clients. The company offers a scaleable suite of standardized hardware and software management solutions that accelerate implementation and improve site performance. AppGenesys manages clients' Internet infrastructure operations through a global framework. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., AppGenesys was spun-out of iXL Ventures' managed network services business with $50 million in funding from a dynamic investor coalition comprising Chase Capital Partners, DynaFund Ventures, Flatiron Partners, Inktomi Corporation, Kelso & Company, NeoCarta Ventures and Softbank Venture Capital.
Powerful Media, Inc. operates an online portal Inside.com which provides business-to-business online information services to the entertainment and media industries. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
eSprocket offers an online marketplace that enables its users to buy and sell used capital equipment.
Private Equity Round in 2000
Carolina BroadBand Inc. is a new, privately-held company offering Carolina residents and businesses a choice in providers for broadband multi-media service, including bundled local cable, Internet access and digital local and long-distance telephone services.
goRefer offers a web technology solution that supports the internet consumer intelligence industry.
Web.com award-winning website solutions include a variety of integrated online tools and services including website design and web publishing, web hosting, business email, domain name registration, search engine marketing and ecommerce services specifically designed for small business owners that don't have design or technical expertise. With our easy-to-use point and click Website Builder application, Website Pros makes it fast and easy to design your website, increase your website traffic, sell online, and stay connected to your customers and prospects. You simply won't find a better value for your money.
Beansprout offers customizable websites to pediatricians, licensed childcare distributors, and childcare resources. It builds an online hub to connect parents with their pediatricians as well as provides a forum for distributors of goods and services to the audiences. The company’s product, the Good Health Program, provides doctors with patient education tools that are placed in the examination rooms of select practices in the network. Beansprout is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 1998 and the company was acquired by Innovex on November 5, 2002.
MercadoLibre, through its subsidiaries, hosts online commerce and payments platforms in Latin America. Its services are designed to provide its users with mechanisms to buy, sell, pay for, and collect on e-commerce transactions. The company principally offers MercadoLibre marketplace, an automated online commerce service, located at mercadolibre.com, which permits businesses and individuals to list items and conduct their sales and purchases online in a fixed-price or auction-based format. It also enables registered users in MercadoLibre marketplace to list and purchase motor vehicles, vessels, aircraft, real estate, and services through online classified listings; users and advertisers to place, display, and/or text advertisements on its Web pages to promote their brands and offerings; and Internet users to browse through various products and services that are listed on its Web site and register with MercadoLibre to list, bid for, and purchase items and services. The company also provides MercadoPago, an integrated online payments solution to facilitate transactions both on and off the MercadoLibre marketplace by providing a mechanism that allows its users to send and receive payments online. As of December 31, 2008, it operated online commerce platforms and online payment solutions directed towards Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Chile, and Colombia, as well as operating online commerce platforms directed towards Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay.
Private Equity Round in 2000
AdvisorTech believes intermediaries - from major broker-dealers, banks, and insurance companies to investment advisors and financial planners - will continue to play an important role in ensuring that individual investors achieve their goals. To compete effectively, intermediaries need access to Internet technology, high-quality products and investment insight - AdvisorTech provides that access. They do this with technology that supports investment selection, marketing, customer management, and the trading of mutual funds and other financial products. Their customers include both large and small financial intermediaries around the globe.
Scout Electromedia is a consumer wireless company dedicated to creating innovative lifestyle products. Through user-centric product design, stable technology and critical content, Scout is pioneering a new space in the wireless industry termed "Electromedia". Grounded in the belief that technology should be enabling, not frustrating, Scout creates wireless products that are intuitive, reliable, useful and fun. Working with a variety of partners, Scout is committed to leading the development of consumer-friendly products that add value to people's lives.
Escrow.com and its operating subsidiaries provide online escrow services that facilitate and accelerate e-commerce by assuring secure settlement. Escrow.com is a publicly held company that has pioneered the process of online escrow services. The Company, founded in 1999 by Fidelity National Financial, has established itself as the leading provider of secure business and consumer transaction management on the Internet. Escrow.com protects Buyers and Sellers from fraud by acting as a trusted, licensed, and certified third party that collects, holds and disburses funds according to Buyer and Seller instructions. • Buyers receive and inspect the merchandise before the Seller is paid. • Sellers receive their money once the Buyer accepts the merchandise.
Alacra organizes financial and legal information to aid financial professionals in conducting mandated regulatory searches. Alacra provides innovative information solutions to more than 400 global financial institutions, corporations, and professional services firms. Alacra's workflow tools aggregate, filter, and custom package mission-critical business information from more than 75 premium publishers and a hand-curated universe of 3,000+ web-based sources, delivering user-ready results. Bespoke applications keep Alacra's clients up-to-date on their customers, prospects, investments, competition, partners and suppliers, driving business development and streamlining operations. Founded as Data Downlink Corporation in 1996 by Steven Goldstein and Michael Angle, former executives of Knight-Ridder's Business Information Services division, the privately-held company was renamed Alacra, Inc. in June 2001. Headquartered in New York, with an office in London, Alacra, Inc. employs more than 60 content, technology, sales and marketing professionals.
ChipWrights, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company and a leader in innovative digital and visual signal processing for embedded video and audio applications. ChipWrights specializes in developing all-in-one high definition solutions for complex application-specific standard products (ASSPs)—in particular, System-on-a-Chip (SoC) devices—which integrate a complete system on a single chip. ChipWrights’ fully programmable, low cost, low power, and high performance SoCs are ideal for building competitive products in the digital imaging and video markets. Its vector DSP achieves very high parallelism when operating on image data. The instruction set, address indexing schemes, and data access mechanisms are all tuned for image and video processing. Even the system Direct Memory Access engines are designed to move data in two-dimensional patches. ChipWrights’ goal is to provide customers with the best combination of Price, Performance, Power, Peripheral Integration, and Programmability. ChipWrights believes that image processing should be based on programmable solutions rather than fixed function ASICs. As system product life cycles get shorter and product requirements grow more complex, the improved flexibility of a programmable solution provides tremendous benefits to the system designer and manufacturer. The company offers a complete set of development tools, reference boards, and application libraries for its chips. In addition, a network of third party DSP algorithm and application developers is beginning to emerge whom can work together to create innovative and differentiated imaging products around the ChipWrights platform.
Nucore Technology is a developer of digital and analog imaging devices for cameras and video cameras. The company has 72 employees. Nucore Technology, founded in May 1997, has undergone five rounds of equity financing amounting to US$84 million, the company's Web site says.
FusionOne provides mobile content portability, helping mobile subscribers transfer their content between mobile devices and sharing their content with popular internet applications-anytime, anywhere. FusionOne's products currently support millions of subscribers on many major carriers worldwide. Founded in 1998, FusionOne is headquartered in San Jose, California with additional offices in Tallinn, Estonia. For more information, visit www.FusionOne.com.
Metro-Optix develops hardware for telecommunications companies that want to transition from circuit-based services to cell- and packet-based services. The hardware essentially reduces the number of hardware boxes needed, such as routers, which the networks feed into.
Expression Engines drives successful direct marketing solutions. As the premier provider of end-to-end direct e-mail marketing products and services for businesses, Expression Engines maximizes your online marketing investment, increases customer acquisition/retention rates, and positions your brand to the right audience. By combining direct marketing expertise and patent-pending technology with consultation and analysis, the Expression Engines team employs a full-service approach to help clients generate more revenue through high-response, cost-effective online marketing efforts. Favemail, the company's original flagship product
SquareTrade is an independent warranty provider for consumer electronics and appliances. It doesn't matter where you purchased your item, online auction or brick and mortar, the item is eligible for a SquareTrade warranty.
eVentures Group operates and invests in internet communications companies.
Fast Track: a completely new and comprehensive approach to the way clinical trials are managed. The company is assembling a creative and energetic staff of technical and medical professionals, an experienced management team, industry-specific advisory boards, and an active investor constituency - all aggressively focused on achieving their vision: to revolutionize the management of clinical trials.
Viajo.com is an online platform that enables its users to make online air ticket reservations and more. It was launched in 1999. Viajo.com is operated from Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal.
The Consumer Financial Network, headquartered in Duluth, GA, is a sophisticated e-commerce platform for financial services and related benefits over the Internet and an around-the-clock teleweb customer service center. CFN is provided at no cost to large companies and associations for distribution as a human resource benefit to their employees or members.
New York Times Digital offers newspaper websites. It licenses archive databases for electronic information providers. The company also distributes databases. The company was formerly known as Times Company Digital and changed its name to New York Times Digital in March 2000. It operates as a subsidiary of The New York Times Company. New York Times Digital was founded in 1999 and is based in New York, United States.
USA.NET offers a complete suite of outsourced messaging solutions. USA.NET was founded by Scott Chasin in 1997 and is based in Milford, Connecticut.
Health Hero Network combines digital convenience with clinical expertise. They provide people with remote access to expert clinicians. They builts a platform that marries user-centric innovation with healthcare expertise and have embarked on the journey together. They provide health management programs delivering personalized daily monitoring, patient education, and information to care providers.
Rocket Network is the industry standard global production network for audio professionals. The Company has established this standard through development and resale partnerships with leading audio companies, including Digidesign/Avid, DSP Media, Emagic, Euphonix, MOTU, Steinberg and Waveframe who have developed or are developing "RocketPower(TM)" versions of their products. This allows users to access the network via their favorite audio applications. Rocket Network's worldwide network for audio production and session management allows simultaneous multi-user access to files that can be dynamically updated from anywhere, at any time, and provides services that enhance session workflow, such as central secure archiving, talent search, and cross application support. Rocket Network's technology and services are becoming an integral part of a growing percent of professional audio sessions.
eYada.com has emerged as one of the Internet’s leading entertainment companies, reaching more than one million worldwide users each month with its lively, provocative mix of celebrity guests and high-profile hosts. From its studios in Manhattan, Los Angeles, and San Jose, the network powerhouse features three channels – Entertainment, Sports, and Health & Fitness – showcasing 19 shows and more than 200 hours of live, original programming each week. With its impressive range of guest stars, eYada airs candid interviews, spirited debates, juicy gossip, and fascinating talk throughout the day. Recent guests have included Donald Trump, Regis Philbin, Mariah Carey, Sharon Stone, Charlton Heston, Bette Midler, Hugh Hefner, Arianna Huffington, Chuck D, Joe Garagiola, and Carmen Electra.
BuildPoint provides e-commerce services for the commercial construction industry. Its SaaS offerings allow buyers and sellers of construction products and services to communicate, negotiate, and transact online. Offerings include online bid solicitation management and lead generation, materials procurement, and financial management applications related to insurance and lending. The Company was founded in 1999 and is based in Redwood Shores, California. BuildPoint was acquired by Construction Software Technologies in June 2004.
NetSales provides the technology and support services industrial suppliers need to sell their products online — at a price you can afford.
Vitaminic was one of the firts Digital Music Platform in Europe, founded in 1999, it had from the start an international footprint with offices and operations on 9 countries. The Headquarter was based in Italy and after the Ipo in 2000 on the Italian Stock Exchange it acquired companies in UK ( Peoplesound), Usa (Iuma) and France (FranceMp3). The management was led by the three founders (Gianluca Dettori,Frank Gonella and Adriano Marconetto) and by the Coo Andrea Rosi. The company was sold to Buongiorno in 2003.
CB Technologies, Inc. (www.cbtech.com), is a leading provider of electronic data capture, e-business consulting, and integration services to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, with 128 employees in its headquarters in West Chester, Pennsylvania and Boston, Massachusetts. Inc. Magazine named the firm one of the 500 fastest growing privately held companies in America for the past two consecutive years. Applications created by CB are currently in use at leading pharmaceutical/healthcare companies and support thousands of users worldwide.
Electron Economy is a commerce enabler integrating critical components of commerce operations for traditional and e-business companies. Electron Economy works with clients to design, deploy and run their e-commerce operations, joining advanced technology, expertise and managed services to meet the evolving demands of Internet business. Electron Economy's Internet TONE is an open and extensible Internet Transaction Operations Network that allows businesses to leverage common services and infrastructures for e-business operations. The E-Commerce Operations Management service runs on the Internet TONE and provides an outsourced management solution integrating a company's online storefront with all back-end logistics processes, including order processing, customer interaction, warehousing, fulfillment, shipping and delivery.
Gay.com is the largest online community of gay men. Gay.com is the best gay dating website for gay men looking for a connection. Discover local gay guys in their free gay chat rooms where singles mingle in the digital world. Make virtual reality an actual reality in the world’s largest online community of gay guys. Millions have logged onto their free gay website to find romance, love, and more with other local gay men. Browse hot bodies as well as the hottest news that is relevant to members of the gay community.
HotRail is an internet infrastructure company that develops interconnect technologies for its clients. HotRail was founded in 1993 and is based in California.
Internet Appliance Network is a marketing and media services company.
SmallWorld.com (www.smallworld.com) is the largest independent developer of online fantasy sports games and is host to one of the "stickiest" sites on the Internet. Founded in 1994, Small World was recently ranked by Media Metrix as the number one fastest growing web site and by Nielsen Net Ratings as the stickiest site on the Internet. They will soon offer new games that expand beyond sports into other areas of interest, including politics.
Urban Box Office Network
Series B in 2000
UBO is a next generation media company that provides a unique on and off-line cultural and commercial platform for the Urban Mindset. UBO defines the Urban Mindset as a global community that shares common interests in music, arts, sports, and fashion and establishes trends for the emerging worldwide market. UBO aggregates this community by providing a network of vertical properties for the creation and distribution of cutting-edge music, animation, information, sports, events, live-action series, as well as direct access to urban cultural icons and celebrities. UBO aims to be the leading destination for both producers and consumers of the Urban Mindset.
Private Equity Round in 2000
iWon is a CBS-backed destination portal and search engine that gives away cash prizes for playing casual games.
Empowered Networks is a provider of information technology consulting and network monitoring solutions tailored for large enterprises. The company specializes in optimizing network management, security, and compliance, enabling organizations to enhance the agility, visibility, and reliability of their applications and services. Additionally, Empowered Networks is recognized for its innovative Voice-over-IP (VoIP) switching systems, which are designed for carriers and communication service providers. Its flagship product, the USX1000, seamlessly integrates with existing Intelligent Network services, facilitating the migration of voice traffic to IP infrastructure. By leveraging advanced technologies, Empowered Networks aims to drive positive business outcomes that significantly impact the bottom line for its clients.
Submarino is an online seller of Spanish- and Portuguese-language books, CDs and toys.
SportsYA offers the best sports news, about video games and esports, tourism, technology, and the economy, as well as analysis and reviews of casinos and electronic bets. It is a sports portal serving the Hispanic market.
Intellispace is the Gold Coast’s leading services office and virtual office space provider. If you are looking for a professional and well maintained serviced office, virtual office or meeting room facilities to conduct your important business.
ProcureNet serves as a single procurement source for individuals that offers a suite of solutions. It provides e-commerce solutions for the procurement of specialty and non-specialty products by agencies and departments of the federal government, State and local government agencies, and SME companies. Its suite of products and services offers its users with Internet-based requisitioning, order approval workflow, order status checking, purchase order generation, invoice matching and consolidation, and accounts payable management. ProcureNet is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 1994 and the company was acquired by SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) on November 29, 2004.
Eduprise is an e-Services company offering application expertise in enterprise-level e-Learning, knowledge management and web integration focused on serving higher education and selected corporate market.
Intralinks is a technology company that offers a range of firewall collaboration solutions. The company’s product range includes a virtual data room, which supports the complex process of managing strategic financial transactions; and a system that enables organizations to take lifetime control of their most important information and frees employees to reach new levels of productivity. Intralinks currently offers its services and products to industries such as financial services, life sciences, technology, and manufacturing.
eBondTrade offers an online platform that enables investment advisors to manage and trade municipal bonds.
Blackboard Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise technology and solutions tailored for the education sector, serving higher education, K-12, corporate, and government organizations. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, the company offers a range of products designed to enhance teaching and learning experiences. Its flagship platform, Blackboard Learn, supports academic objectives, while Blackboard Collaborate facilitates interactive and mobile learning. Blackboard's offerings also include solutions for assignment integrity, data analytics, program assessment, and student support services. Additionally, Blackboard Connect provides a mass notification service to enhance communication within educational institutions. The company's innovative tools aim to improve engagement, accessibility, and institutional performance, impacting millions of students and educators globally.
Catena Networks develops broadband access systems that enable service providers to deploy voice, data, and video services. The company's products include The CNX-5 Broadband DSL System, a card-for-card upgrade solution for Lucent SLC-5 Digital Loop Carriers and The CN1000 Broadband Loop Carrier that enables service providers to deploy integrated plain old telephone service (POTS) and digital subscriber line (DSL) services and deliver voice, data and video services over copper and fiber infrastructures. It caters to local exchange carriers, postal telephone and telegraph operators, and other service providers. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in California, US with an additional office in Morrisville, North Carolina.
At Illumina, we’re committed to unlocking the power of the genome, and we know we can’t do it alone. Illumina Accelerator is our way of accelerating innovation in the entrepreneurial community. With extensive mentorship, financial support, and access to sequencing systems, reagents, and lab space, we’ve created a dynamic genomic ecosystem to help startups launch. Together we’ll advance the solutions that will transform medicine and improve human health and beyond.
Ninth House Network is the developer of online system.
Acorn Networks
Venture Round in 2000
Acorn Networks is a fabless communications semiconductor company specializing in wire-speed traffic management solutions. Our mission is to provide the most advanced and comprehensive traffic management solutions to new as well as established switch equipment vendors. We are committed to providing well-engineered wire-speed semiconductor products at OC-48c, OC-192c, and beyond based on our cost effective, low power and flexible architecture.
Medsite is the physician´s home on the Internet. The company, which operates Medsite.com, offers a comprehensive range of user-friendly solutions in the categories of medical ecommerce, medical information, and communication services. Building on its first Internet business, Medsite Books, Medsite has become a healthcare destination site offering an extensive selection of medical books, software, journals and supplies, electronic physician credentialing, the latest medical news, a customizable finance channel and numerous other services, geared towards making your practice click.
Coactive Networks pioneered Internet-based energy management and remote monitoring and control, winning the first mass deployments of Internet control technology in homes and commercial buildings.
Lutris Technologies, an Open Source enterprise software and services company, that is: - The Proud Sponsor of Enhydra.org: Lutris is the sponsor of Open Source Enhydra (www.enhydra.org). - Committed to Open Source: Lutris is committed to making Open Source software the first choice for markets where software reliability is critical, including enterprise e-business applications. - Setting the Standard for Software Development: In partnership with Open Source developers, Lutris wants to help set the standard by which all software will one day be judged. - Providing the Leading Open Source Java™/XML Application Server: Enhydra is an application server for building Web and wireless applications for clients ranging from dot com companies and startups to Fortune 500 organizations. - Providers of World Class Lutris Enhydra Support: We provide world-class support programs and services for Lutris Enhydra. - A Premier Provider of Lutris Enhydra Training: Our expert trainers offer a variety of comprehensive courses designed to help participants quickly learn how to develop Lutris Enhydra applications. - Delivering Expert Professional Services: We provide professional services to customers ranging from Internet startups to fortune 500 organizations. Lutris Professional Services ensures that your objectives are met on time and on budget.
AtomFilms
Series B in 1999
A leading film production company, based in Dublin. We create viral, corporate and TV adverts. Telling stories through film.
Mainspring designs and develops digital business strategies. The company provides consulting services focusing on digital technologies, business optimization, and technology enablement. Mainspring, formerly known as Mainspring Communications Inc., was founded in 1996 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Chromatis Networks designs metropolitan area switching systems to alleviate problems with transferring from long distance carriers to local networks. Its Metropolis System integrates data packets, voice circuit, and video services together on metropolitan networks and combines this traffic onto a wave division multiplexing WDM system.
Vigil Technologies, Inc. is a pioneer in the online intelligence market. The company provides the most time- effective online intelligence solutions that allow decision-makers, business researchers, and analysts to continuously monitor their business landscapes. e-Sense, Vigil's web-based service, automatically and incrementally gathers highly-relevant information based on user-defined business landscapes, while guaranteeing predictable and comprehensive coverage of open Internet sources.
MercandoLivre.com is an e-commerce technology company providing solutions to individuals and companies buying, selling, advertising, and paying for goods online. It serves millions of users and creates a market for a wide variety of goods and services in a safe and efficient way. The platform is among the top 50 in the world in terms of page views and is a retail platform with unique visitors in each country, which it operates according to metrics provided by comScore Networks. MercandoLivre.com was launched in 1999 and is based in Santana De Parnaíba.
Greenwich Technology Partners
Venture Round in 1999
Greenwich Technology Partners, Inc. provides information security, cost optimization, multiservice networks, information lifecycle management, and information technology service management solutions. Its storage optimization solutions offers a suite of services, including lifecycle project management, independent ROI/TCO evaluation, technology audits, review of business application requirements and creation of storage requirements matrix, creation of business-based data classification schema, Gap analysis of client storage management process, impact analysis of the optimization on business continuity, disaster recovery and security, and design and documentation of new storage infrastructures. The company also offers application security solution to address the lifecycle of an application, including requirements and operation. Its IT infrastructure consolidation solution consolidates server, data center, and storage resources. The company was founded in 1997 and is based in White Plains, New York. As of October 18, 2005, Greenwich Technology Partners, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Acumen Solutions, Inc.
Creative Planet is the leading provider of business-to-business Internet services and resources for creative professionals. With its suite of project management applications, production databases, information services and Internet resources, Creative Planet offers a powerful, comprehensive service enabling the creative process. Creative Planet has focused significant resources on improving efficiencies in the film, television, music video and commercial production process. The company is leveraging its industry-standard applications to create an end-to-end Internet-based production management solution and marketplace.
Private Equity Round in 1999
Starbelly.com is a U.S.-based company specialized in promotional products. It manufactures branded t-shirts, key chains, and coffee mugs for promotions by client companies. Starbelly.com was co-founded by Eric Lefkofsky and [Brad Keywell](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/brad-keywell) in 1999. It was sold to Halo Industries in 2000 before filing for bankruptcy.
Pluris is defining the next-generation IP core infrastructure. The Teraplex architecture's scalability, fault-tolerance, and performance deliver service providers a future free of forklift upgrades.
nDSP Corporation, a semiconductor company, provides "system on Chip" video solutions for platform builders in the entertainment, Internet, and computing fields. The company offers video processing ICs designed to enhance the picture quality of mainstream consumer televisions, flat panel displays, and multimedia projectors. The company was founded in 1997 and is based in Campbell, California.
Alacra organizes financial and legal information to aid financial professionals in conducting mandated regulatory searches. Alacra provides innovative information solutions to more than 400 global financial institutions, corporations, and professional services firms. Alacra's workflow tools aggregate, filter, and custom package mission-critical business information from more than 75 premium publishers and a hand-curated universe of 3,000+ web-based sources, delivering user-ready results. Bespoke applications keep Alacra's clients up-to-date on their customers, prospects, investments, competition, partners and suppliers, driving business development and streamlining operations. Founded as Data Downlink Corporation in 1996 by Steven Goldstein and Michael Angle, former executives of Knight-Ridder's Business Information Services division, the privately-held company was renamed Alacra, Inc. in June 2001. Headquartered in New York, with an office in London, Alacra, Inc. employs more than 60 content, technology, sales and marketing professionals.
Y Media Corporation uses semiconductor-imaging expertise to enable the impact of pictures to be embedded into any application. Y Media's multi-media device portfolio includes high-density image sensors ideal for high-resolution digital still cameras and video applications like HDTV, as well as a line of highly integrated image sensors specifically designed to make possible image communications in mobile consumer electronics. Delivering portable vision that flow easily from one medium to another, Y Media gives OEMs the opportunity to lower system-level costs, expand market share, and add key product differentiators.
Nucore Technology is a developer of digital and analog imaging devices for cameras and video cameras. The company has 72 employees. Nucore Technology, founded in May 1997, has undergone five rounds of equity financing amounting to US$84 million, the company's Web site says.
Suncom Wireless Holdings is a rapidly growing provider of wireless personal communications services in the southeastern United States. Their personal communications services licenses cover approximately 13 million potential customers in a contiguous geographic area encompassing portions of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Kentucky.