Longworth Venture Partners

Longworth Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in Waltham, Massachusetts, founded in 1999. The firm specializes in seed, early stage, and growth stage investments, focusing primarily on technology companies in the information technology sector, including internet and digital media, software, and mobile applications. Longworth typically invests between $0.1 million and $5 million, with most investments ranging from $2 million to $3 million during the first or second rounds of financing. The firm aims to support companies with the potential to generate over $100 million in annual revenue and prefers to engage with firms that have a maximum EBITDA of $3 million. Longworth often acts as the lead investor and may take board seats in its portfolio companies, working closely with management teams to provide strategic guidance and support throughout the business lifecycle.

James J. Savage

Co-Founder and Partner

Jim Savage

Partner

Past deals in New Hampshire

RAIDCore

Series A in 2003
RAIDCore designs and develops enterprise storage solutions. The company's products include RAID controllers, which assist in maintaining the data integrity by controlling it against viruses, malicious users, disk failure, and exhausted disk space; and Fulcrum Architecture, which is an integrated storage subsystem that handles virtualization and coherency for multi-controller access of data. RAIDCore was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Nashua, New Hampshire.

Dirig Software

Series E in 2003
When the e-revolution began, getting on-line fast was everything. Now that e-business has gone mainstream, it's all about manageability, performance and measurable ROI. IT organizations must focus on stabilizing and optimizing the web infrastructure -- ensuring maximum availability, and rapid recovery, and avoiding transaction loss. At the same time, IT must manage costs, and support the unique demands of multiple internal customers. Ultimately, companies must realize the greatest possible return on substantial e-business investments. Whether your IT department is managing a multi-application e-business infrastructure, moving to a centralized shared services model, or supporting a single on-line application, Dirig Software can provide your organization with technology that delivers true business value - helping to protect online revenue, guarantee transactions and increase IT productivity. The result is greater return on web technology investments by application and company wide. Dirig has formed partnerships with major industry leading organizations such as IBM (NYSE: IBM) Global Services, Aprisma Management Technologies, Micromuse, Inc. (NASDAQ: MUSE), Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HWP), and BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BEAS). Dirig is a privately held corporation headquartered in Nashua, NH with offices in Chicago, IL, and has been selected as one of the top 21 privately held companies to watch in 2001 by Boston.Internet.com.

Dirig Software

Series B in 2000
When the e-revolution began, getting on-line fast was everything. Now that e-business has gone mainstream, it's all about manageability, performance and measurable ROI. IT organizations must focus on stabilizing and optimizing the web infrastructure -- ensuring maximum availability, and rapid recovery, and avoiding transaction loss. At the same time, IT must manage costs, and support the unique demands of multiple internal customers. Ultimately, companies must realize the greatest possible return on substantial e-business investments. Whether your IT department is managing a multi-application e-business infrastructure, moving to a centralized shared services model, or supporting a single on-line application, Dirig Software can provide your organization with technology that delivers true business value - helping to protect online revenue, guarantee transactions and increase IT productivity. The result is greater return on web technology investments by application and company wide. Dirig has formed partnerships with major industry leading organizations such as IBM (NYSE: IBM) Global Services, Aprisma Management Technologies, Micromuse, Inc. (NASDAQ: MUSE), Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HWP), and BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BEAS). Dirig is a privately held corporation headquartered in Nashua, NH with offices in Chicago, IL, and has been selected as one of the top 21 privately held companies to watch in 2001 by Boston.Internet.com.