Columbia Capital

Columbia Capital is a Virginia-based venture capital firm established in 1989 that focuses on investing in growth-stage technology companies in the wireless, broadband, media, and enterprise information technology sectors. The firm primarily targets opportunities in North America and Western Europe, leveraging its expertise to identify and support businesses poised for significant growth in these dynamic industries. Columbia Capital aims to foster innovation and advancement by providing financial resources and strategic guidance to emerging companies.

Don Doering

Partner

James Eisenstein

Associate

Jim Fleming

Partner

Santiago Gomez-Garcia

Associate

Patrick Hendy

Partner

Jennifer Krusius

Venture Partner

Sharon Lam

Vice President

Sharon Lamb

Vice President

John Leibovitz

Venture Partner

Ben Lewis

Chief Financial Officer

Brian Ohlhausen

Associate

Jeffrey H. Patterson

Venture Partner

John Tyler Siegel

Partner

Luca Sullivan

Associate

Nick Szczur

Associate

Past deals in District of Columbia

Nisos

Series B in 2022
Nisos provides unrivaled protection of your reputation and assets through the practice of Active Defense. Nisos is a leading services provider in the following areas: - Adversarial Attribution - Incident Response - M&A Valuation and Diligence - Insider Threat Detection and Mitigation - Attack Simulation - Compromise Assessment - Executive Protection - Asset Protection

Omnispace

Venture Round in 2021
Omnispace, LLC specializes in connectivity and communication solutions, focusing on integrating satellite and terrestrial networks. The company utilizes 5G technologies to create a hybrid satellite wireless platform, which supports remote learning, real-time data transmission, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Catering to various sectors, including small businesses, industrial applications, public healthcare, safety, and education, Omnispace aims to deliver seamless and interoperable connectivity on a global scale. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, the company is led by experienced professionals from the telecommunications and satellite industries, striving to redefine mobile connectivity for the modern era.

Nisos

Series A in 2019
Nisos provides unrivaled protection of your reputation and assets through the practice of Active Defense. Nisos is a leading services provider in the following areas: - Adversarial Attribution - Incident Response - M&A Valuation and Diligence - Insider Threat Detection and Mitigation - Attack Simulation - Compromise Assessment - Executive Protection - Asset Protection

Verato

Series C in 2019
Verato is a cloud-based patient matching technology that is better, faster, and cheaper than today's standard matching technologies. We use a highly-curated, continuously-updated, self-learning database of identities and identity attributes spanning the entire U.S. adult population. This database acts as an “answer key” for identity data. We call this "referential matching." Verato uses this database as an answer key during matching to make matches no other approach can ever make—even if two records have out-of-date, errored, incomplete, and inconsistent identity data. Because of this approach, our match rates are the highest in the industry. We deliver sub-second performance and can securely handle hundreds of millions of transactions to support the largest organizations. Since, Verato is cloud-based, there is no software to deploy, support, and maintain. We deliver quick time-to-value (weeks, not months or years) and a lower total cost of ownership than any of the on-premises solutions being used today. Better, cheaper, faster.

Omnispace

Series A in 2019
Omnispace, LLC specializes in connectivity and communication solutions, focusing on integrating satellite and terrestrial networks. The company utilizes 5G technologies to create a hybrid satellite wireless platform, which supports remote learning, real-time data transmission, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Catering to various sectors, including small businesses, industrial applications, public healthcare, safety, and education, Omnispace aims to deliver seamless and interoperable connectivity on a global scale. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, the company is led by experienced professionals from the telecommunications and satellite industries, striving to redefine mobile connectivity for the modern era.

OPĀQ

Series B in 2018
OPAQ is the premier networking and security cloud company. The OPAQ cloud platform provides a cloud-based secure access service edge (SASE) that protects an organization’s entire distributed network – data centers, branch offices, remote users, and IoT devices across all ports and protocols. OPAQ delivers zero trust security-as-a-service using an infrastructure optimized for security and hyperscale performance. With OPAQ, organizations can implement and enforce consistent zero trust security policies, centrally monitor network and security performance, generate reports, and manage security infrastructure – all through a single cloud console. This enables customers to maintain secure access to systems and data no matter how the network evolves. To learn more, visit www.opaq.com.

Omnispace

Series A in 2017
Omnispace, LLC specializes in connectivity and communication solutions, focusing on integrating satellite and terrestrial networks. The company utilizes 5G technologies to create a hybrid satellite wireless platform, which supports remote learning, real-time data transmission, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Catering to various sectors, including small businesses, industrial applications, public healthcare, safety, and education, Omnispace aims to deliver seamless and interoperable connectivity on a global scale. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, the company is led by experienced professionals from the telecommunications and satellite industries, striving to redefine mobile connectivity for the modern era.

Verato

Series B in 2017
Verato is a cloud-based patient matching technology that is better, faster, and cheaper than today's standard matching technologies. We use a highly-curated, continuously-updated, self-learning database of identities and identity attributes spanning the entire U.S. adult population. This database acts as an “answer key” for identity data. We call this "referential matching." Verato uses this database as an answer key during matching to make matches no other approach can ever make—even if two records have out-of-date, errored, incomplete, and inconsistent identity data. Because of this approach, our match rates are the highest in the industry. We deliver sub-second performance and can securely handle hundreds of millions of transactions to support the largest organizations. Since, Verato is cloud-based, there is no software to deploy, support, and maintain. We deliver quick time-to-value (weeks, not months or years) and a lower total cost of ownership than any of the on-premises solutions being used today. Better, cheaper, faster.

OPĀQ

Series A in 2017
OPAQ is the premier networking and security cloud company. The OPAQ cloud platform provides a cloud-based secure access service edge (SASE) that protects an organization’s entire distributed network – data centers, branch offices, remote users, and IoT devices across all ports and protocols. OPAQ delivers zero trust security-as-a-service using an infrastructure optimized for security and hyperscale performance. With OPAQ, organizations can implement and enforce consistent zero trust security policies, centrally monitor network and security performance, generate reports, and manage security infrastructure – all through a single cloud console. This enables customers to maintain secure access to systems and data no matter how the network evolves. To learn more, visit www.opaq.com.

Omnispace

Venture Round in 2016
Omnispace, LLC specializes in connectivity and communication solutions, focusing on integrating satellite and terrestrial networks. The company utilizes 5G technologies to create a hybrid satellite wireless platform, which supports remote learning, real-time data transmission, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Catering to various sectors, including small businesses, industrial applications, public healthcare, safety, and education, Omnispace aims to deliver seamless and interoperable connectivity on a global scale. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, the company is led by experienced professionals from the telecommunications and satellite industries, striving to redefine mobile connectivity for the modern era.

New Signature

Venture Round in 2015
New Signature is a cloud-first, full-service Microsoft technology partner that assists businesses of all sizes in addressing their challenges through Microsoft solutions. The company employs a process-driven approach to deliver successful outcomes for complex projects that require creativity, strategic vision, and technical expertise. By conducting rigorous economic analyses, New Signature helps clients make informed investment decisions regarding Microsoft services. The firm provides comprehensive IT support, including planning, design, deployment, customization, and management of Microsoft solutions. Additionally, New Signature focuses on maximizing return on investment by offering tailored user adoption and learning solutions for both business users and IT professionals, thereby promoting trust and credibility through ethical practices.

Verato

Series A in 2015
Verato is a cloud-based patient matching technology that is better, faster, and cheaper than today's standard matching technologies. We use a highly-curated, continuously-updated, self-learning database of identities and identity attributes spanning the entire U.S. adult population. This database acts as an “answer key” for identity data. We call this "referential matching." Verato uses this database as an answer key during matching to make matches no other approach can ever make—even if two records have out-of-date, errored, incomplete, and inconsistent identity data. Because of this approach, our match rates are the highest in the industry. We deliver sub-second performance and can securely handle hundreds of millions of transactions to support the largest organizations. Since, Verato is cloud-based, there is no software to deploy, support, and maintain. We deliver quick time-to-value (weeks, not months or years) and a lower total cost of ownership than any of the on-premises solutions being used today. Better, cheaper, faster.

Digital Signal

Venture Round in 2015
Digital Signal specializes in three-dimensional long-range facial recognition solutions for government and commercial clients. It offers enterprise biometric solutions and customized applications to suit customer needs. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia.

Endgame

Series C in 2014
Endgame is a leading endpoint security platform that transforms security operations teams and incident responders from crime scene investigators into hunters that prevent damage and loss, and dramatically reduces the time and cost associated with incident response and compromise assessment. Endgame’s platform uses machine learning and data science to prevent and detect unique attacks at the earliest and every stage of the attack lifecycle. Endgame’s integrated response stops attacks without disrupting normal business operations. It was founded in 2008 and has been operating in Arlington, Virginia.

Netuitive

Venture Round in 2014
Netuitive, Inc. provides self-learning performance management software. Its products include Netuitive Service Analyzer that automates performance management applications, as well as delivers a view of business service health in information technology silos; Netuitive SI, which automates systems threshold administration and performance management; and Netuitive SI for VMWARE, a self-learning performance management software for virtualized environments.

SummitIG

Venture Round in 2014
SummitIG, LLC provides custom network and bandwidth infrastructure solutions for data centers, carriers, and enterprises in Northern Virginia. It offers dark fiber connectivity services that support and extend data centers connectivity; data center connectivity solutions for data center operators, carrier neutral facilities, and long haul carrier POPs; and custom network solutions to extend connectivity to new buildings, connect to carrier POPs, and bring new buildings on-net. The company also provides professional services, such as management and maintenance of network connectivity solutions, infrastructure maintenance, and customized niche services. SummitIG, LLC was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Dulles, Virginia.

Endgame

Series B in 2013
Endgame is a leading endpoint security platform that transforms security operations teams and incident responders from crime scene investigators into hunters that prevent damage and loss, and dramatically reduces the time and cost associated with incident response and compromise assessment. Endgame’s platform uses machine learning and data science to prevent and detect unique attacks at the earliest and every stage of the attack lifecycle. Endgame’s integrated response stops attacks without disrupting normal business operations. It was founded in 2008 and has been operating in Arlington, Virginia.

Near Infinity

Funding Round in 2012
Developer of mobile, data and enterprise technology software services. The company provides services for national defense and commercial customers.

Altamira Informartion

Venture Round in 2012
Altamira Technologies Corporation is a top open source technology company in the national security space. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Altamira provides engineering and analytic services to the defense, intelligence, and homeland security communities. Our cleared engineers develop and implement big data solutions for knowledge management and advanced analytics. We are authors and contributors to leading open source tools, including Lumify, an open source big data analysis and visualization platform built by Altamira engineers. Altamira Technologies Corporation was formed in January of 2013, when McLean-based Invertix Corporation and Reston-based Near Infinity Corporation merged. Both legacy companies have a long history of support to the DOD and U.S. Intelligence Community with a wide range of talent in software development, infrastructure, analysis and project management

Virtustream

Series B in 2012
Virtustream is a cloud innovator offering enterprise-class cloud solutions to enterprises, governments, and service providers. The company's secure cloud platform enables hybrid cloud deployments, supports multiple hypervisors, and a sub-virtual machine pricing model that is consumption-based. Their xStream Cloud Platform can deliver private, multi-tenant, or hybrid cloud alternatives, managed within a single pane of glass. They also maximize business’s productivity with Cloud Cover, a set of managed services tuned to optimize the way applications run in a cloud. Virtustream was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

Digital Signal

Private Equity Round in 2012
Digital Signal specializes in three-dimensional long-range facial recognition solutions for government and commercial clients. It offers enterprise biometric solutions and customized applications to suit customer needs. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia.

Virtustream

Series B in 2011
Virtustream is a cloud innovator offering enterprise-class cloud solutions to enterprises, governments, and service providers. The company's secure cloud platform enables hybrid cloud deployments, supports multiple hypervisors, and a sub-virtual machine pricing model that is consumption-based. Their xStream Cloud Platform can deliver private, multi-tenant, or hybrid cloud alternatives, managed within a single pane of glass. They also maximize business’s productivity with Cloud Cover, a set of managed services tuned to optimize the way applications run in a cloud. Virtustream was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

Digital Signal

Series C in 2011
Digital Signal specializes in three-dimensional long-range facial recognition solutions for government and commercial clients. It offers enterprise biometric solutions and customized applications to suit customer needs. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia.

Virtustream

Series A in 2011
Virtustream is a cloud innovator offering enterprise-class cloud solutions to enterprises, governments, and service providers. The company's secure cloud platform enables hybrid cloud deployments, supports multiple hypervisors, and a sub-virtual machine pricing model that is consumption-based. Their xStream Cloud Platform can deliver private, multi-tenant, or hybrid cloud alternatives, managed within a single pane of glass. They also maximize business’s productivity with Cloud Cover, a set of managed services tuned to optimize the way applications run in a cloud. Virtustream was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

Endgame

Series A in 2010
Endgame is a leading endpoint security platform that transforms security operations teams and incident responders from crime scene investigators into hunters that prevent damage and loss, and dramatically reduces the time and cost associated with incident response and compromise assessment. Endgame’s platform uses machine learning and data science to prevent and detect unique attacks at the earliest and every stage of the attack lifecycle. Endgame’s integrated response stops attacks without disrupting normal business operations. It was founded in 2008 and has been operating in Arlington, Virginia.

Virtustream

Series A in 2009
Virtustream is a cloud innovator offering enterprise-class cloud solutions to enterprises, governments, and service providers. The company's secure cloud platform enables hybrid cloud deployments, supports multiple hypervisors, and a sub-virtual machine pricing model that is consumption-based. Their xStream Cloud Platform can deliver private, multi-tenant, or hybrid cloud alternatives, managed within a single pane of glass. They also maximize business’s productivity with Cloud Cover, a set of managed services tuned to optimize the way applications run in a cloud. Virtustream was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

Approva

Series E in 2009
Approva is a leading provider of continuous controls monitoring software, recognized as the industry standard by three of the five largest audit and advisory firms. The company specializes in automating IT and financial controls across major business applications such as Oracle, PeopleSoft, and SAP. By implementing Approva's software, organizations can effectively reduce risk, prevent fraud, lower compliance costs, and identify opportunities for operational improvements. This solution helps businesses meet their governance, risk, and compliance requirements, ensuring a more secure and efficient operational framework.

Intelliworks

Series D in 2009
Intelliworks' CRM for higher education enables college admissions and enrollment professionals to make purposeful connections with students. Our web-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) relationship management and marketing solution enhances student recruitment, enrollment management and marketing efforts. Since 2001, Intelliworks has been been trusted by leading higher education institutions around to world to enhance recruitment, enrollment and marketing outreach efforts. The Intelliworks system is an all-in-one solution for contact management, email marketing, program and course registration, event management and campaign reporting. Introduced in April 2009, Intelliworks Social Marketing connects your admissions and enrollment departments directly to students through today's most popular social networks.

Rivermine Software

Series D in 2009
Rivermine Software, Inc. specializes in providing software solutions designed to automate the telecommunications expense management lifecycle for enterprises and government agencies. The company offers a range of Telecom Expense Management (TEM) solutions that streamline procurement, order provisioning, invoice processing, inventory management, and network optimization. Key products include the Inventory Engine, which maintains an up-to-date repository of telecom assets; the Service Order Manager, which tracks telecom order requests from initiation to approval; and the Finance Manager, which automates invoice processing and auditing. Rivermine Clarity provides insights into telecom spending through dashboards and analytics. Additionally, Rivermine offers managed services such as contract analysis, rate benchmarking, and ongoing audits, along with support for system security, software implementation, and training. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, Rivermine Software has a long-standing commitment to enhancing telecommunications management for its clients.

Intelliworks

Series C in 2008
Intelliworks' CRM for higher education enables college admissions and enrollment professionals to make purposeful connections with students. Our web-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) relationship management and marketing solution enhances student recruitment, enrollment management and marketing efforts. Since 2001, Intelliworks has been been trusted by leading higher education institutions around to world to enhance recruitment, enrollment and marketing outreach efforts. The Intelliworks system is an all-in-one solution for contact management, email marketing, program and course registration, event management and campaign reporting. Introduced in April 2009, Intelliworks Social Marketing connects your admissions and enrollment departments directly to students through today's most popular social networks.

Hillcrest Labs

Series D in 2008
Hillcrest Laboratories is a leading global supplier of motion processing solutions. These solutions use MEMS sensors to capture human and mechanical movement, translating that into motion patters which can be used to control and interact with devices. This motion technology is then used to enhance products in both consumer technology and industrial fields. The company is widely recognized as a leader in the Smart TV industry, having created HoME, the first pointer-based interactive media system for TV, and the award winning Loop remote control. Today it counts LG, Roku and TCL among its Smart TV customers. Building on these roots in Smart TV, the company has expanded focus and now has customers in the smartphone and mobile device industry, licenses technology to leading gaming systems and provides solutions to virtual reality customers. Hillcrest Labs has received numerous awards including the CES Innovations Award in 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012, PC World's 100 Best Products and Greatest Tech Designs, Popular Mechanics' Editors Choice, ECN's Reader's Choice Tech, and many others. Based in Rockville, Maryland, Hillcrest Labs was founded in 2001 by Dan Simpkins. The company is funded by NEA, Columbia Capital and Grotech Capital.

Vubiquity

Series C in 2007
Vubiquity, Inc. is a leading global provider of multiplatform video services, managing over 28,000 hours of content monthly from more than 340 content providers. The company connects with approximately 75 million households through nearly 300 service providers across 39 territories and 15 languages. Vubiquity's offerings include Video On Demand (VOD), advanced advertising services, creative services, and data analytics, which facilitate the programming, management, and delivery of video content across various devices such as set-top boxes, smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs. Additionally, Vubiquity provides subscriber authentication and authorization, as well as support for linear and pay-per-view services, enhancing the viewing experience for users. Originally known as Avail Media, the company was rebranded as Vubiquity in 2013 and is based in Burbank, California, operating as a subsidiary of Amdocs Limited.

BroadSoft

Series D in 2007
BroadSoft, Inc. is a prominent provider of software and services that empower telecommunications service providers to offer hosted cloud-based unified communications (UC) to enterprise customers across various regions, including North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company's main products include UC-One, which integrates various communication and collaboration tools such as phone services, messaging, and video conferencing; Team-One, a solution for project management and collaboration; BroadSoft Hub, which connects real-time communications with cloud applications; and CC-One, a contact center solution for multi-channel customer interactions. BroadSoft's offerings are delivered through its BroadWorks application server and BroadCloud platform. The company also provides professional support services, including installation, project management, and training. Catering to over 500 telecommunications service provider customers, BroadSoft operates in more than 70 countries and serves many of the largest telecommunications carriers globally. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, BroadSoft became a subsidiary of Cisco Systems in 2018.

Rivermine Software

Series C in 2007
Rivermine Software, Inc. specializes in providing software solutions designed to automate the telecommunications expense management lifecycle for enterprises and government agencies. The company offers a range of Telecom Expense Management (TEM) solutions that streamline procurement, order provisioning, invoice processing, inventory management, and network optimization. Key products include the Inventory Engine, which maintains an up-to-date repository of telecom assets; the Service Order Manager, which tracks telecom order requests from initiation to approval; and the Finance Manager, which automates invoice processing and auditing. Rivermine Clarity provides insights into telecom spending through dashboards and analytics. Additionally, Rivermine offers managed services such as contract analysis, rate benchmarking, and ongoing audits, along with support for system security, software implementation, and training. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, Rivermine Software has a long-standing commitment to enhancing telecommunications management for its clients.

Ruckus Network

Series B in 2007
Ruckus Network is a multimedia network that provides online digital entertainment services to college students. It enables college students to download and stream free and legal music from various artists. Ruckus Network was founded in 2003 and is based in Herndon, Virginia.

Avail Media

Series A in 2007
Avail Media is the emerging leader in providing managed content services and technologies delivered through a fully integrated head end infrastructure, for the profitable deployment of IP video. Through a combination of best-of-breed technologies Avail Media offers a complete end- to-end platform to serve a broad array of customers. Avail Media possesses a large content rights library of over 300 channel from national programmers, including premier content from programmers such as ABC-Disney, Turner, NBC- Universal, MTV Networks, Fox Networks, Discovery, and many others. Avail Media now offers the broadest and deepest set of services, technologies and solutions among its competitors.

Vubiquity

Series B in 2007
Vubiquity, Inc. is a leading global provider of multiplatform video services, managing over 28,000 hours of content monthly from more than 340 content providers. The company connects with approximately 75 million households through nearly 300 service providers across 39 territories and 15 languages. Vubiquity's offerings include Video On Demand (VOD), advanced advertising services, creative services, and data analytics, which facilitate the programming, management, and delivery of video content across various devices such as set-top boxes, smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs. Additionally, Vubiquity provides subscriber authentication and authorization, as well as support for linear and pay-per-view services, enhancing the viewing experience for users. Originally known as Avail Media, the company was rebranded as Vubiquity in 2013 and is based in Burbank, California, operating as a subsidiary of Amdocs Limited.

Ruckus

Series B in 2007
College-only digital entertainment service enabling students with similar music interests to connect with each other

Netuitive

Series D in 2007
Netuitive, Inc. provides self-learning performance management software. Its products include Netuitive Service Analyzer that automates performance management applications, as well as delivers a view of business service health in information technology silos; Netuitive SI, which automates systems threshold administration and performance management; and Netuitive SI for VMWARE, a self-learning performance management software for virtualized environments.

Intelliworks

Series B in 2006
Intelliworks' CRM for higher education enables college admissions and enrollment professionals to make purposeful connections with students. Our web-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) relationship management and marketing solution enhances student recruitment, enrollment management and marketing efforts. Since 2001, Intelliworks has been been trusted by leading higher education institutions around to world to enhance recruitment, enrollment and marketing outreach efforts. The Intelliworks system is an all-in-one solution for contact management, email marketing, program and course registration, event management and campaign reporting. Introduced in April 2009, Intelliworks Social Marketing connects your admissions and enrollment departments directly to students through today's most popular social networks.

Webs

Series A in 2006
Webs is a website creation service that lets users make fully functioning sites complete with several apps including blogs, photo albums, video galleries, calendars, and discussion forums. Users start by choosing from over 300 templates and can then add rich content and applications to their website via their WYSIWYG Sitebuilder. Small business owners can obtain custom domain names and email addresses to project a professional image. Entrepreneurs also benefit from user-friendly SEO, site statistics, and business apps like a mobile website builder. Also, if users are interested in ecommerce, Webs.com has a Web Store app that integrates with online payment tools [PayPal](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/paypal) and Google Checkout. In 2009, Webs launched an application platform and App Store enabling third-party applications distribution in the Webs platform. Participants in the App Store include Cafe Press, DudaMobile, BookFresh, Meebo, and Etsy. Webs has also partnered with and integrated several third party applications including [Picnik](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/picnik) for online photo editing and GetClicky for webstats. Other partners include [YouTube](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/youtube), [Photobucket](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/photobucket), and [iPromote](http://www.ipromote.com/). In 2010, Webs launched Facebook connect integration. More recently, Webs developed a family of products to give small businesses super easy and cost-effective ways to develop an online presence across web, mobile, and social platforms. The first addition to the Webs family of products came in October 2010 with the launch of ContactMe, a lightweight customer relationship management (CRM) tool that helps small businesses get organized and grow. In February 2011, Webs added Pagemodo, creator of a do-it-yourself Facebook page builder, to the Webs suite of solutions. Pagemodo’s Pagebuilder enables entrepreneurs to design their own custom Facebook pages for free and with ease. Webs was formerly known as Freewebs.

Rivermine Software

Series B in 2005
Rivermine Software, Inc. specializes in providing software solutions designed to automate the telecommunications expense management lifecycle for enterprises and government agencies. The company offers a range of Telecom Expense Management (TEM) solutions that streamline procurement, order provisioning, invoice processing, inventory management, and network optimization. Key products include the Inventory Engine, which maintains an up-to-date repository of telecom assets; the Service Order Manager, which tracks telecom order requests from initiation to approval; and the Finance Manager, which automates invoice processing and auditing. Rivermine Clarity provides insights into telecom spending through dashboards and analytics. Additionally, Rivermine offers managed services such as contract analysis, rate benchmarking, and ongoing audits, along with support for system security, software implementation, and training. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, Rivermine Software has a long-standing commitment to enhancing telecommunications management for its clients.

Netuitive

Series C in 2005
Netuitive, Inc. provides self-learning performance management software. Its products include Netuitive Service Analyzer that automates performance management applications, as well as delivers a view of business service health in information technology silos; Netuitive SI, which automates systems threshold administration and performance management; and Netuitive SI for VMWARE, a self-learning performance management software for virtualized environments.

Approva

Series C in 2005
Approva is a leading provider of continuous controls monitoring software, recognized as the industry standard by three of the five largest audit and advisory firms. The company specializes in automating IT and financial controls across major business applications such as Oracle, PeopleSoft, and SAP. By implementing Approva's software, organizations can effectively reduce risk, prevent fraud, lower compliance costs, and identify opportunities for operational improvements. This solution helps businesses meet their governance, risk, and compliance requirements, ensuring a more secure and efficient operational framework.

Intelliworks

Series A in 2005
Intelliworks' CRM for higher education enables college admissions and enrollment professionals to make purposeful connections with students. Our web-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) relationship management and marketing solution enhances student recruitment, enrollment management and marketing efforts. Since 2001, Intelliworks has been been trusted by leading higher education institutions around to world to enhance recruitment, enrollment and marketing outreach efforts. The Intelliworks system is an all-in-one solution for contact management, email marketing, program and course registration, event management and campaign reporting. Introduced in April 2009, Intelliworks Social Marketing connects your admissions and enrollment departments directly to students through today's most popular social networks.

Approva

Venture Round in 2005
Approva is a leading provider of continuous controls monitoring software, recognized as the industry standard by three of the five largest audit and advisory firms. The company specializes in automating IT and financial controls across major business applications such as Oracle, PeopleSoft, and SAP. By implementing Approva's software, organizations can effectively reduce risk, prevent fraud, lower compliance costs, and identify opportunities for operational improvements. This solution helps businesses meet their governance, risk, and compliance requirements, ensuring a more secure and efficient operational framework.

BNX Systems

Private Equity Round in 2004
BNX Systems is a provider of enterprise-wide Controlled Access Management. The flagship BNX Authenticated Sign-On solution offers organizations a stronger and more efficient method of user log-on that streamlines access to critical applications. This patented solution minimizes user and IT interaction for application access, yielding high productivity and rapid return on investment.

Mobile Satellite Ventures

Venture Round in 2004
Mobile Satellite Ventures is a privately held company involved in the provision of telecommunication services. It is based in Reston, Virginia.

Approva

Series B in 2004
Approva is a leading provider of continuous controls monitoring software, recognized as the industry standard by three of the five largest audit and advisory firms. The company specializes in automating IT and financial controls across major business applications such as Oracle, PeopleSoft, and SAP. By implementing Approva's software, organizations can effectively reduce risk, prevent fraud, lower compliance costs, and identify opportunities for operational improvements. This solution helps businesses meet their governance, risk, and compliance requirements, ensuring a more secure and efficient operational framework.

BroadSoft

Series C in 2004
BroadSoft, Inc. is a prominent provider of software and services that empower telecommunications service providers to offer hosted cloud-based unified communications (UC) to enterprise customers across various regions, including North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company's main products include UC-One, which integrates various communication and collaboration tools such as phone services, messaging, and video conferencing; Team-One, a solution for project management and collaboration; BroadSoft Hub, which connects real-time communications with cloud applications; and CC-One, a contact center solution for multi-channel customer interactions. BroadSoft's offerings are delivered through its BroadWorks application server and BroadCloud platform. The company also provides professional support services, including installation, project management, and training. Catering to over 500 telecommunications service provider customers, BroadSoft operates in more than 70 countries and serves many of the largest telecommunications carriers globally. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, BroadSoft became a subsidiary of Cisco Systems in 2018.

Hillcrest Labs

Series B in 2004
Hillcrest Laboratories is a leading global supplier of motion processing solutions. These solutions use MEMS sensors to capture human and mechanical movement, translating that into motion patters which can be used to control and interact with devices. This motion technology is then used to enhance products in both consumer technology and industrial fields. The company is widely recognized as a leader in the Smart TV industry, having created HoME, the first pointer-based interactive media system for TV, and the award winning Loop remote control. Today it counts LG, Roku and TCL among its Smart TV customers. Building on these roots in Smart TV, the company has expanded focus and now has customers in the smartphone and mobile device industry, licenses technology to leading gaming systems and provides solutions to virtual reality customers. Hillcrest Labs has received numerous awards including the CES Innovations Award in 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012, PC World's 100 Best Products and Greatest Tech Designs, Popular Mechanics' Editors Choice, ECN's Reader's Choice Tech, and many others. Based in Rockville, Maryland, Hillcrest Labs was founded in 2001 by Dan Simpkins. The company is funded by NEA, Columbia Capital and Grotech Capital.

Rivermine Software

Series A in 2003
Rivermine Software, Inc. specializes in providing software solutions designed to automate the telecommunications expense management lifecycle for enterprises and government agencies. The company offers a range of Telecom Expense Management (TEM) solutions that streamline procurement, order provisioning, invoice processing, inventory management, and network optimization. Key products include the Inventory Engine, which maintains an up-to-date repository of telecom assets; the Service Order Manager, which tracks telecom order requests from initiation to approval; and the Finance Manager, which automates invoice processing and auditing. Rivermine Clarity provides insights into telecom spending through dashboards and analytics. Additionally, Rivermine offers managed services such as contract analysis, rate benchmarking, and ongoing audits, along with support for system security, software implementation, and training. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, Rivermine Software has a long-standing commitment to enhancing telecommunications management for its clients.

BroadSoft

Series C in 2002
BroadSoft, Inc. is a prominent provider of software and services that empower telecommunications service providers to offer hosted cloud-based unified communications (UC) to enterprise customers across various regions, including North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company's main products include UC-One, which integrates various communication and collaboration tools such as phone services, messaging, and video conferencing; Team-One, a solution for project management and collaboration; BroadSoft Hub, which connects real-time communications with cloud applications; and CC-One, a contact center solution for multi-channel customer interactions. BroadSoft's offerings are delivered through its BroadWorks application server and BroadCloud platform. The company also provides professional support services, including installation, project management, and training. Catering to over 500 telecommunications service provider customers, BroadSoft operates in more than 70 countries and serves many of the largest telecommunications carriers globally. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, BroadSoft became a subsidiary of Cisco Systems in 2018.

Approva

Series A in 2002
Approva is a leading provider of continuous controls monitoring software, recognized as the industry standard by three of the five largest audit and advisory firms. The company specializes in automating IT and financial controls across major business applications such as Oracle, PeopleSoft, and SAP. By implementing Approva's software, organizations can effectively reduce risk, prevent fraud, lower compliance costs, and identify opportunities for operational improvements. This solution helps businesses meet their governance, risk, and compliance requirements, ensuring a more secure and efficient operational framework.

Megisto Systems

Series B in 2001
Megisto develops hardware it sells to telecom companies, which is used to connect mobile wireless subscribers to different data services.

Vibrant Solutions

Series A in 2001
The ViewLogic platform analyzes large volumes of network data and streamlines the greatly detailed processes involved in revenue assurance.

Riptech

Series A in 2000
RIPTech, Inc. is an information security service provider established in 1998 by experienced security professionals. The company specializes in offering Secure Outsourced Solutions (SOS), utilizing its proprietary eSentry technology alongside security solutions from leading vendors. RIPTech focuses on delivering comprehensive, round-the-clock security services that enable organizations to protect sensitive information, including high-value financial systems and e-commerce platforms, without the need for in-house security expertise or the financial burden of maintaining complex network infrastructure. The company has a proven track record of securing numerous organizations, reinforcing its position as a trusted partner in the online security services sector.

Global Metro Networks

Private Equity Round in 2000
Global Metro focuses exclusively on building and operating dark fiber infrastructure in major metropolitan cities. Customers can "plug into" their existing network from virtually any point in the city. Ready access lets customers reduce start-up expenses and accelerate time-to-market. Global Metro's network infrastructure is designed to meet customer demands both today and tomorrow. Because they offer unlimited bandwidth, they're able to provide service that scales as each customer's needs expand. They also capitalize on the knowledge of local authorities by forging close working relationships with premier providers of construction, technical, legal and marketing services in each city.

BroadSoft

Series B in 2000
BroadSoft, Inc. is a prominent provider of software and services that empower telecommunications service providers to offer hosted cloud-based unified communications (UC) to enterprise customers across various regions, including North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company's main products include UC-One, which integrates various communication and collaboration tools such as phone services, messaging, and video conferencing; Team-One, a solution for project management and collaboration; BroadSoft Hub, which connects real-time communications with cloud applications; and CC-One, a contact center solution for multi-channel customer interactions. BroadSoft's offerings are delivered through its BroadWorks application server and BroadCloud platform. The company also provides professional support services, including installation, project management, and training. Catering to over 500 telecommunications service provider customers, BroadSoft operates in more than 70 countries and serves many of the largest telecommunications carriers globally. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, BroadSoft became a subsidiary of Cisco Systems in 2018.

86.com

Series A in 2000
86.com was founded in January of 2000 by Robin Rains, an independent restaurant owner and former institutional portfolio manager, and Julie Chapman, an Internet industry veteran previously with CareerBuilder.com and MCI. The site provides E-commerce solutions and value-added content to independent restaurants and their suppliers. To learn more about 86.com, visit www.86.com.

Megisto Systems

Series A in 2000
Megisto develops hardware it sells to telecom companies, which is used to connect mobile wireless subscribers to different data services.

ZonaFinanciera

Venture Round in 2000
ZonaFinanciera.com, an online supermarket of financial products and services for Spanish and Portuguese speakers worldwide

BioNetrix Systems Corp

Series B in 2000
BioNetrix Taps Dell Managed Service Veteran To Lead Company’s New Authentication Service Provider Business.

Digital Paper

Series B in 2000
Digital Paper is a software development company. It improves individuals’ business performances by enabling secure collaboration and exchange of intellectual capital over the internet. The company offers services for the sectors such as discrete manufacturing, aerospace, utilities, and government organizations. It develops solutions for companies such as General Motors, Nissan, and Lucent Technologies. Digital Paper is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 1995 and the company was acquired by ePlus on October 15, 2003.

SpaceWorks

Venture Round in 2000
SpaceWorks, They recognize that a successful electronic commerce strategy involves more than just selecting the right mission-critical application. It involves smoothly integrating that solution into a client's existing enterprise environment so that they can quickly realize the cost-savings, productivity improvements and customer service benefits of a fully-automated Web-based electronic commerce solution.

BroadSoft

Series A in 1999
BroadSoft, Inc. is a prominent provider of software and services that empower telecommunications service providers to offer hosted cloud-based unified communications (UC) to enterprise customers across various regions, including North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company's main products include UC-One, which integrates various communication and collaboration tools such as phone services, messaging, and video conferencing; Team-One, a solution for project management and collaboration; BroadSoft Hub, which connects real-time communications with cloud applications; and CC-One, a contact center solution for multi-channel customer interactions. BroadSoft's offerings are delivered through its BroadWorks application server and BroadCloud platform. The company also provides professional support services, including installation, project management, and training. Catering to over 500 telecommunications service provider customers, BroadSoft operates in more than 70 countries and serves many of the largest telecommunications carriers globally. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, BroadSoft became a subsidiary of Cisco Systems in 2018.

Call Technologies

Series B in 1998
Call Technologies is a developer of Unified Messaging (UM) and Operational Systems and Support (OSS) software solutions for service providers. Unified Messaging gives people access to any message - voice, fax or email - across any network while utilizing any client device -- traditional telephone, wireless handsets, PC or wireless personal digital assistant. OSS gives carriers custom automated management of service delivery and back-office processes.