Convergent Capital is an investment firm based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, founded in 1998 by John H. Mason and Keith S. Bares. The firm specializes in providing growth and acquisition capital, focusing primarily on mid-market manufacturing and technology companies. Convergent Capital offers both equity and debt investments, targeting various situations such as recapitalizations, management buyouts, and consolidations. Its investment strategy encompasses sectors including business services, niche manufacturing, and specialty distribution, with preferred investments typically ranging from $2 million to $8 million. The firm has a notable track record in supporting businesses through various financial strategies, contributing to their growth and development.
Crescendo Networks accelerates and optimizes delivery of business-critical Web applications through the market’s best-performing application delivery controllers. A purpose-built hardware design with a massively parallel architecture enables Crescendo’s ADCs to outperform competing products under peak load with all features turned on, allowing servers to serve user requests even under massive HTTP traffic or extreme load. The company’s products are used by many of the world’s most sophisticated and fastest-growing Web properties to ensure usability, facilitate rapid business growth, lower IT costs and capture additional revenue.
DiBcom S.A., a fabless semiconductor company, offers a range of integrated circuits in France & internationally. It specializes in the development of broadband wireless solutions following digital video broadcasting and other broadband communication standards. The company offers chipsets and development kits. Its solutions are used in automotive, portable LCD TV, PC, mobile phones and other handheld device applications. DiBcom S.A. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Palaiseau, France.
Streamcore is a leading provider of visibility and dynamic performance control solutions for managing interactive applications and real-time communications (VoIP, video…) delivery over the WAN. Streamcore products enable enterprises to benefit from all-in-one visibility - network, applications, VoIP, video -, real-time monitoring and advanced on-demand reporting from a single centralized management console. What makes Streamcore solutions unique is that visibility and advanced performance control are tied together and can be enabled from data centers to ensure fast deployment and cost-efficiency.
Crescendo Networks accelerates and optimizes delivery of business-critical Web applications through the market’s best-performing application delivery controllers. A purpose-built hardware design with a massively parallel architecture enables Crescendo’s ADCs to outperform competing products under peak load with all features turned on, allowing servers to serve user requests even under massive HTTP traffic or extreme load. The company’s products are used by many of the world’s most sophisticated and fastest-growing Web properties to ensure usability, facilitate rapid business growth, lower IT costs and capture additional revenue.
Streamcore is a leading provider of visibility and dynamic performance control solutions for managing interactive applications and real-time communications (VoIP, video…) delivery over the WAN. Streamcore products enable enterprises to benefit from all-in-one visibility - network, applications, VoIP, video -, real-time monitoring and advanced on-demand reporting from a single centralized management console. What makes Streamcore solutions unique is that visibility and advanced performance control are tied together and can be enabled from data centers to ensure fast deployment and cost-efficiency.
Imperative Networks
Venture Round in 2005
Imperative Networks develops and markets storage area network (SAN) technology for fiber channel (FC) and Internet protocol networks. The company's products include FC and FC-iSCSI switches that are based on Smart Matrix technology. Imperative Networks was formerly known as SANChips and it changed its name in December 2004. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Yoqneam, Israel with an additional office in San Jose, United States.
DiBcom S.A., a fabless semiconductor company, offers a range of integrated circuits in France & internationally. It specializes in the development of broadband wireless solutions following digital video broadcasting and other broadband communication standards. The company offers chipsets and development kits. Its solutions are used in automotive, portable LCD TV, PC, mobile phones and other handheld device applications. DiBcom S.A. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Palaiseau, France.
DiBcom S.A., a fabless semiconductor company, offers a range of integrated circuits in France & internationally. It specializes in the development of broadband wireless solutions following digital video broadcasting and other broadband communication standards. The company offers chipsets and development kits. Its solutions are used in automotive, portable LCD TV, PC, mobile phones and other handheld device applications. DiBcom S.A. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Palaiseau, France.
Grande Communications Networks is a telecom company that provides a suite of internet, television, and phone services to residential and business customers. It offers high-speed Internet, wireless home networking, and fiber Internet services; digital basic TV; cable, preferred, and premier TV services; and advertising services. The company also provides data, voice, video, colocation, commercial development, bundles, MDU, and customer care services to small and enterprise businesses. ###Grande Communications Networks is recapitalized by ABRY Partners in 2009###