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Marc F. Benson

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43 past transactions

CareGain

Series B in 2004
CareGain Inc. provides application software solutions for the consumer directed healthcare industry. Its CareGain Defined Care platform enables health plans and third-party administrators, such as health savings accounts, health reimbursement accounts, and flexible spending accounts to create and administer consumer-directed health plans. The company's products comprise CareGain Asset Management Platform, an integrated software solution for CDH benefits administration; CareGain BankConnect that links the health plan's back-end systems with the systems of banks and other financial institutions that take on the role of health savings account custodians; and CareGain CardConnect, which facilitates the integration to multiple card transaction processing engines. It also offers services, including business analysis and consulting, customer support, and integration, as well as implementation, planning and analysis, design, construction, deployment, and training. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in East Windsor, New Jersey. As of October 9, 2008, CareGain Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Canopy Financial, Inc.

NxtWave Communications

Series A in 1998
NxtWave Communications Inc. designs and markets broadband, error-free video and data communications integrated circuits.

ProVox Technologies

Series D in 2006
ProVox Technologies Corporation provides speech recognition-based medical documentation and workflow management systems for group practices, hospitals, and clinics in the United States. Its products include VoxNotes, a speech recognition-based, medical documentation workflow management system that speeds the documentation process; VoxReports, a speech recognition-based, radiology reporting workflow management system; and VoxEnterprise that delivers interactive and passive speech recognition to fit into existing medical documentation workflow. The company also offers training and installation, support, system interfaces and integrations, and customization services. ProVox Technologies Corporation is based in Roanoke, Virginia.

Netilla Networks

Series B in 2001
The Netilla® Service Platform is the industry's leading SSL VPN appliance that enables companies to provide secure remote and intranet access to ANY application - Windows®, UNIX®/Linux®, or mainframe - via a standard browser. Their appliance combines thin-client technology, SSL encryption and a flexible, powerful authentication and policy framework. The benefits: rapid deployment, minimized network exposure and lower maintenance costs than traditional VPNs - with unrivaled ease of use.

sentitO Networks

Series D in 2005
sentitO Networks is a leading provider of open and distributed VoIP switching and service delivery solutions that help telecommunications service providers worldwide successfully migrate their networks to deliver Voice over IP (VoIP) services. sentitO has fundamentally redesigned the time-to-profitability for VoIP service providers using breakthrough software, silicon, security, and service intelligence innovations. Our Open Network Xchange (ONX) suite of voice and signaling gateway solutions is the first to successfully fulfill the demands of VoIP providers for: - Network and service scalability - Heightened voice quality and integrity - Carrier-grade reliability - An open service delivery architecture that enables consistent innovation and differentiation The first solution purpose-built from the ground up for VoIP and the resilient delivery of IP-based voice services from the network edge, the ONX allows carriers and service providers to economically expand their geographic reach and their addressable markets. It provides an open and distributed architecture to enable service providers to efficiently create and evolve VoIP services. The ONX suite incorporates true telco-grade security, management, and performance as well as SIP-driven service innovation and flexibility. Its modularity, scale, and economics uniquely enable rapid deployment and profitability while supporting ongoing service and subscriber expansion.

Interscope Technologies

Series B in 2001
InterScope Technologies, Inc. is a privately held company located in Wexford, PA. It was founded in 1998 by Dr. Michael Becich and other staff pathologists associated with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Its product suite includes a range of integrated slide imaging, case flow and clinical data management applications for use in anatomic pathology, toxicology and genomic environments by clinical, research and educational institutions.

Sentori

Series A in 2000
Sentori, Inc., is a privately held company headquartered in Maryland, that provides multi-service billing, customer care and network mediation software solutions to the communications services industry worldwide. Founded in 1994, Sentori offers an innovative modular, scalable solution for 2G, 2.5G and 3G wireless carriers and Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs); wireline carriers; and broadband and Internet service providers. It also helps enterprises seeking usage tracking solutions for their internal communications networks. The Sentori name represents what the system enables service providers to do: like a sentry, safeguard customer relationships and business profitability by taking control of the entire customer management process. The Sentori system, launched in 1998, has been deployed in wireless carrier, MVNO, wireline, and satellite communications companies throughout the Americas and in Europe. The company's rapid growth can be traced to its successful track record of in-budget and on-time product implementation, combined with world-class client support. Sentori is supported by major equity investments from Edison Venture Fund, Mid-Atlantic Venture Funds and STI Venture Funds.

Mesa Systems Guild

Series B in 2000
Mesa Systems Guild, Inc., is a privately held corporation whose mission is to develop, market and maintain collaborative.

MindLever Corporation

Series A in 1999
MindLever.com provides an integrated e-learning environment over the internet.

Netilla Networks

Series C in 2003
The Netilla® Service Platform is the industry's leading SSL VPN appliance that enables companies to provide secure remote and intranet access to ANY application - Windows®, UNIX®/Linux®, or mainframe - via a standard browser. Their appliance combines thin-client technology, SSL encryption and a flexible, powerful authentication and policy framework. The benefits: rapid deployment, minimized network exposure and lower maintenance costs than traditional VPNs - with unrivaled ease of use.

WorldStor

Series B in 2000
A leading storage services provider

geovue

Series A in 2001
geoVue, Inc. provides dynamic location optimization software for retailers, restaurants, and real-estate based consumer channels. The company offers capital planning suite that provides asset vitality evaluates, market ranking, and capital allocation services; and targeted marketing services, including direct mail scoring and iTARGET, a targeted marketing software. It also offers market optimization suite that provides iPLAN, a market planning platform; market optimization services, such as market blueprints, individual trade area maps, and demographic reports; and analysis decision. In addition, the company offers site selection and sales forecasting suite that offers iSITE, mapping and demographic reporting software; sales forecasting model that allocates the potential demand within the trade area; iPREDICT, a sales forecasting software; and sales forecasting services. The company was formerly known as Geonomics, Inc. and changed its name to geoVue, Inc. in August 2001. The company was founded in 1993 and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts. It has locations in Boston, Boise, San Francisco, and Chicago.

TechTrader

Venture Round in 1999
TechTrader a technology provider for Internet business-to-business markets.

MindMatters Technologies

Series B in 2001
MindMatters Technologies has developed Innovator™ Enterprise Management System software, which provides advanced oversight and management of the corporate innovation process. Additionally, the Innovator has integrated functionality that provides unsurpassed safeguarding and protection of emerging intellectual property assets.

TapRoot Systems

Series B in 2005
TapRoot Systems provides an embedded mobile analytics product.

sentitO Networks

Series A in 2001
sentitO Networks is a leading provider of open and distributed VoIP switching and service delivery solutions that help telecommunications service providers worldwide successfully migrate their networks to deliver Voice over IP (VoIP) services. sentitO has fundamentally redesigned the time-to-profitability for VoIP service providers using breakthrough software, silicon, security, and service intelligence innovations. Our Open Network Xchange (ONX) suite of voice and signaling gateway solutions is the first to successfully fulfill the demands of VoIP providers for: - Network and service scalability - Heightened voice quality and integrity - Carrier-grade reliability - An open service delivery architecture that enables consistent innovation and differentiation The first solution purpose-built from the ground up for VoIP and the resilient delivery of IP-based voice services from the network edge, the ONX allows carriers and service providers to economically expand their geographic reach and their addressable markets. It provides an open and distributed architecture to enable service providers to efficiently create and evolve VoIP services. The ONX suite incorporates true telco-grade security, management, and performance as well as SIP-driven service innovation and flexibility. Its modularity, scale, and economics uniquely enable rapid deployment and profitability while supporting ongoing service and subscriber expansion.

Trinity Convergence

Series B in 2002
Trinity Convergence designs, develops, and licenses VoIP software solutions.

Sprockets.com

Series B in 2001
Sprockets.com, a secure, scalable, Internet-based service that enables client, creative, production and media professionals.

MindMatters Technologies

Series A in 2001
MindMatters Technologies has developed Innovator™ Enterprise Management System software, which provides advanced oversight and management of the corporate innovation process. Additionally, the Innovator has integrated functionality that provides unsurpassed safeguarding and protection of emerging intellectual property assets.

sentitO Networks

Series B in 2003
sentitO Networks is a leading provider of open and distributed VoIP switching and service delivery solutions that help telecommunications service providers worldwide successfully migrate their networks to deliver Voice over IP (VoIP) services. sentitO has fundamentally redesigned the time-to-profitability for VoIP service providers using breakthrough software, silicon, security, and service intelligence innovations. Our Open Network Xchange (ONX) suite of voice and signaling gateway solutions is the first to successfully fulfill the demands of VoIP providers for: - Network and service scalability - Heightened voice quality and integrity - Carrier-grade reliability - An open service delivery architecture that enables consistent innovation and differentiation The first solution purpose-built from the ground up for VoIP and the resilient delivery of IP-based voice services from the network edge, the ONX allows carriers and service providers to economically expand their geographic reach and their addressable markets. It provides an open and distributed architecture to enable service providers to efficiently create and evolve VoIP services. The ONX suite incorporates true telco-grade security, management, and performance as well as SIP-driven service innovation and flexibility. Its modularity, scale, and economics uniquely enable rapid deployment and profitability while supporting ongoing service and subscriber expansion.

TapRoot Systems

Series A in 2004
TapRoot Systems provides an embedded mobile analytics product.

NxtWave Communications

Series B in 1999
NxtWave Communications Inc. designs and markets broadband, error-free video and data communications integrated circuits.

MindMatters Technologies

Series C in 2003
MindMatters Technologies has developed Innovator™ Enterprise Management System software, which provides advanced oversight and management of the corporate innovation process. Additionally, the Innovator has integrated functionality that provides unsurpassed safeguarding and protection of emerging intellectual property assets.

Para-Protect Inc

Series A in 1999
Para-Protect Inc is an authority on network and e-commerce security.

MindMatters Technologies

Venture Round in 2004
MindMatters Technologies has developed Innovator™ Enterprise Management System software, which provides advanced oversight and management of the corporate innovation process. Additionally, the Innovator has integrated functionality that provides unsurpassed safeguarding and protection of emerging intellectual property assets.

Interscope Technologies

Series A in 1999
InterScope Technologies, Inc. is a privately held company located in Wexford, PA. It was founded in 1998 by Dr. Michael Becich and other staff pathologists associated with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Its product suite includes a range of integrated slide imaging, case flow and clinical data management applications for use in anatomic pathology, toxicology and genomic environments by clinical, research and educational institutions.

Softrax

Venture Round in 2000
Softrax provides enterprise revenue management and billing software solutions that fundamentally change the way companies manage, analyze, report, and forecast their revenue. SOFTRAX products work alongside your existing infrastructure to automate the entire revenue cycle, from revenue recognition, reporting and forecasting, through complex billing and contract renewals.

Cendex

Series A in 2000
Cendex is a leading developer/operator of NetMarkets -- vertical Internet communities serving targeted business-to- business industries.

ScoreBoard

Series A in 1999
ScoreBoard, Inc. provides mobile operators around the globe a revolutionary business solution that addresses new market realities, such as expensive and scarce resources, a tightened capital market and increased consumer quality demands. In a difficult financial market, mobile operators can expect this solution to help them meet and exceed their investor and customer commitments.

ProVox Technologies

Series C in 2003
ProVox Technologies Corporation provides speech recognition-based medical documentation and workflow management systems for group practices, hospitals, and clinics in the United States. Its products include VoxNotes, a speech recognition-based, medical documentation workflow management system that speeds the documentation process; VoxReports, a speech recognition-based, radiology reporting workflow management system; and VoxEnterprise that delivers interactive and passive speech recognition to fit into existing medical documentation workflow. The company also offers training and installation, support, system interfaces and integrations, and customization services. ProVox Technologies Corporation is based in Roanoke, Virginia.

Response Networks

Venture Round in 1999
Response Networks offer business communications solutions designed to speed your Response to your clients, partners and prospects.

ScoreBoard

Series B in 2000
ScoreBoard, Inc. provides mobile operators around the globe a revolutionary business solution that addresses new market realities, such as expensive and scarce resources, a tightened capital market and increased consumer quality demands. In a difficult financial market, mobile operators can expect this solution to help them meet and exceed their investor and customer commitments.

Netilla Networks

Series A in 2001
The Netilla® Service Platform is the industry's leading SSL VPN appliance that enables companies to provide secure remote and intranet access to ANY application - Windows®, UNIX®/Linux®, or mainframe - via a standard browser. Their appliance combines thin-client technology, SSL encryption and a flexible, powerful authentication and policy framework. The benefits: rapid deployment, minimized network exposure and lower maintenance costs than traditional VPNs - with unrivaled ease of use.

NexTone Communications

Series C in 2004
NexTone Communications, headquartered in Rockville, Md., is focused on delivering Internet-based solutions for voice and data convergence to service providers. NexTone is in touch with the needs of the communications industry and is building products and solutions that facilitate the delivery of next generation applications. NexTone Communication's solutions represent what's next in convergence.

Doctor Quality

Series B in 2000
The mission of DoctorQuality.com is to help the healthcare community, purchasers, and consumers to benefit from the highest quality healthcare available. DoctorQuality.com is the world's first Quality Benefits Management company (QBM). As a QBM company, DoctorQuality.com is positioned to take advantage of the growing "business case" for quality in healthcare. The premise of quality benefits management is that selecting and improving clinical quality is in the best economic interests for all key stakeholders in the healthcare industry. With quality benefits management, the marketplace will reward those that pursue the "quality" strategy. In defining this new market of quality benefits management, DoctorQuality.com has been created as an Internet-based company focusing on the business case for quality and providing an integrated suite of products and services to measure, select, pay for, and improve the quality of care.

Sprockets.com

Series A in 2000
Sprockets.com, a secure, scalable, Internet-based service that enables client, creative, production and media professionals.

NexTone Communications

Series D in 2005
NexTone Communications, headquartered in Rockville, Md., is focused on delivering Internet-based solutions for voice and data convergence to service providers. NexTone is in touch with the needs of the communications industry and is building products and solutions that facilitate the delivery of next generation applications. NexTone Communication's solutions represent what's next in convergence.

sentitO Networks

Series C in 2003
sentitO Networks is a leading provider of open and distributed VoIP switching and service delivery solutions that help telecommunications service providers worldwide successfully migrate their networks to deliver Voice over IP (VoIP) services. sentitO has fundamentally redesigned the time-to-profitability for VoIP service providers using breakthrough software, silicon, security, and service intelligence innovations. Our Open Network Xchange (ONX) suite of voice and signaling gateway solutions is the first to successfully fulfill the demands of VoIP providers for: - Network and service scalability - Heightened voice quality and integrity - Carrier-grade reliability - An open service delivery architecture that enables consistent innovation and differentiation The first solution purpose-built from the ground up for VoIP and the resilient delivery of IP-based voice services from the network edge, the ONX allows carriers and service providers to economically expand their geographic reach and their addressable markets. It provides an open and distributed architecture to enable service providers to efficiently create and evolve VoIP services. The ONX suite incorporates true telco-grade security, management, and performance as well as SIP-driven service innovation and flexibility. Its modularity, scale, and economics uniquely enable rapid deployment and profitability while supporting ongoing service and subscriber expansion.

Response Networks

Venture Round in 2001
Response Networks offer business communications solutions designed to speed your Response to your clients, partners and prospects.

Colubris Networks

Series B in 2004
Colubris Networks provides wireless local area network solutions for enterprises and service providers. Its products include Colubris Wireless MultiService Access Points, which enable organizations to create wireless networking with direct source-to-destination traffic forwarding; Wireless Client Bridge that transforms non-wireless infrastructure devices into wireless-ready mobile equipment; and MultiService Controllers, which manage wireless network configuration and operation.

Colubris Networks

Series C in 2005
Colubris Networks provides wireless local area network solutions for enterprises and service providers. Its products include Colubris Wireless MultiService Access Points, which enable organizations to create wireless networking with direct source-to-destination traffic forwarding; Wireless Client Bridge that transforms non-wireless infrastructure devices into wireless-ready mobile equipment; and MultiService Controllers, which manage wireless network configuration and operation.

Colubris Networks

Series E in 2006
Colubris Networks provides wireless local area network solutions for enterprises and service providers. Its products include Colubris Wireless MultiService Access Points, which enable organizations to create wireless networking with direct source-to-destination traffic forwarding; Wireless Client Bridge that transforms non-wireless infrastructure devices into wireless-ready mobile equipment; and MultiService Controllers, which manage wireless network configuration and operation.

Viaken Systems

Series A in 2000
Viaken Systems is the premier full service ASP (Application Service Provider) for the life sciences, offering solutions for biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and agricultural companies. Viaken hosts third-party research informatics application solutions and e-commerce services in the areas of genome informatics, chem informatics, and pharmaco informatics at its tier one data center and delivers these services via the Internet. The company’s unique ASP platform enables companies of all sizes to utilize the same state-of-the-art research information technology (IT) as implemented by top-tier organizations. Viaken specializes in architecture design, application and database hosting, distributed access to high performance computing services, secure network management, and 24x7x365 system and application support. The company also designs, implements, and hosts custom solutions to meet any of its customers’ IT requirements.