Velocity Equity Partners

Velocity Equity Partners is a private venture capital firm investing in early stage growth companies primarily in the Northeast. Velocity’s mission is to create value by identifying and supporting outstanding entrepreneurs with unique innovations and a powerful drive to build market-leading companies. Velocity’s partners work with management teams to create premier companies in their field with the help of capital, expertise in building companies, and access to key networks. Velocity Equity Partners was founded with the merger of two independent venture investment groups: Velocity Capital and Corning Technology Ventures (a.k.a. Corning Capital Ventures). The merger brings together two experienced teams with over 40 years of combined experience in early stage venture investing.

Barney Corning

co-founder

20 past transactions

Metatomix

Series C in 2009
Metatomix was founded in 2000 and describes themselves as the "semantic integration provider." Metatomix' solutions aim to link data from "existing disparate systems to create a common semantic understanding of your information across the enterprise, providing you a 360° view of your business information. As a result, business applications can leverage information that comes not just from a single product system or data store, but from across all data sources."

BEZ Systems

Series D in 2008
BEZ Systems, Inc provides predictive performance management (PPM) solutions for enterprises to profile application performance, compare change and growth alternatives, and forecast results for productivity and business continuity. The company's products include BEZVision, an automated management solution that enables information technology (IT) managers, and other IT professionals to deliver application and database services to the business; BEZPlus that allows DB2 UDB customers to understand, analyze, and predict the impact of infrastructure changes on service delivery, as well as facilitates customers to predict the performance of Teradata database applications; and BEZ Oracle 10g Grid Control Management Plug-In, which provides various data collection for BEZVision to build profiles of various applications/line-of-businesses. Its professional services include application assurance programs, new application certifications, application and database performance, active data warehouse performance management and capacity planning, DBMS and hardware platform justification, and data warehouse hardware upgrade. BEZ Systems, Inc serves customers in the retail, transportation, insurance, financial services, healthcare, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, government, and information services markets. The company offers its products and services in North America, South America, and Europe through its direct sales organization and indirect channel partners. BEZ Systems, Inc was founded in 1983 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

BEZ Systems

Venture Round in 2008
BEZ Systems, Inc provides predictive performance management (PPM) solutions for enterprises to profile application performance, compare change and growth alternatives, and forecast results for productivity and business continuity. The company's products include BEZVision, an automated management solution that enables information technology (IT) managers, and other IT professionals to deliver application and database services to the business; BEZPlus that allows DB2 UDB customers to understand, analyze, and predict the impact of infrastructure changes on service delivery, as well as facilitates customers to predict the performance of Teradata database applications; and BEZ Oracle 10g Grid Control Management Plug-In, which provides various data collection for BEZVision to build profiles of various applications/line-of-businesses. Its professional services include application assurance programs, new application certifications, application and database performance, active data warehouse performance management and capacity planning, DBMS and hardware platform justification, and data warehouse hardware upgrade. BEZ Systems, Inc serves customers in the retail, transportation, insurance, financial services, healthcare, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, government, and information services markets. The company offers its products and services in North America, South America, and Europe through its direct sales organization and indirect channel partners. BEZ Systems, Inc was founded in 1983 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Profind

Venture Round in 2007
Profind is a tracking system that provides a web-based applicant tracking system. Profind is the provider of applicant tracking and hiring optimization solutions. The company develops and sells software products and services relating to the recruitment process.

Nexaweb Inc.

Series B in 2006
Nexaweb develops software that helps companies modernize existing enterprise applications and move them to the Web. Nexaweb software is designed to address three critical issues facing companies today. These are: 1. the high cost of maintaining an application portfolio that is aging and may have tens or hundreds of applications that have redundancies or bad code picked up throughout the years; 2. The decreasing number of IT professionals that have expertise in more traditional applications such as PowerBuilder, Oracle Forms or Visual Basic. These pros have either retired or moved on to other companies and didn't leave a history of the code behind. 3. The growing interest in updating existing applications and bridging the old with the newer technologies such as Nexacro Platform.

Peoplefilter Technology

Series A in 2006
Peoplefilter Technology, LLC provides recruiting technology solutions. The company's solutions empower agencies and employers with the ability to manage responses from external advertising vehicles, such as job boards, print, and broadcast advertising. The company was formerly known as Talentology LLC and changed its name in May 2006. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

Profind

Venture Round in 2005
Profind is a tracking system that provides a web-based applicant tracking system. Profind is the provider of applicant tracking and hiring optimization solutions. The company develops and sells software products and services relating to the recruitment process.

Centerstone Software

Series D in 2005
Centerstone Software is focused on the development of computer aided facility management solutions for facility operations, including space management and planning, operations, and asset and lease management. Centerstone Software was acquired by Manhattan Software in November 2006. Centerstone Software was founded in 2000.

Sonexis

Series B in 2005
Sonexis is a provider of in-house audio and web conferencing solutions tailored for enterprises. The Sonexis ConferenceManager platform offers a secure and user-friendly environment for scheduling, managing, and conducting audio and web conferences without incurring the high costs associated with subscription-based services. This system is designed to integrate seamlessly with existing voice and data networks, allowing organizations to deploy it with minimal effort and administration. The ConferenceManager can be installed in under an hour and supports various deployment options, whether on-premise or in a dedicated facility. It scales easily to accommodate different traffic patterns, offering significant cost savings by utilizing existing infrastructure and competitive rates for long-distance communications. With capabilities such as reservationless and scheduled conferencing, integration with Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes, and emergency conferencing features, Sonexis meets diverse conferencing needs for businesses of all sizes. Headquartered in Monroeville, PA, with a technology center in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, Sonexis continues to deliver effective conferencing solutions to organizations worldwide.

Centerstone Technologies

Venture Round in 2005
Centerstone Technologies, Inc. specializes in designing and developing a software as a service (SaaS) platform focused on B2B e-commerce applications for specialty retailers and sales representatives. The company’s flagship product, iVendix, serves as an international platform tailored for wholesale sales and marketing in the accessories, footwear, and apparel sectors. It facilitates a streamlined purchasing experience by connecting sales representatives, agents, key account managers, and retailers. Additionally, Centerstone provides integration services to enhance its offerings. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with an office in Paris, France, Centerstone Technologies operates as a subsidiary of PlumRiver LLC. The company aims to deliver value to its customers through innovative digital marketing and sales tools, ensuring a seamless user experience while minimizing IT downtime for clients.

BEZ Systems

Series B in 2005
BEZ Systems, Inc provides predictive performance management (PPM) solutions for enterprises to profile application performance, compare change and growth alternatives, and forecast results for productivity and business continuity. The company's products include BEZVision, an automated management solution that enables information technology (IT) managers, and other IT professionals to deliver application and database services to the business; BEZPlus that allows DB2 UDB customers to understand, analyze, and predict the impact of infrastructure changes on service delivery, as well as facilitates customers to predict the performance of Teradata database applications; and BEZ Oracle 10g Grid Control Management Plug-In, which provides various data collection for BEZVision to build profiles of various applications/line-of-businesses. Its professional services include application assurance programs, new application certifications, application and database performance, active data warehouse performance management and capacity planning, DBMS and hardware platform justification, and data warehouse hardware upgrade. BEZ Systems, Inc serves customers in the retail, transportation, insurance, financial services, healthcare, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, government, and information services markets. The company offers its products and services in North America, South America, and Europe through its direct sales organization and indirect channel partners. BEZ Systems, Inc was founded in 1983 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dotomi

Seed Round in 2004
Dotomi, Inc. is helping marketers rethink display advertising with a new approach called Personalized Media. This approach allows decisions such as the banner creative and media placement to be determined in real-time at the user and impression level. By making every online impression unique, consumers enjoy more meaningful advertisements and companies enjoy higher returns and improved user engagement. The company has experienced hyper growth in the 3 years since raising venture capital and services 3 of the top 10 online retailers and 3 of the top 4 travel aggregators. For more information on Dotomi, visit www.dotomi.

Retail Solutions

Series A in 2004
Retail Solutions Inc. develops a cloud-based data transformation software for consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers and retailers. It offers solutions for CPG manufactures, such as business intelligence and reporting, on shelf availability and reporting, data and demand signal management, go to market and in store activities, drive Omni channel success, professional service group, shopper marketing analytics, and data and demand signal management. The company also offers solution for retailers, such as scorecards, professional service group, drive Omni channel success, on shelf availability and alerting, and OSA360 from RSi and crossmark. Retail Solutions Inc. was formerly known as The Tag Tracking Company, Inc. and changed its name to Retail Solutions Inc. in December 2007. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in San Jose, California. As of October 8, 2020, Retail Solutions Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Information Resources, Inc.

Webdialogs

Series A in 2004
Webdialogs develops online meeting and communication solutions that include voice, video and Web conferencing, data collaboration, and Web callback solutions. The company offers Unyte, a sharing plug-in that allows users to seamlessly escalate a discussion or chat to real time collaboration; Unyte Meeting solutions, which is designed for conferencing users to provide integrated Web, voice, and video conferencing services; and Unyte Events that is used for conducting large-scale marketing webinars, events, and presentations. Its products also include WebIntertalk, a click to talk service to small businesses, enterprises, and directory service providers for inclusion on Web sites, emails, online directories, banner ads, newsletters, and other electronic media. The company provides conferencing and collaboration technologies as hosted services and software licenses to the communication equipment providers, conferencing providers, application vendors, and other resellers. In addition, it offers solutions for individuals, small businesses, departments, enterprises, sales and marketing, training, everyday meetings, and webinars/events. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Billerica, Massachusetts. As of August 8, 2007, Webdialogs, Inc. is a subsidiary of International Business Machines Corp.

Reflectent Software

Series B in 2004
Reflectent develops enterprise scalable End-User Systems Management software that complements traditional system and network management applications by providing an integrated, real-time view of enterprise applications from the end-user's perspective. Reflectent reduces the total cost of ownership of connected, mobile, and heterogeneous end-user devices and applications by pinpointing problems between networks, servers, and end-user devices. This results in increased application uptime and availability, automation of labor intensive processes, consolidation of underutilized applications, and the proactive management of mission-critical business applications at the desktop.

Metatomix

Venture Round in 2003
Metatomix was founded in 2000 and describes themselves as the "semantic integration provider." Metatomix' solutions aim to link data from "existing disparate systems to create a common semantic understanding of your information across the enterprise, providing you a 360° view of your business information. As a result, business applications can leverage information that comes not just from a single product system or data store, but from across all data sources."

Ammasso

Series A in 2003
Ammasso, Inc., a server-to-server networking company, develops and delivers RDMA-enabled Ethernet-based products. It provides advanced network protocol acceleration for information technology professionals. The company’s interconnect products extend and integrate with Ethernet solutions for connectivity and manageability. Its products are used in technical and grid computing; clustered databases; storage infrastructures, including IP storage; and enterprise applications. The company delivers its products through a network of partners. Ammasso, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Nexaweb Inc.

Series A in 2003
Nexaweb develops software that helps companies modernize existing enterprise applications and move them to the Web. Nexaweb software is designed to address three critical issues facing companies today. These are: 1. the high cost of maintaining an application portfolio that is aging and may have tens or hundreds of applications that have redundancies or bad code picked up throughout the years; 2. The decreasing number of IT professionals that have expertise in more traditional applications such as PowerBuilder, Oracle Forms or Visual Basic. These pros have either retired or moved on to other companies and didn't leave a history of the code behind. 3. The growing interest in updating existing applications and bridging the old with the newer technologies such as Nexacro Platform.

Centerstone Technologies

Series B in 2002
Centerstone Technologies, Inc. specializes in designing and developing a software as a service (SaaS) platform focused on B2B e-commerce applications for specialty retailers and sales representatives. The company’s flagship product, iVendix, serves as an international platform tailored for wholesale sales and marketing in the accessories, footwear, and apparel sectors. It facilitates a streamlined purchasing experience by connecting sales representatives, agents, key account managers, and retailers. Additionally, Centerstone provides integration services to enhance its offerings. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with an office in Paris, France, Centerstone Technologies operates as a subsidiary of PlumRiver LLC. The company aims to deliver value to its customers through innovative digital marketing and sales tools, ensuring a seamless user experience while minimizing IT downtime for clients.

Centerstone Software

Series A in 2001
Centerstone Software is focused on the development of computer aided facility management solutions for facility operations, including space management and planning, operations, and asset and lease management. Centerstone Software was acquired by Manhattan Software in November 2006. Centerstone Software was founded in 2000.