In the News
We want to congratulate our portfolio companies, which continue to garner industry recognition for innovation, fast growth, compelling business models, and exceptional talent. As always, they are working hard to broaden product lines, grow revenue, and expand operations. Below is a small sampling of some noteworthy recent events.
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Oracle acquired ProfitLogic, a Cambridge, MA-based software company that grew to be the dominant player in the retail optimization category. And both Advanced Analogic and Cbeyond began trading on Nasdaq earlier this year. |
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Vijay Manwani, co-founder and CTO of BladeLogic and Paul Judge, CTO of CipherTrust were both named "Innovators to Watch in 2006" by InfoWorld. |
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Veraz Networks was named to the AlwaysOn “AO100 Top Private Companies” list. In addition, the company received Internet Telephony Magazine’s new Internet Telephony Excellence Award, as well as the 2005 Frost & Sullivan Product Line Strategy Award for the Global Carrier Infrastructure Market. |
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CipherTrust was selected by AlwaysOn as an “AO100 Top Private Company”, was named to the Red Herring “Top 100 North America” list, and was recognized by Information Security as the Best E-Mail Security Appliance. |
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In addition to being named a Red Herring “Top 100” Company, IP Unity was also placed on the pulver 100 list for the fourth year in a row, and was chosen as an “Emerging Star” at TiEcon 2005. |
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Tejas Networks, based in Bangalore, India, has been selected as one of the “Top 20 Companies to Watch” in 2006 by India’s leading business magazine, Business Today. The company was also named to the Red Herring “Top 100 Asia” list. |
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In addition to being named an AlwaysOn “AO100 Top Private Company”, Netezza won a number of company and product awards including:
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Data protection and business-continuity company Kashya won Computer Technology Review's “Editor’s Choice” Award. |
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Arbor Networks founder Dr. Farnam Jahanian, has been honored with the first annual Governor’s University Award for Commercialization Excellence (U-ACE). The award recognizes the successful commercialization of technology stemming from the research and entrepreneurial efforts of researchers at Michigan’s public universities. Arbor Networks was also ranked #9 on the Inc. 500 list, a prestigious list of the fastest growing private companies in the US. |
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Colleges and universities continue to sign up with digital entertainment network Ruckus Network. Recent wins include Babson College, Bridgewater State College, Ohio Northern University, Pace University, SUNY Cortland, University of Southern California, University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire, and Wesleyan University. |
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Quantum Leap Packaging secured a $20M equity investment from Sumitomo Chemical, and continued to steadily build out its next generation semiconductor packaging product line, acquiring Connector-in-Package (CiP) technology from Silicon Bandwidth. |
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