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MEDVENTIVE CLOSES $12 MILLION IN NEW FUNDING

Waltham, MA (October 26, 2011) – MedVentive announced today the completion of a $12 million Series D investment, led by two new provider-based investors. National Healthcare Services (NHS) and CHV II, LP, both focused on transformative technology for the healthcare market, were joined by MedVentive’s existing investors, which include Clarian Health Ventures, Core Capital Partners, Excel Venture Management, HLM Venture Partners and Long River Ventures. Including Clarian Health Ventures, MedVentive now has the backing of three of the nation’s most prestigious hospital investors.

The investment validates MedVentive’s accelerating innovation and strong company position as the leading provider of population and risk management solutions for health plans and providers.

“We have been evaluating organizations in the ACO space extensively,” said Brant Heise, representative of NHS. “Through rigorous market analysis, we determined that MedVentive is uniquely positioned in the healthcare field for its ability to support health plans and providers and focus on population and provider-centered risk management. It is evident that MedVentive’s tools can greatly help our provider organizations achieve core business goals.”

NHS is the investment arm of MemorialCare Health System in California. MemorialCare has been recognized as one of the nation’s most innovative health systems by such organizations as Thomson Reuters and The Governance Institute.

CHV II is a strategic venture fund investing on behalf of four of the largest non-profit health systems in the country. The fund’s objectives are to support strategic investments that have the potential to transform the healthcare industry, and significantly enhance the quality of patient care.

“We are delighted to welcome NHS and CHV to the MedVentive investment syndicate,” commented Nancy J. Ham, MedVentive President and CEO. Both are exceptional provider-based investors with an emphasis on bringing tools to market that will support the delivery of cost effective and efficient care,” she added. “Their investment is a true vote of confidence in MedVentive’s growth and success.”

MedVentive is extremely well positioned to meet the market needs for clinical integration, population management and management of financial risk for achieving stated quality and utilization goals. For more than a decade, MedVentive has been helping leading healthcare organizations support clinical integration initiatives and successfully manage their quality, utilization, pharmacy, and physician incentive programs. Its clients have achieved significant results using the MedVentive suite of Web-based applications to engage physicians and to optimize quality performance at the patient and population levels.

About National Healthcare Services (NHS)
National Healthcare Services (NHS) is a strategic investment company wholly owned by the MemorialCare Health System in California. The goal of NHS is to invest in companies that provide innovative products, services and technology to hospitals and physicians that have the potential to enhance operating and clinical performance. To learn more, please visit www.nationalhealthcareservices.com.

About CHV II, LP
CHV II, LP, is a limited partnership that invests in healthcare technology, services and medical device sectors on behalf of four of the largest non-profit health systems in the country.

About MedVentive
For more than a decade, MedVentive has worked with leading provider and health plan organizations to develop and deploy innovative, clinically sophisticated approaches to successfully reduce healthcare costs and improve the quality of patient care. MedVentive offers a fully-integrated suite of business & clinical intelligence and outreach applications that support best-in-class pay for performance programs, physician efficiency profiling and information-sharing, quality intervention, pharmacy management, and point-of-care decision support tools – all built on a risk-adjusted data foundation. Provider groups and health plans use MedVentive technology and services to identify their greatest healthcare improvement opportunities and to act quickly and efficiently to effect change through flexible, tailored solutions. For more information, please visit www.medventive.com.

CISCO TO ACQUIRE INLET TECHNOLOGIES FOR $95 MILLION

San Jose, CA (February 4, 2011) – Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately-held Inlet Technologies, a leading provider of Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) digital media processing platforms. Based in Raleigh, N.C., Inlet will strengthen the capabilities of Cisco's Videoscape TV platform, allowing service and content providers to deliver compelling video experiences to any device over any Internet Protocol (IP) network.

"Service and content providers have a tremendous opportunity to deliver exciting video experiences as media consumption increases across mobile, desktop, and smart devices," said Enrique Rodriguez, senior vice president and general manager, Cisco's Service Provider Video Technology Group. "Cisco's Videoscape platform will play a key role in reinventing the TV experience, and the acquisition of Inlet will enable our customers to leverage the network as a platform to deliver innovative video experiences to consumers on any device."

Cisco Videoscape is a comprehensive TV platform for service providers that brings together digital TV and online content with social media and communications applications to create a truly immersive home and mobile video entertainment experience. Inlet's advanced ABR technology, which is used in streaming multimedia over managed and unmanaged networks, adapts the quality of the video stream based on real-time network conditions.

Inlet brings to Cisco a strong team that understands the complexities of delivering ABR video over IP networks to any device. Upon the close of the acquisition, Inlet employees will be integrated into Cisco's Service Provider Video Technology Group.

Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay approximately $95 million in cash and retention-based incentives in exchange for all shares of Inlet. The acquisition is subject to various standard closing conditions and is expected to be complete in the first half of calendar year 2011.

About Cisco Systems
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Information about Cisco can be found at www.cisco.com.

UNIVA CLOSES ADDITIONAL $7 MILLION IN FUNDING LED BY CORE CAPITAL

Lisle, IL (January 25, 2011) — Univa, the data center optimization company, today announced it has secured $7M in new financing to accelerate the company’s market strategy.

Participating in the funding are new investors Core Capital Partners and Hatteras Funds as well as incumbent investors River Cities Capital Funds, ARCH Venture Partners, New World Ventures and Appian Ventures.

"Core Capital believes the market for virtualization and data center efficiency will be a top driver for corporate IT spending in the near term," said Mark Levine, managing director, Core Capital Partners. “We’re excited to join Univa’s existing investors at this inspiring time as the company positions itself as a leading solution provider in data center optimization.”

"This vote of confidence in Univa’s business plan during such difficult economic times speaks well of our opportunity to capitalize on our stated data center optimization strategy,” said Gary Tyreman, president and CEO of Univa.

"The investors in Univa believe in the plan that the management team has laid out," said Rik Vandevenne, director, River Cities Capital Funds. “Data center optimization remains a challenge for practically every organization and Univa has created a comprehensive solution unmatched in the marketplace. We are confident Univa will compete at an unprecedented level this year.”

Univa recently announced its strategy and development plans for improving the operational efficiency of data centers. The cornerstone of Univa’s approach is its unique ‘continuous optimization’ capability, which lets companies achieve unparalleled levels of efficiency through improved resource sharing, amplified efficiency of people and processes, and increased application and license utilization.

As a result companies are able to achieve an unprecedented level of ROI on existing resources through faster time-to-results and by keeping larger costs under control.

Univa is currently the only provider to offer such a broad level of integrated capabilities within the context of traditional, dynamic and cloud data centers that directly address the effects of the changing infrastructure.

About Univa Corporation
Univa, the Data Center Optimization Company, is the leading provider of optimization and management software for traditional, dynamic and cloud data centers. Our award-winning products are used by Global 2500 companies to improve resource sharing, amplify the efficiency of people and processes, and increase application and license utilization. Univa offers the industry’s broadest, most innovative and integrated product set for managing shared, high-demand data center resources. From workload management to policy-driven provisioning across physical, virtual and cloud resources, only Univa provides a proven combination of enterprise-class capabilities, industry expertise, and community sponsorship. Univa is headquartered in Lisle, Illinois with offices worldwide. Information about Univa can be found at www.univa.com.

INFINITE POWER SOLUTIONS RAISES $20.0M IN SERIES C FINANCING

Littleton, CO (August 17, 2010) - Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. (IPS) today announced that it has successfully completed its series C round of financing—raising $20 million. In response to growing customer demand, the new capital will be used to expand the company’s manufacturing capacity, accelerate the build out of its global sales channels and further support advanced research and development of its eco-friendly, THINERGY® solid-state rechargeable energy storage devices.

Existing financial investors D. E. Shaw Ventures, Polaris Venture Partners and Core Capital Partners co-led the financing, which also included new investor Generation Investment Management and participation by Applied Ventures, LLC, and two additional strategic investors. Earlier investors in the company included Texas Instruments and In-Q-Tel.

Generation Investment Management is an independent, sustainable investment firm headquartered in London, UK. Its approach is based on the idea that the incorporation of sustainability factors, such as economic, environmental, social and governance criteria will drive a company's returns over the long term.

“We are excited to have Generation join our group of financial and corporate investors who have recognized the game-changing attributes of our rechargeable, safe and reusable thin-film energy storage devices,” commented Ray Johnson, IPS’ president and CEO. “This financing provides us with the capital to continue the build out and expansion of our operational capabilities and global market presence.”

"IPS brings breakthrough rechargeable energy solutions to the universe of small devices," said Alexander Wong, Head of D. E. Shaw Ventures. “IPS’ products enable a plethora of novel applications in multiple markets including wireless, consumer, medical and defense.”

About Infinite Power Solutions, Inc.
Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. (IPS)—a U.S.-based, clean-technology company—is a leader in manufacturing solid-state, rechargeable, thin-film micro-energy storage devices for a variety of micro-electronic applications. Founded in 2001, IPS is privately held with corporate headquarters and manufacturing in Littleton, Colo. The company markets its revolutionary family of thin-film Micro-Energy cell (MEC) products under its THINERGY® brand. The company is the only ISO 9001 certified manufacturer of solid-state, thin-film batteries. The company’s energy storage products, with unrivalled performance, size and service life, displace coin cells, supercapacitors, and other micro-batteries in a variety of applications. The company’s THINERGY MECs and INFINERGY® Micro Power Modules (MPMs) uniquely enable ambient energy-harvesting solutions to create miniature, autonomous, perpetual power supplies to address the growing demand among customers in the wireless sensor, active RFID, powered smart card, medical device, consumer electronics, automotive and civil/military/aerospace markets. THINERGY and MEC are registered trademarks of IPS.

About Generation Investment Management, LLP
Launched in 2004, Generation Investment Management LLP is an independent, private, owner-managed partnership with offices in London, New York and Sydney. Generation's investment approach is based on the idea that sustainability factors — economic, environmental, social and governance criteria — will drive a company's returns over the long term. By integrating sustainability issues with traditional analysis, Generation aims to deliver superior investment returns. 
Generation Investment Management LLP is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Services Authority. For more information, visit www.generationim.com.

MCAFEE TO ACQUIRE TRUST DIGITAL

Santa Clara, CA (May 25, 2010) - McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately owned Trust Digital. Trust Digital is a leading technology provider of enterprise mobility management and security software targeting Global 2000 companies and is deployed by a growing number of businesses to deliver mission critical data to the point of service using Apple iPhones and iPads. McAfee expects that Trust Digital's strong foot-hold in the mobile security market will extend McAfee's endpoint market, addressing a wide range of mobile operating systems including iPhone OS, Android, Web OS, Windows Mobile, and Symbian.

IT organizations rely on Trust Digital to secure, rapidly deploy and centrally manage smartphones, as well as a new generation of always-available line of business applications and services. Following the completion of this proposed acquisition, McAfee(R) expects to couple Trust Digital's enterprise mobility management solution with McAfee's endpoint protection capabilities to deliver the industry's first comprehensive mobile security solution. Customers will benefit from centralized management and reporting of the integrated technologies through the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator(R) (ePO(TM)) console.

With the proliferation of smartphones in the enterprise, paired with an increase in demand for real-time access to information via these devices, the ability to manage and support security policy that enables productivity is a significant priority for CIOs today. Rapid adoption of smartphones has changed how users in industries like healthcare, pharmaceutical and financial services work. Secure, immediate access to critical information on mobile applications is a core component enabling a productive workforce. Enterprises want to increase revenues, profits and productivity through empowering their workforce, without compromising their security.

"The acquisition of Trust Digital's industry-leading enterprise mobility management solutions will extend the current McAfee security portfolio beyond the traditional endpoint, addressing the rapidly expanding mobile security market," said Dave DeWalt, president and chief executive officer, McAfee. "Once completed, Trust Digital's industry leading enterprise mobility management solutions combined with leading McAfee antivirus, antispyware, host intrusion prevention, policy auditing and firewall technologies, will enable McAfee to address the mobile workforce by mitigating the risks associated with vulnerable or malicious mobile applications downloaded by employees. Through this acquisition, we believe McAfee can expand its reach into new markets, secure new platforms and strengthen its leadership position."

"Business users are thrilled by the capabilities of iPhones, smartphones and tablets and are quickly adopting them as their handheld computers, but their IT counterparts must now find tools to effectively secure and manage them," said Mark Shull, chief executive officer, Trust Digital. "The integration of Trust Digital with McAfee will enable enterprises to rapidly deploy new mobility devices such as smartphones across diverse mobile environments cost effectively and with the highest level of security. Together, we will enable IT to say yes to the iPhone and Android."

About McAfee, Inc.
McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the world's largest dedicated security technology company. McAfee is committed to relentlessly tackling the world's toughest security challenges. The company delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that help secure systems and networks around the world, allowing users to safely connect to the Internet, browse and shop the web more securely. Backed by an award-winning research team, McAfee creates innovative products that empower home users, businesses, the public sector and service providers by enabling them to prove compliance with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify vulnerabilities, and continuously monitor and improve their security. For more information, visit www.mcafee.com

About Trust Digital
Trust Digital is the leading provider of enterprise mobility management (EMM®) software for Global 2000 companies, and today Trust Digital is being deployed by the growing number of businesses using the Apple iPhone® to deliver mission critical data to the point of service. IT organizations rely on Trust Digital's solution to secure, rapidly deploy and centrally manage their smartphones, while also enabling their use with native IT services and applications. Trust Digital is the trusted mobility company. For more information, please visit our website, www.trustdigital.com.

MEDVENTIVE COMPLETES OVERSUBSCRIBED SERIES C FUNDING TOTALING $10 MILLION

WALTHAM, MA (APRIL 09, 2010) - WALTHAM, MA – April 9, 2010 – MedVentive announced today the completion of its oversubscribed Series C fundraising.  The $10 million in capital is targeted to fuel the company’s next phase of product innovation, which will expand the ability of its technology to reduce costs to purchasers while improving the quality of care to patients.  In particular, MedVentive is uniquely capable of supporting health plans and providers in their move to the healthcare industry’s newest value‐based purchasing models – such as Accountable Care Organizations (ACO), global payments, and clinically integrated networks.

New investor Clarian Health Ventures (CHV), the for‐profit investment arm of Indiana's largest health care system, Clarian Health Partners, Inc., provides a strong strategic partner for MedVentive.  Kyle Salyers, Managing Director of Clarian Health Ventures commented, “We selected MedVentive for our portfolio because our philosophy is not just financially supporting innovative approaches to solving crucial healthcare issues, but being active contributors to the company’s success through a strong commercial relationship.   Incentives in the health care market will increasingly be tied to performance, and the delivery system must have the data and analytical tools to measure and improve quality.  MedVentive’s solutions are uniquely positioned to provide this capability across care settings and across target patient populations. ”

Core Capital Partners, a leading early‐stage venture fund headquartered in Washington, D.C., expanded their earlier, unannounced investment in MedVentive’s Series C round.  “Core is extremely pleased with MedVentive’s progress – technology advancements, market expansion, client initiatives, extension of their team, and overall growth.  We expanded our investment with MedVentive to support their continued leadership in technology solutions focused on improving the quality of care and performance, while reducing medical expense,” said Mark Levine, Managing Director at Core Capital Partners.

“We are delighted to welcome Clarian Health Ventures and Core Capital to the MedVentive investment syndicate”, commented Dr. Enrico Petrillo, Managing Director at Excel Venture Management, which co‐led the Series C financing with HLM Venture Partners.  “Along with Excel, HLM Venture Partners and Long River Ventures, we have built an outstanding team to support MedVentive’s growth.  The quality of the investors and the oversubscribed nature of the round are a testament to MedVentive’s competitive edge and its ability to lower costs in the healthcare system while improving outcomes for patients.”   

MedVentive has more than twelve years of experience in solving today’s critical challenge of improving patient care while reducing costs.  From our beginnings within CareGroup serving over 450,000 patients to our spin‐out in 2005 as an independent entity to commercialize proven and physician‐friendly solutions, MedVentive has always been laser‐focused on delivering clinical and financial outcomes, not on technology or data sharing for its own sake.  Today MedVentive provides a comprehensive technology platform that enables physician collaboration, data transparency, and proactive care improvement on a community basis.  With a proven ROI, both in terms of increased quality of care and lowering costs, MedVentive clients are leading the industry in achieving real world results.  

About Clarian Health Ventures
Clarian Health Ventures (CHV) is a venture capital firm affiliated with Clarian Health Partners, Indiana’s largest health care system.  CHV invests in early stage health and life sciences companies that align with the strategic objectives and mission of Clarian Health. For more information, please visit www.clarianhealthventures.com.

Excel Venture Management
About Excel Venture Management builds companies that apply transformative life science technologies to solve problems in healthcare and beyond. The Excel investment portfolio is balanced across healthcare IT and services, diagnostics, and medical devices, plus life science platforms that address adjacent markets including energy, chemicals, defense and agriculture. The majority of the team’s prior investments, which include some of the world’s premier healthcare and life science companies, are thriving and over half have achieved successful exits generating billions in value. For more information, please visit www.excelvm.com.

About HLM Venture Partners
HLM Venture Partners is a leading venture firm providing capital to emerging companies focused on health care service, health care information technology and medical devices. HLM Venture Partners supports entrepreneurs as they turn innovative ideas into market‐leading businesses, offering guidance on financial structuring and mergers, resource allocation and deployment, strategic planning, strategic introductions and recruitment. For more information, please visit www.hlmvp.com.

About Long River Ventures
Long River Ventures invests in seed and early stage companies in technology, healthcare, and other related sectors. Formed by a group of experienced entrepreneurs and venture capitalist, Long River is designed and structured to invest smaller amounts of capital, usually as the first institutional investor in rounds of under $5MM.  While we do make investments in the major metropolitan markets, our primary geographic focus is on the smaller cities and research centers of New England. For more information, please visit www.longriverventures.com.

About MedVentive
For more than a decade, MedVentive has worked with leading provider and health plan organizations to develop and deploy innovative, clinically sophisticated approaches to successfully reduce healthcare costs and improve the quality of patient care. MedVentive offers a fully‐integrated suite of business & clinical intelligence and outreach applications that support best‐in‐class pay for performance programs, physician efficiency profiling and information‐sharing, quality intervention, pharmacy management, and point‐of‐care decision support tools – all built on a risk‐adjusted data foundation.  Provider groups and health plans use MedVentive technology and services to identify their greatest healthcare improvement opportunities and to act quickly and efficiently to effect change through flexible, tailored solutions. For more information, please visit www.medventive.com.

EQUIFAX TO ACQUIRE CORE CAPITAL PORTFOLIO COMPANY IXI CORPORATION FOR $124 MILLION

Atlanta, GA (October 21, 2009) - Equifax Inc. (NYSE:EFX) announced today that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire IXI Corporation, a leader in collecting, analyzing and delivering consumer wealth and asset data. Equifax will pay $124 million in cash for the company.

With its proprietary measures of wealth, assets, income, spending and other data, IXI helps its clients better segment households, resulting in improved marketing and customer management. IXI’s client base includes leading companies in the financial services industry such as banks and brokerage firms and emerging opportunities in the insurance and healthcare industries.

IXI’s data, sourced through more than 95 leading banks, brokerage firms and other financial entities, is the most comprehensive database of invested and deposited consumer wealth in the country. IXI directly measures data on more than $10 trillion in U.S. consumer assets and investments, representing more than 42 percent of all U.S. consumer invested assets.

"Bringing together the differentiated data and analytic capabilities of each of the companies will allow us to deliver a deeper view of the consumer that includes wealth, credit, income, spending and other demographic data ," said Dann Adams, president, Equifax Consumer Information Solutions. "The caliber and breadth of intelligence and data we’ll offer will significantly improve the opportunities for our clients to acquire, expand and retain customer relationships."

IXI’s unique capabilities combined with Equifax’s expertise will allow the companies to offer more differentiated and in-depth income, wealth and other data, helping companies improve their marketing, collections, portfolio monitoring and customer management efforts across all product segments.

About Equifax
Equifax empowers businesses and consumers with information they can trust. A global leader in information solutions, we leverage one of the largest sources of consumer and commercial data, along with advanced analytics and proprietary technology, to create customized insights that enrich both the performance of businesses and the lives of consumers.

With a strong heritage of innovation and leadership, Equifax continuously delivers innovative solutions with the highest integrity and reliability. Businesses – large and small – rely on us for consumer and business credit intelligence, portfolio management, fraud detection, decisioning technology, marketing tools, and much more. We empower individual consumers to manage their personal credit information, protect their identity, and maximize their financial well-being.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Equifax Inc. operates in the U.S. and 14 other countries throughout North America, Latin America and Europe. Equifax is a member of Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500® Index. Our common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EFX.

About IXI Corporation
For over 15 years, IXI has helped the nation’s leading financial services and consumer marketing firms optimize marketing efforts, manage risk, identify growth markets, and enhance practice and performance management. IXI solutions enable marketing, sales, and risk management executives to differentiate and target consumer households based on measures of wealth, income, spending, credit, investment style, share-of-wallet, and share-of-market.

Through its exclusive network of more than 95 leading U.S. financial institutions, IXI directly measures approximately $10 trillion in U.S. consumer assets and investments, comprising over 42% of all U.S. invested assets. IXI combines its patented process for collecting and classifying consumer asset data with proprietary measures of income, spending, and credit, to create the most reliable and granular financial database available today. Using this unrivalled database, IXI builds solutions that provide firms financial and economic insight for every U.S. household.

IXI is a privately held company headquartered in McLean, Virginia. It was recently named to the Deloitte Touche 500 Fastest Growing Technology companies list. To learn more, visit www.ixicorp.com.

RALLY SOFTWARE ACQUIRES 6TH SENSE ANALYTICS

Acquisition boosts Rally’s capabilities for complete visibility and predictability across the Agile development lifecycle

Boulder, CO (January 12, 2009) - Rally Software Development Corp.®, the Agile lifecycle management leader, today announced that it has acquired the assets of 6th Sense Analytics, Inc., provider of an on-demand automated metrics collection and analysis solution for development organizations. The acquisition of 6th Sense Analytics' product capabilities and team of experienced developers will build on Rally's recent 2008.6 product release to deliver more access to project data and easier ways to report progress and quality across the Agile development lifecycle.

"If you can't accurately measure software delivery, then you can't improve it," said Tim Miller, CEO of Rally. "We're thrilled that we were able to take advantage of this opportunity to incorporate 6th Sense Analytics' rich reporting capabilities to the Rally platform, as well as add a phenomenal development team to our staff."

In December, Rally introduced its sixth product release of 2008, which was all about the power of real-time project information in driving Agile development for distributed teams. Rally Release 2008.6 gives Agile organizations more access to project data, deeper integration with other development and management systems and easier ways to report progress and quality. The acquisition of 6th Sense Analytics will build upon the 2008.6 product release to add rich analytics and trending to Rally's Agile application lifecycle management platform.

"Having built an on-demand analytics engine for software development, we felt that Rally and 6th Sense were an excellent fit," said Todd Olson, co-founder and president of 6th Sense Analytics. "We're excited to kick-off Rally's remote development operations in North Carolina and use our analytics expertise to give development teams the information to build faster and cut costs in 2009."

About Rally
Rally is the Agile lifecycle management leader dedicated to making development organizations leaner and more responsive to customer needs. According to a study by QSM Associates, teams that rely on Rally's Agile lifecycle management products and services are 50% faster to market and 25% more productive than plan-based, waterfall projects. Rally's products were honored with three consecutive Jolt Product Excellence Awards (the industry's Oscars) in 2006, 2007 and 2008. The company's end-to-end solutions for Agile development also include Agile University, the largest source for Agile training, and Agile Commons, the largest collaborative Web 2.0 community dedicated to advancing software agility. For more information, visit www.rallydev.com.

CORE CAPITAL PARTNERS PARTICIPATES IN $5 MILLION ROUND FOR JACKBE

Funding Bolsters Growth Strategy for Enterprise Mashup Software Leader

Washington, D.C. (December 16, 2008) – Core Capital Partners, a leading venture capital firm that invests in high-growth technology companies, today announced its participation in a $5 million round of funding for JackBe, a leading provider of enterprise mashup software. The capital will support sales and marketing initiatives for JackBe’s award-winning enterprise mashup software product, Presto.

JackBe’s enterprise mashup software solves the quintessential information problem: accessing and combining data from disparate internal and external data sources and software systems to support timely decision-making. JackBe enables application developers and end users to make more effective decisions and independently complete daily tasks through self-service data access while meeting the toughest enterprise security and governance requirements.

“Mashups can greatly enhance the enhance productivity, adaptability and return-on-assets of an enterprise. JackBe’s Presto Enterprise Mashup Platform delivers on this promise with a scalable, secure enterprise-grade solution,” said Pascal Luck, managing director of Core Capital Partners. “As an award-winning thought-leader in this market, JackBe is uniquely positioned for significant growth.”

Luis Derechin, CEO of JackBe, added: “Our continued relationship with Core Capital Partners reinforces our position in the enterprise mashup industry. Core Capital Partners plays a critical role in shaping our corporate development initiatives and JackBe’s collaboration with Core enables us to further accelerate our mission of transforming this innovative web concept into a practical business solution.”

About JackBe
JackBe delivers trusted mashup software that empowers organizations to create, customize and collaborate through enterprise mashups for faster decisions and better business results. JackBe’s innovative Enterprise Mashup Platform, Presto, provides dynamic mashups that leverage internal and external data while meeting the toughest enterprise security and governance requirements. Presto provides enterprise mashups delivered to the user in 3 clicks versus 3 months. For more information, visit www.jackbe.com.

ROUNDBOX SECURES OVER $20 MILLION IN SERIES C FINANCING

Florham Park, NJ (December 15, 2008) - Roundbox, Inc., the leader in mobile broadcast software, today announced it secured over $20 million in financing in a round that reflects an increase in shareholder value. Montagu Newhall Associates led the financing round with additional funding from existing investors Core Capital Partners, Polaris Venture Partners, and RRE Ventures. The round also closed with an investment from strategic investor ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC), a leader in advanced IT solutions and outsource services based in Japan. Along with the equity investment, Silicon Valley Bank has provided venture debt financing. The company will use the funding to enhance and extend their position in the mobile broadcast market with key investments in the areas of product development and customer delivery.

“Roundbox has proven to be a leader in enabling the delivery of mobile broadcast services. We are delighted to join the Roundbox team, and excited about the company’s momentum and position in the market,” said Jim Lim, general partner at Montagu Newhall Associates.

“Roundbox and CTC share a common vision for mobile broadcast in Japan,” said Junichi Maruta, general manager of telecom systems planning division at CTC. “Together we have successfully delivered mobile broadcast demonstrations for KDDI and other service providers. This investment reinforces our commitment to Roundbox and this partnership.”

“In these economically challenging times, those companies who can advance and forge ahead, will be the leaders in the markets they serve,” said Roundbox co-founder and CEO Dennis Specht. “With this strong syndicate and round, we will continue to work with our investors, customers, and partners to execute on our long-term vision and build a market-leading company.”

About ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC)
Established in 1972, ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) provides advanced IT solutions and offers various outsourcing services, such as operations by its own data centers. CTC supports such market segments as telecommunications, broadcasting, finance, retail, distribution, manufacturing, education, government, medicine, pharmaceutical, chemicals and apparel. CTC has formed partnerships with more than 200 leading IT companies from nine countries. These partnerships range from those with global multinational IT companies to those with highly focused venture businesses. Around 6,500 people work for CTC throughout Japan, and our service edge lies in offering one-stop 7 x 24 support in approximately 100 service centers. www.ctc-g.co.jp/en/

About Montagu Newhall Associates
Montagu Newhall Associates, founded in 2000, manages four venture capital funds with a combined total of over $900 million in committed capital. Investors in these partnerships, which include family offices, corporate pension funds, endowments, foundations and other venture capitalists, are provided access to diversified portfolios of top-tier venture capital funds and a select number of high quality, later-stage, direct venture capital investments. The Montagu Newhall Associates team leverages its substantial network, relationships and investment experience to provide a superior venture capital product to its investors. For more information, visit www.montagunewhall.com.

About Polaris Ventures
Established in 1996, with offices in Waltham and Seattle, Polaris has over $3 billion under management. Polaris Venture Partners have helped build numerous market leading companies, including Accordant Health Services, Advanced Inhalation Research, Akamai Technologies, Allaire, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, American Superconductor, Aspect Medical Systems, Avici Systems, Centra Software, Classifieds2000, deCODE genetics, Exchange.com, Matrics, Microbia, Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Paradigm Genetics, Powersoft, PSCI, SolidWorks and TransForm Pharmaceuticals.

About RRE Ventures
New York-based RRE Ventures, founded in 1994 by Jim Robinson III, Jim Robinson IV and Stuart Ellman, invests in entrepreneurial technology companies placing special emphasis on e-commerce, software, communications and related enterprises that can become industry leaders in rapidly growing markets. With $600 million under management, RRE combines significant capital resources with a proven track record of successful managerial, financial and technical experience, in addition to corporate contacts that create value for its portfolio companies.

About SVB Financial Group
For 25 years, SVB Financial Group and its subsidiaries, including Silicon Valley Bank, have been dedicated to helping entrepreneurs succeed. SVB Financial Group is a financial holding company that serves emerging growth and mature companies in the technology, life science, private equity and premium wine industries. Offering diversified financial services through Silicon Valley Bank, SVB Analytics, SVB Capital, SVB Global and SVB Private Client Services, SVB Financial Group provides clients with commercial, investment, international and private banking services. The Company also offers funds management, broker-dealer transactions, asset management and a full range of services for private equity companies, as well as the added value of its knowledge and networks worldwide. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., SVB Financial Group operates through 27 offices in the U.S. and five internationally. More information on the Company can be found at www.svb.com.

About Roundbox
Roundbox is the leading provider of mobile broadcast software solutions for mobile operators and handset manufacturers. Their products enable mobile operators to provide consumers innovative services that take advantage of next generation broadcast networks. Roundbox’s product innovations help operators provide consumers with services such as mobile TV, emergency notification, radio, and data services delivered continuously and with breakthrough economics. For more information, visit www.roundbox.com.

ROLLSTREAM SECURES $6M IN SERIES B FUNDING LED BY CORE CAPITAL

Fairfax, VA (November 18, 2008) - RollStream Inc., the leading provider of enterprise community management solutions, today announced it has secured $6 million in Series B funding. The investment was led by Washington, DC based Core Capital, with participation from existing investor Vienna, VA based Grotech Ventures. In conjunction with this new investment, Will Dunbar, Managing Director at Core Capital, has been named to RollStream’s Board of Directors. Both venture capital firms have impressive track records for leading high-potential technology companies to success.

“We are pleased to secure this latest round of funding. Raising capital in today’s tough economic climate is a significant achievement and a direct reflection of our efforts to solve the last great problem in global supply chains: inefficient human interaction, stated Kristin Muhlner, CEO of RollStream.

RollStream delivers an innovative solution for enterprise community management. Unlike systems that simply deliver business transactions between trading partners, RollStream optimizes business relationships by accelerating person-to-person interaction across the extended supply chain. The hosted software solution enables businesses to reduce the cost to manage large partner communities by speeding collaboration and communication amongst manufacturers, suppliers, distributors and customers. RollStream customers use the solution to centralize trading partner contact and credential information; to manage partner registration, on-boarding and maintenance; and to streamline one-to-many and one-to-one performance or compliance initiatives.

“As global supply chains continue to face increased financial, regulatory and competitive pressures, they must consider solutions like RollStream to increase the profitability of their business relationships,” said Will Dunbar of Core Capital. “As the early leader in the growing enterprise community management market, RollStream is poised to revolutionize this space, and Core Capital is excited to work with the company as it expands its reach.”

“RollStream understands how the Software as a Service model can help companies affordably improve trading partner communication and collaboration. This, combined with an impressive record for delivering significant ROI to customers like Tesco and Owens & Minor, continues to drive our interest to invest,” said Steve Frederick, of Grotech Ventrues.

RollStream already has over 19,000 registered trading partners and 50,000 human contacts distributed across multiple vertical industries. The funding will be used to accelerate the development of innovative solutions and to power RollStream’s continued growth throughout North America.

About Rollstream, Inc.
RollStream is the leader in enterprise community management. RollStream delivers an online solution for accelerating communications and collaboration across the global supply chain. Industry leaders like McKesson Medical-Surgical, Owens & Minor and Tesco use RollStream to significantly reduce the cost and time required to onboard partners, communicate operational changes, and rollout sales and marketing initiatives. Learn more at www.rollstream.com.

CORE CAPITAL'S TOM WHEELER NAMED TO FIERCEWIRELESS LIST OF TOP U.S. WIRELESS INNOVATORS OF ALL TIME

Introducing the Top U.S. Wireless Innovators of All Time

(November 13, 2008) - Last month the U.S. wireless industry officially marked the 25th anniversary of the day the first cellular system opened for business in Chicago. Many of the industry's movers and shakers gathered in Chicago on Oct. 14 for the Wireless History Foundation's gala celebrating the anniversary. That monumental event triggered a lot of discussion (and reminiscing) among the FierceWireless editorial team.

With the 25th anniversary in mind, we decided it was time to honor the contributions of some of the wireless industry's foremost leaders and innovators with the FierceWireless list of Top U.S. Wireless Innovators of All Time.

The people on this list were selected by the FierceWireless editors with some input from our readers. And because FierceWireless is primarily a U.S.-based publication, this list is focused on innovators who helped shape the U.S. wireless industry. These innovators are true wireless pioneers but they were not just selected for their past contributions. They were also chosen because many are still active in the wireless industry today, making sure that their legacy lives on.

Martin Cooper, often referred to as the "father of cell phone," led the list. Other innovators included Arlene Harris, Dale Hatfield, Irwin Jacobs, Craig McCaw, Morgan O'Brien, Herschel Shosteck, Denny Strigl, and Andrew Viterbi, one of the founders of Qualcomm.

See the full list here.