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| 2nd Story Software, Inc. |
| Cedar Rapids, IA |
| Year of investment: 2004 |
| www.taxact.com |
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| 2nd Story Software, Inc. is the nation’s pioneer in providing free online tax preparation software and electronic filing services. Its flagship product line, TaxACT®, is available via the internet to individual taxpayers and paid preparers as online tax preparation programs or as downloadable desktop software. 2nd Story has built a rapidly growing and profitable business by upgrading free customers to paying customers by selling Deluxe and State versions of the software, as well as e-filing services. |
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| 5.11 Tactical® |
| Modesto, CA |
| Year of investment: 2007 |
| www.511tactical.com |
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| 5.11 Tactical is a rapidly growing manufacturer and distributor of apparel and accessories focused primarily in the public safety market. Built on a foundation of durability, quality and value, 5.11 Tactical leads the industry in delivering functionally innovative gear, head to toe. |
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| Alma Lasers, Ltd. |
| Caesarea, Israel |
| Year of investment: 2006 |
| www.almalasers.com |
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| Alma Lasers, Ltd. is a global developer, manufacturer and seller of laser, light and radio frequency based devices for aesthetic applications. The company’s products are designed to provide efficient, safe and cost-effective systems for use by plastic surgeons, dermatologists, obstetricians, gynecologists and general physicians. The products are used for non-invasive aesthetic procedures such as hair removal, skin rejuvenation and cellulite reduction on an outpatient basis. |
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| American Access Care |
| Glen Rock, PA |
| Year of investment: 2006 |
| www.americanaccesscare.com |
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| American Access Care is a management company operating freestanding outpatient vascular access centers dedicated to patients suffering from end-stage renal disease (ESRD). |
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| Aurora Networks, Inc. |
| Santa Clara, CA |
| Year of investment: 2010 |
| www.aurora.com |
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Aurora Networks is the only pure-play optical transport solution provider focused solely on cable network operators. The company’s broad array of optical network products and technology includes optical transmitters, node platforms and Ethernet equipment that deliver enhanced services and greater bandwidth to subscribers while reducing the cable operator’s total cost of ownership. Aurora Networks’ systems simplify network design and maintenance, offer greater flexibility and scalability, and position operators to provide competitive, next-generation cable services.
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| AVG Technologies |
| Prague, Czech Republic |
| Year of investment: 2009 |
| www.avg.com |
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| AVG is a global security software maker protecting more than 80 million consumers and small businesses in 167 countries from the ever-growing incidence of web threats, viruses, spam, cyber-scams and hackers on the Internet. AVG has nearly two decades of experience in combating cyber crime and one of the most advanced laboratories for detecting, pre-empting and combating Web-borne threats from around the world. |
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| Cardtronics, Inc. |
| Houston, TX |
| Year of investment: 2005 |
| www.cardtronics.com |
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| Cardtronics Inc. is the nation’s largest independent owner and operator of automated teller machines (ATMs). Cardtronics is a single-source provider of ATM solutions for major drugstore, retail and petroleum merchants. The company has a nationwide network of approximately 25,000 ATMs, and is one of the fastest growing ATM deployers in the U.S. Cardtronics completed its IPO in December 2007. |
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| Cath Kidston |
| London, United Kingdom |
| Year of investment: 2010 |
| www.cathkidston.co.uk/ |
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| Cath Kidston is a distinctive British lifestyle brand best known for its witty vintage inspired prints and wide array of household and fashion products - from floral china to polka dot bags. Founded by its namesake in 1993, Cath Kidston is one of the most influential and original design companies to emerge from the UK in recent years. Currently, there are 28 shops and concessions in the UK, two shops in the Republic of Ireland, seven in Japan and one in Kuwait. The Company is an established multi-channel retailer with sales originating from retail, mail order/online and wholesale. |
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| Circle Graphics |
| Longmont, CO |
| Year of investment: 2005 |
| www.circlegraphicsonline.com |
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| Circle Graphics is a large-format digital printing company, specializing in billboard prints for the U.S. market. The Company focuses on the outdoor advertising market and provides both paper and vinyl billboard prints to the largest outdoor media companies in the nation. Circle Graphics, which is the lowest cost provider of digital prints in the U.S., employs digital ink-jet printing, which is adaptable to the demands for variable information, customization, quick-response and just-in-time delivery. |
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| Cypress Pharmaceutical, Inc. |
| Madison, MS |
| Year of investment: 2003 |
| www.cypressrx.com |
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| Cypress Pharmaceutical is a rapidly growing specialty pharmaceutical company that develops, markets and distributes generic prescription, over-the-counter and specialty branded pharmaceutical products. Cypress provides generic and branded products to the leading national pharmaceutical wholesalers, chain drug stores, distributors and other retail merchandisers. Through its specialty branded business, Hawthorn Pharmaceuticals, the company also provides internally developed pharmaceutical products marketed directly to physician specialists. |
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| Dealer Tire, LLC |
| Cleveland, OH |
| Year of investment: 2009 |
| www.dealertire.com |
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| Dealer Tire is a logistics and marketing services company that equips and assists automobile dealers in the sale of replacement tires to end consumers. Dealer Tire manages 20 warehouses across the country providing same day delivery of just in time tires to thousands of automobile dealers, and the company also trains and educates service personnel at the dealerships on how to market and sell replacement tires to consumers. |
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| eCircle |
| Munich, Germany |
| Year of investment: 2010 |
| www.ecircle.com |
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| eCircle is a leading provider of direct marketing technology in Europe. eCircle provides a SaaS email marketing platform, permission marketing databases and professional services for email marketing to some of the world’s biggest brands and online retailers. |
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| eDreams |
| Barcelona, Spain |
| Year of investment: 2006 |
| www.edreams.com |
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| eDreams is the leading online travel agency in Southern Europe. It focuses on offering the best selection of flights, hotels and vacation packages through the use of innovative search, packaging and booking engines via the Internet. |
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| Epic Media Group |
| New York, NY |
| Year of investment: 2005 |
| www.theepicmediagroup.com |
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Epic Media Group is a leading privately-held global digital marketing solutions company, with expertise in providing a broad suite of advertising services, from brand-building and engagement to performance-based customer acquisition solutions. Epic Media Group intelligently and cost effectively accesses consumers across multiple traffic distribution channels in integrated campaigns, while offering its clients sophisticated campaign analytics and integrity assurance capabilities. The Company was founded in 2000. In 2010, Epic Advertising merged with Connexus to form Epic Media Group. |
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| e-Rewards, Inc. |
| Dallas, Texas |
| Year of investment: 2008 |
| www.e-rewards.com |
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| e-Rewards is the largest "by-invitation-only" online research panel, serving over 700 research firms. e-Rewards members or panelists get valuable rewards for participating in e-Rewards Opinion Panel market research surveys that have been selected to match their interests. Panelists can earn rewards from a variety of well-known partner companies, including Air France KLM, BLOCKBUSTER®, Borders®, Continental Airlines®, Delta Air Lines®, eBags®, Hilton®, Macy's®, Northwest Airlines®, US Airways® and Zales®. |
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| eSecLending |
| Boston, MA |
| Year of investment: 2006 |
| www.eseclending.com |
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| eSecLending is a global securities lending manager and a leading provider and administrator of customized, exclusive securities borrowing programs. The company’s client base includes some of the world’s largest and most sophisticated beneficial owners, including pension funds, mutual funds, investment managers and insurance companies in the US, UK and Europe. |
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| First American CoreLogic, Inc. |
| Sacramento, CA |
| Year of investment: 2004 |
| www.cscorelogic.com |
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| CoreLogic Systems, Inc., a C&S Company, founded in 1997, supplies the mortgage industry with a comprehensive suite of products specifically assembled to meet the growing needs of lenders. CoreLogic provides lenders with technology to process loans faster, less expensively, and with greater accuracy. The company has evolved from an AVM provider to a full-service collateral risk management company, currently evaluating more than 50,000 loan transaction daily. Nine of the top 10 U.S. lenders and 85 percent of the top 100 lenders currently use CoreLogic tools within their risk evaluation processes as a primary defense against fraud. In February 2007, CoreLogic merged with First American Real Estate Solutions. |
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| First Eagle Investment Management |
| New York, NY |
| Year of investment: 2007 |
| www.firsteaglefunds.com |
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| First Eagle Investment Management is a leading investment advisory firm with approximately $40 billion in assets under management at year-end 2009. First Eagle provides investment management services to the First Eagle family of mutual funds and for institutional and high net worth clients through separately managed accounts and hedge funds. The firm’s investment strategies include international value, global value, event-driven value and merger arbitrage. Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Holdings is the parent company of First Eagle Investment Management. |
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| Fotolia Holdings, Inc. |
| Paris, France |
| Year of investment: 2009 |
| www.fotolia.com |
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| Fotolia is one of the Europe's leading providers of micro-priced stock images on the Web. The company provides professional and amateur photographers with the ability to connect with more than 800,000 media buyers worldwide – from small businesses and design firms to some of the world’s most recognizable brands. Fotolia's image marketplace has acquired nearly eight million images in its database and has over 1.5 million international members. |
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| FreeWave Technologies, Inc. |
| Boulder, CO |
| Year of investment: 2007 |
| www.freewave.com |
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| FreeWave designs and manufactures board-level and enclosed format data radios for the commercial, industrial, and military markets. The company offers a wide range of products designed for unparalleled performance and durability in even the harshest conditions, providing complete solutions for diverse needs in industries such as oil and gas, utilities, military, security, recreation and agriculture. FreeWave is the only long-term radio provider with 100 percent backward compatibility in core 900 MHz radios with fully integrated, best-in-class engineered products. |
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| Global 360, Inc. |
| Dallas, TX |
| Year of investment: 2006 |
| www.global360.com |
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| Global 360 helps organizations to better manage processes today and make improvements for tomorrow. Our process and document management solutions have helped more than 2,000 customers in 70 countries reduce paper, automate processes, and empower individuals to truly change how work gets done. As a BPM market leader on the Microsoft platform, our products enable customers to improve business performance and maximize the productivity of all participants in a process, as well as leverage and extend their Microsoft investments in BizTalk, SharePoint, Visio and Office. |
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| GlobeOp Financial Services |
| New York, NY and London, United Kindom |
| Year of investment: 2003 |
| www.globeop.com |
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| GlobeOp Financial Services specializes in turnkey, state-of-the-art, automated middle- and back-office support services and fund administration for hedge funds, fund managers and high net worth family wealth managers. The company provides independent services essential to the successful operation of private investment entities with activities ranging across a wide spectrum of traded instruments. GlobeOp completed its IPO in July 2007. |
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| Idea Cellular Ltd. |
| Pune, India |
| Year of investment: 2006 |
| www.ideacellular.com |
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| Idea Cellular Ltd. is the fastest growing provider of wireless communications services in India. Its current footprint covers approximately 60% of the Indian market and the company will be expanding its coverage into additional areas. Idea Cellular completed its IPO in March 2007. |
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| IntraLinks, Inc. |
| New York, NY |
| Year of investment: 2007 |
| www.intralinks.com |
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| IntraLinks provides on-demand solutions for businesses to securely collaborate, communicate and exchange critical information inside and outside the enterprise. For more than a decade, 750,000 professionals from more than 90,000 organizations have relied on IntraLinks to accelerate workflow, optimize business processes and realize new profit potential. IntraLinks counts 800 of the Fortune 1000 as users, including AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank and the FDIC. |
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| ION Trading Group |
| Dublin, Ireland |
| Year of investment: 2004 |
| www.iontrading.com |
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| ION Trading Group is the market leader in providing high performance trading solutions for electronic fixed income markets. Its MarketView™ proprietary software is a flexible, open, customisable and cost-effective fixed income trading solution that provides real-time integration of market data with internal systems. MarketView™ is the solution of choice for the largest investment banks worldwide. |
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| Jupiter Investment Management Group |
| London, United Kingdom |
| Year of investment: 2007 |
| www.jupiteronline.co.uk/ |
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| Jupiter Investment Management Group is one of the UK's leading fund management groups, managing investments for both private and institutional investors. Jupiter has £20bn under management in unit trusts, institutional mandates, investment trusts, hedge funds, offshore funds, pensions and private client portfolios. |
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| K2 Advisors |
| Stamford, CT |
| Year of investment: 2007 |
| www.k2advisors.com |
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| K2 Advisors is a fund of hedge funds with over $5.5 billion under management serving both institutional and private investors globally. The firm manages low volatility investment strategies designed to produce absolute returns with a low correlation to traditional equity and fixed income markets. K2’s clients are predominantly institutional investors who value K2’s thorough risk management process and security-level transparency. |
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| Keeley Asset Management Corp. |
| Chicago, Illinois |
| Year of investment: 2008 |
| www.keeleyasset.com |
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| Keeley Asset Management Corp. (KAMCO) is a privately owned Chicago-based money management firm, founded in 1982. KAMCO manages equity for corporations, pension plans, foundations, endowments and individuals, using a bottom-up value-based investment approach that focuses on small to mid-cap companies undergoing internal corporate restructuring. |
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| M and M Direct |
| Leominster, United Kingdom |
| Year of investment: 2007 |
| www.mandmdirect.com |
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| M and M Direct is the leading online and mail order retailer of discounted lifestyle, fashion and sports apparel and footwear in the UK. The company has longstanding relationships with major clothing brands providing it access to high quality end-of-line clearance apparel. M and M offers over 100-plus brands on its website, which receives 15 million visitors per year and through its catalogues which reach over 1.5 million consumers. |
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| MetroPCS Communications, Inc. |
| Dallas, TX |
| Year of investment: 2005 |
| www.metropcs.com |
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| MetroPCS Communications provides wireless communications services in several metropolitan areas of the US, including SanFrancisco, Miami and Atlanta. MetroPCS offers simple, flat-rate calling plans that provide unlimited usage within a local calling area with no long-term contracts. The company focuses on densely populated markets, which provide significant operational efficiencies, and is one of the lowest cost providers of wireless telephone services in the U.S. MetroPCS completed its IPO in April 2007. |
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| Microban International |
| Huntersville, NC |
| Year of investment: 2004 |
| www.microban.com |
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| Microban International manufactures and distributes antimicrobial, antibacterial and antifungal chemical compounds for consumer, industrial and medical products around the world. The company’s EPA-registered Microban® antimicrobial technologies are integrated into the manufacturing processes of a wide range of materials. Microban International also licenses the Microban brand to its customers who co-brand with the company. |
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| Micromax Informatics Limited |
| New Delhi, India |
| Year of investment: 2010 |
| www.micromaxinfo.com |
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| Micromax is a rapidly growing provider of wireless handsets and solutions across the Indian sub-continent. The company designs, produces and distributes its locally branded handsets through over 45,000 retail points in 120 cities. Micromax is a pioneer in creating life-enhancing mobile phone solutions and wireless technologies that cater to the increasingly sophisticated needs of mobile users. Driven by aspirations and passion for the telecom world, the company is geared to continue bringing groundbreaking mobile solutions incorporating the latest in cutting-edge technology. |
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| Monotype Imaging |
| Woburn, MA |
| Year of investment: 2004 |
| www.monotypeimaging.com |
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| Monotype Imaging, formerly a division of Agfa Corp., provides fonts and font technologies to graphic professionals, software developers and manufacturers of printers and display devices. Previously known as Agfa Monotype Corp., the company also provides print drivers and color imaging technologies to OEMs (original equipment manufacturers). Monotype Imaging completed its IPO in July 2007. |
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| Numara Software, Inc. |
| Tampa, FL |
| Year of investment: 2005 |
| www.numarasoftware.com |
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| Numara Software, Inc. the former Blue Ocean Software business unit of Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU), is the leading provider of IT help desk and asset management software solutions to small and medium-sized businesses. The company’s core product, Track-It!, enables IT professionals to collect, assign and resolve help desk requests and audit their internal hardware and software assets. The company was founded in 1991 and has helped IT professionals at more than 48,000 customer sites track over 14 million assets. |
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| Numeric Investors LLC |
| Boston, MA |
| Year of investment: 2004 |
| www.numeric.com |
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| Numeric Investors is an active quantitative manager of U.S. and international equity portfolios offering investment strategies under a variety of investment styles and objectives. The firm manages traditional long-only as well as market-neutral long/short equity portfolios. Numeric's investment strategies rely on proprietary computer models to analyze fundamental information about stocks and exploit market inefficiencies. |
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| Professional Warranty Service Corporation |
| Chantilly, VA |
| Year of investment: 2006 |
| www.pwsc.com |
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| Professional Warranty Service Corporation (PWC) is a leading provider of new home warranty products and administration services to residential construction firms. The warranty coverage provides for impartial third-party arbitration, with multiple layers of protection for all parties and transferability among homeowners. All insurance risk in PWC products is borne by Zurich Financial. PWC focuses on the largest tier of domestic residential construction firms, and its clients include more than 75 of the 200 largest U.S. homebuilders. |
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| Quotient Bioscience Limited |
| Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom |
| Year of investment: 2008 |
| www.quotientbioscience.com |
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| Quotient Bioscience Limited is a leading provider of analytical and safety evaluation services and products for bioscience and sport. Quotient’s core businesses focus on the areas of early-stage drug development services for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors, drug surveillance services for sport, and the manufacture and sale of critical reagents used for blood typing. |
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| Radialpoint |
| Montreal, Canada |
| Year of investment: 2008 |
| www.radialpoint.com |
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| Radialpoint is a provider of managed Internet security and digital home care services to the world’s largest Broadband Service Providers (BSPs). Its value added service (VAS) solutions and managed delivery platform enable BSPs to generate new revenue and significantly lower operational costs associated with supporting and bringing new Internet services to market. |
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| RGM Advisors, LLC |
| Austin, TX |
| Year of investment: 2008 |
| www.rgmadvisors.com |
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| RGM Advisors is an automated trading firm that applies scientific methods and computing power to trade in multiple asset classes around the world using high-frequency automated strategies. |
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| Sophos Plc |
| Abingdon, United Kindom |
| Year of investment: 2002 |
| www.sophos.com |
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| Sophos Plc is a world leader in providing enterprise-wide anti-virus protection to corporations, governments and academic institutions. Its business is focused exclusively on the corporate marketplace where its products protect all key points in a company's IT infrastructure including gateways, email, servers and desktops. Sophos is based in the UK, and has its Americas headquarters in Lynnfield, MA, and subsidiaries and branch offices in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Singapore. |
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| TARGUSinfo |
| Vienna, VA |
| Year of investment: 2005 |
| www.targusinfo.com |
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| TARGUSinfo is a leading data provider of real-time caller intelligence applications. The data includes name, postal address, predictive scores on household buying behavior, verification confidence scores, voice authentication, risk assessment factors and store location. The company each year processes over 15 billion real-time consumer initiated transactions and verifications over one of the world’s most powerful, reliable and state-of-the-art networks. |
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| TEOCO Corporation |
| Fairfax, VA |
| Year of investment: 2009 |
| www.teoco.com |
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| TEOCO Corporation is the market leader in providing cost, routing and revenue management solutions to leading communications service providers worldwide. Over 50 of the industry’s leading providers trust TEOCO to deliver unparallel visibility and control over their operations. |
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| Twin Med, LLC |
| Santa Fe Springs, CA |
| Year of investment: 2007 |
| www.tmedonline.com |
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| Twin Med is a leading medical supplies distributor serving long-term care facilities throughout the United States. Twin Med utilizes a unique Per Patient Day (PPD) cost management program that generates significant savings and is revolutionizing how long-term care facilities purchase products. With warehouses strategically located around the country, Twin Med can provide products to any customer in the United States with a one day lead time. |
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| Vatterott Educational Centers, Inc. |
| St. Louis, MO |
| Year of investment: 2009 |
| www.vatterott-college.edu/ |
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| Vatterott is one of the largest privately held for-profit providers of career-oriented post-secondary education in the United States. Vatterott offers a diversified range of diploma programs, associate degrees and bachelor degrees in skilled trades, allied health, culinary arts, cosmetology, business, court reporting and computer technology. The company currently operates 22 campuses across nine states under three brands; Vatterott, L’Ecole Culinaire and Court Reporting Institute. |
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| Weather Investments S.p.A. |
| Rome, Italy |
| Year of investment: 2008 |
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| Weather Investments S.p.A. is one of the world’s leading international telecommunications companies offering mobile, fixed, Internet and international communication services to over 90 million subscribers in Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Pakistan, and Tunisia and has acquired in early 2008 a license to operate mobile services in North Korea. Weather Investments operates through its subsidiaries Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E., Wind Telecomunicazioni S.p.A. and Wind Hellas S.A.. Weather is the entry point of choice for both technically advanced attractive markets and high growth, under penetrated emerging markets. |
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| Youth and Family Centered Services, Inc. |
| Austin, TX |
| Year of investment: 2004 |
| www.yfcs.com |
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| Youth and Family Centered Services, Inc. (YFCS) is the country's premier provider of services focused on the health, education and long-term support needs of troubled children and adolescents. The services offered by YFCS are designed to enable the individuals in its care to become more productive members of the community, while providing referral sources and payors with a clinically-focused, cost-effective solution for treating the nation's population of troubled youth. |
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