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Selected Current Portfolio Investments
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3001, Inc. |
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FusionStorm |
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Ai Squared |
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GenuTec |
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American
Integration Technologies, LLC |
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NetQuote, Inc. |
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Arise
Virtual Solutions, Inc. |
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PrePak Systems, Inc. |
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Axceler |
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Pulvermedia, Inc. |
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Box Services, LLC |
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Punch Software LLC |
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The CAPS Group |
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Questia Media, Inc. |
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CrystalTech Web Hosting, Inc. |
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Segovia, Inc. |
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Endurance
International Group |
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WHITTMANHART, Inc. |
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Falcon Communications,
Inc. |
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Selected Former Portfolio
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3001, Inc. |
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Geospatial
information solutions to U.S. federal, state and local governments, and
commercial clients |
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$13,000,000 |
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www.3001data.com |
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3001 is a leading single-source provider of geospatial data production and
analysis, including airborne imaging, surveying, mapping, and Geographic
Information Systems. 3001 maintains its leadership position in mapping and
remote sensing technologies by developing, adapting and commercializing new
technologies and software to reveal new information about the earth, to increase
mapping accuracy, and to accelerate the speed of production.
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Ai Squared |
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Manufacturer
of assistive technology software |
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$22,000,000 |
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www.aisquared.com |
Ai Squared has been providing assistive technology for more than 15 years to
computer users with low vision. The Company’s flagship product is ZoomText, a
screen magnification and reading software application for the visually impaired.
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American
Integration Technologies, LLC |
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Manufacturer
of precision equipment for the semiconductor industry |
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$12,000,000 |
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www.asmait.com |
American Integrated Technologies, LLC. specializes in precision sheet metal
fabrication, tubular frame welding, integration of components, and assembly of
complex equipment.
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Arise
Virtual Solutions, Inc. (f/k/a Willow CSN Incorporated) |
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Description: |
Remote-based
call center services |
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Original
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$13,500,000 |
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www.arise.com |
Arise Virtual Solutions, Inc. is a pioneer and market leader in virtual contact
center management solutions for enterprises providing schedule flexibility and
quality in the business results it drives for its clients. Arise Virtual
Solutions, Inc. provides entrepreneurial, work-from-home CyberAgent CSRs™ and
its StarMatic® workforce management technology services as an alternative to
in-house call centers, traditional outsourcers and offshore call centers.
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Axceler
(f/k/a Power Tools, Inc.) |
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Provider of
add-on tools for Lotus Notes customers and Notes technical professionals |
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$12,000,000 |
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www.axceler.com |
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Axceler provides software for content and data integration, workflow, and
automated administration for IBM Lotus Notes and Domino. The Company has
released four add-on tools with the goal of further enhancing the usefulness of
Lotus Domino.
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Box Services, LLC |
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Box
Services, LLC |
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A provider
of digital imaging services |
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$14,900,000 |
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www.boxstudios.com |
Box Services is a provider of digital imaging services to professional
photographers, luxury fashion brands, publishers and advertisers. Box’s services
include image retouching, prepress, archiving, creative services, and art
exhibition and publication. Box Services also provides on-site digital capture
services for professional photographers.
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The CAPS
Group |
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Digital and
other graphics arts service provider |
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$20,000,000 |
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www.the-caps-group.com |
The CAPS Group is a provider of digital and other graphic arts services to
corporations, advertising agencies and design firms. Its clients include Fortune
500 corporations, mid-market companies, nationally recognized publishers and
large advertising agencies.
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CrystalTech
Web Hosting, Inc. |
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Website
hosting and other online services |
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$8,000,000 |
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www.crystaltech.com |
Founded in 1992, CrystalTech is an Internet services company providing web
hosting services as well as domain registration and other services to small
businesses and individuals. CrystalTech is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Newtek
Business Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: NKBS), a publicly-traded provider of financial
and business services to small and medium-sized businesses.
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The
Endurance International Group |
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Shared
website hosting and other online services |
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$10,000,000 |
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www.enduranceinternational.com |
Endurance is a leading provider of shared website hosting and other online
services for small and medium-sized businesses. Endurance currently manages a
number of website hosting properties, each of which is a provider of web
services to a targeted segment of the small business community.
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Falcon
Communications, Inc. |
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Innovative
and cutting-edge remote communications technologies |
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$8,000,000 |
Falcon Communications is a global provider of mobile and fixed satellite
communications services to commercial, U.S. and international government
clients, as well as emergency response, crisis management and humanitarian
organizations. Falcon's products and services are focused on providing
best value, reliable communications solutions. Falcon's global reach
provides instant worldwide, secure, on demand communications to he end user.
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FusionStorm |
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National
provider of IT products and services for enterprises |
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$15,000,000 |
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www.fusionstorm.com |
FusionStorm is a national provider of IT products, professional services,
support contract services and 24x7 managed services for enterprises. The company
assists organizations by providing complete solutions for system infrastructure,
storage, networking, voice-over-IP communications, security, database, disaster
recovery, managed hosting and remote managed services, both on-site and in the
data center.
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GenuTec
Business Solutions, Inc. |
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Interactive
voice messaging services |
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$20,000,000 |
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www.genutec.com |
GenuTec Business Solutions, Inc. is a provider of interactive voice messaging
services to businesses for marketing and notification purposes. GenuTec was
founded to provide communications solutions to enhance sales, marketing and
customer care for businesses. Since its inception, GenuTec has focused on
delivering customized communications tools to businesses. These tools are
designed to complement existing technologies, without requiring additional
expenditure by customers for specialized hardware or software.
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NetQuote,
Inc. |
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Web-based
portal for insurance companies and consumers |
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$15,000,000 |
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www.netquote.com |
NetQuote operates a web-based business through which local insurance agents and
national insurance companies acquire leads of consumers seeking to purchase
competitively-priced insurance policies. Based in Denver, Colorado, NetQuote
operates a web-based business through which local insurance agents and national
insurance companies acquire leads of consumers seeking to purchase
competitively-priced insurance policies. NetQuote’s website and services enable
consumers, at no cost, to receive multiple insurance quotes from the Company’s
network of independent local insurance agents and local representatives from its
national insurance partners.
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PrePak
Systems, Inc. |
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Contract
packaging organization |
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$11,500,000 |
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www.prepaksys.com |
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PrePak Systems, Inc. provides turnkey contract solutions for primary
pharmaceutical packaging, pharmaceutical repackaging and unit dose packaging
through the use of leading-edge manufacturing equipment, tracking software and
processes. PrePak Systems, Inc. repackages bulk pharmaceuticals into bottles,
blister packs and individually packaged doses for government mail outpatient
pharmacies and hospitals, commercial hospitals, nursing homes, and direct
pharmacy clients.
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Pulvermedia,
Inc. |
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Operates and
produces tradeshow and conference events, most notably VON®
events. |
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$11,000,000 |
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www.pulvermedia.com |
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Pulvermedia Inc. is an integrated media company that specializes in building
communities and providing marketplace access through its blend of trade shows,
publications, web channels, and progressive media. Its flagship events include
the VON® events and Forward Financial Expo.
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Punch
Software LLC |
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A provider
of home design and landscape design software products |
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$9,000,000 |
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www.punchsoftware.com |
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Punch Software LLC is a provider of home design and landscape design software
products. Servicing retail home design, a sub-market of the architecture,
engineering & construction software market, Punch provides homeowners, designers
and professionals the ability to perform all aspects of home/landscape design
including 3-D walkthrough technology.
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Questia
Media, Inc. |
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Online
educational materials |
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$10,000,000 |
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www.questia.com |
Founded in 1998, Questia Media, Inc., launched its revolutionary online library
in January 2001, with powerful search and writing tools created specifically to
help students do better research and write better papers. Questia provides
unlimited access to the full content of an extensive collection of books,
journal, magazine and newspaper articles, as well as a wide range of tools,
including highlighter, markup, automatic footnotes and bibliography builder. For
students and researchers worldwide, the Questia service enables them to
efficiently research and compose papers at any time, from any computer with
Internet connectivity. Based in Houston, Questia is delivering on the true
promise of the Internet by providing access to a wealth of human knowledge.
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Segovia,
Inc. |
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Secure
global voice, data, and video broadband satellite services |
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$15,000,000 |
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www.segoviaip.com |
Segovia is a leading provider of secure global voice, data, and video broadband
satellite services. As the first company to build a secure global internet
protocol (“IP”) satellite network, Segovia has become a key strategic supplier
of communications to the U.S. Department of Defense, civilian agencies, and
private sector organizations.
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WHITTMANHART, Inc. |
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Description: |
Consulting
company providing integrated solutions in digital communications, process
improvement, and enabling technologies |
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Original
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$12,500,000 |
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Web Address: |
www.whittmanhart.com |
WHITTMANHART is a privately held consulting company providing integrated
solutions in digital communications, process improvement, and enabling
technologies to Fortune 1000 and premier middle-market companies through its
offices in Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis and Milwaukee.
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Aviel (f/k/a
OPTIMUS Corporation) |
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Provider of
innovative technology solutions |
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$7,000,000 |
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www.avielinc.com |
Aviel, is a provider of innovative technology solutions. Since 1992, Aviel has
designed, developed and delivered innovative information technology tools and
services to enhance public safety, health and the national defense. Aviel
products and services are designed to increase efficiency, reduce transaction
costs and help minimize risk – enabling governments and organizations to improve
service delivery.
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Avue
Technologies Corporation |
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Workforce
optimization and management solutions to the federal government |
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$2,500,000 |
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www.avuetech.com |
Avue is the recognized market leader and technology innovator in public sector
workforce management. The company provides the public sector with integrated
technology and service solutions that dramatically increase organization-wide
management effectiveness, workforce productivity, and manager and worker
satisfaction.
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Climax Group
Inc. |
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Video game
developer for major console platforms |
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$5,000,000 |
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www.climaxgroup.com |
Climax Group Inc. develops technologically advanced and critically acclaimed
interactive games software for all major console platforms. The Company
works with major worldwide publishers such as Microsoft, SCEA, Buena Vista Games
and THQ to create such hit titles as ATV Offroad Fury 3, Sudeki and the Moto GP
series on Xbox and PC.
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Empire
Scaffold, LLC |
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An
industrial scaffold company with operations predominantly located in the
Southeastern United States. |
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$13,000,000 |
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www.empirescaffold.com |
Empire Scaffold is a provider of scaffolding work access services to industrial
clients primarily in the Gulf Coast region of the United States. Work access
services include design engineering, project management and labor for the
erection and dismantlement of complex scaffolding systems and associated
equipment rental.
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Innovation
Interactive (f/k/a eXact Advertising, LLC) |
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Internet
advertising |
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$15,000,000 |
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www.exactadvertising.com |
eXact focuses on the delivery of a suite of online solutions that provide
highly-targeted advertising to customers based on real-time behavior. The
company provides its customers with a suite of integrated performance-based
marketing solutions. eXact maximizes advertisers' Internet marketing budgets
through a robust set of results-driven products and services and accompanying
return on investment ("ROI") management tools.
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Klinger
Advanced Aesthetics |
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Integrated
aesthetics services with technologically measurable results |
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$10,000,000 |
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www.klinger.com |
Klinger Advanced Aesthetics has created and is expanding the industry's first
integrated, branded source for aesthetics-improvement services and products that
provide predictable results inside a trusted, high service environment. KAA
utilizes credentialed cosmetic medical practitioners that deliver
protocol-driven procedures that are overseen by a market leading team of
cosmetic medical thought leaders and Johns Hopkins Medicine. In addition, KAA is
the first aesthetic services provider with the ability to track and document
treatment outcomes. KAA uses a host of mature and evolving technologies for
measuring the efficacy of skin care, surgical and dental interventions, which
includes detailed analysis of skin quality, facial feature symmetry and the
potential for smile/dental improvements.
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Mortgagebot,
LLC |
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Internet-based loan origination solutions for the mortgage lending industry |
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$11,000,000 |
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www.mortgagebot.com |
Mortgagebot, LLC. is a provider of Internet-based loan origination solutions for
the mortgage lending industry. Mortgagebot was founded in 1997 as a division of
Marshall & Ilsley Corporation (NYSE: MI), a diversified financial services
company, and spun-off as an independent company through a management led buyout
in April 2001. A pioneer in the online mortgage lending arena, Mortgagebot
combines its mortgage banking experience with technology to create turnkey and
comprehensive Internet solutions for mortgage lenders nationwide. Mortgagebot
offers its internally developed, proprietary technology as an application
service provider. Mortgagebot’s web-enabled solutions are completely
private-labeled, allowing partners to fully leverage their own brand and
customer relationships.
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MortgageIT,
Inc. |
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Full-service
residential mortgage bank |
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$15,000,000 |
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www.mortgageit.com |
MortgageIT is a full-service residential mortgage bank offering a broad array of
home mortgage products through an extensive nationwide network of both retail
and wholesale offices as well as through MortgageIT's Internet operations.
MortgageIT conducts business through its IPI Skyscraper, MIT Lending and
MortgageIT.com operations.
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StayOnline,
Inc. |
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Wireless
high-speed Internet access solutions exclusively for the hospitality and lodging
industry |
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$15,000,000 |
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www.stayonline.net |
StayOnline is an Internet service provider offering wireless high-speed Internet
access solutions exclusively for the hospitality and lodging industry. Based in
Atlanta, Georgia, StayOnline is a provider of wireless, full property coverage
Internet solutions. As of the end of the second quarter of 2005, StayOnline had
installations in more than 600 hotel properties in the US, covering more than
85,000 guest rooms.
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TrenStar,
Inc. |
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Radio
frequency identification ("RFID")–enabled mobile asset management solutions to
major industrial companies |
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$15,000,000 |
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www.trenstar.com |
TrenStar's supply chain technology and services heritage has evolved into a
pioneering RFID-enabled, "pay-per-use" model of mobile asset management designed
to reduce transportation and operating costs for companies invested in
containers that move raw materials, work-in-progress and finished goods through
the supply chain. TrenStar's three-part asset management, logistics services and
supply chain technology solutions, integrating RFID and container tracking
software, is offered to qualified clients for no up front cost. This solution is
intended to benefit multiple companies in an asset-intensive industry
participating in TrenStar's distinctive asset pooling operations. TrenStar and
its affiliates focus on brewing, beverage, food, synthetic rubber, air cargo,
healthcare and other asset-intensive industries.
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