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Availant is the world leader in developing software solutions that help maintain the availability of business critical applications and systems. We place an unrelenting emphasis on practical innovation, the creative application of leading edge, standards-based technologies and intelligent paths to reduce the total cost of our customer's solutions. Acquired by Lakeview Technology.
Centric Software, Inc. provides Collaborative Virtual Product Development (CVPD) Solutions that optimize the product innovation cycle, allowing companies to bring next generation products to market with greater innovation, faster, and with less risk. Centric Software solutions are in use by companies ranging from aerospace, automotive, heavy manufacturing, AEC, and worldwide defense organizations. Centric Software, Inc., operates globally and provides best-in-class customer support.
Exa Corporation develops and markets PowerFLOW, a fluid flow simulation software for engineers to analyze complex fluid flow problems. The company's products, based on Exa's patented DIGITAL PHYSICS technology, are marketed to engineers worldwide. Fluid flow measurement for these and many other applications is mission critical for design engineers, representing an annual market of $1.9 billion based on existing and potential market uses. Exa Corporation was founded in 1991 by Dr. Kim Molvig who initiated the development of DIGITAL PHYSICS while on sabbatical from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
FareChase, Inc.'s core technology is a unique server-side web automation engine that performs large-scale, real-time data retrieval and verification within the online travel industry. FareChase is an e-travel technology provider capable of real-time automated online inventory aggregation on the global scale required for handling flights, hotels and car rentals. Acting as a software licensing company and as an application service provider, FareChase's value proposition is to be a powerful technology tool, enabling airlines, consolidators, wholesalers, e-travel sites and portals to increase their inventory and sales by integrating the dynamic pricing and inventory of other major travel suppliers with their own and enabling users to book or transact on results brought to them. Acquired by Yahoo!.
HubX is a service provider organization that offers information integration and web enabled management capabilities for the hospitality industry. The company utilizes open architectures, technologies, and principles to provide clients with private Intranet and public Internet platforms for conducting business. The company's comprehensive services deliver benefits and advantages that have traditionally been considered too costly, time consuming, or impossible to achieve. Acquired by Synxis.
iBreva offers a phone based payment and loyalty system which significantly cuts merchants' transaction fees and improves their top line, while offering consumers a new level of convenience, benefits and security. The iBreva solution works with existing mobile phones and does not require a hardware modification or application download. In the store, it's just like using a debit card, except the customer initiates payment with the wave of their phone, rather than the swipe of a card. Payment clearing is done using an existing fund transfer network that is robust, proven and low cost. It works with the retailer's and the consumer's existing bank accounts. For those loyalty programs that the consumer chooses to participate in, benefits are automatically accrued whenever they use their phone for payment.
ImpactXoft addresses the call for new software that combines an advanced design tool and the ability to connect globally dispersed development groups and speed the design and production processes. The Internet has given ImpactXoft the opportunity to develop a unique product suite based on revolutionary and proprietary functional modeling and collaborative technology. ImpactXoft's breakthrough technology promises more cost-effective production of high quality products in a shorter amount of time. They have built their advanced technology explicitly for the Internet. Acquired by Autodesk.
Khimetrics, Inc. provides revenue management and pricing optimization solutions to traditional and online retailers. The company's Retail Revenue Management application suite increases revenue and profits for retailers and e-tailers by optimizing prices to meet enterprise goals. KhiMetrics' solution also enables the company to reveal for customers their true competitive market positioning and to measure the precise customer demand for products. Acquired by SAP.
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RealManage, Inc. provides outsourced property management services and solutions to community association developers, builders, service providers, boards and homeowners using a proprietary business process and technology platform. RealManage creates value for its clients with an integrated best practices operation that is dramatically faster, better and more efficient than the industry standard.
Reflexion Network Solutions, Inc. offers Reflexion Total Control, a managed service that uses a patent-pending Protective Address Defense to block spam, viruses, DoS, and directory harvesting attacks, identify phishing attacks, and detect zombie machines and open relays. Total Control empowers users with unprecedented, proactive control over their inbox, assuring access for desirable correspondents, regardless of their content, and isolation for unwanted senders and content.
Signiant Inc. is the leading developer of digital media distribution management solutions for the media and entertainment industries. Signiant provides its customers with the only integrated, open software solution that manages, secures, automates and accelerates their digital media distribution workflows to efficiently move and repurpose content throughout their ecosystem and to more distribution outlets in less time. Signiant's products are built upon a heritage of reliability and technical expertise, with development of the product beginning within Nortel Networks.
Thor Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of access rights management and provisioning solutions for the enterprise. Xellerate(tm), Thor's flagship product, is a software platform that automates access rights management and provisioning processes, dramatically compressing the time it takes to connect or revoke user access to IT resources from weeks to minutes. By accelerating the speed of these critical processes and performing them automatically, Xellerate (1) dramatically reduces the cost of provisioning IT resources to employees, customers, vendors and partners; (2) enhances enterprise productivity by freeing up IT labor and rapidly connecting users to the resources they need to support corporate goals; (3) strengthens security by revoking access within minutes, protecting proprietary information from theft and misuse; (4) enables enterprises to scale provisioning of IT resources cost-effectively and efficiently to larger and more diverse user populations; and (5) increases compliance by automating the implementation of security processes and providing a complete audit trail of access grants and revocations to various resources. Acquired by Oracle.
Veridiem Inc. provides enterprise software and services revolutionizing marketing measurement and optimization so that corporations can significantly improve the effectiveness of their investments. The company enables Global 2000 companies to increase revenue and profits by continuously optimizing the return on marketing programs across all media, channels, and segments. The Veridiem enterprise software system transforms marketing information into intelligence enabling marketers to measure the contribution of their investments, drive better business decisions, and achieve a higher Return on Marketing. Veridiem solutions help marketers, who collectively spend billions of dollars per year, or roughly 5% of total revenues, apply science to the art of marketing. Acquired by SAS.
Wandrian is a global leader in the development and the implementation of advanced e-commerce solutions for the rail industry and the travel community. Wandrian facilitates all aspects of the marketing and distribution of rail passes and tickets. With innovative and proprietary technology that enables easy product selection and booking, and exceptional customer service and fulfillment capabilities, Wandrian has designed solutions that have been adopted by leading travel agencies, travel websites, and railway companies across North America, Europe and Australasia.
Yokel is a directory of local, real-world stores and the products they carry. Yokel was founded by experienced internet veterans who were frustrated with the inability of other websites to help them find products they were looking to buy. The question which consumers ask and which Yokel is striving to answer is simple: "Where can I buy a _______ in a local store near me?" After looking at many other websites, the company's founders couldn't come across any that could solve this seemingly simple query consistently and effectively. So, to solve this problem, they founded Yokel.
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he BCV partnerships have invested in over 50
companies since the first Boston Capital Ventures investment was made in 1982.
The companies described represent a selection of investments made by BCV
partnerships.