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Founded in 1968, TA Associates is one of the oldest and largest private equity firms in the world. We invest in private companies in exciting industries, with the goal of helping management teams build their businesses into great companies. This mission has been at the heart of TA’s approach to investing, and our nearly 400 current and former portfolio companies illustrate our commitment to provide steady support through the cycles of the global economy.
Equipped with a $16 billion capital base and four decades of experience, we offer our portfolio companies financial support, strategic guidance, and a significant network of contacts. We help our portfolio companies navigate the complicated paths of public offerings, debt financings, and mergers and acquisitions, and since 1995 have helped them raise more than $15 billion.
With more than 60 investment professionals in Boston, Menlo Park, London and Mumbai, we possess the knowledge and the ability to act decisively in a wide array of industries. While we have deep expertise in technology, financial and business services, healthcare, and consumer industries, we will consider investments in other areas.
We are here to help you build a thriving business and create substantial value for the future.
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Index Ventures is a leading global venture capital firm active in technology venture investing since 1996. The firm is dedicated to helping top entrepreneurial teams in the Information Technology, Life Science and Clean Tech sectors build their companies into market defining global leaders. The firm has offices in Geneva, London and Jersey and focuses on investments from seed through growth stage companies. Recent exits of note include MySQL (the world’s most popular open source database recently acquired by Sun) and Last.fm (the world’s largest social music platform, recently acquired by CBS). For more information, please visit http:/www.indexventures.com
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Cinco Capital is the private investment vehicle of Lars Hinrichs, serial Entrepreneur from Germany. Cinco Capital is building a portfolio of holdings in private & public companies. Currently Cinco Capital holds investments in Europe and the U.S. in different industries such as technology, internet, financial services, telecommunications, wholesale, marketing, media and others. It is the current policy of Cinco Capital GmbH to invest its own capital in private equity situations only if the target company: Adds sustainable value in the market or is a disruptive play, has a genuine business with revenues and assets, has an unique competetive advantage within its niche and is an economies of scale business. Furthermore, Cinco Capital involvement must be able to enhance the market value of the company. At all times Cinco Capital is an active shareholder looking to increase the value of its investments.
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AdServX is the intelligent ad server solution for publishers, marketers and agencies to manage, deliver and analyze digital advertising.
Based on the open source software OpenX, AdServX offers a secure, efficient and affordable alternative for the ad server market. This solution is suitable for all forms of digital advertising. Competence and high performance at an excellent price – guaranteed by ESV Media.
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Conduit was founded in 2005 by technology innovators who understood that web publishers needed more effective methods for creating a conduit with their community. The company introduced a ground-breaking, easy-to-use SaaS platform that any web publisher can use to offer content and applications to users across the World Wide Web.
The free SaaS platform proved to be so popular that by early 2009, more than200,000 web publishers of all sizes were using it to increase website traffic, improve brand awareness, and generate new revenue streams. Leading brands such as Fox News, Major League Baseball, Travelocity, Softonic, TechCrunch and thousands of smaller communities and businesses now offer branded community toolbars as an extension of their website and business model. To date, community toolbars powered by Conduit have been installed by more than 60 million usersand deployed in more than 80 languages and 120 countries.
In 2009, Conduit was ready to leverage this massive network of web publishers and users to create direct and indirect distribution opportunities for its customers and introduced Conduit Open™. This initiative reflected the company’s vision that Internet technologies should be free and easy to use so that anyone can share their ideas, products and services without limits. Conduit publishers now have access more than 60 million users and 200,000 other Conduit publishers through the Conduit Open modules.
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Founded in 2006 by software engineers and search marketers, Kenshoo is a global innovator in search engine marketing technology with extensive industry knowledge. Kenshoo’s flagship product, KENSHOO™ Search, is an end-to-end SEM platform, which automates the process of building and optimizing cross channel search campaigns. KENSHOO Search was built on Kenshoo’s unique Quality Management™ methodology. Quality Management is a holistic approach to search marketing that automates most of the labor intensive search marketing operations and gives search markets a wide array of features in a natural workflow for greatest ease of use.
As a Google Qualified Company, a Yahoo! Ambassador and a Microsoft adExcellence partner, Kenshoo provides its licensed SEM platform and services to agencies, advertisers, and affiliate marketers worldwide.
Kenshoo is backed by Sequoia Capital and Arts Alliance, and has offices in San Francisco, London, and corporate headquarters in Tel Aviv.
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We help our clients achieve more by providing them with deep information on the companies, markets, and people that matter to them along with tools that greatly simplify their workflow. We founded our business in 1999, and we now work with well over 4,200 client firms including many of the world’s most successful investment banks, investment management firms, private equity firms, universities, consultants, and corporations.
We strive to deliver a total experience to our clients. Through our product suite of Capital IQ Platform, Compustat, ClariFI, SystematIQ, and MMD, we offer an array of powerful applications for desktop research, screening, real-time market data, backtesting, portfolio management, financial modeling, and quantitative analysis. We listen to our clients and build information tools that address their needs, and follow through on our commitments with relentless client focus and responsiveness. We are constantly developing and introducing new enhancements that refine our value proposition.
As a unique Standard & Poor’s business, Capital IQ has a distinct advantage of being nimble and innovative while having the resources of a large, successful organization. Our goal is to be the world’s leading provider of financial and business information solutions.
