IT/Telecomm Portfolio Companies

We invest in software, telecommunications, media, and internet companies.

Extreme Reach Extreme Reach provides the first all-software video platform that enables advertisers and agencies to deliver, manage, and track their commercial messages across all three screens of video - TV, web, and mobile. Extreme Reach competes in a high growth market fueled by the expansion of HD advertising as well as increased video advertising on the web. The Company is led by industry veterans who built a previous company together in the same space. www.extremereach.com Lead Partner: Tripp Peake Co-Investors: Greycroft, Village Ventures Location: Needham, MA

Gate Rocket GateRocket provides a unique set of solutions for verifying and debugging FPGA chip designs. As a result, developers can shave months off of their design process, reduce debugging costs, and catch design problems before they get out of the development environment. GateRocket's products are focused on the leading FPGA products, including Xilinx's Virtex-5 and Altera's Stratix IV. www.gaterocket.com Lead Partner: Tripp Peake Co-Investors: New Atlantic Ventures, MTDC, Common Angels Location: Bedford, MA
Optasite Acquired by SBA Communications (NASDAQ: SBAC) in 2008 Optasite is one of the country's largest and fastest growing cellular tower companies. 2008Led by CEO Jim Eisenstein, former co-founder of American Tower (NYSE: AMT), Optasite owned and operated over 600 towers at the time of the sale to SBA. Optasite became one of the largest and fastest growing private tower companies in the country having raised approximately $350MM in equity and debt commitments since completing a $1.6MM Series A round led by Long River Ventures in 2003. www.optasite.com Lead Partner: Tripp Peake Co-Investors: Highland Capital Partners, Columbia Capital, Centennial Ventures, Babson Capital Location: Westborough, MA
Pervacio Pervacio provides mobile device management solutions, focused initially on the fast growing device recycling and refurbishing business. Hundreds of millions of mobile devices are returned each year for various reasons, and all of these require servicing to put them back into the new or used marketplace. Pervacio simplifies and automates this process with a proprietary platform covering all of the major mobile device manufacturers and a suite of easy-to-use software tools. www.pervacio.com Lead Partner: Tripp Peake Co-Investors: Vital Financial Location: Washington, DC
Profile SystemsNow part of Sterling Commerce, an ATT Company. Profile Systems, which merged with Comergent Technologies and was acquired by Sterling Commerce in late 2006, provided enterprise class software that facilitated B2B transactions by synchronizing product data among manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and other partners. Profile's software also helped automate the ordering, inventory replenishment, and product exchange processes among trading partners. www.comergent.com Lead Partner: Tripp Peake Co-Investors: Crosspoint Ventures, Mobius, Invesco, MTDC, US Boston, Berkshires Capital Investors Location: West Springfield, MA
Reconda International Acquired by MQ Software Reconda International, acquired by MQ Software in 2005, developed and marketed software solutions that enhance the management, performance, and security of the middleware layer of corporate enterprise IT systems. As a result, disparate hardware and software applications throughout large enterprises could communicate with each other more easily and more reliably. www.mqsoftware.com Lead Partner: Tripp Peake Co-Investors: Conning Capital Partners, Fresh Tracks Capital Location: Minneapolis, MN (formerly Greenwich, CT)
Retail Optimization, Inc. ("ROI") ROI provides predictive space and assortment optimization analytics to determine the most profitable levels of product selection, category space, and inventory investment for a retail store or a cluster of stores. ROI's customers include some of the largest grocery and retail chains in the country. www.retailoptimization.com Lead Partner: Tripp Peake Co-Investors: Connecticut Innovations, Elm Street Ventures Location: New Haven, CT