AllBusiness (acquired by Dun and Bradstreet)
Sector: Business Information
Summary: AllBusiness is an online media and e-commerce company operating one of the premier online business sites on for small and medium-sized businesses.
AllBusiness.com helps entrepreneurs, growing businesses and business professionals save time and money by addressing real-world business questions and presenting practical solutions. The site offers resources including how-to articles, contracts and agreements, expert advice, blogs, business news and product comparisons.
Other Investors: VantagePoint Venture Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures
Location: San Francisco, California
URL: www.allbusiness.com
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Babylon (IPO - TASE:BBYL)
Sector: One click information access
Summary: 40 million people worldwide use Babylon as a must-have tool for single- click access to translations, information and conversions. Babylon’s approach to information retrieval improves productivity by enabling users to instantly access concise and relevant information, in a single click, without leaving the application that they are in.
Other Investors: Noam Lanir and partners, public investors
Location: Or-Yehuda, Israel
URL: www.babylon.com
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Business.com (acquired by R.H. Donnelley)
Sector: Paid search and business directories
Summary: Business-only focused search engine and directory that helps the business user find exactly what they are looking for.
Other Investors: Benchmark Capital
Location: Los Angeles
URL: www.business.com
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Healthline Networks, Inc.
Sector: Healthcare Search and Information
Summary: Healthline Networks Inc provides the easiest way for consumers to find, understand and manage healthcare information, empowering them to make more informed decisions that lead to better health.
Created in collaboration with 1,100 physicians and medical specialists, Healthline’s unique Medically Guided Search™ experience is powered by a sophisticated consumer health catalogue comprised of nearly one million medical terms and synonyms – the largest of its kind. This powerful engine translates everyday language and precisely matches it to complex medical terms and information.
Other Investors: VantagePoint Venture Partners, GE/NBC Peacock Fund
Location: California
URL: www.healthline.com
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Inpharmatica (acquired by Galapagos NV)
Sector: BioInformatics/Drug Discovery
Summary: PharmaCarta™ is an integrated suite of informatics-based discovery technologies fully capable of rapid gene to candidate operations. The suite is available as a package, on a stand alone basis, or as part of a strategic research partnership with Inpharmatica’s scientific division. The components of PharmaCarta include Biopendium (a comprehensive proteome annotation resource for rapid prioritisation of potentially druggable targets) and Admensa (a complete early ADME optimisation service)
Other Investors: Advent Venture
Partners, Abingworth Management, 3i
Location: London, UK
URL: www.inpharmatica.com
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iPhrase Technologies (acquired by IBM)
Sector: Natural language search software
Summary: The OneStepTM suite of information access products connects users to specific, critical information in one easy step.
Other Investors: Charles River Ventures, Greylock Management, Sequoia Capital
Location: Boston, USA
URL: www.iphrase.com
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Intraspect (acquired by Vignette)
Sector: Enterprise collaboration management
Summary: Intraspect's web-based workspaces enable employees, customers, suppliers and partners to work together to bring products and services to market faster; improve employee productivity; and enrich customer relationships.
Other Investors: GE Equity, Diamond Head Ventures, JEGI, Bay Partners, AVI Capital, Donald L. Lucas Associates
Location: California and London
URL: www.intraspect.com
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Inxight (acquired by Business Objects)
Sector: Unstructured data management
Summary: Inxight’s leading range of products – including categorisation, indexing, visualisation, summarisation and linking – offer customers in a wide range of industries immediate access to the information/data they specifically need.
Other Investors: VantagePoint Venture Partners, DB Capital Ventures Partners, Dresdner
Location: California
URL: www.inxight.com
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Jobster
Sector: Online recruitment
Summary: Jobster is an online recruitment service for employers and jobseekers which simplifies the process of making successful career matches. Jobster enables jobseekers to use their contacts to get noticed directly by hiring teams and helps them find relevant and valuable insight into companies and people they want to work with.
Employers can match jobs to the right people through viral email campaigns, email auto signatures, contextual job advertising on blogs and high traffic web sites. Relationship management tools help employers efficiently build, measure and manage talent pipelines for immediate as well as future hires.
Other Investors: Ignition Partners, Mayfield, Trinity Ventures
Location: Seattle, Washington
URL: www.jobster.com
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Netli (acquired by Akamai Technologies)
Sector: Application Delivery Network (ADN) services
Summary: NetLightning transparently delivers LAN-like performance and availability for global Web applications. The world's leading and most successful companies use Netli's services to extend their market reach and reduce support costs while consolidating data center infrastructure.
Other Investors: Morgenthaler
Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Alta Partners, Nokia Venture Partners, and Leapfrog Ventures
Location: Palo Alto
URL: www.netli.com
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NextPage (acquired by FAST)
Sector: Distributed architecture content management
Summary: Nextpage’s main product, NXT3, is a peer-to-peer platform that allows employees, partners and customers to view and access distributed content, regardless of where it resides, as if it were in one central repository.
Other Investors: Oak Investment Partners, Intel Capital, VISA International, Dominion Ventures
Location: Utah and California
URL: www.nextpage.com
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Palantir Technologies
Sector: Data analytics and visualisation
Summary: Palantir provides an investigative intelligence platform to analysts whose mission requires cutting edge, next generation technology. Palantir’s platform brings together data from multiple sources and stores/presents it in a manner that enables intuitive and collaborative investigation.
Other Investors: The Founders Fund, In-Q-Tel
Location: Palo Alto, California
URL: www.palantirtech.com
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Siperian
Sector: Master Data Management
Summary: Siperian solves the problem of customer data reliability through a rules-driven, code-free approach, creating the most trustworthy and manageable customer master reference store possible from disparate internal and external data sources.
Other Investors: Constellation Ventures, Brightspark, ArrowPath Venture Capital, RedRock Ventures
Location: San Mateo, California
URL: www.siperian.com
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SRD (acquired by IBM)
Sector: Risk Management & Entity Analytics
Summary: SRD has pioneered a new approach to identity and risk management. SRD’s solutions allow organisations to know who’s who, to uncover who knows who, and to protect personal privacy by extending identities to who knows who anonymously. Identity resolution is the critical first step to prevent fraud and insider threats, comply with government regulations, and maximise customer data integration initiatives. Financial services, insurance, hospitality, healthcare, life sciences, and government organisations are just some of the areas where SRD solutions are being used.
Other Investors: In-Q-Tel, SAIC
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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