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9Lenses
Cloud assessment platform
9lenses.com
Companies spend $385B annually trying to gather and capitalize on their organizational intelligence (human insights). However, today’s approaches of gathering these insights are inefficient, disconnected, and slow to deliver value. 9Lenses is the first enterprise SaaS platform that has productized this process, accelerating and automating how companies move from human insights to value-creating actions. 9Lenses customers include leading G1000 corporations, and is led by an executive team with a track record of building disruptive technology companies.
Abstract Security
THE COMPLETE
DATA PLATFORM FOR SECURITY
www.abstract.security
Abstract Security has created a revolutionary platform, equipped with an AI-powered assistant, to better centralize the management of security analytics. Abstract transcends next-gen SIEM solutions by correlating data in real-time between data streams. As a result, compliance and security data can be leveraged separately to increase detection effectiveness and lower costs.
Access Health
Healthcare services and physician referral solutions
Access Health successfully switched markets and grew into a $100 million revenue public company before being acquired by McKesson/HBOC.
Acquired By: McKesson
Acquisition Price: $928 Million
Date: December 10, 1998
Valuation at the IPO: $140 Million
IPO Date: February 24, 1997
Ticker Symbol: NASD:ACCS
Acopia Networks
Network storage virtualization
Acopia Networks offered Acopia ARX series intelligent file virtualization devices that automated data management tasks and eliminated the disruption associated with storage management operations. It also offered FreedomFabric network operating system software, which allowed enterprises to manage unstructured file data by automating various storage management tasks and eliminating the disruptions associated with those tasks. Acopia solutions increased F5’s strategic value to customers by optimizing the network storage layer that is entrusted with an organization’s data.
Acquired By: F5
Acquisition Price: $210 Million
Date: 2007
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ:FFIV
Algety Telecom
High-speed fiber optic transmission equipment
Algety Telecom developed high-speed fiber optic WDM transmission gear. Algety was founded in 1999 by researchers from France Telecom.
Acquired By: Corvis
Acquisition Price: $219 Million
Date: July, 2000
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ:CORV
Allen Control Systems
Autonomous Robotics for the Defense Space
www.allencontrolsystems.com
The mission of ACS is to build products and services that enable our forces to maneuver safely and accomplish their mission—whatever it is. They do this by reimagining the weapon systems of the past and infusing them with technologies of the present.
AnyRoad
Experience Relationship Management (ERM) platform
anyroad.com
AnyRoad is a software-as-a-service company that helps its customers offer “offline experiences” (e.g. tours, classes and events) and use the data generated to connect better with their customers. Experiential marketing has become a competitive differentiator for brands to better engage with consumers, AnyRoad measures and optimizes these programs with live and centralized data.
Appdome
No-code mobile integration platform
appdome.com
Appdome provides a mobile integration platform to offer integration of multiple third-party functions to existing mobile apps. The company’s platform offers no-code mobile implementation options, enabling app developers to complete mobile integration projects in seconds, eliminate manual development and ease mobile integration maintenance.
Appfluence
Time management software application
appfluence.com
Appfluence is a productivity software company. They created Priority Matrix, a collaborative prioritization software for managers to track team accountability, priorities, and proof of work. Priority Matrix is used at thousands of companies and covers industries such as government, education, IT services, sales, and operations.
Aravox Technologies
Voice-over-internet protocol security technology
Aravox provided critical enabling technology for service providers deploying real-time communication applications, including voice and video services. The Aravox IP network services platform was an infrastructure solution that conserved public IP addresses, enabled peering between service providers, managed call consumption of bandwidth, and addressed last-mile quality of service management between service providers and enterprises.
Acquired By: Alcatel
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: December, 2002
Ticker Symbol: NYSE:ALU
Arctic Wolf
Security Operations
arcticwolf.com
Arctic Wolf is a global leader in security operations, enabling customers to manage their cyber risk in the face of modern cyber attacks via a premier cloud-native security operations platform. The Arctic Wolf Security Operations Cloud ingests and analyzes more than 4.5 trillion security events a week to help enable cyber defense at an unprecedented capacity and scale, empowering customers of virtually any size across a wide range of industries to feel confident in their security posture, readiness and long-term resilience.
Acquired: Revelstoke
Date: October 2023
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Atavium
Cloud-based data management platform
atavium.com
Atavium is building a cloud-based data management platform designed to eliminate the complexity of large unstructured data sets. The company’s platform offers dual-ported NVMe and SMR drives, enabling enterprises to store, share and synchronize data securely and quickly.
Backer
Social Savings Platform
backer.com
Backer is a social savings platform that helps people create tax-free 529 accounts for their children, provides investment guidance and allows family and friends to contribute with ease.
Backtrace I/O
Application Monitoring and Crash Reporting Software
backtrace.io
Backtrace I/O has developed software solutions designed for crash analysis and software debugging. The company’s technology platform fundamentally improves software debugging and fault detection by empowering engineers to identify root causes and trends with unparalleled efficiency.
Acquired By: Sauce Labs
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: July 2021
Bbot
Contactless Dining Experiences
try.bbot.menu
Bbot helps businesses increase efficiency and offer a modern guest experience via contactless mobile ordering, both inside and outside the venue. Bbot offers fast and secure payments, and custom-tailored implementation plans including integrations with major point of sale systems.
Acquired By: DoorDash
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: March 2022
Beckon
Marketing performance and business outcome data
beckon.com
Beckon was founded in 2011 to help marketers understand and beautifully communicate the business impact of everything marketing does. Today, Beckon is the leader in omnichannel marketing performance measurement and serves many of the world’s biggest brands including HP, Microsoft, The Gap, BSkyB, and Converse.
Acquired By: Aclate, Inc.
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: November, 2018
Blackwell Security
Cybersecurity made for healthcare
blackwellsecurity.com
Blackwell Security provides managed security operations designed exclusively for healthcare organizations, so they can reduce risk, maintain compliance and build a secure continuum of care.
Blue Lava
Comprehensive security program
Blue Lava
Blue Lava has built a security program based on a continuous assessment, designed to uncover potential business and security risks. Blue Lava Assessment transforms compliance-focused risk assessment into an effective, enterprise-wide security evaluation.
Acquired By: Zyston LLC
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: October 2023
Bluesocket
Wireless LAN solutions
The Bluesocket product family includes a suite of innovative wireless LAN solutions that bring the power of network virtualization to wireless. Bluesocket was acquired by AdTran in 2011. The acquisition brings ADTRAN into the forefront of industry-leading wireless solutions for enterprise and campus environments.
Acquired By: Adtran
Acquisition Price: $24 Million
Date: August, 2011
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ:ADTN
Bond Sports
Modern Software for Athletic Facilities
facilities.bondsports.co
Bond Sports is the leading software solution serving the recreational sports and fitness market. They help anyone that owns or operates a place to play sports better manage their courts, fields, ice, pools, gyms or other spaces. This includes the tools to manage their calendar, rentals/events, program management and registrations, memberships, point of sale systems and their financial reporting and analytics.
Braze
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Mobile application marketing automation
braze.com
Braze is the global leader in Marketing Automation for Apps. The company’s customer engagement platform is built for today’s mobile-first world. Braze’s platform allows marketers at leading brands to create live views of their customers that stream and process historical, in-the-moment, and predictive data in an interactive feedback loop, so immediate action on insights can be taken with relevant messaging across mobile and web.
IPO Date: November 2021
Valuation at IPO: $8 Billion
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ: BRZE
Broadsoft
IP-communication and services
BroadSoft provides software to the telecommunications industry, delivering innovative IP-communication and services intended to transform their customer’s work. The company’s communication software offers enterprise and consumer calling, messaging and collaboration communication services, including private branch exchanges, video calling, text messaging and converged mobile and fixed-line services as well as voice over internet protocol (VoIP) applications.
Valuation at the IPO: $327 Million
IPO Date: June 16, 2010
Ticker Symbol: NASD:BSFT
Bugcrowd
Crowd-sourced security platform
bugcrowd.com
Bugcrowd’s crowd-sourced security platform helps organizations with a customized security testing program to bolster their security posture. The company’s platform offers cost-effective security testing programs to manage bug bounty, vulnerability disclosure, and next-gen pen test programs — enabling clients to commission a customized security testing program that fits their specific requirements.
Carbon Black
Cloud native endpoint protection
carbonblack.com
Carbon Black provides better data insights by enabling users to more easily perform advanced analytics through interactive visualization. Users can apply data science algorithms to big data by simply building a visualization. Application areas include cyber security, application performance, fraud detection, and more.
Acquired: Visitrend
Date: August, 2015
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
IPO Date: May, 2018
Valuation at IPO: $1.2 Billion
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ: CBLK
Acquired By: VMware
Date: October, 2019
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Chosen Security
On-demand digital identity management services
Chosen Security, Inc. provided on-demand digital identity management services. It offered TC Enterprise ID, a managed service solution for digital certificates. Client Certificates that enabled secure communication via Internet. SSL Certificates that enabled customers to secure their online services. Root Services that provided users with the security and trust anchor required for a public key infrastructure; and Signing Services that enabled users to determine the originator of an electronic document, and check the genuineness of its content, and its date and time of creation.
Acquired By: PGP
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: February, 2010
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ:PGP
Clinical Research IO
eSource, CTMS, and eRegulatory software for clinical trial sites
clinicalresearch.io
Clinical Research IO is developing an e-source system designed to digitally track and store clinical research source data. The company’s system replaces the paper forms with an interactive tablet application. Researchers are able to configure e-source templates and use a tablet to capture data more accurately and efficiently.
Cloud Elements
API Integration Platform
cloud-elements.com
Cloud Elements developed an API integration platform intended to integrate and manage digital products and applications. The company’s platform features end-to-end functions such as data transformations, API provisioning, usage monitoring, events and notifications for tracking and troubleshooting, enabling developers to integrate multiple apps seamlessly with other leading cloud services.
Acquired By: UiPath
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: March 2021
Cluster K
Cloud computing platform
ClusterK was a developer of software that helped companies run mission-critical applications on spare cloud compute capacity sold by Amazon Web Services.
Acquired By: Amazon
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: April, 2015
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ: AMZN
Compellent Technologies
Storage solutions for enterprise and cloud-computing environments
Compellent Technologies, Inc. is a provider of highly-virtualized storage solutions with automated data management features, including tiering and thin provisioning, for enterprise and cloud-computing environments. Compellent Technologies was acquired by Dell in February 2011 for approximately $940 million. Compellent Fluid Data technology broadens Dell’s storage solutions portfolio for scaling and managing more data with fewer resources in enterprise and cloud data centers.
Acquired By: Dell
Acquisition Price: $940 Million
Date: February 21, 2011
Valuation at the IPO: $401 Million
IPO Date: October 10, 2007
Ticker Symbol: NYSE:CML
Contactually
Real estate CRM
contactually.com
Contactually is an intelligent CRM for real estate professionals. Their mission is to help relationship-focused professionals expand opportunities through authentic and timely engagement.
Acquired By: Compass
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: February, 2019
Corvil
Network data analytics
The Corvil Streaming Analytics Platform transforms IT data into real-time operational intelligence to provide order of magnitude improvement in the speed to see, understand and act on business as it’s happening. Corvil provides the full picture of customers, business, and IT infrastructure all interacting together in real-time.
Acquired By: Pico
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: July, 2019
Coupa
Cloud-based financial applications
coupa.com
Coupa Software is the leading provider of cloud-based financial applications. Coupa provides a suite of true cloud applications for finance, including accounts payable, sourcing, procurement and expense management that allows customers to realize a return on their investment within a few months and savings that continually impact the bottom line.
IPO Date: October, 2016
Valuation at IPO: $1.7 Billion
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ: COUP
CrowdStreet
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Real estate investing platform
crowdstreet.com
CrowdStreet provides an online commercial real estate (CRE) investment marketplace designed to give accredited investors access to institutional-quality offerings. The company’s platform allows real estate developers and operators (sponsors) to manage investors and investments and raise capital to grow their businesses, enabling investors and CRE firms to maximize their wealth.
Cymmetria
Cybersecurity and deception technology
cymmetria.com
Cymmetria provides software designed to detect cyber attacks. The company’s cyber deception solution, MazeRunner, gives organizations the ability to detect network threats, shape attacker behavior, and mitigate attacks. By turning an organization’s network into a labyrinth of high-risk navigational decisions, Cymmetria’s MazeRunner allows for unprecedented control over an attacker’s movement and activity in a network. Our team consists of cyber deception and InfoSec veterans, military specialists, and APT and malware researchers.
Cyras
Data-optimized optical switching systems
Cyras was a developer of data-optimized optical switching systems for metropolitan area network applications. Cyras was acquired by Ciena in 2001 and formed a new Ciena division focusing on multi-service access and switching.
Acquired By: Ciena
Acquisition Price: $1.1 Billion
Date: March, 2001
Ticker Symbol: NYSE:CIEN
DecisionNext
Forecasting and analytical software tools for commodities-driven industries
decisionnext.com
DecisionNext has developed a cloud-based platform designed to optimize end-to-end performance using predictive analytics. The company’s platform, built for commodities-driven industries, leverages proprietary machine learning algorithms to provide real-time validation of forecasting models to simulate market scenarios, enabling clients to maximize profit margins, minimize uncertainty and gain meaningful context for their decisions.
DisruptOPS
Cloud infrastructure management
disruptops.com
DisruptOps is a security and operational platform that enables enterprises to deliver cloud-native applications. The company’s platform includes an automated and continuous cloud control infrastructure, enabling teams to move faster into the cloud while strengthening security controls, streamlining operations, and controlling cloud spending.
Acquired By: FireMon
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: September 2021
Earthlink
Internet service provider
earthlink.net
EarthLink offers internet access, premium email, web hosting, and privacy and data security products and services to customers throughout the United States. EarthLink also has key partner relationships with several of the nation’s largest providers, enabling the Company to offer products and connectivity services available to millions of households nationwide.
Valuation at the IPO: Undisclosed
IPO Date: January, 1997
Ticker Symbol: NASD:ELNK
Edgewater Networks
Products that enable IP-based voice, video, and data services
Edgewater Networks developed products that ensured the secure and reliable delivery of IP based voice, video, and data for service providers and enterprises. Edgewater Networks’ products offered proven network and operational savings from the customer premises to the core of the network.
Acquired By: Ribbon Communications
Acquisition Price: $110 Million
Date: June, 2008
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ:RBBN
Efficient Networks
High-speed digital subscriber line CPE
Efficient Networks is a worldwide developer and supplier of high-speed digital subscriber line customer premises equipment, or CPE, for the broadband access market.
Acquired By: Siemens
Acquisition Price: $1.7 Billion
Date: April, 2001
Valuation at the IPO: $543 Million
IPO Date: July, 1999
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ:EFNT
Enstratius
Cloud computing infrastructure management platform
Enstratius was founded in 2008 and became an award-winning provider of software and consulting services that deliver hybrid-cloud and single-cloud management capabilities. Enstratius has earned numerous awards for its innovative technology and contribution to advancing the cloud computing industry, including recognition as one of the Top 20 Coolest Cloud Platforms in 2012 by CRN. Enstratius was acquired by Dell in 2013. The acquisition brought key capabilities to deliver cloud management products to Dell’s customers.
Acquired By: Dell
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: May, 2013
Entrisphere
Fiber access technology
Entrisphere provided fiber access technology, which is essential for High Definition IPTV and other IP based services with high demand on bandwidth and cost efficiency. Entrisphere was acquired by Ericsson in 2007. The acquisition strengthened Ericsson's fixed broadband access portfolio and its position in converged networks.
Acquired By: Ericsson
Acquisition Price: $290 Million
Date: February, 2007
Epoch
Employee Experience Platform
epochapp.com
Epoch works as a catalyst to help growing companies shape their culture. Through Epoch, people operations and HR teams are can actively engage with their employees and empower them through various employee-centric initiatives and programs while receiving data-driven insights and feedback.
ExpertVoice
Online Marketing Platform
expertvoice.com
ExpertVoice provides an online marketing platform to enable brands to engage with their key brand influencers and leverage the high-quality social content created by these individuals across social media, web, mobile, e-commerce, and in-store platforms. The company’s platform helps brands easily find, educate, and reward trusted influencers to drive more sales with the help of expert recommendations.
Foodsby
Food delivery platform
foodsby.com
Foodsby provides a restaurant order aggregation service for commercial property owners and managers. The company’s platform connects office buildings with local restaurants to provide quality lunch options at a reasonable price, enabling business professionals to place orders from local restaurants and receive a variety of food to their offices.
Foodsmart
Digital health company
foodsmart.com
Foodsmart (formerly Zipongo) is a digital health company on a mission to reduce chronic disease by positively impacting the one health behavior everyone does each day: eat. Foodsmart works with employers, health plans and other wellness partners looking for an easy way to engage their members in healthy and sustainable eating habits at work and at home. They deliver individualized recommendations tied to convenient, real-time actions including worksite cafe recommendations, healthy recipes, meal planning tools as well as discounts and incentives for healthy groceries. Foodsmart makes it easy to eat well.
Gappify
Accrual Automation Solutions
gappify.com
Gappify, founded by CPAs and former Big 4 professionals, is a leading provider of cloud-based solutions designed to automate high-cost accounting processes. Powered by their proprietary RPA architecture, top mid-market and enterprise accountants leverage Gappify to automate mission-critical processes, such as accruals management and vendor management.
GeoTrust
Digital certificate provider
geotrust.com
GeoTrust, a leading certificate authority, provides retail and reseller services for SSL encryption, and website authentication, digital signatures, code signing, secure email, and enterprise SSL products.
Acquired By: VeriSign
Acquisition Price: $125 Million
Date: September, 2006
Gold Wire Technology
Network configuration management tools
Gold Wire Technology, Inc. provided software to control and manage configuration of Internet services for Internet service providers. The company developed, sold, and supported multi-vendor infrastructure integrity assurance solutions for enterprises with revenue or compliance-critical networks in the financial services, retail, automotive, healthcare, and pharmaceutical industries; federal agencies; and MSPs or ASPs.
Acquired By: Intelliden
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: August, 2004
Granite Systems
Network configuration management software
Granite Systems was a provider of network configuration management software for the telecommunications industry.
Acquired By: Telecordia
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: May, 2004
GutCheck
Market research solution
gutcheckit.com
GutCheck is an on-demand research community platform that provides real-time insights from specific customers with quality that is superior to traditional on-line research vehicles. Unlike these offerings that can challenge timelines and budgets, GutCheck’s advanced tools and efficient services deliver relevant feedback in days instead of weeks and offer the best value for the research dollar. Acquired By: Toluna Acquisition Price: Undisclosed Date: October 2022
Harness
Software Delivery Platform
harness.io
Harness is the only end-to-end platform for complete software delivery designed to provide a simple, safe and secure way for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production. Harness uses machine learning to detect the quality of deployments and automatically roll back failed ones, saving time and reducing the need for custom scripting and manual oversight.
Acquired: ZeroNorth
Date: November 2021
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
HiveIO
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) platform
hiveio.com
HiveIO has developed an enterprise cloud computing platform designed to offer software-defined infrastructure. The company’s platform delivers the agility of the public cloud with security, control and governance of the private cloud, enabling clients to run advanced virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and a variety of other custom workloads without needing substantial capital or hardware investments.
iBeam Broadcasting
Technology and services for interactive webcasts and virtual meetings
Founded in 1998, iBEAM (now TalkPoint Communications) provides technology and services for interactive webcasts and virtual meetings.
Valuation at the IPO: $110 Million
IPO Date: May, 2000
Ticker Symbol: NASD:IBEM
Influ2
Person-Based Marketing Platform
influ2.com
Influ2 is the first person-based marketing platform, pioneering a new approach to account-based marketing. The solution empowers B2B marketers to target chosen decision-makers, capture their intent and track engagement at the individual level.
IPCell Technologies
Voice over Internet Protocol company
In 1997, Krishna Kurapati co-founded IPCell Technologies Inc., a provider of software for broadband access networks combining Internet Protocol (IP) and telephony services. IPCell developed an interface between the call control and service layers for voice over packet applications. It also developed Opticall, a call agent for legacy-free “greenfield” broadband access packet-based telephony networks.
Acquired By: Cisco Systems
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: November, 2000
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ:CSCO
ITKO
Service simulation solutions
ITKO was a leading provider of service simulation solutions for developing applications in composite and cloud environments. ITKO’s LISA product suite was designed to improve the effectiveness of application development teams, especially those involved in custom applications, SOA, and cloud computing. ITKO was acquired by CA Technologies in 2011. The acquisition added a new and critical dimension to modern IT management and extended it to encompass the entire service delivery lifecycle.
Acquired By: CA Technologies
Acquisition Price: $330 Million
Date: August, 2011
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ:CA
Jigsaw
Online business directory
Jigsaw Data Corp. was a leading provider of business information and data services that uniquely leveraged user-generated content contributed by its global business-to-business community.
Acquired By: Salesforce
Acquisition Price: $142 Million
Date: May, 2010
Ticker Symbol: NYSE:CRM
JustiFi
Payments Technology Company
justifi.ai
JustiFi is the payment platform built for vertical SaaS platforms. JustiFi's managed orchestration layer optimizes payments to help businesses achieve world-class monetization. Leveraging 50+ years of industry experience and expertise, the JustiFi team eliminates barriers put up by traditional processors, taking partners beyond payment processing to reach their full potential.
Kaleidoscope
Scholarship management solution
mykaleidoscope.com
Kaleidoscope has developed a cloud-based software platform for administering scholarship programs. The platform helps organizations and advocates design, administer and host unique scholarship and grant programs, creating access through low administrative costs and student choice with innovative and impactful program design solutions.
Kapta
Account management and customer engagement software
kapta.com
Kapta is purpose-built for organizations who want to establish, expand, or improve their Key Account Management function. Using their KAM Process methodology, Kapta helps organizations develop a customer-centric approach that builds engagement, reduces risk, standardizes internal processes, and drives organic growth.
Krista Software
Process Automation Platform
kristasoft.com
Krista Software is in an unrelenting pursuit to help businesses find the right answers. Krista Software produces Krista, a modern Conversational Intelligent Automation platform. Krista empowers enterprises to leverage existing IT assets by building low-cost automation applications.
Kyros
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Sobriety Management Platform
kyros.care
The world's first sobriety management platform. Kyros provides instant access to resources, provider care and peer support all in one place.
Lucem Health
AI Powered Disease Detection and Treatment Acceleration
lucemhealth.com
Lucem Health partners with AI innovators to help healthcare providers accelerate disease detection and treatment using practical, responsible AI deployed on the company’s advanced clinical AI operational platform. Providers use the company’s solutions to improve patient lives and increase the clinical and financial yield from their scarce care delivery resources.
ManageXR
Enterprise Management Layer for XR Devices
managexr.com
ManageXR solves the challenge of working with Extended Reality (XR) at scale. Whether you are managing one device or thousands, ManageXR enables users to distribute content, customize the user experience, maintain security and troubleshoot devices, all in just a few clicks.
MediaQ
High-performance graphics and multimedia technology for handheld devices
Founded in 1997, MediaQ Inc. was the leading provider of high-performance graphics and multimedia technology for handheld devices. MediaQ was acquired by NVIDIA in 2003, extending their platform reach and accelerating their entry into the wireless mobile market.
Acquired By: NVIDIA
Acquisition Price: $70 Million
Date: August, 2003
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ:NVDA
MetraTech
Enterprise and Billing as a Service platform
MetraTech’s enterprise and Billing as a Service platform was acquired by Ericsson to add to their software portfolio. With its ability to enable customers to quickly and flexibly support new revenue models, this platform strengthened Ericsson’s portfolio of billing solutions and solidified their commitment to enabling global commerce innovation.
Acquired By: Ericsson
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ:ERIC
NetCentrex
Converged IP communications products
NetCentrex provided a line of Converged IP Communications products centered around IP Telephony and IP Centrex.
Acquired By: Comverse Technology
Acquisition Price: $175 Million
Date: May, 2006
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ:CMVT
Nowsta
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Operating System for Hourly, Gig and Flex Workforces
nowsta.com
Nowsta provides a comprehensive set of tools for employers to find, manage and pay hourly staff, and offers employees better ways to find work, organize new and existing shifts and get paid faster. Nowsta's mission is to automate, simplify and humanize the labor-management process, and in doing so, to create a more seamless and empowering work experience for both employers and employees.
NuGenesis Technologies
Software solutions for scientific data management
NuGenesis Technologies Corporation provided software solutions for scientific data management. The company offered solutions for information technology, laboratory, regulatory, and business management.
Acquired By: Waters
Acquisition Price: $43 Million
Date: March, 2004
Ticker Symbol: NASD:ACCS
NuSpeed
Communications storage router products
NuSpeed Internet Systems developed technology to combine Internet routing intelligence with storage area networks in an effort to allow direct access to storage via the IP protocol. The company was an early pioneer of the iSCSI protocol. NuSpeed was acquired by Cisco in 2000. The NuSpeed technology connected storage area networks and Internet Protocol networks which allowed Cisco to converge data and storage networks into one infrastructure.
Acquired By: Cisco Systems
Acquisition Price: $450 Million
Date: August, 2000
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ:CSCO
Order
Inventory purchasing platform
order.co
Order developed an inventory purchasing platform intended to streamline and facilitate enterprise purchasing processes. The platform links vendors to manage all orders on an instant basis, control spending and centralize purchasing securely, allowing businesses to analyze multiple vendor accounts in a hassle-free manner.
Ostra Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity for Small to Mid-Sized Businesses
ostra.net
Ostra Cybersecurity provides a proprietary solution that combines Fortune 100-caliber tools, tech and talent to ensure threats are not only detected and hunted, but also fully remediated.
Ottometric
ADAS Validation and AV Training
ottometric.com
Ottometric is a software company focused on automating and streamlining the validation and training processes for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). Founded in 2019 by automotive industry veterans, Ottometric provides its automation solutions to OEMs, Tier-1 and Tier-2 suppliers whose current development and validation methods are manual-intensive, slow, and costly. Ottometric helps these companies save $ millions while significantly improving system performance and reducing time to market.
Oxide
Hyperscaler infrastructure
oxide.computer
Oxide has developed a cloud hyperscale technology intended to build better quality servers. The company leverages technology to build servers which increase the density, efficiency, cost, reliability, manageability, and security of computer infrastructure, enabling clients to use better computer infrastructure.
Para
Personal Dispatch System for Gig Workers
withpara.com
Para is an app that aims to give gig economy workers more information about their work to help them maximize their earnings
Parallax
Planning, resource management, and analytics platform
getparallax.com
Parallax developed a SaaS based professional services automation (“PSA”) platform and suite of products. The company’s automation platform simplifies lead planning and provides real-time solutions for demand/supply forecasting and operational efficiency, allowing businesses to succeed while crafting their vision for tomorrow.
PayGround
Simplified Healthcare Payments for Everyone
home.payground.com
PayGround is a healthcare payments platform that streamlines the payment experience for providers and patients. For patients, it's an easy-to-use mobile app to manage, track and pay all medical bills in one secure place. For medical providers, it's a modernized payment platform that reduces costs, simplifies processes and boosts patient and employer satisfaction.
Persistence
Software for object-relational mapping
Persistence’s series of products integrated object-to-relational mapping, caching, and cache synchronization with automated cache management. Persistence extended object-relational mapping technology by adding the concept of mapping related objects.
Acquired By: Progress Software
Acquisition Price: $16 Million
Date: November, 2004
Valuation at the IPO: $203 Million
IPO Date: June, 1999
Ticker Symbol: NASD:PRSW
Picnic
Cybersecurity Firm that Proactively Remediates Human Risk Beyond the Corporate Perimeter
getpicnic.com
Picnic's cybersecurity platform is a holistic social engineering risk management solution that emulates attacker reconnaissance on the public data footprint of your organization and its people, automatically exposes pathways to compromise and likely human targets, neutralizes vulnerabilities and automates continuous risk detection.
Picolight
High-bandwidth optical transceivers and components
Picolight Incorporated designed and manufactured high-bandwidth optical transceivers and components. The company offered ethernet and fiber channel transceivers and optical transit and receivers. It catered to the local area networking, optical switches and computer systems, and optical metro applications sectors. Picolight was a leading provider of VCSEL-based optical components.
Acquired By: JDSU
Acquisition Price: $120 Million
Date: May, 2007
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ:JDSU
PieEye
Cloud & AI-Based Data Privacy and Compliance Platform
pii.ai
PieEye is a cloud & AI-based data privacy and compliance platform. They offer easy-to-use tools that brands can use to meet consumer and legal requirements, as both customers and governments have demanded greater privacy controls for companies that hold personal data.
Qualifi
On-Demand Interview Technology
qualifi.hr
Qualifi is a platform that sends, shares, and tracks audio-based, on-demand asynchronous phone interviews for recruiters. This speeds up the hiring process, mitigates bias, and maintains a human touch while allowing recruiters to interview hundreds of candidates in minutes.
Quiver
Information management software
Quiver, Inc. developed information management software that provided intuitive and accurate categorization of enterprise and online content. Building on its core technology competencies in information classification, ranking, and retrieval, the company delivered the Quiver Knowledge Suite™ (QKS). QKS Classifier™, the company’s flagship product, was an end-to-end categorization and taxonomy application that provided an accurate and efficient way to organize, manage, and distribute information.
Acquired By: Yahoo!
Acquisition Price: $16 Million
Date: December, 2002
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ:YHOO
RapidEngines
Log analytics software
RapidEngines developed highly scalable log analytics software for IT enterprises, service providers, and application developers. They were acquired by SevOne, the leader of scalable performance monitoring solutions to the world’s most connected companies, in 2014. This acquisition gave SevOne’s large customer base access to RapidEngines’ log analytics software, granting users the benefit of automatically collecting and organizing log data to better provide a detailed picture of user and machine behavior.
Acquired By: SevOne
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: March, 2014
RentSpree
Rental Application and Tentant Screening
rentspree.com
RentSpree provides an award-winning software used in all 50 states as a universal tenant screening process and renter management platform. They also maintain a robust affiliate program and rental screening API that enables any platform to incorporate an automated screening process in as little as one week.
Rev
B2B demand generation using AI
getrev.ai
Rev optimizes B2B targeting by using its customer’s best customers to create “Smart Personas” via artificial intelligence. The company’s platform engages look-alike personas with relevant content to enable businesses to engage their customers and find new customer leads.
Revelstoke
SOAR Platform
revelstoke.io
Revelstoke is the only next-generation Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) solution built on a Unified Data Layer that offers no-code automation and low-code customization. Revelstoke empowers CISOs and security analysts to automate analysis, eliminate software development needs, optimize workflows, prevent vendor lock, scale processes and secure the enterprise.
Acquired By: Arctic Wolf
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: October 2023
Rogue Wave
Software development company
Founded in 1989, Rogue Wave tools span 40 years, offering everything from cloud-based-services to native platform applications to portable software libraries. But they all have a common, singular purpose: Making it easy to write, test, and run complex code.
Valuation at the IPO: $75 Million
IPO Date: November, 1996
Ticker Symbol: NASD:RWAV
Sana Security
Behavioral security software
Sana Security was a behavioral security software company that provided enterprise security software. It offered Primary Response SafeConnect, a solution that provided protection against known and unknown threats, including spyware, adware, and rootkits; and Primary Response Memory Shield Server, which provided buffer overflow protection for various servers.
Acquired By: AVG
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: January, 2009
Scout Labs
Social media brand monitoring and management solution
Scout Labs made social media monitoring and analytics solutions that recorded social interactions anywhere on the web and developed a contextually rich analysis of customers’ behavior over time.
Acquired By: Lithium
Acquisition Price: $20 Million
Date: May, 2010
SecZetta
Identity management platform
seczetta.com
SecZetta has developed an identity management platform designed to simplify the employee and non-employee identity lifecycle. The company’s software provides automation and centralization to manage identities, access, modify workflows and integration with its built in API infrastructure, enabling businesses to protect themselves against third party theft. Acquired By: SailPoint Acquisition Price: Undisclosed Date: January 2023
senseIP
AI-driven, automated intellectual property platform
www.senseip.ai
SenseIP is an intellectual property lifecycle management platform. The platform leverages state-of-the-art, patent aware AI to help customers get better results, faster, with more insights and at an affordable price.
Sherpa Digital Media
Enterprise streaming and video management platform
sherpadigitalmedia.com
Sherpa Digital Media provides a digital video platform to enable enterprise customers to easily and securely manage and distribute video assets both externally and within an organization. The company’s platform helps measure and automate video interactions by integrating with existing business systems, enabling companies to standardize responses and measure customer feedback.
Acquired By: Telestream
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: August 2021
Sistina Software
Storage solutions
Sistina Software was a storage infrastructure company that designed, developed, and supported storage management software for Linux.
Acquired By: RedHat, Inc.
Acquisition Price: $49 Million
Date: December, 2003
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ:RHAT
Skinstore.com
Online beauty retailer
skinstore.com
Skinstore.com is a leading online retailer of clinical skin care and beauty products. They carry premium brands of skin care and beauty products typically found only in luxury spas, fine stores, and dermatologist offices.
Acquired By: Drugstore.com
Acquisition Price: $36 million
Date: 2010
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ:DSCM
Spec
No-Code Risk Defense Layer
specprotected.com
Spec is creating a smarter, safer internet powered by unified data, tools and teams. They offer the first and only truly no-code solution that deploys invisibly in front of any website or API providing insights, automation, integration and orchestration in minutes, not months. Their intelligent platform, the Trust Cloud, surrounds every online interaction to stop fraud and abuse while guiding good customers through great experiences.
SportsEngine
Sport relationship management software
sportsengine.com
SportsEngine creates software products for amateur sports teams, clubs, leagues, tournaments, state bodies, and national governing bodies. The company is pioneering technology in a marketplace that touches over 30 million athletes domestically.
Acquired By: NBC Sports
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: July, 2016
Sqrrl
Big data analytics
Sqrrl lets organizations pinpoint and react to unusual activity by automatically uncovering hidden connections in their data. Sqrrl Enterprise is Sqrrl’s linked data analysis platform that gives analysts a way to visually investigate these connections, allowing them to rapidly understand their surrounding contexts and take action. At the core of Sqrrl’s architecture are a variety of Big Data technologies, including Hadoop, link analysis, machine learning, Data-Centric Security, and advanced visualization.
Acquired By: Amazon
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: January 2018
Swarm Mobile
In-store analytics and marketing
Swarm’s family of smart retail devices, coupled with advanced retail analytics and a comprehensive retail management platform, helps businesses connect with and track their customers while in stores thus increasing sales through superior insights.
Acquired By: Groupon
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: November, 2014
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ:GRPN
SynSaber
Industrial Asset and Network Monitoring Solution
synsaber.com
SynSaber is the industrial asset and network monitoring solution that provides continuous insight into status, vulnerabilities and threats, enabling operators to more effectively see, know and take action to defend industrial systems and protect critical infrastructure. Overcome industrial threats. Defend with laser precision. Navigate your security quest with confidence.
Telaxis Communications
Broadband wireless access products
Telaxis developed and supplied broadband wireless access products used by network service providers to deliver integrated voice, video and data services to business and residential customers. Telaxis’ Virtual Fiber Radio™ (VFR) product family was developed to enable direct fiber optic connection to wireless transceiver units and transmit fiber optic signals over a wireless link.
Valuation at the IPO: $261 Million
IPO Date: February, 2000
Ticker Symbol: NASD:TLXS
Toluna
Market Research Company
toluna.com
Toluna is a market research company that provides consumer insights for the on-demand economy. They connect businesses and consumers in real-time to deliver insights ‘on-demand’ to companies of all sizes and provide consumers with the ability to shape the products they use. Acquired: GutCheck Date: October 2022 Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Total Expert
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Marketing and customer engagement platform
totalexpert.com
Total Expert has developed a marketing operating system designed for mortgage loan officers, title companies and real estate agents. The company’s platform aligns marketing, sales, and compliance in a single system of record, allowing salespeople to grow their marketing and sales efforts while ensuring they stay compliant with complex regulations.
Twistlock
Vulnerability management and compliance
Twistlock provided the industry’s first enterprise suite for container security. Twistlock’s technology addressed risks on the host and within the containerized application, enabling enterprises to enforce consistent security policies from development to production. Their innovative technologies monitored container activities, managed vulnerabilities, and detected and isolated threats targeting production environments.
Acquired By: Palo Alto Networks
Acquisition Price: $410 million
Date: July 9, 2019
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ: PANW
UiPath
Robotic Process Automation
uipath.com
UiPath is leading the 'automation first' era - championing a robot for every person and enabling robots to learn new skills through AI and Machine Learning. Through free and open training, UiPath is led by a commitment to bring digital era skills to millions of people around the world, thereby improving business productivity and efficiency, employee engagement and customer experience.
The company's hyperautomation platform combines the #1 Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solution with a full suite of capabilities that enable every organization to scale digital business operations at unprecedented speed.
Acquired: Cloud Elements
Date: March 2021
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
IPO Date: April 2021
Valuation at IPO: $31 Billion
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ: PATH
VentureBeat
Leading source for transformative tech news
venturebeat.com
VentureBeat is the leading source for news and perspective on technology innovation. Their news, analysis, and events provide deep context to help executives, entrepreneurs, and tech enthusiasts make smart decisions. VentureBeat covers a range of technology trends — from social to mobile, small business to enterprise, health tech, cloud, games, and more.
Verodin
Cybersecurity risk assessment and management platform
Verodin defined the emerging concept of Instrumented Security. Its revolutionary platform empowered customers to measure and continuously validate the cumulative effectiveness of layered security infrastructures, revealing true security posture. Through automated defense analysis, Verodin customers achieved maximum value from security spending, better leveraged existing security investments, and measurably improved their cyber prevention, detection, and response capabilities.
Acquired By: FireEye
Acquisition Price: $250 million
Date: May 28, 2019
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ: FEYE
Vertical Insure
Embedded Insurance Platform
verticalinsure.com
Vertical Insure is the embedded insurance platform built for vertical SaaS platforms. The company offers customized insurance options that are 100% built around each business and its customers, resulting in added value and new revenue without any extra overhead.
Vivo Software
Developer of streaming media creation tools
Vivo Software, Inc. pioneered internet streaming media and was an award winning developer of streaming media creation tools for Web developers. The VivoActive player allowed users to save and playback audio and video content from the Web.
Acquired By: RealNetworks Inc.
Acquisition Price: $40 Million
Date: March, 1998
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ:RNWK
Voyant Technologies
Group voice communication solutions
Voyant Technologies, Inc. designed and delivered high quality, easy-to-use group voice communication solutions. Voyant’s customers could count on reliable, scalable, operationally efficient systems and services that allowed people to communicate anytime, anywhere.
Acquired By: Polycom, Inc.
Acquisition Price: $144 Million
Date: January, 2004
Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ:PLCM
Yardstik
SaaS background screening and certification management
yardstik.com
Yardstik is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that makes it possible for any tech platform to integrate and offer a native background screening and certification management system to their users. Traditionally an expense, Yardstik turns screening and certification into a profit center for its platform customers.
ZAPinfo
Information automation and productivity tool
zapinfo.com
ZAPinfo developed an information automation (IA) platform and productivity tool that helps to facilitate the recruiting and sales process. The company’s platform makes capturing, enriching, and sharing data across the web and with web-based applications easy, smart, and fast — eliminating manual and time intensive data entry, while maximizing and measuring results.
Acquired By: Indeed
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: September 2020
ZeroNorth
Software and infrastructure security
zeronorth.io
ZeroNorth is the security industry’s first provider of orchestrated risk management. The company’s platform helps businesses integrate security in the application delivery process without impacting the production environment by extracting replicas of the application environment and scanning for security vulnerabilities by containerizing and automating security solutions.
Acquired By: Harness
Acquisition Price: Undisclosed
Date: November 2021
Zingtree
No-code decision tree software
zingtree.com
Tens of thousands of complex and critical decisions are made every day. Contact center and customer care departments need to break down complex situations and processes into clear actions while following standard operating procedures.
Zingtree's no-code decision tree software codifies these complex decisions into "next best actions." Their unique advantage includes self-serve, fast deployment to go live; plug-and-play templates to organize complex info in easy, interactive guides; and flexibility and stability of platform to pivot to high-volume vertical use cases.
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