Venture • Software

Advantage Capital Partners Invests In Soft Sight

On February 19, 2008, growth capital firm Advantage Capital Partners invested in software company Soft Sight

Investment Context

This is Advantage Capital Partners’ 6th transaction in the Software sector.
This is Advantage Capital Partners’ 67th transaction in the United States.
This is Advantage Capital Partners’ 12th transaction in New York.

Investment Fate

Soft Sight was sold to a publicly-traded strategic buyer in 2010 for 7M USD.

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Investment Summary
Date	February 19, 2008
Target	Soft Sight
Sector	Software
Investor(s)	Advantage Capital Partners
Deal Type	Venture

Target Company

Soft Sight

Endicott, New York, United States

Soft Sight, Inc. (dba Threadsmith.com) is a provider of a sophisticated software capability for automatically rendering stitch patterns from custom designs uploaded to its website.

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Investor Overview 1

Investor

Advantage Capital Partners

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Investor Investor

Category	Growth Capital Firm
Founded	1992
PE ASSETS	2.6B USD
Size	Large
Type	Sector Agnostic

DESCRIPTION

Advantage Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused on providing growth capital to a variety of companies. The Firm's geographic coverage includes Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Texas, Wisconsin and Washington DC. Advantage looks to initially commit $0.5 to $2 million per investment and can provide mezzanine debt in addition to equity capital. Areas of interest include communications, information technology, life science, and energy. Advantage Capital was formed in 1992 and is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Deal Context for Investor	#
Overall	67 of 329
Sector: Software	6 of 14
Type: Venture	47 of 125
State: New York	12 of 22
Country: United States	67 of 325
Year: 2008	4 of 19

PREVIOUS DEAL

DATE	TARGET	DEAL TYPE	VALUE
2008-02-01	NeuWave Medical Madison, Wisconsin, United States NeuWave Medical, Inc. is a medical device company that manufactures and markets minimally invasive soft tissue microwave ablation systems.	Buy	-

DATE

TARGET

DEAL TYPE

VALUE

2008-02-01

NeuWave Medical

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

NeuWave Medical, Inc. is a medical device company that manufactures and markets minimally invasive soft tissue microwave ablation systems.

Buy

FOLLOWING DEAL

DATE	TARGET	DEAL TYPE	VALUE
2008-03-18	Portico Learning Solutions Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States Portico Learning Solutions (formerly Flying Fish Creative Services, Inc.) is a premier provider of e-Learning training programs delivered via the Internet to corporate and government clients. Specializing in courseware management and custom e-Learning development, the company has implemented Internet-based learning systems successfully in a wide range of government, corporate and technical environments. Portico currently provides e-Learning to over 100,000 personnel worldwide.	Buy	$1M

DATE

TARGET

DEAL TYPE

VALUE

2008-03-18

Portico Learning Solutions

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

Portico Learning Solutions (formerly Flying Fish Creative Services, Inc.) is a premier provider of e-Learning training programs delivered via the Internet to corporate and government clients. Specializing in courseware management and custom e-Learning development, the company has implemented Internet-based learning systems successfully in a wide range of government, corporate and technical environments. Portico currently provides e-Learning to over 100,000 personnel worldwide.

Buy

$1M

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