Largest Information Technology Venture Transactions in 2005

Whittman-Hart was an IT consulting and services firm focusing on middle-market customers. The company created an expansion model that enabled it to replicate its core service offerings, taking it from a single location to a total of 21 offices.

TPE Boulder
Investor
Private Equity Firm
Boulder, Colorado
www.tpeboulder.com

Topspin Partners LBO
Investor
Private Equity Firm
Mamaroneck, New York
www.topspinlbo.com

QSR provides information technology management services for hospital radiology departments. In particular, the company provides implementation and support of an integrated digital radiology information system, including picture archive communication systems (PACs), radiology information systems (RIS), archiving, web distribution and interfaces. QSR's client list includes community hospitals, imaging centers and physician groups in four states.

Advantage Capital Partners
Investor
Growth Capital Firm
New Orleans, Louisiana
www.advantagecap.com

ePartners installs and supports Microsoft-based software for middle-market companies, providing end-user training, annual systems reviews, call center support, on-site support, and technology updates, among other services.

Needham Capital Partners
Investor
Private Equity Firm
New York, New York

Capital Resource Partners
Investor
Private Equity Firm
Wellesley, Massachusetts
www.crp.com

ZCom Company Ltd. designs and provides a digital content delivery platform based on peer-to-peer technology.

The Carlyle Group
Investor
Private Equity Firm
Washington, District of Columbia
www.carlyle.com

Cloudshield Technologies, Inc. is a cybersecurity and management solutions provider. CloudShield provides services management and infrastructure security solutions to service providers and national governments worldwide.

Paladin Capital Group
Investor
Growth Capital Firm
Washington, District of Columbia
www.paladincapgroup.com

TPG
Investor
Private Equity Firm
Fort Worth, Texas
www.tpg.com

CounterStorm, Inc. is a network security company that provides immediate defense against known, zero-day, and targeted attacks. Zero-day attacks exploit software vulnerabilities during the period before fixes are readily available. Targeted attacks are aimed at specific industries or companies, with a level of customization that makes them almost impossible to detect with traditional security products.

Paladin Capital Group
Investor
Growth Capital Firm
Washington, District of Columbia
www.paladincapgroup.com

Farelogix, Inc. is a provider of SaaS solutions that enable carriers to dynamically create, control, optimize, and deliver personalized and differentiated offers across sales channels. Its groundbreaking technology is modernizing the airline commerce and distribution landscape and is used by several of the world’s leading airlines. The company’s flagship Airline Commerce Gateway is a technology platform comprised of fully integrated and optimized components for airline-controlled distribution, shopping, pricing, merchandising, and retailing across channels. Recognized for its pioneering role in creating the distribution innovation known today as NDC, Farelogix now provides NDC (Level 4 certified) distribution and offers management solutions for more than 25 airlines with connectivity to all major PSS systems. Farelogix is headquartered in Miami, Florida with an office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Sandler Capital Management
Investor
Asset Manager
New York, New York
www.sandlercap.com

in2itive Business Solutions is a fully integrated revenue cycle management and healthcare consulting firm. keeping healthcare leaders focused on patients instead of financials. Company staff represents diverse expertise in business office functions, including revenue cycle management, billing, coding, denial management, insurance handling and more. in2itive Business Solutions is based in Overland Park, Kansas.

Nueterra Capital
Investor
Growth Capital Firm
Leawood, Kansas
www.nueterra.com

ForeScout is a cybersecurity company focused on device visibility and control. ForeScout delivers device visibility and control to enable enterprises and government agencies to gain complete situational awareness of their environment and orchestrate action. ForeScout Technologies was founded in 2000 and is based in San Jose, California.

Amadeus Capital Partners
Investor
Venture Capital Firm
London, United Kingdom
www.amadeuscapital.com

HealthDataInsights, Inc., is a technology enabled healthcare services company whose mission is to ensure claims integrity, identifies and recoups improper payments for health plans and government payers.

TPE Boulder
Investor
Private Equity Firm
Boulder, Colorado
www.tpeboulder.com

Ikivo is a UI Solution that enables the rapid development of innovative user interfaces for any touch screen. Ikivo was formed in 1998 and is based in Bromma, Sweden.

Verdane
Investor
Growth Capital Firm
Oslo, Norway
www.verdane.com

Interactions provides a revolutionary offering for the customer service market that enables companies to dramatically improve the customer experience and substantially lower costs. Solving the problems inherent to speech recognition and outsourcing, Interactions' Intent Recognition(tm) is a generation leaping approach that enables significantly higher automation rates that address a much broader and more complex range of customer interactions. Interactions was founded in 2004 and is based in Franklin, Massachusetts.

Updata Partners
Investor
Growth Capital Firm
Washington, District of Columbia
www.updata.com

NewSpring Capital
Investor
Private Equity Firm
Radnor, Pennsylvania
www.newspringcapital.com

Revolution
Investor
Growth Capital Firm
Washington, District of Columbia
www.revolution.com/entity/growth

EncryptX Corp. develops, markets, sells and supports comprehensive security software solutions that automate both persistent protection of sensitive data in motion and at rest, and policy-based email regulatory compliance. EncryptX solutions provide next-generation enforcement technology to mitigate risk of regulatory violations, reduce the cost of legal discovery, and increase management's control over corporate digital assets.

Advantage Capital Partners
Investor
Growth Capital Firm
New Orleans, Louisiana
www.advantagecap.com

Polarlake is a provider of integration application solutions that offer ease of deployment and a quick return on investment for financial services and government departments. The Polarlake Integration Suite easily integrates both web services and legacy systems without additional coding via an Enterprise Service Bus - the new generation of standards-based enterprise integration software.

Atlantic Bridge
Investor
Growth Capital Firm
Dublin, Ireland
www.abven.com

TriCipher develops an appliance that provides strong security for identity management systems and protection of identity information.

Trident Capital, Inc.
Investor
San Mateo, California
www.tridentcap.com

Core Security Technologies, Inc. is a provider of vulnerability management and attack intelligence space services.

Morgan Stanley Capital Partners
Investor
Private Equity Firm
New York, New York
www.morganstanley.com/im/en-us/individual-investor/about-us/people-and-teams/investment-teams/capital-partners-team.html