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Selected MVP III Investments
MVP III was launched in April 2006 and is the firm's second fund with outside investors.
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| Worktopia, Inc. (Harrison, NY) provides a direct online booking engine for meeting space in hotels, airport lounges and other venues. Worktopia’s search and instant booking capability is available as a feature on most major corporate travel procurement services, as well as through its own website and through private label versions for United Air Lines Red Carpet Clubs, Affinia Hotels Group and others. The service also enables booking of group room-nights for a seamless, single on-line session for procuring meetings. www.worktopia.com
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| Premise Corporation (Farmington, CT) is a leading provider of clinically-focused software solutions to optimize patient flow in hospitals. The Company’s products enable hospitals to use their hospital rooms more efficiently by providing hospital management with real time information on the type (intensive care, cardio etc) of hospital beds and status of these assets (occupied, available, cleaning needed, etc.). It also speeds and simplifies communication among hospital personnel about the status of the beds. www.premiseusa.com
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| TargetSpot (New York, NY) provides a powerful ad serving technology and marketplace for advertisers and Internet broadcasters. The TargetSpot platform allows advertisers to create, buy, and place advertisements within Internet radio or video streams. With TargetSpot, advertisers can create customized ads using an array of jingles, sound effects and visuals provided by TargetSpot. Ads are then targeted to a specific demographic, location and/or property. www.targetspot.com
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| MedPage Today, Inc. (Little Falls, NJ) is a specialty healthcare media company focusing on breaking medical news stories for physicians and "expert" patients. Physicians need a scientifically accurate but efficient, Internet-based media source to keep them informed. In addition, a significant consumer audience of motivated patients requires more advanced healthcare information than that which most popular media outlets offer. www.medpagetoday.com
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| Outside.in (New York, NY) is a consumer new media company focused on local news and information. The Company's website aggregates and organizes blog entries and other online news sources that cover stories specific to a zip code, neighborhood, or city. The site serves individuals seeking local information, for example, reviews of neighborhood restaurants, or community perspectives on local schools, real estate, politics, crime, or gossip. www.outside.in
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| dLife (Wesport, CT) is a consumer healthcare media company focusing on the diabetes market.The Company creates original, branded content to help diabetics, those at risk of developing diabetes, and diabetic caregivers to improve the management of this chronic disease. Current offerings include dLifeTV, a news-magazine style TV show focusing on the diabetic lifestyle. The Company's web site, dlife.com, offers video content from dLifeTV, as well access to diabetes education, best practices for blood sugar management, expert opinion, diet and exercise programs, inspirational stories, and community.
www.dlife.com
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| M5 Networks (New York, NY) provides VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) telephone service to small to medium size enterprises, (primarily 10 to 100 employees). By outsourcing to M5 instead of buying a traditional phone system and securing local, long distance and Internet service separately, businesses save time and money. M5 customers substantially reduce their initial capital investment, forgo internal system maintenance responsibilities and are able to take advantage of the powerful functionalities offered by VOIP www.m5net.com
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| SmartAnalyst (New York, NY & Gurgaon, India) provides outsourced custom research products and services, primarily to the life sciences, financial services and consumer/marketing industries. The Company is a leader in the emerging segment of the outsourcing market known as Knowledge Process Outsourcing (“KPO”). As such, SmartAnalyst provides knowledge-intensive services often requiring significant domain expertise, including financial modeling, competitive intelligence, new opportunity assessment, and drug pipeline analysis. www.smartanalyst.com
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Selected MVP II Investments
MVP II was launched in June 2001 and is the firm’s first fund with outside investors.
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| Oddcast (New York, NY) develops and distributes talking avatar products. Oddcast's avatar platform enables companies to improve business results, and consumers to personalize online communications and self-expression. Oddcast's technology is the industry-leading solution, serving over 5,500 business customers worldwide and millions of consumers. Oddcast's products are Web-based, ASP-hosted and can be delivered to any device including browsers, mobile devices, TVs and CD-ROMs. www.oddcast.com
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| SkillSurvey (metro Philadelphia, PA) provides an online reference checking tool that increases quality of hire and eliminates time wasted in the recruiting process. The Company’s web-based solution enables reference sources to efficiently provide complete, confidential and candid feedback regarding a job candidate’s skills. SkillSurvey aggregates and analyzes the information regarding the applicant’s performance history and provides detailed reports to hiring managers and recruiters. The result is a significant increase in the quantity and quality of information regarding past performance and a significant reduction in time and money spent on reference checking. This approach to reference assessment is based on over 25 years of research in job competency modeling. www.skillsurvey.com
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| GenomeQuest, Inc (Westborough, MA) provides a genetic sequence search engine and information service to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. GenomeQuest's flagship product offering, GenomeQuest, helps bioscience researchers and IP lawyers conduct large scale genetic sequence data mining. For example, GenomeQuest helps biologists interpret the results of experiments and enables IP lawyers to assess licensing opportunities. GenomeQuest’s sequence patent content includes over 25 million sequences found in hundreds of thousands of patent documents. The search service also includes methods to find SNPs, Motifs, RNAi Probes, Diagnostic Primers, Micro Array targets, and whole genes, enabling quick translation of research discoveries into Intellectual Property (IP) opportunities. www.GenomeQuest.com
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| Guidester (New York, NY) offers a software search tool to online merchants, which helps consumers make better on-line buying decisions. For example, Guidester enables a consumer to rapidly narrow down product choices while navigating an e-tailer’s web site, thereby increasing conversion rates for the merchant. Guidester does not charge for the provision of the Guidester tool. In this business model – known as “pay-per click” – Guidester sells sponsored listings to manufacturers whose products meet the consumer’s criteria at the point of sale and the merchant receives a share of these advertising revenues. www.guidester.com
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| RichFX, (New York, NY) is the market leader in online visual merchandising solutions, enabling online and multi-channel retailers to leverage existing visual assets and turn them into powerful and cost-effective marketing tools. RichFX combines its online merchandising expertise, patented technology and consumer research to offer solutions that increase conversion rates and total e-commerce sales by boosting comfort levels and buying confidence online. Retailers experience many other benefits, including: multi-channel branding strategies consistent across offline and online channels; enhanced online shopping experience with animated page turn and e-commerce integration; and increased catalog exposure by emailing online catalogs at virtually no cost. www.richfx.com
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| Me.dium (Boulder, CO) provides web users the ability to anonymously interact in real-time with other web users based on historical and real-time web search behavior. http://me.dium.com
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| CareGain, Inc. (East Windsor, NJ) provides software that enables health insurance plans (insurers) to offer consumer directed health plans (CDHPs) to their customers, who are generally employers. CDHPs give their members the incentive to spend their health benefit prudently by allowing them to retain and to roll over in a health savings account (HSA) all or a portion of any unspent health care benefit not used in a given year. Early experience with CDHPs show that a 10% to 15% reduction in overall health care costs for a corporation can be achieved for a given consumer directed health plan. Fiserv, Inc (Nasdaq: FISV) acquired CareGain in January 2006. www.caregain.com
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| NavTrak, Inc (Salisbury. MD) provides GPS-based vehicle tracking and fleet management solutions for businesses with mobile workforces. Founded in 1999 and serving over 1,000 customers, Navtrak is focused on driving business productivity with real-time monitoring, reporting and communication tools. Benefits derived from NavTrak’s service include: controlling overtime; improving customer service; increasing security; lowering gas and other operating costs; improving response times; facilitating more efficient routing; reducing insurance risk; and tracking vehicle maintenance. The typical customer is a small business owner, for example an HVAC contractor, with 15 vehicles. www.navtrak.net
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| Octagon Research Solutions, Inc. (King of Prussia, PA) provides specialized outsourced services and software to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Its practice areas are clinical data strategies, clinical data operations, regulatory affairs, and regulatory operations. Octagon’s key area of expertise is electronic drug application submissions to the FDA. Octagon also provides process management software solutions to its customers. www.octagonresearch.com
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ExpertPlan, Inc. (Princeton, NJ) provides outsourced retirement plan (401k) administration and recordkeeping services via an Internet-based platform to broker dealers, banks, insurance companies, mutual fund complexes and Third Party Administrators (TPAs). ExpertPlan partners with these retirement plan providers, who sell the plans to businesses, while ExpertPlan provides the record-keeping and administration services on an outsourced basis. The Company does not sell 401k plans directly to businesses or manage their investments. www.expertplan.com
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| Knovel Corporation (Norwich, NY) is a provider, via the Internet, of scientific and engineering reference information in electronic form integrated with software tools. Content is gathered from a wide range of publishers of scientific and engineering books and put into Knovel’s unique electronic presentation format and database. By aggregating the reference data, Knovel enables its customers to do higher quality searches faster. By offering software tools to manipulate structured data, Knovel saves its customers time and effort. The Company has domestic and international customers among the global 5000 and academic and government institutions. www.knovel.com
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| DPM (Somerset, NJ) provides back office and middle office solutions for managers of alternative assets, including hedge fund managers, proprietary traders, and commodity pool operators. DPM processes electronic data feeds of multi-instrument, multi-trader, and multi-counter party data on a daily basis. Using sophisticated programs, DPM transforms the raw data into customized reports, including: marked-to-market daily portfolio reports; incentive fee tracking reports; and financial, tax and risk reports. Mellon Financial Corporation (NYSE: MEL) acquired DPM in February 2005. www.dpmllc.com
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| Medidata Solutions, Inc. (New York, NY) is a global provider of electronic clinical data capture, management and reporting solutions to the world’s leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies. Medidata’s robust clinical data management platform streamlines clinical trials by providing early visibility to clinical data for faster decision-making, optimized resources and lower execution risk. Medidata possesses deep clinical expertise in more than 20 therapeutic areas, all clinical trial phases (I-IV), and studies with thousands of investigators and tens-of thousands of subjects. www.mdsol.com
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Selected MVP I Investments
MVP I investments were made with founders’ capital prior to MVP II.
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BizBash Media, Inc. (New York, NY) is a trade media company offering magazines, tradeshows and online resources to the business event industry. www.bizbash.com
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| TNS Media Intelligence/CMR (New
York, NY) a leading provider of marketing communication and advertising
expenditure information, acquired Evaliant Media Resources in June
of 2002 through its parent company Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS).
www.tnsmi-cmr.com
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| Linkstorm Corporation (New York, NY) provides rich media advertising solutions, enabling advertisers to accelerate customer engagement, increase online conversions, and improve reporting of online results and behaviors. www.linkstorms.com
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| Cosential (Wilton, CT) is a managed
application service provider for the architecture, engineering,
and construction industries. www.cosential.com
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| The Descartes Systems Group Inc.
(Waterloo, Ontario) (Nasdaq:DSGX), (TSE:DSG), is a leading provider
of collaborative logistics management technology. It acquired NeoModal
in May of 2001. www.descartes.com
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| PlusFunds.com (New York, NY) developed investment products based on the S&P Hedge Fund Index. A private investment group acquired MVP I’s shares in May 2005.
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