InStoreCard
in which Outlook invested in April along with Canaan Partners and Mobius Ventures, has launched the initial version of its loyalty marketing service and will shortly be announcing beta/trial agreements with several well known retailers. The company expanded its senior management team with the addition of CTO, John McDowall, a 20+ year software veteran and former CTO at Grand Central, MySimon and 2Bridge Software.
Bridgestream
announced two senior managers have joined the team: Phil Coady as VP Sales and Jeff Shukis as VP Engineering. Phil was recently VP Sales & Marketing at Plateau Systems and previously Regional Sales Mgr at Aether Systems. Jeff has previously held Vice President roles in engineering and operations at PointServe, Promptu and Knowledge Universe. Bridgestream was chosen by Jim Lauderback, writer for eWeek as one of three companies that will change your business.
Reconnex
announced in May an agreement with federal solutions integrator, SafeHarbor Systems for the resale of its products to the Federal government. Reconnex expanded its team with the addition of a new VP Sales, Tom Spadafore and Dir of Product Marketing, Kevin Cheeks. Tom was formerly EVP at GreenBorder, EVP at BrightMail and SVP Sales at Netopia. Kevin was recently VP of Worldwide Customer Service and Engineering at Redback Networks and previously held senior engineering and product roles at Cisco, Freegate, and Apple Computer.
Classmates Online,
a Renton, Washington based company, boosted its track record to over 2 years of profitable operations as of June 30th. The company serves over 35 million online subscribers and has over 2 million paid members, and has recently added many new services for its customers, including a way to communicate with corporate alumni, Classmates also announced that Anil Pereira, former EVP at Verisign, has joined as SVP in charge of new businesses and strategic alliances.
Echopass,
the leading service provider of on demand contact center solutions, was selected by Red Herring as a "Top 100 Private Company" representing what it considers one of the "brightest stars in the business universe... with the potential to become the next titans of technology." Echopass announced the availability of Telecenter 2.0 for salesforce.com. First introduced in 2003, Telecenter is the product of an alliance formed by Echopass, salesforce.com and Genesys Telecommunications to deliver pre-integrated, hosted contact center and CRM services. Echopass also launched a small business edition of its enterprise Call Center on Demand, tailoring the features and manageability to smaller call centers.
nSite Software
announced that Bob Jandro has joined the company as CEO. Bob is a former Group Vice President of Communications markets at Oracle and was EVP at ONI (acquired by Ciena). The company has rounded out its management team by hiring Stewart Schmidt as VP Sales (former CEO, Market Partners, and COO of OAO). nSite was featured in May in an article in Information Week on the Use of Web Service to Automate Business Processes.
Active Network
filed for an Initial Public Offering (S-1) during the past quarter. The company dominates the market for local sports activites and event registration, as well as parks/recreation registration software. Activeäs software allows local sports groups (Little League, soccer, marathons, etc) to easily sign up and track participants. Active is also the leading aggregator of local sports team websites and derives much of its revenues from advertising and direct marketing to local sports enthusiasts. Other investors in Active include: Canaan Partners, Charles River Ventures, and Ticketmaster.
Epiance
is the leading provider of Business Process Improvement (BPI) software which helps businesses automate a significant part of the extensive manual effort currently being expended to analyze, design, deploy, improve, measure and monitor business processes. Epiance has recorded a number of noteworthy new customers, including: Microsoft, IBM, Merrill Lynch, USAA, Aetna, SBC, The Hartford, Nippon Steel, Mitsubishi Electric and Toyota. ÜThe results show the benefit of our strong position in the high-end of the Business Process Performance Improvement market", stated Shankar Ramamurthy, Epiance CEO. "We also made great progress in building the components of our Business Process Improvement solutions , which we expect will fuel our continuing strong growth in the upcoming year.
Toolwire,
a provider of technology-based labs enabling companies to more effectively sell, support and train [who or what?], expanded its presence into Europe, developing alliances with several leading firms including Thomson and Reuters. The company also expanded its product line, supporting the latest Cisco and Microsoft offerings. To facilitate further expansion, Cameron Crowe has been hired as Vice President of Marketing.
