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News from the Portfolio:
Classmates Online: The 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: EchoPass Corporation is the leading provider of hosted contact interaction solutions for mid-tier enterprises and branches of large enterprises and outsourcers worldwide. With a wide range of flexible inbound and outbound customer contact services. Given its rich functionality and ease of deployment, EchoPass has garnered the support of leading partners. EchoPass recently launched Telecenter, an integrated contact interaction management solution, in partnership with salesforce.com and Genesys. XO Communications, a national broadband service provider, has begun sales of EchoPass. Given the firm’s strong position and progress, EchoPass recently attracted a follow-on round of venture funding.
nSite Software: Mike Bateman, Chairman of BluePumpkin Software and 20-year software veteran, has joined the nSite Board and is heading up efforts for Series B funding of the firm. The company is seeking $5-6 million for sales and future product expansion. For more information, contact mbateman@bluepumpkin.com.
Toolwire: Advancing the adoption of technology, Toolwire launched its solution to offer a new way to learn, sell and support software and hardware technologies. Toolwire services include live self-paced and classroom-based labs, online product demonstrations, and live problem resolution support -- all critical components to training, selling and supporting hardware and software technologies. The demand for this service today results from enterprises buying smaller portions of technology to demonstrate proof-of-concept, user proficiency, and increased ROI. Toolwire meets this demand through its application conferencing services, which advance the adoption of technology through the evaluation and consumption of products in a prompt and cost effective manner. Responding to the new economics of today's technology landscape, an emerging class of enterprise services, called application conferencing, has evolved. Application conferencing originates from the convergence of real-time collaboration, web conferencing, and virtual workspace technologies.
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