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| 2nd Story Software, Inc. |
| Cedar Rapids, IA |
| Year of investment: 2004 |
| www.taxact.com |
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| 2nd Story Software, Inc. is the nation’s pioneer in providing free online tax preparation software and electronic filing services. Its flagship product line, TaxACT®, is available via the internet to individual taxpayers and paid preparers as online tax preparation programs or as downloadable desktop software. 2nd Story has built a rapidly growing and profitable business by upgrading free customers to paying customers by selling Deluxe and State versions of the software, as well as e-filing services. |
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| 5.11 Tactical® |
| Modesto, CA |
| Year of investment: 2007 |
| www.511tactical.com |
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| 5.11 Tactical is a rapidly growing manufacturer and distributor of apparel and accessories focused primarily in the public safety market. Built on a foundation of durability, quality and value, 5.11 Tactical leads the industry in delivering functionally innovative gear, head to toe. |
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| Advisory Research, Inc. |
| Chicago, IL |
| Year of investment: 2005 |
| www.advisoryresearch.com |
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| Advisory Research, Inc. is a value-oriented investment firm that manages public equity assets for major corporations, pension plans, foundations, endowments and high net worth individuals. The company uses a long-term and value-based investment style, coupled with a traditional, bottom-up approach to security analysis. |
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| Alma Lasers, Ltd. |
| Caesarea, Israel |
| Year of investment: 2006 |
| www.almalasers.com |
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| Alma Lasers, Ltd. is a global developer, manufacturer and seller of laser, light and radio frequency based devices for aesthetic applications. The company’s products are designed to provide efficient, safe and cost-effective systems for use by plastic surgeons, dermatologists, obstetricians, gynecologists and general physicians. The products are used for non-invasive aesthetic procedures such as hair removal, skin rejuvenation and cellulite reduction on an outpatient basis. |
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| American Access Care |
| Glen Rock, PA |
| Year of investment: 2006 |
| www.aac-llc.com |
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| American Access Care is a management company operating freestanding outpatient vascular access centers dedicated to patients suffering from end-stage renal disease (ESRD). |
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| American Specialty Health |
| San Diego, CA |
| Year of investment: 2000 |
| www.ashcompanies.com |
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| American Specialty Health is the nation's leading managed care provider of alternative healthcare services. |
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| Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Holdings |
| New York, NY |
| Year of investment: 2007 |
| www.asbai.com |
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| Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Holdings is the parent company of Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Advisers, LLC ("ASB"), a leading mutual fund and investment advisory firm. ASB manages $45 billion in assets and provides investment management services for the First Eagle family of mutual funds, and for a number of institutional and high net worth clients through hedge funds and separately managed accounts. The firm’s investment strategies include international value, global value, event-driven value and merger arbitrage. |
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| Babcock & Jenkins, Inc. |
| Beaverton, OR |
| Year of investment: 1999 |
| www.bnj.com |
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| Babcock & Jenkins, Inc. is a full-service direct marketing agency which uses web-enabled technology to drive sales for its customers. |
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| Car Toys, Inc. |
| Seattle, WA |
| Year of investment: 1999 |
| www.cartoys.com |
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| Car Toys, Inc. is the largest independent retailer of car audio and wireless products in the U.S. Their stores offer a mixture of car audio, mobile multi-media, wireless phones, pagers, radar detectors, car alarms, expert installation, family radios and CBs. |
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| Cardtronics, Inc. |
| Houston, TX |
| Year of investment: 2005 |
| www.cardtronics.com |
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| Cardtronics Inc. is the nation’s largest independent owner and operator of automated teller machines (ATMs). Cardtronics is a single-source provider of ATM solutions for major drugstore, retail and petroleum merchants. The company has a nationwide network of approximately 25,000 ATMs, and is one of the fastest growing ATM deployers in the U.S. Cardtronics completed its IPO in December 2007. |
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| Circle Graphics |
| Longmont, CO |
| Year of investment: 2005 |
| www.circlegraphicsonline.com |
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| Circle Graphics is a large-format digital printing company, specializing in billboard prints for the U.S. market. The Company focuses on the outdoor advertising market and provides both paper and vinyl billboard prints to the largest outdoor media companies in the nation. Circle Graphics, which is the lowest cost provider of digital prints in the U.S., employs digital ink-jet printing, which is adaptable to the demands for variable information, customization, quick-response and just-in-time delivery. |
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| Clayton Holdings, Inc. |
| Shelton, CT |
| Year of investment: 2004 |
| www.clayton.com |
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| Clayton Holdings was formed in 2005 by the combination of two TA portfolio companies, Clayton Services, Inc. and The Murrayhill Company, to create the most comprehensive set of sophisticated information-based solutions for clients who buy, sell and manage loans and securities. The firm is a leader in transaction management support, loan analysis, consulting, predictive analytics, independent credit risk management and securities surveillance. These services support loan origination, securities issuance and securities performance management for the non-conforming mortgage backed securities (MBS), commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) and asset backed securities (ABS) markets. Clayton Holdings completed its IPO in March 2006. |
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| Creditex, Inc. |
| New York, NY |
| Year of investment: 2005 |
| www.creditex.com |
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| Creditex, Inc. is a leading provider of electronic execution services in the credit derivatives market in London and New York. The firm is also leading the industry in "straight-through processing" and market standardization initiatives, allowing its growing client base to increase trading volumes, while reducing operational risk and transaction costs. |
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| Cypress Pharmaceutical, Inc. |
| Madison, MS |
| Year of investment: 2003 |
| www.cypressrx.com |
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| Cypress Pharmaceutical is a rapidly growing specialty pharmaceutical company that develops, markets and distributes generic prescription, over-the-counter and specialty branded pharmaceutical products. Cypress provides generic and branded products to the leading national pharmaceutical wholesalers, chain drug stores, distributors and other retail merchandisers. Through its specialty branded business, Hawthorn Pharmaceuticals, the company also provides internally developed pharmaceutical products marketed directly to physician specialists. |
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| Eagle Test Systems, Inc. |
| Buffalo Grove, IL |
| Year of investment: 2003 |
| www.eagletest.com |
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| Eagle Test Systems, Inc. is a leading supplier of quality, low-cost, high-volume production automated test equipment for the semiconductor industry. The company designs, manufactures and distributes test systems for the analog, mixed signal and wireless semiconductor markets. Eagle Test completed its IPO in March 2006. |
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| eDreams |
| Barcelona, Spain |
| Year of investment: 2006 |
| www.edreams.com |
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| eDreams is the leading online travel agency in Southern Europe. It focuses on offering the best selection of flights, hotels and vacation packages through the use of innovative search, packaging and booking engines via the Internet. |
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| Epic Advertising |
| New York, NY |
| Year of investment: 2005 |
| www.azoogleads.com |
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| Epic Advertising is a leading performance-based online advertising network providing a full suite of advertising tools for both advertisers and publishers, including affiliate marketing and online lead generation services based on the cost-per-action (CPA) model. The Company provides advertisers with the targeted volume needed to generate real-time direct marketing results and rapid, measurable return on investment. For publishers, Epic provides high-impact campaigns which enable publishers to maximize earnings on their ad inventory. The Company was founded in 2000. |
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| eSecLending |
| Boston, MA |
| Year of investment: 2006 |
| www.eseclending.com |
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| eSecLending is a global securities lending manager and a leading provider and administrator of customized, exclusive securities borrowing programs. The company’s client base includes some of the world’s largest and most sophisticated beneficial owners, including pension funds, mutual funds, investment managers and insurance companies in the US, UK and Europe. |
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| First American CoreLogic, Inc. |
| Sacramento, CA |
| Year of investment: 2004 |
| www.cscorelogic.com |
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| CoreLogic Systems, Inc., a C&S Company, founded in 1997, supplies the mortgage industry with a comprehensive suite of products specifically assembled to meet the growing needs of lenders. CoreLogic provides lenders with technology to process loans faster, less expensively, and with greater accuracy. The company has evolved from an AVM provider to a full-service collateral risk management company, currently evaluating more than 50,000 loan transaction daily. Nine of the top 10 U.S. lenders and 85 percent of the top 100 lenders currently use CoreLogic tools within their risk evaluation processes as a primary defense against fraud. In February 2007, CoreLogic merged with First American Real Estate Solutions. |
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| FreeWave Technologies, Inc. |
| Boulder, CO |
| Year of investment: 2007 |
| www.freewave.com |
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| FreeWave designs and manufactures board-level and enclosed format data radios for the commercial, industrial, and military markets. The company offers a wide range of products designed for unparalleled performance and durability in even the harshest conditions, providing complete solutions for diverse needs in industries such as oil and gas, utilities, military, security, recreation and agriculture. FreeWave is the only long-term radio provider with 100 percent backward compatibility in core 900 MHz radios with fully integrated, best-in-class engineered products. |
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| Gandinnovations |
| Ontario, Canada |
| Year of investment: 2007 |
| www.gandinnovations.com |
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| Gandinnovations is a leading manufacturer of state-of-the-art wide format graphics printers and ink. The company is known for its cutting-edge technology, pioneering true 600 dpi on all solvent printer models and true 1200 dpi on all UV printer models. |
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| Global 360, Inc. |
| Dallas, TX |
| Year of investment: 2006 |
| www.global360.com |
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Global 360, Inc. is a leading provider of business process management and optimization software and services. The company provides organizations with a competitive edge by automating, measuring and improving resource-intensive business processes, while enabling them to monitor and enhance process performance. Global 360’s core technologies are content management, process management, goal management, process modeling, forecasting, simulation, analysis, reporting and optimization. |
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| GlobeOp Financial Services |
| New York, NY and London, United Kindom |
| Year of investment: 2003 |
| www.globeop.com |
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| GlobeOp Financial Services specializes in turnkey, state-of-the-art, automated middle- and back-office support services and fund administration for hedge funds, fund managers and high net worth family wealth managers. The company provides independent services essential to the successful operation of private investment entities with activities ranging across a wide spectrum of traded instruments. GlobeOp completed its IPO in July 2007. |
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| Idea Cellular Ltd. |
| Pune, India |
| Year of investment: 2006 |
| www.ideacellular.com |
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| Idea Cellular Ltd. is the fastest growing provider of wireless communications services in India. Its current footprint covers approximately 50% of the Indian market and the company will be expanding its coverage into additional areas. Idea Cellular completed its IPO in March 2007. |
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| Image Process Design, Inc. |
| Bloomfield Hills, MI |
| Year of investment: 1998 |
| www.ipdsolution.com |
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| Image Process Design, Inc. provides software, professional services and integrated solutions for document management, content management, business process automation, imaging and workflow management for the insurance industry, based on FileNet, IBM or Hyland imaging repositories. |
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| IntraLinks, Inc. |
| New York, NY |
| Year of investment: 2007 |
| www.intralinks.com |
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| IntraLinks is a leading provider of online workspaces for secure document exchange. IntraLinks On-Demand Workspaces™ connect business communities and accelerate the intelligent flow of information and documents among participants. Since 1997, more than 700,000 participants representing over 80,000 organizations worldwide have used IntraLinks On-Demand Workspaces™ to communicate and collaborate on thousands of projects and transactions. |
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| ION Trading Group |
| Dublin, Ireland |
| Year of investment: 2004 |
| www.iontrading.com |
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| ION Trading Group is the market leader in providing high performance trading solutions for electronic fixed income markets. Its MarketView™ proprietary software is a flexible, open, customisable and cost-effective fixed income trading solution that provides real-time integration of market data with internal systems. MarketView™ is the solution of choice for the largest investment banks worldwide. |
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| IPG Photonics Corporation, USA |
| Oxford, MA |
| Year of investment: 2000 |
| www.ipgphotonics.com |
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| IPG Photonics develops and manufactures diode-pumped high performance fiber lasers and amplifiers that enable a growing number of applications, including materials processing, medical, aerospace, medical and others. IPG's products are cost-effective and superior in performance, reliability and energy efficiency because of IPG's proprietary technology platform, materials science expertise and vertically integrated manufacturing operations. IPG Photonics completed its IPO in December 2006. |
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| Jupiter Investment Management Group |
| London, United Kingdom |
| Year of investment: 2007 |
| www.jupiteronline.co.uk/ |
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| Jupiter Investment Management Group is one of the UK's leading fund management groups, managing investments for both private and institutional investors. Jupiter has £20bn under management in unit trusts, institutional mandates, investment trusts, hedge funds, offshore funds, pensions and private client portfolios. |
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| K2 Advisors |
| Stamford, CT |
| Year of investment: 2007 |
| www.k2advisors.com |
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| K2 Advisors is a fund of hedge funds with over $5.5 billion under management serving both institutional and private investors globally. The firm manages low volatility investment strategies designed to produce absolute returns with a low correlation to traditional equity and fixed income markets. K2’s clients are predominantly institutional investors who value K2’s thorough risk management process and security-level transparency. |
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| Logistics Health Inc. |
| La Crosse, WI |
| Year of investment: 2003 |
| www.logisticshealth.com |
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| Logistics Health Inc. (LHI) is a rapidly growing provider of disease prevention and health information management services to the government and commercial enterprises. The company manages a national network of medical and dental providers that it uses to collect medical information. LHI also offers training services customized to prepare authorities to respond to disasters such as bio-terrorism. |
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| Lumber Liquidators, Inc. |
| Toano, VA |
| Year of investment: 2005 |
| www.lumberliquidators.com |
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| Lumber Liquidators, Inc. is the largest direct retailer specializing in hardwood flooring in the United States. Lumber Liquidators has 60 stores nationwide and sells pre-finished and unfinished hardwood flooring at reduced prices. About half of Lumber Liquidators' customers are individuals, many of whom install the flooring themselves. Lumber Liquidators completed its IPO in November 2007. |
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| M and M Direct |
| Leominster, United Kingdom |
| Year of investment: 2007 |
| www.mandmdirect.com |
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| M and M Direct is the leading online and mail order retailer of discounted lifestyle, fashion and sports apparel and footwear in the UK. The company has longstanding relationships with major clothing brands providing it access to high quality end-of-line clearance apparel. M and M offers over 100-plus brands on its website, which receives 15 million visitors per year and through its catalogues which reach over 1.5 million consumers. |
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| Martin Group, Inc. |
| Mitchell, SD |
| Year of investment: 1999 |
| www.martin-group.com |
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| Martin Group, Inc. provides telecommunications, consulting and engineering services and develops, markets and sells customer care and billing solutions to communications carriers in the United States. |
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| MetroPCS Communications, Inc. |
| Dallas, TX |
| Year of investment: 2005 |
| www.metropcs.com |
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| MetroPCS Communications provides wireless communications services in several metropolitan areas of the US, including SanFrancisco, Miami and Atlanta. MetroPCS offers simple, flat-rate calling plans that provide unlimited usage within a local calling area with no long-term contracts. The company focuses on densely populated markets, which provide significant operational efficiencies, and is one of the lowest cost providers of wireless telephone services in the U.S. MetroPCS completed its IPO in April 2007. |
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| Microban International |
| New York, NY |
| Year of investment: 2004 |
| www.microban.com |
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| Microban International manufactures and distributes antimicrobial, antibacterial and antifungal chemical compounds for consumer, industrial and medical products around the world. The company’s EPA-registered Microban® antimicrobial technologies are integrated into the manufacturing processes of a wide range of materials. Microban International also licenses the Microban brand to its customers who co-brand with the company. |
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| Monotype Imaging |
| Woburn, MA |
| Year of investment: 2004 |
| www.monotypeimaging.com |
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| Monotype Imaging, formerly a division of Agfa Corp., provides fonts and font technologies to graphic professionals, software developers and manufacturers of printers and display devices. Previously known as Agfa Monotype Corp., the company also provides print drivers and color imaging technologies to OEMs (original equipment manufacturers). Monotype Imaging completed its IPO in July 2007. |
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| Numara Software, Inc. |
| Tampa, FL |
| Year of investment: 2005 |
| www.numarasoftware.com |
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| Numara Software, Inc. the former Blue Ocean Software business unit of Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU), is the leading provider of IT help desk and asset management software solutions to small and medium-sized businesses. The company’s core product, Track-It!, enables IT professionals to collect, assign and resolve help desk requests and audit their internal hardware and software assets. The company was founded in 1991 and has helped IT professionals at more than 48,000 customer sites track over 14 million assets. |
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| Numeric Investors LLC |
| Cambridge, MA |
| Year of investment: 2004 |
| www.numeric.com |
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| Numeric Investors is an active quantitative manager of U.S. and international equity portfolios offering investment strategies under a variety of investment styles and objectives. The firm manages traditional long-only as well as market-neutral long/short equity portfolios. Numeric's investment strategies rely on proprietary computer models to analyze fundamental information about stocks and exploit market inefficiencies. |
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| One Call Medical, Inc. |
| Parsippany, NJ |
| Year of investment: 2003 |
| www.onecallmedical.com |
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| One Call Medical, Inc. (OCM) is a leading outsourcing organization, providing high quality scheduling services for diagnostic radiology and EMGs through its national network of credentialed providers. OCM provides ancillary specialty PPO services, and its customers include the nation's leading worker's compensation insurers and third-party administrators, as well as self-insured employers. |
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| OpenLink Financial, Inc. |
| Long Island, NY |
| Year of investment: 2006 |
| www.olf.com |
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| OpenLink provides straight through processing (STP), trading and risk management software to financial and energy trading firms. The company serves many of the largest investment/commercial banks, central banks, energy marketers, public utilities and commercial companies. OpenLink’s primary products, Endur for energy/commodity markets and Findur for financial markets, provide fully integrated, front- through back-office solutions. |
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| Professional Warranty Service Corporation |
| Chantilly, VA |
| Year of investment: 2006 |
| www.pwsc.com |
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| Professional Warranty Service Corporation (PWC) is a leading provider of new home warranty products and administration services to residential construction firms. The warranty coverage provides for impartial third-party arbitration, with multiple layers of protection for all parties and transferability among homeowners. All insurance risk in PWC products is borne by Zurich Financial. PWC focuses on the largest tier of domestic residential construction firms, and its clients include more than 75 of the 200 largest U.S. homebuilders. |
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| PROS Holdings, Inc. |
| Houston, TX |
| Year of investment: 1998 |
| www.prosrm.com |
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| PROS Revenue Management is the world's leader in pricing revenue optimization solutions. PROS provides system solutions to the airline, energy, healthcare, hospitality, broadcast, rail, cargo, petroleum, and other industries and has licensed 242 systems to 103 clients in 39 countries. PROS' clients include 17 of the top 25 carriers in the airline industry. PROS completed its IPO in June 2007. |
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| RGM Advisors, LLC |
| Austin, TX |
| Year of investment: 2008 |
| www.rgmadvisors.com |
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| RGM Advisors is an automated trading firm that applies scientific methods and computing power to trade in multiple asset classes around the world using high-frequency automated strategies. |
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| SmartStream Technologies |
| London, United Kingdom |
| Year of investment: 2006 |
| www.smartstream-stp.com |
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| SmartStream Technologies is the market leading provider of Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM®) solutions. Its fully integrated, multi-product solutions enable enterprise-wide TLM from trade inception to settlement in a single scalable platform. SmartStream has over 1,000 clients globally, including more than 70 of the world’s top 100 banks. |
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| Sophos Plc |
| Abingdon, United Kindom |
| Year of investment: 2002 |
| www.sophos.com |
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| Sophos Plc is a world leader in providing enterprise-wide anti-virus protection to corporations, governments and academic institutions. Its business is focused exclusively on the corporate marketplace where its products protect all key points in a company's IT infrastructure including gateways, email, servers and desktops. Sophos is based in the UK, and has its Americas headquarters in Lynnfield, MA, and subsidiaries and branch offices in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Singapore. |
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| TARGUSinfo |
| Vienna, VA |
| Year of investment: 2005 |
| www.targusinfo.com |
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| TARGUSinfo is a leading data provider of real-time caller intelligence applications. The data includes name, postal address, predictive scores on household buying behavior, verification confidence scores, voice authentication, risk assessment factors and store location. The company each year processes over 15 billion real-time consumer initiated transactions and verifications over one of the world’s most powerful, reliable and state-of-the-art networks. |
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| Tempur-Pedic International Inc. |
| Lexington, KY |
| Year of investment: 2002 |
| www.tempur.com |
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| Tempur-Pedic International Inc. manufactures and distributes mattresses and pillows made from Tempur pressure-relieving material, a viscoelastic polyurethane foam originally developed for the NASA space program. In the U.S., Tempur-Pedic mattresses and pillows are sold by leading furniture retailers such as Jordan’s Furniture, Art Van and Haverty’s, and in specialty stores such as Brookstone, Relax the Back and The Healthy Back. With TA's assistance, the company successfully completed its IPO in December 2003. |
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| Triumph HealthCare |
| Houston, TX |
| Year of investment: 2004 |
| www.triumph-healthcare.com |
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| Triumph HealthCare is a privately-owned hospital company that was formed to develop and operate long-term acute care hospitals. Triumph hospitals specialize in providing services to medically complex patients for whom the short-term care hospital is no longer the most appropriate or cost-effective setting for necessary continued care. |
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| Twin Med, LLC |
| Santa Fe Springs, CA |
| Year of investment: 2007 |
| www.tmedonline.com |
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| Twin Med is a leading medical supplies distributor serving long-term care facilities throughout the United States. Twin Med utilizes a unique Per Patient Day (PPD) cost management program that generates significant savings and is revolutionizing how long-term care facilities purchase products. With warehouses strategically located around the country, Twin Med can provide products to any customer in the United States with a one day lead time. |
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| Weather Investments S.p.A. |
| Rome, Italy |
| Year of investment: 2008 |
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| Weather Investments S.p.A. is one of the world’s leading international telecommunications companies offering mobile, fixed, Internet and international communication services to over 90 million subscribers in Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Pakistan, and Tunisia and has acquired in early 2008 a license to operate mobile services in North Korea. Weather Investments operates through its subsidiaries Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E., Wind Telecomunicazioni S.p.A. and Wind Hellas S.A.. Weather is the entry point of choice for both technically advanced attractive markets and high growth, under penetrated emerging markets. |
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| Youth and Family Centered Services, Inc. |
| Austin, TX |
| Year of investment: 2004 |
| www.yfcs.com |
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| Youth and Family Centered Services, Inc. (YFCS) is the country's premier provider of services focused on the health, education and long-term support needs of troubled children and adolescents. The services offered by YFCS are designed to enable the individuals in its care to become more productive members of the community, while providing referral sources and payors with a clinically-focused, cost-effective solution for treating the nation's population of troubled youth. |
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