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Software




AFS Technologies – Phoenix, AZ
AFS Technologies is a leading provider of fully-integrated, end-to-end business software solutions engineered exclusively for the food and beverage industries designed to reduce costs, increase efficiency, streamline internal processes and assist in regulatory compliance. Solutions available from AFS include ERP, CRM, WMS, and laptop and wireless applications.





Brainshark - Waltham, MA
Brainshark provides web-based applications that enable users to communicate more quickly and effectively using voice-enriched on demand presentations that can be created and viewed at each person's own schedule and convenience. Brainshark excels at uniquely offering the ease of use that businesspeople want with the enterprise-class capabilities that Fortune 1000 companies need in terms of scalability, feature sets, security, flexibility, reporting and tracking, and the ability to integrate with other applications and business processes.





Construction Software Technologies – Cincinnati, OH
CST is a Software as a Service company (SaaS) that provides access to internet construction plan rooms and private construction offices for general contractors and sub contractors. CST derives the majority of its revenue by selling subscriptions to access CST’s websites. The company’s internet plan rooms and private construction offices streamline the distribution and communication processes among architects, contractors, suppliers, and other participants in large public and commercial construction projects.





MarketTools - San Francisco, CA
MarketTools was founded in 1997 to create an Internet-based platform for custom market research. MarketTools' leadership position in the $10 billion market research services industry is reflected in its customer base that includes General Mills, Procter & Gamble and other leading consumer packaged goods companies. The Company's software suite enables clients to complete consumer research projects cheaper, faster and more accurately than by using historical methods of focus groups, telephone and mail surveys. The Company's proprietary zPlatform' enables sophisticated research and easy to use feedback tools for data collection, analysis, report generation and publishing in real time. Through its differentiated, hosted service offerings, MarketTools has a complete vertical suite of products targeting executives of the Global 2000 as well as small to mid-size companies and individuals. By using the MarketTools' suite of products clients gain immediate access to such critical information as customer satisfaction and purchase intentions, employee attitudes, Web site visitor experience, and brand health.





Metal Supermarkets - Ontario, Canada
Metal Supermarkets Corporation is a specialized metal distributor focusing on small quantities of virtually all types and forms of metals, custom cut to size, and featuring same day service. MSC operates worldwide under 2 banners, Metal Supermarkets and Metal Express. While the majority of revenues come from MSC’s 37 corporate operations the Company is also the only small quantity metal dealer franchise in the world with 56 franchisees located throughout the US, Canada, the UK, Austria and The UAE. MSC’s primary business scope is focused on B2B customers, such as small and large manufacturers, tool and die shops, machine shops and fabricators, hospitals, government agencies, schools and universities.





Mycroft – St. Louis, MO
Mycroft provides IT and business process management solutions, identity and access management solutions, and managed infrastructure services to large organizations in the financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, government, and aerospace and defense industries.





nuBridges – Atlanta, GA
nuBridges is a provider of e-business solutions that span traditional EDI Value-Added Network services to next generation products and services to help companies build and manage their e-business communities. nuBridges offers products and services that enable companies to connect to business partners, protect sensitive information and collaborate with business partners.





Outside the Classroom – Needham, MA
Outside the Classroom is a leading provider of online health and wellness solutions. Outside The Classroom spent seven years focused on tackling high-risk drinking and related epidemic-level health issues by delivering programs and services designed for population-level application at US colleges. The Company’s alcohol prevention courses are required of incoming first year students at more than 450 college and high school campuses nationwide. The Company offers a variety of programs, including AlcoholEdu, SexualAssaultEdu™, and MentalHealthEdu™, developed for students, parents, and higher education faculty and staff. The company's flagship product, AlcoholEdu®, has set the standard for online alcohol prevention through Population-Level Prevention® - an approach that delivers alcohol prevention education to entire student groups easily and cost effectively.





Pacific Title & Art – Hollywood, CA
Pacific Title & Art is a technology enabled business service company providing post-production film editing services to the Hollywood studio industry. The company was purchased in a management buy-out from Safeguard Scientific in 2007. Pac Title provides digital special effects, trailer (preview) production, and film editing services.





Softrax – Canton, MA
Softrax, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise revenue management and billing software solutions. The Company’s products help customers manage, analyze, report, and forecast their revenue. Softrax solutions automate the entire revenue cycle, from revenue recognition, reporting and forecasting, through complex billing and contract renewals. Over 200 customers use Softrax to optimize revenue, reduce operating expenses, comply with revenue recognition regulations and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and gain visibility into their business performance.





WhittmanHart - Chicago, IL
WhittmanHart is a interactive Marketing and consulting company providing integrated solutions in digital communications, process improvement and enabling technologies to Fortune 1000 and premier middle market companies through its offices in Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Nashville. This network of local offices enables the Company to increase involvement with clients and create better long term client relationships. WhittmanHart currently has three core service offerings: Interactive Marketing, Performance Management, and Managed Hosting. WhittmanHart draws on over 20 years of quality work, strong client relationships and value-driven solutions for focused industries to deliver best-in-class solutions to all its clients.



Healthcare




ALN Medical Management - Denver, CO
ALN is a nationwide provider of outsourced revenue cycle management and information technology services to physician practices. ALN has established a firm leadership position in the industry and is capitalizing on the coming consolidation of the physician billing industry.





eStudySite - San Diego, CA
eStudySite is the leading independent, hospital-based clinical trial administrator providing emergency room patients access to clinical trials. eStudySite’s mission is to be the most efficient, productive inpatient and outpatient research site in the world. This results in substantially shortened timelines and speed to market of potentially life-saving drugs to sponsors, pharmaceutical companies, and Contract Research Organizations – and those in critical need of new medicines in development.





HealthDataInsights – Las Vegas, Nevada
HDI offers products and services to help health care providers leverage claims data to address cost and quality issues. The Company’s Claims Integrity Division analyzes claims identifying overpayments, fraud and abuse, and opportunities for cost savings. HDI’s Analytics Division utilizes public and private claims data to provide software and internet applications to assist payers, providers, and large companies in making better decisions surrounding the cost and quality of health care. HDI’s customers include Blue Cross Blue Shield organizations, regional and national health plans, and third party administrators (TPA’s), self-insured corporations and major hospitals.





Logical Images – Rochester, NY
Logical Images is a medical informatics company that has developedVisualDx, a clinical decision support software system designed to be used by non-expert clinicians at the point of care to meet the need for fast, easy and accurate visual identification. VisualDx helps the clinician develop a differential diagnosis by inputting observations of the patient into the software and evaluating the medical images of appropriate diagnostic options. The current product addresses variability of over 700 diagnoses in several market segments including infectious disease, dermatology, oral and eye disease, emergency medicine, and bioterrorism preparedness. The current markets targeted for VisualDx are Public Health, Hospitals, Military, and Medical Education.





Medrium, Inc. – Morristown, NJ
Medrium is a healthcare receivables management company, providing physician groups and hospitals with a web-based receivables management system. Medrium’s system provides rapid and accurate receivables management for providers and reduces insurance company denials. Medrium is a national company with current operations in Californi, New Jersey, and Delaware.





Octagon Research – Wayne, PA
Octagon Research is a leading provider of technology and consulting solutions for the electronic transformation of clinical data. Headquartered in Wayne, PA, the Company offers a suite of regulatory, clinical, IT and process solutions to the life sciences industry. Octagon has completed engagements with most of the leading pharma companies including AstraZeneca, Merck, Wyeth, Genzyme and others. In addition to its consulting business, Octagon offers a software product which customers use to help allocate resources for clinical trials.





Synteract – Carlsbad, CA
Synteract is a Contract Research Organization, offering a complete range of clinical development and consulting services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. Synteract focuses on reducing the time, cost, and risk of bringing new pharmaceutical products to market. Synteract’s core competency centers on IT and data management of clinical trials, a crucial piece of the drug development process. Since inception, Synteract has continually sought to expand its service offerings from its core business of data management, centering on the collection, management, analysis, and summarization of data collected from clinical trials. Synteract currently offers services in data management, clinical monitoring, biostatistics, project management, safety surveillance, and IT applications.





TC³ Health, LLC - Costa Mesa, CA
TC³ Health, LLC is a healthcare technology company offering integrated loss control programs that help reduce healthcare payers' claims overpayments. Healthcare claims payment systems are highly fragmented data silos resulting in payment errors, lost savings, fraudulent claims, code gaming and unnecessary administrative expenses totaling over $250 billion annually. Through a single electronic gateway with its healthcare payer's claims transaction system, TC³ provides seamless access to its suite of loss control programs that reduce paid medical claims by 5-10% annually. Since TC³ normalizes claims data to nationally recognized standards, it also provides advanced decision support services that include data analytics, predictive technologies and Web based reporting capabilities that assist its payers in making informed choices about future healthcare programs.



Previous Investments




Optimos - Chantilly, VA
Optimos is a provider of IT services primarily to middle market companies and the public sector. Optimos provides its clients with a single source for a broad range of application solution and services, including client server design and development, conversion/migration services, Enterprise Resource Planning, customer relationship management and package implementation services, and e-Commerce application implementation services. Optimos has strategic partnerships with leading software companies such as Oracle, Vignette, Filenet, Netscape/Intellisys, SAP, and Peoplesoft.





Affinity Express - Elgin, IL
Acquired by Ayala Corporation January 2007 - Affinity Express is the leading provider of outsourced graphic services for the printing, embroidery and promotional products industries. Affinity formats graphics, photos and written copy to produce digital, production-ready files for printing, posting to web sites, embroidery, screen-printing or other output, covering the workflow between the concept and printing or production. The Company offers services 24/7/365, allowing clients to expand their own internal design capacity under a variable cost structure or per-project basis and realize all the benefits of outsourcing.





ppoNEXT - Long Beach, CA
Acquired by Concentra Corporation June 2007 - ppoNEXT is a holding company formed to consolidate the Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) industry. PPOs provide members with access to a broad network of health care providers at substantial discounts to the usual fees. The PPO industry is a highly fragmented $5-8 billion market. As a result, ppoNEXT was formed to provide its customers with access to high quality health care at a reasonable cost by creating through consolidation a broad, national network of high quality providers.





FutureHealth Corporation - Hunt Valley, MD
Acquired by Nationwide Insurance Company January 2006 - FutureHealth Corporation provides disease management services to TPAs and self-insured employers. Chronic disease management for employees and their dependents is one of the largest and most visible components of health care cost for self-insured employers. The programs incorporate interventions that improve patient self-management and optimize outcomes, and are based on the most up-to-date, evidence-based clinical guidelines.





TechBooks - Fairfax, VA
Recapitalization by American Capital August 2005 - TechBooks is global company that delivers high-quality composition services, a front-end XML workflow process that speeds cross-media projects, and data conversion services for turning pre-published archives into profitable digital content. TechBooks solutions are used by many leading educational, professional, corporate, and financial publishers. The Company has an offshore business model that employs skilled professionals in India to prepare content for large projects cost-effectively, coordinated by U.S.-based project managers.





Concho Resources
Acquired by Chesapeake Energy - In August 1997, Tim Leach, Steve Beal, Dave Chroback and Dave Copeland formed Concho Resources Inc. to acquire oil and gas properties in the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico. The Company purchased over $100 million of producing properties. These properties are being exploited with exploratory and development drilling, waterfloods and other capital expenditures to increase production and reduce operating costs.





International Towers – Tucson, AZ
Acquired by Spectrasite January 2000 (NYSE: SSI) - International Towers, Inc. (ITI) was formed in 1996 to design, manufacture, install, and service transmission towers for the communications and broadcasting industries. With the introduction of high definition television (HDTV a new standard for digital television broadcasting), and rising use of cellular telephones, PCS and paging services (collectively, “wireless communications”), the demand for ITI’s products and services is increasing at a rapid pace. ITI will concentrate its efforts primarily on tall towers (1000-2000 feet) for the TV broadcast industry, which is expected to be the most attractive market segment. The company also supplies products and services for the wireless communications and military tower markets.





Renovis – San Francisco, CA
Public Offering February 5, 2004 (NASDAQ: RNVS) - Renovis is a biopharmaceutical company developing drugs to treat neurological diseases and disorders. The company currently focuses its research and development programs in the areas of neuroprotection, pain, and neuroinflammatory diseases. The most advanced candidate is Cerovive®, an intravenous drug being evaluated for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke.





Tactica Technology Group – Dallas, TX
Aquired by Hitachi Consulting November 2001 - Tactica Technology Group provides strategy consulting that combines expertise in eBusiness with market specific knowledge in order to produce a combined buisness and technology strategy for its clients. The company also designs and builds applications and technology infrastructure that support a wide variety of eBusiness functions.





Tessera – San Jose, CA
Public Offering November 2003 (NASDAQ: TSRA) - Tessera Technologies provides intellectual property for advanced semiconductor packaging to meet the demand for smaller and faster electronic products. Tessera’s extensive Intellectual Property portfolio includes hundreds of issued and pending patents - the largest IP portfolio in Chip Scale Packaging. Tessera is the world's premier developer and licensor of small, high-performance and reliable packaging solutions with its technology licensed by over 40 semiconductor manufacturers and assemblers around the world.





Transmontaigne – Denver, CO
Public Offering Transmontaigne Partners (NYSE: TLP) - TransMontaigne (TMG) is a refined petroleum products distribution and supply company. Operations encompass the Mid-Continent, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and Rocky Mountains of the United States. The Company owns 75 storage facilities with capacity of 21 million barrels and 850 miles of pipeline.



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