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Data Management & Analytics

The rapid growth of data, both within enterprises and on the Internet, has created opportunities to enhance insight and improve decision making. New solutions for search, summarization, management and analysis of both structured and unstructured data are needed to obtain these competitive advantages.

Current areas of interest:
Open Source Enterprise 2.0
Semantic Web Holistic data mining
Cognitive computing Advanced Storage solutions
Current Investments:
image ZoomInfo Waltham, MA www.zoominfo.com

ZoomInfo offers a web-based people and business semantic search engine that combs the web and uses the data it finds to build in depth profiles on business professionals and companies. Over 36 million people and 3.4 million businesses are covered in the database.

ClickFox Atlanta, GA www.clickfox.com

ClickFox is a leader in Customer Experience Analytics. ClickFox translates interactions from multiple service touch points into an intuitive, visual map, revealing quickly and easily what customers actually do and why, so that companies can align customer needs to their business objectives.

Bizo San Francisco, CA www.bizo.com

Bizo offers online marketers a new way to target their ads and online promotions. Using annoymous profiles, bizo ensures ads are seen by the intended business groups and user types, greatly increasing effectiveness. Bizo is a spin-off from ZoomInfo.

image Terascala Avon, MA www.terascala.com

Terascala designs, builds and sells high performance storage solutions based on the massively scalable open source Lustre file system. The system is managed and monitored through command line or web-based interfaces and offers government, university and enterprise customers a very high performance storage cluster for a price that is a fraction of existing market levels.

Past Investments:
image Cymfony (acquired by TNS) Watertown, MA www.cymfony.com

Cymfony sells media measurement solutions for enterprise customers. The companyƐs solutions leverage natural language processing technology to analyze both traditional on- and off-line media, as well as consumer generated media such as Blogs. This enables brand managers, marketing professionals and PR staff to actively monitor measure and gain insight from what is being written about their products, company, competitors and key marketing messages.

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eCopy(acquired by Nuance)

Nashua, NH www.ecopy.com

eCopy is an independent supplier of document distribution and network scanning software to corporate customers. eCopy software and hardware provides organizations with the ability to use their copier as a high speed scanner and a gateway for placing paper documents in electronic form on the network.

 

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Sensitech (acquired by Carrier) Beverly, MA www.sensitech.com

Sensitech uses RFID technologies to provide information and services for supply chain monitoring for managing the distribution of perishable goods, targeting high-value shipments in food, food service, life science and related industries.