Portfolio Companies

We define our targeted opportunities as network-enabled service companies that enable communication, deliver content and facilitate commerce.

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Access Media 3 provides “triple-play” video, high-speed Internet and voice services to residential customers in multiple dwelling unit developments. Serving more than 22,000 units in over 180 buildings, AM3 is the Midwest’s largest non-franchised triple-play media provider and is an excellent platform for consolidation in the highly fragmented MDU marketplace.
Completel Europe is a facilities-based provider of switched local access telecommunications and Internet services to business end-users and carriers. The company operates nine fiber-based metropolitan area networks in France and in 2006 completed a DSL-based network expansion to increase its coverage to 110 markets in France. Completel was acquired in September 2007 by Altice B2B France for $1.1 billion.
Diveo Broadband Networks is a leading local broadband and data center solutions provider for corporate customers in Brazil and Colombia. The Company works together with its customers to develop made-to-fit, integrated solutions to satisfy dynamic, complex business needs. Diveo was acquired by Universo Online in December 2010 in a transaction that valued the company at approximately $475 million.
EdgeConnex owns and operates a hardened co-location facility at cell sites enabling faster single and multi-tenant backhaul solutions. By building and monitoring controlled space and power for microwave and fiber backhaul providers, EdgeConneX creates a reliable meet-me-point that shortens backhaul deployment schedules, lowers cost of sale, reduces capital expense requirements, and provides an infrastructure for the furthest edge in computing, the mobile edge.
Masergy Communications provides customer-controlled voice, data and video services over converged virtual wide area networks to companies in more than 40 countries. It specializes in delivering real-time high-quality transport of enterprise applications, including voice, data and video, through a single network connection. Masergy was acquired by ABRY Partners in August 2011 in a transaction that valued the company at approximately $210 million.
NewPath Networks is a wireless infrastructure company that designs, develops and operates fiber-fed wireless carrier networks using a distributed antenna architecture to improve signal strength and network capacity. NewPath’s solutions address wireless network capacity demands due to growth in data and multimedia applications. The company’s cost-effective, invisible wireless networks accommodate multiple carriers without new cell site or tower build-out. Crown Castle International acquired NewPath in September 2010 in a transaction that valued the Company at approximately $115 million.
NuVox supplies broadband telecommunications services over an IP-centric virtual network to business customers in 48 markets in 16 contiguous states across the Midwest and Southeast. Products and services include voice, data and networking services and audio conferencing, Internet and IT security services. Windstream Corporation acquired NuVox in November 2009 in a transaction that valued the Company at approximately $643 million.
Perlego leverages software-as-a-service to provide end-to-end mobile device management solutions that allow enterprises, resellers and device manufacturers to effectively manage deployed smart wireless devices, regardless of platform or carrier. The company’s software uses over-the-air (OTA) technology enabling businesses to: update installed software, issue patches, disable lost or stolen devices, back up applications and content residing on the device, and restore this critical information to a new device.
Xspedius Communications is a facilities-based provider of integrated communications services over proprietary fiber optics and virtual networks to small and medium-sized businesses in the southern U.S. The Company offers a variety of high quality communication services including long distance voice, data, and Internet. Xspedius was acquired by Time Warner Telecom in October 2006 in a transaction that valued the Company at $567 million.

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Crisp Media is a pioneer in rich-media advertising based in NYC that delivers interactive campaigns across all devices, web browsers and app platforms. Crisp’s highly-engaging rich-media formats are easy to deploy. Crisp simplifies creative development for agencies, streamlines ad serving for publishers and unifies advertising campaign reporting for media buyers and brands. Crisp is also a founding member of ORMMA, the Open Rich Media Mobile Advertising initiative formed to support open standards for serving ads into mobile apps.
Inflow Group is a data center operator providing facilities-based IT services to companies with critical business and network applications over wired and virtual networks. Inflow is focused on second-tier markets in the U.S. and offers outsourced services including co-location, connectivity, equipment monitoring, security and other value-added services to medium-sized businesses. Inflow was acquired by SunGard Availability Services in 2005 for $189 million.
Miniweb is the leading enabler for TV device manufacturers and network operators seeking to deliver an advanced, media-centric, connected TV service, with the ability to commercialize broadband video content usage by their customers. Via its Internet, cloud-based connected TV service platform, Miniweb provides access to a pre-integrated corpus of Internet video content, within a flexible, TV-style user interface, that drives traffic and enables the full convergence of traditional TV viewing, as well as a wide range of personalized, Internet-delivered video content. The Miniweb platform delivers multi-device reach and provides a seamless experience across multiple content providers, empowering the viewer with global search, recommendations, micropayments, community and personalization functions.

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IP Commerce operates a revolutionary IP-based web platform that enables electronic payment services to be delivered over virtual networks through desktop computer software. It allows payments to be easily bundled, provisioned and managed across IP-based networks, driving new revenue and reducing participant costs in electronic payment systems.
Pipeline Financial Group provides electronic large-block securities trading services over a virtual network to many of the largest U.S. mutual funds, hedge funds and broker-dealer firms. The Pipeline trading system enables institutions and brokerage firms to quickly, efficiently and anonymously trade large blocks of equity securities. Pipeline maintains a hidden book of large, executable limit orders with strict price/time priority, thereby facilitating interactions between traders while minimizing market impact and the risk of gaming and other predatory trading practices.

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