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Recent Liquidity Events
As a firm, Schweichler Price & Partners is retained to build the management teams for some of the most promising companies in digital media, energy and technology. Why do we get exposure to these high caliber opportunities? Because of our track record, and because we focus on clients with potential for greatness. To us, it’s all about value and wealth creation, which are key benchmarks of success. If our candidates and clients make money while winning in the market, everyone enjoys success and we believe our work has achieved something meaningful and beneficial to all.
Some highlights of recent value creation:
- Multiple recent large IPO’s and M&A’s. Many are listed below.
- Excellent performance by our public clients: examples include Citrix, Blue Coat and Polycom. Great stock appreciation here.
- Successful fundraising at high valuations from our privately held clients.
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Data Domain makes appliances that de-duplicate redundant data during the backup process.
Liquidity: IPO in 2007. |
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Entropic Communications
is a leading fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets system solutions to enable connected home entertainment.
Liquidity: IPO in 2007. |
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Aruba Networks provides enterprise wireless networking (WLAN) solutions for secure data access.
Liquidity: IPO in 2007 for $11.0 Million. |
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SunPower
makes solar cells and panels used to generate electrical power from the
sun.
Liquidity: IPO in 2005 (SPWR)
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Riverbed Technology is the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS) solutions for companies worldwide.
Liquidity: IPO in 2006 (RVBD)
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Redback Networks offers a high-density, intelligent networking device to bridge the operational gap between
telco-based DSL equipment in the central office and service provider backbone routers.
Liquidity: IPO in 1999 (RBAK)
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Airespace develops computer networking equipment used to build wireless LANs.
The company markets to enterprise, education, and government customers
Liquidity: Acquired by Cisco Systems in 2005 for $450
Million.
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StrataLight provides spectrally efficient 40 Gbps and higher optical systems and subsystems to network systems vendors that allow plug and play integration into their current 10 Gbps DWDM link designs and network management systems.
Liquidity: Acquired by Opnext in
2008 for $172 Million.
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Wily Technology provides software for managing
enterprise applications.
Liquidity: To be acquired by Computer Associates in
2006 for $375 Million.
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Topio is highly regarded for its innovative software that helps customers replicate, recover, and protect data over any distance regardless of the underlying server or storage infrastructure.
Liquidity: Acquired by NetApp in 2006 for $160 Million.
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Topspin is a leader in high performance grid and utility computing, delivering the industry’s first programmable server switch - a new category of data center infrastructure designed to allow virtual servers to be created by interconnecting industry-standard server, storage, and networking resources on-demand.
Liquidity: Acquired by Cisco Systems in 2005 for $250
Million.
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PolyServe is a provider of storage software for application and file serving utilities.
Liquidity: Acquired by HP in 2007.
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Tarari designs semiconductors designed to accelerate processing in servers and networking equipment used for high-performance computing, network security, and XML-based Web services.
Liquidity: Acquired by LSI Logic in 2007 for $85 Million.
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Trapeze Networks is a leading provider of enterprise wireless LAN equipment and management software.
Liquidity: Acquired by Belden in 2008 for $133 Million.
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NetContinuum provides application firewalls and gateways to secure & accelerate web services applications.
Liquidity: Acquired by Barracuda in 2007.
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Avamar is a provider of enterprise-class data protection software featuring industry-leading data de-duplication technology.
Liquidity: Acquired by EMC in 2006 for $165 Million.
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Isilon Systems is the worldwide leader in clustered storage systems and software for digital content.
Liquidity: IPO in 2006 (ISLN)
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