Aurum Software is a suite of applications that addresses the functional needs of sales, marketing and support organizations involved in the management of customer relationships.
Liquidity: IPO in 1996 (AURM)
Acquired by Baan in 1997 for $250 Million.
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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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C-Cube Microsystems is a manufacturer of video compression chips. They provide highly integrated, standards-based digital video compression solutions for applications in the consumer electronics, computer and communications market.
Liquidity: IPO in 1994 (CUBE)
Acquired by LSI Logic in 2001 for $878 Million.
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Centillium designs and markets communications chipset solutions for central office equipment, digital loop carrier line cards, and customer premises equipment for Digital Subscriber Line, Voice over Packet and premises networking.
Liquidity: IPO in 2000 (CTLM)
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Cisco Systems is engaged in networking for the Internet. Cisco Internet Protocol based networking solutions are installed at corporations, public institutions and telecommunication companies, and are found in a growing number of medium-sized commercial enterprises.
Liquidity: IPO in 1996 (CSCO)
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Manufacturer of storage and memory expansion products for midrange and mainframe computers.
Liquidity: Acquired by EMC as part of Data General in 1999 for $1.1 Billion.
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Clarity Wireless is a leading developer of wireless communication technology for computer networking and Internet service markets.
Liquidity: Acquired by Cisco Systems in 1998 for $157 Million.
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Manufacturer and developer of server appliances that extend the reach of the Internet. The company's products enable ISP's small and medium businesses, enterprise workgroups and educational institutions to realize the benefits of the emerging economics of the Internet.
Liquidity: IPO in 1999 (COBT)
Acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2001 for $2 Billion.
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Concentric Network is a global provider of leading data and Internet services.
Liquidity: IPO in 1997 (CNCX)
Acquired by NextLink Communications in 2000 for $3.4 Billion.
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Cyras Systems develops data-optimized optical switching systems for metropolitan area network applications.
Liquidity: Acquired by Ciena in 2001 for $1.1 Billion.
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Digital Island is a provider of integrated hosting, content delivery, and network services.
Liquidity: IPO in 1999 (ISLD)
Acquired by Cable & Wireless in 2001 for $340 Million.
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Edify provides multi-channel enterprise CRM solutions for businesses that seek to maximize the financial return from every customer.
Liquidity: IPO in 1996 (EDFY)
Acquired by S1 in 1999 for $345
Million.
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Eve.com was a retailer of beauty products, fashion accessories, and designer jewelry over the Internet.
Liquidity: Acquired by IdeaLab in 2000.
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Get2Chip's patented core technology, called "global focused
synthesis," provides the industry's highest synthesis capacity and
performance, and produces superior logic and interconnect structures for
nanometer-scale physical design.
Liquidity: Acquired by Cadence in 2003 for $120
Million.
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HotRail developed advanced, integrated CMOS technologies for high-speed switching, interconnect, and scalable processing for Internet systems.
Liquidity: Acquired by Conexant in 2000 for $400 Million.
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Imparto is a leading provider of web marketing software. The company's integrated web marketing suite transforms customers' websites into effective marketing channels.
Liquidity: Acquired by Primus Knowledge in 1999 for $56 Million.
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Inktomi develops and markets scalable software applications designed to enhance the performance and intelligence of large-scale networks.
Liquidity: IPO in 1998 (INKT)
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Integrated Systems is a provider of embedded systems software for a broad range of industries including
telecom/datacom, consumer electronics, automotive, and aerospace.
Liquidity: IPO in 1994 (INTS)
Acquired by Wind River in 2000 for $930
million.
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Inverse Network Technology offers software and measurement services that help Internet Service Providers and corporations measure, manage and improve Internet performance.
Liquidity: Acquired by Visual Networks in 1999 for $192 Million.
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InVision Technologies is the leading provider of Explosives Detection Systems (EDS) for the aviation security industry.
Liquidity: IPO in 1996 (INVN)
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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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JetCell provides a corporate network wireless solution integrating the Global System for Mobile Communications standard and Internet Protocol (IP) for both voice and data.
Liquidity: Acquired by Cisco Systems in 2000 for $200 Million.
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Kagoor is a leading supplier and innovator of session border control (SBC) technology.
Liquidity: Acquired by Juniper in 2005 for $67.5
Million.
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Laurel Network's service edge routers and service management solutions
enable profitable delivery of all switched and routed data services at the
edge of carrier IP/MPLS networks.
Liquidity: Acquire by ECI Telecom for $88 Million.
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LinkExchange offers a service that barters ads and banner space with
smaller sites.
Liquidity: Acquired by Microsoft in 1998 for $250
Million.
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Liquid Audio provides record labels and artists with software tools and technologies to enable the secure online preview and purchase of CD-quality music.
Liquidity: IPO in 1999 (LQID)
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LSI Logic is a leading designer and manufacturer of communications, consumer and storage semiconductors for applications that access, interconnect and store data, voice and video.
Liquidity: IPO in 1983 (LSI)
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Lumisys is a leading provider of desktop computed radiography systems and X-ray film digitizers.
Liquidity: IPO in 1995 (LUMI)
Acquired by Eastman Kodak in 2000 for $39 Million.
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Manufacturers' Services Limited is a global provider of advanced electronics manufacturing and supply chain services to original equipment manufacturers.
Liquidity: IPO in 2000.
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NetDynamics offers the first comprehensive Enterprise Network Application Platform, solving the problems organizations face in integrating disparate computing environments, scaling business-critical applications and managing distributed systems.
Liquidity: Acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1998 for $160 Million.
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NetFRAME designs, manufactures, and markets enterprise-class multiprocessor network servers that address the needs of the business computing marketplace.
Liquidity: IPO in 1992 (NETF)
Acquired by MicronPC in 1997 for $14 Million.
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Network Appliance is a recognized leader in enterprise storage and the delivery of data and content on demand.
Liquidity: IPO in 1995 (NTAP)
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Network Equipment Technologies builds service creation platforms for broadband, IP telephony, and multi-service networks.
Liquidity: IPO in 1987 (NWK)
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Network Peripherals supplies a full range of Layer 2/3 Ethernet switching solutions based on its flexible
NuWaveArchitecture, a combination of proprietary chips and high-performance software.
Liquidity: Merged with FalconStor Software in 2001 in a $200 Million transaction.
IPO in 1994
(NPIX)
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ONI Systems is a telecommunications equipment provider delivering optical network systems to metro carriers.
Liquidity: IPO in 2000 (ONIS)
Acquired by Ciena in 2002 for $900 Million.
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Ortel Corporation designs, manufactures and supplies advanced optoelectronics technologies that provide the critical bandwidth and two-way interactivity essential for robust telecommunications and cable television applications.
Liquidity: IPO in 1994 (ORTL)
Acquired by Lucent in 2000 for $2.95 Billion.
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Procket
Networks offers core Internet protocol routers for service providers,
government agencies, and enterprise customers.
Liquidity: Acquired by Cisco Systems in 1994 for $89
Million.
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QRS Corporation is a provider of supply chain technology for the retail industry. They provide value-added software and services to retailers, manufacturers, suppliers, vendors, wholesalers and distributors.
Liquidity: IPO in 1993 (QRSI)
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Raster Graphics Inc. designs, manufactures and markets large format color printing systems for the print-for-pay, large format color digital printing market.
Liquidity: IPO in 1996 (RGFX)
Acquired by Gretag Corporation in 1999 for $13 Million.
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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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Reel.com is a premier destination for film-related content, commerce and community.
Liquidity: Acquired by Hollywood Entertainment Corporation in 1998 for $90 Million.
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Rhetorex is a voice processing industry leader in the design, development, manufacturing and marketing of microcomputer-based Digital Signal Processing
(DSP) hardware and software.
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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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Sanera Systems builds highly reliable and scalable storage networking
for enterprises and service providers.
Liquidity: Acquired by McData in 2003 for $102
Million.
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Siliquent is a fabless semiconductor company delivering the first
Ethernet Processing Unit (EPU) for high performance storage and computing
over a ubiquitous Ethernet infratstructure.
Liquidity: Acquired by Broadcom in 2005 for $76
Million.
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Sistina is a premier storage infrastructure software company that
delivers data sharing solutions for enterprise and technical computing
customers.
Liquidity: Acquired by RedHat in 2004 for $31
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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Sybase delivers open-architecture enterprise infrastructure software, including databases, development tools, integration middleware, enterprise portals, and mobile and wireless servers.
Liquidity: IPO in 1991 (SY)
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Synopsys develops, markets, and supports a wide range of IC design products that are used by designers of advanced ICs, including system-on-a-chip ICs and electronic systems.
Liquidity: IPO in 1992 (SNPS)
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TiVo is the creator of and undisputed leader in television services for digital video recorders
(DVR).
Liquidity: IPO in 1999 (TIVO)
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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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Trillium Digital Systems is a leading provider of communications software solutions for the converged network infrastructure.
Liquidity: Acquired by Intel in 2000 for $300 Million.
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Verity is the leader in infrastructure software that connects people with information and matches customers with products.
Liquidity: IPO in 1995 (VRTY)
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Visigenic develops and markets a suite of software products for enterprise-wide database connectivity.
Liquidity: IPO in 1996 (VSGN)
Acquired by Borland in 1997 for $150 Million.
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Vixel Corporation is creates disruptive storage networking technologies that consistently deliver easily managed, easily integrated, high-performance interconnectivity.
Liquidity: IPO in 1999 (VIXL)
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VLSI Technology is a manufacturer of integrated circuits and other electronic components.
Liquidity: Acquired by Philips Semiconductor in 1999 for »
$1 Billion.
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VMX is the worldwide leader in the voice messaging industry.
Liquidity: IPO in 1983
Acquired by Octel in 1994.
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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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Yahoo! Inc. is a global Internet business and consumer services company that offers a comprehensive branded network of properties and services, including an online navigational guide to the Internet.
Liquidity: IPO in 1996 (YHOO) | |
