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ilver Creek’s investment strategy is to provide resources and guidance to outstanding management teams that are building market-leading companies in the information technology arena.

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Silver Creek’s investment strategy is to provide resources and guidance to outstanding management teams that are building market-leading companies in the information technology arena. Silver Creek’s early-stage strategy typically results in an investment pace of $2 to $7 million per portfolio company. By focusing on specific markets where they have expertise, limiting the number of deals in their portfolio, and working together as a team, the General Partners at Silver Creek have consistently provided the resources that entrepreneurs require to achieve success.

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Mesirow Financial is a diversified financial services firm headquartered in Chicago. Founded in 1937, they are a primarily employee-owned, private company with more than 1,100 employees in offices across the country and in the United Kingdom. Originally a one-man brokerage firm, Mesirow Financial has grown to encompass six divisions of services.

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Mesirow Financial is a diversified financial services firm headquartered in Chicago. Founded in 1937, they are a primarily employee-owned, private company with more than 1,100 employees in offices across the country and in the United Kingdom. Originally a one-man brokerage firm, Mesirow Financial has grown to encompass six divisions of services.

Mesirow Financial understands, anticipates and meets its clients’ changing financial needs with a multitude of high-quality products and services. Their goal is to assist each of their clients in attaining their financial goals. They strive to build ongoing relationships based on the highest levels of integrity, service and performance.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners is a leading global venture capital firm that manages over $2 billion of capital commitments.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners is a leading global venture capital firm that manages over $2 billion of capital commitments. We closed Lightspeed VIII, an $800 million fund, in early 2008. Over the past two decades, our investment professionals have backed more than 150 companies, many of which have gone on to become leaders in their respective industries. Our team invests in the U.S. and internationally, with investment professionals and advisors located in Silicon Valley, China, India, and Israel.

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InterWest invests an average of about $7 – 15 million over the span of their involvement with each company in their portfolio.

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InterWest invests an average of about $7 – 15 million over the span of their involvement with each company in their portfolio. They invest in companies through the full range of venture investment stages, and investments may be staged over several rounds of financing. Although they generally begin their involvement in the early stages of a company’s development, they pursue attractive opportunities based on their individual merits rather than their investment stage.

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Pivot3 was founded in 2003 on the idea that a revolutionary scale-out architecture would deliver large-scale, high-bandwidth storage using off-the-shelf hardware components combined with specialized software.

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Pivot3 is the leading supplier of IP SAN solutions to the video surveillance market. The company’s award-winning products are widely deployed in the hospitality, transportation, homeland security, public safety, education and retail markets. The innovative Pivot3 Serverless Computing™ architecture is the only scale-out storage product offering integrated server virtualization, which brings high availability for storage and applications, simple capacity scaling, and a commodity hardware cost basis. To learn more about Pivot3, visit www.pivot3.com.

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