News from FTVentures, Auguest 10, 2005

FTVentures - Capitalize on Our
Connections

FTVentures Investment Targets

Investment Focus

We are a private equity firm investing in software, business services and transaction processing companies.


Private Company Funding Objectives

• Fuel rapid organic growth
• Pursue one or more
  acquisitions
• Recapitalize to optimize
  capital structure or meet
  the liquidity needs
  of shareholders
• Spin-off operations from
  a parent corporation


Investment Stage

We fund businesses at all stages of development.


Investment Commitment

$10 million to $60 million


Investment Strategy

Typically lead or control investor.


Investment Geography

We will consider investments worldwide to support the needs of our global Limited Partners.



FTVentures Leads $11
Million Series B Financing of Digital Harbor
We are pleased to introduce our most recent investment, Digital Harbor, a Reston, VA-based developer of software that offers a unique approach to information integration. FTVentures led the $11 million Series B round with participation from existing investor, Insight Venture Partners. The financing caps a year of 100 percent growth for Digital Harbor, an innovative company whose software enables business users to interact with information from disparate data sources in the context of a single application. Digital Harbor provides the complete infrastructure for building "composite applications", which are powerful user interfaces that connect the data and functionality of multiple disparate systems into a single, robust desktop application. Based on an advanced "business ontology" model, which allows an organization to quickly establish and visualize the relationships among data in multiple systems, the technology converts the complex coding and development requirements of information integration into a graphically intuitive “drag-and-drop” environment, which enables much quicker and lower cost deployment than traditional integration projects.

Digital Harbor’s software addresses a fundamental challenge that major corporations face today, particularly the global financial institutions that make up the FTVentures limited partner base. Digital Harbor's software adds critical analysis, case management and decision-making capabilities to core business applications, such as anti-money laundering, compliance, customer cross-selling, network or systems management, legal discovery and business process management.

If you would like to learn more about FTVentures' latest investment, Digital Harbor, please contact

    Mark Lotke 212-682-4514
    Bob Barrett 415-229-3040
    Albert Chiang 415-229-3055
    Alex Scherbakovsky 415-229-3004

    Or visit www.digitalharbor.com

Investment Team

Contact Us

San Francisco
601 California Street
Suite 2200
San Francisco, CA 94108

Phone 415-229-3000
Fax     415-229-3005

info@ftventures.com

New York
230 Park Avenue
Suite 3300
New York, NY 10169

Phone 212-682-4800
Fax     212-682-4480

www.FTVentures.com

 


About FTVentures

FTVentures provides capital to growth companies to finance organic expansion, acquisitions, recapitalizations and buyouts. We invest in software and business services companies that derive value from our unmatched Global Partner Network, which includes 38 of the world’s leading financial institutions. Our Global Partner Network provides us with a unique vantage point into the business driven IT and operating challenges of the global enterprise. Founded in 1998, FTVentures currently has $623 million under management with offices in San Francisco and New York. For more information, please visit www.ftventures.com

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