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OCA Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on equity investments in companies with dramatic growth potential, primarily in technology and highly-scalable services businesses. OCA invests in many industries, with a preference for financial services and for-profit education. Over the last decade, OCA has invested three funds in over 30 companies. OCA is based in Chicago and has investments throughout the United States.

8/25/2010

Cleversafe

Gartner Names Cleversafe in 2010 Hype Cycle and Object-Based Storage Emerging Technology Analysis Report

Cleversafe, a provider of resilient storage solutions suited for storage clouds and massive digital archives, announced that it has been included in two recent research reports from Gartner: Hype Cycle for Storage Technologies (as a sample vendor) and Emerging Technology Analysis: Object-Based Storage Targets Cloud Storage Infrastructure.  According to a release, the Emerging Technology Analysis classifies Cleversafe as a vendor within the cloud-oriented object-based storage. Additionally, Gartner cites Cleversafe in the cloud-based storage emerging technology analysis report as an emerging vendor.

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7/20/2010

Alert Logic

Alert Logic Reports 34th Consecutive Quarter of Revenue Growth

Alert Logic, the leading provider of log management, intrusion detection and cloud security solutions for enterprises and services providers, today announced continued strong revenue growth for its quarter ended June 30, 2010.  In the second quarter of 2010, Alert Logic recorded revenue of $3.65 million, up 42% from the second quarter of 2009 and up 15% from the first quarter of 2010.  Annualized recurring revenue (ARR) under contract at the close of the quarter totaled $14.5 million, which reflects the addition of $1.2 million of ARR during Q2.  In addition to record revenues, Alert Logic posted its fourth consecutive quarter of positive and growing EBITDA. ...READ MORE bullet point

7/8/2010

National Billing Partners

OCA Ventures Leads Investment in Healthcare Coding/Billing Services

OCA Ventures announced today thefirst institutional financing round for National Billing Partners, LLC (NBP), a healthcare services firm thatspecializes in billing and collections, codingaudits and reviews and other financial services.NBP plans to use the funding for sales andmarketing growth and operational expansion.
 
"As a company that alleviates billing pain points for physicians practices and medical facilities, National Billing Partners provides a crucial service in the healthcare industry," said Eddie Lou, General Partner for OCA Ventures. "The company's leadership team has built several successful healthcare companies in the past; we are excited to work with them to build a great business serving the healthcare financial services industry."
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6/24/2010

National Cardiovascular Partners

Ned Schwing and Robert Schwing Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year®

National Cardiovascular Partners, LP, today announced that Ned and Robert Schwing received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2010 Award in the business services category in Houston & Gulf Coast Area.  According to Ernst & Young LLP, the award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who are building and leading dynamic, growing businesses.  Ned and Robert were selected by an independent panel of judges, and the award was presented at a gala event at the Omni Hotel Houston on June 24, 2010.  ...READ MORE bullet point

6/21/2010

OCA Ventures

The great venture-capital debate: Is outside money a boon – or a trap – for entrepreneurs?

In 1998, Chuck Templeton started OpenTable Inc. in the bedroom of his San Francisco condo with $50,000. Twelve years and $72 million in venture capital and other investor funding later, the company has 13,000 customers in North America, Europe and Japan.  Mr. Templeton, 42, who now lives in Chicago, says the venture funding was crucial to scaling up OpenTable, which lets diners make reservations online.  To attract customers, "we needed to have as many restaurants in a city using our product as possible," he says. OpenTable used the VC money to hire sales and IT staff to drive that growth.

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5/17/2010

TradeKing

TradeKing™ Named Best in Customer Service in SmartMoney™ Magazine’s Annual Broker Survey 2010

 Online broker TradeKing announced today it once again has been honored for excellence in customer service and the quality of its trading tools by SmartMoney1, The Wall Street Journal magazine. The magazine’s June issue, on newsstands this week, spotlights the results of its Annual Broker Survey for 2010, ranking TradeKing first in customer service and fifth overall in a list of 17 discount brokerages. Its overall ranking places the firm just behind Fidelity, E*Trade, TD Ameritrade and Charles Schwab, all firms that charge their customers trading fees nearly double those of TradeKing’s. This is the third consecutive year TradeKing has received the survey’s maximum five-star rating in both the customer service and trading tools categories. ...READ MORE bullet point

4/15/2010

CohesiveFT

CohesiveFT Subsidiary, Rabbit Technologies, Acquired by SpringSource/VMWare

Java application infrastructure and management solutions provider SpringSource, a division of VMware, announced the acquisition of Rabbit Technologies on April 13, 2010 for an undisclosed sum. SpringSource said that the community of Spring developers will be able to leverage RabbitMQ as they evolve their applications from traditional data centers into private and public cloud deployments. Rabbit Technologies was founded in February 2007 and is a spin out from LShift, the UK software consultancy and Cohesive FT, the US virtualization and cloud computing company.  The sale provides Cohesive FT with an extraordinary gain to continue to expand its business.  

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4/14/2010

Tradeking

More Older Investors Have Moved Online

In the wake of the financial crisis that began in September 2008, technology has transformed online investing, according to TradeKing's Don Montanaro.  The lion's share of his customers used to be Internet-savvy young investors in their 20s and 30s, says Montanaro, chairman and CEO of the discount brokerage. While the young crowd is still there, many of his investors now include baby boomers in their 50s and 60s.  Large numbers of TradeKing's clients are also using mobile phone technology and social networks.  Montanaro spoke with IBD about trends in online investing.

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4/5/2010

Alert Logic

Alert Logic Focus on Cloud Security Drives Best Sales Quarter in Company History

Alert Logic, the leading provider of cloud-powered network security and compliance solutions, today announced that its Q1 2010 sales performance was the best in the company’s eight-year history.  During the quarter ending March 31, 2010, the network security and log management company recorded new sales which exceeded the company’s previous all-time best quarter by more than 23 percent.  During Q1 Alert Logic closed long-term recurring revenue contracts producing an additional $2.04 million in Annualized Recurring Revenue (ARR). This brings the company’s total ARR under contract to $13.3 million.

The first quarter of 2010 was Alert Logic’s first full quarter of sales after revising its growth strategy to focus more heavily on sales through its robust channel of IT service provider partners, particularly hosting companies.
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2/26/2010

OCA Ventures

Never Mind the Valley: Here's Chicago

Holding down the proverbial fort for the mid-west, Chicago, the Windy City, is the third largest city in the U.S. and the most populous city that doesn't sit on an ocean coast. The city, which does, however, rest on the shore of Lake Michigan, is home to a unique culture of nearly 3 million people and countless numbers of Fortune 500 companies condensed into its 234 square miles of city. Though the city is often passed over for Silicon Valley and New York in terms of startup cultures, Chicago has a expanding repertoire of companies, entrepreneurs, investors and organizations helping put the city on the startup map. ...READ MORE bullet point

1/25/2010

Alert Logic

Alert Logic Grows Revenue 52% and Customers by 45% in 2009

Cloud-based IT compliance and security solutions provider Alert Logic (www.alertlogic.com) announced on Monday that its revenue increased by 52 percent to $10.8 million in calendar 2009, while its customer count grew by 45 percent.

Alert Logic attributes these results to the successful execution of its strategy to enable service providers to deliver cloud-powered network security and compliance solutions.

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1/14/2010

TradeKing

TradeKing Enters Its Fifth Year, Continues Growth Trajectory

Online broker TradeKing (www.tradeking.com) announced today another year of strong growth as many investors chose to move away from their managed brokerage relationships and join TradeKing to take greater control of their investment decisions. As of December 31, 2009, the firm’s client account numbers rose to more than 190,000, representing a 51 percent increase over 2008 figures. ...READ MORE bullet point

10/22/2009

Gartner Newsroom

Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technologies of 2010

Gartner, Inc. analysts today highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2010. The analysts presented their findings during Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, being held here through October 22.

Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt.

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10/12/2009

Univa UD

Univa Puts Oracle E-Business Suite In Cloud

Univa UD, a pioneer of grid and cloud management, will demonstrate how applications in the Oracle E-Business Suite can be run remotely in a cloud rather than in an on-site data center and still be effectively managed by the customer.

 

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10/12/2009

Alert Logic

Alert Logic Announces New Executive Appointments

Alert Logic, a leading SaaS provider of managed security and IT compliance solutions, today announced two new key executive appointments.

Greg Davis has been appointed vice president of sales, and Marty McGuffin joins the company as vice president of operations. Both executives bring significant IT service provider expertise to Alert Logic in addition to their extensive experience in sales and operations.

 

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10/6/2009

Eddie Lou - IVCA

IVCA Interviews Eddie Lou, OCA Ventures Partner, Board Member of 'US Empowered'

IVCA: What is your background and how did you become part of US Empowered?
 
Eddie Lou: Five years ago, two friends and I co-founded the organization. Our pilot program was a success and have since found a great leader and team to grow the program.
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8/12/2009

Alert Logic

Alert Logic Continures Customer and Revenue Growth in First Half of 2009

Alert Logic, an award-winning provider of cloud-based IT compliance and security solutions, today announced that it continued its strong record of customer and revenue growth in the first half of 2009, increasing its customer base by 61% and growing revenues by 53% from the same period a year ago.
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7/28/2009

Alert Logic

Alert Logic Names Gray Hall as CEO

Alert Logic, an award-winning provider of cloud-based IT compliance and security solutions, today announced that Gray Hall, Alert Logic board member, has been named to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer. Hall will also be appointed as Chairman of the Alert Logic Board of Directors.

 

In his new role, Hall will be responsible for leading the company through its next phase of continued expansion and growth, building on the company's history of strong revenue and customer growth."I am excited to take on this new role at Alert Logic. We are already positioned among the leaders in the fast-growing IT compliance and security market, and our unique cloud-based delivery model makes Alert Logic the platform of choice for market leadership over the next several years," said Hall.

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5/6/2009

Univa UD

Univa UD Honored Among This Year's Most Promising Private Technology Ventures in North America

Lisle, IL, May 4, 2009 — Univa UD, a leading provider of application and infrastructure enablement software for dynamic IT environments, announced today its status as a finalist of the "Red Herring 100 North America" award, a prestigious list honoring the year's most promising private technology ventures in North America. The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from a pool of 1200. The nominees are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries. ...READ MORE bullet point

2/17/2009

Campus Explorer

Campus Explorer secures Series B funding led by OCA Ventures

CampusExplorer.com, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based college search portal, has raised $2.25 million in Series B funding. OCA Ventures led the round, and was joined by Origin Ventures and return backer Rincon Venture Partners. CampusExplorer.com, the most comprehensive college search portal on the web, announced today that it has secured $2.25 million in Series B funding led by Chicago-based OCA Ventures, along with Origin Ventures and existing investor Rincon Venture Partners of Santa Barbara, CA ...READ MORE bullet point

1/27/2009

Alert Logic

Despite Economic Downturn, Alert Logic Delivers Record Gains in 2008

lert Logic, an award-winning provider of on-demand IT compliance and security solutions, today announced that it enjoyed 80% revenue growth in 2008, nearly doubling its customer base for the second year in a row. The company also reached several noteworthy milestones, including a major update to Alert Logic Log Manager, industry recognition for its product and business achievements, and the continued expansion of its direct and indirect customer bases. ...READ MORE bullet point

1/20/2009

Brickfish

Brickfish Awarded Red Herring Top 100 Global Company

Brickfish(R), the social media advertising network, today announced that it has been recognized as one of the Red Herring Top 100 Global Companies. Red Herring Top 100 Global Companies are chosen from winners and finalists of the previous North America, Europe and Asia Red Herring Top 100 Companies. Winning and finalist companies from the previous three years were eligible for this outstanding award. Out of 1,800 successful and highly eligible companies, the Red Herring editorial team deployed a detailed process to drill-down the best companies first to 200 finalists, then to the top 100 winners of this global award. Evaluations were made on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, innovation, management, global strategy, and ecosystem integration ...READ MORE bullet point

1/12/2009

Brill Street

Tapping young talent offers flexibility, cost savings

When Kristen Prinke couldn't find a job in her field, she tried the next best thing: a paid internship at a company that was expanding. Now, 16 months later, Prinke, 24, has a full-time job in marketing at Leapfrog Online in Evanston. "It's a great way to get your foot in the door and show them what you can do," she said. Meanwhile, Leapfrog got the advantage of trying out an entry-level worker before extending a job offer, said Amy Weir, the company's director of human resources. By hiring someone young, the company saved money and got to train Prinke its own way. ...READ MORE bullet point

1/9/2009

Alert Logic

Alert Logic Named as Finalist for the Red Herring 100 Global Award

HOUSTON, TX - JANUARY 8, 2009 - Alert Logic, an award-winning provider of on-demand IT compliance and security solutions, today announced that it has been selected as a finalist for the Red Herring 100 Global Award, a selection of the 100 most innovative private technology companies worldwide. ...READ MORE bullet point

1/7/2009

Selero

Selero Smart Order Routing part of NYSE critical infrastructure

Nunami Services has announced that it is now providing Reg NMS Outbound Order Routing services for a portion of the NYSE Euronext's NYSE and Alternext Equity Trading Floors ("The Exchange"). Specifically, Nunami provides The Exchange with its connectivity to all displayed markets. Currently being used for a portion of the Trading Floor's routed traffic, the Nunami solution provides The Exchange with a low latency solution that is capable of burst speeds and throughput that are multiples of today's volume ...READ MORE bullet point

12/11/2008

Alert Logic

Alert Logic Named Finalist in 2009 SC Awards Program

Award Recognizes Outstanding Achievement in IT Security HOUSTON, TX - DECEMBER 11, 2008 - Alert Logic, an award-winning provider of on-demand IT compliance and security solutions, has been named a finalist in the 2009 SC Awards program for outstanding achievement in information technology security. Alert Logic Log Manager was named in the Best Security Incident/Event Management Solution category of the Reader Trust Award competition, which honors best-in-class security products and services. ...READ MORE bullet point ...READ MORE bullet point

12/9/2008

TradeKing

Record Numbers of Clients Turn to TradeKing in 2008

Marking its third anniversary, online broker dealer TradeKing (www.tradeking.com) announced today it attracted a record number of new clients in 2008, as a growing roster of self-directed investors turned to TradeKing to take control of their trading and investment strategies. TradeKing now has more than 130,000 client accounts, a 116 percent increase over 2007 figures. More than 12,800 clients opened new accounts with TradeKing in October alone, a 300 percent increase over October 2007. ...READ MORE bullet point

11/13/2008

Cleversafe

Venturing Forward - Interview With Cleversafe CEO Chris Gladwin in Chicago

CHICAGO – Cleversafe in Chicago offers a cost-effective way to store digital enterprise assets. In this edition of Venturing Forward, we interview Cleversafe CEO Chris Gladwin. ...READ MORE bullet point

11/10/2008

OCA Ventures

OCA Ventures II raises $50.1 million for technology investments

October 28, 2008, Chicago, IL – OCA Ventures LLC, a leading early stage technology venture capital firm, announced effective September 30, 2008, the final close of its second partnership (OCA Ventures II), raising $50.1 million of total capital commitments. OCA Ventures II will continue its focus on investments in companies with dramatic growth potential, primarily in core technology platforms and technology enabled business and consumer services companies, with emphasis on financial services and for-profit education sectors. OCA Ventures also announced the promotion of Eddie Lou to general partner and the hiring of Joseph Dwyer as a senior associate. ...READ MORE bullet point

10/16/2008

Cleversafe

Cleversafe's Long-Term Data Storage

In mid-2004, entrepreneur S. Christopher Gladwin was taking time off after the sale of his digital music-subscription service. His between-gigs project: organizing and storing his personal documents and photos. With equipment becoming obsolete every three to five years, he wondered, "How do you do that over the long haul?" ...READ MORE bullet point

10/15/2008

lert Logic

OpSource offers Alert Logic Products

IT compliance and security solutions provider Alert Logic and software as a service delivery provider OpSource announced that they have signed a partnership agreement. The news follows another recent Alert Logic partnership announcement with NaviSite, where the web host is offering Alert Logic's Log Manager and Threat Manager to its managed hosting customers. ...READ MORE bullet point

9/29/2008

Cleversafe

Cleversafe Wins 2008 Technology Innovation Award

SOFTWARE Cleversafe Inc., based in Chicago, won for a technology that offers a more secure and reliable way to store sensitive computer files The company's Dispersed Storage software breaks files up into slices and then sends the slices over the Internet to multiple storage locations on a network. By themselves, the slices are unreadable to hackers or anyone else not authorized to read them, but the original file can be easily reassembled, even if not all the slices are available due to equipment failure or natural disaster. The software also promises to be less expensive than traditional storage methods, which rely on creating full, multiple copies to protect against loss ...READ MORE bullet point

9/7/2008

Brill Street + Company

Brill Street's search even takes it to Facebook and MySpace

Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking sites are earning a new role in the business world: the latest tool to find entry-level workers with unusual or hard-to-find skills. "In 24 hours, we found a number of qualified students through a combination of Facebook, MySpace and electronic postings at eight local universities to fill a position in Chicago that required marketing education and a medical background," said Gilles Tanneur, CEO of Chicago-based Brill Street. ...READ MORE bullet point

8/13/2008

Univa UD

Univa UD's Grid.org Open Source Community Surpasses 5,000 Software Downloads

Grid.org, the online community for open-source cluster and grid software, announced today that their open source cluster software stack, UniCluster, has exceeded 5,000 downloads by the HPC community. Grid.org, launched in November 2007, was developed to provide a single aggregation point for information and interaction by the community of grid and cluster users, developers and administrators. Home to Univa UD’s UniCluster software stack, Grid.org offers an all-inclusive destination for users to exchange information, ideas, and participate in development projects. ...READ MORE bullet point

8/9/2008

Retention Ed

Companies Take Lead in Assimilation Efforts

Jose Trivelli, a graying engineer from Peru, spends his days fixing Internet connections at a Tysons Corner hotel and his evenings listening to a laptop computer program with cartoon characters and a chirpy voice that helps him pronounce such phrases as, "I'd like to open an account" and "Let me call my manager." At 52, he admits to being slightly embarrassed by the simplistic instructional program, but he says his U.S.-born children, who speak perfect English, are so enthusiastic about his efforts that they help him with difficult words and dream of the day he will be promoted to manager. ...READ MORE bullet point

7/29/2008

OCA Ventures

OCA Ventures Listed as a Top 100 VC firm by Entrepreneur Magazine

Entrepreneurs were the big winners in 2007, receiving more than $7 billion in venture capital a quarter for four straight quarters--a phenomenon not seen since 2001. Venture capitalists invested $29.4 billion in 3,813 deals in 2007, a 10.8 percent increase in dollars and a 5 percent increase in deal volume over 2006. OCA was named as one of the top 100 venture capital firms in the country. ...READ MORE bullet point

7/24/2008

Ed Map

New Agreement Makes eTextbooks Available to Students

ED MAP, an industry leader in developing innovative course material solutions for higher education, K-12 and other educational associations, announced today it has established a relationship with CourseSmart, a comprehensive supplier of digital course materials. This relationship increases freedom and choice for educational institutions and faculty while expanding ED MAP's ability to develop tailored solutions that meet their unique course material needs. ...READ MORE bullet point

7/7/2008

Brickfish

Brickfish aiming to use viral adverts to catch the attention

When Kodak, the US photo supplies company, decided to re-enter the inkjet printer business with a range of printers that claim to cut the cost of ink in half, the company chose an unconventional way to get the message out. Kodak teamed up with a San Diego-based start-up called Brickfish that has pioneered a new web-based viral marketing method called social media advertising. ...READ MORE bullet point

5/19/2008

CohesiveFT

CohesiveFT Named to InfoWorld's Top Ten Tech Startups for 2008

There are few clearer bellwethers as to the imminent direction of technology than where venture capitalists put their money. They're about making money, so they look for industry patterns they think will lead to sure bets. And that means they invest where the tech industry has begun to coalesce its thinking, not on exotic new science fiction. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, VCs have invested a total of $57 billion in startups -- mostly tech ones -- in 2005, 2006, and 2007. ...READ MORE bullet point

5/10/2008

TradeKing

Brokerages demystify options trading as way to ride markets

New York - For Kim Snider, it only takes one word to send participants in her monthly investment workshops into a near panic. The Dallas-based financial advisor gets the same reaction, without fail, every time she suggests using options as way to protect stock portfolios and make money. ...READ MORE bullet point

5/9/2008

TradeKing

TradeKing - Options for the Masses

Demystifying the options market, with Don Montanaro, CEO of TradeKing and Fast Money's Jon Najarian. ...READ MORE bullet point

4/15/2008

TradeKing

TradeKing Earns Four-Star Rating For Second Consecutive Year in Barron's 2008 Best Online Broker Survey

TradeKing (http://www.tradeking.com/), a nationally licensed online broker dealer, today announced it received top ratings for the second consecutive year in Barron's 13th annual survey of Best Online Brokers. The firm was awarded a four-star rating and given special recognition for its exceptional options trading tools, highly responsive customer service and embedded Community features. TradKing's positoin once again topped other well-established industy participants, including TD Ameritrade, Charles Schwab, Bakf of America, E*Trade and Scottrade. ...READ MORE bullet point

4/1/2008

CohesiveFT

CohesiveFT Offers On-Demand Virtualization Platform

The company is giving developers a Dell-like web services-application stack choice for the cloud. With Amazon recently announcing enhancements to its web services offerings for developers, Cohesive Flexible Technologies is upgrading its on-demand virtualization platform based on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud. ...READ MORE bullet point

3/19/2008

Retention Education

OCA II Invests in 4th Company, Retention Education

Retention Education, Inc., a privately held educational company that creates language acquisition solutions for adult learners of English as a Second Language and Spanish as a Second Language, today announced the completion of its Series B funding round from MK Capital, Ascend Venture Group, Ironwood Equity Fund and OCA Ventures. ...READ MORE bullet point

3/6/2008

Alert Logic

Alert Logic Closes $8.25 Million in Series C Financing

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alert Logic, an award-winning provider of on-demand IT compliance and security solutions, today announced that it has raised $8.25 million in Series C financing. The round was led by Updata Partners and includes existing investors Hunt Ventures, OCA Ventures, DFJ Mercury and Access Venture Partners. Concurrent with the funding, Carter Griffin, partner of Updata Partners, has been appointed to Alert Logic’s board of directors. ...READ MORE bullet point

3/2/2008

Cleversafe

Start-ups go back to school to get work

CHICAGO (www.Reuters.com) -- At many of the nation's top technology universities, school is not just for the students. That's the case at the Illinois Institute of Technology, known for its culturally-diverse population, modern architecture by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and proximity to downtown Chicago. There, more than 20 start-ups in industries ranging from software to biotech have set up shop at the university's technology park. ...READ MORE bullet point

2/19/2008

Cleversafe

Cleversafe launches dispersed-storage products

Cleversafe, a start-up with a new way to protect data by dispersing it across many storage devices, is making the move from prototype to product. ...READ MORE bullet point

1/23/2008

Alert Logic

Alert Logic More than Doubles Number of Customers in 2007

Alert Logic, an award-winning provider of on-demand IT compliance and security solutions, today announced that it more then doubled its customer base in 2007 to nearly 400 clients. The company aslo reached several noteworthy milestones, including a major product launch, industry recognition for its product and business achievements, and the addition of several key partners. ...READ MORE bullet point

1/7/2008

Base 2 Capital

OCA Funds 4th 'Fin-Tech' Firm

As a dozen financial services big-wigs prepare to launch an exchange to rival the CME Group, the newly merged offspring of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade probably will respond to the new competition by offering price breaks and trading innovations. (Content first appeared in Chicago Sun-Times weekly Tech Matters column by Brad Spirrison) ...READ MORE bullet point

12/24/2007

Brill Street

A New Spin on Internships

If West Loop-based startup Brill Street + Company executes on its business plan, college interns across the country might never be asked to fetch coffee or aimlessly push paperwork again. For decades, the deal between interns and their employers has been pretty clear. Students toil away on random projects for peanuts in exchange for workplace exposure and credit toward their degrees. (Content first appeared in Chicago Sun-Times weekly Tech Matters column by Brad Spirrison) ...READ MORE bullet point

11/29/2007

Brickfish

Digesting Web 2.0

One San Diego Web 2.0 company that has already reaped the benefits of being born in the second generation is Brickfish. Founded in 2005, Brickfish is an online marketing company that has created a platform for driving consumer interaction and response through user-generated content. ...READ MORE bullet point

11/7/2007

Alert Logic

On-demand Log Management Gets The Nod

With increased compliance requirements, log management has become a hot topic in the enterprise. Various vendors, including security information management (SIM) suppliers, are vying to meet the demand but Alert Logic says it has a unique solution to the problem: log management via the Software-as-a-Service platform. ...READ MORE bullet point

10/16/2007

OCA Ventures

Back to the Futures: VCs Bullish on Financial Technology Sector

As capital markets traders embrace emerging technologies to better buy and sell securities, new companies are born to exploit the rapidly growing financial technology industry ...READ MORE bullet point

8/21/2007

TradeKing

Social Networking Hits Investing

For most equity investors, the wild market volatility of the past few weeks has been cause for gritted teeth and palpitating hearts. But a few who have become active in online trading communities took some solace in the fact that they at least had found a place where they can see how other investors are riding out the storm ...READ MORE bullet point

8/20/2007

Cleversafe

Cleversafe’s Dispersed Storage

After selling his music services company MusicNow to Circuit City Stores Inc. in 2004, Chris Gladwin took a break to organize his own music and photos. It was then that Gladwin realized the usual method — storing multiple copies of data — was complicated and expensive. ...READ MORE bullet point

7/31/2007

Alert Logic

Alert Logic named to “Hot Companies of 2007”

Info Security Products Guide, a leading publication on security-related products and technologies, has named Alert Logic one of its Info Security "Hot Companies" winners for 2007. Alert Logic is the only IT network security company leveraging a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform to deliver on-demand protection to mid-sized businesses. After analyzing more than 500 prominent information security vendors around the world, this prestigious honor comes to Alert Logic based upon the selection criteria of 4Ps, namely Products, People, Performance and Potential behind the company's growing success. ...READ MORE bullet point

7/12/2007

TradeKing

The Right Broker for You (Tradeking ranked #1 discount broker for 2nd consecutive year)

TradeKing, a nationally licensed online broker dealer, today announced it has once again been selected as the top-rated discount broker by SmartMoney: The Wall Street Journal Magazine in its 2007 Broker Survey(1). TradeKing first received this distinction last August after making its market debut in December of 2005. The firm continues to be recognized for its outstanding customer service, broad array of research and trading tools and pioneering community features that enable like-minded investors to connect and share ideas. ...READ MORE bullet point

7/3/2007

Brickfish

Geffen Records and Brickfish™ Ask Fans to Design Tour Poster for Rooney

Brickfish, the online marketing platform, today announced a partnership with Universal Music Group's Geffen Records to launch the "Design a Tour Poster for Rooney" campaign, a contes asking music fans to create the ultimate tour poster for 80's-pop inspired band, Rooney. ...READ MORE bullet point

6/5/2007

Brickfish

Maroon 5 fans compete to create original magazine cover for the band at brickfish.com

Grammy Award winning band, Maroon 5 and Music Monitor Network have announced an online contest open to all fans to design the August 2007 cover of Monitor This! magazine. ...READ MORE bullet point

4/5/2007

Tradeking

Online Discount Broker TradeKing? Earns Top-Five Ranking in 2007 Barron's Best Online Broker Survey

TradeKing, a nationally licensed online broker dealer, today announced its selection as one of the five best Web-based online brokers in Barron’s 12th annual survey of Best Online Brokers. An award of four stars was given to each of the five top brokerage firms in the survey. TradeKing’s position topped other well-established industry participants, including E-Trade (ETFC), Charles Schwab (SCHW), Bank of America (BAC), Wells Fargo (WFC) and Scottrade. The survey ranked TradeKing second (out of 15 Web-based brokers) for both “Usability” and “Cost”. This recognition comes just six months after the fast-growing options and equity trading site was named “Top Discount Broker” 1 by SmartMoney magazine in August 2006. ...READ MORE bullet point

4/2/2007

Selero

Selero and Boston Equities Exchange in Production – Partnership Delivers Full STP

Selero, Inc. and the Boston Equities Exchange (BeX) announced today that Selero is in full production providing the end-to-end STP backbone at BeX. That includes internal integration, external gateways, and administrative interfaces used for listed and OTC order routing, order handling and back office processing. ...READ MORE bullet point

4/1/2007

Alert Logic

Threat Manager solution wins competitive shoot out in SC Magazine

Alert Logic submitted for review a co-location offering, which used a single rack mount device to monitor connections passed through the lab Check Point Firewall-1 firewall. The Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the Threat Manager offering ensured response within 30 minutes of the detection and escalation of security incidents. The Threat Manager offering never needed more than 20 minutes to respond to an alert, and also posted a best time of a port scan response within eight minutes. The longest response time from the Threat Manager offering was 17 minutes, and this notification was in response to a buffer overflow attack which took place inside of an SSL tunnel. Overall, the response times of Alert Logic were impressive, as was the level of information provided. ...READ MORE bullet point

1/25/2007

Cleversafe

Open-Source Storage

Christopher Gladwin is known for an unusual open-source plan: Keep the world’s data everywhere, in a blur of little chunks. Soon he may be known for making money, in significantly larger sizes ...READ MORE bullet point

1/25/2007

Cohesive FT

Launch of RabbitMQ Open Source Enterprise Messaging

LShift and CohesiveFT have launched RabbitMQ, a complete open source implementation of Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP http://www.amqp.org), the emerging standard for high performance enterprise messaging. ...READ MORE bullet point

1/12/2007

Midi

SAI'S compliance strategy gathers momentum with U.S. acquisition

New Jersey, United States, 12 January 2007. SAI Global Limited (ASX: SAI) has executed a binding agreement to acquire the entire share capital in Compliance and Ethics Learning Solutions Corporation, which trades as Midi. ...READ MORE bullet point

11/6/2006

CohesiveFT

XenSource Launches Partner Program for XenEnterprise

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8/21/2006

Cleversafe

A Move to Secure Data by Scattering the Pieces

Chris Gladwin, a software designer and businessman in Chicago, had time on his hands after selling his company, the onlne music store Music Now, in 2004. So he decided to digitize all the music, photos and paper detritus that he had been meaning to organize for years ...READ MORE bullet point

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