Portfolio: Infrastructure

Businesses have been reluctant to invest in new software systems due to uncertainties about platform dominance, open source, virtualization, cloud computing, and the rise of the consumer, social and mobile Web. As a result, existing enterprise and service provider software is now significantly dated in capability and expensive beyond all current day software pricing metrics. Further, high speed networks connecting home and mobile individuals to the real-time web has opened the way for enterprises to far more effectively market, sell and support their products. Hence we believe there will be significant investments made by enterprises and service providers in the coming years to modernize their computing infrastructure.

Akiba
Location: Boston, MA
CEO: David McFarlane

Akiba is developing software to dramatically improve the performance of relational database software by replacing the underlying data base engines with a highly optimized cluster approach.  This requires no change in the programmatic SQL interfaces used by developers worldwide but provides a marked level of improvement in performance and scalability.

DoubleTake Software
Location: Indianapolis, IN / Southborough, MA
CEO: Dean Goodermote

Double-Take® Software is a leading provider of affordable software for recoverability, including continuous data replication, application availability and system state protection. Double-Take Software products and services enable customers to protect and recover business-critical data and applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint in both physical and virtual environments. Double-Take recently launched Double-Take® Cloud, a powerful Cloud-based disaster recovery service utilizing Amazon Web Services, which uses Double-Take's System State Replication Engine to replicate full images of a on-premise server workloads to the Amazon cloud for highly cost-effective rapid recovery.

LogMeIn
Location: Burlington, MA
CEO: Michael Simon

Users worldwide rely on LogMeIn solutions for remote control, file sharing, systems management, data backup, business collaboration and on-demand customer support of PCs, servers, Macintosh computers, smartphones and other connected devices. LogMeIn solutions are easy to try, buy and deploy from any web browser with an Internet connection. Over 70 million devices worldwide have connected to a LogMeIn service.

Permessa

Sonian
Location: Needham, MA
CEO: George Nichols

Sonian is a rapidly growing company that leverages their new and unique technology SaaS platform to deliver enterprises and service providers world-wide the ability to manage their critical IT functions such as archiving, search, compliance, e-discovery and storage management, all at a fraction of the cost of other solutions by exploiting the power, economics and scalability of cloud computing.

Thinking Screen Media
Location: Wellesley, MA
CEO: Alan Phillips

Thinking Screen Media, Inc. (formerly Frame Media, Inc.) is the leader in content delivery to connected screens worldwide. The original product line, FrameChannel allows for the selection and configuration of content for delivery to a connected screen. With nearly 1000 channels, users can combine their personal content (photos, tweets, messages, and favorite RSS feeds) with commercial content such as news, weather, sports, financial and local information. Recently introduced is a new product line, SignChannel, a very easy-to-use, low cost digital signage subscription service targeted primarily at the small and medium business (SMB) market. SignChannel users can remotely control the content that is displayed on connected screens using the highly economical SignChannel web service.