Contour Portfolio Companies
Managed Systems is a New York based managed services provider that offers IT hardware and remote support services to small and medium-sized businesses. Managed Systems helps customers reduce IT costs and personnel requirements by providing all the IT equipment, standard software configurations and technical support required to successfully manage a business on a cost effective basis. In March 2009 the company was acquired by All Covered, a large national managed services provider.
Media6° is a New York based company that provides major marketers with transformative analytics and marketing insight that delivers targeted messages to customized consumer audiences using social graph data. Media6 is led by a former senior executive from Microsoft, who oversaw strategy for all of Microsoft's proprietary advertising platforms and solutions.
Punchbowl Software is a Boston based company that provides a sophisticated web application for end-to-end event and party planning needs. The company takes a rigorous approach to event planning by creating a tailored workflow, which provides flexibility and optionality at each step of the planning process. The company was founded by software and user interface experts, who have prior management experience at Adobe Systems and Bose Corporation.
On Deck Capital is a New York based financial services technology platform that enables lending to small businesses. Using a proprietary loan servicing, underwriting, and origination platform, On Deck provides small businesses with access to fairly priced capital. On Deck is led by a proven team of entrepreneurs and small business financial services experts.
OwnEnergy is a New York based renewable energy company that enables landowners and communities to build and profit directly from their own local wind farms. Using this approach provides partial ownership and more income to landowners than a typical wind land lease and allows them to control the process. OwnEnergy is led by a team with industry leading experience in developing and financing renewable energy projects.
SwapDrive is a Washington, DC based company that provides a remote file backup and storage solution, delivered through well known global channel partners. The service allows consumers and small businesses to remotely backup, store, share, and access critical information more easily, reliably and efficiently, with the highest levels of security and availability. In June, 2008 the company was acquired by Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC).
YellowJacket is a New York based financial technology firm that provides a secure communication, trading and market data platform for the over-the-counter energy derivatives market. YellowJacket uniquely supports the high volume, volatility and complexity of the OTC energy markets by enhancing the way energy traders harness market data and collaborate both internally and with counterparties. Contour was YellowJacket's first institutional and lead investor beginning in August 2006. In February, 2008 the company was acquired by InterContinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE).
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SeamlessWeb Professional Solutions
Acurian provides data mining and direct marketing solutions to the pharmaceutical industry to help drug researchers accelerate enrollment of patients for clinical trials. Acurian has built one of the largest independent proprietary databases of patients requesting to be contacted for clinical trials addressing their specific chronic illnesses.
Exit41 delivers transaction processing solutions for quick serve, fast casual and casual dining restaurants. Exit41 evolved from a point-of-sale business to become the market leader for remote order taking for catering, takeout and drive-thru.
FundQuest offers a turnkey private label platform to financial institutions to enable them to deliver and administer separately managed accounts ("wrap accounts") for their clients. FundQuest was acquired by Banque Paribas in 2005.
Geocities pioneered social networking and offered the world's largest and one of the fastest growing communities of personal Web sites on the Internet. With millions of active users, Geocities became a top-ten trafficked collection of Web Sites. Geocities completed an IPO in 1998 and was subsequently acquired by Yahoo for approximately $4 billion.
iXL Enterprises was a leading Internet services company that provided Internet strategy consulting and comprehensive Internet-based solutions to Fortune 1000 companies and other users of information technology. iXL was headquartered in Atlanta and had local offices across the United States. The Company completed its IPO in June 1999.
Kinkos.com was the online business subsidiary of the 1,200 unit photocopy retailer Kinko's Inc. FedEx acquired Kinko's Inc. in 2004.
Multex, based in New York City, is a leading worldwide marketplace for financial research. The Company aggregates, hosts and redistributes a significant portion of the worldwide brokerage industry's financial research. Multex also owns and maintains its own independent fundamental earnings database, and distributes a significant amount of independent research. Multex completed an IPO in March 1999 and the company was acquired by Reuters in 2003.
Resonate developed and sold enterprise software utilized to monitor and maintain mission critical applications. Resonate's customer base included many of the world's leading e-commerce companies, such as online brokers, advertising servers, home-page servers, and Internet auction houses. The Company went public in 2000 and was sold in 2003.
SeamlessWeb Professional Solutions is a business to business web-based system that provides companies and their employees with a solution for ordering from restaurants and having food conveniently delivered. The service streamlines billing and reimbursement processes, enhances expense control and reduces administrative overhead. It has been recognized as the fourth fastest growing company in the nation, the number one online services company and the number one company headquartered in New York in Inc. Magazine's 23rd Annual Inc. 500 List of America's Fastest Growing Private Companies. SeamlessWeb was acquired by Aramark in 2006.
Stamps.com is an approved licensed vendor of the United States Postal Service, empowering consumers and businesses to print postage from their desktop computers. Stamps.com also offers customers the ability to customize their postage with personalized logos and pictures. The Company went public in 1999.
Vindigo is a leading developer of wireless applications utilized by consumers on handheld devices, such as personal digital assistants, smart phones, and Palm Pilots. Vindigo offers local city guides with deep information on restaurants, movies, museums, maps, etc. Vindigo was successfully sold in August 2004 to For-Side, a leading Japanese wireless company.