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April 2011 | Issue #66

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Announcing the new Edison brand!

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04/12/2011
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05/11/2011
Edison CEO Summit "Dreaming Bigger", Atlantic City, NJ

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Team Spotlight:

Edison’s Michael Balmuth spoke about the impact of healthcare reform at the Sixth Annual Private Equity & Growth Ventures Conference held on February 4th at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. The discussion focused on who would be the real winners benefitting from healthcare reform among patients, payers, providers and pharma. The talk also explored the impact of reform on healthcare IT new investment activity and portfolio operating performance. The conference attracted some 250 attendees, including company executives, venture and private equity investment professionals, limited partners and MBA students.

 

 

We’ve changed our appearance, but our core values remain.

As you can see, the Edison Illuminator is newly designed! We’re still delivering you the latest Edison news and insights—taking a closer look at investment information, industry events, portfolio updates and more. The new look stems from the development of our new company brand.

Never one to shy away from innovation, we have undergone dynamic improvements to our brand in order to tell the Edison story in a more compelling way. Built upon our promise of “building great companies,” our new brand puts the Edison ideals and fundamentals at the forefront with the statement: Imagine Your Dream. Bigger.

Through the launch of our new website, we are empowered to highlight our team and portfolio, communicate our process, and raise our level of engagement with you, our valuable partners.

We look forward to continuing our work with you to make great companies even better.

New Investments

Edison Ventures completed a $5.5 million initial investment in NetProspex, headquartered in Waltham, MA. NetProspex provides a sales and marketing database built upon user-contributed business contacts.
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Edison Ventures announced a $7.5 million investment in Andera headquartered in Providence, RI. Andera is leading provider of customer acquisition solutions to over 425 financial institutions ranging from major banks to community credit unions
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Edison announced a $4 million investment in Premier Healthcare Exchange, Inc. (PHX) based in Bedminster, NJ. Edison is the sole institutional investor in this late stage healthcare cost management company
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Edison Ventures Invests in LearningGuide. Rapidly-growing operational performance support provider closes growth equity financing round with leading technology investment firm; new capital will drive sales, marketing and product expansion.
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Exits

Edison announced that HighJump Software acquired TrueCommerce, based in suburban Pittsburgh. Edison Ventures will receive 4X return on investment and achieve 30% IRR.
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CambridgeSoft repurchased all stock held by Edison Ventures. Total Edison proceeds of $40 million represents 11X return on initial investment and 3X follow-on investment. Most of Edison's $5 million investment was secondary purchases from early shareholders in this highly cash flow positive company
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Edison Ventures announced Blackboard has acquired Presidium. Edison received over $20 million in proceeds generating 35% IRR.
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Edison Ventures proudly announced that GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. started trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “GCAP”.
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Follow-on Investments

FolioDynamix, the leading provider of on‐demand technology and product solutions to wealth management advisory industry, announced a $16 million investment by Edison Ventures and ABS Capital Partners.
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Edison News

Neat and Octagon announced as Finalists in PACT Enterprise Awards
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Chris Sklarin Joins Edison Ventures
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Michael Madden Joins Edison Ventures
02/28/11 read more

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