Brightspark Ventures : Portfolio Companies

Think Dynamics :: Acquired by IBM

Think Dynamics develops software that automates the management of data center resources, enabling senior IT executives to reduce costs, improve service levels, increase business/IT alignment and enhance business agility. From complete automated application provisioning through to utility computing – Think Dynamics offers a comprehensive suite of applications to tackle today’s toughest IT challenges. Think Dynamics is headquartered in Toronto and with offices in Chicago, Atlanta, Boston and San Francisco.Our initial investment in Think Dynamics was made in September 2000.

In May, 2003 Think Dynamics was acquired by IBM (NYSE: IBM)

Siperian

Siperian, Inc. offers a powerful solution for comprehensive customer data integration and management. Leveraging its unique hybrid, neutral approach, Siperian Hub™ enables IT teams to build and manage the most trustworthy customer data hub that delivers unified, accurate customer views—across disparate data sources, applications and channels—to different business users in a timely fashion.

In January, 2010, Siperian was acquired by Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the world’s number one independent leader in data integration software, for approximately $130 million in cash.

VoIPshield Systems

VoIPshield Systems is a pioneer in the Voice-over-IP (VoIP) security management field. VoIPSHIELD is developing and marketing carrier-class security software products designed from the ground up to address VoIP security critical issues. VoIPshield’s security products protect VoIP services and infrastructure from security threats thus accelerating VoIP deployments, minimizing the downtime, lowering the support costs, protecting confidential information and lowering customer churn by preserving quality of service.

eXludus Technologies

eXludus Technologies is an innovative software company developing and marketing state-of-the-art data serving technologies for Grid Computing applications. eXludus’ products eliminate performance bottlenecks inherent to traditional data transfer mechanisms. Its products aim to provide unprecedented ROI over hardware-only based infrastructure upgrades, while simplifying Grid management, due to their inherent robustness and autonomous failure handling.

Cascada Mobile

Cascada Mobile enables wireless carriers and content publishers to grow revenues through the viral (peer to peer) distribution of mobile games and other applications. Cascada’s flagship TAG technology works across carriers and geographic borders empowering operators, publishers and distributors to share content between the myriad mobile devices available on the market today, while leveraging existing subscribers, clients and infrastructure.

Mobivox

MOBIVOX (formerly VoxLib) brings new, cool and useful voice related applications to the cell phone. As a mobile ASP (Application Service Provider), it bridges the gap between mobile phones, VoIP and Voice over Instant Messaging (VoIM) and effectively connects the mobile, PC, or home phone to any network. MOBIVOX brings the best of VoIP to mobile handset users around the world, allowing everyone to enjoy real savings through leveraging efficiencies possible with VoIP technology

NowPublic

NowPublic is a participatory news network which mobilizes an army of reporters to cover the events that define our world. In twelve short months, the company has become one of the fastest growing news organizations with over 15,000 reporters in 130 countries and over 2 million unique visits a month. During Hurricane Katrina, NowPublic had more reporters in the affected area than most news organizations have on their entire staff.
In September, 2009, NowPublic was acquired by Examiner.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Anschutz Corporation.

b5media

b5media Inc. is one of the fastest growing blog networks in the world, featuring a wide variety of topics ranging from entertainment and lifestyles to sports and technology. With a diverse network of passionate, insightful bloggers, b5media’s mission is to enable conversations and foster communities around shared interests by producing exceptional, timely content across both niche topics and mainstream headlines. b5media is based in Toronto.

Jazinga

Jazinga is focused on providing small businesses with communication solutions that just work. Jazinga has combined networking, an enterprise-quality phone system, e-mail and fax into a single affordable appliance. Simply plug it in and follow the easy setup instructions to enjoy all of the benefits of enterprise communications without the cost or complexity. Jazinga solutions package VoIP, PSTN, IP-PBX, E-mail, Fax, Linux, LAN and wireless networking technology into a single plug and play solution for small business and home use. Jazinga products are targeted at organizations with 1 to 25 users.

Radian6

Radian6 provides social media monitoring solutions that uniquely integrate viral behavior measurement capabilities. Its solutions enable corporations as well as the public relations, marketing and advertising agencies that service them to monitor, manage and effectively engage in social media conversations online.

Protecode

Protecode is a Canadian technology company that focuses on software Intellectual Property (IP) determination and software Bill of Materials (BOM) management. Fully integrated with the leading software development environments, Protecode Inc. is addressing IP integrity issues facing enterprises and software developers worldwide. Protecode is the innovator of the protecoding development methodology

Delos Technology :: Acquired by Siperian, Inc.

Delos Technology provides organizations with an enterprise data integration solution for consolidating and maintaining a central Master Data store of information such as customer, physician, supplier, material, etc.

The core product from Delos, CMX (Consolidate, Manage eXchange), takes a rules-based approach to managing master data extending an organizations existing data integration capabilities and removing the need for an organization to develop and maintain program code. Delos has pioneered the concept of Trust, which measures the confidence factor associated with each data element based on its source, change history and other business rules. CMX applies these rules to create a persistent read/write store of master data in real-time.

Borderfree Inc. :: Partnership with Canada post

Founded in 1999, Borderfree is a technology services company based in Toronto, Canada that eliminates the difficulties experienced by U.S. merchants in serving consumers across borders. Borderfree provides a comprehensive suite of low-integration technology services including: total landed cost calculation in buyer’s local currency (exchange, duty, taxes, shipping costs), payment processing, management of crossborder data, returns processing, and customer service tools.

Infotriever Inc.

Infotriever is the best way to deliver events and contacts to desktop and PDA calendars and address books. Infotriever extends traditional web and email communication by automatically delivering and updating time-sensitive event and critical contact information from companies directly into the calendars and contact books of users’ desktop and PDA personal information managers. Infotriever increases sales and improves customer service by building a more effective communication channel for businesses and improving convenience for users. Companies that have adopted Infotriever’s standard-setting web service include Sabre, Amadeus, Thomson First Call, CCBN, toronto.com, and b-there.

Activience

Activience combines wireless, interactive messaging, and collaboration to create the Mobile Application Suite and the Mobile Interaction Platform. These technologies help wireless carriers, television networks, portal providers and event organizers engage and interact with their audience and helps enterprises improve productivity and responsiveness to business process events and exceptions.

Tira Wireless

Tira Wireless is a full-service publisher of a portfolio of trusted Wireless Java applications supporting the diverse needs of today’s mobile subscribers. Tira Wireless offers mobile operators and developers a “full-service” publishing model that ensures the delivery of trusted wireless java applications to mobile subscribers through Tira’s stringent certification to standards for security, usability, and robustness.

Appligo

With the proliferation of mobile devices and the rapid advancements in wireless networks, opportunities have emerged to interact with people in new ways like never before. Appligo combines wireless, interactive messaging, and collaborative technologies to provide productivity applications to mobile subscribers as well as applications that allow wireless carriers, television networks, and portal providers to engage and interact with their subscriber base.