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We believe that Kindred's value is determined by the success of our portfolio companies, and so we watch with great interest the progress of each of our clients. Below is a sample of recent highlights.
Date Title
December 30, 2011 5 Best IPOs of 2011
September 12, 2011 8x8 to Acquire Contactual
January 10, 2007 ActiveGrid Names Persistence Software Founder Christopher Keene as New CEO
September 10, 2007 Ad Opps, Young-Male Audience Make Heavy a Hit With Marketers
February 25, 2010 Ancestry.com and NBC Team Up to Introduce New 'Who Do You Think You Are?' Series
November 5, 2009 Ancestry.com Goes Public
April 28, 2010 Apple Acquires Mobile Search Company Siri
January 5, 2010 Apple Buys Quattro, an Ad Firm
January 8, 2007 Avvenu Digital Music Service Enables Streaming and Sharing of iTunes Music
August 28, 2007 BabyCenter Purchases Maya's Mom
March 15, 2007 BigBand IPO Shares Up Sharply
March 14, 2007 BigBand Networks Announces Pricing of IPO
February 27, 2007 BigBand Networks Sets IPO
August 8, 2007 Blockbuster Acquires Movielink
December 7, 2009 Bloom Energy Shifts Power via Fuel Cells
August 3, 2009 Brainiac
January 1, 2011 CardioDx Blood-Based Gene Expression Test Honored As One Of TIME Magazine's Top Ten Medical Breakthroughs of 2010
December 17, 2009 Cavium Networks Completes Acquisition of MontaVista Software
August 1, 2007 CBS Plans to Sell Ads on Mobile Devices
March 2, 2007 CEGEDIM S.A. To Acquire Dendrite International, Inc.
October 24, 2011 Celebrity shopping site OpenSky gets $30M
February 7, 2008 Cellfire Raises $12 Million in Third Round
June 6, 2007 Cellfire Ranks Among The 25 Best Web 2.0 Applications
September 30, 2010 Cisco and Jawbone Maker Merge Mobile, Office Headsets
December 7, 2009 CollabNet Fosters Group Innovation in the 'Cloud'
April 11, 2007 Comcast To Buy Movie Ticket Site Fandango
December 3, 2007 Consorte Media Secures $7 Million in Funding
April 20, 2011 Constant Contact Names Rick W. Jensen Senior Vice President, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer
February 15, 2011 Coupa Raises $12M to Accelerate Cloud Transformation of the Spend Management Industry
September 11, 2007 Coupons Gain New Market on Cellphones
July 29, 2001 Customer Experience Manager InQuira Sells To Partner Oracle
July 29, 2011 Customer Experience Manager InQuira Sells To Partner Oracle
April 25, 2009 Customer Service? Ask a Volunteer
February 12, 2008 Danger Acquired by Microsoft
November 9, 2011 Data security Company Imperva surges 39 percent on market debut
August 7, 2007 Dell Buys MP3 Design Guru Zing
March 30, 2011 Dentistry Co. Align Buys Cadent For $190M In Cash
October 6, 2008 eBay Inc. Extends Leadership in Online Payments With Acquisition of Bill Me Later
July 6, 2010 EMC to Acquire Greenplum
September 7, 2009 Endeavor brings Silicon Valley to South America’s Southern Cone
June 20, 2008 Ex-Yahoo Music GM Ian Rogers Launches Topspin Media
February 17, 2010 Facebook Now The Second Biggest Site In The U.S.
December 16, 2010 Facebook on Track for $2B Revenue in 2010
May 9, 2008 Facebook: Friends with Money
January 5, 2009 Full Stream Ahead: RipCode Raises $12.5 Million
April 24, 2011 Gilt City Is Doubling the Number of Local Commerce Deals It Offers in Six U.S. Markets
March 23, 2011 Gilt Groupe Acquires Decorati To Expand Home Business
May 8, 2011 Gilt Groupe Announces $138 Million in New Funding Accelerates Business in Japan with Establishment of Joint Venture with SOFTBANK
December 14, 2010 Gilt Groupe Names David Zucker as Chief Marketing Officer
January 18, 2011 Gilt Groupe Names Stefan Pepe Chief Product Officer
July 1, 2009 Gilt Groupe Raising $40 Million
June 6, 2007 Google Acquires Server Software Startup PeakStream
April 19, 2011 Groupon Acquires Whrrl Creator Pelago
February 5, 2007 HDS to acquire Archivas for up to $120M
November 29, 2011 HealthCentral Acquired By Remedy Health
July 23, 2007 Hewlett-Packard to Acquire Opsware for $1.6 Billion
June 30, 2008 hi5 Acquires PixVerse for Cross-Network Chat
February 9, 2009 High-Tech Home Phone Maker OpenPeak Raises $12.9M
April 3, 2008 Home Security 2.0 Earns IControl $15.5M Series B
September 20, 2011 HomeRun acquired by Rearden
January 26, 2007 Homes That Are Pure Genius
October 1, 2008 HP Acquires LeftHand Networks
October 14, 2010 IBM buys PSS Systems
July 1, 2010 IBM to Acquire BigFix to Advance Smarter Data Centers
March 12, 2010 Image Metrics Goes Public With Reverse Merger
December 12, 2007 Intelleflex Gets Investment From Motorola
April 1, 2009 Intelligent Software Assistant
May 30, 2007 Internet Security Startup Greenborder Acquired by Google
November 26, 2007 Intuit Acquires Homestead For $170 Million
May 3, 2010 IronKey Raises $22 Million For Secure USB Flash Drives
November 6, 2008 iSkoot gets $19M warchest to launch Web services platform for AT&T
April 2, 2008 J.D. Power and Associates Acquires Umbria Inc.
March 16, 2011 Jawbone Secures $49M Funding From Andreessen Horowitz
November 3, 2011 Jawbone wants you to get UP and move
December 20, 2007 Kayak Raises $196 Million, Buys Rival SideStep
May 27, 2008 Kleiner's Pick for the Killer iPhone App
November 8, 2011 Kobo acquired: Japanese web retailer Rakuten paid $315M cash
January 5, 2012 Lithium Technologies Raises $53.4 Million in Financing
February 1, 2010 Local Online Advertising Leader Yodle Announces Completion of $10 Million Series D Financing
November 30, 2007 Medio Systems takes on larger rivals in mobile-search race
March 14, 2007 Microsoft To Acquire Tellme Networks
July 31, 2008 MobiTV Soars Past Four Million Subscribers
July 2, 2007 NICE to Acquire Actimize
April 8, 2008 Nimsoft Acquires Indicative Software
September 20, 2011 Ning gets acquired by Glam Media
November 21, 2007 No Excuses: a Wire-Free Way to Upload Photos
December 4, 2007 Nokia acquires Avvenu for Mobile Access and Share Technologies
October 25, 2007 Nokia Siemens Networks To Acquire Carrier Ethernet Specialist ATRICA
December 14, 2007 ON Semiconductor Agrees to Buy Amis
July 18, 2007 Ooma Launches Free Consumer Phone Service
July 19, 2007 Ooma Puts Out a Call To Ditch Landlines For Web-Based Service
January 9, 2007 Ophthonix Receives 14th Patent
October 26, 2010 Pacific Biosciences Goes Public
January 7, 2007 Panasonic And GalleryPlayer Launch Embedded SD Card Delivery Of High Definition Imagery
August 14, 2007 Payday for Doppelganger
April 17, 2007 Pitney Bowes Acquires MapInfo
July 8, 2010 Playdom acquires Metaplace
June 22, 2010 Playdom Adds $33 Million To Its Funding
May 24, 2011 Predictive Biosciences’ Non-Invasive Cancer Tests
July 16, 2010 Qlik prices IPO above range, raises $112M
November 20, 2008 QlikTech named European High-Tech Entrepreneur of the Year
October 13, 2010 Qualcomm Innovation Center acquires iSkoot Technologies
July 6, 2009 Quantcast Shakes Up Ad-Targeting Model
June 23, 2010 RGB Networks Acquires RipCode
September 26, 2007 Satmetrix Expands Its Customer Loyalty Offerings with Acquisition of Informative, Inc.
October 5, 2007 SeaTab Software Secures $9M
March 25, 2011 ServiceSource shares rise 22 percent in Nasdaq debut
February 23, 2009 Sharing Consumers’ Tastes in Cellphone Web Surfing
February 25, 2008 SkyeTek Trumpets 2007 Results
February 11, 2010 Skyfire acquires Kolbysoft, developers of the popular Steel browser for Android
February 14, 2008 Social Network Imeem Acquires Fanning's Snocap
December 6, 2011 Social Search Start-Up Topsy Nabs Cisco Exec as CEO
March 23, 2011 SocialVibe Taps Investors For $20M For Engagement Advertising
November 11, 2009 Stryker Acquires OtisMed
April 3, 2008 SugarSync Offers The Best Method Yet For Replicating Files
December 3, 2009 Susan Lyne on Gilt.com's Pleasures and Pressures
February 5, 2009 Synchronizing Your Bookmarks on All Your PCs
December 14, 2011 Tagged Acquires Facebook Competitor Hi5
May 20, 2009 The 5 Fastest-Growing Ad Networks
June 26, 2008 The Camera That Knows Where It Is
June 1, 2007 The New Facebook Is On A Roll
August 29, 2010 The Right Kind of Ambition
July 27, 2010 The Walt Disney Company to Acquire Leading Social Game Developer Playdom
January 15, 2008 Ticketmaster Buys Reseller TicketsNow
July 16, 2009 To Sleep, Perchance to Analyze Data
July 23, 2007 TomTom Bids for Tele Atlas
February 6, 2007 Travel Site SideStep Gets $15 million in Venture Capital
November 6, 2009 Virtual Goods Start Bringing Real Paydays
January 31, 2008 Visible Path Acquired By Hoover's
December 4, 2007 Visible Path Sees Its Way To An Acquisition
March 29, 2011 ViVOtech Plans IPO as Early as 2012 as Mobile Payments Spread
April 26, 2011 VMware Buys SlideRocket in a Race to Provide Collaboration
April 18, 2011 Walmart Announces Acquisition of Social Media Company Kosmix
September 1, 2009 Whipping MuleSource Into Shape
September 4, 2007 Why So Many Want to Create Facebook Applications
February 26, 2007 Will Facebook Hold Out Or Sell Out?
October 7, 2010 Yahoo! acquires Dapper


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