BA Jobs
www.bajobs.com

Aquired: Agile Media - 2003

Established in 1997, BAJobs.com has become a staple for Bay Area employers and job seekers. The formula for their success is pretty simple. Early on, they recognized the growing utility and popularity of the Internet as a recruiting medium. They combined this knowledge with the simple fact that recruitment takes place, by and large, at the local level. Thus, the concept of a local web site focused on the Bay Area job market was born.

KANA
www.kana.com

Sold Interest: 2001

KANA (NASDAQ: KANA) provides the industry's leading external facing eCRM solutions to the largest businesses in the world, helping them to better service, market to, and understand their customers and partners, while improving results and decreasing costs in contact centers and marketing departments. Through comprehensive multi-channel customer relationship management that combines the best-in-class KANA iCARE Architecture with enterprise applications, KANA has become one of the fastest-growing providers of next generation eCRM technology. The company's customer-focused service, marketing and commerce software applications enable organizations to improve customer and partner relationships by enabling them to productively interact when, where and how they wan—across all touch points, including web contact, web collaboration, e-mail, and telephone. KANA's global customer base includes Global 2000 organizations in the financial services, manufacturing, high technology, communications, retail and services markets. ADP, Chase, E*Trade, GAP, GM, Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, Sony, United Airlines, Verizon, and Williams Sonoma are among the industry leaders that have implemented KANA's eCRM solutions. KANA has locations in 22 countries worldwide, in addition to an extensive global network of channel partners.

New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
www.nea.com

Sold Interest: 2003

New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is a leading venture capital firm investing primarily in information technology, biotechnology and medical/life sciences companies. Practicing classic venture capital for over 20 years, NEA focuses on early stage investments, playing an active role in assisting management to build companies of lasting value. With $5 billion under management, NEA's experienced management team has invested in over 500 companies, of which more than 135 have gone public and more than 150 have been acquired. NEA has offices in Baltimore, Maryland, Reston, Virginia and Menlo Park, California.

Yipes
www.yipes.com

Washed out in bankruptcy: 2002

Yipes is the defining provider of instantly scalable Ethernet services, ranging from 1 Megabit per second to 1 Gigabit per second in 1 Mbps increments. Yipes' highly affordable services, available in 21 markets coast-to-coast, include Yipes MAN (Metro Area Networking), Yipes NAN (National Area Networking) and Yipes NET (high-speed Internet access). The company's customers include Fortune 1000 enterprises, financial institutions, real estate companies, law firms, medical facilities, Web-based businesses, ISPs and ASPs, universities, school districts and government agencies.

Yipes has won honors for innovation and excellence from America's Network, CED, Computerworld, CRN, Enterprise Systems, Inter@ctive Week, The Net Economy, Network Magazine, Network World, Red Herring, tele.com, Telephony and Upside, and awards from COMNET, NetWorld + Interop and Supercomm. Yipes also won the World Communication Award for Best New Carrier.