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      <title>Morningstar, Inc. Acquires ByAllAccounts, Inc., Provider of Innovative Data Aggregation Technology for Financial Applications</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1107</link>
      <description>CHICAGO, April 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --&amp;nbsp;Morningstar, Inc. (MORN), a leading provider of independent investment research, today acquired ByAllAccounts, Inc., a provider of ...</description>
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      <title>Spotify Acquires The Echo Nest</title>
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      <description>SOMERVILLE, MA &amp;mdash; March 6 &amp;ndash; Spotify today announced that it will acquire the industry&amp;rsquo;s leading music intelligence company, The Echo Nest. The acquisition sup...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 7 Mar 2014 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>The Echo Nest Joins Spotify!</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1106</link>
      <description>We&amp;rsquo;re very excited to announce that The Echo Nest is joining Spotify, starting today! We can&amp;rsquo;t imagine a better partner for our next chapter. Spotify shares the in...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 7 Mar 2014 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Acacia Communications Announces the Industry&amp;rsquo;s First Coherent 100G CFP Module Designed for Metro Networks</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1104</link>
      <description>London, September 23, 2013: Acacia Communications, the leader in delivering intelligent transceivers for ultra-high speed fiber optic transmission to the telecommunications in...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>BitSight Technologies Launches Industry&apos;s First Information Security Risk Rating Service
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      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1103</link>
      <description>BitSight Technologies, a startup that recently secured a $24M Series A funding round, today launched the first in a series of new cybersecurity offerings that deliver accurate...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Verivo Introduces Enterprise Mobile App Development Platform

Posted by Rubeena Hasan on the Mobdevapp website/blog
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      <description>Verivo, a popular enterprise mobility establishment, has recently made waves with the launch of their unique mobile app development platform called Akula. Built with the help ...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>BitSight Technologies Secures $24 Million Series A Financing to Help Companies Assess and Manage Technology Risk</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1101</link>
      <description>CAMBRIDGE, MA June 5, 2013 BitSight Technologies, a provider of innovative big data analytics for risk management, today announced it has closed a $24 million Series A round o...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 5 Jun 2013 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Networking tech firm Acacia raises $20M, eyes IPO</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1100</link>
      <description>Maynard-based Acacia Communications, which offers networking technology for increasing computing bandwidth, said Wednesday it has raised $20 million in funding led by Boston-b...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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Verivo Software Delivers on Enterprise Mobil App Development, HTML5
By Tony Rizzo of TMCNet
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      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1099</link>
      <description>Verivo Software is one of those &amp;ldquo;old timey&amp;rdquo; pioneers of the mobile enterprise apps space, dating back to the early years of BlackBerry and BlackBerry&amp;rsquo;s deep ...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Qvidian is Named a Marketo Solution Partner for New LaunchPoint Ecosystem</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1096</link>
      <description>BOSTON, MA&amp;mdash;November 14, 2012 &amp;ndash; Qvidian, the market leader in sales effectiveness applications, today announced a partnership with Marketo, the leading provider of ...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Putting its sights on customized software
By Taryn Plumb </title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1095</link>
      <description>It&amp;rsquo;s been four years since Apple first came out with its slogan-turned-cliche, &amp;ldquo;There&amp;rsquo;s an app for that.&amp;rdquo; And while it might seem like there really is ...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 9 Nov 2012 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Qvidian and the Alexander Group Partner to Provide
a Dynamic Sales Playbook Solution</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1091</link>
      <description>LOWELL, MA &amp;ndash; October 23, 2012&amp;#8208;Qvidian, the market leader in cloud&amp;#8208;based sales effectiveness applications, and the Alexander Group (AGI), a leading sales mana...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Qvidian Extends Leadership Position in the Proposal Automation Market With Over 200 New Customers Added Year&amp;#8208;to&amp;#8208;Date</title>
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      <description>LOWELL, MA &amp;ndash; October 17, 2012&amp;#8208;Qvidian, the market leader in cloud&amp;#8208;based sales effectiveness applications, today announced Version 9.1 SR1 of its market leadi...</description>
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      <title>Verivo Software CEO Wins Executive of the Year Award</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1089</link>
      <description>WALTHAM, MA, Sep 24, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Verivo Software, the enterprise mobility company, today announced that CEO Steve Levy has been named Executive of the Year...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Samsung puts $4M into Carbon Design Systems </title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1088</link>
      <description>Samsung Venture Investment Corp. has made a strategic investment of $4 million into Acton-based Carbon Design Systems, the company said Wednesday.
Carbon Design Systems, whic...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Ericsson : Sand 9 Closes Additional Series C Investment</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1087</link>
      <description>Sand 9, Inc., a pioneer in precision MEMS timing products for wireless and wired applications, today announced that Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC), a world-leading provider of teleco...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 7 Sep 2012 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>U.S. Navy Tests Show Visible Assets&apos; Readers, Tags Can Operate at Zero Safe Separation Distance to Ordnance</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1086</link>
      <description>The results, the company reports, confirm that its RuBee tags can be installed directly on or built into explosive devices, and be combined with a variety of sensors, to help ...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>U.S. Department of Defense Certifies RuBee (IEEE 1902.1) Wireless Has a HERO, Zero Safe Separation Distance (SSD) from Fused Ordnance</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1085</link>
      <description>The U.S. Navy released a test report that shows RuBee Auto-ID wireless tags, handhelds and base stations have a zero (0) Safe Separation Distance (SSD) on HERO SAFE and HERO U...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>The Echo Nest Raises Over $17 Million in New Financing to Bring Big Data to Music</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1082</link>
      <description>SOMERVILLE, MA, July 12, 2012 -- The Echo Nest, the world&amp;rsquo;s leading music intelligence platform, has closed a $17.3 million financing round led by Norwest Venture Partne...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Antenna Software Names Bill Smith Chief Financial Officer</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1084</link>
      <description>JERSEY CITY, NJ - June 27, 2012 - Antenna Software, Inc., helping enterprises to build, manage, and publish mobile apps and websites that transform business, today announced t...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Intel Capital Leads $23M Venture Capital Round in Sand9</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1081</link>
      <description>CAMBRIDGE, Mass. --&amp;nbsp;Sand 9, Inc., a MEMS technology company developing products for wireless and wired applications, has raised a total of&amp;nbsp;$23 million&amp;nbsp;in its Se...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>QlikTech Acquires Expressor Software to Deliver the Data Users Need with the Governance IT Requires</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1080</link>
      <description>RADNOR, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- QlikTech (NASDAQ: QLIK), a leader in Business Discovery &amp;mdash; user-driven Business Intelligence (BI), today announced it has acquired Expresso...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Autodesk Positioned to Transform Construction Industry Through Vela Systems Acquisition 
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      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1083</link>
      <description>SAN RAFAEL, Calif., June 8, 2012 &amp;mdash; Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, announced the acquisition of Vela System...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 8 Jun 2012 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>The Echo Nest and Discogs Deliver Crowdsourced Music Data to Apps</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1078</link>
      <description>SOMERVILLE, MA, PORTLAND, OR, May 22, 2012 -- The Echo Nest, a music intelligence platform powering smarter apps across the web and devices, has incorporated Discogs into its ...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Advent Software Selects ByAllAccounts to Provide Retail Account Information to Advent OnDemand&amp;reg; Users</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1077</link>
      <description>BOSTON -- May 15, 2012 -&amp;nbsp;Advent Software, Inc., (NASDAQ: ADVS), a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, announced it ha...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Kibits Corp. Introduces App for iPhone and iPod Touch</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1075</link>
      <description>Kibits Corp. today announced the release of its namesake micro-social networking app for iPhone and iPod touch, available now on the App Store. The first-of-its-kind Kibits Ap...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Kibits Comes Out of Stealth with Social Networking App</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1079</link>
      <description>Backed by $1 million from Google Ventures and other prominent investors, Cambridge startup Kibits today launches an app that lets users create &amp;ldquo;mini-social networks&amp;rdqu...</description>
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      <title>Enterprise Saas Market Gains Momentum</title>
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      <description>SaaS Seeds Ready to Bloom
By John Dix
March 12, 2012 06:28 AM ET
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Network World -&amp;nbsp;One expected benefit from the shift to the cloud is the emergence of a refre...</description>
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      <title>Mobile Industry Experts Launch Verivo Software</title>
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      <description>The Pyxis Mobile team today announced the launch of Verivo Software, the enterprise mobility company dedicated to helping businesses drive their mobile initiatives and impacti...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Seniorlink Closes $5.0 Million Round of Funding</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1072</link>
      <description>Seniorlink today announced the completion of a $5.0 million round of funding led by Commonwealth Capital Ventures. The company also announced that Elliot M. Katzman, General P...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Verizon Acquires CloudSwitch</title>
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      <description>Verizon Communications Inc. announced today that it has acquired CloudSwitch, an innovative provider of cloud software technology, in a deal that will simplify the move to the...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>ByAllAccounts Listed as one of the &amp;quot;Top 20 Technology Products Used by Advisors&amp;quot; According to InvestmentNews Survey</title>
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      <description>&amp;nbsp;The top 20 technology products used by advisers The most popular products, overall, according to an InvestmentNews survey Featured in InvestmentNews, August 23, 2011
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      <title>Alex Laats Featured in Boston Herald Article on Investing in Defense-Oriented Companies</title>
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      <description>Alex Laats talks with the Boston Herald about Commonwealth&amp;rsquo;s interest in asymmetric warfare and counter-terrorism technology companies that have received government fund...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Evestnet and ByAllAccounts Partner to Offer Data Aggregation Service</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1068</link>
      <description>Envestnet, Inc. (NYSE: ENV), a leading provider of innovative investment and practice management solutions for financial advisors, and ByAllAccounts Inc., the financial adviso...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Alex Laats Discusses Commonwealth&apos;s Interest in Technology-focused Security and Defense Companies</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News?NID=1067</link>
      <description>In an interview with Global Security pipeline analyst Andrew Elwell, Commonwealth General Partner Alex Laats revealed that the types of defense and security technologies and s...</description>
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      <title>Antenna Awarded Red Herring Top 100 North American Tech Company</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1066</link>
      <description>At an award gala celebrating North America&apos;s most innovative and promising private companies held June 15 in Hollywood, Calif., Antenna Software received high honors by being ...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Visible Assets Adds Richard Clarke to its Board of Directors</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1064</link>
      <description>Excerpt from PE Hub article 6/7/11, by Jonathan Marino
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      <title>SoundBite Communications Acquires SmartReply, a Mobile Marketing Pioneer</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1065</link>
      <description>SoundBite Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: SDBT), a leading global provider of cloud-based proactive customer communications solutions, today announced the acquisition of key ass...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Antenna Software and Reval Listed in Network World&apos;s &quot;10 SaaS Companies to Watch&quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1063</link>
      <description>Excerpt from Network World article, June 6, 2011 (linked below):

These days, companies are applying the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model to just about everything, from co...</description>
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      <title>Antenna Software Named a Finalist for the 2011 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1062</link>
      <description>Antenna Software, Inc., helping enterprises to build, manage and publish 
mobile apps and websites that transform business, today announced it has 
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Cultivating the Next Generation of Successful Entrepreneurs</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News?NID=1061</link>
      <description>At Commonwealth Capital Ventures, we work beside our entrepreneurs with the patience needed to build successful businesses. Commonwealth Associate Casey Gibbons is representin...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Tungle Acquired by Research In Motion</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1060</link>
      <description>Tungle has been acquired by Research In Motion.
Tungle.me offers a free web-based application that lets users share calendars across companies and platforms, schedule meeting...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Commonwealth Capital Ventures&apos; Mike Fitzgerald to Keynote First Session of MassTLC&apos;s SaaS Business Model Series</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=1059</link>
      <description>Mike Fitzgerald, Managing General Partner at Commonwealth Capital Ventures, will keynote and serve as moderator for the first session of the Mass Technology Leadership Council...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>youDevise and First Coverage Merge to Form Global Trade Idea Network for Institutional Investors</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1058</link>
      <description>The leading providers of alpha capture networks for financial markets &amp;ndash; youDevise Ltd. of London and First Coverage of Boston &amp;ndash; today announced they have merged in...</description>
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      <title>The Importance of Market Timing and Development in Successful Investing</title>
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      <description>This is a republished article.
For VC investors, startups that take advantage of market opportunity are always the best bets. And in making decisions on whether or not to inv...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Not By Funding Alone: The Benefits of Service Oriented Approaches</title>
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      <description>This is a republished article.
While venture funding is a big factor in making entrepreneurial ideas reality, VCs who operate primarily as financier &amp;quot;owners,&amp;quot; buyin...</description>
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      <title>Right Sizing: the Foundation for Successful Investing</title>
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Today&amp;rsquo;s downturn is driving home the lesson that while big risks may yield big returns in boom times, sizing investments appropriately is...</description>
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      <title>Antenna Wins GSMA Global Mobile Award for Best Mobile Enterprise Solution at Mobile World Congress</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1054</link>
      <description>Antenna Software, Inc., enabling business transformation through compelling mobile experiences, was announced a winner of the GSMA Global Mobile Awards in the category of Best...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Antenna Software Acquires Mobile Internet Specialist Volantis</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1052</link>
      <description>Antenna Software, Inc., enabling business transformation and consumer engagement through intelligently designed mobile applications, today announced it has acquired mobile Int...</description>
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      <title>Kadient and The Sant Corporation are now Qvidian</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1053</link>
      <description>Kadient Inc. and The Sant Corporation are pleased to announce the new name for their unified organization&amp;mdash;Qvidian. Since merging in June 2010, the two companies continue...</description>
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      <title>Reval Enters Treasury Management Domain with ecofinance Acquisition</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1051</link>
      <description>Reval (www.reval.com), the premier provider of a single-version Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for corporate financial risk management, announced today that it is has a...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Commonwealth Capital Ventures&apos; Elliot Katzman to Discuss &amp;quot;Habits of Highly Effective Management Teams&amp;quot; at 128 Innovation Capital Group</title>
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      <description>Elliot Katzman, General Partner at Commonwealth Capital Ventures, will discuss the &amp;ldquo;Habits of Highly Effective Management Teams&amp;rdquo; at the November 11, 2010 meeting o...</description>
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      <title>Visible Assets, Inc. is Awarded a $5M, Five Year Contract for Weapon Shot Counters from Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1048</link>
      <description>Visible Assets, Inc.(VISIBLE&amp;trade;) today announced that it has been awarded a Five (5) year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract for a maximum of US$5 mil...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 5 Oct 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>The Echo Nest Secures $7 Million to Power the Future of Music Applications</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1049</link>
      <description>The Echo Nest, a music intelligence company powering smarter music applications for independent developers and leading media companies, announced it has raised $7 million in v...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 5 Oct 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Pennwell Selects RAMP Universal Search and Publishing Solutions for Global Industry Websites</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1047</link>
      <description>RAMP, the industry&amp;rsquo;s leading Content Optimization platform for major online media publishers, today announced that Pennwell is deploying RAMP&amp;rsquo;s solution suite for ...</description>
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      <title>SoundBite Communications Ranked #1 for Customer Satisfaction in Ovum&apos;s Proactive Customer Communications Report</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1046</link>
      <description>SoundBite Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: SDBT), a leading provider of on-demand, multi-channel proactive customer communications, today announced it has been recognized by inde...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>IDC Names Antenna in &amp;quot;2010 Innovate Software Companies Under $100M to Watch&amp;quot; Report</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1045</link>
      <description>In an effort to recognize applications vendors with revenues of less than $100 million who are adapting and innovating around key trends in the applications market, Internatio...</description>
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      <title>ByAllAccounts Receives $5 Million to Fuel New Growth</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1044</link>
      <description>ByAllAccounts, Inc., the financial advisors&apos; choice for account aggregation, today announced that it has received $5 million in Series B funding, led by Castile Ventures, to e...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Vela Systems Raises $6M Series B for Expansion, Strategic Partnerships</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1043</link>
      <description>Vela Systems, Inc., a provider of mobile field software for the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry, today announced it has closed a $6 million Series B ...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>First Coverage Releases 2010 Mid-Year Top Performer Rankings</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1034</link>
      <description>First Coverage Inc., which provides the fastest-growing alpha capture platform worldwide and is the leader in North American equity trading content, today released its 2010 Mi...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Fox Sports Interactive Media Expands Deployment of Search and Publishing Solutions with RAMP</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1037</link>
      <description>RAMP, the industry&amp;rsquo;s leading Content Optimization platform for major online media publishers, announced today that existing customer, FOX Sports Interactive Media (FSIM)...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>CloudSwitch Wins the 2010 Cloud Security Challenge</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1038</link>
      <description>The first Cloud Security Challenge competition sponsored by HP Labs has been won by CloudSwitch, Inc. based in Burlington, MA, USA. Judged by a panel of expert judges drawn fr...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 7 Jul 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>JAZD Markets &amp;amp; Brainshark Announce Partnership to Deliver On-Demand Presentations</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1040</link>
      <description>JAZD Markets, the leader in online B2B directory-driven marketplace platforms, and Brainshark, the leader in on-demand multimedia for business, announced today their MaaS part...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1040</guid>
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      <title>Tungle.me Named Official Scheduling Application for BlogWorld 2010; Extends Scheduling Support for Blog Platforms</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1041</link>
      <description>Tungle Corp., the company that makes scheduling meetings easy, has been named the official scheduling application of BlogWorld &amp;amp; New Media Expo, taking place October 14-16...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 9 Jun 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1041</guid>
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      <title>AccuRev Named 2010 SD Times 100 Software Configuration Management Innovator</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1035</link>
      <description>AccuRev Inc., an industry leader in scaling Agile across the enterprise, today announced it was named to the 2010 SD Times 100 in the Software Configuration Management categor...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 9 Jun 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>ByAllAccounts and SmartStream Partner to Deliver Turnkey Account Aggregation and Reconciliation Solution</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1031</link>
      <description>SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management specialist, and ByAllAccounts, the investment manager&amp;rsquo;s choice for account aggregation, today an...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1031</guid>
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      <title>Expressor Software Secures $4.5M in Funding to Fuel Mid-Market Expansion</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1032</link>
      <description>expressor software announced today that it has secured $4.5 million in funding from its existing investors, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Globespan Capital Partners and Sigma...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Echo Nest Deal Opens Play.ME Catalog to Developers</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1039</link>
      <description>Article by Antony Bruno, Billboard
More than 75 music applications have been built over the course of the last year using music recommendation, remixing and playlisting tools...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Sand 9 Closes $12.0 Million in Series B Funding</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1030</link>
      <description>Sand 9, Inc., a start-up company developing timing oscillator and frequency control technology for the wireless device market, today announced it has closed a $12 million Seri...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Kadient and The Sant Corporation Announce Merger</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1042</link>
      <description>Kadient and The Sant Corporation today announced they have signed a merger agreement that establishes the combined company as the dominant provider of on-demand sales enableme...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Crossbeam and Check Point Expand Strategic Partnership</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1036</link>
      <description>Crossbeam Systems, Inc., the leading provider of next-generation security platforms for high-performance networks, announced today an expanded strategic agreement with Check P...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 4 May 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Alex Laats Joins Commonwealth Capital Ventures as General Partner</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News?NID=1029</link>
      <description>Commonwealth Capital Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in software and software-based services, Internet and digital media, communications technology,...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Elliot Katzman to Provide &amp;quot;Investor Guidance on Business Plans and Presentations&amp;quot; for IEEE Boston Entrepreneur&apos;s Network</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=1028</link>
      <description>Details: Elliot Katzman, General Partner at Commonwealth Capital Ventures, will provide advice on entrepreneur business plans and presentations as a member of a panel of three...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Antenna Software Announces Acquisition of Vaultus Mobile</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1027</link>
      <description>Antenna Software, delivering real business mobility to the world&amp;rsquo;s most demanding enterprises, announced today the acquisition of Vaultus Mobile Technologies, the leadin...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 9 Apr 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>SoundBite Communications Appoints Diane Albano Executive Vice President&amp;nbsp;of Sales and Client Management</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1025</link>
      <description>SoundBite Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:SDBT - News), a leading provider of on-demand, multi-channel proactive customer communications, today announced that it has appointed Di...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>SoundBite Communications Announces Stock Repurchase Program</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1026</link>
      <description>SoundBite Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:SDBT - News), a leading provider of on-demand, multi-channel proactive customer communications, today announced that its Board of Direct...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Elliot Katzman to Discuss &amp;quot;Habits of Highly Effective CFOs: Outsider Perspectives&amp;quot; at CFO Roundtable Event</title>
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Elliot Katzman, General Partner at Commonwealth Capital Ventures, will discuss the qualities that distinguish the great CFOs from the merely competent in a pa...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>ITT Agrees to Purchase Analytical Instrumentation Leader Nova Analytics</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1023</link>
      <description>ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT), a global leader in the transport and treatment of water, wastewater and other fluids, announced its agreement to purchase Nova Analytics Corporati...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Seahorse Bioscience, Inc. Secures $5M Growth Financing to Expand Worldwide Sales &amp;amp; Manufacturing Capacity</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1022</link>
      <description>Seahorse Bioscience, Inc. today announced it has closed a $5MM financing whose proceeds will be used to fund expansion of domestic and international sales and marketing activi...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Justin Perreault Discusses 2010 Venture Investment at TiE-Boston Annual VC Outlook Dinner</title>
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      <description>Justin Perreault, General Partner at Commonwealth Capital Ventures, participated in a panel of distinguished venture capitalists who discussed the outlook on venture investmen...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>ByAllAccounts Awarded Patent for Financial Portfolio Management Technology</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1020</link>
      <description>ByAllAccounts, Inc., the leader in financial account aggregation for professional use, today announced it has been awarded a patent for its &amp;ldquo;Financial Portfolio Manageme...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Elliot Katzman to Participate in &amp;quot;Annual Panel of Leaders in Venture Capital&amp;quot; at The Vilna Shul on January 14, 2010</title>
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      <title>Antenna Positioned In Leaders Quadrant</title>
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      <description>Antenna Software, delivering real business mobility to the world&amp;rsquo;s most demanding enterprises, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leader...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Reval Testifies Before U.S. Senate on OTC Derivatives Reform</title>
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      <title>Reval&apos;s Okochi Appointed to CFTC Global Markets Advisory Committee</title>
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      <description>Jiro Okochi, chief executive officer and co-founder of Reval, a global derivative risk management and hedge accounting solutions provider to over 375 publicly traded companies...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Auction Holdings Raises Growth Capital From Commonwealth and Ascent</title>
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      <description>Artfact, a subsidiary of Auction Holdings and&amp;nbsp;the world&amp;rsquo;s leading online live auction marketplace, announced today that it closed on $13 million of growth capital f...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Mike Fitzgerald Featured in &amp;quot;VCs Get Creative About Consolidation&amp;quot;</title>
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      <description>The exit markets have been slow now for about two years, and that means consolidation. It&amp;rsquo;s hard to get accurate aggregate numbers for venture-backed acquisitions of ven...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Dec 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Expressor Software Chosen by Sybron Dental Specialties to Improve the Quality of its Customer Data Warehouse</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1012</link>
      <description>Expressor software, the leader in semantic data integration, announced today that it has signed Sybron Dental Specialties (SDS), a manufacturer of high technology dental, dent...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 1 Dec 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Steve McCormack to Participate as Judge at Speed Venture Summit on Oct. 28</title>
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      <description>Steve McCormack, General Partner at Commonwealth Capital Ventures, will participate as a judge at the Speed Venture Summit&amp;trade;, to be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Nash...</description>
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      <description>Steve McCormack, General Partner at Commonwealth Capital Ventures, served as a panel judge for Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Week for Windows 7 in Boston, an event designed to...</description>
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      <description>Mike Fitzgerald, Managing General Partner at Commonwealth Capital Ventures, will participate on a panel titled &amp;ldquo;We Expect To Generate Good Returns From Investing In&amp;hell...</description>
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      <title>Raytheon Announces Agreement to Purchase BBN Technologies</title>
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      <description>Raytheon Company (RTN) has entered into an agreement to acquire BBN Technologies, a privately-held world leader in research and development, and provider of critical solutions...</description>
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      <description>Elliot Katzman, General Partner at Commonwealth Capital Ventures, will discuss some of the characteristics of fundable companies - from business plan fundamentals to rule-of-t...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 4 Sep 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Reval Acquires FXpress Corporation</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1005</link>
      <description>Reval announced today that it has acquired FXpress Corporation, a leading treasury software provider to the Fortune 1000. The acquisition solidifies Reval&amp;rsquo;s position as ...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>IBM Acquires Ounce Labs to Extend Application Security and Compliance Offerings</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1004</link>
      <description>IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has acquired Ounce Labs, Inc., a privately-held company based in Waltham, Massachusetts, whose software helps companies reduce the risks and...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Tungle Brings Scheduling to Over 7.5 Million Members of Xing</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1001</link>
      <description>Tungle, the calendar accelerator, today announced that Tungle.me is now available to the over 7.5 million members of XING via the new XING Partner Ecosystem. Tungle.me, a firs...</description>
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      <title>EveryZing Named to AlwaysOn Global 250</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1003</link>
      <description>EveryZing, the leader in universal site search and publishing solutions, announced today that Meredith Publishing, one of the nation&amp;rsquo;s leading publishers, will use Every...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>First Coverage Releases Mid-Year Top Performer Rankings</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1002</link>
      <description>First Coverage Inc., which provides the fastest-growing alpha capture platform worldwide and is the leader in North American equities content, today released its 2009 Mid-Year...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Honoring Innovation: Copanion Wins &amp;quot;2009 Tax and Accounting Technology Innovation&amp;quot; Award</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=1000</link>
      <description>A wise philosopher who once said &amp;ldquo;change is good&amp;rdquo; was obviously ahead of his time. How could he have known the impact technology would have on improving efficiency...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Commonwealth Leads Series B in CloudSwitch, Industry Veteran John McEleney Joins as CEO</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=998</link>
      <description>CloudSwitch, Inc., today announced that it has added John McEleney as its Chief Executive Officer and President, and completed a second round of financing from top-tier ventur...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Mike Fitzgerald Quoted in &amp;quot;So You Want to Start a Tech Business&amp;quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News?NID=999</link>
      <description>Funny thing about economic disasters: They tend to spawn a bevy of new businesses. It&apos;s not that a recession is the best time for pie-in-the-sky thinking; rather, it&apos;s when pi...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>EveryZing Wins MITX Award for Best Rich Media Technology</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=997</link>
      <description>EveryZing, Inc., a next-generation universal search and publishing technology provider, has been selected as the winner in the category of Rich Media for the 2009 MITX Technol...</description>
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      <title>Elliot Katzman Serves as a Judge for the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange (MITX) Awards</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=995</link>
      <description>Elliot Katzman served as a judge for the MITX Technology Awards on June 16, 2009. The MITX Technology Awards recognize innovative technologies developed in the New England are...</description>
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      <title>Internet Giants Look for Edge in Real-Time Search</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=992</link>
      <description>Micro-blogging phenomenon Twitter Inc. hasn&apos;t figured out how to make money, but that hasn&apos;t stopped Web giants Google Inc. (GOOG), Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT...</description>
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      <title>Antenna Software Acquires Dexterra</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=993</link>
      <description>Antenna Software and Dexterra, two leading providers of mobile enterprise technology and applications, today announced the completion of Antenna&amp;rsquo;s acquisition of Dexterr...</description>
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      <title>Tungle Unveils Tungle.Me, The First Click-to-Meet Technology Now Available Through Facebook, Blogs, and More</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=989</link>
      <description>Tungle, the calendar accelerator, today introduced Tungle.me, the first click-to-meet technology. Similar to click-to-call services that put voice calls a &amp;quot;click away,&amp;qu...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 1 Jun 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>VC Perspective: Can Enterprise Software Companies Do SaaS?</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News?NID=987</link>
      <description>Blog post from Michael Krigsman, ZDNet

Recent discussions (including a great summary by Bob Warfield) questioned the impact of established enterprise software companies in ...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Commonwealth Capital Ventures Listed in Red Herring&apos;s Global Top 200 Venture Firms</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News?NID=984</link>
      <description>Until recently, Silicon Valley financiers arrogantly expressed their disdain about investing beyond a thirty-mile radius. They felt that any startup concocted beyond that dist...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>How the Semantic Web Will Redefine Digital Music</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=988</link>
      <description>Monday&amp;rsquo;s SanFran MusicTech Summit featured a host of informative panels dealing with the ways technology is transforming the music industry. One thread concerned how mus...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>The Echo Nest Teams Up with Spotify</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=985</link>
      <description>Spotify, the music streaming service, is partnering with The Echo Nest&apos;s music intelligence platform to help develop Spotify&apos;s playlist and music discovery functions. Spotify,...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Nine Organizations Win SBANE Awards, Including Zeemote</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=991</link>
      <description>The Smaller Business Association of New England named nine winners at its annual New England Innovation Awards gala, the organization said Friday.

The nine company winners ...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Vela Customer William A. Berry &amp;amp; Son, Inc. Wins AGC Technology Innovation Award</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=990</link>
      <description>At a recent gala at Fenway Park, Associated General Contractors of Massachusetts (AGC) announced the winners of the inaugural AGC Build Industry Technology Awards. This juried...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Twitter is Talking Real Time Link Search, But OneRiot is Launching it Today</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=986</link>
      <description>There was a lot of buzz last week upon the announcement that Twitter would soon expand its search offering to crawl links tweeted out on top of the tweets themselves. The rami...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Steve McCormack Participates in Nantucket Conference</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=994</link>
      <description>Commonwealth General Partner Steve McCormack participated in the Nantucket Conference April 30-May 2, 2009. The Nantucket Conference brings together the region&apos;s most successf...</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 2 May 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Commonwealth&apos;s General Partner Justin Perreault Quoted in Wireless Week</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News?NID=980</link>
      <description>No matter whether you see it as venture capitalists getting pickier or problems with the stock market, the venture capital market is as dry as the Sahara. Possibly even drier....</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>JAZD Markets Has Expanded Into Multiple Vertical Markets With Industry Content Leadership</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=981</link>
      <description>The company recently announced that it will expand into over 40 industry vertical markets and is looking to add four content directors to join the team based in Andover Mass. ...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Tungle Goes a Long Way Toward Reducing the Pain of Scheduling Meetings</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=979</link>
      <description>One of the biggest drains on time, effort and motivation in this business is the hell of arranging physical and virtual meetings with clients, prospects and podcast interviewe...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=979</guid>
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      <title>Copanion Appoints New Board Member Greg Ferguson</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=982</link>
      <description>Copanion, Inc., an innovator in tax document automation, today announced that Greg Ferguson has joined its board of directors. A seasoned executive, Ferguson has served as CEO...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Expressor Software Partners with Virtusa to Add First Worldwide Systems Integrator</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=983</link>
      <description>expressor software, the leader in semantic data integration, announced today that Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTU) has entered a partnership to become the company&apos;s first wo...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>OneRiot in NYTimes, Search the Sites that Twitterers Tweet</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=973</link>
      <description>If you&amp;rsquo;re looking for information about this morning&amp;rsquo;s tragic earthquake in Italy, typing &amp;ldquo;earthquake italy&amp;rdquo; into search.twitter.com will show you a st...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 6 Apr 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Constant Contact Announces AppConnect to Extend Email Marketing Access to Small Business Application Providers</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=975</link>
      <description>Constant Contact, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTCT), a leading provider of email marketing and online surveys for small organizations, today announced the availability of Constant Contact A...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Apr 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>The Echo Nest Solves Music Discovery with New &amp;quot;Goodness&amp;quot; Analysis API</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=974</link>
      <description>Today, The Echo Nest, a music intelligence company powering advanced digital music applications, announced it has solved the problem of music discovery - helping music fans ev...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Zeemote Celebrates a Revolution in Mobile Gaming, Announces Game Developers Contest</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=996</link>
      <description>Zeemote&amp;trade; Inc. (http://www.zeemote.com/), the recognized leader in designing, manufacturing, marketing and licensing wireless controller technology and products for mobil...</description>
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      <title>A Search Engine for Hot Gossip, OneRiot Review</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=970</link>
      <description>Apple&amp;rsquo;s new iPod Shuffle was the talk of the Internet on Wednesday. But when I hit Google to find the latest news reports and blog posts, I was surprised to find only on...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>OneRiot Launches Video Search Engine Features</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=972</link>
      <description>OneRiot has launched a new, real-time search feature focused on video, and is looking to tap into the &amp;quot;current buzz&amp;quot; on web videos, the firm said today. The firm sai...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Seahorse Biosciences Inc. Acquires BioProcessors Corp.</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=971</link>
      <description>Seahorse Bioscience, Inc., manufacturer of instruments and consumables for cell based metabolic assays today announced the acquisition of BioProcessors Corp., manufacturer of ...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 9 Mar 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>A Venture Capitalist&apos;s View of Future Storage</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News?NID=968</link>
      <description>The type of technology that shows up in future generations of storage products greatly depends on which startups get funding to develop those products. So SearchStorage recent...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>To Be a VC, or Not To Be a VC</title>
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      <description>To be a VC or not to be a VC? That question was answered with a resounding yes from four veteran Boston area VCs last week at the Dealmakers Breakfast. &amp;ldquo;Outlook for Vent...</description>
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      <title>Mike Fitzgerald Participates in ACG Venture Capital Outlook Panel</title>
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      <description>Michael Fitzgerald, Commonwealth Founder and Managing General Partner, participated in the ACG Boston Dealmakers Breakfast &amp;amp; Venture Capital Outlook Panel at the Boston Ha...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>The Echo Nest Hires Paul Lamere to Run Music Application Development Center</title>
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      <description>Today, The Echo Nest, a music intelligence company powering advanced digital music applications, hired Paul Lamere as Director of Developer Community. Lamere will build on the...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Emerging Enterprise Perspectives with CCV GP Justin Perreault</title>
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      <description>We are currently experiencing the most unsettled economic times in recent memory. Against this backdrop, an early stage company raising a series B-round financing faces additi...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Application Security is Top of Mind as Evidenced by Ounce Labs Record Growth in 2008</title>
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      <description>Ounce Labs, the industry leader in enterprise static application security testing (SAST), announced a surge in growth with a revenue increase of 195 percent in 2008 over 2007....</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 3 Feb 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Application Security is Top of Mind, Ounce Labs</title>
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      <description>Ounce Labs, the industry leader in enterprise static application security testing (SAST), announced a surge in growth with a revenue increase of 195 percent in 2008 over 2007....</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 3 Feb 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>The Echo Nest Launches &amp;quot;PromoBot&amp;quot; at MidemNet 2009</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=963</link>
      <description>Today, The Echo Nest, a music intelligence company powering advanced digital music applications, launched the Web&apos;s first targeted online music promotion system, &amp;quot;PromoBo...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Zeemote Brings in Telco Vet Ernie Cormier as New CEO</title>
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      <description>Fresh off their trip to the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Chelmsford mobile remote control developer Zeemote Inc. announced that it has shuffled its executive...</description>
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      <description>On-line B2B marketing firm Jazd Markets Inc. reports it has closed on $8 million in a Series A funding round that was jointly led by Commonwealth Capital Ventures and Pilot Ho...</description>
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      <title>Old Ways, New Needs: Justin Perreault on SaaS Sales Cycle</title>
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      <description>As more and more enterprises move to Software as a Service for the applications they need, the way SaaS companies sell now is becoming as important as what they sell. In today...</description>
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      <title>Downturn of Many Faces: How to Survive Depends on Who You Are</title>
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      <description>[Editor&apos;s note: Since the economic downturn deepened several months ago, VentureBeat has been receiving advisories and commentaries from all sides prescribing one-size-fits-al...</description>
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      <title>Enterprise IT Startups Feel Pain, Though Virtualization &amp;amp; Wireless Holding Up</title>
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      <description>By Bob Brown.&amp;nbsp; Network World spoke this week with Justin Perrealt, a General Partner at Commonwealth Capital Ventures in Waltham, Mass., about how enterprise IT start-ups...</description>
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      <title>Startup Advice in a Rough Climate, A VC Shares Industry Tips</title>
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      <description>The current downturn in the market, coupled with emerging trends such as cloud computing that may change the face of IT positions, has left many IT pros wondering what opportu...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Jeff Hurst Delivers Keynote, Serves as Judge at Duke University Entrepreneurship Event</title>
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      <description>Commonwealth General Partner Jeff Hurst delivered the keynote address at the Fuqua School of Business&amp;rsquo; Fuqua &amp;amp; Law Day: &amp;quot;How do your professional skills apply i...</description>
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      <title>No Resume Required: My Perfect Gig Launches Next-Gen Recruiting Service</title>
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      <description>My Perfect Gig unveiled MyPerfectGig.com, a dramatic leap forward in online recruiting services that enables engineers across multiple disciplines to find their perfect job in...</description>
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      <title>Intuit and Copanion Join Forces to Increase Productivity and Reduce Workflow</title>
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      <description>Copanion, an innovator in tax document automation, today announced an alliance with Intuit Inc. INTU to develop a scanning solution that will dramatically increase the product...</description>
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      <title>WPI Venture Forum Business Plan Contest, Elliot Katzman</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=976</link>
      <description>Elliot Katzman, General Partner at Commonwealth Capital Ventures, drew on his experience as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist to serve as a judge in the final round of th...</description>
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      <title>Surviving And Thriving: Impacts of an Economic Downturn</title>
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      <description>There are two predictions that no businessperson in Boston is ready to make: how bad this recession is going to get, and how long it will last.

&amp;quot;I&apos;m afraid it&apos;s gonna ...</description>
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      <title>Expressor Software Signs First European Reseller, 3 New SI and Technology Partners</title>
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      <description>expressor software, the leader in semantic data integration, announced today that it has signed its first European reseller and three additional SI and technology partners, do...</description>
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      <title>Keeping It Simple for the Customer: Email Marketing Firms Thrive</title>
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      <description>In 1999, when Gail Goodman and Bill Kaiser met for lunch in the Financial District, Goodman asked for the venture capitalist&apos;s advice about whether she should take a chief exe...</description>
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      <title>Mass TLC Touts Constant Contact at 2008 Awards</title>
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      <description>Last night at the Boston Sheraton Hotel , the Mass Technology Leadership Council Inc. named Robert Keane, CEO of Lexington-based VistaPrint Ltd., as CEO of the year and Waltha...</description>
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      <title>Reval Announces Version 8.1 of HedgeRX, Continuing Breadth of Coverage Across Multi Asset Classes</title>
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      <description>Reval, a global leader in financial risk management and hedge accounting solutions and services delivered under the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, announced today the rel...</description>
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      <title>Meeting Scheduler Tungle Raises $5M, Commonwealth Leads the A Round</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=949</link>
      <description>Tungle, the ultimate scheduling service, announced today that it has secured $5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Waltham, MA-based Commonwealth Capital Ventur...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>AT&amp;amp;T Enhances Enterprise Mobility Offering; Supported by Antenna Mobility Platform</title>
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      <description>AT&amp;amp;T Inc. (NYSE:T) today announced new capabilities to extend an array of applications to mobile devices that are used by companies in targeted vertical industries. 

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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Antenna Software, an Oracle Elite 8 Partner, to Demonstrate Next-Generation Mobility Platform at Oracle OpenWorld 2008</title>
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      <description>WHAT: 
Antenna Software, delivering real business mobility to the world&amp;rsquo;s most demanding enterprises, today announced that, as one of the Oracle&amp;trade; Elite 8 partners...</description>
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      <title>SaaS Models That Address Risk Gain Investor Interest</title>
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      <description>Today, financial markets represent a huge global opportunity for new companies with technologies addressing the challenges involved in reducing risk, raising returns, and opti...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>The Echo Nest Corp. Raises First Venture Financing Round</title>
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      <description>The Echo Nest Corporation, a music intelligence company providing enhanced music search, recommendation and interactivity technology to online music companies, today announced...</description>
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      <title>My Perfect Gig Announces a New &amp;quot;Knowledge-Based&amp;quot; Approach to Recruiting Services</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=944</link>
      <description>Together with a network of leading employers, job candidates and high traffic content sites, My Perfect Gig, Inc., announced its new online recruiting service that transforms ...</description>
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      <title>Zeemote Zips Up Deals with Sony Ericsson and Nokia</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=945</link>
      <description>Six months after launching its wireless controller for mobile devices, Zeemote Inc. has signed on its first two handset partners, Nokia Corp. and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communic...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Fitzgerald Says Software Path is Paved with SaaS</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News?NID=939</link>
      <description>With experience that dates back 30 years in the enterprise software market, Michael T. Fitzgerald&amp;rsquo;s advice to those who want to jump into that field boils down to &amp;ldquo...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Expressor Software Secures $10M in Series B Venture Funding</title>
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      <description>Expressor software, the leader in semantic data integration, today announced that it has secured $10 million in a second round of funding. The investment was led by Commonweal...</description>
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      <title>Scrutiny Over Fees Gives Rise to New Rankings, First Coverage Mentioned in Globe and Mail</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=938</link>
      <description>Bay Street abounds with tales &amp;ndash; some true, some apocryphal, but all plausible  given the culture of the securities industry &amp;ndash; of brokerage salespeople  entertainin...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Vela Systems Featured in Information Week</title>
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      <description>Vela Systems was recently featured in Information Week&apos;s &amp;quot;Startup City&amp;quot; video series. Click here to watch the video....</description>
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      <title>Innoveer Wins &amp;quot;One to Watch&amp;quot; at 2008 CRM Market Awards</title>
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      <description>CRM magazine announced the winners of its 2008 CRM Market Awards here today, in conjunction with the magazine&amp;rsquo;s destinationCRM 2008 conference.

As the CRM software ma...</description>
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      <title>Ounce Labs Names Gary Jackson Chief Executive Officer
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      <description>Ounce Labs, the industry leader in enterprise security source code analysis, today announced that Gary Jackson has been named Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Jackson brings to ...</description>
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      <title>Justin Perreault Featured in &amp;quot;The State of High Tech VC&amp;quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News?NID=936</link>
      <description>Except from Erik Sherman&apos;s bNet blog:

Commonwealth Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on early and growth stage companies. Justin Perreault is a general pa...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Yahoo, Me.dium Partner to Build Search Power</title>
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      <description>Unable to beat Google in the Web search business on its own, Yahoo is trying a new approach. 

Yahoo wants to enlist a small army of search start-ups as allies in the hope t...</description>
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      <title>Constant Contact&apos;s CEO Gail Goodman Granted Ernst &amp;amp; Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award</title>
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      <description>Constant Contact, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTCT), a leading provider of email marketing and online surveys for small organizations, today announced that Gail Goodman, CEO, received the E...</description>
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      <title>Reval Wins Award at Treasury Today&apos;s Adam Smith Awards for Best Practice and Innovation</title>
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      <description>Reval, a global leader in financial risk management solutions and services, announced that it was recognized at Treasury Today&amp;rsquo;s inaugural Adam Smith Awards for Best Pra...</description>
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      <title>Copanion Wins CPA Technology Advisor&apos;s 2008 Tax &amp;amp; Accounting Technology Innovation Award</title>
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      <description>Copanion, Inc., today announced that its tax document automation solution, GruntWorx(TM), has been presented with a 2008 Tax &amp;amp; Accounting Technology Innovation Award by Th...</description>
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      <title>First Coverage Secures $9 Million in Series B Financing</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=927</link>
      <description>First Coverage Inc., a leading provider of financial information management solutions to the institutional investment community, today announced it has secured $9 million in S...</description>
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      <title>Mike Fitzgerald quoted in Manufacturing Business Technology&apos;s &amp;quot;Know SaaS Issues Before They Impact Operations&amp;quot;</title>
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      <description>Uncovering the benefits of Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS, requires understanding the terms and technologies involved so everyone can ask the right questions. Corporate IT, di...</description>
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      <title>SoundBite Communications Stockholders Elect New Board Member</title>
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      <description>BEDFORD, Mass., May 28, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- SoundBite Communications, Inc. (NasdaqGM:SDBT - News) today announced the election of Eileen Rudden to its board of directors....</description>
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      <title>My Perfect Gig Launches Innovative Services</title>
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      <description>My Perfect Gig, Inc. today announced the launch of SourceView, a sourcing intelligence solution for Companies, and My Perfect Gig.com, a private career network for job seekers...</description>
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      <title>Me.dium Makes Friends with Big Brother</title>
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      <description>A funny thing about Internet privacy: As some parties lobby harder and harder to protect it, others are voluntarily giving it away over social networking sites, personal blogs...</description>
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      <title>ZoomInfo Spins Off Ad Platform into Bizo, a New Company&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</title>
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      <description>The business information search engine ZoomInfo has spun off its advertising business into a new company, Bizo Inc.

ZoomInfo started supplying the information it collects t...</description>
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      <title>SoundBite Communications Announces Intelligent Communications Platform</title>
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      <description>SoundBite Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: SDBT) today announced the upcoming release of the SoundBite Intelligent Communications Platform, an integrated, multi-channel solution ...</description>
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      <title>Capital Intensity, Fixed Costs Make Telecom Volatile</title>
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      <description>What was spent: $2.1 billion was invested nationally in 2007, and $223.9 million was invested locally, according to Thomson Financial.&amp;nbsp; Where the money went: Notable area...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 May 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>&amp;quot;Market Timing, Cash Control is Key to Winning VC Investments&amp;quot; by Mike Fitzgerald</title>
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      <description>For venture capitalists, the name of the game is betting on startup investments that take advantage of market opportunity. In deciding whether to invest, VCs need foresight to...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 2 May 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Steve Hallowell, Pat Noonan to Participate in &amp;quot;How to Pitch Event&amp;quot; at TiECON East 2008</title>
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      <description>Commonwealth&apos;s Steve Hallowell and Pat Noonan will participate in the flagship TiECON East event titled &amp;quot;How to Pitch and Maximize Your Win-Win.&amp;quot; The program is part...</description>
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      <title>Going Solo: More VCs Deciding to Invest Alone</title>
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      <description>Like most firms in the collegial venture capital industry, Kodiak Venture Partners regularly seeks out other VC firms to join an investment round. But in January, when it inve...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Justin Perreault to Participate in AlwaysOn Venture Summit East</title>
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      <description>Justin Perreault will participate on a panel discussing &amp;ldquo;The Growing Competition Between Private Equity, Hedge Funds, and VCs.&amp;rdquo;  Salon A, Four Seasons Hotel, Bosto...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 9 Apr 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Advent Software and ByAllAccounts Expand Customer Access to Custodial Data</title>
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      <description>Advent Software, Inc., (NASDAQ: ADVS), the award-winning provider of solutions to the global investment management industry, today announced that it has entered into an allian...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Jeffrey Hurst to Participate in Nixon Peabody Early-Stage VC Event on April 8th</title>
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      <description>Jeffrey Hurst, General Partner at Commonwealth Capital Ventures, will be part of a panel of leading direct investors at the Nixon Peabody Early-Stage Venture Capital event. Th...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Elliot Katzman Discusses &amp;quot;Leading Teams in Entrepreneurial Environments&amp;quot; at Tufts</title>
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      <description>New York, NY, March 25, 2008&amp;mdash;Reval, a global leader in financial risk management solutions and services delivered under the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, announced...</description>
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      <title>Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) Acquires Compete, Inc. For Up To $150M</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=912</link>
      <description>London-based market research firm Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) has acquired Compete for $75 million. Another $75 million in possible earn-outs through 2010 brings the total acqu...</description>
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      <title>SoundBite Buys Texting Firm Mobile Connect</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=911</link>
      <description>SoundBite Communications Inc. reports that it acquired the assets of Michigan text messaging company Mobile Collect Inc. in an all-cash transaction worth about $500,000 and co...</description>
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      <title>Beth Marcus, CEO Zeemote, To Be Honored as Mass High Tech &amp;quot;Woman to Watch&amp;quot;</title>
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      <description>10 New England women will be honored at the Mass High Tech 5th annual Women to Watch event.
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      <title>EveryZing Launches ezSEO and ezSearch: The Web&apos;s First Comprehensive Solution for Audio and Video Search and SEO</title>
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      <description>EveryZing (www.EveryZing.com) today announced the launch of two new products, ezSEO and ezSEARCH, helping to establish it as a complete solution provider for next-generation u...</description>
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      <title>Vela Systems Featured in &amp;quot;Punching Goes Paperless&amp;quot;</title>
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      <description>Don Ghent of Gensler Architects already wears two cell phones to back up a BlackBerry, but he&apos;s lugging around yet another gadget these days as he wraps up construction at the...</description>
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      <title>Reval Continues Rapid Growth Record with 44 New Clients in 2007</title>
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      <description>Reval, a global leader in financial risk management solutions and services, today announced that it nearly doubled its growth with 95% in new bookings with 44 new clients adde...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Zeemote Featured in PC World</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=907</link>
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      <title>ByAllAccounts Secures $5M in Series A Financing</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=901</link>
      <description>ByAllAccounts, a provider of reconciliation-ready data for investment management and advisory firms, today announced that it has secured $5 million in Series A funding.  Commo...</description>
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      <title>Justin Perreault Quoted in ServerWatch&apos;s &amp;quot;Virtually Speaking: Waiting to Shift Gears&amp;quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News?NID=902</link>
      <description>Since IBM unveiled solutions designed to make virtualization attainable to the small fry last week, the virtual pipeline has slowed to a trickle. Perhaps that (or more likely ...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Justin Perreault Quoted in InfoWorld&apos;s &amp;quot;VCs Still Hot on Security&amp;quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News?NID=903</link>
      <description>Venture capitalists continue to pour money into the IT security segment as emerging attacks and compliance demands pave the road for future spending among customers. 

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      <pubDate>Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Steve Hallowell Participates in MIT&apos;s Enterprise Forum</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=908</link>
      <description>Stephen Hallowell, Principal at Commonwealth Capital Ventures, served as a panelist at New Hampshire High Technology Council&amp;rsquo;s (NHHTC) MIT Enterprise Forum on Tuesday, F...</description>
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      <title>GSI Commerce (NASDAQ: GSIC) to Acquire E-mail Marketing Leader e-Dialog</title>
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      <description>Leading e-commerce and multichannel solutions provider, GSI Commerce Inc.  (Nasdaq: GSIC) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire  e-Dialog Inc., a Lex...</description>
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      <title>Carbon Design Systems Raises $6M in Venture Funding After Successful 2007</title>
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      <description>Carbon Design Systems(TM), the leading supplier of tools for the automatic creation, validation and deployment of virtual hardware models, today announced it has closed a roun...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 9 Jan 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Mobile Gaming Joystick Company Zeemote Gets $6.9M in Funding</title>
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      <description>Zeemote, a Boston-based mobile gaming joystick technology firm, has received about $6.9 million in first round of funding. The round was led by Spanish VC firm Nauta, together...</description>
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      <title>Mike Fitzgerald quoted in &amp;quot;NetSuite IPO Hits Ellison&apos;s Sweet Spot&amp;quot;</title>
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      <description>Shares of Larry Ellison&apos;s NetSuite edged higher Thursday in its New York Stock Exchange debut after a sizzling $161.2 million auction drove the IPO share price to $26, double ...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Copanion Appoints Edward Jennings SVP Sales and Marketing</title>
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      <description>Copanion, Inc., an innovator in tax document automation, today announced the appointment of Edward V. Jennings to the position of senior vice president of sales and marketing....</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Gail Goodman and Constant Contact named &amp;quot;Mass SaaS Goes Public&amp;quot; 2007 SaaS Leadership Honors</title>
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      <description>Hosted Solutions and the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council announced the details of the &amp;ldquo;Mass SaaS Goes Public&amp;rdquo; 2007 SaaS Leadership Honors at the Waltha...</description>
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      <title>Mike Fitzgerald is Panelist at New England Venture Summit</title>
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      <description>Mike Fitzgerald, Managing General Partner at Commonwealth Capital Ventures, served as a panelist at the New England Venture Summit&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;Featured Company Coaching Ses...</description>
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      <title>Elliot Katman mentioned in WBJ &amp;quot;Entrepreneurs With a Plan Win Big&amp;quot;</title>
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      <description>John Lai, founder and president of Milford, N.H.-based DataPacT LLC and winner of this year&apos;s Worcester Polytechnic Institute Venture Forum Business Plan Contest, says his com...</description>
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      <title>Elliot Katzman Discusses &amp;quot;The Business of VC&amp;quot; at MIT</title>
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      <description>General Partner Elliot Katzman discussed &amp;ldquo;The Business of VC: How Your Investor Gets His Investors,&amp;rdquo; in lecturer Shari Loessberg&amp;rsquo;s Early Stage Capital course...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Idex Corp. to buy Nova Technologies&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</title>
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      <description>Northbrook-based Idex Corp. announced plans to buy Nova Technologies Corp. for  $158 million in cash, making it the manufacturer&amp;rsquo;s largest acquisition this  year. Idex&amp;r...</description>
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      <title>WPI Venture Forum Business Plan Contest, Elliot Katzman</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=875</link>
      <description>Elliot Katzman, General Partner at Commonwealth Capital Ventures, will draw on his experience as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist to serve as a judge in the final round ...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Justin Perreault quoted in Forbes&apos; &amp;quot;House Approves Controversial Tax Bill&amp;quot;</title>
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      <description>The House of Representatives today passed a sweeping tax proposal that would raise taxes on corporations and investment managers in order to lower taxes on millions of America...</description>
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      <title>Copanion, Inc. Introduces GruntWorx&amp;trade; Tax Document Automation Solution for Tax Professionals</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=886</link>
      <description>Copanion, Inc., an innovator in tax document automation, today announced the launch of GruntWorx, a web-based application that enables tax professionals to automate the captur...</description>
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      <title>Copanion Raises $6 Million in First Round</title>
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      <description>Copanion, an Andover-based developer of tax document automation technology, has raised $6 million in its first round of venture capital, led by Commonwealth Capital Ventures a...</description>
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      <title>Elliot Katzman is Speaker at Suffolk Law School</title>
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      <description>Elliot Katzman, General Partner at Commonwealth Capital  Ventures, discussed the venture capital industry and participated in the mock  negotiation of a Series A term sheet at...</description>
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      <title>Mike Fitzgerald featured in Information Week&apos;s &amp;quot;Go SaaS, Young Man&amp;quot;</title>
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Venture capitalist Mike Fitzgerald says he&apos;s more inclined to invest in  software startups that embrace the service model.
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      <title>SoundBite raises $42 million in IPO</title>
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      <description>SoundBite Communications Inc. reduced the price and float of its initial  public offering, raising just over $40 million, down from the previous estimate  of nearly $55 millio...</description>
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      <title>Hubcast Secures $8.1 million in Series A Funding</title>
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      <description>HubCast announced today that it has closed a Series &apos;A&apos; round of funding totaling $8.1 million. The financing round was led by two firms: Commonwealth Capital Partners (Waltha...</description>
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      <title>Elliot Katzman Presents Business Case at Babson College</title>
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      <description>Elliot Katzman, General Partner at Commonwealth Capital  Ventures, and SolidWorks Founder Jon  Hirschtick met with students in former North Bridge Partner  Angelo Santinelli&amp;r...</description>
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      <description>CRI Technologies (CRI), an independent IT virtualization consulting and professional services firm, announced today the launch of its virtualization and managed services ecosy...</description>
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      <description>Justin Perreault of Commonwealth Capital Ventures to Speak on &amp;ldquo;Right-Sizing Your Venture Round in an Early-Stage Startup&amp;rdquo; at 128 Innovation Capital Group

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      <title>Pragmatech rebrands as Kadient</title>
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      <description>After 13 years of operating as Pragmatech, the Nashua, N.H.-based software maker adopted the name Kadient Inc., according to company officials. 

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      <title>Commonwealth Capital Ventures Promotes Stephen Hallowell to Principal</title>
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      <description>Stephen Hallowell, Principal at Commonwealth Capital Ventures, was named to the &amp;quot;People to Watch Under 30&amp;quot; list in the October 5, 2007 issue of Mass High Tech: The J...</description>
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      <description>Shares of Constant Contact, an email marketing tool vendor that has yet to turn a profit, jumped out of the gate in the company&apos;s initial public offering Wednesday, rising $13...</description>
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      <description>Commonwealth Capital Ventures&amp;rsquo; Elliot Katzman to Discuss &amp;ldquo;Keys to Making Your Business Fundable&amp;rdquo; at The Capital Network Event 

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      <title>Pat Noonan Selected for TiE-Boston Young Entrepreneurs Leadership Program</title>
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      <description>The TiE Leadership Program is a breakthrough mentoring and peer-networking program for Boston&apos;s most promising young entrepreneurs and professionals.&amp;nbsp; 

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      <description>Long gone are the closed-door meetings and interminable sales cycles used for multimillion-dollar enterprise applications. SaaS firms instead are borrowing a page from consume...</description>
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      <title>Private Equity Analyst Conference 2007, Mike Fitzgerald</title>
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      <description>Commonwealth Capital Ventures&amp;rsquo; Mike Fitzgerald to Speak at Private Equity Analyst Conference 2007

Mike Fitzgerald, Managing General Partner at Commonwealth Capital Ve...</description>
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      <title>Tim Curran Joins Vela Systems as Chief Executive Officer</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=864</link>
      <description>Vela Systems, a developer of mobile software that streamlines field administration for the AEC (Architecture-Engineering-Construction) industry, announced today that its board...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Constant Contact prices IPO</title>
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      <description>Constant Contact prices IPOMass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology - by Christopher Calnan Mass High Tech

Constant Contact Inc. has filed the terms for its pr...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>CRI Technologies Inc. Raises $10 Million in Series A Funding</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=862</link>
      <description>CRI Technologies, an independent IT virtualization consulting and professional services firm, today announced that it has secured $10 million in Series A funding. Commonwealth...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Web Analytics Start-Up Compete Inc. Scores $10 Million</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=860</link>
      <description>Compete, Inc., a web analytics company that helps top brands improve their marketing with the online behavior of millions of consumers, today announced that it has closed a $1...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 7 Aug 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Mike Fitzgerald featured in Destination CRM&apos;s &amp;quot;SaaS Will Outpace the Rest of the Market&amp;quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News?NID=861</link>
      <description>Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is anticipated to have a compound annual growth rate of 22.1 percent through 2011 for the aggregate enterprise application software markets, more ...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 7 Aug 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Vela Systems Secures $6 Million in Series A Funding for Mobile Software</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=858</link>
      <description>Vela Systems, a developer of mobile software that streamlines field administration for the AEC (Architecture-Engineering-Construction) industry, today announced that it has se...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Reval Raises $28 Million in Expansion Funding</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=879</link>
      <description>Reval&amp;reg;, a global leader in financial risk management solutions and services, today announced that it has secured $28 million in expansion capital. Prominent Boston-based v...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Mike Fitzgerald featured in Boston Herald&apos;s &amp;quot;Waltham Cos. Venture Ahead: Deal-making is on a roll this year&amp;quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News?NID=857</link>
      <description>When Terry McGuire enters a restaurant for breakfast near Winter Street in Waltham he scans the room in search of other venture capitalists. &amp;ldquo;If you&amp;rsquo;re talking abo...</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Elliot Katzman Featured on FastForward, &amp;quot;Reflections on Business Impacts of Web 2.0&amp;quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News?NID=856</link>
      <description>Recently I talked with Elliot Katzman, a general partner of Commonwealth Capital Ventures. Elliot has more than 25 years of high-technology experience and focuses his investme...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Constant Contact seeks $86M in IPO</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=855</link>
      <description>Constant Contact Inc. has filed a registration statement for a proposed initial public stock offering. 

The company is looking to raise about $86 million from the IPO, acco...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Jul 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Justin Perreault&apos;s &amp;quot;Startups win when picking funding that fits the bill&amp;quot; featured in Mass High Tech</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News?NID=854</link>
      <description>The common business mantra has always been, &amp;quot;The greater the risk, the greater the return.&amp;quot; In the venture capital world, however, bigger risk is not always the wise...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Commonwealth Capital Ventures Adds New Associates to Investment Team</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News?NID=853</link>
      <description>Commonwealth Capital Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in software and software-based services, Internet and new media, communications technology, and instruments ...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News?NID=853</guid>
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      <title>Me.dium Secures $15 Million Investment Round Led by Commonwealth Capital Ventures</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=852</link>
      <description>Me.dium, a consumer software company, today announced that it has secured $15 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Waltham, MA-based Commonwealth Capital Ventures...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=852</guid>
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      <title>Mike Fitzgerald featured in &amp;quot;Financing SaaS Ventures&amp;quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News?NID=851</link>
      <description>The pay-as-you-go business model of on-demand software makes it more difficult for up-and-coming vendors to reach break-even point than with conventional licensed software. In...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Mike Fitzgerald featured on Tech Talk with Craig Peterson</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News?NID=850</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Commonwealth Capital Ventures Open House</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=849</link>
      <description>CCV Office Building Atrium, Waltham, MA
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Boston Entrepreneurs&apos; Network (E-Net) Event, Elliot Katzman</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=847</link>
      <description>Commonwealth Capital Ventures&amp;rsquo; Elliot Katzman Speaks at Boston Entrepreneurs&apos; Network Event

Elliot Katzman, General Partner at Commonwealth Capital Ventures, will par...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 1 May 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Ignite Clean Energy 07, Stephen Hallowell</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=848</link>
      <description>Stephen Hallowell, Associate at Commonwealth Capital Ventures, is serving as a mentor to entrepreneurs competing in this year&amp;rsquo;s Ignite Clean Energy Competition hosted by...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 1 May 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Princeton Entrepreneurs&apos; Network, Stephen Hallowell</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=846</link>
      <description>Stephen Hallowell Judges the Princeton Entrepreneurs&apos; Network&amp;rsquo;s Annual Business Plan Competition

Stephen Hallowell, Associate at Commonwealth Capital Ventures, will s...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Soundbite Files Registration Statement for proposed IPO</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=845</link>
      <description>SoundBite Communications announced today that it has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed initial public offe...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Mike Fitzgerald Quoted in Computer World&apos;s &amp;quot;Money Floods Venture Funds&amp;quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News?NID=844</link>
      <description>Money floods venture funds but no bubble is in sight. Yet. Venture capitalists fuel much of the innovation in IT and always have. The tools you will use tomorrow are being und...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), Mike Fitzgerald</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=843</link>
      <description>Commonwealth Capital Ventures&amp;rsquo; Mike Fitzgerald Speaks at Association for Corporate Growth Event

Mike Fitzgerald, Managing General Partner at Commonwealth Capital Vent...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Commonwealth Capital Ventures Closes Fund IV at $250 million</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News?NID=842</link>
      <description>Commonwealth Capital Ventures (Commonwealth) today announced it has closed its fourth fund, Commonwealth Capital Ventures IV (Commonwealth IV). The $250 million fund is primar...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>SoundBite Communications Receives Product of the Year Award from Customer Inter@ction Solutions Magazine</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=841</link>
      <description>SoundBite Communications Inc., a leading provider of hosted, automated customer contact solutions, today announced that the SoundBite 6.0 automated voice messaging (AVM) solut...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Elliot Katzman Joins Commonwealth Capital Ventures</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News?NID=840</link>
      <description>Commonwealth Capital Ventures, an early-stage, technology-focused venture capital firm, has added Elliot Katzman as a General Partner. Katzman brings highly complementary skil...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>AirTran Airways Selects e-Dialog to Optimize E-Mail Marketing</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=839</link>
      <description>AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AAI), today announced that it has selected e-Dialog, the proven provider of advanced e-mail marketing solutions,...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 8 Dec 2006 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Reed Business Information to Buy Online Lead Generation Business - BuyerZone</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=838</link>
      <description>Reed Business Information (RBI), a leading B2B publisher in the U.S. and part of Reed Elsevier, announced today it will acquire BuyerZone.com, Inc., (BuyerZone) an online lead...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 4 Dec 2006 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Ounce Labs Selected by Lockheed Martin for Enterprise Agreement</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=837</link>
      <description>Ounce Labs, the leader in software security assurance, today announced an enterprise agreement with Lockheed Martin, which has licensed the Ounce 4.0 solution for deployment t...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>US Navy Network Warfare Command Demonstrates Value of Source Code Vulnerability Analysis With Ounce Labs</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=836</link>
      <description>Ounce Labs, the leader in software security assurance, today announced that its software has been reviewed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL)...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Harte-Hanks To Acquire AberdeenGroup, Inc.</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=835</link>
      <description>Harte-Hanks, Inc. (NYSE:HHS), a worldwide direct and targeted marketing company, announced today that it has agreed to acquire AberdeenGroup, Inc., a Boston, MA-based provider...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Constant Contact Named One of America?s 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies by Inc. Magazine</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=834</link>
      <description>Constant Contact&amp;reg; today announced it has been named to the 25th Annual Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. Ranking no. 166 on Inc.&amp;rsquo...</description>
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      <title>Antenna Software Named New Jersey&apos;s Fastest-Growing Technology Company in Deloitte&apos;s Technology Fast 50 Program</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=833</link>
      <description>Antenna Software, Inc., a leading provider of wireless software solutions for the mobile enterprise, has been ranked number one in Deloitte&apos;s prestigious Technology Fast 50 Pr...</description>
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      <title>Constant Contact Announces $15 Million in Funding</title>
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      <description>Constant Contact&amp;reg; (www.constantcontact.com), the leading email marketing service for small businesses, associations, and nonprofits, today announced that it is closing a $...</description>
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      <title>Antenna Software Receives Research in Motion 2006 Wireless Leadership Award</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=831</link>
      <description>Antenna Software, Inc., a leading provider of wireless software solutions for the mobile enterprise, announced that it received the Business Impact Award at the 2006 Wireless ...</description>
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      <title>Commonwealth Capital Annual Meeting</title>
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      <title>Acquisition of I-Logix Inc. by Telelogic AB Creates an Exciting Powerhouse in The Embedded Systems Market</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=828</link>
      <description>I-Logix, the leading worldwide provider of Model-Driven Development (MDD) solutions for systems design through software development announced today that it is being acquired b...</description>
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      <title>BlueNote Networks Secures $15 Million Series B Financing</title>
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      <description>BlueNote Networks&amp;trade;, provider of SessionSuite&amp;trade; IP Telephony software, today announced that it has secured $15 million in Series B funding. The round was led by new ...</description>
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      <title>Pactolus Passes 2 Billion Monthly Service Minutes Benchmark</title>
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      <description>Pactolus Communications Software Corp., developers of the most comprehensive IP voice service suite and service delivery environment for telecom service providers, today annou...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=826</link>
      <description>Crossbeam Systems&amp;reg;, Inc., the leader in unified threat management (UTM) for the world&amp;rsquo;s largest networks, today announced that its fourth quarter and fiscal year 200...</description>
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      <description>Crossbeam Systems&amp;reg;, Inc., the leader in protecting the world&amp;rsquo;s largest networks, today announced that Frost &amp;amp; Sullivan has recognized Crossbeam with the 2006 Net...</description>
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      <description>Constant Contact today announced that Small Business Technology Magazine is naming its email marketing service as one of the top 10 winning technology products for small busin...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <description>Investment Technology Group, Inc. (NYSE: ITG), a leading provider of technology-based equity trading services and transaction research, today announced the completion of the a...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <description>Constant Contact (www.constantcontact.com), the leading email marketing service for small businesses, associations and nonprofits, today announced that it recently passed the ...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Nova Analytics Announces the Acquisition of ADS Corporation</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=821</link>
      <description>Nova Analytics Corporation is pleased to announce the acquisition of ADS Corporation a subsidiary of Axel Johnson Inc. ADS Corporation manufactures and distributes flow measur...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Ounce Labs Names Hugh Scandrett President and CEO</title>
      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=820</link>
      <description>Ounce Labs, the leader in software security assurance, today announced it has named Hugh Scandrett as president and Chief Executive Officer. Founder Jack Danahy will remain on...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Nov 2005 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.ccvlp.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=819</link>
      <description>BuyerZone.com, the leading online marketplace for business purchasing, announced today that it has registered more than one million businesses that have used its Request for Q...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Crossbeam Systems Named 2004 Market Leader in High-End Unified Threat Management Market According to Leading Market Analyst Firm</title>
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      <title>NeuroMetrix, Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2004 Financial Results</title>
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      <title>Commonwealth Capital Annual Meeting</title>
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      <description>Ounce Labs, Inc., the leader in software vulnerability risk management, today announced it has added Tom Bogan and Shaun McConnon to its board of directors.&amp;nbsp; Through thei...</description>
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      <title>NeuroMetrix Notes Expansion of Therapeutic Options for Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy</title>
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      <description>NeuroMetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NURO), a medical device company focused on the design, development and sale of proprietary products used to diagnose neuropathies, today noted an imp...</description>
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      <description>Azanda Network Devices, an innovator in the development of integrated traffic processing products for access, edge and core networks, today announced that it has closed $10 mi...</description>
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      <title>USA Datanet Deploys Services by Pactolus</title>
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      <description>Pactolus Communications Software Corporation, a leading provider of SIP-based voice services announced today that its RapidFLEX&amp;trade; Application Server and SIPware&amp;trade; Se...</description>
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      <title>3Com and Crossbeam Announce Alliance</title>
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      <description>BuyerZone.com, the leading online marketplace for small and mid-sized business purchasing, announced today that it has been named to Deloitte &amp;amp; Touche&apos;s &amp;quot;Technology F...</description>
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      <title>Macgregor Named One of &amp;quot;NE&apos;s Fast 50</title>
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      <description>&amp;quot;Macgregor Named One of New England&apos;s Fastest Growing Technology Companies

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      <description>Roving Software, leading provider of Constant Contact Do-It-Yourself Email Marketing&amp;trade; has been named to Deloitte &amp;amp; Touche&apos;s prestigious Technology Fast 50 Program fo...</description>
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      <description>CIENA&amp;reg; Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), a leading provider of global network solutions, today announced it completed its acquisition of WaveSmith Networks, Inc. According to th...</description>
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      <title>StarGen Receives $15 Million in Series C</title>
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      <description>StarGen, a semiconductor company that supplies advanced serial switched interconnect solutions and is recognized as an innovation leader in its market, today announced that it...</description>
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      <description>Pragmatech Software, Inc., the leading provider of sales effectiveness and proposal automation solutions, today announced that it has raised $12 million in its initial round o...</description>
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      <title>Macgregor Named Best Buy Side OMS Vendor</title>
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      <description>Macgregor&amp;reg;, a global provider of buy-side trade order management systems (OMS) and FIX network services, today reported receiving top honors in a new industry survey carri...</description>
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      <title>Crossbeam Unveils C30</title>
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      <title>Commonwealth Capital Annual Meeting</title>
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      <title>Ciena to Acquire WaveSmith for $158 million</title>
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      <title>Pactolus Expands IP Media Server Products with Best-of-Breed Options</title>
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      <description>Pactolus Communications Software Corporation, a leading provider of SIP-based service solutions announced today the immediate availability of both hardware and software-based ...</description>
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      <title>Network Engines Acquires TidalWire</title>
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      <title>Azanda Chosen as Startup to Watch</title>
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      <title>Roving Software Raises $4.5 Million Round</title>
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      <description>Roving Software, leading provider of Do-It-Yourself Email Marketing(TM), today announced the closing of more than $4.5 million in additional funding from new investor Hudson V...</description>
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      <title>Network Engines to Acquire TidalWire</title>
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      <title>WaveSmith Amps Up For Bigger Business</title>
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      <title>WaveSmith Closes $30 Million Third Round</title>
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      <title>Allegiance Selects Macgregor</title>
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In-depth IT Content Adds Value for Core Audience; Directory Listing and Syn...</description>
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      <title>Gary Gregory Joins NeuroMetrix as EVP Sales</title>
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      <title>Former FORE Sys. CEO Joins WaveSmith BOD</title>
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      <description>WaveSmith Networks, an emerging company focused on redefining multiservice switching for carriers, today announced Thomas Gill, former FORE Systems&apos; President &amp;amp; Chief Exec...</description>
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      <description>Tally Systems today announced that its web-based PC inventory service, WebCensus (www.webcensus.net) has been named a winner by CMP Media LLC&apos;s Network Computing for a 2002 We...</description>
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      <title>Azanda Network Devices Captures Additional Series B Financing; Round Reaches $26 Million</title>
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      <description>Azanda Network Devices, an innovator in the development of silicon products for managing the way traffic is processed in network core, edge and enterprise markets, today annou...</description>
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      <title>Macgregor Positioned for High Growth Through New Sales, Executive Appointments, and Office Expansion</title>
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      <description>Macgregor&amp;trade;, a global provider of buy-side trade order management systems (OMS) and FIX network services, today announced that a series of recent events positions the com...</description>
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      <title>Incert Software Continues Growth Path</title>
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      <description>Continuing to receive validation of its superior carrier-class solutions, Kenetec, Inc., an innovator of broadband access solutions for enabling multi-services to businesses, ...</description>
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      <description>Macgregor&amp;trade;, a global provider of buy-side trade order management systems (OMS) and FIX network services, announced today that Mellon Capital Management (Mellon Capital) ...</description>
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