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    <title>Commonwealth Capital Ventures News</title>
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      <title>Constant Contact's CEO Gail Goodman Granted Ernst &amp;amp; Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=933</link>
      <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'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>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Copanion Wins CPA Technology Advisor's 2008 Tax &amp;amp; Accounting Technology Innovation Award</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=932</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>First Coverage Secures $9 Million in Series B Financing</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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>
      <pubDate>Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Mike Fitzgerald quoted in Manufacturing Business Technology's &amp;quot;Know SaaS Issues Before They Impact Operations&amp;quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=926</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Sun, 1 Jun 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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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>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>My Perfect Gig Launches Innovative Services</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=925</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Me.dium Makes Friends with Big Brother</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=923</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>ZoomInfo Spins Off Ad Platform into Bizo, a New Company&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=924</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>SoundBite Communications Announces Intelligent Communications Platform</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=920</link>
      <description>SoundBite Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: SDBT) today announced the upcoming release of the SoundBite Intelligent Communications Platform, an integrated, multi-channel solution ...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Capital Intensity, Fixed Costs Make Telecom Volatile</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=919</link>
      <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>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=922</link>
      <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>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=917</link>
      <description>Commonwealth'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>
      <pubDate>Thu, 1 May 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Going Solo: More VCs Deciding to Invest Alone</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=921</link>
      <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>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=915</link>
      <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>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=918</link>
      <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>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=910</link>
      <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>Copanion, Vela Systems Named Always On Top 100 Companies in the Northeast</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=914</link>
      <description>AlwaysOn proudly presents the first annual Northeast 100 Top Private Companies. With this list of the most innovative and promising new companies in the Northeastern United Sa...</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 5 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>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=916</link>
      <description>General Partner Elliot Katzman spoke on leading teams in entrepreneurial environments in faculty member Jeremy Halpern's Entrepreneurial Leadership course at Tufts University ...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Reval Announces Version 8.0 of HedgeRx&amp;reg; With New Credit Derivatives Module to Help Companies Comply With Regulatory Change</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=930</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Mike Fitzgerald Featured In MHT's &amp;quot;New England Tech Firms Steer Clear of IPO's&amp;quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=913</link>
      <description>The first two months of 2008 have yielded zero New England technology IPOs, down from the first two months of last year, when three local tech companies had already completed ...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) Acquires Compete, Inc. For Up To $150M</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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>
      <pubDate>Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>SoundBite Buys Texting Firm Mobile Connect</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Beth Marcus, CEO Zeemote, To Be Honored as Mass High Tech &amp;quot;Woman to Watch&amp;quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=906</link>
      <description>10 New England women will be honored at the Mass High Tech 5th annual Women to Watch event.
&amp;quot;These women are go-getters, hard working, inspirational and motivational to ...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>EveryZing Launches ezSEO and ezSearch: The Web's First Comprehensive Solution for Audio and Video Search and SEO</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=909</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Vela Systems Featured in &amp;quot;Punching Goes Paperless&amp;quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=905</link>
      <description>Don Ghent of Gensler Architects already wears two cell phones to back up a BlackBerry, but he's lugging around yet another gadget these days as he wraps up construction at the...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Reval Continues Rapid Growth Record with 44 New Clients in 2007</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=904</link>
      <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.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=907</link>
      <description>You might think the last thing you'd need to play games on your mobile phone would be a wireless remote control, but Zeemote's JS1 is just that. The Bluetooth device has four ...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>ByAllAccounts Secures $5M in Series A Financing</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Justin Perreault Quoted in ServerWatch's &amp;quot;Virtually Speaking: Waiting to Shift Gears&amp;quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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's &amp;quot;VCs Still Hot on Security&amp;quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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. 

Marke...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Steve Hallowell Participates in MIT's Enterprise Forum</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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>
      <pubDate>Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>GSI Commerce (NASDAQ: GSIC) to Acquire E-mail Marketing Leader e-Dialog</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=900</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Carbon Design Systems Raises $6M in Venture Funding After Successful 2007</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=892</link>
      <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>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=890</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Mike Fitzgerald quoted in &amp;quot;NetSuite IPO Hits Ellison's Sweet Spot&amp;quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=889</link>
      <description>Shares of Larry Ellison'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>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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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's Worcester Polytechnic Institute Venture Forum Business Plan Contest, says his com...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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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>
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      <title>Idex Corp. to buy Nova Technologies&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=893</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>WPI Venture Forum Business Plan Contest, Elliot Katzman</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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' &amp;quot;House Approves Controversial Tax Bill&amp;quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=882</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Copanion, Inc. Introduces GruntWorx&amp;trade; Tax Document Automation Solution for Tax Professionals</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Nov 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=886</guid>
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      <title>Copanion Raises $6 Million in First Round</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=885</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Wed, 7 Nov 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=885</guid>
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      <title>Elliot Katzman is Speaker at Suffolk Law School</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=897</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Tue, 6 Nov 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=897</guid>
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      <title>Mike Fitzgerald featured in Information Week's &amp;quot;Go SaaS, Young Man&amp;quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=883</link>
      <description>
Venture capitalist Mike Fitzgerald says he's more inclined to invest in  software startups that embrace the service model.
Fitzgerald, founder of Commonwealth  Capital Vent...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 5 Nov 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=883</guid>
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      <title>SoundBite raises $42 million in IPO</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=880</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Fri, 2 Nov 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=880</guid>
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      <title>Hubcast Secures $8.1 million in Series A Funding</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=881</link>
      <description>HubCast announced today that it has closed a Series 'A' round of funding totaling $8.1 million. The financing round was led by two firms: Commonwealth Capital Partners (Waltha...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 1 Nov 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=881</guid>
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      <title>Elliot Katzman Presents Business Case at Babson College</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=896</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=896</guid>
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      <title>Commonwealth Capital Annual Meeting</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=878</link>
      <description>Four Seasons, Boston, MA
&amp;nbsp;...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=878</guid>
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      <title>Commonwealth Capital Participates in Hub Financial Charities Golf Tournament</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=877</link>
      <description>About Hub Financial Charities
Hub Financial Charities was born in the aftermath of 9-11 nearly seven years ago. The organization was formed to provide financial support for N...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=877</guid>
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      <title>Compete featured in the Boston Globe &amp;quot;Trends tracked with click of the mouse&amp;quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=873</link>
      <description>In an age where everything from friendships to financial planning has moved online, the pulse of pop culture, the ups and downs of the housing market, and even the subjects of...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=873</guid>
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      <title>CRI Technologies Inc. Announces End-to-End Managed Virtualization Solutions</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=874</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=874</guid>
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      <title>128 Innovation Capital Group, Justin Perreault</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=872</link>
      <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

Justin...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=872</guid>
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      <title>Pragmatech rebrands as Kadient</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=871</link>
      <description>After 13 years of operating as Pragmatech, the Nashua, N.H.-based software maker adopted the name Kadient Inc., according to company officials. 

Founded in 1994, Kadient de...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=871</guid>
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      <title>Commonwealth Capital Ventures Promotes Stephen Hallowell to Principal</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=870</link>
      <description>Commonwealth Capital Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in software and software-based services, Internet and digital media, communications technology, and instrume...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 9 Oct 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=870</guid>
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      <title>Stephen Hallowell Selected for Mass High Tech's &amp;quot;People to Watch Under 30&amp;quot; List</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=869</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Fri, 5 Oct 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=869</guid>
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      <title>Email Marketer Delivers Sizzling IPO </title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=868</link>
      <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's initial public offering Wednesday, rising $13...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=868</guid>
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      <title>The Capital Network (TCN) Event, Elliot Katzman</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=867</link>
      <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 

Elliot Katzman, General Par...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 2 Oct 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=867</guid>
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      <title>Pat Noonan Selected for TiE-Boston Young Entrepreneurs Leadership Program</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=876</link>
      <description>The TiE Leadership Program is a breakthrough mentoring and peer-networking program for Boston's most promising young entrepreneurs and professionals.&amp;nbsp; 

The TiE Leaders...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 1 Oct 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=876</guid>
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      <title>Mike Fitzgerald featured in DMNews</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=866</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=866</guid>
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      <title>Private Equity Analyst Conference 2007, Mike Fitzgerald</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=865</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=865</guid>
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      <title>Tim Curran Joins Vela Systems as Chief Executive Officer</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=864</guid>
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      <title>Constant Contact prices IPO</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=863</link>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=863</guid>
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      <title>CRI Technologies Inc. Raises $10 Million in Series A Funding</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=862</guid>
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      <title>Web Analytics Start-Up Compete Inc. Scores $10 Million</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=860</guid>
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      <title>Mike Fitzgerald featured in Destination CRM's &amp;quot;SaaS Will Outpace the Rest of the Market&amp;quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=861</guid>
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      <title>Vela Systems Secures $6 Million in Series A Funding for Mobile Software</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=858</guid>
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      <title>Reval Raises $28 Million in Expansion Funding</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=879</guid>
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      <title>Mike Fitzgerald featured in Boston Herald's &amp;quot;Waltham Cos. Venture Ahead: Deal-making is on a roll this year&amp;quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=857</guid>
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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.commonwealthvc.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>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=856</guid>
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      <title>Constant Contact seeks $86M in IPO</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=855</guid>
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      <title>Justin Perreault's &amp;quot;Startups win when picking funding that fits the bill&amp;quot; featured in Mass High Tech</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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.commonwealthvc.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.commonwealthvc.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.commonwealthvc.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.commonwealthvc.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.commonwealthvc.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>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=851</guid>
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      <title>Mike Fitzgerald featured on Tech Talk with Craig Peterson</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=850</link>
      <description>Click here to hear the interview:
&amp;nbsp;...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=850</guid>
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      <title>Commonwealth Capital Ventures Open House</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=849</link>
      <description>CCV Office Building Atrium, Waltham, MA
&amp;nbsp;...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=849</guid>
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      <title>Boston Entrepreneurs' Network (E-Net) Event, Elliot Katzman</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=847</link>
      <description>Commonwealth Capital Ventures&amp;rsquo; Elliot Katzman Speaks at Boston Entrepreneurs' Network Event

Elliot Katzman, General Partner at Commonwealth Capital Ventures, will par...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 1 May 2007 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=847</guid>
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      <title>Ignite Clean Energy 07, Stephen Hallowell</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=848</guid>
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      <title>Princeton Entrepreneurs' Network, Stephen Hallowell</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=846</link>
      <description>Stephen Hallowell Judges the Princeton Entrepreneurs' 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>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=846</guid>
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      <title>Soundbite Files Registration Statement for proposed IPO</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=845</guid>
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      <title>Mike Fitzgerald Quoted in Computer World's &amp;quot;Money Floods Venture Funds&amp;quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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.commonwealthvc.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>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=843</guid>
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      <title>Commonwealth Capital Ventures Closes Fund IV at $250 million</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=842</guid>
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      <title>SoundBite Communications Receives Product of the Year Award from Customer Inter@ction Solutions Magazine</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=841</guid>
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      <title>Elliot Katzman Joins Commonwealth Capital Ventures</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=840</guid>
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      <title>AirTran Airways Selects e-Dialog to Optimize E-Mail Marketing</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=839</guid>
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      <title>Reed Business Information to Buy Online Lead Generation Business - BuyerZone</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=838</guid>
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      <title>Ounce Labs Selected by Lockheed Martin for Enterprise Agreement</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=837</guid>
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      <title>US Navy Network Warfare Command Demonstrates Value of Source Code Vulnerability Analysis With Ounce Labs</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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>
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      <title>Harte-Hanks To Acquire AberdeenGroup, Inc.</title>
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      <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>
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      <title>Constant Contact Named One of America?s 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies by Inc. Magazine</title>
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      <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's Fastest-Growing Technology Company in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 Program</title>
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      <description>Antenna Software, Inc., a leading provider of wireless software solutions for the mobile enterprise, has been ranked number one in Deloitte'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>
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      <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>
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      <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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      <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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      <title>Crossbeam Systems 2005 Results Confirm Undisputed Leadership in High-End Unified Threat Management Market</title>
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      <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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      <title>Crossbeam Systems Receives 2006 Network Security Infrastructure Protection of the Year Award from Frost &amp;amp; Sullivan</title>
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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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      <title>Constant Contact Named One of the Top 10 Winners in Small Business Technology Magazine's Product of the Year Awards</title>
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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>
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      <title>ITG Completes Macgregor and Plexus Acquisitions, Forms New Subsidiary</title>
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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>
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      <title>Constant Contact Doubles Customer Base in One Year, Reaching 50,000 Customers Milestone</title>
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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>
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      <title>Nova Analytics Announces the Acquisition of ADS Corporation</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.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.commonwealthvc.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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      <title>BuyerZone.com Registers One-Millionth Buyer and Receives Deloitte's &amp;quot;New England Technology Fast 50&amp;quot; Award for 4th Consecutive Year</title>
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      <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>
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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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      <description>Crossbeam Systems&amp;reg;, Inc., the leader in protecting the world&amp;rsquo;s largest networks, today announced it has been identified as the market leader in the high-end segment ...</description>
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      <title>Investment Technology Group to Acquire Macgregor for Approximately $230 Million</title>
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      <description>Investment Technology Group, Inc. (&amp;ldquo;ITG&amp;rdquo;) (NYSE: ITG), a leading provider of technology-based equity trading services and transaction research, today announced tha...</description>
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      <title>SoundBite Communications Completes $8.5 Million Funding Round</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=816</link>
      <description>SoundBite Communications, the leading provider of hosted, OnDemand Customer Communications solutions, today announced the closing of $8.5 million in Series D financing. The ro...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Red Herring Names Crossbeam Systems in Top 100 Hottest Private Companies in North America</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=815</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2005 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Micromuse Enters into Agreement to Acquire Quallaby Corporation</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=814</link>
      <description>Micromuse Inc. (NASDAQ: MUSE), the leading provider of ultra-scalable, realtime business and service assurance software, announced today that it has entered into an agreement ...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Jack Danahy Named as Laureate for 2005 Computerworld Honors</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=813</link>
      <description>Ounce Labs, the leader in software vulnerability risk management, today announced that CEO Jack Danahy has been named a 2005 Computerworld Honors laureate, nominated by repres...</description>
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      <title>iVivity Releases Storage Networking Industry's First 10Gbps Intelligent Storage Processor</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=812</link>
      <description>iVivity(R), a leading technology provider of storage networking technologies including intelligent storage processors, protocol stacks, software integration services and custo...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Crossbeam Systems and Check Point Announce Significant Market Momentum with Telecommunications and Managed Service Providers for Virtual Security Systems</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=811</link>
      <description>Crossbeam Systems&amp;reg;, Inc., the leader in protecting the world&amp;rsquo;s largest networks, and Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), the worldwide leader in s...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>BuyerZone.com Delivers Two Millionth Sales Lead to Suppliers of Business Products and Services</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=810</link>
      <description>BuyerZone.com, the leading online marketplace for business purchasing, announced today the delivery of its two millionth sales lead to its supplier referral network of nationa...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 8 Mar 2005 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Macgregor Achieves Record Revenues and Profits in 2004</title>
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      <description>Macgregor&amp;reg;, a leading provider of execution process technology for the global financial community, today announced that 2004 annual revenues and profits were the highest i...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>e-Dialog Posts 49 Percent Revenue Growth in 2004 - Emphasis on Strategy and Flexible Service Offerings Fuels Momentum in the Marketplace</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=808</link>
      <description>e-Dialog, a proven provider of advanced e-mail marketing solutions, today announced that demand for its market-leading technologies, products, strategies and services for perm...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>NeuroMetrix, Inc. Reports 2004 Fourth Quarter Results; Fourth Quarter Revenues of $5.8 Million Increased 101% From Previous Year</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=807</link>
      <description>NeuroMetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NURO), a medical device company focused on the design, development and sale of proprietary products used to diagnose neuropathies, announced today f...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>iVivity voted &amp;quot;Breakthrough Technology Award&amp;quot; at Georgia Technology Summit</title>
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      <description>iVivity, a leading technology provider of chip, board and integrated software solutions for the storage networking systems market, was voted as the company with the leading Br...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2005 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Software Risk Management Pioneer Ounce Labs Receives $10 Million in Series B Funding</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=805</link>
      <description>Ounce Labs, Inc., the leader in software vulnerability risk management, today announced it has closed $10 million in its second round of funding.&amp;nbsp; BlueStream Ventures led...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Constant Contact Passes 25,000 Customer Mark; Ends Cash Flow Positive Year</title>
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      <description>Constant Contact, the leading permission Do-It-Yourself Email Marketing&amp;reg; service for small and medium businesses and associations announced today that it recently passed i...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Swissray Prevails in 4 Year Legal Battle to Defend its Intellectual Property</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=803</link>
      <description>Swissray International (OTC: SRYI) After a legal battle Swissray has prevailed in defending its Intellectual Property.

Swissray sued the French company, DMS-Apelem of N&amp;ici...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>I-Logix Announces Strong Growth and High Demand in Q3 for its Flagship UML 2.0 Model-Driven Development Solution Rhapsody</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=802</link>
      <description>Embedded systems and software solutions provider I-Logix announced today a record number of new customer wins for the third quarter. Demand for its core Model-Driven Developme...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>e-Dialog CEO John Rizzi to Testify at Congressional Hearing on Spam</title>
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      <description>John Rizzi, president and chief executive officer of e-Dialog, has been selected by the Chairman of the Committee on Small Business in the US House of Representatives to testi...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Macgregor Announces General Availability of Industry's First Order Management Network (OMN)</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=799</link>
      <description>Macgregor&amp;reg;, a leading global provider of buy-side investment management technology, today announced the general availability of Macgregor XIP 7s, the industry's first Orde...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>NeuroMetrix, Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2004 Financial Results</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=800</link>
      <description>NeuroMetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NURO), a medical device company focused on the design, development and sale of proprietary products used to diagnose neuropathies, announced today t...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Commonwealth Capital Annual Meeting</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=798</link>
      <description>Four Seasons, Boston, MA...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>StarGen Achieves Key StarFabric Milestone: 250,000 Ports Shipped</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=797</link>
      <description>StarGen announced that it has achieved a major business milestone by shipping 250,000 StarFabric ports into 75 product designs worldwide. The company also announced the immedi...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Pactolus Introduces Prepaid Broadband Telephony</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=796</link>
      <description>Pactolus Communications Software Corporation, a leading provider of SIP-based voice services, today announced that it is adding prepaid billing to its commercially successful ...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>WebEx Deploys Pactolus SIP-based Voice Conferencing</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=795</link>
      <description>Pactolus Communications Software Corporation, a leading provider of SIP-based voice services, today announced that WebEx Communications Inc., the leading provider of on-demand...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>BuyerZone.com Named to Deloitte's &amp;quot;New England Technology Fast 50&amp;quot; for the Third Consecutive Year</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=794</link>
      <description>BuyerZone.com, the online marketplace for business purchasing, announced today that it has been named to Deloitte's &amp;quot;Technology Fast 50&amp;quot; program for New England for ...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Pragmatech Software Named to Software Magazine's 22nd Annual Software 500</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=793</link>
      <description>Pragmatech Software, Inc., the leading provider of sales productivity and proposal automation applications, today announced its inclusion on the Software 500, Software Magazin...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Aberdeen Group Launches Aberdeen Access</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=792</link>
      <description>Aberdeen Group, a recognized source of business value research for global business executives., has launched AberdeenAccess. This new service will radically alter the traditio...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Ounce Labs Continues Growth With Strategic Additions to Board of Directors</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=791</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>NeuroMetrix Notes Expansion of Therapeutic Options for Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=790</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Pragmatech Named &amp;quot;Top Emerging Company&amp;quot; by Growthink&amp;quot;</title>
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      <description>Pragmatech Software, Inc., the leading provider of sales productivity and proposal automation applications, today announced it has been named to Growthink Research&amp;rsquo;s 200...</description>
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      <title>NeuroMetrix, Inc. Announces Pricing on Initial Public Offering</title>
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      <description>NeuroMetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NURO) announced today the pricing of its initial public offering of 3,000,000 shares of its common stock at $8.00 per share. All of the shares are b...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Crossbeam Receives 2004 Customer Value Enchantment Award</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=785</link>
      <description>Crossbeam Systems&amp;reg;, Inc., a leading global developer of total security solutions required for safer, simpler networks, today announced that Frost &amp;amp; Sullivan has recogn...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Eliyon Technologies Reports Record Second Quarter 2004 Growth</title>
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      <description>Eliyon Technologies, (www.eliyon.com), the leader in automated content creation search technology, today reported that it achieved record sales and signed a record number of n...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Eliyon, a Next Generation Content Provider, Raises $7 Million in First-Round Growth Capital</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=787</link>
      <description>Eliyon Technologies, (www.eliyon.com), the leader in automated content creation search technology, announced today that it raised $7 million from Venrock Associates and existi...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Network World Announces Winner of Entrepreneurship Contest</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=783</link>
      <description>The winner of Network World's inaugural &amp;quot;Who Wants to be an Entrepreneur?&amp;quot; contest says if all goes well his idea could lead to routers and other network devices cos...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Ounce Labs Announces Industry-First Product</title>
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      <description>Ounce Labs, Inc., the leader in software vulnerability analysis and management, today announced the general availability of Prexis v. 2.0, the Company&amp;rsquo;s automated source...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>BT Group Plc Selects Quallaby's PROVISO</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=782</link>
      <description>Quallaby Corporation, the technology leader in carrier-class performance management solutions, announced today that BT has selected PROVISO&amp;reg; as the network performance man...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Constant Contact Announces 20,000 Paying Customers</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=781</link>
      <description>Constant Contact today announced that it recently passed its 20,000 paying customer mark as more small businesses embrace its online email marketing service to conduct permiss...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>iVivity Closes $26 Million Series C Financing</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=780</link>
      <description>iVivity, a leading technology provider for intelligent storage networking systems, today announced that it has closed a $26 million Series C preferred stock financing led by n...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Commonwealth Capital Launches Entrepreneurship Competition in Partnership with Network World Magazine</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News?NID=779</link>
      <description>The contest was developed by Commonwealth Capital and Network World with the intention of reaching seasoned IT professionals. Unlike most entrepreneurship competitions which a...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>NEUROMetrix Raises $10 Million</title>
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      <description>NEUROMetrix, Inc., a developer and provider of medical devices for the detection and monitoring of neurological conditions affecting the peripheral nerves and spine, announced...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Top-Tier Venture Firms Invest in BuyerZone</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=777</link>
      <description>BuyerZone.com, the leading online marketplace for B2B purchasing, announced today that new investor Bessemer Venture Partners and existing investor Commonwealth Capital Ventur...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Ounce Labs Secures $6 Million in Series A Funding from Greylock and Commonwealth Capital Ventures</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=776</link>
      <description>Ounce Labs, Inc., leading-edge provider of application security solutions, today announced that it secured $6 million in Series A funding from Greylock and Commonwealth Capita...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>BuyerZone.com Announces Partnership with Toshiba</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=775</link>
      <description>BuyerZone.com, the leading online marketplace for B2B purchasing, announced today a strategic partnership with Toshiba&amp;rsquo;s Digital Solutions Division. Delivering some of t...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Carbon Raises Additional $10M Funding</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=774</link>
      <description>Carbon Design Systems &amp;mdash; a fast moving EDA company that reduces the time-to-profit for chip companies by enabling pre-silicon system validation&amp;mdash;announced today that...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Azanda Network Devices Closes $10 Million Series C Funding Round</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=773</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Mon, 8 Dec 2003 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Akibia Expands Network Security Offerings into EMEA</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=772</link>
      <description>Akibia Infrastructure Management Services, a leading worldwide provider of customized and integrated support solutions for multivendor UNIX, Linux and Windows environments, is...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Dec 2003 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>bluedolphin.com Makes Big Splash</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=770</link>
      <description>bluedolphin.com, America's Magazine Superstore&amp;trade;, today announced a 130 percent increase in its magazine subscription sales over the past year alone, more than doubling i...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>USA Datanet Deploys Services by Pactolus</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=771</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>3Com and Crossbeam Announce Alliance</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=769</link>
      <description>3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS) and Crossbeam Systems&amp;reg;, Inc., a leading global developer of total security solutions required for safer, simpler networks, today announced ...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 3 Nov 2003 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>BuyerZone Named One of Deloitte's NE Fast 50</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=768</link>
      <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's &amp;quot;Technology F...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2003 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Macgregor Named One of &amp;quot;NE's Fast 50</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=766</link>
      <description>&amp;quot;Macgregor Named One of New England's Fastest Growing Technology Companies

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 &amp;ndash; Boston, MA

Macgregor&amp;reg; has been named to Deloitte &amp;amp;...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Roving Named One of &amp;quot;NE's Fast 50</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=767</link>
      <description>Roving Software, leading provider of Constant Contact Do-It-Yourself Email Marketing&amp;trade; has been named to Deloitte &amp;amp; Touche's prestigious Technology Fast 50 Program fo...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>iVivity Raises $13M, Names David Coombs CEO</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=765</link>
      <description>iVivity, developer of processors for network storage applications, said it has raised $13 million in Series B funding and nnamed David Coombs director, president, and CEO.

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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Ciena Completes WaveSmith Transaction</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=763</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2003 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>StarGen Receives $15 Million in Series C</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=764</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2003 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Pragmatech Software Attracts $12 Million</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=762</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Macgregor Named Best Buy Side OMS Vendor</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=761</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Crossbeam Unveils C30</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=760</link>
      <description>Crossbeam Systems&amp;reg;, Inc. today announced a new family of solutions that delivers enterprise-strength security to medium-sized businesses and divisional offices of larger b...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2003 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=760</guid>
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      <title>Commonwealth Capital Annual Meeting</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=759</link>
      <description>Four Seasons, Boston, MA...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 1 May 2003 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Events?NID=759</guid>
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      <title>Ciena to Acquire WaveSmith for $158 million</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=758</link>
      <description>Ciena, a publicly traded optical networking systems and software provider, said it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Acton, Mass.-based WaveSmith Networks, provide...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=758</guid>
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      <title>Pactolus Expands IP Media Server Products with Best-of-Breed Options</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=757</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>WaveSmith Expands Management Team</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=756</link>
      <description>WaveSmith Networks, an emerging company focused on redefining multiservice edge switching for carriers, today named several key industry veterans to its management team. These...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 7 Jan 2003 12:00 EST</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=756</guid>
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      <title>Network Engines Acquires TidalWire</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=755</link>
      <description>Network Engines, Inc. (NASDAQ: NENG - News), a leading provider of enterprise server appliances and integration services, today announced that it has successfully completed th...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2002 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Azanda Chosen as Startup to Watch</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=754</link>
      <description>Azanda Network Devices today announced that the Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA), a premier semiconductor trade organization, has selected Azanda as a &amp;quot;Start-Up to...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 9 Dec 2002 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Roving Software Raises $4.5 Million Round</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=753</link>
      <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>
      <pubDate>Tue, 3 Dec 2002 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Network Engines to Acquire TidalWire</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=752</link>
      <description>Network Engines, Inc. (NASDAQ:NENG), a leading provider of enterprise server appliances and integration services, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreeme...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>WaveSmith Amps Up For Bigger Business</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=751</link>
      <description>WaveSmith Networks, an emerging company focused on redefining multiservice edge switching for carriers, today announced that it has named Thomas Burkardt as the company's new ...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 4 Nov 2002 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>WaveSmith Closes $30 Million Third Round</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=750</link>
      <description>WaveSmith Networks, an emerging company focused on redefining multiservice switching for carriers, today announced that it has closed a $30 million third round of financing, b...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Allegiance Selects Macgregor</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=749</link>
      <description>Macgregor&amp;trade;, a global provider of buy-side trade order management systems (OMS) and FIX network services, today announced that Allegiance Capital has selected the Macgreg...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>IDC Validates Crossbeam Architecture</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=748</link>
      <description>IDC, a leading provider of global IT research and advice, recently highlighted Crossbeam Systems&amp;reg;, Inc. in its report on new approaches for layering enterprise security. I...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>CNET Networks Acquires Newmediary</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=747</link>
      <description>CNET Networks Acquires Leading Technology White Paper Web Site and IT Service Provider Directory

In-depth IT Content Adds Value for Core Audience; Directory Listing and Syn...</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 7 Jul 2002 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Gary Gregory Joins NeuroMetrix as EVP Sales</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=746</link>
      <description>NeuroMetrix, Inc. today announced that Gary L. Gregory has joined the Company as Executive Vice President for Worldwide Sales. Mr. Gregory comes to NeuroMetrix with over 17 ye...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2002 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Seabridge Selects Azanda's Scimitar AZ61100</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=745</link>
      <description>Azanda Network Devices today announced that Seabridge, a Siemens Company, will develop multi-service access equipment using Azanda's recently announced Scimitar&amp;trade; AZ61100...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Extraprise Acquires Berkeley Enterprise Partners</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=744</link>
      <description>Extraprise, an international technology consulting firm specializing in customer relationship management, announced today that it has acquired Berkeley Enterprise Partners, a ...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2002 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Former FORE Sys. CEO Joins WaveSmith BOD</title>
      <link>http://www.commonwealthvc.com/index.cfm/News/Portfolio_News?NID=743</link>
      <description>WaveSmith Networks, an emerging company focused on redefining multiservice switching for carriers, today announced Thomas Gill, former FORE Systems' President &amp;amp; Chief Exec...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2002 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Tally Systems WebCensus Named A 2002 Winner By Network Computing For Well-Connected Award</title>
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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>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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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>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Incert Software Continues Growth Path</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Kenetec Achieves Further Recognition For EdgeXpress?</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>
      <pubDate>Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Texas Instruments Acquires Envoy Networks</title>
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      <description>Texas Instruments said it has acquired Envoy Networks, a developer of high-bandwidth infrastructure equipment for wireless services, based in Burlington, Mass. Terms of the de...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Mellon Capital Mgmt. Selects Macgregor</title>
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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>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>SkillSoft Agrees to Acquire Book24x7.com</title>
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      <description>SkillSoft Corporation (Nasdaq: SKIL), a leader in critical business skill e-Learning solutions for Global 2000 companies, today announced that it has signed a definitive agree...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 7 Dec 2001 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Crossbeam Systems Names New CEO</title>
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      <description>Crossbeam Systems&amp;trade;, an emerging leader in improving the economics of delivering secure, network-based applications for large data centers, today announced that Peter Geo...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 1 Nov 2001 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>MacGregor Executive Appointments</title>
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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 three recent appointments to its management team...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2001 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Books24x7 Inks Deal With Global Knowledge</title>
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      <description>Books24x7, the leading provider of referenceware solutions, today announced a partnership with Global Knowledge, Inc. (www.globalknowledge.com), the world&amp;rsquo;s largest inde...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2001 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>WaveSmith Lands $31 Million in Financing</title>
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      <description>WaveSmith Networks, an emerging company focused on redefining multiservice switching for carriers, announced today that it has secured up to $31 million in second round financ...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Commonwealth Leads Series B for Crossbeam Systems</title>
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      <description>Crossbeam Systems, Inc. today announced a series of developments aimed at unleashing major improvements in the economics of data center operations. The company unveiled its br...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <description>Pactolus Communication Software, Inc., a leading provider of XML-based enhanced services solutions for SIP-enabled networks announced the completion of its second round of ins...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <description>Spike Broadband Systems, Inc., announced today the planned creation of the world&amp;rsquo;s largest fixed wireless deployment to date, detailed in a $400 million contract to depl...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2001 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Paceline Systems Raises $20M in Financing</title>
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      <description>Paceline Systems, a developer of data center networking products, announced today it has received $20 million in financing from top-tier venture capitalists. The funds will en...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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      <title>Brian Annese Elected Vice-Chair of MIT Enterprise Forum</title>
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      <description>Commonwealth is proud to announce that Brian Annese has been elected Vice-Chair of the MIT Enterprise Forum. Brian is Commonwealth's Vice President of Finance and Administrati...</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2001 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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