Highland Capital Partners

Highland Capital Partners was founded in 1988 with the mission of helping great people with great ideas build great companies. The firm takes a team-oriented approach in providing the right mix of strategic guidance, hands-on leadership and industry expertise for helping entrepreneurs and their teams become market leaders. Highland has invested in and worked to create such firms as Altiga Networks. Ask Jeeves, Avid Technology, CheckFree, EXACT Sciences, Lycos, MapQuest, New Oak Communications, Ocular Networks, Odyssey Healthcare, Starent Networks, Sybase, Telica and WebLine Communications. For more information, visit www.hcp.com.

Kodiak Venture Partners

Kodiak Venture Partners is a Massachusetts-based venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage investment in emerging communications/IT, semiconductor and software companies. Focusing on the eastern U.S. and Canada, Kodiak Venture Partners builds relationships with entrepreneurs seeking accelerated market success. Kodiak's investment partners are successful high-technology business entrepreneurs who take a high-impact, hands-on approach to forming, operating, building and funding market leaders. For more information, visit www.kodiakvp.com.

BCE Capital

BCE Capital is a Canadian venture capital firm that was founded in 1989 to invest in and assist entrepreneurs and their emerging companies. As a member of the Bell Canada Enterprises family, BCE Capital has access to a wealth of key industry knowledge in communications and information technology. BCE Capital invests in private companies that are relevant to BCE and operates as a traditional venture capital fund to help those companies succeed and maximize return on investment. For more information, visit www.bcecapital.com.

Solidarity Fund QFL

Solidarity Fund QFL is an investment fund that relies on the savings of Quebecers. The fund currently has approximately $6.8 billion in assets under management and more than 570,000 shareholders. Its primary mission is to help create and maintain jobs in Quebec-based companies and to further the province's economic growth. To date, the Solidarity Fund, on its own or with financial partners, has helped create or preserve over 116,000 jobs. For more information, visit www.fondsftq.com.

Lothian Partners

Lothian Partners 27 (sarl) SICAR, an affiliate of Coller Capital, acquired its participation in Simpler Networks from Innovatech Montreal as part of a global transaction involving 100% of its portfolio. Coller Capital, founded in 1990, is the leading global investor in private equity secondaries—the purchase of original investors’ stakes in private equity funds or the acquisition of portfolios of companies from corporate owners/backers. Coller Capital is based in London and its current fund has commitments of US$2.6 billion from 150 international institutional investors and is the largest secondaries fund in the world. Multiple Capital Inc. has been mandated to oversee the development of that portfolio and represents Coller Capital with its companies. Multiple Capital’s primary mission is to manage foreign funds in Quebec. For more information on Coller Capital, visit www.collercapital.com and for Multiple Capital, visit www.multiplecapital.com.

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