January 2013
Portfolio Monitor

Dear Longworth Friend,

 

Happy New Year!  We had a busy and exciting 2012 and look forward to making 2013 even better as we work with entrepreneurs and management teams to build great companies.

 

Here's a look at what we were up to in 2012.

 

Six New Investments
SwirlSwirl is the personal shopper assistant for fashion wear.

StraighterLineStraighterline is making quality higher education more affordable.  

TrackViaTrackVia allows non-technical business people to build their own applications in databases, in the cloud.

Estimize 1

Estimize is an open, social platform for financial estimates.

Jibe

Jibe brings an enterprise's career site to the mobile world.

KitsyLaneKitsyLane is the community of online storefronts for jewelry.

 

Three New Seeds
Creative Market


CreativeMarket is the online community and marketplace to buy and sell handcrafted design content.

Alignable

Alignable is the next-gen solution for finding local vendors.

RJMetrics 1

RJMetrics
helps online business manage, measure and monetize.  



Nine Follow-on Investments, including
Symform

Symform, with its disruptive new cloud, raised an $11 million Series B round.

  NuoDB

NuoDB, the re-thought relational database for the cloud, raised a $10 million Series B round.

OwnerIQ
OwnerIQ, the ownership targeting ad-network, raised a $7.5 million expansion round.


Two Strong Exits
Moodlerooms   
Moodlerooms, the open source learning management system, was acquired by Blackboard

MCA

MCA Solutions
, the leader in service parts planning and optimization software, was acquired by Servigistics.   


One Outstanding CommitmentNewPortfolios

To partner with the best and brightest entrepreneurs and management teams to build the great companies of tomorrow.

 

Happy New Year!

About Longworth 

Longworth Venture Partners, a Boston based venture firm, invests in early and seed stage Internet, digital media and software companies.

 

Founded in 1999, Longworth leverages the deep operating experience of its principals and its market-driven research process to identify and help grow the leading companies of tomorrow.

In This Issue
Six New Investments
Three New Seeds
Nine Follow-on Investments
Two Strong Exits
Featured Portfolio Companies 

Swirl

Straighterline TrackVia

Estimize

JIBE

KitsyLane

CreativeMarket

Alignable 

RJMetrics

Symform

NuoDB

OwnerIQ

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