Happy New Year 2013! News from Longworth Venture Partners

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

	Swirl is the personal shopper assistant for fashion wear.
	Straighterline is making quality higher education more affordable.
	TrackVia allows non-technical business people to build their own applications in databases, in the cloud.
	Estimize is an open, social platform for financial estimates.
	Jibe brings an enterprise's career site to the mobile world.
	KitsyLane is the community of online storefronts for jewelry.

Three New Seeds

	CreativeMarket is the online community and marketplace to buy and sell handcrafted design content.
	Alignable is the next-gen solution for finding local vendors.
	RJMetrics helps online business manage, measure and monetize.

Nine Follow-on Investments, including

	Symform, with its disruptive new cloud, raised an $11 million Series B round.
	NuoDB, the re-thought relational database for the cloud, raised a $10 million Series B round.
	OwnerIQ, the ownership targeting ad-network, raised a $7.5 million expansion round.

Two Strong Exits

	Moodlerooms, the open source learning management system, was acquired by Blackboard.
	MCA Solutions, the leader in service parts planning and optimization software, was acquired by Servigistics.

One Outstanding Commitment

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