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Fifty HOT Companies
1. American Internet Corp.
Bedford, Mass.
http://www.american.com
CEO: Throop Wilder. Founded by Wilder and Brad Parker in 1995. Private; 32
employees. Software for Web site construction targeted at the Novell NetWar
e market. Novell resells a subset of SiteBuilder as the NetWare Web Server.
Raised $5 million in two rounds during 1995. Funding from Matrix Partners
and Charles River Ventures.
2. Architext Inc.,
Mountain View, Calif.
http://www.architext.com
CEO: George Bell. Founded in 1993 by Joe Kraus, Graham Spencer, Mark Van Ha
ren, Ryan McIntyre, Ben Lynch and Martin Reinfried. Private; 60 employees.
Internet navigation technology that is basis of Excite, which collects and
abstracts Web pages and allows concept-based and exact searches. Partnershi
ps with The Los Angeles Times and Netscape. Not profitable. Raised $3 milli
on in one round of financing; investors include Institutional Venture Partn
ers, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Charles River Ventures and Interna
tional Data Group.
3. @Home Network
Mountain View, Calif.
http://www.home.net
CEO: William R. Hearst III. Joint venture of TCI and Kleiner Perkins Caufie
ld and Byers founded in 1995. Private; 45 employees. Provides constant Inte
rnet connection, real-time delivery and updating of content to homes, busin
esses and schools via hybrid fiber coaxial cable technology to personal com
puters. Partnerships with Netscape and Macromedia.
4. Big Island Communications Inc.
Cupertino, Calif.
http://www.big-island.com
CEO: Derrick Miley. Founded by Miley in 1995. Private; 20 employees. Comput
er telephony integration. First product is YoYo, a computer telephony devic
e for Caller ID, paging, distinctive ringing and call management. Not profi
table. Investors include Menlo Ventures, Brentwood Associates and private i
nvestors.
5. Black Sun Interactive Inc.
San Francisco
http://www.blacksun.com
CEO: Franz Buchenberger. Founded by Buchenberger, Bob Rockwell, Peter Graf,
Bernie Habermeyer, Thilo Schwerdfeger, Kristof Nast-Kolb, Rainer Heigenmos
er and Robert Schoeller in 1995. Private; 25 employees. Developer of multiu
ser VRML browser, server and VRML/Java authoring software. Integrated produ
ct set is fully compliant with Internet standards such as VRML, HTML and Ja
va, with support for multiuser communities. Strategic partnerships with Lyc
os, NetCarta and GeoCities. Profitability expected in 1997. Sole investor i
s CMG@Ventures.
6. Border Network Technologies Inc.
Toronto
http://www.border.com
CEO: Steven Lamb. Founded by Computer Solutions Group, Sea Change Inc. and
Ryan Zachariassen in 1994. Private; 55 employees. BorderWare Firewall Serve
r, which includes Web, mail, news, FTP and DNS servers, provides security f
or TCP/IP networks. Partnerships with Cryptocard and Security Dynamics Inc.
Profitable on revenues of $4.5 million (12/31/95). First round of financin
g raised $5 million (Canadian) in February 1996. Investors: BCE and Working
Ventures Canadian Fund.
7. BroadVision Inc.
Los Altos, Calif.
http://www.broadvision.com
CEO: Pehong Chen. Founded by Chen in 1993. Private; 60 employees. Internet
marketing and electronic commerce application system for managing content,
consumer profiling, transactions and promotional programs. Partnerships wit
h RSA Data Security, CyberCash, VeriFone, Federal Express and others. Licen
sees include Sun Microsystems, Prodigy, Ameritech and others. Raised $10.3
million in three rounds of financing. Investors include Mayfield Fund, Sutt
er Hill Ventures, Stanford University, Ameritech, Olivetti and Itochu.
8. Business@Web Inc.
Watertown, Mass.
http://www.opower.com
CEO: Klaus Besier (former president and CEO of SAP America). Founded in 199
4 by John Donovan. Private; 90 employees. Development tools for building co
mponent-based applications that run on TCP/IP networks. Partnerships with H
P Public Services Organization, Digital Equipment, IBM, Siemens Nixdorf, Ic
ube, Antares, SAP, Open Environment and Brainstorm. Self-funded.
9. Chaco Communications Corp.
Cupertino, Calif.
http://www.chaco.com
CEO: Dan Greening. Founded in 1994 by Dan Greening, Ron Lussier, Jim Doubek
, Glenn Crocker and Pritham Shetty. Private; six employees. Multimedia mult
iuser dimension (MUD) clients, servers and authoring tools that support VRM
L, MIDI, HTML and proprietary extensions for real-time multiuser environmen
ts. Licensees include NetManage, Luckman Interactive, Velocity and Virtual
Online University; partnership with Netscape. Profitable since inception. S
elf-funded; now seeking venture capital.
10. CheckPoint Software Technologies Inc.
Redwood City, Calif.
http://www.checkpoint.com
CEO: Deborah Triant. Founded in 1993 by Gil Shwed, Shlomo Kramer and Marius
Nacht. Private; more than 50 employees. Firewall security technology. Flag
ship product, FireWall-1, uses "stateful inspection" architecture for exten
sibility of FireWall-1 to integrate new applications and services. Partners
hips with SunSoft, Hewlett-Packard, UB Networks, Oracle and RSA Data Securi
ty. Fiscal 1995 revenues were $31 million (12/31/95). Profitable. Investors
: BRM Technologies Ltd., Venrock Associates and U.S. Venture Partners.
11. CompassWare Development Inc.
New York
http://www.compassware.com
CEO: David Waxman. Founded in 1993 by Larry Finson and Michael Berkowitz. P
rivate; 25 employees. Intelligent search engines, agents and information fi
ltering and retrieval tools for content providers, information distributors
and end users. Partnerships with Dow Jones, Mainstream Data, Lotus, Micros
oft and Momentum Software. Profitability expected in 1997. Funded by privat
e investors.
12. Convergence Systems Inc.
Norcross, Ga.
http://www.convergence.com
CEO: David Ames. Founded by Ames and Terry Wright in 1994. Private; eight e
mployees. Partners with cable companies to provide cable Internet access. F
irst commercial site up and running in East Lansing, Mich. With national ba
ckbone, provides head-end services for Internet access providers. Partnersh
ips: LAN City, Zenith, Digital Equipment, Netscape, Time Warner and TCI. Pr
ofitable. Funded by private investors; no venture funding.
13. CyberCash Inc.
Reston, Va.
http://www.cybercash.com
CEO: William Melton. Founded in 1994 by Melton, Dan Lynch, Steve Crocker, M
agdalena Yesil and Bruce Wilson. Stock price rose $11.25 on day of IPO (2/1
5/96); 50 employees. Real-time, secure, digital signature-based credit card
authentication service over the Internet. Products include Secure Credit C
ard, Money Messaging and Micropayments. Partnerships with Mastercard, IBM,
Netscape, GTE, RSA Data Security, Sun Microsystems, Trusted Information Sys
tems, Verifone, Cisco Systems, Terisa Systems, CompuServe, Checkfree, Front
ier Technologies, Toshiba, FTP Software, Netcom, Intercom, Open Market, Qua
rterdeck and Netlink. No revenues.
14. CyberSource Corp.
Menlo Park, Calif.
http://www.cybersource.com
CEO: William McKiernan. Founded by McKiernan and John Pettitt in 1994. Priv
ate; 15 employees. Electronic distribution of software via software.net, an
Internet-based software superstore. CyberSource also licenses electronic s
oftware distribution and electronic commerce technologies to other companie
s. Partnerships with IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Semantic, Claris Soft
ware, Symantec and FTP Software. Sales were more than $1 million in 1995 (1
2/31/95). Profitable. One round of financing ($1 million). Investors includ
e Alex. Brown, Summit Partners, Unterberg Harris, Montgomery Securities and
Wessels, Arnold and Henderson.
15. Earthlink Network Inc.
Pasadena, Calif.
http://www.earthlink.com
CEO: Sky Dayton. Founded by Dayton in 1994. Private; 220 employees. Interne
t access provider with cross-platform solution that includes Netscape as a
plug-and-play software package. Partnerships with Netscape, Uunet Technolog
ies, Macmillan Publishing, Columbia Pictures and Tri-Star Pictures. Profita
bility anticipated in early 1997. Private and venture investment.
16. Eolas Technologies Inc.
Chicago, Ill.
http://www.eolas.com
CEO: Anthony J. Paoni. Founded in 1994 by Michael Doyle, Cheong Ang, David
Martin and Rachelle Tunik. Private; six employees. Web-based application de
velopment environments for the deployment of new and existing applications
on the Internet, including both browser and Java applet server components.
Seeking first round of financing.
17. First Virtual Holdings Inc.
San Diego
http://www.fv.com
CEO: Lee Stein. Founded in 1994 by Stein, Nathaniel Borenstein, Marshall Ro
se and Einar A. Stefferud. Private; 35 employees. Internet Payment System u
ses secure phone lines and a VirtualPIN number to enable on-line commerce w
ithout encryption. Strategic partnerships with Sybase, Electronic Data Syst
ems, First USA Merchant Services and National Direct Marketing Corp. Invest
ors include First USA Merchant Services, Sybase and National Direct Marketi
ng.
18. Four11 Corp.
Menlo Park, Calif.
http://www.four11.com
CEO: Michael Santullo. Santullo and Larry Drebes founded the company in 199
4. Private; eight employees. Free e-mail directory service for the Internet
includes more than five million addresses. Draper Fisher Associates invest
ed $825,000 in first round of financing.
19. FutureTense Inc.
Concord, Mass.
http://www.futuretense.com
CEO: Joel Bresler. Founded in 1995 by Bresler, B.C. Krishna, Daniel Latham,
Julie Melbin and Howard Webber. Private; five employees. Internet publishi
ng system, Texture, consists of a Windows 95-based authoring tool and Java-
based viewer/applet. Allows for text and images to be positioned anywhere,
as well as the ability to control the features unique to electronic publica
tions, such as layering, interaction, navigation and time-based content up
dating. Texture to ship by mid-1996. Alliances with Bitstream and Progressi
ve Networks. Licensees include IBM, Thomson and Reuters NewMedia. Expects t
o be profitable in 1998. Investors: Greylock Management and ITP Ventures.
20. Haht Software Inc.
Raleigh, N.C.
http://www.haht.com
CEO: Richard Holcomb. Founded by Holcomb, Roland Archer, Jim Hebert and Tyl
er Bennett in 1995. Private; 25 employees. Internet application-building en
vironment allowing development and management of client-server oriented Int
ernet applications and Web sites. Partnership with Intersolv. First product
set to ship this month. Initial round of financing raised $2 million from
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, JMI, High Street Partners and Sippi/Macdon
ald Ventures.
21. Iband Inc.
Campbell, Calif.
http://www.iband.com
CEO: Anthony Wood. Founded in 1995 by Wood, Steve Shannon, Bob McQueer, Ben
Fuller, Don Woodward and Marcos Sanchez. Private; 13 employees. Object-bas
ed visual development environment, Backstage, for creating Web sites, inclu
ding database front ends, discussion groups and forms to e-mail. Backstage
requires no programming. Profitability expected in late 1996. Funding from
Aspen Venture Partners and private investors.
22. Infoseek Corp.
Santa Clara, Calif.
http://www.infoseek.com
CEO: Robin Johnson. Founded in 1994 by Steve Kirsch, Vickie Blakeslee, Drew
Newton, Zara Haimo, Andy Bensky, Todd Jones, Ed Miller and Jim Roskind. Pr
ivate; more than 50 employees. Information navigation services that let use
rs search using natural-language queries. Services include Infoseek Guide,
a free, advertising-supported service, and Infoseek Professional, a subscri
ption-based product. Partnerships with Netscape, Microsoft Network, Netcom
and NetManage. Profitable. Raised $6 million in two rounds from Menlo Ventu
res, Battery Ventures and private investors.
23. Internet Profiles Corp.
San Francisco
http://www.ipro.com
CEO: Mark Ashida. Founded in 1994 by Ariel Poler. Private; 50 employees. In
dependent Web site auditing and measurement products and services that prov
ide clients with credible, accurate numbers. Partnerships with Nielsen Medi
a Research, Enterprise Integration Technologies and net.Genesis. Investors
include Sutter Hill Ventures, Dun and Bradstreet Ventures and Trident Capit
al.
24. Internet Security Systems Inc.
Atlanta
http://www.iss.net
CEO: Thomas Noonan. Founded by Christopher Klaus in 1994. Private; 35 emplo
yees. Commercial computer attack simulation and security audit tools. Flags
hip product, Internet Scanner, scans corporate networks for security vulner
abilities in all firewalls, Unix and Microsoft NT and Windows 95 systems, a
s well as Macs, printers, routers and other networked devices. Partnerships
and licensing agreements with PSInet, Motorola, Price Waterhouse, Ernst an
d Young, and others. Profitable in 1995. First round of venture capital ($4
million) raised in January 1996. Investors: Greylock Management, Sigma Par
tners and Innovation Insights.
25. Intersé Corp.
Sunnyvale, Calif.
http://www.interse.com
CEO: Terry Myerson. Founded in 1994 by Myerson, Midori Chan, Ed Hott and Pa
ul Strisower. Private; 15 employees. Software for extracting trend and usag
e data from Web sites via an interactive analytical tool, rather than a sta
tic report writer. Partnerships with Arbitron New Media and Next Century Me
dia. Privately funded.
26. Ipsilon Networks Inc.
Palo Alto, Calif.
http://www.ipsilon.com
CEO: Brian Nesmith. Founded by Tom Lyon in 1994. Private; 39 employees. TCP
/IP switches for routing with high-speed, high-capacity ATM and framerelay
switching hardware. First products to ship in spring 1996. Venture investor
s include Mohr, Davidow Ventures; Sutter Hill Ventures; and Merrill, Pickar
d, Anderson and Eyre.
27. Lycos Inc.
Marlboro, Mass.
http://www.lycos.com
CEO: Robert Davis. Founded in 1995 by CMG@Ventures. Private, 30 employees.
Catalog that provides computer-created abstracts of the various sites retur
ned from a search, rather than a self-described abstract. Search is based o
n 100 key words on a Web site, rather than all the words. CMG@Ventures is t
he sole investor.
28. Market Arts WebTrack LLC
New York
http://www.webtrack.com
CEO: Richard Tahta. Founded in 1995 by Tahta and Andrew Wilshire. Private;
nine employees. Verification software for auditing traffic at Web sites, tr
ansactions and private intranet systems in real time. Partnership with Audi
t Bureau of Circulations. Revenue in 1995 was $250,000 (12/31/95). Profitab
ility expected in 1997. Funded by private investors.
29. Maximum Information Inc.
San Francisco
http://www.maxinfo.com
CEO: Daniel Putterman. Founded by Putterman in 1994. Private; 18 employees.
Development tools for business and interactive applications on the Web. Ex
pects to release Atlas, a Web management system that allows companies to de
sign a secure, enterprisewide Web infrastructure for updating, maintaining
and managing multiple Web sites from anywhere on the Internet. Strategic pa
rtnership with BBDO West. Self-funded. Seeking VC funding during the first
half of 1996.
30. The McKinley Group Inc.
Sausalito, Calif.
http://www.mckinley.com.
CEO: David Hayden. Founded in 1993 by Christine Maxwell, David Hayden, Isab
el Hayden and Roger Malina. Private; 50 employees. Internet directory, Mage
llan, includes reviews of 40,000 Web sites. Star ratings and detailed previ
ews of descriptions provided at the first level of searching or browsing. L
icensees include Providence, Europe Online, Microsoft Network, Netcom, Nyne
x, AT&T and IBM. Investors include Hancock Venture Partners Inc., Netcom, F
rance Telecom and private investors.
31. Mpath Interactive Inc.
Cupertino, Calif.
http://www.mpath.com
CEO: Paul Matteuci. Founded in 1995 by Brian Apgar, Brian Moriarty and Jeff
Rothschild. Private; 33 employees. Software platform for interactive appli
cations. Target app is Mplayer Game Way, a multiplayer game environment wit
h real-time speech capability. Partnership with PSI. Two rounds of financin
g have raised $5.9 million; investors include Institutional Venture Partner
s, Accel Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures.
32. NetCentric Corp.
Cambridge, Mass.
http://www.netcentric.com
CEO: Sean O'Sullivan. Founded by O'Sullivan, Kevin Harrison and Donal O'Sul
livan in 1995. Private; 32 employees. Secure faxing over the Internet from
the desktop. Moves software from the corporate LAN to the worldwide WAN, so
faxing capabilities don't require upgrading or maintenance by the user. $2
2E1 million raised in first round of financing in May 1995. VC investors a
re Matrix Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners.
33NetCount LLC
Los Angeles
http://www.netcount.com
CEO: Robin Richards. Founded in 1995 by Richards, Ron Davis, Paul Grand and
Joshua Greer. Private; 25 employees. Tracking system for analysis and repo
rting of Web site usage. NetCount provides third-party, census-based tracki
ng service and performs a full count of actual users. Partnership with BBN
Planet. Profitability expected in 1996. Raised $3.5 million in initial roun
d from private investors, including Richards; will look for mezzanine finan
cing ($10-15 million) in mid-1996, and is looking toward IPO in 1997.
34. Netscape Communications Corp.
Mountain View, Calif.
http://www.netscape.com
CEO: James Barksdale. Founded by Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen in 1994. Pub
lic; more than 600 employees. Market cap: $5.1 billion (2/13/96). Navigator
Internet browser is most widely used on the Web. Servers for on-line publi
shing and commerce, as well as software for transaction processing and data
management. Partnerships with MCI, Digital Equipment, Bank of America, Mas
tercard, Silicon Graphics, Novell, Adobe, Pacific Bell, Delphi, Terisa, Ame
rica Online, CompuServe, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Macromedia, Progressive Net
works and Microsoft. Fiscal 1995 revenues were $80.7 million (12/31/95). Pr
ofitable in 4Q 1995.
35. Onlive Technologies Inc.
Cupertino, Calif.
http://www.onlive.com
CEO: Betsy Pace. Founded in 1993 by Rod MacGregor and Henry Nash. Real-time
, multiuser voice communication technology embedded in VRML browser and vir
tual worlds, as well as software development tools. Beta testing of "= voi
ce chat" in early 1996. Three rounds of financing have raised more than $10
million; investors include AT&T; Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers; Merri
ll, Pickard, Anderson and Eyre; Mohr, Davidow; New Enterprise Associates; a
nd private investors.
36. Open Market Inc.
Cambridge, Mass.
http://www.openmarket.com
CEO: Gary Eichhorn. Founded in 1994 by Shikhar Ghosh and David Gifford. Pri
vate; more than 250 employees. Software and servers for Internet "store-bui
lding" and secure transaction management, as well as analysis of Web site a
ctivity. Partnerships with Digital Equipment, CyberCash, Verisign and other
s. Licensees include Time Warner, Tribune Co., Advance Publications, Mead D
ata Central, BancOne and First Union. Investors include Time Warner, Tribun
e Co. and Advance Publications.
37. Pilot Network Services Inc.
Alameda, Calif.
http://www.pilot.com
CEO: M. Marketta Silvera. Founded in 1993 by Silvera and Thomas Wadlow. Pri
vate; 50 employees. Provider of secure Internet access for corporations, fe
aturing dynamic firewall protection (with proprietary integration) through
network service centers connected by nationwide Pilot backbone. The firewal
l is guarded by network security experts. Financing from El Dorado Ventures
, Technology Funding and private investors.
38. Portland Software Inc.
Portland, Oreg.
http://www.portsoft.com
CEO: Charles Jennings. Founded in 1994 by Jennings and Michael Brown. Priva
te; nine employees. Electronic commerce tool that uses encryption wrapper a
nd Windows-based compression technology to securely deliver digital content
over the Internet. Customer financial data routed through LitleNet, a secu
re credit card network, rather than over the Internet. Partnerships with On
line Interactive (Microsoft), Disney Interactive, LitleNet, C.D. Direct, Se
cond Nature Software and Surfwatch. Profitability expected in 1997. No VC f
unding. Currently seeking second round of financing. First round raised $50
0,000 from private investors, including Jennings.
39. Precept Software Inc.
Cupertino, Calif.
http://www.precept.com
CEO: Judy Estrin. Founded in 1995 by Estrin and William Carrico. Private; 1
9 employees. Multimedia networking software to run video and audio on TCP/I
P networks without upgrading to ATM or installing compression hardware. Pro
fitability expected by year end. First round of financing in May 1995 raise
d $900,000 from Weiss, Peck and Greer Venture Capital, Estrin and Carrico,
and private investors; $5.5 million was raised in October 1995 from Weiss,
Peck and Greer, Foundation Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Mor
gan Stanley and Sequoia Capital. Network Computing Devices owns a 5 percent
equity stake in Precept in exchange for certain software technology.
40. Progressive Networks
Seattle
http://www.prognet.com
CEO: Rob Glaser, who founded the company in 1994. Private; more than 70 emp
loyees. Audio-on-demand delivery system, RealAudio, for multimedia content
on the Internet. Audio streaming technology avoids downloading files. Most
popular audio product on the Internet. Partnerships with Microsoft, Apple,
Netscape, Spyglass and America Online. Alliances with ABC, NPR and PBS. Lic
ensees include ABC, Sony, MCI, AT&T, CBS, Time Warner, Dow Jones, NPR and o
thers. Not profitable. First-round funding included $1.8 million from Lotus
founder Mitch Kapor and other private investors. Raised $5.7 million in se
cond round. VC investor is Accel Partners.
41. Saqqara Systems Inc.
Sunnyvale, Calif.
http://www.saqqara.com
CEO: Sherif Danish. Founded by Danish, Don Swenson, Kris Kimbrough and Mart
y Tenenbaum in 1995. Private; 11 employees. Database-driven catalog authori
ng and publishing software, Step Search, for navigation, search and deliver
y of product information on-line. Step Search's user interface displays all
available options of a product family to allow a user to choose a product
by selecting features. Licensee is AMP Inc. No revenue in 1995. Profitabili
ty expected in 1997. Closed first round of financing in February; investors
include Newbridge Networks Holding Co.
42. Spider Technologies Inc.
Palo Alto, Calif.
http://www.w3spider.com
CEO: Zack Rinat. Founded in 1995 by Rinat, Ofer Ben-Shachar and Doron Sherm
an. Private; 31 employees. Web/database tools consisting of a visual applic
ation development environment and application server for deployment. Strate
gic partnerships with Informix, Sybase, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Silicon G
raphics, Hewlett-Packard and Netscape. Raised $1.8 million in first round.
VC investor is Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.
43. Terayon Corp.
Santa Clara, Calif.
http://www.terayon.com
CEO: Zaki Rakib. Founded by Rakib and Shlum Rakib in 1993. Private; 50 empl
oyees. Physical layer modules based on synchronous CDMA technology for cabl
e modems and voice telephony over HFC cable. Technology provides two-way 10
Mbps over cable. Codeveloping products with Cisco Systems, which bought an
equity stake and has one board seat. Raised two rounds of financing; inves
tors include Sequoia Capital; Weiss, Peck and Greer; Walden Capital; and Ci
sco Systems.
44. Terisa Systems Inc.
Los Altos, Calif.
http://www.terisa.com
CEO: David Kaiser. Founded in 1995 by investors. Private; 12 employees. Sof
tware developer toolkits for implementing electronic commerce and enabling
security in Web browsers and servers. First-round investors include America
Online, CompuServe, IBM, Netscape, RSA Data Security and Verifone. Second-
round investors: Motorola and Olivetti Telemedia.
45. VDOnet Corp.
Palo Alto, Calif.
http://www.vdonet.com
CEO: Asaf Mohr. Founded in 1995 by Mohr and Gideon Barak. Private; 40 emplo
yees. Real-time (15 frames per second on 28.8-Kbps modem) video over local
and wide area networks. Flagship product, VDOLive, launched in beta form in
October 1995. Technology adopters include CBS News, Paramount Digital Ente
rtainment, Grolier Interactive, Mecklermedia and Ziff-Davis Interactive. Ra
ised $5 million from Battery Ventures and private investors.
46. VeriSign Inc.
Mountain View, Calif.
http://www.verisign.com
CEO: Stratton Sclavos. Spun off by RSA Data Security in 1995. Private; 30 e
mployees. Digital IDs (authentication) embedded in software, Web servers an
d clients to secure electronic documents, financial transactions and e-mail
on public and private networks. Strategic partnerships with Apple, Banyan
Systems, CommerceNet, CompuServe, ConnectSoft, CyberCash, IBM, Microsoft, Netscape, Open Market, O'Reilly and Associates and others. Not profitable in
1995. Raised $5 million in first round of financing. Investors include Bes
semer Venture Partners, Ameritech, Fisher International, Mitsubishi, RSA Da
ta Security, Security Dynamics and Visa.
47. Virage Inc.
San Diego
http://www.virage.com
CEO: Paul Lego. Founded in 1994 by Ramesh Jain. Private, 14 employees. Visual information retrieval (VIR) technology allows searching through image da
tabases using the visual information contained in the image, such as color,
texture, composition and structure, rather than by key words. Strategic pa
rtnership with Informix. Virage is a spin-off of Imageware, which provided
seed funding. First round of financing obtained $2.5 million from Trinity V
entures and Sutter Hill Ventures. No other venture financing is planned.
48. Worlds Inc.
San Francisco
http://www.worlds.net
CEO: Donald Fowler. Founded in 1994 by Dave Gobel and Cole Larson. Private;
100 employees. Produces and licenses technology for = multiuser on-line e
nvironment that includes first-person = interface that mimics the way peop
le navigate the physical world, and multiuser capabilities allowing all kin
ds of human interactions to take place on-line. Partnerships with IBM, Visa
, PSI, Diamond Multimedia and MGM. No venture backing. Raised more than $7
million in 1995. Investors include Pearson PLC, Visa and UB Networks.
49. Yahoo Corp.
Sunnyvale, Calif.
http://www.yahoo.com
CEO: Tim Koogle. Founded in 1994 by David Filo and Jerry Yang. Private; 30
employees. Web site directory that includes full-text search and browse cap
abilities. Partnerships with Ziff-Davis, Softbank, National Football League
, GNN, CompuServe, Open Text, Sports Ticker, Reuters NewMedia, Sequoia Capi
tal. Profitable. Two rounds of financing completed by mid-1995. Investors i
nclude Reuters NewMedia, Softbank, Ziff-Davis, Open Text and Sequoia Capita
l.
50. ZeitNet Inc.
Santa Clara, Calif.
http://www.zeitnet.com
CEO: Amit Shah. Founded by Shah, Amit Parikh, Devang Shah and Ashok Killer
in 1993. Private; 123 employees. ATM connectivity software and adapter card
s for both pure ATM environments as well as networks migrating from Ethernet and Token Ring to switching and ATM. Partnerships with Cisco Systems, Network General, NEC and Sony. Profitability expected by mid-1997. Investors include Greylock Equity Limited Partnership, Sequoia Capital and Compagnie Financiere de Paribas.
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Fifty HOT Companies
1. American Internet Corp.Bedford, Mass.
http://www.american.com
CEO: Throop Wilder. Founded by Wilder and Brad Parker in 1995. Private; 32 employees. Software for Web site construction targeted at the Novell NetWar e market. Novell resells a subset of SiteBuilder as the NetWare Web Server. Raised $5 million in two rounds during 1995. Funding from Matrix Partners and Charles River Ventures.
2. Architext Inc.,
Mountain View, Calif.
http://www.architext.com
CEO: George Bell. Founded in 1993 by Joe Kraus, Graham Spencer, Mark Van Ha
ren, Ryan McIntyre, Ben Lynch and Martin Reinfried. Private; 60 employees.
Internet navigation technology that is basis of Excite, which collects and
abstracts Web pages and allows concept-based and exact searches. Partnershi
ps with The Los Angeles Times and Netscape. Not profitable. Raised $3 milli
on in one round of financing; investors include Institutional Venture Partn
ers, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Charles River Ventures and Interna
tional Data Group.
3. @Home Network
Mountain View, Calif.
http://www.home.net
CEO: William R. Hearst III. Joint venture of TCI and Kleiner Perkins Caufie
ld and Byers founded in 1995. Private; 45 employees. Provides constant Inte
rnet connection, real-time delivery and updating of content to homes, busin
esses and schools via hybrid fiber coaxial cable technology to personal com
puters. Partnerships with Netscape and Macromedia.
4. Big Island Communications Inc.
Cupertino, Calif.
http://www.big-island.com
CEO: Derrick Miley. Founded by Miley in 1995. Private; 20 employees. Comput
er telephony integration. First product is YoYo, a computer telephony devic
e for Caller ID, paging, distinctive ringing and call management. Not profi
table. Investors include Menlo Ventures, Brentwood Associates and private i
nvestors.
5. Black Sun Interactive Inc.
San Francisco
http://www.blacksun.com
CEO: Franz Buchenberger. Founded by Buchenberger, Bob Rockwell, Peter Graf,
Bernie Habermeyer, Thilo Schwerdfeger, Kristof Nast-Kolb, Rainer Heigenmos
er and Robert Schoeller in 1995. Private; 25 employees. Developer of multiu
ser VRML browser, server and VRML/Java authoring software. Integrated produ
ct set is fully compliant with Internet standards such as VRML, HTML and Ja
va, with support for multiuser communities. Strategic partnerships with Lyc
os, NetCarta and GeoCities. Profitability expected in 1997. Sole investor i
s CMG@Ventures.
6. Border Network Technologies Inc.
Toronto
http://www.border.com
CEO: Steven Lamb. Founded by Computer Solutions Group, Sea Change Inc. and
Ryan Zachariassen in 1994. Private; 55 employees. BorderWare Firewall Serve
r, which includes Web, mail, news, FTP and DNS servers, provides security f
or TCP/IP networks. Partnerships with Cryptocard and Security Dynamics Inc.
Profitable on revenues of $4.5 million (12/31/95). First round of financin
g raised $5 million (Canadian) in February 1996. Investors: BCE and Working
Ventures Canadian Fund.
7. BroadVision Inc.
Los Altos, Calif.
http://www.broadvision.com
CEO: Pehong Chen. Founded by Chen in 1993. Private; 60 employees. Internet
marketing and electronic commerce application system for managing content,
consumer profiling, transactions and promotional programs. Partnerships wit
h RSA Data Security, CyberCash, VeriFone, Federal Express and others. Licen
sees include Sun Microsystems, Prodigy, Ameritech and others. Raised $10.3
million in three rounds of financing. Investors include Mayfield Fund, Sutt
er Hill Ventures, Stanford University, Ameritech, Olivetti and Itochu.
8. Business@Web Inc.
Watertown, Mass.
http://www.opower.com
CEO: Klaus Besier (former president and CEO of SAP America). Founded in 199
4 by John Donovan. Private; 90 employees. Development tools for building co
mponent-based applications that run on TCP/IP networks. Partnerships with H
P Public Services Organization, Digital Equipment, IBM, Siemens Nixdorf, Ic
ube, Antares, SAP, Open Environment and Brainstorm. Self-funded.
9. Chaco Communications Corp.
Cupertino, Calif.
http://www.chaco.com
CEO: Dan Greening. Founded in 1994 by Dan Greening, Ron Lussier, Jim Doubek
, Glenn Crocker and Pritham Shetty. Private; six employees. Multimedia mult
iuser dimension (MUD) clients, servers and authoring tools that support VRM
L, MIDI, HTML and proprietary extensions for real-time multiuser environmen
ts. Licensees include NetManage, Luckman Interactive, Velocity and Virtual
Online University; partnership with Netscape. Profitable since inception. S
elf-funded; now seeking venture capital.
10. CheckPoint Software Technologies Inc.
Redwood City, Calif.
http://www.checkpoint.com
CEO: Deborah Triant. Founded in 1993 by Gil Shwed, Shlomo Kramer and Marius
Nacht. Private; more than 50 employees. Firewall security technology. Flag
ship product, FireWall-1, uses "stateful inspection" architecture for exten
sibility of FireWall-1 to integrate new applications and services. Partners
hips with SunSoft, Hewlett-Packard, UB Networks, Oracle and RSA Data Securi
ty. Fiscal 1995 revenues were $31 million (12/31/95). Profitable. Investors
: BRM Technologies Ltd., Venrock Associates and U.S. Venture Partners.
11. CompassWare Development Inc.
New York
http://www.compassware.com
CEO: David Waxman. Founded in 1993 by Larry Finson and Michael Berkowitz. P
rivate; 25 employees. Intelligent search engines, agents and information fi
ltering and retrieval tools for content providers, information distributors
and end users. Partnerships with Dow Jones, Mainstream Data, Lotus, Micros
oft and Momentum Software. Profitability expected in 1997. Funded by privat
e investors.
12. Convergence Systems Inc.
Norcross, Ga.
http://www.convergence.com
CEO: David Ames. Founded by Ames and Terry Wright in 1994. Private; eight e
mployees. Partners with cable companies to provide cable Internet access. F
irst commercial site up and running in East Lansing, Mich. With national ba
ckbone, provides head-end services for Internet access providers. Partnersh
ips: LAN City, Zenith, Digital Equipment, Netscape, Time Warner and TCI. Pr
ofitable. Funded by private investors; no venture funding.
13. CyberCash Inc.
Reston, Va.
http://www.cybercash.com
CEO: William Melton. Founded in 1994 by Melton, Dan Lynch, Steve Crocker, M
agdalena Yesil and Bruce Wilson. Stock price rose $11.25 on day of IPO (2/1
5/96); 50 employees. Real-time, secure, digital signature-based credit card
authentication service over the Internet. Products include Secure Credit C
ard, Money Messaging and Micropayments. Partnerships with Mastercard, IBM,
Netscape, GTE, RSA Data Security, Sun Microsystems, Trusted Information Sys
tems, Verifone, Cisco Systems, Terisa Systems, CompuServe, Checkfree, Front
ier Technologies, Toshiba, FTP Software, Netcom, Intercom, Open Market, Qua
rterdeck and Netlink. No revenues.
14. CyberSource Corp.
Menlo Park, Calif.
http://www.cybersource.com
CEO: William McKiernan. Founded by McKiernan and John Pettitt in 1994. Priv
ate; 15 employees. Electronic distribution of software via software.net, an
Internet-based software superstore. CyberSource also licenses electronic s
oftware distribution and electronic commerce technologies to other companie
s. Partnerships with IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Semantic, Claris Soft
ware, Symantec and FTP Software. Sales were more than $1 million in 1995 (1
2/31/95). Profitable. One round of financing ($1 million). Investors includ
e Alex. Brown, Summit Partners, Unterberg Harris, Montgomery Securities and
Wessels, Arnold and Henderson.
15. Earthlink Network Inc.
Pasadena, Calif.
http://www.earthlink.com
CEO: Sky Dayton. Founded by Dayton in 1994. Private; 220 employees. Interne
t access provider with cross-platform solution that includes Netscape as a
plug-and-play software package. Partnerships with Netscape, Uunet Technolog
ies, Macmillan Publishing, Columbia Pictures and Tri-Star Pictures. Profita
bility anticipated in early 1997. Private and venture investment.
16. Eolas Technologies Inc.
Chicago, Ill.
http://www.eolas.com
CEO: Anthony J. Paoni. Founded in 1994 by Michael Doyle, Cheong Ang, David
Martin and Rachelle Tunik. Private; six employees. Web-based application de
velopment environments for the deployment of new and existing applications
on the Internet, including both browser and Java applet server components.
Seeking first round of financing.
17. First Virtual Holdings Inc.
San Diego
http://www.fv.com
CEO: Lee Stein. Founded in 1994 by Stein, Nathaniel Borenstein, Marshall Ro
se and Einar A. Stefferud. Private; 35 employees. Internet Payment System u
ses secure phone lines and a VirtualPIN number to enable on-line commerce w
ithout encryption. Strategic partnerships with Sybase, Electronic Data Syst
ems, First USA Merchant Services and National Direct Marketing Corp. Invest
ors include First USA Merchant Services, Sybase and National Direct Marketi
ng.
18. Four11 Corp.
Menlo Park, Calif.
http://www.four11.com
CEO: Michael Santullo. Santullo and Larry Drebes founded the company in 199
4. Private; eight employees. Free e-mail directory service for the Internet
includes more than five million addresses. Draper Fisher Associates invest
ed $825,000 in first round of financing.
19. FutureTense Inc.
Concord, Mass.
http://www.futuretense.com
CEO: Joel Bresler. Founded in 1995 by Bresler, B.C. Krishna, Daniel Latham,
Julie Melbin and Howard Webber. Private; five employees. Internet publishi
ng system, Texture, consists of a Windows 95-based authoring tool and Java-
based viewer/applet. Allows for text and images to be positioned anywhere,
as well as the ability to control the features unique to electronic publica
tions, such as layering, interaction, navigation and time-based content up
dating. Texture to ship by mid-1996. Alliances with Bitstream and Progressi
ve Networks. Licensees include IBM, Thomson and Reuters NewMedia. Expects t
o be profitable in 1998. Investors: Greylock Management and ITP Ventures.
20. Haht Software Inc.
Raleigh, N.C.
http://www.haht.com
CEO: Richard Holcomb. Founded by Holcomb, Roland Archer, Jim Hebert and Tyl
er Bennett in 1995. Private; 25 employees. Internet application-building en
vironment allowing development and management of client-server oriented Int
ernet applications and Web sites. Partnership with Intersolv. First product
set to ship this month. Initial round of financing raised $2 million from
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, JMI, High Street Partners and Sippi/Macdon
ald Ventures.
21. Iband Inc.
Campbell, Calif.
http://www.iband.com
CEO: Anthony Wood. Founded in 1995 by Wood, Steve Shannon, Bob McQueer, Ben
Fuller, Don Woodward and Marcos Sanchez. Private; 13 employees. Object-bas
ed visual development environment, Backstage, for creating Web sites, inclu
ding database front ends, discussion groups and forms to e-mail. Backstage
requires no programming. Profitability expected in late 1996. Funding from
Aspen Venture Partners and private investors.
22. Infoseek Corp.
Santa Clara, Calif.
http://www.infoseek.com
CEO: Robin Johnson. Founded in 1994 by Steve Kirsch, Vickie Blakeslee, Drew
Newton, Zara Haimo, Andy Bensky, Todd Jones, Ed Miller and Jim Roskind. Pr
ivate; more than 50 employees. Information navigation services that let use
rs search using natural-language queries. Services include Infoseek Guide,
a free, advertising-supported service, and Infoseek Professional, a subscri
ption-based product. Partnerships with Netscape, Microsoft Network, Netcom
and NetManage. Profitable. Raised $6 million in two rounds from Menlo Ventu
res, Battery Ventures and private investors.
23. Internet Profiles Corp.
San Francisco
http://www.ipro.com
CEO: Mark Ashida. Founded in 1994 by Ariel Poler. Private; 50 employees. In
dependent Web site auditing and measurement products and services that prov
ide clients with credible, accurate numbers. Partnerships with Nielsen Medi
a Research, Enterprise Integration Technologies and net.Genesis. Investors
include Sutter Hill Ventures, Dun and Bradstreet Ventures and Trident Capit
al.
24. Internet Security Systems Inc.
Atlanta
http://www.iss.net
CEO: Thomas Noonan. Founded by Christopher Klaus in 1994. Private; 35 emplo
yees. Commercial computer attack simulation and security audit tools. Flags
hip product, Internet Scanner, scans corporate networks for security vulner
abilities in all firewalls, Unix and Microsoft NT and Windows 95 systems, a
s well as Macs, printers, routers and other networked devices. Partnerships
and licensing agreements with PSInet, Motorola, Price Waterhouse, Ernst an
d Young, and others. Profitable in 1995. First round of venture capital ($4
million) raised in January 1996. Investors: Greylock Management, Sigma Par
tners and Innovation Insights.
25. Intersé Corp.
Sunnyvale, Calif.
http://www.interse.com
CEO: Terry Myerson. Founded in 1994 by Myerson, Midori Chan, Ed Hott and Pa
ul Strisower. Private; 15 employees. Software for extracting trend and usag
e data from Web sites via an interactive analytical tool, rather than a sta
tic report writer. Partnerships with Arbitron New Media and Next Century Me
dia. Privately funded.
26. Ipsilon Networks Inc.
Palo Alto, Calif.
http://www.ipsilon.com
CEO: Brian Nesmith. Founded by Tom Lyon in 1994. Private; 39 employees. TCP
/IP switches for routing with high-speed, high-capacity ATM and framerelay
switching hardware. First products to ship in spring 1996. Venture investor
s include Mohr, Davidow Ventures; Sutter Hill Ventures; and Merrill, Pickar
d, Anderson and Eyre.
27. Lycos Inc.
Marlboro, Mass.
http://www.lycos.com
CEO: Robert Davis. Founded in 1995 by CMG@Ventures. Private, 30 employees.
Catalog that provides computer-created abstracts of the various sites retur
ned from a search, rather than a self-described abstract. Search is based o
n 100 key words on a Web site, rather than all the words. CMG@Ventures is t
he sole investor.
28. Market Arts WebTrack LLC
New York
http://www.webtrack.com
CEO: Richard Tahta. Founded in 1995 by Tahta and Andrew Wilshire. Private;
nine employees. Verification software for auditing traffic at Web sites, tr
ansactions and private intranet systems in real time. Partnership with Audi
t Bureau of Circulations. Revenue in 1995 was $250,000 (12/31/95). Profitab
ility expected in 1997. Funded by private investors.
29. Maximum Information Inc.
San Francisco
http://www.maxinfo.com
CEO: Daniel Putterman. Founded by Putterman in 1994. Private; 18 employees.
Development tools for business and interactive applications on the Web. Ex
pects to release Atlas, a Web management system that allows companies to de
sign a secure, enterprisewide Web infrastructure for updating, maintaining
and managing multiple Web sites from anywhere on the Internet. Strategic pa
rtnership with BBDO West. Self-funded. Seeking VC funding during the first
half of 1996.
30. The McKinley Group Inc.
Sausalito, Calif.
http://www.mckinley.com.
CEO: David Hayden. Founded in 1993 by Christine Maxwell, David Hayden, Isab
el Hayden and Roger Malina. Private; 50 employees. Internet directory, Mage
llan, includes reviews of 40,000 Web sites. Star ratings and detailed previ
ews of descriptions provided at the first level of searching or browsing. L
icensees include Providence, Europe Online, Microsoft Network, Netcom, Nyne
x, AT&T and IBM. Investors include Hancock Venture Partners Inc., Netcom, F
rance Telecom and private investors.
31. Mpath Interactive Inc.
Cupertino, Calif.
http://www.mpath.com
CEO: Paul Matteuci. Founded in 1995 by Brian Apgar, Brian Moriarty and Jeff
Rothschild. Private; 33 employees. Software platform for interactive appli
cations. Target app is Mplayer Game Way, a multiplayer game environment wit
h real-time speech capability. Partnership with PSI. Two rounds of financin
g have raised $5.9 million; investors include Institutional Venture Partner
s, Accel Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures.
32. NetCentric Corp.
Cambridge, Mass.
http://www.netcentric.com
CEO: Sean O'Sullivan. Founded by O'Sullivan, Kevin Harrison and Donal O'Sul
livan in 1995. Private; 32 employees. Secure faxing over the Internet from
the desktop. Moves software from the corporate LAN to the worldwide WAN, so
faxing capabilities don't require upgrading or maintenance by the user. $2
2E1 million raised in first round of financing in May 1995. VC investors a
re Matrix Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners.
33NetCount LLC
Los Angeles
http://www.netcount.com
CEO: Robin Richards. Founded in 1995 by Richards, Ron Davis, Paul Grand and
Joshua Greer. Private; 25 employees. Tracking system for analysis and repo
rting of Web site usage. NetCount provides third-party, census-based tracki
ng service and performs a full count of actual users. Partnership with BBN
Planet. Profitability expected in 1996. Raised $3.5 million in initial roun
d from private investors, including Richards; will look for mezzanine finan
cing ($10-15 million) in mid-1996, and is looking toward IPO in 1997.
34. Netscape Communications Corp.
Mountain View, Calif.
http://www.netscape.com
CEO: James Barksdale. Founded by Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen in 1994. Pub
lic; more than 600 employees. Market cap: $5.1 billion (2/13/96). Navigator
Internet browser is most widely used on the Web. Servers for on-line publi
shing and commerce, as well as software for transaction processing and data
management. Partnerships with MCI, Digital Equipment, Bank of America, Mas
tercard, Silicon Graphics, Novell, Adobe, Pacific Bell, Delphi, Terisa, Ame
rica Online, CompuServe, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Macromedia, Progressive Net
works and Microsoft. Fiscal 1995 revenues were $80.7 million (12/31/95). Pr
ofitable in 4Q 1995.
35. Onlive Technologies Inc.
Cupertino, Calif.
http://www.onlive.com
CEO: Betsy Pace. Founded in 1993 by Rod MacGregor and Henry Nash. Real-time
, multiuser voice communication technology embedded in VRML browser and vir
tual worlds, as well as software development tools. Beta testing of "= voi
ce chat" in early 1996. Three rounds of financing have raised more than $10
million; investors include AT&T; Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers; Merri
ll, Pickard, Anderson and Eyre; Mohr, Davidow; New Enterprise Associates; a
nd private investors.
36. Open Market Inc.
Cambridge, Mass.
http://www.openmarket.com
CEO: Gary Eichhorn. Founded in 1994 by Shikhar Ghosh and David Gifford. Pri
vate; more than 250 employees. Software and servers for Internet "store-bui
lding" and secure transaction management, as well as analysis of Web site a
ctivity. Partnerships with Digital Equipment, CyberCash, Verisign and other
s. Licensees include Time Warner, Tribune Co., Advance Publications, Mead D
ata Central, BancOne and First Union. Investors include Time Warner, Tribun
e Co. and Advance Publications.
37. Pilot Network Services Inc.
Alameda, Calif.
http://www.pilot.com
CEO: M. Marketta Silvera. Founded in 1993 by Silvera and Thomas Wadlow. Pri
vate; 50 employees. Provider of secure Internet access for corporations, fe
aturing dynamic firewall protection (with proprietary integration) through
network service centers connected by nationwide Pilot backbone. The firewal
l is guarded by network security experts. Financing from El Dorado Ventures
, Technology Funding and private investors.
38. Portland Software Inc.
Portland, Oreg.
http://www.portsoft.com
CEO: Charles Jennings. Founded in 1994 by Jennings and Michael Brown. Priva
te; nine employees. Electronic commerce tool that uses encryption wrapper a
nd Windows-based compression technology to securely deliver digital content
over the Internet. Customer financial data routed through LitleNet, a secu
re credit card network, rather than over the Internet. Partnerships with On
line Interactive (Microsoft), Disney Interactive, LitleNet, C.D. Direct, Se
cond Nature Software and Surfwatch. Profitability expected in 1997. No VC f
unding. Currently seeking second round of financing. First round raised $50
0,000 from private investors, including Jennings.
39. Precept Software Inc.
Cupertino, Calif.
http://www.precept.com
CEO: Judy Estrin. Founded in 1995 by Estrin and William Carrico. Private; 1
9 employees. Multimedia networking software to run video and audio on TCP/I
P networks without upgrading to ATM or installing compression hardware. Pro
fitability expected by year end. First round of financing in May 1995 raise
d $900,000 from Weiss, Peck and Greer Venture Capital, Estrin and Carrico,
and private investors; $5.5 million was raised in October 1995 from Weiss,
Peck and Greer, Foundation Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Mor
gan Stanley and Sequoia Capital. Network Computing Devices owns a 5 percent
equity stake in Precept in exchange for certain software technology.
40. Progressive Networks
Seattle
http://www.prognet.com
CEO: Rob Glaser, who founded the company in 1994. Private; more than 70 emp
loyees. Audio-on-demand delivery system, RealAudio, for multimedia content
on the Internet. Audio streaming technology avoids downloading files. Most
popular audio product on the Internet. Partnerships with Microsoft, Apple,
Netscape, Spyglass and America Online. Alliances with ABC, NPR and PBS. Lic
ensees include ABC, Sony, MCI, AT&T, CBS, Time Warner, Dow Jones, NPR and o
thers. Not profitable. First-round funding included $1.8 million from Lotus
founder Mitch Kapor and other private investors. Raised $5.7 million in se
cond round. VC investor is Accel Partners.
41. Saqqara Systems Inc.
Sunnyvale, Calif.
http://www.saqqara.com
CEO: Sherif Danish. Founded by Danish, Don Swenson, Kris Kimbrough and Mart
y Tenenbaum in 1995. Private; 11 employees. Database-driven catalog authori
ng and publishing software, Step Search, for navigation, search and deliver
y of product information on-line. Step Search's user interface displays all
available options of a product family to allow a user to choose a product
by selecting features. Licensee is AMP Inc. No revenue in 1995. Profitabili
ty expected in 1997. Closed first round of financing in February; investors
include Newbridge Networks Holding Co.
42. Spider Technologies Inc.
Palo Alto, Calif.
http://www.w3spider.com
CEO: Zack Rinat. Founded in 1995 by Rinat, Ofer Ben-Shachar and Doron Sherm
an. Private; 31 employees. Web/database tools consisting of a visual applic
ation development environment and application server for deployment. Strate
gic partnerships with Informix, Sybase, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Silicon G
raphics, Hewlett-Packard and Netscape. Raised $1.8 million in first round.
VC investor is Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.
43. Terayon Corp.
Santa Clara, Calif.
http://www.terayon.com
CEO: Zaki Rakib. Founded by Rakib and Shlum Rakib in 1993. Private; 50 empl
oyees. Physical layer modules based on synchronous CDMA technology for cabl
e modems and voice telephony over HFC cable. Technology provides two-way 10
Mbps over cable. Codeveloping products with Cisco Systems, which bought an
equity stake and has one board seat. Raised two rounds of financing; inves
tors include Sequoia Capital; Weiss, Peck and Greer; Walden Capital; and Ci
sco Systems.
44. Terisa Systems Inc.
Los Altos, Calif.
http://www.terisa.com
CEO: David Kaiser. Founded in 1995 by investors. Private; 12 employees. Sof
tware developer toolkits for implementing electronic commerce and enabling
security in Web browsers and servers. First-round investors include America
Online, CompuServe, IBM, Netscape, RSA Data Security and Verifone. Second-
round investors: Motorola and Olivetti Telemedia.
45. VDOnet Corp.
Palo Alto, Calif.
http://www.vdonet.com
CEO: Asaf Mohr. Founded in 1995 by Mohr and Gideon Barak. Private; 40 emplo
yees. Real-time (15 frames per second on 28.8-Kbps modem) video over local
and wide area networks. Flagship product, VDOLive, launched in beta form in
October 1995. Technology adopters include CBS News, Paramount Digital Ente
rtainment, Grolier Interactive, Mecklermedia and Ziff-Davis Interactive. Ra
ised $5 million from Battery Ventures and private investors.
46. VeriSign Inc.
Mountain View, Calif.
http://www.verisign.com
CEO: Stratton Sclavos. Spun off by RSA Data Security in 1995. Private; 30 e
mployees. Digital IDs (authentication) embedded in software, Web servers an
d clients to secure electronic documents, financial transactions and e-mail
on public and private networks. Strategic partnerships with Apple, Banyan
Systems, CommerceNet, CompuServe, ConnectSoft, CyberCash, IBM, Microsoft, Netscape, Open Market, O'Reilly and Associates and others. Not profitable in
1995. Raised $5 million in first round of financing. Investors include Bes
semer Venture Partners, Ameritech, Fisher International, Mitsubishi, RSA Da
ta Security, Security Dynamics and Visa.
47. Virage Inc.
San Diego
http://www.virage.com
CEO: Paul Lego. Founded in 1994 by Ramesh Jain. Private, 14 employees. Visual information retrieval (VIR) technology allows searching through image da
tabases using the visual information contained in the image, such as color,
texture, composition and structure, rather than by key words. Strategic pa
rtnership with Informix. Virage is a spin-off of Imageware, which provided
seed funding. First round of financing obtained $2.5 million from Trinity V
entures and Sutter Hill Ventures. No other venture financing is planned.
48. Worlds Inc.
San Francisco
http://www.worlds.net
CEO: Donald Fowler. Founded in 1994 by Dave Gobel and Cole Larson. Private;
100 employees. Produces and licenses technology for = multiuser on-line e
nvironment that includes first-person = interface that mimics the way peop
le navigate the physical world, and multiuser capabilities allowing all kin
ds of human interactions to take place on-line. Partnerships with IBM, Visa
, PSI, Diamond Multimedia and MGM. No venture backing. Raised more than $7
million in 1995. Investors include Pearson PLC, Visa and UB Networks.
49. Yahoo Corp.
Sunnyvale, Calif.
http://www.yahoo.com
CEO: Tim Koogle. Founded in 1994 by David Filo and Jerry Yang. Private; 30
employees. Web site directory that includes full-text search and browse cap
abilities. Partnerships with Ziff-Davis, Softbank, National Football League
, GNN, CompuServe, Open Text, Sports Ticker, Reuters NewMedia, Sequoia Capi
tal. Profitable. Two rounds of financing completed by mid-1995. Investors i
nclude Reuters NewMedia, Softbank, Ziff-Davis, Open Text and Sequoia Capita
l.
50. ZeitNet Inc.
Santa Clara, Calif.
http://www.zeitnet.com
CEO: Amit Shah. Founded by Shah, Amit Parikh, Devang Shah and Ashok Killer
in 1993. Private; 123 employees. ATM connectivity software and adapter card
s for both pure ATM environments as well as networks migrating from Ethernet and Token Ring to switching and ATM. Partnerships with Cisco Systems, Network General, NEC and Sony. Profitability expected by mid-1997. Investors include Greylock Equity Limited Partnership, Sequoia Capital and Compagnie Financiere de Paribas.
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