AlarmPoint Systems Completes Series C Funding
PLEASANTON, CA. - August 20, 2007 - AlarmPoint Systems, the recognized leader in event notification and resolution, today announced the completion of a $7.5 million financing round comprised of debt and equity financing. JMI Equity led the $4.5 million equity round with minor participation from other follow-on investors. In addition, the financing included $3 million in term financing from Bridge Bank, N.A., the commercial bank subsidiary of Bridge Capital Holdings (NASDAQ: BBNK).
"AlarmPoint continues to exceed growth expectations and projected results," said Peter Arrowsmith, general partner of JMI Equity. "With seven of the largest ten Global 2000 customers standardizing on AlarmPoint, they have established themselves as leaders in this new, quickly growing area of IT Service Management."
As the leader in the developing event notification and resolution market, AlarmPoint continues to deliver applications and services that enable enterprises to quickly and consistently manage IT events prior to business impact. The AlarmPoint applications reduce false alerts by targeting the appropriate IT personnel, communicating with remote personnel on their preferred voice or text device and enabling personnel to take actions to restore or repair service. With the recent launch of its flagship AlarmPoint version 3.1, the new financing will be used to accelerate the growth and acceptance of the products and services in the IT marketplace.
"Today's mobile IT workforce needs to manage complicated infrastructure, data center operations and service impacting events from remote locations," said Troy McAlpin, CEO of AlarmPoint Systems. "More and more enterprises are focusing on automating the event notification and resolution process to instrument, automate and ensure resolution of IT events before the business is impacted. This financing will support our plans to accelerate our product development, service delivery and geographic expansion and we are pleased to have JMI Equity and Bridge Bank as financing partners."
"AlarmPoint's continued growth rate is ground-breaking and impressive," said Scott Chamberlain, vice president at Bridge Bank. "With the ability to deliver customers a return on their investment in three months or less, AlarmPoint continues to acquire marquis customers and the list is more than 700 customers strong."
About AlarmPoint Systems
AlarmPoint Systems enables leading enterprises to maximize their investment in IT service management, ensure availability of critical systems and increase productivity on the people side of IT. AlarmPoint is an enterprise-wide event notification and resolution platform for use in Incident, Support, Service Impact, Event and Continuity Management. The AlarmPoint product suite is built to automate event notification and resolution by managing the needs of today's mobile workforce - roles, skills, location, language, schedule, contact details, groups and more - with self-service personalization, event assignment and subscription for any and all users. AlarmPoint ties IT events to business users and provides an auditable trail of everyone involved in the resolution of an event. With a network of partner relationships, AlarmPoint tools are now managing complex notification and resolution installations globally. AlarmPoint Systems is headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif. with European operations based in Richmond, Surrey, U.K.
About JMI Equity
JMI Equity, based in Baltimore and San Diego, is a private equity firm exclusively focused on investments in growing software and business services companies at all stages of their lifecycles. Founded in 1992, JMI has invested in more than 85 companies throughout North America and has approximately $1.3 billion of committed capital under management. JMI provides the first institutional capital to self-funded companies, partners with management teams to acquire or recapitalize market leading companies and selectively makes investments in early-stage companies. Representative investments include AlarmPoint Systems, Blackbaud, DoubleClick, DriveCam, Jackson Hewitt, Mission Critical Software, NEON Systems, Transaction Systems Architects, Unica Corporation and Vertafore. For more information on JMI Equity, visit www.jmiequity.com.
About Bridge Bank, N.A.
Bridge Bank, N.A. is Silicon Valley's full-service professional business bank. The bank is dedicated to meeting the financial needs of small and middle market, and emerging technology businesses in the Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, Redwood City, Sacramento, San Ramon-Pleasanton, San Diego, Bakersfield, Fresno, Orange County, and Dallas, TX business communities. Bridge Bank provides its clients with a comprehensive package of business banking solutions delivered through experienced, professional bankers. Visit Bridge Bank on the web at www.bridgebank.com.
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