Contact Information: Contact: Martin Levy Martin Levy Public Relations 206.851.7256
On-Demand PPM Vendor Innotas Announces $6 Million Series C Funding Round
Will Fuel Expansion of Sales and Marketing, Infrastructure to Support Customer Growth Projections, and Product Development and Engineering Team
| Source: Innotas
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - June 9, 2008) - On-Demand PPM vendor Innotas today
announced completion of its series C venture financing totaling $6 million.
The round was driven by ArrowPath Venture Partners, Velocity Interactive
Group, and several strategic investors.
Innotas, which reported 400% growth in 2007, will use the funds to fuel
expansion of its sales and marketing efforts, infrastructure to support
customer growth projections, and product development including significant
expansion of its engineering organization.
"We continue to be impressed with the remarkable and rapid growth
performance demonstrated by Innotas, its management team, and the customer
traction it has gained with both the mid-sized as well as enterprise
markets," said Tom Bevilacqua, managing partner, ArrowPath Venture
Partners.
According to Gartner in a May 6, 2007 press release entitled, Gartner Says
Service Providers Must Prepare Now for the Software as a Service Wave
(http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=501991), the Software-as-a-Service
market is positioned for continued growth, reaching $6.3 billion in 2006,
and it projects that it may hit $19.3 billion by 2011.
On-demand PPM (software-as-a-service) applications are changing the way
organizations approve, plan and deliver projects inside and outside the
enterprise, and are significantly increasing ROI on project investments.
"Innotas On-Demand PPM is cost effective, easy to implement, and scales to
meet the needs of any size organization. For example, one of our customers
is Hamilton Beach which has a 30-seat deployment, while another customer,
UST Global has more than 5000 Innotas users," said Keith Carlson, president
and CEO, Innotas. "Even more impressive is how our customers are using
Innotas to gain ROI and efficiencies across a broad spectrum of initiatives
and usage-scenarios. This really speaks to the explosive market potential
for on-demand PPM," continued Carlson.
About ArrowPath Venture Partners
ArrowPath (http://www.arrowpathvc.com/main.html) is an early-stage venture
capital firm with over $400 million under management. We focus on early and
expansion stage companies developing highly differentiated enterprise and
infrastructure technologies that offer a compelling value and have the
prospect of achieving market leadership. Through our proprietary network of
relationships with Fortune 500 companies, we identify emerging technologies
and applications that deliver tangible ROI and meet the end user's needs.
We utilize this end-user perspective to help companies hone their market
focus, accelerate their time to market and provide them with a powerful
competitive advantage. Our goal is to help entrepreneurs build companies of
enduring value while generating superior returns for investors.
About Velocity Interactive Group
Velocity Interactive Group (www.velocityig.com) is a leading investment
firm that focuses on digital media and communications. The firm brings a
unique approach to investing by bringing not just financial capital, but
also human capital to its investment companies. Velocity Interactive Group
has a global presence in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, New York, India and China.
About Innotas
Innotas provides the only on-demand Project Portfolio Management (PPM)
solution specifically designed to meet the needs of IT and IT Services
organizations. With Innotas, managers and team members improve
collaboration and can more effectively and efficiently manage IT
initiatives, projects, and resources. For CIOs and executives, Innotas
delivers deep visibility, automation, and analysis of the project
portfolio, and resource planning and utilization. Our customers, including
Crayola, Forbes, Hamilton Beach, Jo-Ann Stores, WorldVision and many
others, span a wide range of industries including financial services,
healthcare, retail, technology, telecommunications and energy. For more
information please visit www.innotas.com or contact us at +1 415.814.7700.