Edison Ventures Investment Fuels Collaborative Workplace Growth on SharePoint platform
Reston, VA - January 24, 2007 -
CorasWorks Corporation, the leading worldwide provider of workplace application software on the Microsoft
SharePoint collaboration platform, today announced that it has completed a $4 million Series B investment. Edison Ventures,
based in Lawrenceville, NJ, was the sole investor in this second round for financing. Novak Biddle, Bonsal Capital, and Isis
Capital were investors in the prior Series A $3 million financing in 2004. The proceeds will be used to expand development,
marketing and sales, as well as the purchase of secondary stock.
Founded in 2003, CorasWorks has rapidly grown to more than 800 customers with 600,000 deployed users in more than 20 countries.
The company’s industry leading modular software products includes packaged enterprise applications, as well as an application suite
for creating a collaborative workplace of inter-connected applications on the Microsoft SharePoint collaboration platform.
Gary Golding, General Partner of Edison, will serve on the Board of Directors. “The proven management team has expertly implemented
a unique strategy that has made CorasWorks an industry leader in the rapidly growing collaborative application space,” observed Gary
Golding. “CorasWorks growth rate exceeds 50% annually, serving a broad range of brand-name customers across more than 20 industries,”
Edison has financed and guided 42 enterprise business solution businesses. Active investments include Cybershift, JGI, Lognet, Longview
Solutions, Satori and Tangoe. Successful exits include Axent, Marcam, MAPICS, MDY and QSS. Edison’s 15 investments in Virginia companies
include Best Software, BTG, Innovectra, Liberty Tax POMS, Relay and Telarix.
“We are very pleased to have an investor of the caliber of Edison,” explained William Rogers, CEO and Founder of CorasWorks. “Their
investment capital and value-added services will help us to accelerate our product line expansion and global market development over
the next few years.”
About Edison Venture Fund
Established in 1986, Edison partners with entrepreneurs, service providers and other financing sources to build successful companies.
Edison provides capital and value-added services to expansion stage ($5 to 20 million revenue), information technology businesses.
Initial investments range from $4 to 7 million. Edison typically serves as a sole or lead investor in financings up to $10 million.
In addition to providing expansion capital, Edison funds management buyouts, recapitalizations, spinouts and secondary stock purchases.
Edison’s 15 investment professionals are based in Lawrenceville, NJ, West Chester, PA, and McLean, VA. Industry specialties include
application software, communications, education, financial services, healthcare & pharmaceutical IT and electronics. Edison’s successes
include Dendrite, E-Transport, Gain Capital, Insoft, Netegrity, Princeton Financial, Tetradata, Visual Networks, Virtual Edge, Vocus and
many other information technology leaders, which have a combined market value exceeding $5 billion. Edison currently has $500 million under management and is actively making new investments.
www.edisonventure.com
With over 1,000 customers and more than 1 million users worldwide, CorasWorks is a leading provider of modular application development software for Microsoft SharePoint. Customers use our products to build web–based solutions such as project– and process–oriented solutions and line of business applications. Our modular architecture makes it easy to design, build, and manage an integrated workplace of collaborative business applications, without the time and expense of custom development.