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RightNow Technologies, Inc. provides customer relationship management software and services. The company offers RightNow CX, a customer experience suite for consumer-centric organizations to enable interactions across Web, social, and contact center touch points. Its RightNow CX suite includes RightNow Web Experience, which integrates into an existing Web infrastructure to provide an online customer experience providing customer access to Web self-service; RightNow Social Experience that enables organizations to listen and respond to conversations with their consumers on the social Web and to build branded communities to cultivate their own conversations; RightNow Contact Center Experience, which enables organizations to deliver consistent customer experiences across multi-channel interactions; RightNow Engage, which provides horizontal service, sales, and marketing business processes that support, span, and inter-connect the Web, social, and contact center experiences; RightNow CX Cloud Platform that provides a platform for scalability, performance, flexibility, and security; RightNow Mission Critical Operations, a cloud delivery platform; and RightNow CX Commitment, which describes the way to deliver a customer experience. The company also provides professional services, including project management and consulting services. It serves various industries, such as technology, public sector, retail/consumer packaged goods, entertainment, financial services, telecommunication, and travel and hospitality industries. The company was founded in September 1997 by Greg R. Gianforte and is headquartered in Bozeman, MT.

Panasas, Inc. develops storage solutions for technical applications and data workloads. The firm serves the bioscience, energy, finance, government, manufacturing, media, and university markets. The company was founded by Garth Gibson, Frederic Roy Carlson and William Courtright in 1999 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Owler, Inc. develops crowdsourced competitive intelligence for businesses. It is a free online and mobile source of business information that provides noise-free news alerts, company profiles, and community polls to help busy professionals keep up with the fast pace of business. The company was founded in 2011 by James F. Fowler, Saaed Fattahi, Timothy James Harsch and Rajan Madhavan and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

LoopUp Ltd. provides international calling and conferencing software solutions. It develops mobile apps for iPhone, android, and blackBerry. The company was founded by Stephen Graham Flavell and Thomas Michael Hughes on February 25, 2003 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

ClickMail Marketing, Inc. provides e-mail marketing and consulting. It specializes in customization, deployment and support, design services, e-mail health check, e-marketing strategy, and optimization and deliver-ability. The company founded by Marco Marini, Russell J. Cerminaro, and Michael Kelly in 2000 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Avangate BV provides software solutions. It enables software companies to sell their products online as well as to manage a distribution network in a way that is efficient, customizable and locally relevant. The company was founded by Radu Georgescu and Cristian Badea in 2006 and is headquartered in Amstelveen, the Netherlands.

Swan Ventures (Swan Ventures) is a venture firm founded in 2000. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.