Simplexo Group Ltd

London, UK

www.simplexo.com

Enterprise Search

Co-founders:  Simon Bain and Peter Delf

Sage Portfolio Company since September 2008

Simplexo has developed patented next-generation search technology for the enterprise.  Simplexo simultaneously searches multiple data sources including e-mail, word processor documents, spreadsheets, and structured data such as HR systems, SAP, etc.  The solution is ideal for enterprises responding to compliance or corporate governance issues, anticipating shifting market dynamics, or managing complex business transactions.  Simplexo accelerates informed decision making.

Grahame Sewell serves as Chairman, assisted by Ted West.

Get-Me-In (formerly Advanced Ticketing Systems, Ltd.)
London, U.K.
http://www.getmein.com/

Secondary online ticketing sales for the UK and European markets
Founders:  James Gray and Paul Montague
CEO: Andrew Blachman

Get-Me-In has developed the leading secondary online ticketing business in the UK and is rolling out new country sites in Germany, Netherlands, and other European country markets. Sage Partners has assisted the company in defining and executing its expansion strategy, as well as in securing its financing. The company has more than tripled in sales and market value since Sage Partners became involved in April 2006.

Sage partner Grahame Sewell served as Get-Me-In's Chairman, and Ted West served as a Director.  Sage partners John Gaulding and Tom Doorley served previously.

January 2008:  Grahame Sewell and the leadership team are proud to announce the company’s acquisition by the Ticketmaster division of IAC (NASDAQ: IACI).  As Ticketmaster spins out as an independent entity, GMI will represent TM’s first global business expansion, a core strategic goal.
    

Memetrics
San Francisco
http://www.memetrics.com/

Digital marketing optimization solutions
Co-founders: Hikaru Phillips (Sydney), Matt Symons (San Francisco)
Sage Partners portfolio company since January 2006

Memetrics has developed a world-class, patented system for testing and optimizing digital online and direct marketing campaigns for business clients and their agencies. Its clients include American Express, eBay, ING-Direct, Telstra, and Verizon, among many others. The company serves clients in the US, UK, Europe, and Australia. Sage Partners has assisted Memetrics in defining and executing its global expansion strategy, particularly in the US. Here, we have developed new strategic clients, business development partnerships, and corporate development prospects. We have counseled the founding team in leadership and organization development, and in funding strategy. The company has more than doubled in revenues, and tripled in value since Sage Partners engaged in January 2006.

Ted West served as a Director of Memetrics, and Gerhard Blendstrup assisted in business development.

January 2008:  Ted West and the leadership team are proud to announce the company’s acquisition by Accenture, LLP.  Memetrics becomes part of Accenture’s portfolio of offerings in its management sciences division.
   

Knovel Corporation
New York
http://www.knovel.com/

Searchable science and engineering reference information
CEO and Co-founder: Chris Forbes
Sage Partners portfolio company since November, 2004

Knovel has developed a web-based science and engineering reference service that features a unique search engine that allows users to search across multiple sources for quantities, properties and straight text. The service also offers user interactivity with graphs, equations and tables to enable the user to work productively with search results. Sage Partners has helped to determine overall strategy and management system, assisted in restructuring the management team, provided close counsel to the CEO, and helped the management team improve its decision-making and priority-setting. We’re currently working to help the company expand distribution through various channel strategies. Knovel has grown approximately 150% in revenues and more than doubled in value during our engagement period.

Sage partner: David Kiser
 

AccTrak21
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
http://www.acctrak21.com/

Enterprise applications software platform for the Small/Medium Enterprise market
Founder and CEO:  Tim Loving
Sage Partners portfolio company since February 2005

AccTrak21 has developed a comprehensive, business-object-oriented, enterprise applications platform for the rapidly evolving global SME market. It is marketing this technology through strategic partnerships which have included: CCH/Wolters Kluwer (Netherlands); H&R Block (Kansas City); and IBM Software (New York). The company develops its technology in Malaysia and markets its products worldwide.

Sage Partners has assisted AccTrak21 in defining and executing its global expansion strategy. We have developed new strategic partnerships and corporate accounts for the company.

Two Sage partners, Ted West and Gerhard Blendstrup are engaged with the company.
 

Vision Critical Ltd.
Farnham, UK
http://www.visioncritical.co.uk

Software for Asset Based Lenders
Founder and CEO: Oliver Chadwick

Credit-IQ Limited, based in Farnham, UK, is developing exciting market traction with financial services companies in the asset-based lending market. Credit-IQ provides valuable extractor technology – OSMO – which enables the lender to have immediate access to customers’ critical sales and financial information. OSMO eliminates fraud, speeds up the data gathering process and reduces operating costs.

Having secured twenty major customers in the UK, including Lloyds TSB, Close and Fortis, the company is now embarking on international expansion. The US is potentially the company’s biggest market, and the Directors are engaging with Sage Partners to plan the entry strategy, be introduced to key partners and work with Sage on all aspects of growing the US business. For Credit-IQ, working with a trusted organisation such as Sage helps to reduce the risk of market entry, speeds up the launch, and helps the company achieve its business goals faster.

Sage partners: Ted West and Grahame Sewell
 

BlueSpace Software Corp.
Austin, Texas
http://www.bluespace.com/

Intelligent messaging solutions
Founder and CEO: Justin Marston
Chairman: Admiral Bobby Inman

BlueSpace has developed a patent-pending technology using relational database architecture to capture, store, manage, control, and analyze sensitive message communications in large financial services, corporate enterprise, and government applications. The company serves clients in the US and UK. BlueSpace has been a Sage Partners portfolio company since October 2004. Sage Partners assisted the company, originally started in the UK, in defining and executing its US expansion strategy, including the development and funding of a US business plan backed by a US venture firm. We have counseled the founding team in leadership and organization development, and in funding strategy. The company has restructured as a US corporation and established revenue-producing pilot projects with very large clients in the last 36-month period.

Sage partners: Ted West and Grahame Sewell
 

StratBridge, Inc.
Boston, MA
http://www.stratbridge.com/

Business analytics and data visualization tools
Founder and CEO: Matthew Marolda

In its seventh year, StratBridge, an analytical software and services provider, has grown from its founder’s first idea into a profitable, growing business. We’ve been with Matt Marolda for the complete journey thus far. Matt’s special sauce is the ability to mine complex data and to display the results in engaging and enlightening graphical formats. The original idea focused on the needs of professional service firms (e.g. consultants, accountants, investment houses) to make sense out of detailed financial and market information. The firm has added new products to serve the needs of such organizations as the Boston Red Sox and the NHL, as they seek to understand the dynamics of ticket pricing and selling, and to quantify athlete performance. We’ve worked with Matt as he nurtured his idea while taking his MBA at Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck business school, to help him focus his value proposition and to build a sustainable enterprise that can adapt as the needs of his customers evolve.

Sage partner Tom Doorley serves on the Board of the company.