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May 22, 2008— Flock Closes $15 Million Financing Round Led by Fidelity Ventures
Flock (www.flock.com), the innovative, award-winning social Web browser, has announced that it has completed a $15 million Series D round of venture funding led by Fidelity Ventures.

April 15, 2008— eCredit Rebranded as Cortera, Unveils Enhanced Business Strategy & Management Team
eCredit, a foremost provider of U.S. business information services, unveiled its new name today – CorteraTM. The name Cortera reflects the company’s position as the leader of the next era of corporate intelligence.

February 25, 2008— GeoLearning Secures $31 Million Investment from Fidelity Ventures
GeoLearning, Inc., the leading provider of Managed Learning Services and on–demand learning and performance platforms, today announced that it has secured a growth equity investment of $31 million from Fidelity Ventures. The funds, which represent the first institutional investment for GeoLearning, will be utilized to accelerate the company’s sales and marketing efforts, continue to build its international presence and channel partner network, and potential acquisitions.

February 11, 2008— Seatwave Secures $25 million in Series C Funding. Fidelity Ventures leads third round in Europe’s #1 ticket exchange
Seatwave, Europe’s largest fan-to-fan ticket exchange - an online marketplace for buying and selling tickets for theatre, sports, music and other live events - today announced it has raised $25 million in Series C funding led by Fidelity Ventures. They are joined by existing investors Atlas Venture, Mangrove Capital Partners and Adinvest.

January 9, 2008— MFG.com Receives $26 Million Investment Led by Fidelity Ventures and Fidelity Asia Ventures
MFG.com, the largest global online marketplace for the manufacturing industry, today announced that it has received $26 million in financing. The investment was led by Fidelity Ventures and Fidelity Asia Ventures, with an additional contribution by existing investor European Founders Fund (EFF).

December 19, 2007— RedBrick Health Completes $15 Million Series B Financing Led by Fidelity Ventures
RedBrick Health, a health services company that is leading the transition from employer sponsored health care to Consumer-Owned Health, announced today the closing of a $15 million Series B preferred stock financing. The financing was led by Fidelity Ventures and included existing investors Highland Capital Partners and Versant Ventures. In connection with the financing, Dave Power, a partner at Fidelity Ventures, will join RedBrick Health's board of directors.

November 26, 2007— The New Orleans Exchange Announces Investment from Fidelity Ventures
The New Orleans Exchange announced today that Fidelity Ventures has made an investment in the company. The New Orleans Exchange is America's first centralized marketplace for providing quick and efficient access to working capital for small and middle market companies. The company is preparing to launch its initial exchange, The Receivables Exchange, America's first online exchange for buying and selling commercial receivables.

September 20, 2007— Raytheon Announces Agreement to Purchase Oakley Networks
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Oakley Networks, a leading developer of cyber-security technology. Terms of the agreement were not released.

August 27, 2007— BridgeCo Closes $17M in Latest Venture Finance Round
BridgeCo Inc. (www.bridgeco.com), a leading provider of digital home networking solutions, recently closed a venture financing round. The provider of processor IC and software platforms that connect consumer electronics to computers and the Internet over home networks raised $17 million. ETV Capital joined all of BridgeCo’s existing investors in this latest round.

June 20, 2007— Prosper Raises $20M in Series C Financing
US online person-to-person loan exchange Prosper has raised $20 million in a series c financing round led by DAG Ventures and Meritech Capital Partners. Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, Fidelity Ventures and Omidyar Network also participated in the funding round, which brings the total amount of capital raised by Prosper to $40 million.

June 4 , 2007— EMC Announces Acquisition of Verid
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that it has acquired Verid, Inc., a privately held information security technology leader based in Florida that delivers knowledge-based authentication solutions to millions of users worldwide, through some of the largest consumer-facing financial institutions, telecom providers and retailers. The acquisition is complete and further details of the transaction are not being disclosed.

April 3, 2007— Asset Control Announces Investment from Fidelity Ventures, Installs Phil Lynch as CEO, and Concurrently Acquires TAP Solutions
Asset Control, the leading provider of Centralized Data Management™ (CDM) solutions to the financial services industry, today announced that Fidelity Ventures has taken a majority investment in the company. The company also said that Phil Lynch, former CEO of Reuters Americas and a Venture Partner with Fidelity Ventures, will succeed Ger Rosenkamp as CEO and President. Lynch will focus on leading the company’s next phase of growth.

February 26, 2007— HP Extends Reach in High-growth Netowrk-attached Storage Market with Polyserve Acquisition
HP today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PolyServe, Inc., a leading provider of storage software for application and file serving utilities. The acquisition provides a strong entry point for HP into the high-growth enterprise network-attached storage (NAS) market and allows the company to extend NAS technology to blades, the fastest growing segment of the storage market.

February 13, 2007— Black Duck Software Closes $12M in Third Round Financing
Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of software compliance management solutions, today announced it has closed $12 million in a third round of financing led by Focus Ventures of Palo Alto, California. Black Duck will use the funds to continue to build out its product portfolio and to strengthen international distribution channels.

December 18, 2006— Fidelity Ventures Acquires eCredit and Provides $11M Growth Capital
Fidelity Ventures, which invests in and works with technology companies at the go-to-market stage, today announced it has acquired Dedham, Mass.-based eCredit, a privately-held provider of online solutions for commercial credit and collections professionals.

September 25 , 2006— BlueNote Networks Unveils SessionSuite SOA Edition
BlueNote Networks, the leading provider of Business Communications Platforms for delivering real-time interactive communications as services in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), today announced the availability of two new products in its SessionSuite™ product family: SessionSuite SOA Edition and SessionSuite Desktop.

September 15 , 2006— RSA Teams with Verid to Offer Financial Institutions Strong Authentication Technology
RSA Security announced today that it has teamed with Verid in order to further expand the range of strong authentication technologies included in its comprehensive RSA® Adaptive Authentication solution. RSA Security will integrate Verid’s widely-adopted knowledge-based authentication (KBA) technology into the RSA Adaptive Authentication platform.

August 29, 2006— mindSHIFT Technologies Receives $18 Million in New Financing
mindSHIFT Technologies, a leading Managed Services Provider (MSP), announced today that it closed an additional $18 million in funding, with previous investors Columbia Capital of Alexandria, VA and Fidelity Ventures of Boston, MA participating in the round with a new investor, TD Fund of Washington D.C.

August 23, 2006— Comverse To Acquire Netonomy, A Leader in Customer Self-Service Solutions
Comverse, a subsidiary of Comverse Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMVT), and the world's leading supplier of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communication and billing services, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Netonomy for approximately $19 million in cash.

August 1, 2006— EnterpriseDB Closes $20 Milllion Financing
EnterpriseDB, the world’s leading enterprise-class, open source database company, announced today that it has closed a combined $20 million debt and equity financing. A $16.5 million Series B venture capital financing was led by Fidelity Ventures, a leading provider of “Go-to-Market CapitalSM“ to early-stage information technology and communications companies.

June 19, 2006— Xoom to Transform Money Transfer Industry with Wholesale Product, $15 Million Financing and Senior Staff
Xoom, the money transfer innovator, today announced its new turn-key solution, Xoom WebAgent. With WebAgent, banks, credit unions, retailers and money transfer operators can build or expand their money transfer business without worrying about the complex logistical, technical and legal hurdles associated with operating a remittance business.