New York, NY, September 15, 2003
Unicorn® Raises $6 Million in Series B Financing
Bank of America Equity Partners and Jerusalem Global Ventures
Lead Round; Apropos and Intel Capital Participate
Unicorn Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise information
management solutions, today announced that it has closed a Series
B financing round totaling $6 million. This follows the earlier
$8.8 million Series A investment announced in March 2002. Further
financial terms were not disclosed.
The round was led by existing investors Bank of America Equity
Partners (BAEP) and Jerusalem Global Ventures. Apropos and Intel
Capital also participated. In a separate announcement, Unicorn disclosed
that Mr. Edward McCaffrey, BAEP's Chief Investment Officer, will
be joining Unicorn's Board of Directors.
Unicorn’s CEO, Dr. Zvi Schreiber, commented, “Unicorn launched
its product earlier this year and has already announced major Fortune
100 and Federal Government customers. We are seeing an increasing
awareness by enterprises of the need for information management
and of the advantages of a semantic approach. This financing will
enable Unicorn to aggressively grow its sales and marketing infrastructure
to support the increasing market demand for the Unicorn System™.
Unicorn is pleased to have financing from some of the world’s leading
venture investors.”
Commenting on the round, Edward McCaffrey, BAEP’s CIO, said, “Bank
of America continues to believe that Unicorn’s semantic information
management represents one of the best practices for Global 1000
and public sector enterprises, enabling them to increase agility
and reduce IT costs. We see this as a long term investment in the
leader of a new software category.”
Yoni Hashkes, General Partner at Jerusalem Global Ventures, added:
“We are very pleased with Unicorn's growing customer traction, positioning
the company as a leading vendor in the rapidly developing market
for advanced enterprise information management systems.”
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