David McFarlane

MRO Software provides enterprise strategic asset management software that helps clients make the most of their information technology (IT) assets, production equipment, facilities, fleets and vehicles, and other assets. The company's software tracks spare parts inventories, analyzes equipment failures, schedules maintenance, manages parts sourcing and procurement, and processes work orders. Its IT asset management tools help clients manage hardware and software and ensure licensing compliance. MRO sells to customers in a variety of asset-intensive industries, including oil and gas, utilities, pharmaceuticals, aviation, transportation, and the public sector.

Exchange Applications, Inc. provides analytical customer relationship management solutions. The firm's software unifies all customer data collected from disparate channels in real time, analyzes the data to generate recommendations and distributes those recommendations consistently to each customer channel. The company also offers consulting services and methodologies to develop measurements, best practices and business processes to create a customer-centric, marketing focused environment throughout all levels of an organization. The firm offers software to the financial services, telecommunication, retail, insurance, utilities, travel and hospitality, and automotive markets. The company was founded in November 1996 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

IMlogic, Inc. used to provide real-time solutions for archiving, querying and reporting on instant messaging. It used to deliver enterprise-class infrastructure software that helps companies control and leverage the use of Instant Messaging (IM). Its strategic vision used to provide organizations a comprehensive approach for incorporating IM capabilities in business-critical communications and applications. It was founded in 2001 and was headquartered in Waltham, MA

Help Scout, Inc. designs and builds web applications. The company was founded by Nicholas Francis, Jared McDaniel and Swindle Denny in 2005 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

CVP Management, Inc (Converge Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1998 by Nilanjana Bhowmik and Maia Heymann. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Venture Development Center, Inc. provides data monetization and data sourcing services. Its products include visual data composites and visual data characterization. The company was founded in 1996 by Charles W. Stryker and is headquartered in Upper Saddle River, NJ.

Akiba Technologies, Inc. designs and develops operational database systems. It offers Akiban Enterprise solutions that enable companies to meet their mobile, big data, and real-time reporting demands on operational systems; Persistit, a transactional Java B+tree library; operational big data solutions; Social-Local-Mobile solutions for retailers and service providers; ad MySQL solution is used by various organizations as an operational database. The company was founded by David McFarlane and Ori Herrnstadt and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Vivify Technologies, Inc. develops legacy application modernization solutions. It transforms PowerBuilder, Visual Basic and other client server applications into modern web solutions. The firm’s MDT framework, based upon the model driven development approach to application modernization, minimizes risk and maximizes return on investment. The company was founded on February 4, 2000 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.