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Press ReleaseCemaphore Systems Secures $10 Million Series B FinancingvSpring Capital Managing Director Joins Board San Mateo, Calif. - September 21, 2004 Cemaphore Systems™, a leading provider of Messaging Services Management (MSM) solutions, today announced that it has secured $10 million in Series B funding. vSpring Capital led the round with existing investors Mayfield and Worldview Technology Partners also participating. In related news, the company also announced that Ed Ekstrom, vSpring Capital Managing Director, has joined the company's board. The financing will be used to broaden sales efforts, increase awareness and further enhance the MailShadow™ solution. "Cemaphore's MailShadow completes the Microsoft Exchange centralization story for remote locations," said Ed Ekstrom, Managing Director, vSpring Capital. "Placing an Exchange transaction cache in the branch office delivers the best performance to Outlook® users while minimizing network bandwidth usage. This is the right solution for distributed enterprises. Combining superior technology with the experienced management team, we believe this will be a great investment." "No other company has taken a transaction caching approach to support Microsoft Exchange centralization," said Kevin Fong, Managing Director of Mayfield. "We believe that as IT makes the transition from distributed to centralized Exchange operations, they will find MailShadow a compelling value. Cemaphore has the opportunity to become a key component within the Exchange infrastructure." "Cemaphore has made great progress in building a cost-saving, performance enhancing solution for Exchange deployments," said Michael Orsak, General Partner and co-founder of Worldview Technology Partners. "This financing round provides the opportunity for this company to ramp sales and its market penetration. We look forward to capitalizing on our international business development resources to enable Cemaphore to exploit the global market opportunity for Exchange transaction caching in the US, Europe and Asia." "Cemaphore has been developing a ground-breaking solution for the way Exchange can be deployed," said Tyrone F. Pike, CEO of Cemaphore Systems. "This investment from three prominent venture capital firms validates the solution that the Cemaphore team is building, and the opportunity to expand our investment in bringing MailShadow to the market." Cemaphore Systems' MailShadow software optimizes Exchange server centralization performance by lowering network traffic by up to 90% and overcoming the performance problems caused by network latency. About vSpring Capital
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Contact InformationFor more information, please contact us: Phone: 1–800–644–7839 PR Contact: L.D. Weller About CemaphoreFounded in April 2002, Cemaphore Systems, Inc., a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, delivers software solutions for Microsoft Exchange. Cemaphore has built a deep expertise in Exchange transaction technology to develop solutions that ensure the availability, integrity and reliability of messaging services.
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