Published: March 11, 2010
MATRIXX Software Secures US$9 Million in Second-Round Funding
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - MATRIXX
Software, developer of the next generation of online charging and
policy management solutions, today announces it has secured US$9 million
in funding from Greylock
Partners and Tugboat
Ventures. David Strohm, a 30 year veteran at Greylock and Director
at EMC Corporation and VMware, and Dafina Toncheva from Tugboat have
been appointed to the MATRIXX Board of Directors.
MATRIXX Software was formed in 2008 by telecoms entrepreneur Dave
Labuda, founder and CEO of Portal Software. Dave and his
co-founders, Luther Kitahata and Jennifer Kyriakakis, have assembled a
world class team with over 100 years of Telco rating and billing
experience.
"Our ground-breaking approach to high-performance transaction processing
rewrites the economics of real-time
charging for service providers," said Dave Labuda. "MATRIXX is
uniquely positioned to drive the monetization of the explosion in mobile
data traffic and help service providers profitably launch next
generation services and business models."
MATRIXX Software has developed a series of patent-pending technologies
that deliver ten-to-fifty times the performance of current rating and
charging solutions. This enables service providers to realize an
extremely low, fully predictable Cost Per Transaction (CPT) for all
services. With the industry quickly shifting toward real-time services
and high-volume micro-transactions, service providers are unable to keep
pace using their existing platforms. The MATRIXX solution turns these
challenges into opportunities, allowing operators to leap into the
real-time future while simultaneously driving down their operating costs.
"Dave Labuda has a proven track record of successfully bringing to
market innovative software that answers the needs of service providers.
With the technology developed at MATRIXX, the company is poised to
fundamentally improve how operators approach rating and charging," said
David Strohm. "This type of game-changing innovation fuels explosive
growth, and we are pleased to be partnering with MATRIXX Software to
help them succeed."
About MATRIXX Software
MATRIXX Software is reinventing real-time to deliver solutions that help
service providers address the growing volume and complexity of services
that require real-time processing. Our flagship product, the MATRIXX
OC/PM Engine, is the ultimate solution for service providers who
want to monetize their portfolio of services and content. By delivering
a ten to fifty-fold increase in performance over traditional and next
generation charging systems, the MATRIXX solution enables an entirely
new operational cost structure for online charging and subscriber policy
management. It empowers service providers to monetize all products,
services, and content in real-time at a dramatically lower cost per
transaction (CPT). For more information, visit www.matrixxsw.com.
About Greylock Partners
Greylock partners with entrepreneurs to help them build market-leading
businesses. Over the past 45 years the firm has worked with hundreds of
companies, 150 of which have gone on to IPOs and 100 of which have gone
on to profitable M&A events, including: Ascend Communications,
CheckFree, CipherTrust, Constant Contact, Continental Cable, Decru, Data
Domain, DoubleClick, Farecast, Internet Security Systems, Ikanos,
Legato, Media Metrix, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Openwave, Open Market,
OutlookSoft, Polyserve, Red Hat, RightNow Technologies, Success Factors,
Sun Edison, Tellabs, Trilogy and Wily Technology. Current Greylock
portfolio companies include Data Robotics, Digg, Facebook, Imperva,
LinkedIn, Palo Alto Networks, Pandora, Picarro, Redfin, Workday and
ZipCar. For more information about Greylock Partners, visit www.greylock.com
or follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/greylock)
or Twitter (@GreylockVC).
About Tugboat Ventures
Tugboat Ventures is an early stage, mentor capital firm dedicated to
serving the highest potential entrepreneurs and business innovators
today. Tugboat invests significant time, energy and money behind these
select entrepreneurs to assist them in building market leading
companies. Tugboat's active involvement starts as early as concept stage
and continues through public offering and beyond. Tugboat invests
primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area and focuses on capital efficient
companies in the areas of software infrastructure, enterprise
software-as-a-service, consumer internet, mobility and cloud computing.
Current and prior companies served by Tugboat's team include Blue Nile,
Drugstore.com, Good, Imperva, PGP, RepairPal, richrelevance, ShopItToMe
and SuccessFactors. For more information about Tugboat Ventures, visit tugboatventures.com.

MATRIXX Software
Simon Marshall, +1-770-596-4072
PR
representative
pr@matrixxsw.com
Jennifer
Kyriakakis, +1-650-575-9830
VP marketing
Jennifer.kyriakakis@matrixxsw.com
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