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ON24 Closes Over $8 Million in Financing
Global Leader in Webcasting
and Virtual Events Solutions Experiences Strong Customer and
Sales Momentum
San Francisco, CA
July 15, 2008
ON24,
Inc. (http://www.ON24.com), the global leader in webcasting and
virtual events solutions, announced that it has secured over $8
million in equity and expansion capital financing. U.S. Venture
Partners, Canaan Partners, and Rho Ventures led the equity round;
while Gold Hill Capital led the expansion capital financing. This
brings ON24's total capital raised to more than $46 million. The
funds will be used to accelerate ON24's global expansion of the
sales, marketing and client services organizations; and product
development initiatives, including ON24 Virtual Show and the company's
flagship webcasting platform.
ON24 continues to experience strong
customer and sales momentum, with over 40% sales growth year over
year. Enterprises, business-to-business
publishers, government, and life science organizations worldwide
overwhelmingly select ON24 for their demand generation and corporate
communications needs. With the introduction of ON24 Virtual Show
on June 30, 2008, ON24 is the only company to provide an integrated
family of webcasting and virtual events solutions, which streamline
how organizations plan, produce and deliver cost-effective online
events. This includes virtual trade shows, conferences, job fairs,
and partner and customer summits.
"Our customers are experiencing increased ROI as a result
of using ON24 solutions for demand generation and corporate communications.
With rising fuel costs and the economic downturn, we have seen increased
demand by organizations to leverage our solutions to hold online
events as a cost-effective alternative to in-person events," said
Sharat Sharan, president and CEO of ON24, Inc. "We've raised
this funding to accelerate our growth while being well capitalized
during the economic downturn."
"Our increased investment in ON24 demonstrates our confidence
that they will continue to demonstrate their industry leadership
with innovative solutions, high customer satisfaction, and robust
sales momentum," said Deepak Kamra, general partner, Canaan
Partners. "And with the introduction of their Virtual Show
solution, ON24 is positioned well to be the dominant player in the
online events space."
About ON24, Inc.
ON24, Inc. (http://www.ON24.com) is the global leader of webcasting
and virtual events solutions for demand generation and corporate
communications. ON24 provides the most reliable and trusted
solutions that enable organizations to plan, produce and deliver
cost-effective
online events, including lead generation webinars, virtual shows,
internal communications, continuing professional education and
executive announcements.
More than 600 global organizations in
publishing, technology, life sciences, government, and financial
services rely on ON24, including
Business Objects, Cardinal Health, Cisco Systems, UBM Media, Credit
Suisse, U.S. Department of Education, GE Healthcare, IBM, Motorola,
National Science Foundation, and Samsung. ON24 is headquartered
in San Francisco, with offices in Washington, D.C., New York,
London and Beijing.
"Insight24®" - your B2B rich media
network for information, intelligence and insight - is a trademark
of ON24, Inc.
About Canaan Partners
Canaan Partners invests in visionary entrepreneurs and provides
them the networks, insights and operational guidance required
to build high-performance technology and healthcare companies.
For 20 years, we have taken an active and committed role in
the companies in which we invest, and have completed more than
69
mergers and acquisitions and 52 IPOs. With $3 billion under
management and a worldwide footprint, the firm's technology
team is committed
to catalyzing the growth of innovative companies in the digital
media, communications + mobility, enterprise and clean tech
industries. Among our successes are DoubleClick, the leading
online advertising
solution, Match.com, the most popular online dating site in
the world, CommerceOne, the company that pioneered and brought
B2B
ecommerce to the masses; Capstone Turbine, first to market and
world's leading producer of commercially viable microturbine
energy products; and VOIP equipment supplier Acme Packet, which
was one
of the top ten performing IPOs of 2006. Other Canaan technology
investments include SuccessFactors, Active Networks, Blurb,
Dexterra, Tremor Media and GroundWorks. Canaan has offices in
California,
Connecticut, India and Israel. For more information visit www.canaan.com.
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