Vindicia, a leading provider of on-demand payment management
services, today announced it has secured $7.5 million in series D
financing, bringing the total amount raised to over $21 million.
New investor ONSET Ventures led the financing in partnership with
existing investors Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI) --
a wholly owned subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG, a leading
international media company -- DCM and Leader Ventures. The company
also announced that ONSET Ventures General Partner David Lane and
BDMI Principal Keith Titan have joined its board of directors.
Titan offers deep expertise in digital media, while Lane brings to
the board a track record for success in developing emerging IT
infrastructure companies.
Vindicia will use this latest infusion of capital to hire new
talent across the organization and expand its market presence,
building on the success it has established in providing payment
management services to online merchants via a software-as-a-service
(SaaS) offering that combines a subscription billing solution with
key fraud management capabilities.
"Online merchants have come to realize that a subscription
payment management solution is more than a back-end operational
issue, it is a core business imperative that goes directly to the
bottom line -- for example increasing customer retention rates by
up to ten percent," said Gene Hoffman, Chairman and CEO of
Vindicia. "The additional funding announced today will help us to
continue to scale our services to meet the demand for this solution
while achieving profitability. The expertise and experience offered
by David and Keith will prove valuable assets as well."
Vindicia has established a track record of success across
diverse online markets. The company counts market leaders including
Symantec, Intuit, Atari/Cryptic Studios and Outspark among its
customers, for whom it processes over 200,000 transactions a day,
projecting over 73 million total in calendar year 2009. Vindicia is
also in its fourth year of compliance with the critical PCI
security standard and SAS 70 auditing standard.
"Gene and his team understand that online merchants require a
payment infrastructure solution developed specifically to leverage
the inherent advantages of digital media and services," said Lane.
"During due diligence, my firm confirmed its belief that Vindicia
is the clear market leader. With a strong business model,
significant revenues, a long list of marquee customers including
market leaders in software, gaming, dating and online content, and
a top notch management team, the additional capital announced today
positions Vindicia to continue its fast growth."
About Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI)
Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI) is a strategic
venture investor focused on innovative digital media technologies,
products and distribution channels across the globe. BDMI is a
wholly owned subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG, a leading international
media company with over $22 billion in revenues and over 100,000
employees across more than 50 countries. For more information,
visit: www.bdmifund.com.
Bertelsmann AG is an international media company encompassing
television (RTL Group), book publishing (Random House), magazine
publishing (Gruner + Jahr), media services (Arvato), and media
clubs (Direct Group) in more than 50 countries. Bertelsmann's claim
is to inspire people around the world with first-class media and
communications offerings -- entertainment, information and services
-- and occupy leading positions in its respective markets. The
foundation of Bertelsmann's success is a corporate culture based on
partnership, entrepreneurial spirit, creativity, and corporate
responsibility. The company strives to bring creative new ideas to
market and create value. For more information, visit:
www.bertelsmann.com.
About DCM
DCM is an early stage venture capital firm supporting
entrepreneurs building world-class technology companies. The firm's
partners manage US$1.6 billion and have funded leading technology
companies including 2Wire, 51job (NASDAQ: JOBS), @Motion
(Openwave), About.com (The New York Times Co.), All About (Jasdaq:
2454), Arroyo (Cisco), Abound Solar, Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR), Dang
Dang, eDreams (TA), Foundry Networks (NASDAQ: FDRY), HireRight
(acquired by USIS), Internap, IPivot (Intel), Jaspersoft, JCI,
Neopath Networks (Cisco), Neutral Tandem, nQuire (Siebel), OPI,
PayCycle, PGP Corporation, Recourse Technologies (Symantec),
RockYou, Scigineer, Sigmatel, SMIC, Sling Media (EchoStar),
Ustream, VanceInfo and Vimicro. DCM offers hands-on operational
guidance and access to an extensive network of resources, including
close relationships with many of the Pacific Rim's leading
companies and investors. For more information, please visit DCM's
website at www.dcm.com.
About Leader Ventures
Leader Ventures is a private investment firm providing debt and
equity financing to a diversified portfolio of private and public
companies. With offices in San Francisco and Menlo Park, the firm
invests primarily in the U.S. and employs a variety of loan and
equity structures to invest in companies at different developmental
stages, across diverse industry segments. For more information,
please visit www.leaderventures.com.
About ONSET Ventures
ONSET Ventures specializes in providing an ideal mix of
start-up, follow-on, and intellectual capital to entrepreneurs and
early-stage technology ventures, to help transform world-class
ideas into sustainable and valuable businesses, through a process
of "venture craftsmanship." The firm has backed over 100 companies
since 1984 and now has more than $1 billion under management.
ONSET's venture craftsmanship, refined over 24 years, includes a
highly-optimized tool set for risk and capital management, and a
shirt-sleeves style of active collaboration with entrepreneurs that
leverages the firm's substantial operating experience. That
collaboration frequently begins before the closing of any
financing, and typically continues throughout the life of the
venture. This approach, which has become the hallmark of the firm,
has resulted in a crafting of ventures that have consistently met
their operational and financing milestones. In addition, it has
resulted in a franchise that not only brings successful, serial
entrepreneurs back to ONSET Ventures time and again, but also
attracts investors who want the increasingly rare opportunity to
participate in very early stage venture investing. ONSET Ventures
focuses exclusively on information and medical technology-based
start-ups, and has a long history of successful ventures in each of
these sectors.
About Vindicia
Vindicia offers an integrated, on-demand billing and fraud
management solution for online merchants. Vindicia CashBox is a
best-of-breed billing system for creating and managing recurring
and one-time payments and helps merchants improve customer
retention and maximize profit. Vindicia ChargeGuard provides
automated fraud screening and chargeback management services that
enable merchants to recover lost revenue. A PCI Service Provider
Level 1 company and SAS 70 Type II audited, Vindicia is a key
payment management resource for some of the best-known brands on
the Internet. For more information, visit www.vindicia.com.
Contacts: Sanjay Sarathy Vindicia, Inc. 650-522-4490 Email
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