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Weblicon Technologies AG wins AURELIA PRIVATE EQUITY as a new investor
Weblicon accelerates expansion with EUR 3.8 million of financing
Berlin, May 16, 2003. Weblicon Technologies AG, a leading provider of Personal Information Management (PIM) software, today announced a new investor: AURELIA PRIVATE EQUITY. The four partners in the consortium Belgacom, IBB, PEPPERMINT., and AURELIA are providing a total of EUR 3.8 million for expansion of Weblicon’s international sales and marketing efforts.
“Weblicon offers attractive products whose international potential can now be realized with renowned selling partners like Sun Microsystems” says Stefan Lemper, partner at AURELIA PRIVATE EQUITY, who has observed and analyzed Weblicon Technologies AG during a longer period.
With its Organizer “Calmeno”, Weblicon offers a competitive alternative to MS Exchange for small to medium enterprises. The organizer software has been introduced in spring 2003 in a joint announcement with Sun Microsystems as part of the Small Office Solution combined with Sun’s StarOffice office application suite.
In the two years since its establishment, Weblicon has also become a reliable and innovative technology partner for telecommunication companies and portals. Recent example is Weblicon’s success with Mobilkom Austria, who are using the Weblicon SyncML Server for their Personal Information Management system. The Weblicon SyncML Server provides “over the air” synchronization of contacts, appointments and tasks with SyncML-enabled mobile phones.
“What has convinced us from the beginning is the sustainable business model and Weblicon’s broad product portfolio scaling from large telcos to the SME market. Here we see a large growth potential for the company”, recapitulates Ingeborg Neumann, manager and co-founder of the lead investor PEPPERMINT. Financial Partners.
For the Weblicon team around CEO and enterprise founder Carsten Brinkschulte the influx of capital is the start signal to pursue the offensive growth strategy: “As of its establishment Weblicon has successfully developed leading technologies, for instance in the area of mobile data synchronisation. And we have built up a firm network of renowned and reliable partners”, Brinkschulte sums up the past development. “With the additional capital we can now aggressively extend our international sales activities.”
About Weblicon
Weblicon Technologies AG – established in June 2000 in Berlin by a founding team around CEO Carsten Brinkschulte- is a technology supplier with focus on personal information management (PIM) and synchronization software for enterprises, portals, ISPs, ASPs and Telcos. PIM products are integrated seamlessly into existing networks of servers, applications and data bases. The Weblicon PIM offers a complete organizer and messaging solution with address book, calendar, ToDos, eMail, SMS, Group-SMS and MMS. As the first technology supplier in Europe, Weblicon realized synchronization “over the air”, based on the SyncML industry standard. Under the label “Calmeno”, Weblicon offers its successful organizer software also to small and medium enterprises.
About AURELIA PRIVATE EQUITY
AURELIA PRIVATE EQUITY was founded in the beginning of 2003 with the assumption of the early stage business from TFG venture capital group. As business oriented venture capital company, AURELIA invests into fast growing technology enterprises in the sectors of IT, telecommunication, industry and life sciences. The investment focus is on enterprises with an experienced management, technological advantage and a high scaling potential, which could prove already first successes of their business model.
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Weblicon Technologies AG
Corporate Communications
Torstraße 6 Mail:
D-10119 Berlin
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Nicole Meissner
Tel.: +49-30-726269-0
Mail: n.meissner@weblicon.net
www.weblicon.net
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