Parallax

Special Partners

Golden Gate Capital is a private equity firm with over $2.5 billion of capital under management dedicated to investing in high-growth businesses in change-intensive industries. Golden Gate's charter is to partner with world-class management teams to make equity investments in situations where there is a demonstrable opportunity to significantly enhance a company's value. The Principals of Golden Gate Capital, through their backgrounds at Bain Capital, Bain & Company, venture capital and investment banking, have a long and successful history of investing with management partners across a wide range of transactions, including leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations, corporate divestitures and spin-offs, build-ups and venture stage investing.

Parallax has been a co-investor with Golden Gate in a number of larger software transactions including Micro Focus, Infor, Inovis and TrySyn. Besides the software industry, Parallax and Golden Gate collaborate in markets like semiconductors, consumer products and other industries. Through an exclusive arrangement Parallax supports Golden Gate's business development, underwriting and on-going management efforts.

The Argentum Group is a New York-based venture capital firm dedicated to assisting outstanding entrepreneurs build industry-leading companies. We serve as a general partner of four investment partnerships with total capital under management in excess of $390 million. Since being founded in 1988, Argentum has invested in over 100 companies in a broad range of market sectors.

Argentum has been a minority shareholder in Parallax since its inception and provided a portion of its start-up capital. In addition, Argentum provided capital directly to several of Parallax's portfolio companies including IPMobileNet.