LOS ANGELES, May 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — K1 Investment Management, LLC (“K1”), a leading investment firm focusing on high-growth enterprise software companies, today announced the sale of its portfolio company, Litera Microsystems (“Litera”), to funds managed by Hg. With K1’s partnership, Litera tripled its revenue to become one of the world’s leading providers of end-to-end document management software. Litera helps organizations mitigate risk and drive return on investment by enabling users to create, check, repair, collaborate, and share high-quality complex documents.

Following K1’s acquisition of Litera in July 2016, Litera made substantial investments to more than double its product portfolio and build a robust global go-to-market engine. Additionally, Litera pursued a bold add-on acquisition program, made possible by K1’s operational assistance, to seamlessly bring together four companies under one name.

Litera’s 1,300 clients include some of the largest law firms and life sciences firms in the world.

“K1 provided unparalleled operational value, focusing our company on customer-centric, industry-specific software solutions,” says Avaneesh Marwaha, CEO of Litera. “The firm’s expertise in growing successful enterprise software companies helped Litera get ahead of the curve and avoid the pitfalls of a typical high-growth company. Litera’s relentless drive for innovation and deep focus on the end-user has fundamentally changed the way our customers utilize and manage the document lifecycle, enabling them to provide superior services to their clients.”

“It has been an incredible journey to partner with the Litera management team to innovate and transform the document lifecycle market,” says Ron Cano, managing partner at K1. “Litera has become a trusted platform for its customers and is well positioned for continued future success.”

Litera was an investment in K1’s third fund (K3). The firm is currently investing out of its fourth fund (K4). William Blair acted as exclusive financial advisor to Litera.

About Litera Microsystems

Litera Microsystems is a leading provider of software for drafting, proofreading, comparing, repairing and cleansing documents in the legal and life sciences industries worldwide. Headquartered in Chicago, Litera’s core products empower users to generate, review, and distribute high-quality content quickly and securely, from any device. Today, Litera supports over a thousand document-intensive organizations across the globe, helping them satisfy the complex demands of clients and regulators. https://www.litera.com/

About K1

K1 builds category leading enterprise software companies. As a global investment firm, K1 assists high-growth businesses achieve successful outcomes. K1 invests alongside strong management teams that continue to guide their organizations on a day-to-day basis. With over 75 professionals, K1 changes industry landscapes by executing organic and acquisition-based growth strategies. Since inception of the firm, K1 has partnered with over 100 enterprise software companies including industry leaders such as Apttus, Buildium, Certify, Checkmarx, ChiroTouch, Chrome River, Clarizen, Granicus, IronScales, Jobvite, Onit, Rave, RFPIO, Smarsh and WorkForce Software. For more information about K1, please visit www.k1capital.com or www.linkedin.com/company/k1im.

SOURCE K1 Investment Management

The SCHEMA Group (SCHEMA) is expanding its previous 27% shareholding in TID Informatik GmbH (TID) to 100%.

TID Informatik GmbH (TID), headquartered in Inning am Ammersee and with a branch in Amberg, Germany, produces the CATALOGcreator® software and specializes in electronic spare parts catalogs and the management of service and spare parts information. With its products SCHEMA ST4 and SCHEMA CDS, SCHEMA is the leading manufacturer of professional software solutions for product and process documentation.

As a new wholly-owned subsidiary of the SCHEMA Group, TID Informatik will continue to operate as an independent company on the market alongside SCHEMA Consulting and SCHEMA Systems. The previous managing directors, founders Robert Schäfer and Rafi Boudjakdjian, will continue to run TID Informatik GmbH as managing directors.

With this acquisition, the SCHEMA Group is expanding its portfolio as a provider of system solutions for content lifecycle management. With more than 300 customers from various industries, TID Informatik is the leading producer of software for the creation of electronic parts catalogs and service information systems. TID has recorded strong and profitable growth in recent years and employs around 50 people at its Inning am Ammersee and Amberg locations. The SCHEMA Group has thus grown to a total of 180 employees.

“I am delighted that TID Informatik and SCHEMA will be working even more closely together in the future. Through integrated software solutions and services, we can offer a unique platform for digitization and automation of product and service information,” explains Robert Schäfer, founder and Managing Director of TID Informatik GmbH.

“We are pursuing the same strategic goals together and complement each other perfectly,” emphasizes Marcus Kesseler, founder and Managing Director of the SCHEMA Group.

“Digitization and Industry 4.0 is based on professionally created, digitized and integrated product and service information. Together, we can offer our customers a unique product and service offering.”

What is SCHEMA?
The SCHEMA Group was founded in Nuremberg in 1995 and is a medium-sized software manufacturer with more than 130 employees. The SCHEMA Group produces component content management and content delivery solutions for editorial offices that create product-related content. Software from SCHEMA helps companies to describe complex products and to produce and distribute these descriptions on different media.

The XML editing system SCHEMA ST4 is one of the most widely used systems for the modular creation of documentation, package inserts and marketing materials. The system covers all areas of creation, versioning, variant control, translation, administration and publication of product-related content – from authoring support during input to the finished layout for the print catalog.
The SCHEMA Content Delivery Server offers companies a standard solution for automatically distributing intelligent information created in editorial systems to end users in a targeted and context-specific manner. This ensures that exactly the right information arrives automatically on mobile devices.

SCHEMA’s software solutions are used by more than 500 customers in the mechanical engineering, automotive, information technology, electronics, medical technology and pharmaceutical industries. Customers such as ABB, Agilent, Andritz, Bentley, Bombardier, Bosch, Bundesanzeiger, Carl Zeiss, Caterpillar, Daimler, Datev, Doppelmayr, General Electric, KSB, MAN, Miele, Österreichische Bundesbahnen, Philips, Porsche, Roche, Schaeffler Group, SEW Eurodrive, Siemens, SMA, Toyota, TüV, Voith and Wincor Nixdorf and many others rely on SCHEMA systems.

SCHEMA. Complex documents easy. www.schema.de

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We are glad to welcome the team at Crosser to the portfolio, as the company has closed a EUR 3 million financing round to support international expansion.

Together with German early stage tech VC 42CAP, we led the round, with participation from existing investors Spintop Ventures, Almi Invest and Norrlandsfonden.

With the IoT market growing in a rapid pace, we spend a lot of time thinking about industrial IoT and the next paradigm shift for the industry: industry 4.0. Crosser stands out because they understand the big picture, and has built a platform that complements and improves the customers’ existing technology. We are really excited about this partnership and what it will bring, says Martin Gemvik, Senior Investment Manager at Industrifonden.

Factory/Asset owners and machine builders are looking into digital solutions to increase uptime, optimize processes and find new business models. The Crosser real-time analytics platform helps enterprises to integrate the machine world with the rest of their business and accelerate their digital transformation.

We are very pleased to have two new investors with a strong interest in industrial technologies, says Martin Thunman, CEO and co-founder of Crosser. This round of funding enables us to expand internationally, build out our partner ecosystem and to invest further in the development of our platform. The first step will be to expand into Germany, the leading industrial country in Europe.

Crosser recently announced its “Bring Your Own AI” strategy with support for a variety of third-party machine learning frameworks and an open ecosystem approach for machine learning algorithms in the Edge. The Crosser platform offers a unique simplicity to deploy and orchestrate advanced machine learning algorithms, data processing, analytics and data integration in the Edge at scale.

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LOS ANGELES, April 25, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — K1 Investment Management (“K1”), a leading investment firm focusing on high-growth enterprise software companies, today announced the sale of its portfolio company, Rave Mobile Safety, to funds affiliated with TCV. As a K1 portfolio company, Rave became the category leader in public safety software sold to the higher education, government, K-12 and corporate markets.

During its ownership, K1 expanded the Rave management team, refined its go-to-market strategy, and strengthened its product portfolio on key solutions for pressing safety needs, including addressing the growing need for improved school safety with Rave Panic Button. Additionally, Rave consolidated a fragmented industry landscape through strategic acquisitions, bringing together three additional companies under the platform’s umbrella, broadening its market reach and delivering a comprehensive product suite to its customers.

Representative clients of Rave include the City of Chicago, Washington D.C. Schools, the City of Cincinnati, Iowa State University and the City of Virginia Beach.

“K1 was instrumental in guiding us toward furthering our mission of better connecting organizations with those they protect through innovative software that enhances public safety and helps save lives,” says Todd Piett, CEO of Rave. “The team’s operational and strategic guidance allowed us to drive organizational health, accelerate product innovation and strengthen our go-to-market. Without K1’s involvement, we would not have been able to achieve such rapid growth. I am incredibly optimistic about the future of Rave and couldn’t be happier with the effort and results achieved by the Rave and K1 teams.”

“It has been a pleasure working with Todd and the Rave team over the last three years on tripling revenue and building the preeminent provider of emergency notification and safety solutions for education, government and corporate customers,” says Taylor Beaupain, Managing Partner at K1. “We have high confidence that Rave will continue delivering outstanding value to customers and wish them continued success.”

Raymond James & Associates acted as exclusive financial advisor to Rave Mobile Safety.

About Rave Mobile Safety

Rave Mobile Safety provides the leading critical communication and data platform trusted to help save lives. Used by leading education and healthcare institutions, enterprises and state and local public safety agencies, the award-winning Rave platform including Rave Alert™, Rave 911 Suite™, Rave Panic Button™, Rave Guardian™, Rave Prepare™, Rave Eyewitness™ and Swift911™ and SwiftK12™ protects millions of individuals. Rave Mobile Safety is headquartered in Framingham, MA. For more information, please visit https://www.ravemobilesafety.com.

About K1

K1 is a leading investment firm focusing on high-growth enterprise software companies globally. K1 seeks to help dynamic businesses achieve successful outcomes by identifying and executing organic and acquisition-based growth opportunities that position its companies as industry leaders. K1 typically invests alongside strong management teams that continue to guide their organizations on a day-to-day basis. K1’s investments vary in the level of ownership in order to meet the needs of entrepreneurs and managers. Representative past and present portfolio companies include industry leaders such as Apttus, Buildium, Certify, Checkmarx, ChiroTouch, Chrome River, Clarizen, Granicus, IronScales, Jobvite, Litera Microsystems, Onit, RFPIO, Smarsh and WorkForce Software. For more information about K1, please visit www.k1capital.com or www.linkedin.com/company/k1im.

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Source: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/04/25/1809876/0/en/K1-Sells-Public-Safety-Software-Leader-Rave-Mobile-Safety.html

ARLINGTON, VA. (PRWEB) APRIL 23, 2019

ChurnZero, a real-time Customer Success platform, has announced that it secured $7 million in Series A funding led by Baird Capital. Returning investors in the round include Grotech Ventures, Middleland Capital, Charlottesville Angel Network and Center for Innovative Technology. The latest investment round will be used to support all of ChurnZero’s efforts. The team will invest in growing the Customer Success ecosystem, accelerate and deepen product development in the award-winning ChurnZero platform, and support customer facing teams in delivering the best Customer Success and Support among their peers.

The ChurnZero solution helps subscription businesses fight customer churn, expand their current accounts, increase product adoption and optimize the overall customer experience.

“At Untappd, we pride ourselves in delivering great Service and Customer Success to our brewery, restaurant and retail customers and we have been blown away with ChurnZero’s level of Customer Success as well as the care and thought they put into their product,” said Jeremy Jeffers, VP of Customer Success, Untappd. “We have seen a large improvement on the level of customer touchpoints our Customer Success Managers are able to do today versus before and we have seen a massive increase in retention for our small and medium-sized accounts.”

“Building a Customer Success platform that integrates data and customer touchpoints from a myriad of sources, generates insights and analytics, and kicks off workflows and communications is a tough technical project and is a proud achievement for our team,” said You Mon Tsang, Co-founder and CEO of ChurnZero. “But our real achievement is creating a happy and successful customer base. Our growth has been testament to our efforts so far and I am thrilled to have Baird Capital as partners to invest further in the company and in the ecosystem.”

In connection with the investment, Joanna Arras of Baird Capital has joined ChurnZero’s board of directors. “Customer Success is a persistent issue for companies in a variety of industries, and we are beginning to see the emergence of best practices to professionalize and scale Customer Success teams,” said Arras. “The market for Customer Success software is relatively nascent; as such we are excited to partner with ChurnZero to create the enterprise’s next great system of record.”

This investment brings the total funding that ChurnZero has raised to date to $10 million.

Since its founding in 2015, ChurnZero has modernized and empowered Customer Success, Account Management, and Customer Marketing teams to proactively engage with customers in an on-going and automated way to work towards their business outcomes. ChurnZero is dedicated to helping their ever-growing customer base fight churn.

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About ChurnZero
ChurnZero helps subscription businesses fight customer churn. Its software solutions allow businesses to understand how their customers use their product, asses their health and their likelihood to renew, and give businesses the means to personalize the customer experience through timely and relevant touchpoints. ChurnZero is headquartered in Arlington, VA and is backed by leading angles and venture capital firms such as Baird Capital, Grotech Ventures and Middleland Capital. For more information, visit churnzero.net.

About Baird Capital
Baird Capital makes venture capital, growth equity and private equity investments in strategically targeted sectors around the world. Having invested in more than 300 companies over its history, Baird Capital partners with entrepreneurs and, leveraging its executive networks, strives to build exceptional companies. Baird Capital provides operational support to its portfolio companies through teams on the ground in the United States, Europe and Asia, a proactive portfolio operations team and a deep network of relationships, which together strive to deliver enhanced shareholder value. Baird Capital is the direct private investment arm of Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated. For more information, please visit BairdCapital.com.