About FreshBooks
- FreshBooks is the #1 cloud-based accounting solution designed exclusively for small professional services business owners
- The company’s solutions reduce the amount of time users spend invoicing by 60% and help businesses get paid five days faster by making it easy to create and track invoices, capture expenses, track time for staff and contractors and generate reports
- The company has helped more than 10 million users process billions of dollars of transactions
- Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Toronto, FreshBooks employs over 150 people
About Oak Investment Partners
- Oak Investment Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm and a lead investor in the next generation of enduring growth companies
- Since 1978, the firm has invested $9 billion in over 500 companies around the world, with a senior team that delivers guidance, domain expertise and a consistent investment philosophy
- The firm’s five major sectors of focus are information technology, internet and consumer, financial services technology, healthcare services and clean energy
About Mimecast
- Mimecast is the leading provider of cloud-based email archiving, security and continuity services for enterprise email environments, serving over 6,000 corporations and 1.5 million users worldwide
- The company’s technology has played an instrumental role in changing the way businesses deploy email, leading the transition from fragmented LAN-based infrastructures to a single-platform, cloud-based solution
- Founded in the United Kingdom in 2003 by Peter Bauer (CEO) and Neil Murray (CTO), Mimecast has grown rapidly, with over 50% year-on-year growth recorded in six of the past nine years
- Headquartered in London, Mimecast has approximately 300 employees with offices in Boston, San Francisco and South Africa, and had previously raised capital from Index Ventures, Dawn Capital and angel investors
- Update: Mimecast (NASDAQ: MIME) completed an IPO in November 2015
About Insight Venture Partners
- Insight Venture Partners is a leading global private equity and venture capital firm, with over $5 billion under management
- One of the largest technology-focused private equity and venture capital firms, Insight has invested in more than 150 growth-stage software, eCommerce, internet and data-services companies
- Insight was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in New York