Bizanga, provider of the world’s leading email and message management platform, today announced that it has completed an $8 million funding round.
The lead investor was the venture team of the French investment company Credit Agricole Private Equity. Renaud Poulard, a partner in the firm will join Bizanga’s board of directors. Seed round investor Galileo Partners also participated in the round. Bizanga was advised by Aelios Finance.
This investment caps a formidable 2008 for Bizanga with strong growth in Europe and new product developments.
With the financing round Bizanga reaffirms its strategy and focus – to enable demanding Service Providers and Global 1,000 Corporations to deploy scalable, flexible and cost-effective Application Infrastructure.
“With Bizanga’s activities centered on our core IMP product profitable, the investment will primarily be used to finance the continued development and launch of new products and the growth of sales in the Asia Pacific region.” said Jérôme Lecat, CEO of Bizanga. “We are proud to have one of the largest VC’s in Europe as our investors and delighted to welcome Renaud to our board.”
“We were very impressed by Bizanga’s technological leadership that gives the company a very unique position and a strong footprint in the message management market. Its global reach together with top level team convinced us to support Bizanga” added Renaud Poulard, Partner at Credit Agricole Private Equity.
Representatives
Bizanga
Marc Sheldon – +1 650 356 8500 – Marc.Sheldon@bizanga.com
Crédit Agricole Private Equity
Renaud Poulard, Partner, Venture Capital
François-Xavier Dedde, Associate, Venture Capital
Galileo Partners
François Duliége, Partner
Legal Advisors
Travers Smith
David Patient
Marcus Booth
William Howard
Due diligence
Grant Thornton
Sylvain Quagliaroli
Dervain Sophie
ASC Consulting
Hugues Lisan
Bizanga Advisors
Aelios Finance
Thibault de Monclain
Pierre Dropsy
Press contact
Crédit Agricole Private Equity
Martine Sessin-Caracci, martine.sessincaracci@ca-privateequity.fr – + 33 1 43 23 90 88
About Bizanga
Bizanga is the global leader in email and message management, and provider of the world’s most scalable and full-featured Email message processing and security platform, the Intelligent Message Processor® (IMP). The IMP can be deployed to protect an email infrastructure from blended threats including spam, viruses, denial-of-service and harvest attacks. It can also be used to perform parental control, compliance/encryption services or simply to manage infrastructure migration or new service deployment. Designed especially for service providers, the IMP is extremely easy to integrate with existing infrastructure, including provisioning systems and message store. IMPs handle email for millions of mailboxes throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Bizanga sells direct to Internet service providers, cable operators, fixed-line and mobile operators. The technology is also available on an OEM basis to application software vendors. Bizanga is a member of the Messaging Anti-Abuse Work Group (www.maawg.org). For more information about Bizanga, visit the company’s Web site at www.bizanga.com
About Crédit Agricole Private Equity
Crédit Agricole Private Equity, an AMF-authorised investment management company and whollyowned subsidiary of Crédit Agricole S.A., specialises in direct private equity investment in unlisted companies. A multi-specialist, Crédit Agricole Private Equity has 50 investment teams focusing on different segments of the private equity market (LBO & Expansion, Venture Capital, Mezzanine, Renewable Energy, PPP Infrastructure, Liquidity Solutions, Co-Investment) and manages a total of €2.8 billion in various types of private equity vehicle (FCPR, SICAR, FCPI and SCR). Crédit Agricole Private Equity supports entrepreneurs in their expansion plans.
www-rec.omnescapital.com
About Galileo Partners
Galileo Partners is an independent venture capital company; the current fund is about 350 million Euros. Focused on the new technologies, Galileo Partners has gone through a dozen IPOs and many industrial buyouts. Its long-term performance allows the company to be continuously supported by major International investors.
About Aelios Finance
Aelios Finance (www.aeliosfinance.com) is the leading French corporate finance advisory firm helping entrepreneurs and mid-cap companies to complete successful capital raising, mergers & acquisitions, LBO and IPO. Aelios Finance is also the exclusive French office of the world’s largest network of M&A companies, M&A International Inc. (www.mergers.net).