Woody Benson

Prism Venture Management LLC (Prism Venture Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Bob C. Fleming and John L. Brooks. The firm is headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts.

Lazard Technology Partners LLC (Lazard Technology Partners) is a venture capital subsidiary of LAI Partners LLC founded in 1998 by Russell Planitzer and Kevin Burns. The firm is headquartered in New York.

MCK Communications, Inc. developed, marketed and distributed voice solutions. It offered an open and interconnected business telephony environment and options for flexible migration to next generation environments. It was founded in June, 1989 and was headquartered in Needham, MA.

Shiva Corp. provides remote access solutions for businesses. It used to offer hardware and software products, including the LanRover, VPN Express and secure internetworking solutions. It used to provide dial-in, shared dial-out and LAN-to-LAN links over high-speed remote access via analog or digital links. It was headquartered in Bedford, MA.

Lotus Development Corp. was an American software company. The company was famous for their groundbreaking Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet application, which was the killer application in the early days of the IBM PC which helped spread the adoption of the PC. The company also provided one of the more powerful groupware systems, Lotus Notes. The company was headquartered in Cambridge, MA

Maven Networks, Inc. provides broadband marketing, media and entertainment services. It enables media companies to create and distribute direct to consumer Internet television channels. The company was founded by Hilmi Ozguc in 2002 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

KickApps Corp. operates a software-as-a-service platform. It hosts, manages & delivers community applications for media companies and businesses. The firm's applications include social networking, user-generated content, online video players and viral widgets. The company was founded by Eric D. Alterman and Peter Clark in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Expo Communications, Inc. provides consumer-generated video product reviews. It distributes informative video content for digital points of purchase viewable at expotv.com, retail websites, youtube, facebook, manufacturer sites. The company was founded by Daphne Kwon and William Hildebolt in 2004 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Swirl Networks, Inc. operates as in-store mobile marketing platform. It offers retailers the industry’s first complete mobile presence management and marketing platform. The firm by leveraging geofences, WiFi, VLC and Bluetooth Low Energy beacon signals in their brick and mortar stores, large-scale retailers rely on swirl to generate greater value from every shopper visit. The company was founded in 2011 by Hilmi Ozguc and is headquartered in Boston, MA.