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Zave Networks (Acquired by Google 9/2/11. Learn more...)
Zave Networks offers a revolutionary technology point-of-sale platform that for the first time ever connects digital marketing and advertising with physical in-store sales, delivering on the promise of "clicks to bricks." Zave's unique platform enables marketers, retailers, and product manufacturers to create, distribute, and process digital coupons, promotions, and incentives real-time at the point of sale in a way that's convenient and simple for consumers. Retailers and manufacturers are able to measure, in real-time, the effectiveness of their efforts, including which of their promotions is leading to actual retail sales. Zave Networks is the first solution that closes the redemption loop, allowing for unprecedented marketing insights and optimization.
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eRecyclingCorps
ERC is transforming the wireless device ecosystem. Through the establishment of large-scale wireless phone buy-back programs, ERC is providing consumers rich and immediate incentives for trading in old devices when a new device is purchased is the most effective way to begin to reduce the growing number of handsets accumulating in our homes and offices (1-billion in the US alone). Rewarding, reusing, and recycling forms the foundation of the carrier grade, carrier scale process ERC is implementing in wireless carrier retail locations worldwide.
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GoGo In-Flight Internet
Gogo, turns a commercial airplane into a Wi-Fi hotspot with true inflight Internet access. Passengers with Wi-Fi enabled devices, such as laptops, smartphones and PDAs, can surf the Web, check e-mail, instant message, access a corporate VPN and more. Gogo Inflight Internet is available on all AirTran Airways and Virgin America flights, and select Air Canada, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, United Airlines and US Airways flights.
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Farmlink
A subsidiary of MachineryLink, owner of the largest fleet of combines in the United States, Farmlink delivers a breakthrough online tool that helps America's farmers harness the power of sophisticated wireless technology and gain the information they need to better manage their harvest each season. Farmlink's web center will help farmers optimize the in-field harvest performance of their combine, ensuring they get the most from their field by using wireless technology to track critical data points across their fleet during harvest in real-time.
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Signal Set
SignalSet developed the first wireless infrastructure solution that allows machine-to-machine wireless device manufacturers to deploy and remotely manage wireless devices capable of seamlessly switching between GSM and CDMA wireless networks with no manual intervention. With SignalSet's patent-pending Remote Carrier Switching™ technology, wireless machine-to-machine devices are being built to have continuous carrier choice, enabling them to freely movebetween networks as needed to maximize coverage, data transmission speed, and automatic redundancy - all at an affordable price.
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Mobile Intelligence Solutions
As mobile data usage proliferates, carriers are faced with a key challenge: how to extract revenue from mobile data usage. Lack of visibility into what mobile users are doing with data, which applications are being consumed and how usage correlates with user demographics and location have made it impossible to build actionable user profiles. Mobile Intelligence Solutions (a merger between Ground Truth and Umber systems) provides the first, intelligent monitoring and analytics solution that works across applications, devices, networks and locations. It provides a clear, accurate and ongoing picture of mobile data usage.
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E Band
E-Band Communications helps solve one of the biggest problems facing the wireless industry - the need to access to alternative backhaul solutions. E-Band manufactures the highest performance multi-gigabit capacity wireless backhaul systems based on 70-80 GHz millimeter-wave technology. Customers around the world use E-Band radios in applications such as 3G, 4G, WiMAX, LTE, mobile backhaul and private networks for enterprises and businesses.
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These companies represent a sample of investments made by the OEP Managing Partners. These transactions took place prior to the formation of OpenAir Equity Partners.
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Japan Telecom (Softbank)
SOFTBANK TELECOM continues offering high-quality and very stable communication service with over 20-year history. They aim to bring solutions to customers and to create new work styles and lifestyles in collaboration with our Group companies, and keep challenging. Softbank acquired Japan Telecom in May 2004 for 143.3 billion yen ($1.53 billion) from Ripplewood Holdings Inc. who paid just 32.5 billion yen 6 months earlier.
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Ortiva Wireless
Ortiva Wireless offers the industry's most advanced commercial solutions for proactive management of mobile video, allowing service providers to dramatically improve control, quality, and efficiency of rich media content delivery. Ortiva's iVOG™ (internet Video Optimization Gateway) for open internet media and mVOG™ (mobile Video Optimization Gateway) for portal services extend service reach, increase network efficiency, and improve video coverage density for mobile operators, while dynamically shaping the content to give subscribers the smoothest video and clearest audio experience possible - regardless of fluctuating and hostile wireless network conditions.
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Vivo Tech
ViVOtech is a market leader in contactless/NFC payment software, over the air (OTA) card provisioning, promotion, and transaction management infrastructure software, NFC smart posters, and contactless readers/writers. These innovative solutions allow consumers to make contactless payments with radio frequency-enabled credit cards, debit cards, key fobs, and NFC-enabled mobile phones. ViVOtech's products are used by some of the most prominent retailers in the United States.
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QuickPlay Media
QuickPlay Media is the leading provider of solutions for the digital distribution of premium video to portable wireless devices. Successfully used by the world's largest communications and media companies, QuickPlay's OpenVideo platform provides the most secure and flexible way for companies to deliver engaging multi-screen entertainment experiences.
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Sezmi
Sezmi gives you all the entertainment you crave and the equipment you need, so you don't have to subscribe to cable or satellite TV. Sezmi provides endless entertainment including local and cable TV, movies, and web videos-plus, a massive on-demand catalog of shows and movies. Sezmi's TV entertainment system combines the benefits of wireless digital television broadcasting with your broadband internet connection to create a high-quality, cost effective and flexible video entertainment service.
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