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Global IP Solutions Acquired by Google (2010 $ 68,200,000 )

642 Harrison Street, Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94107
USA
415 397 2555

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Company Summary

Management Team

Management

Technology: Roar Hagen (10/99)

Sales/Marketing: Anton Schwarz

; John Gallagher

Former Employees: Alan Waldrip

; Bo Mullan

; Connie Eisenbraun

; Edward Abbati

; Emerick Woods

; Gary Hermansen

; Jan Linden

; Jason Johnson

; John Fargis; Joyce Kim

; Karen Kesner; Patrik Sorqvist; Steven Rust

; Wendy Toth

; William Scharninghausen

Board

Outside board: (May no longer be on the board) Ditlef de Vibe (Kistefos Venture Capital CEO)

; Trym Skeie (Kistefos Venture Capital)

; Age Korsvold (Kistefos CEO)

; Allen R. Adams (Cisco Systems)

; Bradley Sparks (Visualant CEO)

Former outside board: Morten Fernard Angelil (Eltek ASA CEO); Per Arne Henaes (Siemens Division Manager)

Company

Business description: GIPS provides best-in-class voice and video in end-to-end IP communications with robustness against packet loss for service providers, enterprises, applications developers, network equipment, gateway and chip manufacturers. GIPS’ customer list includes Nortel, Samsung, WebEx, Yahoo!, AOL, EarthLink and other key players in the VoIP market. GIPS is a member of the Intel® PCA Developer Network, Motorola Design Alliance, Symbian Platinum Partner Program and Texas Instruments’ third-party developer network. GIPS is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Stockholm, Boston and Hong Kong.

Customers include: Anta Systems; Baidu

; BRECIS Communications; Infineon; Intel; Logitech International; Marratech; Nortel Networks; Skype

; Texas Instruments; AVLogic; Brecis; Camtrek; Clique Communications; Damaka; Gatelinx; Hostcon

; Hotsip; Intertel; Juphoon

; Leucotron

; Movial

; Net2Phone; NetEase.com

; NewHeights; Pingtel; Pivotec

; Popular Telephony; PurpleCom; Snom; Teligent; Waveplus Technology; World Gate; XP-Phone

Partners include: Analog Devices; ARM; Intel; LongBoard; Nortel Networks; Texas Instruments; RADVISION

; Star Core; Telchemy; Trinity

Capital

Ownership: Acquired by Google (2010 $ 68,200,000

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Overview

Record updated: Aug 2009

Sector: Communications

Year Founded: 1999

Headcount: 76-100 as of Jul 2008

Ownership: Acquired by Google (2010 $ 68,200,000

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