Guardium: Building A Company Right from The Start

With an outstanding team and great technology, Guardium, a market leader in real-time enterprise database monitoring and protection, was acquired by IBM (NYSE: IBM)in November 2009. Cedar Fund invested in the company since inception and was deeply involved in its success, including strong emphasis on Capital Efficiency.


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The Unusual Story Behind Onaro’s Success

ONARO was a leader in storage service management (SSM), and was acquired by Network Appliance, (NASDAQ:NTAP) in January of 2008. Cedar helped the formation of Onaro, investing in the Pre-Seed, and introducing the team members to each other.
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Investing Ahead of the Market: BigBand Networks

Cedar helped found BigBand in 1999 with a Pre-Seed investment. When Cedar was approached by the two founders, Amir Bassan-Eskenazi and Ran Oz, they only had a general idea of the area they wanted to focus on. Cedar was very impressed with the founders and as a result, made a small investment geared to fund a process to come up with a Killer Application.
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Active U.S & Israel Involvement in Later Stage Investment Yields Fast Success

Mercury Interactive acquired Appilog in July 2004. Cedar Fund was the largest shareholder in Appilog at the time, making a significant return on an investment made less than two years earlier.
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