CoVia Founder Deidre Paknad Profiled as Leading Woman Entrepreneur in 'Dotcom Divas'.

Business Editor/High-Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 3, 2001

CoVia, the only enterprise information portal provider to enable personalized, collaborative business relationships that in turn increase partner communication, sales effectiveness and customer loyalty, today announced that CoVia founder Deidre Paknad is profiled in Elizabeth Carlassare's new book about women entrepreneurs, Dotcom Divas: E-Business Insights from the Visionary Women Founders of 20 Net Ventures. CoVia was one of 20 companies selected from a pool of more than 200 woman-founded Internet companies for inclusion in Dotcom Divas.

CoVia's technology allows companies to create, personalize, populate and administer a real-time, collaborative portal-based infrastructure that mirrors existing business relationship networks.

Deidre Paknad founded CoVia in 1996, driving it to become the leading provider of next-generation enterprise portals and collaborative commerce solutions. Her vision, leadership, energy and drive have made her a model for other woman entrepreneurs. During her tenure at CoVia, Paknad lead efforts to create substantial customer relationships with companies such as ADP, American Airlines, Amateur Athletic Foundation, Chevron, First American Financial, Intuit, Met Life, ProStaff, Wells Fargo, and others. She also launched an industry-recognized advertising campaign featuring CoVia endorsements from presidents of Fortune 500 companies. Paknad was successful at raising financing for the company, totaling more than $35 million in venture funding from Adobe Systems, American Express, Dain Rauscher Wessels, Granite Ventures, SAP, and other venture firms.

In Dotcom Divas, you'll meet some of the most talented, energetic, and visionary Internet entrepreneurs who've ever plunged into the e-business revolution. And, by the way -- they're all women. Each of these courageous and determined women created an innovative Net company from the germ of an idea. Dotcom Divas reveals how these founding females dreamed up their winning visions, secured funding, and recruited top-notch team members. It shows you how they overcame business and personal challenges, grew and marketed their businesses, and navigated the constantly changing environment that comes with the e-business territory. Industry insider Elizabeth Carlassare provides an in-depth, behind-the-scenes perspective on the specific strategies each company has employed and the key lessons each founder has distilled from her Net startup experience -- invaluable insights for experienced and aspiring entrepreneurs alike.

About the Author

Elizabeth Carlassare is an Internet strategist with more than ten years of experience at high-technology companies, including Adobe Systems, Intuit, SGI, and MyWebtivity (an Internet company she co-founded). A coach for women in technology and women entrepreneurs, she's also the creator of dotcomdivas.net, an online forum for women Internet entrepreneurs.

About CoVia

CoVia, the market leader for next-generation enterprise portals and collaborative commerce, is the only provider of just-in-time collaboration portals, context-based personalization and N-Tier collaborative commerce solutions. CoVia allows work-group leaders and team members to instantly create and equip secure online workspaces that enable creative solutions and knowledge sharing with access to all relevant information across company, organizational and geographic lines. CoVia provides complete solution sets for all portal applications including employee, business units, suppliers, business partners and customers. Using its N-Tier technology, CoVia can deploy commerce solutions that include customer's customer and other relationships not possible with any other offering. CoVia powers implementations by Intuit, ADP, Interact Commerce Corporation, American Airlines, SAP AG, Wells Fargo, First American Financial, and many more. For more information, please visit www.covia.com or call 650/428-1800.

Note to Editors: The recommended way of writing CoVia is all one word, with an uppercase C and V, all other letters lowercase. CoVia is a trademark of CoVia Technologies Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the company with which they are associated.