Collabria Secures Funding in Excess of $46 Million From Premier Internet Investment Firms; Funding Commitment Continues to Validate Collabria's Superior Business Model and Technology.

Business Editors/Technology Writers

MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25, 2000

Collabria, Inc., provider of the only total e-business solution for the printing and publishing industry, today announced that it has secured more than $46 million in investment funding. The funds will be used to continue the development of e-service modules to strengthen Collabria's Intelligent Print Workplace as well as to dramatically increase sales and marketing efforts.

Leading this round of funding is ABS Ventures, with additional funding from Charter Ventures, Comdisco Ventures, Mitsui Corporation, Sands Brothers and several private investors. Original investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Weiss, Peck &Greer and Internet Capital Group have also increased their investment in Collabria.

Collabria's service-based system enables print buyers, printers and print resellers to conduct all aspects of e-business via the Internet, offering the only true end-to-end solution. Collabria's suite of products, including PrintCommerce and WebDocket, includes modules for online collaborative project management, catalogs for reordering templated documents with static and variable data, and solutions for full supply chain integration. Unlike e-business portal solutions, Collabria's Intelligent Print Workplace integrates all functions and players, returning tangible cost savings throughout the total printing and publishing process.

&uot;We're extremely pleased to welcome our new venture partners,&uot; stated Alan Hu, president and CEO of Collabria. &uot;Coupled with the endorsement of over 300 customers, this commitment from such a distinguished group of inventors further provides validation of our business model and ability to execute.&uot;

&uot;ABS Ventures believes that for B2B companies to truly meet and exceed customer expectations, they must provide total and deep industry solutions that integrate and benefit all players involved,&uot; stated Jin Byun of ABS Ventures. &uot;Collabria's true end-to-end solutions are unique in the printing and publishing industry and so is their collaborative business model.&uot;

About Collabria

Founded in 1997, Collabria is the creator of the Intelligent Print Workplace, a comprehensive set of Internet-based end-to-end solutions for the printing and publishing industry. Collabria offers the only complete solution to handle enterprise-wide printing and customized marketing, thereby addressing the inefficiencies of print, supply chain and procurement management. Focused on relationship-centric solutions, Collabria provides the only no-conflict system designed to enhance existing relationships between corporate customers, their printers, and their print resellers. Marketing and purchasing managers realize significant savings from on-line project management, print ordering and distribution efficiencies. Printers and resellers take advantage of these solutions to expand and strengthen their customer relationships while realizing hard dollar savings from simplified and automated business processes. Founded by marketing and printing industry veterans with an insider's clarity of the pains and challenges, Collabria is funded by premier venture capital firms including Bessemer Venture Partners, Weiss, Peck &Greer, the Internet Capital Group and ABS Ventures.