Corporate Profile for Corsair Communications Inc., dated March 1, 1996.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and information services See Information Systems. . These include Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance News/Retrieval, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Reuter Company Newsyear, Reuter Business Briefing, DataTimes, Nexis, Dialog, NewsNet, America OnLine, CompuServe, Delphi, Individual's HeadsUp and First!, Desktop Data's NewsEdge, UMI UMI University Microfilms International UMI United States Minor Outlying Islands (ISO Country code) UMI University of Miami UMI Universal Management Infrastructure (IBM) Data Courier, NewsBank, Information Access Company, Prodigy, Comtex, and many others. -0- Published date: March 1, 1996 Company name: Corsair Communications Inc.
Address: 3408 Hillview Avenue
Palo Alto, Calif. 94304
Telephone No.: 415/842-3300 Chief Executive Officer: Mary Ann Byrnes Chief Financial Officer: Martin Silver Public Relations Contact: Bill Taliaferro Business number: 415/842-3263 Home number: 415/857-0263 Industry: Wireless Telecommunications Company description: Corsair corsair: see Barbary States; piracy. Communications Inc., headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., develops and provides technology-intensive application solutions to the wireless telecommunications industry. The company's PhonePrint cellular fraud control system is based on core technological expertise in digital signal analysis and the design of distributed systems. Corsair was founded in December 1994 when a group of venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sevin Rosen Funds Sevin Rosen Funds (SRF) is a venture capital firm that was established in 1981 by L.J. Sevin and Ben Rosen. SRF was involved in the financing of ArQule, CIENA, Citrix, Cypress Semiconductor, Electronic Arts, Lotus Development Corporation, Silicon Graphics, and Vitesse. bought a controlling interest controlling interest The ownership of a quantity of outstanding corporate stock sufficient to control the actions of the firm. Controlling interest often involves ownership of significantly less than 51% of a firm's outstanding stock because many owners fail in the PhonePrint business developed by TRW TRW The Real World (TV reality show) TRW The Right Way TRW Tactical Reconnaissance Wing TRW The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD) TRW Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc Inc. Other owners include Accel Partners, Norwest Ventures, Needham & Co., Integral Capital Partners, Technology Crossover Ventures, and the employees of Corsair. TRW has retained a minority position in the company. Working in partnership with leading U.S. cellular service providers, Corsair developed the PhonePrint cellular fraud control system. PhonePrint is the industry's first real-time, pre-call fraud prevention tool, which enables service providers to prevent illegal access to the cellular network by "clone" phones. PhonePrint uses proprietary radio frequency fingerprinting technology to detect clones and deny them access to the system. CONTACT: Corsair Communications Inc. |
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