Corporate Profile for Corsair Communications Inc., dated May 5, 1995.--(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 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 and many others. -0- Published date: May 5, 1995 Company name: Corsair corsair: see Barbary States; piracy. Communications Inc. Address: 207 Java Drive Sunnyvale, Calif. 94089 Telephone No.: 408/752-2867 Chief Executive Officer: Mary Ann Byrnes (president) Chief Financial Officer: Lynn Strang (acting) Investor Relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. Contact: -- (privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation ) Business number: -- Home number: -- Public Relations Contact: Bill Taliaferro Business number: 408/752-2686 Home number: 415/857-0263 Trading symbol: -- Industry: wireless telecommunications Company description: Corsair Communications Inc., headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., develops and provides technology-intensive application solutions to the wireless telecommunications industry. The company's cellular fraud control application, called PhonePrint(TM), is based on core technological expertise in digital signal analysis. 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 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. Corsair Communications is led by President Mary Ann Byrnes, who brings to the company extensive cellular operations experience. Corsair's core technology competency stems from TRW's three decades of experience developing signal analysis applications for the U.S. government. Working in partnership with some of the best known cellular service providers, Corsair has developed the PhonePrint(TM) network access control system for cellular fraud control. 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 |
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