Deliverex Inc. Receives $10M Funding from the BRM Group, Goldman Sachs and Intel Capital for Deliverex Priority Content Delivery Service Powered by BackWeb's Polite Push Technology.Business and Technology Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2000 Deliverex Transcends E-mail to Deliver "Content" Without Concerns about Internet Bandwidth Deliverex Inc. today announced it has completed its Series B financing of over $10 million. The investment round was led by the BRM BRM biologic response modifier. BRM Biological response modifier, see there Group, which was joined by Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., or simply Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is one of the world's largest global investment banks. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869, and is headquartered in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City at 85 Broad Street. , Intel Capital, and a number of prominent Internet CEOs. Deliverex(TM)the Internet Priority Content Delivery Service, recently debuted at Demo 2000. Deliverex's outsourced e-service enables businesses and consumer e-mail users to exchange "priority content"--priority messages, documents, and large content files, such as music, video, and photography-- that is personalized, permission-based, trackable, signable and secure. Along with Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital was part of the second round of financing for Deliverex, which will use the investment to help fund technology development of the Internet courier service, to be introduced in Q4 2000. Deliverex received an initial financing round from the BRM Group, the largest venture fund focused on Israeli Internet infrastructure start-up companies. BRM was the first investor in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., which currently has the largest market cap of any company in Israel. BRM has also invested in BackWeb(R) Technologies, with headquarters in San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. and Ramat Gan Ramat Gan (rä`mät gän), city (1994 pop. 122,200), W central Israel, adjacent to Tel Aviv. Founded in 1921, Ramat Gan is an important industrial center. Food processing is the chief industry; construction materials are also made there. , Israel. Deliverex will be using BackWeb technology to address the burgeoning market for delivery of rich content. "We recognized the market growth opportunities addressed by Deliverex as an outsourced peer-to-peer e-service to deliver large-sized content such as video, digital photography and music, in addition to securely delivering contracts, statements, and priority documents for small business and business individual users," said Eli Barkat, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of BackWeb. "Along with our permission-based rules and tracking that automate prioritization by recipients of their most important digital packages, we will leverage BackWeb'Polite(TM)push technology to distribute timely, rich content without worrying about inconsistent bandwidth,"said Brian Smiga, president and CEO of Deliverex, who recently joined the company from 1ClickCharge, a CMGI CMGI Commonly Maintained Grounds Infrastructures CMGI College Marketing Group Information (Services) company. "As an ASP, the Deliverex Priority Content Exchange provides core value for many of the companies we invest in, where the secure exchange of rich content will become the norm, not the exception," said Goldman Sachs Managing Director of Principle Investments, Joe Gleberman. "Goldman Sachs has extended its influence beyond the investment banking market to invest in Internet service companies that are leveraging new media and are building towards initial public offerings." About Deliverex www.deliverex.com Deliverex was incubated in 1999 by the BRM Group. The founders envisioned a priority, permission-based, simple to use, and fully outsourced content delivery exchange service for all digital content, aimed at individuals and businesses, which would enable time-sensitive exchange of information. Global trends of larger digital content (presentations, graphics, video, photography, music), uneven bandwidth availability, security needs, and pervasive communications indicated a large market opportunity for the Deliverex service. About The BRM Group www.brm.com The BRM Group invests in seed and expansion or growth stage Israeli Internet Infrastructure companies and technologies. Operating from Jerusalem and Fort Lee, NJ, BRM helps entrepreneurs achieve market `escape velocity' by providing technical, operational, business, and financial support. This has been leveraged to build superior Internet companies such as Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CHKP CHKP Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ), BackWeb Technologies (NASDAQ:BWEB BWEB Broadcast Web BWEB Bacula Web Interface ), IPHighway, Whale Communications, PeopleLink, PC Data, Brio Technologies (NASDAQ:BRYO BRYO Brisbane Regional Youth Orchestra (Brisbane, Australia) BRYO Brunswick Maine Youth Orchestra (now Maine Youth Orchestra) ) and others. BRM Seed, a $100 million program, invests in start-ups in the idea or early stage. BRM also plans to establish BRM Capital, headquartered in the US, which will invest in companies that have started to generate revenue, proven their business concept and technology, and require expansion or mezzanine capital Mezzanine capital (or mezzanine debt) is a broad financial term that refers to unsecured, high-yield, subordinated debt or preferred stock that represents a claim on a company's assets that is senior only to that of a company's shareholders. . About Goldman Sachs www.gs.com Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking and securities firm, providing a full range of investing, advisory and financing services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base, which includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net worth individuals. Founded in 1869, it is one of the oldest and largest investment banking firms. The firm is headquartered in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. and other major financial centers around the world. About Intel Capital www.intel.com /capital Intel Capital, Intel's strategic investment program, focuses on making equity investments and acquisitions to grow the Internet economy, including Internet infrastructure, content and services in support of Intel's strategic interests. BackWeb Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. 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