Noted Venture Capitalist, Walter Kortschak, Invests in Anametrix

SAN DIEGO, April 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Anametrix (http://anametrix.com), the leader in cloud-based business analytics and marketing intelligence with its InstaVista™ technology solutions, welcomes two new key team members.  Walter G. Kortschak, a Forbes Midas List Top 100 venture capitalist, joins the Anametrix Board of Directors as a private investor and Michael Christian, a prominent San Diego corporate lawyer, is named General Counsel and VP of Corporate Development to support organizational growth.

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Walter G. Kortschak is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who now invests privately in early and growth stage technology-enabled companies with innovative business models to penetrate large markets and reorder the competitive landscape. He is a senior advisor and former managing partner of Summit Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm that invests in profitable, growth companies. Prior to Summit, Mr. Kortschak was a Vice President at Crosspoint Venture Partners. He is also a past director of the National Venture Capital Association.  

Over a venture capital career spanning 25 years, Mr. Kortschak has served as a director of over 40 companies, including 20 public companies. He led the initial investment in McAfee, Inc., an anti-virus and network security firm, and he has also invested in several other industry defining firms including E-TEK Dynamics, HMT Technology, Diamond Multimedia Systems, Finisar, and Xylan.  Notably, Mr. Kortschak lead Summit's $30 Million equity investment in WebSideStory, also founded by Anametrix' Blaise Barrelet.

Walter Kortschak stated, "Anametrix enjoys a unique position in the real-time business analytics space with its highly scalable and easily configurable technology solutions. Cloud-based InstaVista addresses major pain points for its customers, including some marquee accounts, by aggregating data from separate silos into actionable visualizations. I look forward to working with Blaise Barrelet and his outstanding team of executives to help maximize the success of the company."

New Anametrix General Counsel and VP of Corporate Development, Michael Christian, worked closely with Walter Kortschak while serving as general counsel at WebSideStory.  Mr. Christian was instrumental in taking the initially bootstrapped WebSideStory through private fundraising and a very successful IPO. (WebSideStory later acquired Visual Sciences, merged into Omniture and has since been acquired by Adobe for $1.8 Billion).

Michael Christian stated, "Walter is a Silicon Valley legend responsible for many remarkably successful investments.  His participation as an Anametrix investor and a director validates the company's large market opportunity.  I am thrilled to again be working with him and the other WebSideStory veterans now at Anametrix, in particular, the analytics pioneers Blaise Barrelet and Anders Olsson."

"Anametrix will benefit greatly by the addition of Walter Kortschak as a personal investor as well as a hands-on director," stated Blaise Barrelet, Anametrix CEO.  "Also, Anametrix is lucky to welcome Michael Christian, who was pivotal in the remarkable growth trajectory of WebSideStory.  Both of these gentlemen have extensive knowledge in analytics and online delivery models."  Barrelet added, "Lightning can strike twice - Anametrix is well on its way to becoming a billion-dollar company."

Anametrix is currently offering career opportunities in the fields of engineering, sales, and marketing to support the rapid expansion of the InstaVista™ business analytics and marketing intelligence technology. Please visit anametrix.com for more information.

About Anametrix, Inc.

Anametrix, Inc. is a privately funded, next-generation business analytics company whose InstaVista™ solution utilizes proprietary connectors to seamlessly correlate data from multiple sources, both online and offline, for quick and precise decision making.  A high-performance data management infrastructure handles metrics integration to offer data visualizations on customizable dashboards.  Founded in 2009 by analytics industry experts Blaise Barrelet and Anders Olsson and led by a world-class advisory board, Anametrix provides cloud-based solutions that integrate vast amounts of data from disparate sources including web analytics, social media, search engine marketing (SEM), video & audio, e-mail campaigns, market research surveys, point of sale (POS) and customer relationship management (CRM). Self-directed business insights are readily accessible across organizations, from sales staff to C-level.  For more information, please visit http://anametrix.com.

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