OpenPeak Closes $30 Million Series
C Funding
Investment to Support Market Launch of Revolutionary OpenFrame™ Devices
November 14, 2007
Boca Raton, FL -- OpenPeak Inc., a provider of end-to-end system
solutions and devices for telephony, digital content, and Internet services,
announced today that it has closed $30 million in Series C funding. Investors
include J. Tomilson Hill, and Mort Topfer, all participants in
OpenPeak’s prior funding rounds. The new funds will be used to support
the manufacture and market launch of OpenPeak’s new OpenFrame™ line
of devices.
The revolutionary OpenFrame solution re-invents the home phone with a touch screen
interface and custom software that integrates telephony, Internet content and
digital media on a single device. This innovative approach complements family
PC, TV and mobile phones and is built on OpenPeak’s core technology for
channeling control of disparate content and services for easy access and management.
OpenPeak provides end-to-end solutions from industrial design and user interfaces
to custom software and finished products.
"OpenPeak's compelling OpenFrame solution is capable of transforming the
home telephone into the ‘third screen’ in the home," said John
Sculley, who participated in the OpenPeak Series C round. "We believe that
the impact of OpenFrame can be as revolutionary to the home phone as the latest
generations of smartphones were to the mobile phone industry."
"Our mission is to create systems and devices that simplify the organization
and control of communication, information and digital content in the home," said
Dan Gittleman, CEO of OpenPeak. "OpenFrame creates a new category of products
that consolidates and simplifies telephony, text, and digital content access
on home-based devices."
OpenPeak investors include John Sculley, former CEO of Apple and Pepsi-Cola;
Mort Topfer, former Dell Vice Chairman, Executive VP Motorola, and co-founder
of Castletop Capital; J. Tomilson Hill III, Vice Chairman of The Blackstone Group;
Millennium Technology Ventures; and GMG Capital Partners.
About OpenPeak
OpenPeak Inc. creates, designs, and develops innovative communication systems
and devices that enable simple user control of VoIP telephony, digital media,
Internet content, messaging applications, and consumer electronics. OEMs benefit
from OpenPeak’s portable architecture, hardware reference designs, and
turnkey solutions because they allow quick and cost-effective integration of
advanced communication and control technology and applications into their platforms
with a high degree of customization. The company headquarters is in Boca Raton,
Florida and on the web at www.openpeak.com.
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