• PONTIS Capital adds with John Chapman a third Managing Partner to its team
• Chapman is an experienced investment professional, having spent 7 years as a General Partner at TVM Capital
• Chapman’s career includes overall 11 years of technology investing and 13 years of M&A deal making experience with global banks
• At Paribas, Chapman was Head of M&A for German speaking Europe
  

HOUSTON and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 29, 2011 – PROS (NYSE: PRO), the world leader in pricing and revenue management software, and Lixto, Inc., an international provider of price intelligence, today announced an alliance to provide customers with enhanced intelligence for price optimization software.

• Gerhard Fiala, PONTIS - Gründer und Managing Partner, erzielt mit seinem Team erfolgreiches First Closing des Nachfolgefonds PGC II
• Commitments von namhaften österreichischen und internationalen, institutionellen Investoren in Höhe von EUR 30 Mio. eingeholt
• Final Closing für Mitte 2012 geplant 
• Fondsvolumen soll durch Ausweitung der Investorenbasis auf bis zu EUR 60 Mio. erhöht werden
• Fokussierung auf wachstumsstarke technologieorientierte bzw. innovative KMUs im deutschsprachigen Raum mit Schwerpunkt Österreich
  

Graz, Austria, July 18th, 2011 - SensorDynamics, a specialist in MEMS and wireless semiconductor products for the automotive, industrial and high-end consumer market, announced today that it was acquired by Maxim Integrated Products, a recognized leader in analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products.

SUNNYVALE, CALIF., March 23, 2011 –Lixto, Inc., is the recipient of the Trends and Innovation Travel Distribution and Investment Summit’s Travel Innovation award.

The award, presented to at the conference last week in Sofia, Bulgaria, recognizes the product or service that has the greatest ability to change the way people make decisions, and that demonstrates significant impact on the optimization of the travel and tourism industry.