Unicorn Solutions Inc. (now IBM ILSL)

www.unicorn.com

High-Tech Company

Acquired by IBM Corp.

General Data

Sector	Enterprise Software & Infrastructure
Company Stage:	Initial Revenues
Established	2001
Number of Employees	28

DESCRIPTION

Unicorn is a leader in metadata management and semantic Enterprise Information Management solutions. Unicorn's One Enterprise paradigm delivers transparency, integration, IT efficiency, and agility. One Enterprise delivers this value to lines of business and the overall enterprise by managing their disparate IT systems, creating a common business architecture, and overlaying the common business architecture on the IT systems. As a result, businesses rapidly develop and update their common business language and processes while rationalizing the IT systems on which they are executed. The Unicorn System enables the One Enterprise paradigm with capabilities that include: metadata repository, ontology modeling, semantic mapping, active design services, active IT management services, and federated business querying.

TECHNOLOGY

Unicorn is working closely with its customers and partners to enable the management and integration of data based on semantics - a rich understanding of data's meaning in business terms - with the ultimate aim of quality business information, a flexible business environment, and lower IT costs.

Unicorn envisions an information technology environment predicated on an information architecture in which data carries unambiguous semantics and can be found, aggregated, and utilized accurately without prior knowledge of its specific format. The Unicorn System is built around several core patent-pending innovational technologies that are key to realizing this vision:

Creating a rich model of a business, its structure, vocabulary, and rules in an Information Model
Cataloging data assets, including their schemas and other metadata
Formally capturing the semantics of corporate data by mapping database and message schemas to the Information Model
Automatically generating end-to-end data transformation tasks and auto-mappings
Providing a business interface for data management

ESTIMATED ANNUAL SALES

	TARGET MARKETS
	Insurance Companies, Financial Service Providers, Governments.

	BUSINESS MODEL
	B2B

REMARKS

Date	Remark
01/01/2006	IBM Corp. acquired Unicorn Solutions Inc. and turned it into its Israeli R&D center.

CONTACT INFO

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Main Address: New York, United States

Address	855 Avenue of The Americas
City	New York
State/Province	NY
Country	United States
Zip	10001

Contact Person	abC Defghij
Company E-mail	abC Defghij
Telephone	abC Defghij
Fax	abC Defghij

Branch Address: Jerusalem, Israel

Address	Malcha Technology Park, Bldg. 1B
City	Jerusalem
Country	Israel
Zip	96951

Contact Person	abC Defghij
Company E-mail	abC Defghij
Telephone	abC Defghij
Fax	abC Defghij

Branch Address: Reston, United States

Address	11654 Plaza America Dr., Suite 340
City	Reston
State/Province	VA
Country	United States
Zip	20190

Contact Person	abC Defghij
Company E-mail	abC Defghij
Telephone	abC Defghij
Fax	abC Defghij

	MANAGEMENT

Key Executive

Name	Title	Previous Position
Mr. Rannen Meir	Co-Founder	Pegasus (VP, R&D)
Dr. Zvi Schreiber	Co-Founder	Lightech (CEO)

	BOARD

Board

Member	Title	Affiliation
abC Defghij	Board Member	Former CEO & President, VerticalNet Solutions

Mergers & Acquisitions

Round

Date

Stage

Amount

Valuation

Acquired

May. 09, 2006

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	FINANCIAL ROUNDS

Total Capital Raised
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Financial Rounds

Numbers of Investors

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Round

Date

Stage

Amount

Valuation

Internal Round

Jun. 01, 2005

Initial Revenues

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* New investor

Investor	Type	Amount	Remarks
abC Defghij	Venture Capital Fund	abCDe
abC Defghij	Corporate VC	abCDe	Investment managed by Intel Israel
abC Defghij	Bank	abCDe

Second Round

Sep. 15, 2003

Initial Revenues

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* New investor

Investor	Type	Amount	Remarks
abC Defghij	Venture Capital Fund	abCDe
abC Defghij	Venture Capital Fund	abCDe	Round co-leader
abC Defghij	Corporate VC	abCDe
abC Defghij	Bank	abCDe	Round co-leader

First Round

Feb. 01, 2002

R&D

abCDe

* New investor

Investor	Type	Amount	Remarks
abC Defghij	Venture Capital Fund	abCDe
abC Defghij	Venture Capital Fund	abCDe
abC Defghij	Corporate VC	abCDe
abC Defghij	Bank	abCDe
abC Defghij	Investment Company	abCDe

Seed - Extended

Oct. 03, 2001

R&D

abCDe

* New investor

Investor	Type	Amount	Remarks
abC Defghij	Corporate VC	abCDe
abC Defghij	Bank	abCDe

Seed

Mar. 14, 2001

Seed

abCDe

* New investor

Investor	Type	Amount	Remarks
abC Defghij	Venture Capital Fund	abCDe
abC Defghij	Venture Capital Fund	abCDe
abC Defghij	Venture Capital Fund	abCDe
abC Defghij	Investment Company	abCDe
abC Defghij	Investment Company	abCDe
abC Defghij	Private Investor	abCDe

	R&D Grants

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Date

Stage

Amount

Remarks

R&D Grant

Mar. 01, 2004

abCDe

* New investor

Investor	Type	Amount	Remarks
abC Defghij	Bi-Lateral R&D Program	abCDe	R&D grant

Last Updated:	abCDe
IVC Number:	abCDe