December 3, 2009 – LeverPoint Merges With Three Pillar Software Three Pillar Software, Inc. (Three Pillar), a leading provider of comprehensive product outsourcing solutions headquartered in northern Virginia, today announced the finalization of its merger with privately held LeverPoint, LLC, a global leader in dual-shore software product development. (Full Article)
March 19, 2009 – LeverPoint’s angel investment arm, LeverPoint Capital Partners, sponsors GMU Business Alliance Grubstake Breakfast. Three times each year, the Business Alliance Grubstake Breakfast brings together the region's brightest entrepreneurs, potential investors and business leaders in a highly innovative forum that shapes the growth and development of the entrepreneurial companies in the region. LeverPoint Capital Partners, the angel investment arm of LeverPoint LLC will be one of the sponsors for the event. (Full Article)
March 17, 2009 – LeverPoint CEO, Todd Bramblett, featured at Northern Virginia Technology Council’s Emerging Business and Technology Showcase Panel. LeverPoint CEO, Todd Bramblett, has been selected to speak on the NVTC panel, Smart Growth: Doing More with Less, in March. This showcase, in response to feedback and suggestions from members, will showcase some of the area's emerging technology businesses that offer innovative cost-saving solutions.
In these tough economic times, emerging businesses must cut costs to preserve cash but must do so carefully so as not to damage the overall viability. This event will feature a panel of experienced entrepreneurs that will discuss best practices around how to create a new lean organization and focus it on retaining existing customers and acquiring new ones. (Full Article)
February 26, 2009 – LeverPoint Sponsors and CEO, Todd Bramblett, speaks at 6th Annual Bootcamp For Growing Companies and Entrepreneurs. The Bootcamp, sponsored by the Business Alliance of George Mason University, attracted more than 200 attendees. The event focused on networking and learning best practices, market opportunities, and lessons learned from more than forty of the region’s most successful business leaders. Todd was a panelist on the IT & New Media…Beyond Web 2.0 session. This session talked on market opportunities and techniques using the next generation of media tools to grow your business.
February 2, 2009 – LeverPoint CEO, Todd Bramblett, on Board of Advisors for Amplifier Ventures newly launched Business Accelerator Program. Amplifier Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund, and Amplifier Network, a provider of education and collaborative online content for entrepreneurs, today announced the Amplifier Business Accelerator Program to stimulate new technology company formation in the DC Technology Corridor. The three-month program will combine seed capital from Amplifier Ventures with experienced, hands-on mentoring and education by recognized experts, as well as social collaboration capabilities to support establishing durable businesses in today's challenging economic climate.
The day-to-day assistance to the participating entrepreneurs will be lead by managers Jonathan Aberman, Michael Dering and Rich Moore. The managers will be assisted by the members of the Board of Advisors of the Amplifier Network, a group which includes Todd Bramblett, CEO of LeverPoint, LLC. (Full Release)
January 2009 – LeverPoint Featured in Washington Post. Last Thursday, LeverPoint and partners SpeakerBox, MemoryBlue, R2i and London, Ink pulled together a bus trip down to Twin Tech III, the hottest networking function to hit DC in recent years! Co-sponsored by iStrategyLabs and NVTC, the event saw over 2,000 attendees! The event and the bus trip were featured in an article in Kim Hart’s The Download column in today's Washington Post among many, many others. (Full Article)
October 2008 – “Eye on America” to feature LeverPoint LLC
The producers of Eye on America, an innovative, educational television series, are pleased to announce that they will feature LeverPoint, LLC, in a segment on topics, trends and issues related to “Impacting the Bottom Line Series: Outsourcing vs. In-house Development.” (Full Release)
September 2008 - Local Companies Act as Ambassadors for Offshoring
David Yaskin, CEO, of Arlington-based Starfish Retention Solutions Inc, a LeverPoint client, has found he could hire Argentineans of comparable quality to U.S. developers and pay them about half of his estimated rate of $120 an hour here. (Full Release)
August 2008 – LeverPoint LLC Makes Inc. 5000 List
Inc. today ranked LeverPoint LLC in the top 15% of the 5,000 fastest growing companies listed No. 670 on its annual ranking of the 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the country. The list is the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy – America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs. Taken as a whole, these companies represent the backbone of the U.S. economy. (Full Release)
July 2008 – LeverPoint Acquires New Romania Office
LeverPoint LLC, a Reston based dual-shore software development company acquired its new office in Romania this month for an undisclosed amount. This acquisition is part of a global delivery effort of the company to expand its operations in Eastern Europe. This new office represents the 4th overseas location the company has opened since its inception in 2004. Already housing some of its new client development activities, this acquisition is set to expand the ability of the company to be more competitive in the marketplace. (Full Release)
June 2008 - LeverPoint Wins NVTC Hottest Bootstrap Award
The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), the largest technology council in the nation, last night announced the finalists and winners of its seventh annual Hot Ticket Awards, recognizing local entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial companies for achievements that make them "hot" - great vision, superior ability to implement and deliver, innovative management approaches, and overall success. (Full Release)
September 2007 – Network Security Consulting (NSC), Inc. Establishes Strategic Development Partnership with LeverPoint, LLC and LeverPoint Capital Partners, LLC. NSC, Inc. a leading provider of Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) software today announced that it has selected LeverPoint, LLC of Reston, Virginia as strategic product development partner to assist in the completion of the next generation of its innovative GRC software, the Common Compliance Framework (CCF). (Full Release)
June 2007 - LeverPoint Appoints Larry Roe as Senior Vice President. Todd Bramblett, CEO, adds yet another experienced corporate executive to fuel LeverPoint's rapid expansion and maximize global sales and marketing efforts. (Full Release)
August 2006 - LeverPoint Launches LeverPoint Global to Drive Merger and Acquisitions Activity. LeverPoint Global, the newest member of LeverPoint Holdings corporate structure, is a sister company to both LeverPoint, LLC and LeverPoint Capital Partners, LLC. All three work in concert to provide a broad and deep global software engineering and testing solution to the marketplace. LeverPoint Global is charged with the mission of extending LeverPoint's global software service offerings by identifying and acquiring top-notch software services firms. These acquisitions, targeted at US-based as well as global software services firms, will increase LeverPoint's overall capacity while strengthening its depth of capability in key strategic geographies, industry verticals and technologies.
July 2006 - LeverPoint Capital Partners Strikes Gold on First Equity Investment by Selling to Thompson Financial's TradeWeb. LeverPoint Capital Partners (LCP) acquired a majority interest in Global Trade Technologies (GTT) and formed LeverTrade. Along with GTT's original founder & CEO, Peter Adams, LeverPoint took over 100% of the development efforts in an effort to quickly round out the product offering and support existing client installations. Upon initial rollout of the new product, Thompson Financial's TradeWeb division realized the power of the product and elected to buy LeverTrade rather than build the same product from scratch internally.
June 2006 - LeverPoint's Superior QA and Testing Labs Recognized and Selected by Premier, Local Quality and Security Firm. A well known software quality and security services serving the Fortune 500 marketplace, after extensive interviews and in-country evaluations of the competition, selected LeverPoint to provide the offshore component of their services offering. More on this partnership will follow in the coming months.
April 2006 - LeverPoint expands its Quality Assurance & Testing Practice. Through LeverPoint's partnership in India, it has expanded it Q/A and Testing initiative with its partner BrickRed. This expansion included the creation of new facilities and several new key staff members.
March 2006 - LeverPoint forms LeverPoint Capital Partners, LLC (LCP), a new division dedicated to bridge funding select LeverPoint clients. LCP provides "angel bridge" capital to a select few LeverPoint, LLC clients with the mission of creating significant value while reducing overall risk. This is achieved by leveraging LeverPoint's: 1) product management and development expertise and personnel to accelerate the company's ability to bring product to market, and 2) extensive reach into the VC and private equity community to assist the company more quickly identify and gain access to institutional capital.
January 2006 - Artifact Software, a pioneer software company delivering a comprehensive application designed to meet the needs of the exploding global, distributed software development industry, partners with LeverPoint in a series of 5 Invitation-only, CXO Roundtable discussions across the Mid-Atlantic, New York and New England.
December 2005 - Yet another Market-leader in network security software and hardware selects LeverPoint to accelerate time-to-market cycles.
September 2005 - LaborLogix, a pioneering provider of enterprise software applications for project and resource-intensive businesses, chooses LeverPoint for its offshore growth strategy.
August 2005 - LeverPoint acquires major interest in Global Trade Technologies and forms LeverTrade, a subsidiary of LeverPoint, LLC and provider of bond trading software to medium to large-sized bond trading firms in the US. LeverTrade joins forces with long-time veteran of the fixed income industry, Peter Adams, to head the new organization.
August 2005 - Artifact Software, a pioneer software company delivering a comprehensive application designed to meet the needs of the exploding global, distributed software development industry, partners with LeverPoint to bring new levels of visibility and control to LeverPoint's client base.
June 2005 - Vanward Technologies, a solutions company providing software and services to measurably increase software quality, partners with LeverPoint to provide new services and quality management dashboard capability to LeverPoint clients.
June 2005 - LeverPoint brings on new CTO, Colin deSa to lead the effort to drive greater quality and innovation into every client engagement.
April 2005 - LeverPoint launches new office in Eastern Europe. In a continuing effort to provide clients with maximum technical and financial leverage and options, LeverPoint launches this new office with inaugural client.
January 2005 - JNetDirect, a provider of software components to professional software developers, chooses LeverPoint for its offshore growth strategy to reduce cost and time to market in the development of its new product.
October 2004 - HighSpeed America selects LeverPoint's dualshore development option to augment its development staff in speeding up the market readiness of its service offereings to the alternative broadband market while simultaneously contributing to its financial goals.
September 2004 - Systalex selects LeverPoint to help meet sharply rising software development staffing needs.
July 2004 - A Market-leader in network security software and hardware selects LeverPoint to accelerate time-to-market cycles.
May 2004 - Unanet and LeverPoint team to rollout seminar series on accelerating global software development...
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