Investors

Meriton Networks has obtained funding from a group of top-tier venture capital firms. In addition to financial resources, our investors provide sound advice and extensive contacts into the business and telecom industry. To date, the company has raised $100 million in funding. The funding is being used to expand the company's activities in sales, customer service, as well as further market and product development.

We are always happy to share our exciting business opportunity with potential new partners. Please direct any investment inquiries to:

E-mail: investments@meriton.com
Phone: +1.613.270.9279
Fax: +1.613.270.9628

Our Investors include:

Created in 1974, Desjardins Venture Capital Group is the venture capital arm of The Mouvement Desjardins, investing in growth companies and regional investment funds. Its mission is to add value to associated companies and help them achieve a significant position in their sector of activity, on both Canadian and international markets. Desjardins Venture Capital Group and its regional funds are partners with more than 100 growing Quebec companies with more than half working in the new economy sectors.

Web Site: http://www.desjardins.com/id

Newbury Ventures is an international venture capital group focused on investing in and growing entrepreneurial companies in the communication and information technology sectors. The firm specializes in identifying opportunities for significant capital appreciation, by investing in promising entrepreneurial companies at early stages of their corporate development. Newbury’s partners have financed well over 100 successful emerging growth technology companies, with over a third conceived and built to leverage the binational investment model using multinational skills and resources.

Web Site: http://www.newburyven.com

Newbury has recently expanded its reach into Canada, adding venture partners Conrad Lewis and Ken Wigglesworth, principals of Eagle One Ventures, based in Kanata, Ontario. Eagle One Ventures is a "mentor capital" firm created with the objective of accelerating the success of early stage telecom and networking infrastructure companies.

Web Site:www.eagleoneventures.com

The Private Equity Group is the Venture Capital arm of Nomura, one of the world's leading investment banks and Japan's largest securities firm. Since its creation in 1997, our Group has invested in 50 companies, in the Technology sector, in the US and Europe. Many of our portfolio companies have been involved in IPOs and mergers. Representative investments include Revivio, NetForensics, Arraycomm, enCommerce and Arc.

Nomura is a global financial services group dedicated to providing a broad range of financial services for individual, institutional, corporate and government clients. The Group offers a diverse line of competitive products and value-added financial and advisory solutions through its global headquarters in Tokyo, 133 branches in Japan, and an international network in 28 countries; with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London, and New York. The Group's business activities include investment consultation and brokerage services for retail investors in Japan, and, on a global basis, brokerage services, securities underwriting, investment banking advisory services, merchant banking, and asset management.

Web Site: http://www.nomura.com

Primaxis Technology Ventures Inc. partners with inventors and entrepreneurs to create world leading technology companies. Primaxis brings seed capital, business and technology management expertise and access to global networking to those companies through a management team that has extensive experience in finance, science and engineering and entrepreneurship. We invest in leading-edge opportunities in the physical and engineering sciences including photonics, telecommunications, semiconductors, electronics, IT infrastructure, advanced materials and manufacturing. Primaxis is a $57.5 million fund headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

Web Site: http://www.primaxis.com

RBC Capital Partners ("RBCP") is the private equity investing arm of Royal Bank Financial Group, with US$660 million in allocated capital for equity investment and US$135 million in allocated capital for mezzanine debt investing. The Telecommunications Fund team consists of professionals with diverse backgrounds, deep industry transaction and financing expertise, who will work actively and "hands-on" with the management teams of the companies to develop and accelerate business plans, infuse talent, attract partners and ultimately create and crystallize value.

Web Site: http://www.rbcap.com/rbcap/tmfund.html

Venture Coaches is a venture capital firm dedicated to building strong companies in the IT and Cleantech sectors. Our primary geographic focus is Canadian opportunities with a particular emphasis on the Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto corridor, and the Calgary and Vancouver areas.

Web Site: http://www.venturecoaches.com

VantagePoint Venture Partners is among the most active and successful venture firms in the world with more than $2.8 billion of capital under management. The Firm invests exclusively in technology driven companies and is organized around deep expertise and resources in five principal areas of interest: CleanTech, Communications and Systems, Healthcare, Semiconductors, and Software/Internet. VantagePoint is a multi-stage investor, investing in high growth businesses at all stages of development. The Firm believes in applying an active, hands-on and team oriented approach to businesses not only at the traditional early stage, but throughout a company's progression to scale. The Firm supports each of its portfolio companies with the resources of a dedicated team of VantagePoint professionals able to contribute a blend of company building, technology, operations, marketing, and corporate finance expertise.

Web Site: http://www.vpvp.com

With over $1 billion in assets under management, VenGrowth Capital Partners is a tier one Canadian venture capital management group, widely known and respected in the industry. Since it began operations in 1982, VenGrowth's accomplished team of seasoned venture capitalists has invested over $580 million in more than 120 companies. These investments have been made on behalf of 145,000 investors including leading pension funds, insurance companies, family foundations, and individual investors. Investee companies benefit from VenGrowth's substantial experience, resources, and hands-on investment style. VenGrowth's offices are located in Toronto (Corporate Headquarters), Ottawa and Boston, Massachusetts.