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FTVentures Commits $30 Million to Mu Sigma
Investment Will Fuel Expansion of Pure-Play Data Analytics
Outsourcing Firm
CHICAGO, IL - September 24, 2008 - Mu Sigma, the leading
independent provider of high quality analytical decision support
services, today announced that FTVentures, a growth capital investor
with over $1 billion in assets under management, has committed $30
million to the Company. The funding will support the further
expansion of Mu Sigma's high end analytics capabilities delivered
from its Bangalore, India delivery center.
"Mu Sigma is at the forefront of helping corporate clients
cost-effectively deliver analytics within their firms," said Brad
Bernstein, FTVentures Partner and new member of the Mu Sigma board
of directors. "The company recruits and trains the best and
brightest mathematicians in India and provides cutting edge
analytics and a client partnership approach to business decision
support. Mu Sigma's capabilities have been vetted by some of the
most successful companies in the world and are in high demand by
FTVentures' strategic limited partners, who are seeking a long-term
partner to help more efficiently analyze and leverage the massive
amounts of data being generated by their organizations. Mu Sigma
integrates quantitative analytics and deep domain expertise to
provide more than a dozen fortune 500 clients, such as Microsoft,
Wal-Mart, and Pfizer, insightful and actionable results."
"FTVentures brings highly relevant expertise and an extensive
network in the financial services industry, as well as a successful
track record in helping to grow offshore outsourcing companies,"
said Dhiraj Rajaram, Chief Executive Officer at Mu Sigma. "Analytics
is the next significant frontier in outsourcing; at Mu Sigma, we are
leveraging the exceptional talent available in India and offering a
convincing value proposition to leading global corporations. The
investment by FTVentures will help Mu Sigma continue its momentum in
penetrating the financial services, health care, retail/consumer
packaged goods, and technology verticals. Mu Sigma currently employs
400 highly educated and well trained analysts and we are looking to
more than double in size over the next two years."
About Mu Sigma Mu Sigma is a knowledge
process outsourcing firm that provides high quality analytical
decision support services to its clients in a cost effective manner.
Mu Sigma is headquartered in Chicago, IL, with an offshore delivery
center in Bangalore, India. Mu Sigma helps clients institutionalize
analytics in their organizations through a global delivery model,
augmenting a client?s internal decision-making leadership with an
onshore team of domain experts and business professionals and a
dedicated offshore team of mathematicians and scientific
practitioners. Mu Sigma recruits from the best universities in India
(IITs, IIMs, ISI) providing their clients access to world class
quantitative talent cost effectively. The Company leverages
best-in-class processes and domain expertise in statistics,
econometrics and operations research to provide advanced analytics
and business intelligence specializing in areas like marketing, risk
and supply chain. For more information, please visit http://www.mu-sigma.com/.
About FTVentures FTVentures provides growth
capital to companies seeking to finance organic expansion,
recapitalizations, build-ups and buyouts. The firm invests in
business services and software companies that derive value from its
unmatched Global Partner Network, which includes the world's leading
financial institutions. FTVentures' Global Partner Network provides
the firm with a unique vantage point into the business driven and
operating challenges of the global enterprise. Founded in 1998,
FTVentures currently has over $1 billion under management with
offices in San Francisco and New York. For more information, please
visit http://www.ftventures.com/.
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