Leading Event Notification and Resolution Systems Vendor Secures $7.5 Million in New Funding to Accelerate Expansion Plans

PLEASANTON, CA. ¾ August 20, 2007 ¾ AlarmPoint Systems, the recognized leader in event notification and resolution, today announced the completion of a $7.5 million financing round comprised of debt and equity financing.  JMI Equity led the $4.5 million equity round with minor participation from other follow-on investors.   In addition, the financing included $3 million in term financing from Bridge Bank, N.A., the commercial bank subsidiary of Bridge Capital Holdings (NASDAQ: BBNK).

“AlarmPoint continues to exceed growth expectations and projected results,” said Peter Arrowsmith, general partner of JMI Equity.  “With seven of the largest ten Global 2000 customers standardizing on AlarmPoint, they have established themselves as leaders in this new, quickly growing area of IT Service Management.”

As the leader in the developing event notification and resolution market, AlarmPoint continues to deliver applications and services that enable enterprises to quickly and consistently manage IT events prior to business impact.  The AlarmPoint applications reduce false alerts by targeting the appropriate IT personnel, communicating with remote personnel on their preferred voice or text device and enabling personnel to take actions to restore or repair service.  With the recent launch of its flagship AlarmPoint version 3.1, the new financing will be used to accelerate the growth and acceptance of the products and services in the IT marketplace. 

“Today’s mobile IT workforce needs to manage complicated infrastructure, data center operations and service impacting events from remote locations,” said Troy McAlpin, CEO of AlarmPoint Systems.  “More and more enterprises are focusing on automating the event notification and resolution process to instrument, automate and ensure resolution of IT events before the business is impacted.  This financing will support our plans to accelerate our product development, service delivery and geographic expansion and we are pleased to have JMI Equity and Bridge Bank as financing partners.”

“AlarmPoint’s continued growth rate is ground-breaking and impressive,” said Scott Chamberlain, vice president at Bridge Bank.  “With the ability to deliver customers a return on their investment in three months or less, AlarmPoint continues to acquire marquis customers and the list is more than 700 customers strong.”