
One of the ideas behind Rage was to leverage a common
and distinctive technology platform to incubate new
businesses that can create significant social and economic
value. Our belief has been that we can create highly
capital efficient businesses largely as a result of
the leverage that the Rage Enterprise platform can provide
supplemented with our expertise in creating commercial
products and bringing an idea to life. These businesses
will be setup to be independent structurally with their
own management teams. As they progress from a startup
stage, they should also be able to attract external
growth capital.
We have successfully incubated 5 such businesses
so far. We envision ideas for these incubation efforts
need not emanate from us and can originate from outside
Rage. We encourage entrepreneurs with ideas to contact
us if they are interested in leveraging our expertise
and technology. We are also interested in working
with corporations and exploring ideas for joint development
of products. Rage will invest its technology in the
idea and significantly reduce the amount of initial
capital required to launch the idea. In all such cases,
we perform a rigorous analysis of the market potential
for ideas and participate in them if there is a good
fit between the idea and our interests.
Corporate Fundamentals
[Sold to Hemscott, Plc]
Corporate Fundamentals leveraged the Rage technology
to substantially automate the extraction and structuring
of fundamental data, and improve the granularity of
data extracted. Fundamental data is central to all
fundamental analysis and research in capital markets
and corporations. Till date, most information providers
use substantial manual effort to extract data from
corporate filings and annual reports. Obviously, such
manual effort is time consuming, error prone and limits
the amount of information that is structured and made
available for analysis. While the Securities and Exchange
Commission [www.sec.gov] has recently made strides
in requiring corporations to file their fundamental
data in a standardized format [XBRL], CF was able
to achieve the same or better level of structuring
through the artificial intelligence based components
in Rage.
CF was sold to Hemscott Plc in November 2005.
CreditPointe [www.creditpointe.com]
Securities research is at a crossroads; credit rating
is under significant scrutiny. At the same time, the
pace of investing and information flow has only increased
around the world. With our deep domain expertise in
finance in general and credit rating in particular,
we saw an opportunity to create a scalable securities
research firm that can provide unique investment research
products and also scale leveraging technology.
CreditPointe is a securities research firm that is
providing investment research and credit rating products
to capital markets, corporates and financial institutions.
CP's real time research product systematically identifies
potential 'alpha' through a sophisticated analysis
of global economic developments on a company's intrinsic
value/default risk. These products rely on Rage's
natural language processing and linguistics technologies
and its deep domain expertise in fundamental analysis.
CP provides robust, forward-looking credit ratings
for all corporates around the world. As opposed to
the major rating agencies, CP's business model is
not an issuer-pay model thereby making its ratings
truly indpendent and objective. In addition to its
real time research and credit rating products, CP
also makes available bottoms-up fundamental models
on its research portal.
BrightLeaf Corporation
[www.brightleafcorp.com]
Over the years, we have observed significant inefficiencies
in how legal contracts were produced and processed
in multiple contexts - in financing transactions,
in sales and in business development activities. With
our perspective on intelligent rule-driven automation,
we believed that a substantial portion of these activities
can be intelligently automated and streamlined. We
incubated BrightLead with this belief and the underlying
technology to make it happen.
BrightLeaf Corporation provides a revolutionary platform
to law firms and corporate counsel to dramatically
simplify and efficiently process legal transactions
and documents. The company is focused on bringing
intelligent document automation to law firms and legal
departments. Based outside Boston, the firm's cluster
of proprietary technologies -- advanced, inline document
assembly, integrated document management, embedded
process automation, real-time linguistic analytics,
and collaborative dataspace technologies -- helps
us deliver accessible, easy-to-use, professional-strength
solutions that are designed by lawyers for lawyers.
EnglishHelper
[www.englishhelper.com]
The demand for English language training continues
to grow exponentially. Many nation states have recognized
the importance of English proficiency as a competitive
necessity and have formulated public policy to encourage
English language training. China, for example, has
mandated English in its schools. Some estimates of
just the online English language training put the
market at approximately USD 20 billion with over 60%
of it concentrated in major East Asian economies.
EnglishHelper improves English language reading,
comprehension and writing skills, irrespective of
your level of familiarity with the language. EH's
products are based on decades of academic research
and have been proven to be highly effective. EH's
writing solution, 'Writing Assistant', improves the
effectiveness of your written English going beyond
error detection to even stylistic improvements. The
writing engine relies on a proprietary linguistics
engine based on artificial intelligence and computational
linguistics. EH's reading solution, 'Read to me',
focuses on reading comprehension, pronunciation, and
accent neutralization.
At Rage, we provide 'Accelerated Engineering Services'
to EnglishHelper. While EH has created a proprietary
linguistics engine that is at the heart of its WritingAssistant,
EH relies on the Rage platform for the rest of its
application needs.
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