February 1, 2008
Cloudmark Extends Market Leadership With Record Growth in 2007

GroupGemstone announced that one of its core investments, Cloudmark, Inc., the global leader in carrier-grade messaging security, had record growth in 2007 that further expanded the company's share of the service provider messaging security market. Cloudmark's revenue grew 70 percent during 2007 and the company added more than 40 new customers worldwide. In addition, Cloudmark achieved a 100 percent retention and licensing renewal rate from existing customers.

"Cloudmark's revenue growth speaks to their delivery of high performance, accurate, scalable solutions," said GroupGemstone CEO, Alex Edelstein.

In addition to increasing its market share in the carrier-grade messaging security market, Cloudmark reached additional significant milestones that have extended the company's market lead over its competition. These include:

  • Financials: Organically grew revenue 70 percent over FY 2006.
  • Market Coverage: More than 300 million mailboxes protected globally; Cloudmark is now checking more than 4 billion messages daily.
  • Penetration into New Markets: Since opening its European operations in 2006, Cloudmark has achieved significant customer wins in the UK, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Italy and the Netherlands. In addition, Cloudmark has gained several major mobile operator customers, protecting millions of mobile subscribers from SMS, MMS and mobile e-mail spam, phishing and viruses.
  • Continued North American and Japanese Market Dominance: Cloudmark customers include 11 of the top 12 largest service providers in North America and 7 of the top 10 ISPs in Japan.

About GroupGemstone
The GroupGemstone family of companies operates in Real Estate Development, Entertainment and Apparel Retailing and invests in technology private equity. GroupGemstone was founded and is operated by Alexander Edelstein, and is based in Las Vegas.

Gemstone Development, the developer of ManhattanWest, is one of the most prolific condominium developers in Las Vegas. Gemstone's previous project, Manhattan Condominiums, was the first new mid-rise condominium to be built in Las Vegas since 2002, and at $230 million dollars is one of the largest mid-rise projects in Las Vegas. Manhattan Condominiums sold out its initial 700 units, and recently has finished construction on its last building. Gemstone delivers unique, state-of-the-art features such as its ManhattanTransfer® errand service and ManhattanMD® medical services. Gemstone Development was founded by Alexander Edelstein in 2003. ManhattanWest can be viewed on the web at ManhattanWest.com. Gemstone can be reached on the web at: GemstoneDev.com.

Contact:
Mark Chatow
Gemstone Development, LLC
702.614.3193
markc@gemstonedev.com
www.gemstonedev.com


About Cloudmark
Cloudmark, Inc. is a global leader in carrier-grade messaging security, delivering the industry's fastest, most comprehensive and most accurate real-time spam, virus and phishing protection for fixed and mobile networks. Cloudmark solutions combine highly sophisticated Advanced Message Fingerprinting™ technology based on innovative, high-performance algorithms and a Global Threat Network consisting of trusted reporters in 200 countries to provide security intelligence and filtering at all points in the messaging infrastructure. Cloudmark solutions currently protect more than 300 million mailboxes and the company works with more than 100 of the world's largest service providers and mobile operator networks (including 11 of the top 12 in North America), such as EarthLink, Comcast, Cablevision, Charter Communications, Cox Communications, NTT Communications, SprintNextel, Virgin Mobile and Swisscom, as well as hosted messaging providers, including domainFACTORY. Cloudmark is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco with offices in London, Tokyo, Beijing and Hong Kong. Cloudmark can be reached on the web at: Cloudmark.com.




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