A massive public beta program is currently underway, with the service expected to officially launch in early spring of 2000. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, is the leader in eduCommerce. The company's unique eduCommerce model uses online education as a sales and marketing tool to drive greater site stickiness, deeper customer intimacy, and higher brand loyalty. This model improves a business client's bottom lines by lowering customer acquisition and retention costs, strengthening branding efforts and adding incremental revenues. Each of the six general partners have extensive and successful backgrounds as technologists, operating managers, entrepreneur-founders and venture capital investors.
Vanguard ranks among the top performing venture capitol firms.
It brings the digital assets of enterprises and media companies directly to users' PCs in ways that haven't been available before through its revolutionary, patent pending technology called Bandwidth Harvesting. With Kontiki's secure media delivery network, media companies and enterprises can better manage, deliver and monetize digital content securely and efficiently. Special assignments have been undertaken for 3Com's Palm Computing, Borland, Apple Computer and others.