MK Capital
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MK Capital is a $150 million venture capital fund headquartered in Chicago
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On May 5, 2008, MK Capital announced it had completed the acquisition of Kontiki
from VeriSign
.
On April 22, 2011, MK Capital announced that it has sold Smoothstone IP Communications, founded by Jeff Wellemeyer
, to West Corporation for $120 million.
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
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On May 5, 2008, MK Capital announced it had completed the acquisition of Kontiki
Kontiki
Kontiki is a peer-assisted content delivery technology company, founded in November 2000. It was acquired by VeriSign in March 2006. VeriSign, as part of a major divestiture, sold Kontiki to MK Capital in May 2008....
from VeriSign
VeriSign
Verisign, Inc. is an American company based in Dulles, Virginia that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, and .name generic top-level domains and the .cc and .tv country-code...
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On April 22, 2011, MK Capital announced that it has sold Smoothstone IP Communications, founded by Jeff Wellemeyer
Jeff Wellemeyer
Jeff Wellemeyer is an American entrepreneur, computer scientist and software developer. He is best known for creating the cloud based communications technologies for delivering IP PBX services, developing the first high-speed wireless Internet technology and developing the first computer systems...
, to West Corporation for $120 million.