Growth Capital Partners

Austin-Tetra Secures $3.5 Million in Financing

Growing Data Firm Plans to Double U.S. Sales Force,
Ratchet Up Marketing Efforts

IRVING, Texas – June 23, 2005 – Even the best products in the world don’t sell themselves. With this in mind, Austin-Tetra has secured a $3.5 million investment largely dedicated to new sales and marketing efforts for the company’s industry-leading suite of data management products and services.

Southwest Mezzanine Investments, an affiliate of Growth Capital Partners, L.P. (GCP), led Austin-Tetra’s second round of funding. Austin-Tetra previously received $600,000 from angel investors in 2000.

We are very excited about our investment in Austin-Tetra,” said Jim Forrester, managing partner of GCP’s Southwest Mezzanine Fund. “The company’s proprietary database and solutions have the potential to become the de facto standard for business data management in North America, Asia/Pacific and Europe.”

Austin-Tetra provides global data management solutions for the supplier and customer intelligence market. The firm helps its clients, which are primarily large companies and institutions, to access and analyze the data they need to make informed business decisions, reduce costs and minimize risk.

“We are pleased to have GCP as a partner,” said Phil Berkebile, Jr., president and chief executive officer of Austin-Tetra. “Their experience can help us significantly increase our market share in the rapidly evolving business-to-business data management market. This additional funding will allow us to move faster and grow our customer base. It will also enable us to quickly meet our customers’ needs with enhancements to our products and services.”

Austin-Tetra plans to double the size of its sales staff, in addition to doubling the company’s marketing initiatives. As a result, the firm will dramatically increase the geographic coverage of its sales team in the United States.

“We’ve already developed a stable of happy clients, including more than 200 of the FORTUNE 1000. These companies generate significant return-on-investment with our products and services,” Berkebile said. “Now it’s time to take those success stories deeper into the marketplace and win an even broader base of clients that can benefit from our proven solutions.”

With headquarters in Irving, Texas, Austin-Tetra has been a leader in global data management since 1993. The company offers some of the most comprehensive content-based management solutions in the market. Austin-Tetra sells its services to the largest companies in the world addressing the data requirements of global supplier management, strategic sourcing and customer relationship management. Austin-Tetra’s coverage includes more than 50 million global businesses. Its solutions validate, enhance and enrich information on existing suppliers and customers and enable the identification of new ones. The company’s services provide customers with enterprise-wide visibility into their trading partner base, enabling thorough analysis to help mitigate business risk, leverage buying power to reduce supply costs and maximize revenue generating opportunities. For more information, visit the company’s web site at www.austintetra.com.

Growth Capital Partners, L.P. is a Southwest-based merchant and investment banking firm serving both private and public middle-market companies. Since the firm’s inception in 1992, GCP has completed in excess of 200 transactions, raised more than $1 billion of institutional capital (through private placements of equity, subordinated, and senior debt), and completed merger and acquisition transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $2.0 billion. For more information, please visit the company’s web site at www.growth-capital.com.

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