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ANN ARBOR, MI - (July 2008 ) - EDF Ventures, a venture capital firm with offices in Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids, Michigan, has announced that Sircon Corporation, a Michigan company, has been acquired by Vertafore, Inc., a leading provider of software and services for the insurance industry. Sircon is an EDF portfolio company that provides a comprehensive producer lifecycle platform that helps agents get licensed and appointed more quickly and allows companies to manage compliance and producer information.

Sircon Corporation provides a comprehensive producer lifecycle platform to grow, manage and optimize producer channels. The company offers this platform as software-as-a-service (SaaS) to deliver immediate and compelling value to insurance carriers, agencies and brokers, education providers, producers (agents) and state regulators for licensing, recruiting, contracting, regulatory compliance, education tracking and producer management. Sircon's solutions provide essential industry services by connecting key stakeholders in the producer lifecycle through the Sircon network.

“LG mobile phone users will be the first in India to benefit from easy access to the rich mobile social networking, messaging, IM chat, community, and content capabilities of RockeTalk,” said Anil Arora, Business Group Head, Mobile, PCs and DAV, LG Electronics India Pvt.

RockeTalk was founded in 2005 with the mission of enabling people to more easily communicate, create, and share over mobile phones. The company works with mobile operators, mobile handset manufacturing and/or design companies, content providers, social networks, and media companies. RockeTalk is a multi-national company based in San Diego, California, with offices in Beijing, China and Delhi, India. The company is privately held and backed by leading venture capital firms Mission Ventures, EDF Ventures, and iSherpa Capital. Learn more at www.rocketalk.com .

RockeTalk, a leading Mobile 2.0 provider of easy-to-use, mobile social applications, today announced the public beta launch of its free, downloadable mobile phone application in India. The RockeTalk application allows mobile phone users to meet and interact with new people through easy-to-use, instant text, voice, picture and video messaging.

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