Clearpp

ClearApp, founded in 2002 and formerly known as Acsera until 2006, operated in the application service management sector. The company was based in Mountain View, United States, and focused on providing solutions for portals, as well as J2EE and SOA-based applications. It successfully raised a total of $20.2 million over two funding rounds. The first round was a Series A, followed by a Series B round on June 14, 2006, which raised $14.2 million with participation from investors including 3i Group, TriplePoint Capital, Sierra Ventures, and Partech Partners.

The firm's core business involved offering application performance and change management solutions. Its flagship product, QuickVision, was designed to correlate the services an application provided with the underlying code components that supported those services. This allowed clients to gain deeper insights into their application's performance and manage changes more effectively. The company's business model centered on selling these specialized management tools to businesses utilizing complex application architectures. Under the leadership of CEO Jason Donahue, ClearApp carved out a niche in the tech industry before ultimately being classified as an acqui-hired company, indicating its acquisition was primarily for its talent and expertise.

Keywords: application service management, J2EE, SOA, application performance, change management, QuickVision, enterprise software, tech acquisition, venture capital, application monitoring, IT infrastructure, software as a service, technology management, business applications, code analysis, performance metrics, IT solutions, enterprise technology, application infrastructure, software development tools