# Audax Group

> Audax Group is a VC fund in Boston backing Software and Internet. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jan 2003
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/audaxgroup
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/AudaxGroup
- Website: http://www.audaxgroup.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Audax-Group-187713214604266/

Audax Group is a leading alternative investment manager with offices in Boston, New York, and San Francisco. Since its founding in 1999, the firm has raised over $25 billion in capital across its Private Equity and Private Debt businesses. With more than 250 employees and over 100 investment professionals, the firm is a leading capital partner forNorth American middle market companies. For more information, visit the Audax Group website www.audaxgroup.com.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 50% |
| Internet | 2 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 33% |
| Database | 1 | 17% |
| Real Time | 1 | 17% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 3 | 50% |
| Series A | 2 | 33% |
| Series C | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 83% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Geoffrey S. Rehnert | Co-CEO | 1 | — |
| Peter Stern | Managing Director | 7 | — |
| Edgar W. Soule | Managing Director, Investor Relations | 0 | — |
| Jay C. Jester | Managing Director, Private Equity | 0 | — |
| Keith Palumbo | Managing Director | 2 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| VIEO | VIEO provides innovative application service level management solutions for ensuring business certainty. These solutions provide end-to-end visibility of Microsoft web-based and Citrix-based application infrastructures and pinpoint resource problems that impact service levels. Using VIEO solutions, IT organizations can improve service deliverywhile reducing costs and complexity. VIEO's awards include Computerworld's 2004 Innovative Technology Award and InfoWorld's 2004 Systems Management Product of the Year. Led by IT visionary and successful serial entrepreneur Bob Fabbio, VIEO is headquartered in Austin, Texas. | $15M | Series B | Jan 12, 2003 |  |
| deNovis | deNovis Inc. is a leading provider of advanced transaction processing and information management solutions for the health insurance and health care benefits administration industry.deNovis's highly innovative claims processing and data management software enables commercial and government health plans to reduce administrative costs, expandtheir range of products and services, increase speed-to-market of new products and enhance the quality of customer service. The company's flagship software product—eHD™—serves as the core administrative platform for health plans and is designed to deliver the sophistication necessary to meet both existing and emerging needs of commercial, Medicare and Medicaid healthcare benefits administrators. deNovis is also known for its technical innovations, including HICL™ technology, which allows complex healthcare transaction systems to be programmed by business analysts rather than computer programmers, using English language commands and the actual policies and business rules of the health plan.deNovis's customer roster includes large commercial insurers and the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services—the nation's largest purchaser of healthcare and a provider of healthcare benefits to almost 80 million Americans.The company's strategic alliance partners include IBM Corporation and Deloitte Consulting.deNovis enterprise solutions for health plans are available for installation at customer locations or can be delivered on an outsourced or remote-hosted basis.The company is privately held and is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts. | $43.8M | Series B | Oct 16, 2001 |  |
| Verbind | Verbind is the leading supplier of real-time eMarketing solutions that empower firms to target customers, deliver messages, and build long-lasting profitable relationships with their customers. The end results are collaborative one-to-one personal interactive relationships on the basis of individual patterns of behavior. Verbind's real-timesolution produces the most complete and timely information for targeting who, what and when to communicate most effectively. By synthesizing and evaluating offline and online interactions, monitoring activity and non-activity, and automatically sending messages when they are most relevant, companies are able to not only track when customer behavioral trends reveal business opportunities and threats, but are also able to reach the right customer with the right message at the right time. That means messages are automatically delivered when the window of opportunity opens, not after it's shut. Even if that window is open for only an instant. This solution helps marketers manage and maximize the lifetime value of each customer, by developing personal relationships with customers who communicate with them through historically impersonal means, such as via the Internet and call centers. | $35M | Series C | Aug 02, 2000 |  |
| Earthnoise | As of May 22, 2001, Earthnoise, Inc. was acquired by CastUP Inc. Earthnoise, Inc. is an operator of an Internet community bringing various interest groups together to interact and exchange information online. The company provide incubator solutions for large enterprises, small businesses, web-builders. earthnoise.com is a one-stop, easy-to-usesolution for online video publishing and distribution. The company's services include digitizing video content, hosting it on the web, web-based video editing, template-based creation of finished video clips, publishing clips to any number of public or private channels, allowing members to create channels based around specific topics and indexing the video in a searchable database. Earthnoise, Inc. was established in June 1999. It is headquartered at San Francisco, California and has a research and development center in Tel-Aviv as well as a west coast office in San Francisco. | $7.6M | Series A | May 10, 2000 |  |
| Snapfish | Snapfish is a photo sharing and storage service that was acquired by HP in 2005. Users can upload, print, and share photos with friends. Printing photos is Snapfish's main focus for the site. This is a different focus than most photo sharing and storage sites that usually have a strong focus on the community aspect, like Flickr.Snapfishhas even partnered with retail stores like Costco and Walgreens so you can pick up your prints locally. Users can also easily create gifts, photo books and cards using their photos.Users are encouraged to upload as many photos as they want since they have unlimited uploads. However, to keep unlimited upload status users are required to buy prints at least once every year or their photos will be deleted. This is easy to get around since you can buy a single print for around $0.12.Main competitors include | $36M | Series B | May 01, 2000 |  |
| Fresher Information | Fresher Information is a California-based company that is focused on the development of technology solutions. It was founded by Scott Rafer in 1998. | $20M | Series A | Mar 01, 2000 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [TransCosmos](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/transcosmos) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [3i Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3i-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Advanced Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advanced-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Apax Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apax-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Attractor Investors — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bain Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Audax Group invest in?

Audax Group invests primarily in Software, Internet and Information Technology startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Audax Group?

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### Who are the partners at Audax Group?

The team at Audax Group includes Geoffrey S. Rehnert (Co-CEO), Peter Stern (Managing Director) and Edgar W. Soule (Managing Director, Investor Relations), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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