For Immediate Release:
WARP Technology Holdings Closes $2.6 Million in Series B Funding
NEW YORK (November 5, 2003) – WARP Technology Holdings, Inc. (OTC BB: WRPT), a leading provider of network and application acceleration technology solutions, today announced that it has received $2.6 million in equity financing from institutional and accredited investors. WARP plans to use the new operating capital to expand its strategic sales and channel development efforts worldwide. The Griffin Private Equity Group of Griffin Securities, Inc. served as the placement agent for the transaction.
“This round of financing reaffirms WARP’s technology leadership and position in the marketplace, and will help throttle up the company’s growth strategy aimed at delivering a range of cost-effective solutions that improve the speed and capacity of Web-based applications and content,” explained Malcolm Coster, WARP’s President, Chairman of the Board of Directors, and CEO.
Full details of the terms and conditions of the Series B Preferred stock, together with related documents, can be found by referring to WARP’s Form 10QSB for the period ending September 30, 2003, which will be filed by WARP with the Securities and Exchange Commission on or about November 14, 2003.
Organization of all sizes are using WARP SpiderCache software and the WARP 2063 and WARP 2063e appliances to dramatically improve network and server performance, and enable distributed application acceleration on a global scale. The company recently announced that Lastminute.com, Europe’s largest online travel site, deployed WARP’s technology and has significantly improved their Web site operations realizing a 400 percent performance gain, and decreasing average query response times from twelve seconds to less than three seconds.
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