business development

Navixia, a leading information security integrator in the French-speaking regions of Switzerland, is now a commonIT Gold partner — the first channel partner for the Virtual Browser solution outside France. Claude Krahenbuhl, Managing Director of Navixia, sees clear benefits for Navixia customers in the innovative Virtual Browser solution. And Navixia’s customers have responded enthusiastically.

Navixia offers a flexible, customer-centred approach to information security, enabled by the high level of technical skills and experience of the Swiss company’s founders and employees. For commonIT, we see this as validation that our technology and our business model can reach beyond the purely domestic market, and it marks a first concrete step in fulfilling our international ambitions.

Last week we passed a key stage in the development of commonIT, closing our first funding round. The €500k we’ve raised will be invested in accelerating current initiatives, both technical — we expect to announce release 2.0 of Virtual Browser early in 2010 — and in sales and marketing development.

It’s with pleasure, then, that we welcome Rhône-Alpes Création and Expansinvest (Banque Populaire des Alpes) to the table as partners in the commonIT project. They worked quickly and effectively with us allowing us to reach this funding agreement just eight months after founding commonIT, an important factor for us. Personally I’d like to extend a warm thank you to Mathieu Viallard, director of business development at Rhône-Alpes Création, for his efficiency and professionalism in managing the negotiations.