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SUNNYVALE, CA. September 20, 2005 — Mirapoint, the secure messaging experts, today announced that it received $10.3 million in a series II funding round from top-tier venture capital groups.  The round was led by Worldview Technology Partners who were joined by Franklin Templeton and Goldman Sachs among others.  After recording 40 percent year-over-year revenue growth, Mirapoint will use this round of funding to expand its global channel and partner presence, drive product and technology innovations, and further its market leadership in secure messaging appliances.

“Mirapoint’s focus on secure messaging lets enterprises deploy an extremely reliable messaging infrastructure that also keeps spam and viruses off their networks entirely, protecting the most critical enterprise application – email,” said Michael Orsak, Managing General Partner and Co-Founderof Worldview Technology Partners.  “Mirapoint’s solid customer base and strong revenue growth demonstrates its success in meeting the messaging needs of today’s enterprises.”

Email is the mission-critical application running on corporate networks today and, due to spam and other direct marketing programs, email volume is continuing to climb.  Gartner estimates that there are approximately 60 billion emails per day in 2005.

Mirapoint is the only vendor in the industry with proven email server and security appliances that offer carrier class “five-nines” reliability and the industry’s lowest TCO for any size organization.  Mirapoint’s Message Server is the industry’s only dedicated appliance that integrates email routing, storage, access and management with Mirapoint’s comprehensive email security.  With consistent spam and virus catch-rates upwards of 98 percent, Mirapoint’s RazorGate email security appliances provide multi-layered protection at the network edge to block hackers, spam, and virus threats, as well as provide advanced management of message traffic through policy enforcement tools, content filters and detailed reporting.  Together the Mirapoint Message Server and RazorGate deliver a secure messaging infrastructure to enterprises worldwide.

“Our ability to secure funding from such a distinguished list of venture capitalists validates Mirapoint’s proven track record in building and securing the messaging infrastructure for enterprises worldwide,” said Barry Ariko, chief executive officer of Mirapoint.  “We are the only vendor that integrates all of the messaging and security functions into a single reliable, scalable appliance.  Our customers have come to rely on Mirapoint to serve, secure and manage their messaging infrastructure seamlessly across the enterprise.”

About Worldview Technology Partners
Worldview Technology Partners, headquartered in Palo Alto, has a 10-year track record of successful investing in technology companies. Now on its fourth fund, Worldview has nearly $1.4 billion under management. Its partners’ investments have led to 25 IPOs and more than 10 successful acquisitions. Former portfolio companies include AFC, Catena, Ciena, Corvis, Cyras, CoSine, IntruVert, MMC Networks, NVIDA, Redstone, Silicon Spice, Tellium, and WFI.

Current portfolio companies include 3PAR, Azul, Cogent, Force10, Infinera, Laurel, Movaz, Stretch and Tensilica. Additional information is available at www.worldview.com.

About Franklin Templeton
Franklin Resources, Inc., is a global investment management organization known as Franklin Templeton Investments. Franklin Templeton’s headquarters are located just south of San Francisco, in San Mateo, California. The company has offices in 29 countries around the world and offers investment solutions and services in more than 100.

About Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net worth individuals.  Founded in 1869, it is one of the oldest and largest investment banking firms.  The firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.

About Mirapoint
Founded in 1997, Mirapoint is the market leader in appliance-based solutions for secure message networks in enterprise, service provider, and education organizations, with more than 115 million mailboxes served and secured worldwide.  Customers use Mirapoint appliances to build the messaging infrastructure that intelligently serves, secures and manages email.Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com.

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