Fact Sheet

About Tervela

Tervela delivers the next-generation communications infrastructure—the Message Network™—through our development of the Tervela TMX Message Switch™. We overcome the business and information distribution challenges of the world’s most demanding customers, and Tervela’s landmark messaging platform overcomes the inherent issues of legacy middleware and networking solutions so that data-intensive financial institutions can avoid operational, financial and brand value risks.

Products

• The Tervela TMX Message Switch is a purpose-built, silicon-accelerated messaging appliance that sits at the heart of the Tervela Message Network™. Unlike legacy, software-based messaging solutions, the TMX Message Switch helps overcome the business and information distribution challenges of the world’s most demanding customers and gives them: sustainable speed, continuous stability, and unlimited scalability.
• The Tervela TPM Provisioning & Management System is the administrative platform that enables centralized control of the Tervela Message Network. It leverages Tervela’s messaging operating system to enable the real-time tracking and storage of utilization and performance information, and provides a single point of management for the global messaging infrastructure.
• The Tervela Client API is the interface to the Tervela Message Network™ and it combines an application programming interface (API) communications engine and application stubs. It has been engineered to satisfy the needs of the most performance-intensive applications and to work with the Tervela TMX Message Switch™ to optimize message throughput and minimize message latency.

Market Opportunity

Messaging is at the heart of high-performance markets—such as financial services—yet organizations are still relying on legacy and architecturally limited software-based solutions. Tervela delivers the next-generation communications infrastructure—the Message Network— through our TMX Message Switch. We help overcome business challenges that result from continually increasing data volumes and more frequent and severe periods of market volatility. We give our financial services customers a means to continually outperform their competition even during the toughest market conditions. Unlike other messaging solutions, we deliver:

• Sustainable speed
• Continuous stability
• Unlimited scalability

Most importantly, we help give our customers critical predictability while delivering consistent, market-leading, low-latency messaging.

Value Proposition

For data-intensive organizations that need to outperform their competition, the Tervela Message Network is a high-performance messaging infrastructure that provides consistent and predictable delivery of market information even during the most volatile conditions. Unlike legacy messaging platforms, the Tervela Message Network™ provides an integrated solution accelerated via silicon. The Tervela Message Network centralizes message resources and intelligence while delivering:

• Speed that is superior to peer-to-peer software solutions—especially in volatile market conditions
• Unlimited scalability to support the ever-increasing demands on messaging infrastructure
• Unprecedented stability to enable high-performance enterprise messaging

We help our customers accelerate revenue growth while reducing the CapEx and OpEx line items associated with their messaging infrastructure. We also address the infrastructure impacts resulting from mandates such as Regulation National Market System (Reg NMS) and Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID).

Leadership

Tervela is managed by a world-class leadership team experienced in developing and delivering advanced technology solutions to market.

• Robert Cramer, CEO
• J. Barry Thompson, Founder and CTO
• Stephen Cummings, Vice President of Engineering
• Robert Ciampa, Vice President of Marketing
• Peter Smith, Vice President of Sales
• Stephen Johnson, CFO

Distribution

Tervela has a direct sales and support organization focused on solving the messaging challenges of financial services institutions, including investment banks, hedge funds, exchanges and other data-intensive organizations.

Intellectual Property

Founded in 2004, Tervela has attracted the world’s leading engineering talent and has five patents pending.

Investors

Tervela is a well-financed, high-growth technology company that was formed in 2004 and is backed by the following investors:

• Goldman Sachs
• Sigma Partners
• Acartha Group
• North Hill Ventures

Contact Tervela

Tervela has major offices in New York and in the Boston area. For more information, call us at +1 (646) 586-4200, visit our contact us page or send an email to info@tervela.com.