Cortech, Inc. was a biotechnology company based out of Denver, Colorado in the 1990s. The company was working to develop classes of drugs - bradykinin antagonists, elastase inhibitors and antigen-specific immunomodulators - for inflammatory and immunologic disorders. Cortech, Inc. merged with BioStar Inc. in 1997.
Organic was founded by Jonathan Nelson, Brian Behlendorf, Cliff Skolnick and Matthew Nelson in 1993. The firm developed the software product that became the web analytics company Accrue. The firm completed an initial public offering in February 2000 under the ticker OGNC, but like many dot-com companies, was adversely affected when the Dot-com bubble burst and drastically reduced its size. It was re-privatized in 2001, and in 2003, became a wholly owned subsidiary of advertising holding company Omnicom Group. Source: Wikipedia
This company deal toy or financial tombstone commemorates the July 25, 2006 acquisition of Mercury Interactive Corporation by HP Invent (HP Software Division - Hewlett-Packard). Goldman, Sachs & Co. acted as exclusive financial advisor to Mercury Interactive Corporation. The financial tombstone measures 4" high x 6-7/8" wide x 1-/14" thick (at the thickest part of the top) and weighs 440 grams. About Mercury Interactive Corporation: In 1989, Amnon Landan and Arye Finegold founded Mercury Interactive Corporation. The company was based in California and had offices located around the world. It also had a large R&D facility in Yehud, Israel. On 25 July 2006, Hewlett-Packard announced that it would pay approximately $4.5 billion to acquire Mercury Interactive, offering to pay $52 a share. On 7 November 2006, Mercury Interactive formally became part of HP.The Mercury Interactive products are now sold by HP Software Division. Mercury Interactive legacy products were integrated and sold as part of the HP IT Management Software portfolio from the HP Software Division. Most of the Mercury Interactive software assets were apportioned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) when HP split into two companies. In September 2017, HPE completed the sale of most of its software assets, including the legacy Mercury Interactive products to UK-based Micro Focus. Source: Wikipedia
