Radian6 Transaction Wins “2011 Deal Of The Year”

TORONTO: CVCA – Canada’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Association announced
that Summerhill Venture Partners, Brightspark Ventures and BDC Venture Capital are the recipients
of CVCA’s 2011 ‘Deal of the Year Award’ for the venture capital category.

Established in 1998, the purpose of the CVCA’s ‘Deal of the Year Award’ competition is to promote,
highlight and celebrate the achievements of CVCA members who have had outstanding investment
successes. The selection process focuses on members with the most significant investment returns
during the last twelve months ending June 30, 2011. The CVCA celebrates “Deal of the Year’ awards
in both venture capital and private equity.

“It is my pleasure to announce that Summerhill, Brightspark and BDC have won this year’s venture
capital category award for their joint investment in Radian6 Technologies Inc.”, said Richard
Kinlough, Chairman of CVCA’s Awards Committee and Managing Director, Group Head, CIT
Corporate Finance, Canada, “In April 2007 Summerhill led the initial $4.0MM institutional round
syndicate, which was followed by a secondary round of $5.MM in December 2008. In May 2011
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) acquired Radian6, and the institutional investors Summerhill,
Brightspark and BDC received a combined $205.0MM. The investment generated an internal rate of
return (IRR) of 142% and a multiple of 22.8 times original investment.”

The honour was accepted by Joe Catalfamo of Summerhill, Sophie Forest of Brightspark and Glenn
Egan of BDC, at the CVCA’s AGM Dinner in Toronto on Wednesday, September 21, 2011. “Radian6
is a tremendous venture success measured on a global scale and the largest acquisition in the
history of Salesforce.com. The credit deservingly goes to a special management team, many of
whom I’ve had the privilege of previously backing”, said Joe Catalfamo, a Managing Partner with
Summerhill”.

Sophie Forest, Managing Partner at Brightspark Ventures said “Brightspark’s investment in Radian6’s
amazing team validated our model of early stage investment in Canada and returned more than the
totality of our VC Fund. This is our second CVCA deal of the year award in five years and we are
working hard to keep repeating this achievement. “

“BDC is proud to have supported Radian6 from a pre-revenue seed stage start-up to become a
significant and sustainable anchor high-tech company in Atlantic Canada” said Glenn Egan,
Managing Partner.

About Radian6 Technologies

Radian6 Technologies, Inc. provides social media monitoring and analysis solutions for marketing,
communications, public relations, and customer support professionals. Its automated solution
enables companies / users to monitor and analyze various social media tools, such as blogs, forums,
wikis, and microblogging services to allow them to track real-time conversations regarding their
product and brand. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Fredericton, Canada.