Layered Technologies Secures $11 Million in Private Funding

March 11, 2008; 09:04 AM

Plano, TX (March 11, 2008)– Layered Technologies, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of "on demand" IT infrastructure, today announces the completion of an investment round of $11 million, led by US private equity firm Enhanced Equity Fund, LP (EEF) and the founding investor, Pangloss International.

"We are proud to support Layered Tech's continued growth in the fast moving hosting services market," said David Howe, Managing General Partner for Enhanced Equity Fund.  "We see great potential for Layered Technologies to play a key role in shaping the future of grid computing and virtualized services within the hosting marketplace."

With clients in over 120 countries, Layered Technologies' custom technology solutions allow both large and small customers to rapidly deploy on-demand hosting and utility computing services, providing all the controls of colocation without the start up costs, capital investments, long term contracts and associated challenges. By partnering with Layered Technologies, companies are able to achieve ROI quickly via reduced capital investment, total cost of ownership (TCO), labor reduction, training, and floor space. Layered Technologies can have a company up and running in days versus months.

The new cash investment will provide Layered Technologies with working capital to expand on current successes, develop new products, and accelerate sales and marketing efforts within new enterprise markets.  

"The continued growth of our long standing relationship with Pangloss and the expansion of the EEF investment demonstrates the faith our investors place in Layered Technologies' future," said Jack Finlayson, CEO of Layered Technologies.  "In the last 90 days, Layered Tech has added significant resources to our sales and marketing, development, and service delivery efforts.  We expect the remainder of 2008 to be characterized by aggressive market expansion, new product introductions, and overall growth."

For additional information on Layered Technologies, please visit www.layeredtechnologies.com.

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About Layered Technologies

Layered Technologies, Inc. is a leading global provider of on-demand hosting, utility computing solutions and Web services.   By providing high quality technology, infrastructure and support we enable customers to forego capital expenses and save on operating costs while focusing on core business issues.  Layered Technologies' scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites and Internet enabled applications including e-Commerce, Software as a Service ("SaaS"), content distribution and more.  Our clients range from leading-edge Web 2.0 startups, successful mid-sized enterprises and some the world's largest consultancy and integration firms.  For more information about Layered Technologies, please visit: http://www.LayeredTech.com or call 1-866-584-6784.

About Enhanced Equity Fund   

Enhanced Equity Fund manages a $225 million equity fund, focused on private US growth companies in two sectors: healthcare services and information technology services. See www.enhancedequity.com for more details.