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The Adrenaline Time Line
Corporate Milestones
2001 • 2000 • 1999 • 1998 • 1997
2001
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Washingtonpost.com has record monthly page views (over 200 million in Sept), the highest availability and fastest download speeds of any top news site on September 11. Adrenaline earlier helped them develop an architecture to sustain such increased traffic.
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Adrenaline and Scott are profiled in Arnold Kling's new book "Under the Radar". Arnold founded Adrenaline client Homefair.com.
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Client Sharemedia signs agreement to provide voice-activated technologies to Verisign.
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Adrenaline joins the new DC-regional BioIT Coalition, to support efforts to strengthen this growing local industry.
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Adrenaline client Butterfly.net develops online video game for upcoming Sony movie "The Mothman Prophecies"..
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Young Presidents Organization turns to Adrenaline for product planning.
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DC tech executives and politicians hold press conference at Adrenaline to promote city business incentives.
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Homestore.com, purchaser of early Adrenaline client Homefair.com, is profiled as a "category killer".
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Adrenaline client Darby Overseas Investments launches ventures group targeting Latin America.
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Washington Business Journal calls Adrenaline's Technology Project Rescue service the "Ghostbusters" team for failing software projects.
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Adrenaline and Cigital announce Technology Project Rescue offering to save at-risk large tech projects.
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Yahoo FinanceVision's Biotech Report says "look out for" Adrenaline's new bioinformatics analysis service as "a very good bet".
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Adrenaline moves into bioinformatics, partners with The BioMedical Sciences Group.
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Adrenaline CEO Scott McLoughlin named "Top Techie to Watch in 2001" by ITrecruitermag.com.
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Threewide Corporation engages Adrenaline to build their wireless real estate listings product.
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Didera selects Adrenaline to help design and build their database-caching product.
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Discovery Communications engages Adrenaline's technology advisory services.
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Adrenaline CTO Alden Hart speaks on 3G opportunities at Wireless 2001.
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Greg DuPertuis is recognized as an expert on the Java vs. Microsoft .Net issue in Network World magazine.
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The National Association of Securities Dealers turns to Adrenaline for a variety of technology advisory services.
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Adrenaline sponsors Fast Company's Leadership 2.0 Conference in Austin
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Adrenaline snags gaming company Butterfly.net as a client.
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Subimo turns to Adrenaline to design and build their groundbreaking healthcare information product.
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Discovery Communications turns to Adrenaline for technology advisory services.
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Network Solutions engages Adrenaline to develop their Image Café product.
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Adrenaline hosts European executives through Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business.
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Austin client eCityLimits, wins KPMG Startup Standout Award.
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2000
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Adrenaline thrives in 2000 with 500% growth in revenues, and doubles staff size.
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Adrenaline client CrossMedia showcases their voice portal product, MyInBox, at Oracle Open World.
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BuildTopia engages Adrenaline to help plan and develop their one stop on the web for management of the home construction process.
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Adrenaline works with Subprimex to develop an online exchange for subprime and niche mortgage loan markets.
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The Motley Fool and Adrenaline officially declare Soapbox.com open for business! The site gets front-page ink in the Wall Street Journal.
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Fund Democracy engages Adrenaline to plan and prototype a site for mutual fund investors.
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Broadsoft hires Adrenaline to conduct a user interface review for their voice-over-internet service
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Adrenaline helps Parabon Computation, Inc. launch its Internet supercomputing platform.
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Adrenaline secures $5 million in financing to support the firm's continued aggressive growth.
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Bursting at the seams with 55 employees, Adrenaline relocates to 20,000 sq. ft. of space in downtown Washington, DC.
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Adrenaline signs on new clients: 3G-International (smart card solutions), Panasonic Online (consumer electronics), Longitude Systems (Internet Services), and eCityLimits.com (B2B for collocated businesses).
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Systems reliability milestone! The Adrenaline-built web farm for e-Satisfy reaches one full year of continuous operation-- without a reboot -- demonstrating the power of Linux and open source software for commercial use.
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Adrenaline ensures that e-steel.com has a system architecture as solid as its product.
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WashingtonPost.com turns to Adrenaline for an architectural review of its popular site.
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Adrenaline president Greg DuPertuis advises DC Mayor Anthony Williams on growing the high technology industry in the nation's capitol.
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Adrenaline helps Capital.com solve tough usability issues.
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The Adrenaline Logo wins two international design awards!
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The Cooperative Finance Corporation (CFC) commercial paper trading system developed by Adrenaline trades over two billion dollars in debt instruments in its first 6 months of operation.
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Adrenaline-built K12nation.net raises $1 million in seed round capital for it's education site that connects teachers, students, and parents online.
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Adrenaline begins expansion of its national presence by opening an Austin, Texas office, and plans to grow in several other major tech centers.
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AnswerLogic secures $10 million in second round financing in support of its natural language answer engine. Adrenaline designed the fully customizable user interface.
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Customer Insites merges with TARP to form e-Satisfy, and rehires Adrenaline to help them provide "cross-channel" customer experience measurement solutions.
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PETsMART.com's Adrenaline-built Pet Food Calculator is one of the top ten pages viewed on their site each week since its launch.
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Adrenaline client GreenTravel.com merges with AdventureQuest.com to form Away.com.
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Agillion hires Adrenaline's User Interface Development practice to review its user interface, then celebrates with a Super Bowl ad.
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1999
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Revenues for 1999 increase over 300 percent from the previous year.
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Adrenaline grows from five employees to 30 in less than six months.
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Alden Hart, former VP for Software Development at CyberCash, joins Adrenaline as CTO.
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The commercial paper trading system Adrenaline built for CFC hits the one billion dollar mark for investment trades in its first 6 months of operation.
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Linuxcare, Inc. hires Adrenaline to design and build an advanced Linux-based B2B application to support their Custom Solutions Service.
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Adrenaline performs a User Interface review for Agillion's web-based business communications tools.
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eStudentLoan.com gets purchased again, this time by the #1 college portal, CollegeClub.com, and hires Adrenaline to create Release 4.0, a scholarship finder.
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The Motley Fool hires the Adrenaline Group for a top-secret project!
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CFC hires Adrenaline to build an Online Cash Management system to service rural utilities across the U.S.
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Adrenaline launches K12nation.net, developing the education site's software including a custom calendar application and a full user interface design.
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The Gartner Group names Adrenaline Group as one of the seven national emerging Web firms.
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Homestore.com, the leading Internet destination for home and real estate information, acquires Adrenaline-built Homefair.com for $85 million.
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Adrenaline provides a User Interface review for Unibex's web-based product.
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Adrenaline jumps back into voice-to-net and develops a web-based unified messaging system for Fax2Net.
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Adrenaline relaunches Varsitybooks.com, designing and building their office automation software.
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Adrenaline designs and builds a pet food calculator for PETsMART.com, an idealab! Company.
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Powerize hires Adrenaline's user interface development team for cross-browser compatibility testing.
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$280 million dollars is traded in the first 5 weeks of operation on CFC's commercial paper Java application that Adrenaline built.
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Eplans launches a new site redesign with a revamped User Interface and newly added interaction features, thanks to Adrenaline.
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Adrenaline moves from Herndon, Virginia to Washington, D.C.
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1998
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GreenTravel.com turns to Adrenaline for product planning and a Multi-Release Technology Plan. They are later named the most popular web adventure travel site.
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Adrenaline offers its product planning practice as a separate client service.
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Adrenaline relaunches an improved Homefair.com, the Internet's leading moving and relocation destination.
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EStudentLoan works with Adrenaline to design and create an Internet marketplace for college loans, attracting major national banks as partners.
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Adrenaline expands its server-side java component code base, creating a proven core library for client development.
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The firm hires Jonathan Davis and Patrick Smith, who will later become the practice co-leads of the software development team.
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Adrenaline redeploys the Customer Insights system with Oracle on a Linux platform, providing high scalability in preparation for the site's expected popularity.
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With the release of Oracle for the Linux platform, Adrenaline abandons Windows NT for the new, superior performance low-cost alternative.
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Oracle hot backup scripts provide a low-cost, high availability backup capability for Adrenaline clients.
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1997
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Customer Insites gets an Adrenaline Rush for its website analysis system prototype.
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The Adrenaline template library comes to life, as we focus on reusable and flexible Java software
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Sales Channel and Powerize (later to become KnowledgeLink) both sign on for an Adrenaline boost.
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Already ahead of the curve, Adrenaline develops net-to-voice software for Crossmedia Networks.
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Adrenaline signs on Attitude Network as the first client, to design and build an Internet Explorer 4.0 channel and screensaver for their Happy Puppy game site, for Microsoft's IE4.0 launch
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Adrenaline is founded by Scott McLoughlin and Greg DuPertuis, former co-workers from Freeloader Inc.
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