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Catalyst Repository Systems, Inc.
Company typePrivate
Industrylegal, computer software e-discovery
FoundedDenver, Colorado
(2000)
Headquarters
1860 Blake Street, 7th Floor
Denver, Colorado
,
USA

3F Mod Marche Building, 2-8-3 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
John Barr, CEO
Lewis Visscher, CFO
John Tredennick, Founder and Chairman of the Board
Number of employees
170
Websitewww.catalystsecure.com

Catalyst Repository Systems is a company based in Denver, Colorado, USA, which develops cloud-based software for the management of electronic legal discovery. The company’s main product is Insight Discovery, a full-EDRM platform for legal holds, data collection, processing, search, analysis, review and production of electronically stored information. Catalyst has offices and three data centers throughout the United States, and an office and data center in Tokyo, Japan.

History

In the mid-1990s, the Denver-based law firm Holland & Hart developed an internal electronic document repository,[1][2] which allowed the firm’s lawyers to access and share legal documents and litigation files electronically between offices.[1] Development was led by John Tredennick, a partner in the firm.[1]

In 1998, Holland & Hart became involved in major litigation that involved more than 300 lawyers at multiple law firms in locations throughout the United States.[3] The firm provided its repository for use among all the lawyers in the case. In another case, involving oil and gas companies, the system connected some 500 attorneys.[4] This test of the system outside the firm, as well as receipt of the Computerworld Smithsonian Award in 1999,[5] led lawyers at other firms to request use of the system.[3]

The firm decided to create a separate business to further develop and commercialize the document repository.[3][4] On Oct. 1, 2000, a new company, CaseShare Systems Inc., was formed.[1][4] Holland & Hart assumed majority ownership of the company, while Tredennick and two other employees owned a minority interest.[1][4] Tredennick was named its chief executive officer.

In 2005, Tredennick purchased the firm's ownership stake in the business, with backing from the investment capital firm Catalyst Investors. On Aug. 1, 2006, CaseShare changed its name to Catalyst Repository Systems to reflect its main product, the Catalyst Repository.[6] In 2012, FTV Capital purchased a $32 million stake in Catalyst from Catalyst Investors; Catalyst Investors retained a minority stake.[7]

In 2010, Catalyst established its Catalyst Asia division, with an office and data center in Tokyo.

In 2013, Catalyst introduced Insight Predict, the first commercially available predictive coding product based on a continuous active learning (CAL) protocol.

In 2018, Catalyst announced the acquisition of TotalDiscovery, a Seattle-based legal hold and data collection provider.

Products

Catalyst has developed several commercial products:

Insight Discovery is the company’s newest software product, released in January 2013. Based on XML,[8] Insight is a document repository management program which can handle modern complex litigation involving tens of millions of electronic documents and multiple cases or matters. It allows documents to be stored and tagged once and then used in multiple legal matters.[9]

Insight Predict is the company’s proprietary predictive coding tool. It was introduced in January 2013 at LegalTech New York.[10][11] It is used in legal matters to analyze large document populations and identify the documents most likely to be important, thus enabling legal teams to reduce the number of documents they must review.

Insight Legal Hold and Collect is Catalyst’s automated legal hold and data preservation product. It is used to automate legal hold processes, remotely collect and preserve data, search, process and promote potentially relevant documents for review in Insight Discovery.

Insight Business Intelligence is Catalyst’s analytics platform and dashboard that aggregates and analyzes data across legal matters for cross-matter reporting.

Catalyst CR is Catalyst’s original web-based e-discovery platform. Catalyst CR allows legal teams to process, search, analyze, review and produce ESI.

Fast Track is Catalyst’s automated site setup and data loading system.

OnRamp is a behind-the-firewall tool that enables corporations to collect and load data directly into Catalyst’s cloud repository. OnRamp works in conjunction with Fast Track.

Global Language Services

Catalyst products can work with documents involving multiple languages, particularly Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean.[12] Catalyst also offers an array of language services, including machine and human translation and management and staffing of multi-language cases.

Awards and Recognitions

In 2009 the Denver Business Journal chose Catalyst CFO Lew Visscher. CFO of the year,[13] and both Ernst & Young and the Colorado Software and Internet Association chose Catalyst CEO John Tredennick as Top Technology Entrepreneur of the Year. Catalyst was selected by Colorado Office of Economic Development based on judging by an independent panel of experts. The company was also ColoradoBiz Magazine Top Technology Company in Colorado.

In 2010 (and again in 2011) Catalyst was named to the Inner City 100 list of the fastest-growing inner city companies in the United States by Fortune Magazine and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City.[14] Also in 2010 New York Law Journal readers voted Catalyst one of the three best e-discovery providers. The company was listed in Bloomberg Businessweek Top 25 Companies to Watch.

In 2011 ColoradoBiz named Catalyst No. 73 in its annual ranking of the top 250 private companies in Colorado,[15] and CEO Tredennick was named[16] to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500.

In 2012 Tredennick was named to the 2012 Fastcase 50.[17][18]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Voorhees, Mark (15 March 2001). "My Day With John". AmLaw Tech.
  2. ^ Olgeirson, Ian (10 November 1996). "Law Firm Tries New Tack". Denver Business Journal.
  3. ^ a b c Rouen, Ethan (13 May 2011). "Meet the Accidental Entrepreneurs". Fortune.
  4. ^ a b c d Colden, Anne (19 March 2000). "The New Thing: Interest in 'Extranets'". The Denver Post.
  5. ^ "Document Management, Holland & Hart". ComputerWorld Honors. Archived from the original on 2014-09-01. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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  7. ^ Primack, Dan (10 April 2012). "Private Equity Deals". CNN Money.
  8. ^ Peacock, Marisa (28 September 2012). "Seeing is Believing: Catalyst Insight Offers Visual Analytics". CMSWire. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  9. ^ Burney, Brett (28 January 2013). "Product Review: Catalyst Insight". Law Technology News.
  10. ^ Doherty, Sean (6 February 2013). "What's New From LegalTech New York". Law Technology News.
  11. ^ Koblentz, Evan (28 January 2013). "LegalTech to Debut Novel 'Predictive Coding' Strategies". Law Technology News.
  12. ^ Logan, Debra (13 May 2011). "Magic Quadrant for E-Discovery Software". Gartner.
  13. ^ Peacock, Ryan (26 April 2009). "Visscher: More Than Just a 'Bean Counter' at Catalyst". Denver Business Journal. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  14. ^ "2011 Inner City 100: Catalyst Repository Systems". Fortune. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  15. ^ "2011 ColoradoBiz Top 250 Private Companies". ColoradoBiz. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  16. ^ "Deloitte's 2011 Technology Fast 500" (PDF). Deloitte. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  17. ^ "2012 Fastcase 50". Fastcase. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  18. ^ "Deloitte's 2012 Technology Fast 500 Ranking" (PDF). Deloitte. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
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