Intermedia.net, Inc.

Intermedia.net, Inc. (Intermedia Cloud Communications) is a private, US-based cloud communications provider headquartered at 1050 Enterprise Way, Sunnyvale, California. Sources differ on the founding year, citing 1993 or 1995; Gartner, Crustdata, and Mergr list 1993. The company was known publicly as Intermedia Cloud Communications, Inc. after a 2021 corporate rename (the SEC S-1 filing describes incorporation in 2016 as Ivy Holding Corp.). It is private-equity owned: Oak Hill Capital sold it to Madison Dearborn Partners in 2016, which remains the reported majority owner. Third-party trackers put headcount at roughly 1,200–1,400 employees; revenue estimates vary widely across sources (approximately $130M–$285M), so no reliable audited figure is available here.

Products and operations. Intermedia is an operating company, not a shell. It sells unified communications and collaboration software, chiefly to SMBs and small enterprises, almost entirely through channel partners (~7,500 resellers). Its flagship offering is Intermedia Unite (cloud voice/UCaaS), complemented by video conferencing, team chat, SMS, contact-center (CCaaS), business email and productivity (hosted Microsoft Exchange/Office 365), SecuriSync file backup/sync/share, security services, and email archiving. Its CORE "customer ownership reseller" program lets partners white-label and bill the platform. It also supplies the cloud platform behind NEC's UNIVERGE BLUE service. The company filed publicly for an IPO in 2021 but did not complete a listing.

Patent-litigation posture. Intermedia is a pure defendant: 1 tracked case as defendant, 0 as plaintiff. That profile is typical of an operating company targeted by a patent assertion entity rather than a two-way litigant. The single tracked matter, ReadyComm LLC v. Intermedia.net, Inc. (1:25-cv-01274, D. Del., filed 2025-10-20), was brought by ReadyComm LLC, a New Mexico entity characterized in the Stanford NPE Litigation Database and RPX/PatSnap reporting as a patent assertion entity asserting acquired patent US 9,179,011 ("Telephone Communication System and Method of Using," issued 2015), covering multi-device call routing/switching.

Context. ReadyComm has filed a broad campaign against VoIP/UCaaS providers — including Zoom, NEC, Avaya, AT&T, Ooma, Ericsson/Vonage, OpenPhone, Talkdesk, and Crexendo — using the same patent, often in plaintiff-friendly venues such as the Eastern District of Texas. The Intermedia docket shows an early stipulated dismissal in November 2025, with no merits ruling; terms were not disclosed. No other patent suits involving Intermedia appear in the tracked data.