BRENTWOOD VENTURE CAPITAL
Menlo Park, CA

For more than 25 years, Brentwood Venture Capital has been an active investor and valued partner to entrepreneurs on the leading edge of Internet/e-commerce, communications and data networking, information technology, and health care. Impend was asked to create a small brochure web site that would reflect Brentwood's image as a trusted investment partner while showcasing it's team members and portfolio investments

CASTILLO INN
Santa Barbara, CA

The Castillo Inn required a web site that would reflect their image as a small boutique inn and emphasize their great location as a key feature. Impend incorporated beautiful photographs of local attractions on every page and created a "Things to Do" page that highlights all of the wonderful activities in the Santa Barbara area.

CLARITY PARTNERS
Beverly Hills, CA

When Clarity Partners needed a new site design to replace their original launch site, they looked to Impend for a solution. Impend delivered by creating a design that offered a more contemporary look and an easier navigation method than the previous site. Impend has maintained an ongoing relationship with this $1 billion fund by performing site maintenance and updates as well as posting a regular flow of press releases and news articles on the site.

FAIRMONT WEDDINGS
Chicago, IL

Impend designed and developed an online wedding site as part of the Fairmont Hotel Wedding Package. The website promotes the wedding event by announcing the engagement, sharing information about the ceremony and reception, providing an up-to-date calendar of events, and more. The Fairmont has seen numerous benefits including the reduction of booking issues, increased room sales, and a strong differentiation from their competitors.

FESS PARKER'S DOUBLETREE RESORT
Santa Barbara, CA

Working closely with their marketing team, Impend designed a site that successfully met the diverse needs of their broad customer base while retaining a warm, inviting look and feel. This site generates significant revenue through reservations and event planning and consistently serves over 30,000 page views per month.

FOUNDATION MEDICAL PARTNERS
Rowayton, CT

Foundation Medical Partners, a venture capital firm located on the coast of Connecticut, needed a logo and a web site that would reflect their focus on health care and related technologies. Impend created a logo design and an informational web site that represented the firm's mission to improve the practice of medicine and human health.

NEW LEAF VENTURE PARTNERS
New York, NY and Menlo Park, CA

When the Sprout Group decided to spin off their healthcare venture arm, they turned to Impend for a new look. The site utilizes unique photography to quickly orient the user to the nature of their investment focus.

THE INN AT UNION SQUARE
San Francisco, CA

Working with the hotel since 1995, the Inn at Union Square now receives a significant segment of their room night business online. Impend recently updated the site to parallel the hotel's new marketing efforts and reflect its relaxed, European atmosphere, located in the heart of Union Square.

JSA ARCHITECTURE
Ventura, CA

Needing to better communicate with potential and existing clients, JSA wanted to create a website that would serve as an extension of their marketing arm. Impend fulfilled this goal by developing a site that featured pop-up windows of their existing work as well as an Extranet component allowing existing clients to access the ongoing status of their projects.

LAZY ACRES MARKET
Santa Barbara, CA

Impend designed this site striving to convey the "down home" neighborhood feel for which Lazy Acres is known. The site provides an online sandwich order form that results in an automated printed email that is delivered directly behind the deli counter. Impend also trained the Lazy Acres staff for weekly site update responsibilities.

CAESARS PALACE
Las Vegas, NV

Through our WeddingScoop division, we create individual, branded websites for Caesars wedding clients and their guests. Each guest can then disseminate their unique wedding information, including where to stay, to all of their friends and family.

MeetingScoop

Impend developed a web site for MeetingScoop that would reflect a contemporary and bold look representative of this new and exciting product. The site contains a "Return on Investment Calculator" that can instantly calculate a client's additional revenue from using the product.

ALERION PARTNERS
Rowayton, CT

Alerion Partners is a private venture capital firm that invests in early revenue growth companies. They asked Impend to create a site reflecting their direction and professionalism .

Ogilvy Hill Insurance - Intranet

Ogilvy Hill's main objective was to utilize a web-based solution to increase its operating efficiency and lower costs. Impend achieved these goals by centralizing their internal resources and making routine tasks occur automatically through the use of an Intranet. Employees now have direct access to vendor information, internal documents, new hire information, holiday schedules, office supply reorder information, and many other useful resources.

DISNEY WORLD
Orlando, FL

Disney World required a solution to increase room activity and ticket sales associated with its booming onsite wedding business. We customized a solution to suit the needs of each of their clients based on the size of their ceremony, location and lodging requirements.

RODNEY'S STEAKHOUSE
Santa Barbara, CA

How were Rodney's potential customers supposed to know that the restaurant offered not only the best steaks in town, but also a large selection of specialty martini's? They weren't, until Impend worked with the steakhouse to develop its online marketing presence. Now everyone can view Rodney's menu, take an advance look at the winelist, and most importantly, get directions so that they can enjoy a great steak with that specialty martini.

Rose Hotel

Pleasanton, CA

Impend has been working with the Rose Hotel since their grand opening in 2001. They now receive a significant number of their room bookings online. The website itself reflects the hotel's European-style boutique within an atmosphere of elegance, serenity and privacy. Impend has recently created a "Specials" page to help guests enjoy such packages as a "Night on the Town" or a "Weekend of Romance."

GRAE VENTURES
Los Angeles, CA

Tasked with the goal of creating a design to appeal to a narrow demographic, Impend generated a site that is clean and direct. Slide shows are utilized to demonstrate the various projects this building has completed as well as their philanthropic efforts.

SANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION
Santa Barbara, CA

The Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation wanted to create a web site that would support and promote its fundraising efforts during its 65th anniversary year. Impend developed an online marketing presence according to the fundraising theme of "Buckaroos at the Bowl". The informational website provided event schedules, available sponsorship opportunities, and much more.

UCSB - ECE
Santa Barbara, CA

When another of their professors received a Nobel Prize, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering needed a new site design. In addition to creating a new logo, Impend crafted a look that would appeal to the most remote foreign candidate as well as potential contributors.

THE NEW ENVIRONMENTALIST
Sacramento, CA

This monthly online magazine required an incredibly detailed website that would educate, inform and support their readers to reduce their impact on the planet. Along with many other special features developed for the site, Impend implemented an online subscription method and created "environmental calculators" which allowed users to calculate the yearly cost of resources.

SPIRATION
Redmond, WA

Spiration wanted to create a website that would serve as an online marketing tool to promote and enhance its objective to be the leader in creating, developing and manufacturing devices for the treatment of lung disease. Impend achieved this by developing an informational website that helped educate medical professionals as well as patients about the benefits of Spiration's products.

THYMELESS CUISINE
Phoenix, AZ

Impend designed and constructed the Thymless Cusisine website as a "creative and appealing" informational online marketing piece, displaying the services of this imaginative catering company. The site features sample menus, inviting photos of their work, and other company information.

VERSANT VENTURES
Menlo Park & Newport Beach, CA

Impend was responsible for creating the Versant Ventures brand image through its website, logo, letterhead, business card, and envelope design. Impend continues the ongoing site maintenance, updating monthly press releases, portfolio partners, firm partners, and news events.

Versant Ventures - Intranet

Menlo Park & Newport Beach, CA

Versant Ventures wanted a way to streamline their internal operating efficiency and lower costs. Impend developed a web-based solution by centralizing their internal resources and making routine tasks occur automatically through the use of a corporate Intranet. Employees now have direct access to internal administrative documents, corporate policies, supply order information, and many other useful resources.

WEDDINGSCOOP
Santa Barbara, CA

The WeddingScoop site was designed to communicate the advantages of having a wedding web site to promote a wedding event. Impend developed the site focusing on the target audiences of hotel partners. The crisp graphics and easy navigation make this site a functional yet beautiful online marketing tool.