Skype
Skype is the developer of a unique peer-to-peer Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) program that enables Internet telephony. Skype provides free and simple software that enables users to make free calls anywhere in the world. Skype, created by the developers of KaZaa, uses innovative P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect users with other Skype users. Skype is quick and easy to install, has excellent sound quality, uses sophisticated end-to-end encryption, and does not require any router or firewall reconfiguration.( www.skype.com ). On September 12, 2005, Skype announced that it had agreed to be acquired by EBay for cash and stock of up to $4.1 billion.

BiancaMed
BiancaMed, based in Dublin, Ireland, aims to transform personal health by providing the ultimate convenience in personal health monitoring. At the core of BiancaMed's product platform is a very sensitive motion sensor that detects heart rate and respiration - without having to touch a person - completely wirelessly. The sensor, combined with the company's sophisticated health analysis software, provides solutions to monitor and to help improve the wellness of sleep, the heart, respiration and fitness. The company's product line, including baby monitors, as well as an array of home health and exercise monitors, will ultimately be provided with the convenience and ease of a mobile phone.

BullGuard
BullGuard is a provider of computer security software for the consumer market. BullGuard, for an annual fee, provides users with an online subscription to its service, which includes anti-virus protection, a firewall, and secure back-up. BullGuard was created as the security solution for the individual consumer, and is considered to be easy to use, superior in performance, and more reasonably priced than other security solutions.

End2End
End2End, named as one of the top 100 emerging technology companies in Europe by Tornado-Insider, is a Mobile Application Infrastructure Provider operating a carrier-grade network of data-centers from which it delivers managed mobile data services, technology hosting and outsourcing services to the leading mobile operators, portals, and application providers in Europe. End2End acts as a distribution channel for application and content providers by hosting and aggregating best-of-breed applications and content, which are delivered with associated middleware solutions, as well as infrastructure services such as user provisioning, mediation and billing.

First Hop
First Hop provides scalable messaging management and wireless connectivity products for mobile operators and service providers. A proven leader in multi-vendor messaging solutions, First Hop generates immediate business benefits and provides a clear evolution path to future technologies. First Hop Ltd is the technology leader in high-performance wireless datacom products. The company offers a broad product portfolio for SMS-, WAP-, and GPRS -enabled products for mobile operators, application iinfrastructure providers, and wireless service providers. Founded in 1997, First Hop is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland and has offices in Singapore, Dubai, and the UK.

High Power Lithium
High Power Lithium, HPL, is a Switzerland-based developer of value-added technologies for next-generation, high-power lithium-ion batteries. HPL is developing novel nano-structured-electrode materials, as well as compatible electrolytes, that will enable higher powered lithium-ion batteries with improved performance and safety characteristics for applications in numerous markets. The principal advantage of nano-structured, as opposed to conventional, metal-oxide electrodes is their extreme surface roughness, since an increase in surface roughness should greatly increase the rate of insertion of lithium ions (the major limiting step in charging and discharging conventional lithium-ion batteries).

ATFox
ATFox was founded to bring to market an electronic inter-dealer brokerage system for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. Currently, these derivatives are traded using a phone-based point-to-point model for negotiating OTC transactions, and ATFox would in effect replace this model with an exchange model with a central order book. Using technology sourced from a Swedish technology company, ATFox will deliver a fully electronic system that will cut brokerage fees of major dealer banks by 50% and increase liquidity in the derivatives market.

Media Lario
Media Lario is a leader in the manufacturing of high-accuracy reflective optical components, having developed its technology over the last ten years through its involvement in the aerospace and defence sectors. The company specializes in the manufacturing of high precision optics using a patented process called electroforming, which is based on a combination of chemical reactions within a tightly controlled fluid-immersion environment. The company's optical capabilities are also highly relevant to the semiconductor manufacturing process, since the industry will increasingly rely on extreme ultra-violet lithography equipment that involves the heavy use of reflective optics.

Median
MEDIAN Technologies is at the cross-roads of healthcare and new technologies. MEDIAN develops and sells proprietary medical Computer Aided Detection/Diagnosis (CAD) Applications. The company's CAD applications are based on a unique 3D medical image analysis platform, which was derived from more than 10 years of research by some of the most famous medical imaging labs in the world and from 8 years of development performed by HealthCenter Inc. to industrialize, test and validate the technology. The technology allows the automatic analysis of 3D medical images from a number of modalities including CT, MRI, ultrasound and nuclear medicine. Physicians can extract and quantify information below the level of visual perception for more precise diagnosis, to detect and monitor the progression of various diseases, to allow comparison with population models and to merge information from multiple modalities to better characterize lesions or tumors.

Palringo
Palringo, a UK based company, provides an operator-independent service that combines the presence & real-time chat functionality of Instant Messaging (IM) applications with the many-to-many voice capabilities of “Push-to-Talk” systems and the convenience of SMS texting, all on mobile.  It is a disruptive service that leap-frogs trend towards mobile IM and lays foundation for mobile VoIP.  The Skype-like model of offering services directly, independent of service provider and underlying carrier network, circumvents carrier bottleneck.

Passado
Passado is an online community network that allows community members to connect or reconnect to other people in the network. Passado can be used to find old friends, university friends, former business colleagues, or to network and make new connections. Passado is the largest connections site in Europe, with No. 1 sites in Germany, Italy, and Spain, and has rapidly growing sites in France, Austria and Mexico.

SpinX Technologies
SpinX designs and develops products which exploit its innovative programmable micro-fluidics technology. The company’s platform offers a fully integrated solution which drastically reduces manual work, while avoiding complex and costly robotics infrastructures, and can be used in a wide variety of applications, from drug discovery to consumer diagnostics.The reduced consumption of samples, reagents and other consumables enables increased throughput and results in significant cost savings. Protocols are coded in the software, allowing maximum flexibility in adapting to specific assays and reagents.