AppStream
AppStream Inc. provides enabling technologies that facilitate faster, richer, more intelligent network-based computing. AppStream's innovative application streaming technology improves the performance, manageability and scalability of Web applications on any networked device or wireless device; all without requiring any re-engineering. AppStream software divides applications into the minimum number of segments required to start that application on a client desktop, delivering these streamlets to the user as needed based upon their usage behavior.

BodyMedia
BodyMedia makes wearable body monitors and software that collect, store, process, and represent accurate and continuous body data such as energy expenditure, activity levels, sleep states and other important physiologic data anywhere and anytime. Such data is central to healthcare research and disease management, and was previously accurately collectable only in laboratory environments. Due to their accuracy, wearability, and affordability, BodyMedia's products and customized software are finding applications in a wide range of markets including self-care weight management, sleep management, diabetes monitoring, industry safety and performance sports.

CardioVasc
CardioVasc has developed a bio-mimetic coating that can be covalently bonded to the surface of insertable medical devices in order to promote a more rapid healing of adjacent cells. The bio-mimetic surface of the company's balloon-expandable cardiovascular implant are coated with sequences of extracellular matrix proteins that have the ability to improve and accelerate the regeneration of the superficial lining membrane of blood vessels.

Clickmarks
Clickmarks provides a complete software infrastructure that enables the delivery of any content and the execution of any transaction on any device over the mobile Internet. Combining personalization and mobilization, the company's innovations are advancing the wireless environment by making it possible to wireless-enable content without costly programming or integration; consolidate regularly used Internet and Intranet resources into a single portal for easy access; and thereby operate efficiently within the smaller screens of mobile devices. Clickmarks' technology platform is available to wireless carriers, Web companies and enterprise clients.

CRT Holdings
CRT Holdings has developed proprietary technologies that could substantially reduce the cost and environmental burden of energy consumption across the power generation, industrial heat, and transportation markets. Using CRT Industrial Burners, fuel costs may be reduced dramatically, while eliminating many of the external costs arising from pollutants and greenhouse gases.

Cyanea
Cyanea develops enterprise application management solutions for the data center. The company's flagship product, Cyanea/One, is the first application-centric solution built from the ground up to address the needs of both developers and operations specialists involved in managing complex, distributed and mainframe-based business environments. Cyanea/One is able to extract data that provides the information to allow enhanced performance management, exception management and capacity planning. Cyanea was acquired by IBM in 2004.

D-Wave Systems
D-Wave Systems, based in Vancouver, Canada, is building a new type of ultra-fast computational machine - a superconducting quantum computer - the speed of which will be far in excess of any future silicon-based processors. The primary application for D-Wave's technology will be to provide a platform for the simulation, modeling, and design of nanoscale products and processes. Quantum computers excel at computational tasks that conventional supercomputers cannot handle. This ability will be increasingly important for a variety of applications in engineering design and science simulation - from alternative energy, to biotech, and emerging opportunities in nanotech.

Direct Flow Medical
Direct Flow Medical, based in Santa Rosa, California, is a medical device company developing a percutaneous aortic tissue valve prosthesis to provide patients requiring treatment of cardiac valve insufficiency with a safe and effective percutaneous option. Approximately 1.2 million people over the age of 65 have calcified aoritc valves; yet only an estimated 150,000 are surgically treated each year.

Egeen
Egeen is an emerging biotechnology company with exclusive commercial rights to information from the Estonian Gene Bank. The Estonian Gene Bank is a major national effort sponsored by the Estonian Government with the objective of gathering medical information and samples from a significant portion of the population. EGeen, as the exclusive licensee utilizes this comprehensive database for drug and diagnostic discovery, as well as personalized medicine applications. In addition, EGeen provides pharmaceutical Contract Research Organization services, whereby the company oversees clinical studies, develops and tests analytical methods, formulates products, and oversees clinical research up to advanced stages.

Ember
Ember is the developer of EmberNet, an 802.15.4, self-organizing, self-healing, scalable wireless embedded networking platform that enables device-to-device, as well as device-to-network communication for industrial automation, high-rise building, as well as military applications. Through a suite of proprietary networking algorithms and application layer interfaces, EmberNet provides a decentralized mesh network that completely replaces the wires and connectors of conventional networks, with low cost radios and microcontrollers. Requiring neither a base station nor a fixed topology, Ember Net operates as a fully decentralized network, whose nodes cooperatively relay messages on behalf of their neighbors in order to form complete communication paths.

GEN3 Partners
GEN3 Partners, the acquirer of Pragmatic Vision, is an innovation services and sciences-based technology company, whose aim is to deliver superior results through rapid, predictable, value-added innovations in product and process development. GEN3 Partners has assembled an impressive network of contacts within the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as other highly respected institutions in the former Soviet Union, Israel, and the United States. GEN3's Global Knowledge Network totals nearly 7,000 researchers, scientists, and technical experts. By using its network on a per project basis, GEN3 provides its clients with a greater ROI on their innovation spending by delivering solutions at a lower cost, in less time, and more reliably than clients can achieve with in-house R&D initiatives.

GlobalSight
GlobalSight Corporation is a leading Internet software company that provides enterprise solutions for managing Web globalization. GlobalSight's expertise in Web-based applications enable enterprises to transform a single-language Web site, or multiple disconnected Web sites into a sustainable, multicultural Web presence. GlobalSight's solution automates the development and ongoing maintenance of company's global Internet infrastructure by reducing time to market through business practice automation and advanced linguistic technologies.

Groxis
Groxis, developer of the Grokker ESM technology, is a pioneer in visual search and discovery. Combining internal enterprise information, premium subscription content and public web services, Grokker’s intuitive user interface, information retrieval, dynamic data mining and collaborative tools facilitate access to essential enterprise knowledge resources, enabling researchers to leverage key digital information for actionable results.

Homestead
Homestead offers the leading Web site building service that provides consumers with a complete, non-technical way to build and maintain an Internet presence on their own. Homestead offers a complete package of website creation software, ad-free world-class hosting, extensive e-commerce capabilities, and comprehensive marketing services to professionals, small businesses, non-profits, clubs, families and hobbyists. pioneered the first online drag and drop technology for building Web sites. Homestead provides a proprietary platform that enables individuals and small businesses to easily build a feature-rich Web site by integrating and customizing building blocks, called "elements," containing feature-rich content and services.

Intrapace
IntraPace is a developer of endoscopically implanted gastric pacemakers. These breakthrough devices will dramatically alleviate symptoms associated with gastroparesis, and promote satiation in the treatment of obesity. The use of gastric pacemakers promises to be a less invasive and safer alternative to other standard obesity therapies. The major advantages IntraPaces's endoscopically implanted device, as opposed to surgery, is that the procedure is less invasive and can be performed in an outpatient setting.

IXI Mobile
IXI Mobile, Inc. offers solutions that bring innovative, data-centric mobile devices and services to the mass market. IXI Mobile’s Ogo devices are designed to improve the mobile user experience and increase mobile voice and data usage. The Ogo family of devices delivers popular applications, including email, instant messaging, SMS, RSS, voice and Web browsing on optimized, easy-to-use handheld devices for a true on-the-go mobile messaging experience. Ogo was launched initially in the United States by AT&T Wireless (now Cingular Wireless), and has since been launched in several countries including Switzerland, Turkey and Germany. IXI Mobile provides a turn-key solution to mobile operators and Internet service providers worldwide to launch and support Ogo products. More information on Ogo is available at: www.ogo.com.

IXI Mobile is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has research and development facilities in Israel and Romania. IXI Mobile also maintains regional sales offices. For more information on IXI Mobile, please visit www.ixi.com.

The Mforma Group
The Mforma Group provides content, technology and wireless data management services to over 60 of the world's leading carriers reaching over 300 million subscribers (e.g., Cingular, Sprint PCS, Verizon Wireless, Orange, Vodafone, T-Mobile, China Mobile, and SK Telecom). Mforma's content catalog presents over 250 of the most compelling SMS, MMS, WAP and Java games and entertainment applications, selected from over 300 leading content developers in the U.S., Asia and Europe (e.g., Activision, Atari Interactive, CBS SportsLine, Marvel, Universal Studios Consumer Products, and Viacom Consumer Products). The Mforma Group offers Java and MMS Quick Start programs that include best-of-breed titles, a proven platform, total content management services, companion Web sites and branded content.

Optimark Innovations/Vie Financial Group
Optimark Innovations is an owner of a majority interest in Vie Financial Group ("Vie"), a company whose stock is traded on the OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB: VIEF.OB ). Vie Financial Group has developed advanced electronic trading services that are supported by sophisticated algorithms and the latest in trading technology. Vie offers a unique service to sell-side firms, whereby Vie is able to cost effectively guarantee Volume Weighted Average Price orders for its clients. Vie's trading platform is automated, thereby eliminating inefficiencies and reducing information leakage. The result is high performance electronic trading that is fast, efficient, and nearly invisible to the market.

Polaris Wireless
Polaris Wireless has developed a location technology that will make the deployment of E911 emergency location services, as well as value-add location services over wireless networks economically feasible. The company's proprietary technology allows the real-time identification of a cellular phone's location. Polaris, the first company to deploy a network-based software solution for wireless carriers seeking to meet U.S. government wireless E911 mandates, aims to become the leading provider of low cost location information to the wireless industry, and to be in the forefront of satisfying the anticipated surge in demand for value-added location services to be delivered over cellular networks.

Safeview
Safeview has acquired the exclusive right to commercialize a technology that is designed to rapidly identify hidden weapons, explosives and other contraband - even plastic, ceramic, and other non-metalic weapons - through clothing. The technology, which uses millimeter waves to generate holographic images, was developed by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the Federal Aviation Administration to scan airline passengers as they pass through airport security checkpoints. The company's system has enormous potential for use in screening people at points of entry to mass transit systems including airports; subways and trains; border crossings; government installations such as courtrooms, military bases, prisons, embassies and office buildings; crowded public places such as sports arenas; concert halls and museums; and commercial buildings. The company also believes that its technology can be used to protect against theft by identifying concealed items that people might try to remove from facilities, ranging from museums to nuclear power plants.

Santa Cruz Networks
Santa Cruz Networks' mission is to provide the highest quality, most effective platform for video-based meeting and collaboration. The company's products, marketed under the name VidiTel, enable high-quality, real-time communication featuring one-to-one or many-to-many audio and video. The company's proprietary algorithms for video compression and multimedia streaming have endowed its products with unsurpassed video frame rates, low latency, and synchronization of rich video and audio.

Silverpop Systems
Silverpop Systems is revolutionizing email by providing next-generation messaging services that integrate any kind of data or media, from any source, into a single, dynamic communications transmission including video, voice, images, data, interactivity, animation, and formatted text. Silverpop uses streaming technology to deliver rich media content into the body of the email message, insuring all emails delivered are as small as a text-only message, no matter how much multimedia content is delivered. Silverpop's ever-expanding global server network and "many-to-many" distributed architecture is designed to minimize latency and ensure high levels of performance when sending, delivering, and streaming rich media email content.

Spinal Modulation, Inc
Spinal Modulation, Inc. is developing next generation Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) technology to treat chronic pain. Menlo Park, CA.

Thermâge
Thermâge is a medical technology company that has developed an FDA approved radio-frequency-based device designed for the treatment of skin in dermatology and plastic surgery applications. As the only non-surgical procedure that has been scientifically proven to significantly tighten lax tissue, the Thermâge procedure allows cosmetic surgeons to improve the appearance of many patients without having them suffer the pain and discomfort of a prolonged recovery period.

Troika Networks
Troika Networks is bringing to market next-generation storage area networking (SAN) technologies. Troika's Network Storage Services Platform (NSSP) enables the next evolutionary step in networked storage virtualization, by placing an independent intelligent platform within the network. Troika's NSSP provides a very simple deployment module for storage applicatons, such as volume management, migration, mirroring, snapshots, copy services, and asynchronous replication.

Visto
Visto, based in Redwood Shores, California, supplies server-based, mobile-access software that enables the secure wireless delivery of e-mail, calendar, contacts, and other corporate data over wireless and wired networks for enterprises, wireless carriers and mobile device manufacturers. The Visto Mobile Access Solution, Server Edition, is designed for departmental and enterprise access to corporate email. Other investors include Allegis Capital, Oak Investment Partners, Rustic Canyon Partners, and VantagePoint Venture Partners.

ZARS
ZARS, a leader in the field of non-invasive drug delivery, develops unique products that administer drugs through or into the skin using its patented Controlled Heat-Assisted Drug Delivery technology. The company has formed multiple commercial partnerships, and based on its proprietary technologies, has developed a rich pipeline of potential products. ZARS, with multiple programs in pre-clinical development, believes that its technologies will ultimately enable the successful transdermal delivery of numerous drugs, thereby addressing many important unmet needs in anesthesia, pain, panic attacks, nausea, as well as skin disorders.

Zonare
Zonare is a medical device development company that is pioneering the fabrication of high-quality, hand-held ultrasound products for the medical community. Zonare's ultrasound products will combine enriched features with innovative ergonomics and portability to achieve revolutionary price versus performance in the global ultrasound market.