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Acoustic Technologies creates high quality semiconductor and software solutions for leading telecom manufacturers worldwide. The SoundClear® brand of patented full-duplex communication and echo cancellation solutions is enabling significant advancements in telecommunications voice quality. SoundClear provides natural bi-directional communication in mobile phones, business speakerphones, VoIP telephones, hands-free car kits, Bluetooth accessories, and other speakerphone enabled products. The company's solutions, covered by 35 patents, offer a breakthrough in performance and price while significantly improving high-priority telecommunications issues such as acoustic echo, network echo, excessive noise, poor speech quality, and choppy one-way communication in speakerphone enabled products. Acoustic Technologies is a privately held company headquartered in Mesa, Arizona. |
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 Agoura Technologies develops optical films to address the increasing demand in liquid crystal displays (LCDs) for lower cost, improved energy-efficiency, brightness, contrast, thinness and viewing angle. Agoura will introduce a series of films based on its PolarBrite™ technology. |
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Angiogenix, Inc., based in Burlingame, CA, is a clinical development-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing medicines for vascular disease. The company has three product development programs focused on increasing nitric oxide production for the improvement of vascular function. By the end of 2007, Angiogenix expects to have data from Phase II clinical trials in all three programs. Co-investors include Quantum Technology Partners, Vivo Ventures, RBC Capital and Asset Management Company. |
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BetterPPC makes advertising on the internet better and easier through the application of data, statistics, management tools, experience, and technology. BetterPPC's first product combines an extremely powerful, complex patent pending process with an easy-to-use interface that immediately makes advertising copy more effective. While currently effective with Google AdWords campaigns, BetterPPC will soon be able to optimize Yahoo! search advertising as well as all other major pay per click advertising campaigns. |
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BiPar Sciences, Inc., headquartered in South San Francisco, CA., is a privately held biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development and commercialization of novel therapies to treat cancers for which current therapies are inadequate and/or are commonly associated with debilitating side effects. The Company.s initial focus is the development and commercialization of three pre clinical, small molecule drug candidates for the treatment of breast and ovarian cancers. Bipar intends to expand development efforts to a broader group of cancers as its initial drug candidates enter the clinic. Co-investors include Quantum Technology Partners, Vulcan Capital, Canaan Partners, Asset Management Company and PolyTechnos Venture-Partners.
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 While subscription providers are limited in their sales efforts when marketing their single subscriptions, ContentNow aggregates a wide variety of subscription offers and markets them through top-tiered sales channels, such as large ecommerce sites. Subscriptions are offered to consumers as items for sale on partners' websites, as well as through post order communications and promotional emails. |
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Global Fresh Foods (GFF) is commercializing a cost effective technology that extends the shelf life of fresh seafood, meat, poultry and other oxygen labile perishables significantly longer than any known technologies in use today. GFF's patent pending technology allow producers to extend the shelf life of fresh proteins and deliver fresher, safer products to their customers. GFF will save producers up to 40% by allowing them to ship via ocean freight versus air freight. Global Fresh Foods is located in Monterey, CA. |
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Intelleflex is developing the next-generation of RFID systems, consisting of high-performance, high-reliability, EPCTM -compliant transponders and readers. EPC is an interoperable, global standard, initially developed by the MIT AutoID Center and currently being commercialized by EPCGlobal.� EPCGlobal is developing specifications, protocols and best practices for worldwide RFID adoption. Intelleflex tags will have the capability of interoperating with all EPC-compliant readers, and are targeted to provide the longest read range and the highest read/write reliability available in the industry. In addition, Intelleflex products offer value-added features such as application-specific security, long battery life, and the capability to add sensors. Intelleflex is a privately held company based in San Jose, California. |
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IMI Intelligent Medical Implants AG, based in Zug, Switzerland with its subsidiary IIP-Technologies GmbH, based in Bonn, Germany is developing a Learning Retinal Implant System, the first product of its developing technology platform in neurostimulation. Co-investors include Quantum Technology Partners, PolyTechnos Venture-Partners and Valtronic SA. |
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Liftopia is the new online marketplace where you’ll find discount lift tickets to top alpine resorts across the country. Liftopia currently sells tickets in Alaska, British Columbia, Southern California, Lake Tahoe, Colorado, New York, New England, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Utah. Liftopia, Inc. is located in San Francisco, CA. |
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Magnolia Broadband is a developer of integrated, multi-transceiver, low-power RF chips for mobile phones and is pioneering development of radio chips for cell phones that employ smart antennas, a major breakthrough for the wireless industry. Co-investors include Quantum Technology Partners, ECentury Capital, SCP Private Equity Partners, Selway Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham, Silverstar Holdings, UniQuest and Intel Capital. |
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Opelin has developed the first seamless offline-online personal content manager and major partners McAfee and Reliance have begun distributing the product. Opelin's content manager makes it easy to use the Internet to store, retrieve, access, share and publish personal content. Opelin is based in San Jose, CA. Hewlett-Packard acquired Opelin in Q4 2007. |
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Orbital Data provides the highest performance WAN optimization solutions that eliminate user wait time and speed transactional applications across wide area networks. The result - dramatically increased user productivity for enterprises worldwide. With Orbital Data appliances, companies can maximize their existing WAN bandwidth without costly network or software upgrades. Orbital Data is a privately held company based in San Mateo, California. Citrix acquired Orbital Data in August 2006. |
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PathWork Diagnostics is at the forefront of a revolution in personalized diagnostics. Our proprietary analytics and delivery platform will transform gene expression profiles into highly predictive molecular diagnostics for clinical laboratories, oncologists, and their patients. The Company's first in a series of novel diagnostic solutions will identify the unknown or uncertain primary site of origin in cancer patients. Founded in 2003, PathWork Diagnostics is a privately-held company located in San Jose, California. |
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 Ploom manufactures and sells a new tobacco product that addresses the needs of health-, style-, and social-conscious smokers. The product is a personal inhalation device combined with packaged tobacco portions. Ploom is located in San Francisco, CA. |
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 Rallypoint a new company that delivers the ultimate personalized TV experience. Imagine watching the big game with a friend who lives a thousand miles away and chatting, seeing stats, making friendly bets, playing trivia games and managing your fantasy teams – without having to change the channel. Imagine watching your favorite reality show with millions of other fans – and logging your vote, voicing your opinions, and monitoring audience reaction instantly – without ever missing a scene. Imagine watching all your television shows – while also managing your eBay auctions, receiving important calendar notifications, and researching current events – all without needing to pick up your laptop. The Rallypoint experience is more than “interactive TV” and it’s not just “social networking.” It’s somewhere between using your TV for everyday computer tasks and a full-blown TV party! With Rallypoint, you no longer need to go to your computer just to complete simple Internet tasks. Now, you can do it all using a simple TV remote control |
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 Vaxart (formerly West Coast Biologicals, Inc.) is a vaccine development company with novel technology for oral vaccination against infectious agents. Vaxart uses a safe, non-replicating adenovirus vector together with a local-acting adjuvant to dramatically increase the immune responses that can be achieved with oral vaccination. Vaxart is located in San Francisco, CA. |
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 VenJuvo provides outsourced "Trade-In/Trade-Up" services for retailers and manufacturers to increase revenue. Trade-In/Trade-Up programs allow customers to unlock the value of their pre-owned items and exchange them for new merchandise purchases or store credit. VenJuvo facilitates the extraction of value through proprietary technology, business processes and key strategic partnerships to sell the pre-owned items, maximizing value for both the retailer or manufacturer and its customer base. The value extracted from the pre-owned items is converted into new purchases, resulting in an increase in comparable store sales. VenJuvo provides retailers a complete end-to-end Trade-In/Trade-Up solution to maximize bottom line profits. |
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Zimbio enables the creation of public portals that are designed to help people become informed and share knowledge on any topic of interest by seeing what other people are reading, saying, and recommending about the topic. Public portals are interactive, dynamic websites that offer a range of features including group blogging, member photos, links to favorite websites, RSS headlines, tracking of search results, and discussion forums. |
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