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Previous SEVC Presenting Companies have included:
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Altor BioScience - www.altorbioscience.com;
Miramar, Florida
Founded in 2002, Altor has two products in clinical-stage and several others in research and preclinical development. Altor's lead product is an anti-cancer drug which has begun Phase I clinical trials. The company's second clinical-stage product, a monoclonal antibody which prevents and treats staphylococcal infections has completed Phase IIa clinical trials.
Backed by Sanderling Ventures and TVM Capital, the total U.S. market opportunity for Altor's products exceeds $13 billion. |
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ArtusLabs - www.artuslabs.com;
Research Triangle Park, NC
ArtusLabs is the first scientifically oriented cloud computing company blending social networking, collaboration, and refined scientific data mining to drive the research process for life science companies. The management team was previously behind Synthematix, which exited successfully after five years of operations. |
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Arxan - www.arxan.com; Bethesda, MD
Founded in 2001, Arxan Technologies is a leading provider of application hardening solutions designed to protect software applications from tampering to minimize risk and maximize profitability. Arxan’s software protection solutions secure enterprises, ISVs and digital media providers against unauthorized use, malware insertion, piracy, and reverse engineering of intellectual property. |
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Aurora Flight Sciences - www.aurora.aero; Manassas, VA
Aurora Flight Sciences designs and builds unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) along with other advanced aerospace vehicles for scientific and military applications. Already profitable, the company has around $50 million in annual revenue and close to 300 employees. |
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BroadSoft - www.broadsoft.com; Gaithersburg, MD
Recipient of last year's Hottest Management Team award by the Northern Virginia Technology Council, BroadSoft creates voice over IP (VoIP) application software that enables telecommunications service providers to offer the most advanced calling features to enterprise and residential customers. BroadSoft currently provides VoIP applications to eight of the top 10 largest carriers worldwide. |
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Cernium - www.cernium.com; Reston, VA
Based on a unique technology called advanced video analytics, Cernium develops and delivers products that extract useful information from video for applications ranging from business intelligence to homeland and physical security. Cernium's ExitSentry product is already deployed in airports throughout North America. |
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CivaTech Oncology - www.civatechoncology.com;
Research Triangle Park, NC
CivaTech is an early stage company developing a novel medical device for the treatment of prostate cancer. The company announced its Series B private financing round in mid 2008. There are an estimated 1.5 million new cases of prostate cancer each year, with the US prostate treatment market alone estimated to be $3 billion. |
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Clinipace - www.clinipace.com;
Morrisville, NC
Clinipace offers a software-as-a-service platform providing a single, integrated data capture and study management platform for clinical trials, investigator-initiated research grant management, and registries conducted by biopharmaceutical and medical device companies, Clinical Research Organizations (CROs) and Academic Medical Centers (AMCs). The company has raised initial funding from Hatteras Venture Partners, Brook Private Equity Advisors of Boston and Emergent Growth Fund. |
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CodeRyte - www.coderyte.com; Bethesda, MD
CodeRyte is a provider of software applications for the medical coding, revenue cycle management and clinical practice markets. The company, ranked last year on Deloitte's annual list of the country's 500 fastest growing companies, announced a $13 million Series D round in October of 2008. |
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CRE Loaded - www.creloaded.com; Atlanta, GA
Founded in 2002, CRE Loaded is a leading open source eCommerce shopping cart software that powers nearly 200,000 online stores. The CRE Loaded product family is supported by a growing open source community of more than 12,000 developers, designers, Web hosting providers, online merchants, Internet retailers and business partners. |
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EndoChoice - www.endochoice.com; Atlanta, GA
EndoChoice is the one stop shop in endoscopy for supplies, devices, equipment, and services. The company raised a series A round in 2008, led by River City Capital Funds. |
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Energyware - www.energyware.com; Blacksburg, VA
An early stage spin out from Virginia Tech, Energyware offers software solutions based on patented technology which substantially reduces energy consumption of the enterprise IT infrastructure. Energyware is initially targeting top tier data centers, where its solutions can directly save over $500,000 a year per client in energy costs. There are approximately 7000 data centers in the US. |
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Femasys - www.femasys.com; Atlanta, GA
Founded in 2004, Femasys is a medical device firm offering a paradigm shifting non invasive technology for permanent fertility control for women, a market of 10 million women in the US alone.
The company has raised over $8 million to date. |
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FTRANS - www.ftrans.net; Atlanta, GA
FTRANS provides a comprehensive platform which works as a clearinghouse and interface for lenders and businesses seeking to borrow against accounts receivable and other types of the $1.3 trillion trade credit sector. The company, whose revenues increased 300% in 2008, has raised over $18 million from firms such as New Atlantic Ventures, Greenhill SAVP and Synovus. |
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GlobalLogic - www.globallogic.com; Vienna, VA
A leader in global software product development services, GlobalLogic has helped its clients release 2,000 software products, including more than 300 major products in the last 12 months. The Inc. 500 company has over $100 million in annual revenue and employs over 3000 worldwide. |
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IBEC - www.ibec.net; Huntsville, AL
International Broadband Electric Communications (IBEC) is a full service Internet Service Provider providing Internet access with dial-up, Wireless, DSL and Broadband-over-Powerline, (BPL) nationwide. IBEC is the only BPL provider concentrating on rural and underserved markets in America. |
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iContact - www.icontact.com; Durham, NC
With more than 35,000 customers and 120 employees, iContact is one of the nation's leading email marketing services firms. iContact allows for easy creation of email newsletters, RSS feeds, surveys, and Autoresponders. In 2008, the company was named the fastest growing software company in North Carolina and was ranked 85th out of 500 nationally by Inc. Magazine. |
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iJet - www.ijet.com; Annapolis, MD
iJET provides predictive intelligence and technology to help multinational corporations and government organizations monitor, protect against and respond to threats. The company, a multiple winner of Deloitte's Maryland Fast 50 award, currently has more than 450 multinational corporations and governments as clients. |
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InnerOptic - www.inneroptic.com; Hillsborough, NC
InnerOptic is an early stage medical device spin-out from the University of North Carolina. The company is commercializing unique technology in the computer-assisted surgery market, which is expected to have a 5 year 31% CAGR. |
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KZO Innovations - www.kzoinnovations.com; Reston, VA
A Software-as-a-Service company, KZO integrates streaming video, presentation content, enhanced real-time chat capabilities in text, audio and video and advanced deep-tagging for active video indexing and searching capabilities. The company was founded by 25 year old whiz kid Wes Cruver, who launched his first successful online company at the age of 11. The company raised its first institutional round in 2008, led by Valhalla Partners. |
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LivingSocial.com - www.livingsocial.com; Washington DC
Launched in 2008 with Series A funding from AOL's founder Steve Case and Grotech Ventures, LivingSocial.com is a social discovery and cataloging network that allows people to review and share their interests such as favorite movies, books, games, music, restaurants and beer. As the most comprehensive interest-based online community, LivingSocial is now helping more than 6.4 million users catalogue their interests, seamlessly integrating with other social network sites like Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. |
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NanoLumens - www.nanolumens.com; Norcross, Ga
NanoLumens is creating flexible, light-weight video displays made possible by recent advances in nanoscale structures, display materials and electronics manufacturing. The firm is targeting the $25 billion plus high-value display markets including indoor advertising, military, hotels, casinos, trade shows and other venues. |
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NetWitness - www.netwitness.com; Herndon, VA
Referred to as TiVo for IT departments, NetWitness captures and stores all the activity on a network segment and can replay it on demand, for use in forensic investigation, content monitoring, and compliance auditing. The company is led by the former director of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division, Amit Yoran, who also served as the Vice President of Worldwide Managed Security Services at Symantec Corporation. Yoran was also formerly CEO of In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA and was the co-founder of Riptech, a market leading IT security company, acquired by Symantec in 2002. |
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Nitronex - www.nitronex.com; Durham, NC
Nitronex is a global leader in the design and manufacture of GaN RF power devices for wireless communications, holding 19 patents with 19 others pending. The company, founded in 1999, has raised $77 million to date in venture funding. |
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OpenSpan - www.openspan.com; Alpharetta, GA
OpenSpan is a leading provider of application integration and automation software for the enterprise. The company closed a 13 million C-round venture in 2008, co-led by FTVentures and Globespan Capital Partners with participation from Matrix Partners, Sigma Partners and Imlay Investments. |
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Pathfinder Therapeutics - www.2pti.com; Nashville, TN
Pathfinder is a medical device company focused on the development of "surgical GPS" systems. The company's first commercial application is the only one to have received FDA clearance for navigating liver surgery with preoperative medical images. The company raised a $5.2 million Series A from investors led by Hatteras Venture Partners in late 2008. |
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Planar Energy Devices - www.planarenergy.com;
Orlando, FL
Planar Energy Devices, a spinout of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, is developing the next generation of thin-film lithium battery technologies. Thin-film batteries are projected to grow into a multi-billion-dollar component of the overall $55-billion energy-storage market, driven by wireless communications and such applications as smart cards, RFID and sensors. The company has funding from Battelle Ventures and Innovation Valley Partners. |
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Prenova - www.prenova.com; Marietta, GA
Founded in 2003, Prenova provides energy process management solutions and technologies to help customers reduce their total energy spend. Prenova manages billions of dollars in annual energy expenditures across hundreds of thousands of customer locations nationwide. Current company investors include Arcapita, Austin Ventures, Colonnade Capital, Frontenac, Rivers Cities Capital Funds and Siemens Venture Capital. |
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ProstimRx - Hendersonville, TN
ProstimRx is an early-stage developer of medical devices for the treatment of the treatment of a number of prostate-related disorders. The company closed a $5 million Series A financing led by M.D. Venture Partners in Q4 of 2008. |
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Purewire - www.purewire.com; Atlanta, GA
Founded in 2007, purewire is security-as-a-service company, offering innovative technologies to protect business users as they browse the Web.
Founders and senior management previously took CipherTrust from launch to a $300 million acquisition. |
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SchoolDude - www.schooldude.com; Cary, NC
With more than 3,700 clients, SchoolDude is the nation's leading provider of on-demand operations management solutions designed exclusively for the unique needs of educational professionals such as school districts, colleges and private schools. The company currently has around 140 employees. |
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SciQuest - www.sciquest.com; Cary, NC
Utilizing a software-as-a-service (SaaS) deployment, Sciquest is the leading provider of on-demand eprocurement solutions for academic, healthcare and research-centric organizations. Formerly a public company, management took the company private in 2004. Facilitating over $5 billion in annual transaction volume, the company's customers include 10 of the 15 largest pharmaceutical companies, more than 65 colleges and universities and numerous leaders in the life sciences, government and healthcare. |
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Selah Technologies - www.selahtechnologies.com;
Pendleton, SC
Founded in 2006 based on technology from Clemson University, Selah is an early stage company developing unique nanotechnologies. These nanoparticles can be used as bio-sensing and bioimaging contrast agents, replacing fluorescent dyes, microbeads and heavy metal based quantum dots. Other applications include usage in security inks and as authenticity and anticounterfeiting taggants. |
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Semprius - www.semprius.com; Durham, NC
Semprius is developing unique, patented technology that allows transfer printing of high performance semiconductors onto virtually any surface, including glass, flexible or rigid plastic, metal or other semiconductors. The company, a recipient of the top honors for the Wall Street Journal’s Innovation Award, has raised funding from Arch Venture Partners, Intersouth, Applied Ventures and Illinois Ventures. |
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SilkRoad - www.silkroad.com; Winston Salem, NC
SilkRoad technology is a top provider of talent management technology solutions. SilkRoad's CEO, Andrew "Flip" Filipowski, is one of the world's most successful high-tech entrepreneurs. Flip was founder and CEO of PLATINUM technology, the 8th largest software company in the world at the time of its sale to Computer Associates for $4 billion dollars. Previously, Flip was COO of Cullinet, the largest software company of the 1980's. |
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SkyCross - www.skycross.com; Viera, FL
SkyCross is a global developer of advanced wireless antenna solutions for a wide range of wireless applications, including cellular phones, wireless broadband, wireless LANs, and global positioning systems (GPS). The company has raised capital from groups such as TL Ventures, Intel Capital, SK Telecom, BancBoston Capital, Gabriel Venture Partners and BAE Systems. |
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Spectrum K12 - www.spectrumk12.com; Towson, MD
Spectrum K12 is the leading provider of student achievement management software solutions for K12 school districts. Spectrum K12's software is serving 11% of the K-12 student population including 20 of the top 100 school districts in the United States. The company has funding from firms such as Novak Biddle Venture Partners, Capital Trust Ventures, Comerica Bank and MMV Financial. |
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TerraGo Technologies - www.terragotech.com; Atlanta, GA
TerraGo delivers unique interactive software mapping solutions and applications for over 700 organizations, including many defense and intelligence agencies, utility companies, public safety/emergency response departments, natural resource management and engineering firms. The company has received initial venture funding from In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the Central Intelligence Agency, RedShift Ventures and CNF Investments. |
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Uloop - www.uloop.com; Nashville, TN
Having been called the craigslist for college students, Uloop is an online classifieds community exclusively targeting the college market. The management team, which came from ebay, has secured initial funding led by newspaper giant, Gannett. |
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Aldis - Oak Ridge, TN; www.aldiscorp.com
Aldis, founded in 2006, is a CleanTech company developing and commercializing proprietary efficient traffic and energy management technology and services to municipal partners. The company closed on just under $4 million in its first round of institutional financing from Innovation Valley Partners, Battelle Ventures and Meritus Ventures. |
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Altea Therapeutics - Atlanta, GA; www.alteatherapeutics.com
Altea, having raised over $47 million in venture funding to date, is developing and commercializing pharmaceutical products based on a new class of transdermal patches that deliver therapeutic levels of water-soluble small drugs, proteins and carbohydrates in a convenient, painless and cost-effective manner. The company's insulin transdermal patch provides an alternative to repeat insulin injections, tapping into the growing $7 billion global insulin market. |
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Camero - Tysons Corner, VA; www.camero-tech.com
Founded in 2003, Camero is a developer of a disruptive 'Through-Wall Vision' technology, generating real-time, three-dimensional images of stationary and moving objects concealed behind solid barriers for use in Military, Law Enforcement and Search and Rescue applications. The company has raised over $19 million through its Series B round from investors including Motorola Ventures, Greylock Partners, Jerusalem Global Ventures, Alta Berkeley and Walden. |
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Catalyst Web - Alexandria, VA; www.catalystweb.com
Catalyst is a Software-as-a-Service firm that provides enterprise-grade productivity and communications software to small and medium-sized businesses. CEO, Bob Mathew, was previously founder of Valor Telecommunications which went public in 2005 and later merged with Alltel's wireline phone business to become Winstream Communications (an S&P 500 company). |
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clearTXT - Cary, North Carolina; www.cleartxt.com
clearTXT is a provider of information delivery and alerts platforms for colleges and universities, enabling a multi-channel approach for campus communications by sending messages via email, text message, ticker desktop window, instant message and pop-up desktop alerts. The company was founded in 2003 by CEO Doug Kaufman, PhD, a former executive with e-Learning firm Blackboard. |
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ConnectivHealth - Brentwood, TN; www.connectivhealth.com
ConnectivHealth provides digital health care information to schools, hospitals, physicians and health care professionals through its online publications and e-mail products. Health and medical information continues to be a top category among the top Internet search topics. The company has raised venture capital from Chrysalis Ventures and Petra Capital Partners. |
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Cybera - Franklin, Tennessee; www.cybera.com
Founded in 2001, Cybera delivers high-speed, private networking solutions to multi-location businesses. The company closed its $18 million Series C round in the spring of 2007. Investors include Adams Street Partners, Chrysalis Ventures and Claritas Capital among others. |
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Cyveillance - Arlington, VA; www.cyveillance.com
Through continuous, comprehensive Internet monitoring and sophisticated intelligence analysis, Cyveillance proactively identifies and eliminates threats to information, infrastructure and individuals. Cyveillance currently serves the majority of the Fortune 50 and over 30 million global consumers through its partnerships including AOL and Microsoft. The company has received funding to date from such investors as ABS Capital Partners, Lazard Technology Partners, NEA, Blackrock and Graystone Venture Partners. |
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Digitalsmiths - Raleigh, NC; www.digitalsmiths.com
Digitalsmiths has developed the first universally compatible broadband video contextual ad-matching system helping to facilitate the world of video advertising. The online video advertising market is expected to grow from $410 million in 2006 to $2.9 billion by 2010. DigitalSmiths completed a $6 million Series A round in June 2007 led by Aurora Ventures and Chyrsalis Ventures. |
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ESP Systems - Charlotte, NC; www.espsystems.net
ESP Systems is the sole provider of Guest Customized Service systems for the restaurant industry. The company’s patented system uses advanced wireless technologies to streamline the service model at restaurants, empowering each guest to customize their dining experience while simultaneously increasing the productivity of each restaurant’s employees. The company has raised over $12 million to date. |
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Fair Warning - St. Petersburg, FL; www.fairwarningaudit.com
Fair Warning is a provider of solutions that help healthcare organizations increase their security responsiveness, identify insider security incidents, automate compliance and reduce associated costs. Prior to founding Fair Warning, CEO Kurt Long founded and served as CEO of two highly successful software companies, OpenNetwork Technologies, acquired by BMC Software and OpenWeb, acquired by USWeb. |
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First Mile Communications – Atlanta, GA; www.firstmile.com
First Mile Communications provides high-capacity scalable and secure wireless internet using fixed wireless technology. Cofounder and President, Stanley Allen, has raised over $300 million in private equity in his previous telecom launches including Cypress Communications, a provider of voice, data, and video solutions to businesses in commercial office buildings which he took public as CEO. |
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FortiusOne - Washington, DC; www.fortiusone.com
FortiusOne, provides next-generation Intelligent Mapping Solutions, allowing users to map 1,500 unique sets of data with geospatial imaging tools. A spin out of George Mason University in 2005, the company raised a $5.4 million Series B round during the summer of 2007, led by In-Q-Tel, which is backed by the Central Intelligence Agency and New York's Chart Venture Partners. |
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Inlet Technologies – Raleigh, NC; www.inlethd.com
Inlet’s patent-pending encoding solutions enable content providers to perform high quality video compression for use over a wide range of devices. The global video encoding market is expected to be $3.2 billion by 2015. Inlet has raised two rounds of investment from investors including Technology Venture Partners, Telecommunications Development Fund and Capitol Broadcasting. |
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Jacket Micro Devices – Atlanta, GA; www.jacketmicro.com
Jacket Micro Devices, founded in 2002, has developed some of the smallest and highest performing RF modules available on the market. The company’s patented platform technology dramatically reduces the size and cost of the RF components used in wireless devices. The WLAN chipset market is estimated to reach 430 million units and nearly $3 billion dollars in annual revenue by 2009. The company has received investment from Intersouth Partners, Noro-Moseley, Sevin Rosen Funds and Imlay Investments. |
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Kajeet - Bethesda, Maryland; www.kajeet.com
Founded in 2003, kajeet is the first pay-as-you-go cell phone service designed for teens and the teen market. The number of American teens armed with cell phones is expected to grow 60 percent by 2010, to 10.5 million. Kajeet raised $36.8 million in series B venture funding led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth Fund in September 2007. It had previously raised a $27 million Series A in 2006. Additional investors include Bessemer Venture Partners; Fidelity Ventures; Gabriel Venture Partners; and InterWest Partners. |
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M3TG - Charlotte, NC; www.m3tg.com
M3TG is a provider of customized professional and enterprise communications infrastructure services, secure electronic messaging, infrastructure systems development and management, information security, zero-impact migrations, and emerging technologies. The company, founded in 2002, closed an expansion round of $6 million in October of 2007, led by Frontier Capital. |
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NanoCor Therapeutics – Chapel Hill, NC; www.nanocorthx.com
Approximately five million patients in the United States and over fifteen million patients worldwide suffer from congestive heart failure (CHF) with over 500,000 new cases diagnosed each year with the CHF. NanoCor has developed a non-invasive delivery approach to a proprietary therapeutic for CHF. NanoCor believes its lead therapeutic has the potential to generate worldwide annual revenues ranging from $500 million to $1.5 billion within 5 years of launch. Medtronic, a public medical technology firm, invested close to $4 million in NanoCor in 2007. |
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Neurostar Solutions - Atlanta, GA; www.neurostarsolutions.com
Neurostar Solutions' innovative technology is designed for outsourcing radiology services through its virtual radiology networks. The company's cost-effective, Web-based imaging solution helps practices ensure reading by designated radiologists, wherever located, in a timely fashion, addressing today's radiologist shortage, the growing need for specialized image interpretation and the challenges of reduced reimbursements. |
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Novamin - Alachua, FL; www.novamin.com
NovaMin is looking to tap into the $7.4 billion US oral health care market, with technology that helps repair decayed teeth and makes them whiter. The technology was developed originally at the University of Florida. Novamin's Series B round was led by Intersouth Partners. |
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NovaVision - Boca Raton, FL; www.novavision.com
NovaVision is a provider of FDA-cleared non-invasive medical devices, tests, and therapies which diagnose and treat patients experiencing vision loss after stroke, traumatic brain injury (TBI), or optic nerve injury. Growing by more than 90,000 new patients each year, approximately 1.5 million stroke and TBI patients in the United States suffer from major visual field deficits. Since launching in 2002, NovaVision has secured over $40 million in funding through its Series C round. |
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Overture Networks - RTP, NC; www.overturenetworks.com
Overture Networks is a developer of converged packet access platforms for Carrier Ethernet services, combining the packet-switched and circuit-switched worlds into a single architecture - at cost points that make it extremely attractive for offering Ethernet and legacy services to any size location - over copper or fiber. In 2007, the company closed a $12.3 million Series C round from investors including Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Intersouth Partners, TDF, Armada Ventures and Gray Ventures. |
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Parature – Vienna, VA; www.parature.com
Parature is a provider of on-demand customer support and help desk software offered via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. Founded in 2000, Parature received the 2007 Product of the Year Award from Customer Interaction Solutions magazine and has been named to the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest Growing Private Companies in America. Parature currently serves over 8 Million registered users at hundreds of organizations worldwide. The company has raised capital from Vienna, Virginia based Valhalla Partners and Menlo Park, CA based Sierra Ventures. |
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Passport Health Communications - Franklin, TN; www.passporthealth.com
Passport Health Communications provides a suite of technology solutions designed to manage the healthcare revenue cycle. The company was recently named to the Inc. 5,000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America, growing its revenues 128.8 percent from $13.6 million to $31 million during 2003 to 2006. |
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Plurogen Therapeutics - Charlottesville, VA; www.plurogen.com
PluroGen Therapeutics, using technology developed at the University of Virginia, is a wound healing company targeting the chronic wound and burn markets with two patented technology platforms. The company estimates the total annual global market for its products to be $5.2 billion. One of the company’s wound products has the unique ability to thicken at body temperature while liquefying at cooler temperatures enabling it to be easily rinsed away with water, making it unique and valued in the wound marketplace. |
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Prenova - Marietta, GA; www.prenova.com
Founded in 2003, Prenova provides energy process management solutions and technologies to help customers reduce their total energy spend. Prenova manages billions of dollars in annual energy expenditures across hundreds of thousands of customer locations nationwide. The company has raised over $30 million from investors including Arcapita, Austin Ventures, Colonnade Capital, Frontenac, Rivers Cities Capital Funds and Siemens Venture Capital. |
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Prioria - Gainesville, FL; www.prioria.com
Prioria, is a developer of micro air vehicles (MAV’s), a subset of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) market, which feature unique visually based onboard navigation systems and data processing capability. The company’s navigation systems are also applicable for use in the existing UAV marketplace, which is estimated to grow from $2.6 billion in 2005 to $55 billion in 2017. The company has received venture funding to date from Florida Gulfshore Capital and Emergent Growth Fund. |
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Real Digital Media - Sarasota, FL; www.realdigitalmedia.com
Real Digital Media provides next generation digital signage products for point-of-purchase marketing, advertising and corporate communication networks. The company hopes to tap into a portion of the growing digital signage market which analysts predict to top $3.6 billion by 2011. |
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Recordant - Alpharetta, GA; www.recordant.com
Recordant is currently the only provider of audio-capture technology solutions that generate actionable feedback from organizations’ face-to-face interactions with the public. The company’s technology allows these interactions to be analyzed and processed automatically, ultimately providing significant improvements in customer service and standards compliance, while maximizing sales performance. The company closed on a $9 million Series B round earlier in 2007 from Pequot Ventures, Kodiak Venture Partners and Aurora Funds. |
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Revolution Money - Largo, FL; www.revolutionmoney.com
Founded and backed by AOL co-founder, Steve Case, Revolution Money combines a PayPal-like money transfer service with a credit card that can also be linked to a bank account, using Internet technology to circumvent traditional fees that credit card networks charge. The service will also allow money transfers between consumers. Revolution Money raised a $50 million Series B in 2007 with funding from financial firms Citi, Morgan Stanley, and Deutsche Bank. Board members include AOL exec Ted Leonsis, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, former Mastercard CEO Russell Hogg, and former Charles Schwab chief executive David Potruck. |
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Ruckus Network - Herndon, VA; www.ruckusnetwork.com
Ruckus Network is a provider of digital entertainment services to more than 900 college campuses. The company, founded in 2003, is led by Michael Bebel, formerly CEO of Mashboxx and President and COO of Napster, where he was responsible for relaunching Napster 2.0 into a successful "legitimate" business model. Ruckus raised a $10 million Series B round in May of 2007 led by Columbia Capital and the Anschutz Investment Company. |
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SoloHealth – Duluth, GA; www.solo-health.com
SoloHealth, a spinout from CIBA Vision, the eye care unit of Novartis, is an early stage company that has developed automated self-service vision testing kiosks designed for use in malls and other public places. EyeSite will encourage better vision health and education -- and in turn, refer greater numbers of prospective patients to eye care practices. The company is attempting to capitalize on the $25 billion US vision care market and the growing consumer preference for self-directed health care services. |
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SteelBox Networks - Atlanta, GA; www.steelbox.com
Founded in 2003 by senior executives and technical veterans from Cisco Systems, Scientific Atlanta and Nortel Networks, SteelBox Networks is developing large-scale solutions for video that enable hundreds of live and recorded streams of content to be handled through video over IP networks.
The company's most recent $10 million investment round was led by Menlo Park's Sierra Ventures. |
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Suniva - Atlanta, GA; www.suniva.com
Suniva develops high efficiency silicon photovoltaic (PV) solar cells based on Georgia Tech innovations. The company, founded in 2007, has raised $5.5 million in its first round led by New Enterprise Associates and H.I.G. Ventures. CEO John Baumstark was previously a partner at HIG Ventures, CEO of DWL (a customer data integration software company acquired by IBM) and a senior executive at several other successful technology companies. The company completed its second round of financing for $50 million in early 2008, co-led by New Enterprise Associates and Advanced Equities. |
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Time Domain - Huntsville, AL; www.timedomain.com
Time Domain Corporation offers unique technology that utilizes Ultra-wideband (UWB) radio frequency (RF) technology combining three functions-radar, communications, and positioning-into one device. In 2007, the company announced a $25 million financing round led by Pharos Capital Group. |
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Vidrunner - Blacksburg, VA; www.vidrunner.com
The Vidrunner product allows mobile phone users to broadcast live video to PCs or to mobile phones. Sending and viewing is simple, fast and secure due to the unique patented peer-to-peer technology. Vidrunner involves a lightweight mobile phone application for the sender, a Java applet for the viewer, and a service for making the connections. Unlike other mobile phone video products, the application is hardware-independent and highly scalable, minimizing infrastructure and bandwidth requirements. |
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Vostu - Miami, FL; www.vostu.com
Vostu, founded in 2007, has developed an online community of social networks localized and personalized for the Latin American market, which represents one of the fastest growing Internet populations globally. The company has received initial funding support from Intel Capital. |
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vTSilicon - Atlanta, GA; www.vtsilicon.com
VT Silicon is a fabless semiconductor company that designs and manufactures multi-band radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) solutions for the mobile wireless broadband market. The Georgia Tech spin out raised its first round of financing from California-based Menlo Ventures. |
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Vumii - Atlanta, GA; www.vumii.com
Vumii is a provider of unique sophisticated surveillance technologies, leveraging expertise in electro-optics and image processing to develop advanced, affordable visualization and image interpretation tools that easily integrate with existing security systems. The company has raised over $8.5 million to date in its quest to tap into the $100 billion plus global electronic security market. |
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Yap - Charlotte, NC; www.yapme.com
Yap has developed an automated speech recognition technology that allows cell phone or other device users to speak messages to be sent as text. The company plans to seek a $10 to $20 million second round as it looks to tap into the growing $52 billion US text messaging market. |
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AerovectRx - Atlanta, GA; www.AerovectRx.com
AerovectRx is an aerosol therapeutic company providing proprietary dosage-controlled technology solutions to the $12 billion inhaled drug delivery market. The company's technology was developed by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and is licensed exclusively to AerovectRx. |
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AxoGen - Gainesville, FL; www.axogeninc.com
AxoGen provides surgeons a biological solution to repair and regenerate peripheral nerves, bringing relief and restoring functionality to patients who suffer peripheral nerve injuries. AxoGen's co-founder and CEO, Jamie Grooms, previously founded Regeneration Technologies and guided the company from its establishment in 1996 to 400 employees and a successful IPO in 2000. AxoGen has licensed several patent-pending technologies from the University of Florida and has received initial venture funding from Accuitive Medical Ventures, Cardinal Partners, De Novo Ventures and Springboard Capital. |
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Biofisica - Atlanta, GA; www.biofisica.com
Biofisica is a medical device company developing products for the soft-tissue regeneration market. Its initial technology focuses on the advanced wound healing care market. Biofisica's technology has the potential to be disruptive to the $12 billion global wound care market. |
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Brightdoor Systems - Cary, NC; www.brightdoor.com
BrightDoor Systems provides marketing and sales software to real estate developers for lead generation, sales presentation, sales process management, and prospect management/CRM. BrightDoor's systems are deployed and sold in subscription based, software as a service model, with management applications accessible via a web portal and presentation applications integrated into the customer experience at the onsite sales center and online. The company has seen strong market adoption and has funded itself through its own revenue growth to date. |
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Bright View Technologies - Morrisville, NC; www.brightviewtechnologies.com
Bright View Technologies develops innovative microstructure based optical films for the worldwide display market. Bright View is transforming this market by leveraging a unique and proprietary platform technology to create highly engineered, large area, microstructured masters and tooling enabling the mass production of unique plastic optical films with superior light management characteristics. Bright View is introducing products for displays based on virtually all display technologies including LCD, Plasma, OLED, rear projection and front projection. The directly addressable markets for products currently in development by Bright View exceeded $3 billion annually in 2005. Bright View has raised institutional investment from Battery Ventures. |
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Broadwick - Durham, NC; www.broadwick.com
Broadwick is a provider of web-based emarketing communications software. With over 7000 customers, Broadwick's technology offerings allows organizations to easily create, send, and track email newsletters, RSS feeds, and blogs. Broadwick's CEO, Ryan Allis, is one of BusinessWeek magazine's top 25 entrepreneurs under 25, having already built three multi-million dollar technology firms. |
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buySAFE - Arlington, VA; www.buysafe.com
buySAFE helps to create a safe and stress-free online shopping environment through Bonded Shopping - the only program that qualifies merchants, identifies reputable online businesses with the buySAFE Seal, and uses surety bonds to provide protection for individual buyers from online transaction risks. buySAFE has raised over $21 million to date from investors such as Grotech Capital Group, Core Capital Partners, Hartford Ventures and Thomas Rutherfoord. |
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Campus Management - Boca Raton, FL; www.campusmgmt.com
More than 1100 colleges, universities and distance education providers worldwide rely on Campus Management for efficient, scalable, and flexible administrative solutions that enhance institutional excellence. Rapid implementation of its highly integrated system benefits diverse traditional and non-traditional programs and distinguishes Campus Management's One Campus technology vision for higher education. The company won Microsoft’s 2005 Public Sector award for innovation in Higher Education; and, it was named Microsoft’s Global ERP Solutions Developer of the Year in 2003. |
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CoalTek - Tucker, GA; www.coaltek.com
CoalTek utilizes a proprietary, single-stage process technology to convert low rank, mine-run coals into high-rank, clean coal alternative fuels for use by coal-fired electric utilities. CoalTek provides a unique, pre-burn clean coal solution to the 1.1 billion ton/year utility marketplace. This proprietary technology improves both the fuel efficiency and the environmental quality of a broad range of mine-run coals, increasing BTU content while concurrently reducing SO2 and other impurities by up to 70%. CoalTek has received funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Technology Partners, Braemar Energy Ventures, and Warburg Pincus. |
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Cohda Wireless - Orlando, FL; www.cohdawireless.com
Cohda Wireless, a provider of Wi-Fi enhancing technologies, was founded in 2003 by a group of research scientists working at the University of South Australia's Institute for Telecommunications Research. Cohda's technology assists with demanding real-time applications such as streaming full motion video from in-vehicle cameras, VoIP teleconferencing, integrated Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) tracking, and much more. The company has received two significant grants from the Australian Government and attracked additional early stage private equity investment. |
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Diffusion Pharmaceuticals - Charlottesville, VA; www.diffusionpharma.com
Diffusion Pharmaceuticals is a drug discovery and development company pioneering a revolutionary approach to treat life-threatening diseases. Diffusion's proprietary small-molecule therapeutics (drugs) enhance the diffusion of oxygen through areas of critical resistance and into hypoxic (oxygen-starved) tissues. This breakthrough technology creates an exciting new way to treat conditions in which lack of oxygen leads to the death of vital tissue. Diffusion's lead product once approved by the FDA, could be used by over 20 million patients a year in the United States alone, with an annual market well into the billions of dollars. |
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iNeoMarketing, Herndon, VA; www.iNeoMarketing.com
iNeoMarketing is an early stage on-demand, hosted software company focused on reducing the sales cycle for B2B companies and driving incremental revenue opportunities. Its first product is a patented on-demand, hosted landing page application and system. The need for B2B landing pages, an estimated $1.5 billion market, is driven by B2B advertising, such as search engine advertising and email marketing. The company has raised initial capital from TWJ Capital and Virginia's CIT GAP Fund. |
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Market10 - McLean, VA; www.market10.com
Market10 is the inspiration of Rob McGovern, former Founder and former Chairman and CEO of CareerBuilder.com. Founded in 2005, Market10 is building an online job marketplace using its revolutionary new matching engine. Market10 has raised funding from Menlo Ventures and New Enterprise Associates. |
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Metabolon - Durham, NC; www.metabolon.com
Metabolon is an industry leader in the discovery of biomarkers through the use of metabolomics, a powerful and new scientific approach for the discovery and development of drugs and the early diagnosis of disease states. Metabolon's patent-pending technology is poised to dramatically impact drug discovery and development processes by accurately measuring the spectrum of biochemical changes and mapping these changes to metabolic pathways. Metabolon has received over $17 million in two rounds of funding from Sevin Rosen Funds, The Aurora Funds, The Trelys Funds and Harris & Harris Group. |
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Multiply - Boca Raton, FL; www.multiply.com
Multiply is the leading "personal social networking" website for people to share their life through media - with friends, family, and co-workers - in a controlled and meaningful way. Multiply combines social networking, content sharing and communication, and serves as a publishing platform, enabling people to share photos, videos, blogs and more with those who care most: their real friends, direct contacts, and friends of friends, but not necessarily with the world at large. Multiply's usage has been steadily gaining traction as one of the most popular sites on the Web today, with more than 3.2 million registered users and 500% growth in page views and items posted in the last ten months. |
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mVisible Technologies - Deerfield Beach, FL; www.mvisible.com
mVisible Technologies creates technology, products, and services that simplify the delivery of content to mobile devices. mVisible has created a web-based platform from which user-generated content (music, pictures, etc.) is delivered to mobile devices andallows musicians, brands and other rights holders to quickly and easily sell and share their unique content as ringtones or wallpaper images directly from their own websites or MySpace pages. mVisible secured $3 million inSeries A investment in October of 2006 from New World Angels. |
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Nextreme Thermal Solutions - RTP, NC; www.nextremethermal.com
Nextreme Thermal Solutions manufactures embedded thermoelectric coolers to reduce the temperature of semiconductor hot spots, increasing the performance, reliability and yield of high-performance CMOS ICs. These high-performance solid-state devices operate as miniature heat pumps, efficiently providing localized cooling for electronic applications.Nextreme raised $8 million in Series A round from Red Shift Ventures, RTI International, In-Q-Tel, Aurora Funds and Harris & Harris Group. |
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Proximities - Melbourne, FL; www.proximities.com
Proximities manufactures and markets a suite of RFID based solutions including cashless purchasing, age verification, access privileges and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) data acquisition. CEO Ronald Carney has founded, funded and grown two major wireless companies, Airnet Communications Corporation, which held its IPO in 1999, reaching a market capitalization of $1.2 billionand Tantivy Communications, which was purchased by Interdigital Corporation in 2003. |
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RadarFind - RTP, NC; www.radarfind.com
RadarFind is a healthcare technology company focused on improving patient care and hospital profitability. The company's technology provides an indoor positioning system that tracks medical equipment and patients. RadarFind's patient and asset tracking systems are designed to integrate with existing hospital infrastructure and operations. RadarFind provides the tools to overcome many of the day to day obstacles healthcare providers encounter while delivering high quality patient care. The company has raised initial funding from NC IDEA. |
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rPath - Raleigh, NC; www.rpath.com
rPath provides rBuilder and rPath Linux, the first platform for transforming applications into virtual appliances. Software appliances and virtual appliances give application developers control over the deployment and update of the complete software stack, from the OS to the application. rPath was a finalist on the Red Herring 100 North America list and has been receipient of numerous national technology awards. rPath raised a Series A round in 2006 led by North Bridge Venture Partners and General Catalyst Partners. |
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SquareLoop - Reston, VA; www.squareloop.com
SquareLoop provides the next generation mobile alerting platform by combining patented location-based services (LBS) technology and unique mobile messaging features in the $12 billion LBS marketplace. SquareLoop has developed the only solution for delivering geographically targeted messages without tracking subscribers' individual movements which help overcome privacy concerns. SquareLoop CEO Tom Stroup previously served as CEO and founder of two telecommunications companies that he grew to revenues of over $45 million and $21 million respectively. |
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Submachine Corp - Providence Forge, VA
Submachine has created low-cost miniature pumps to cool components in computers and servers. The market size of just four of the markets where application of SubMachine's technology has high potential is over $40 billion (in sales of SubMachine's targeted products). Submachine is looking to raise its first round of institutional funding. |
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Sunlight Direct - Oak Ridge, TN;
www.sunlight-direct.com
Launched in 2004, utilizing patented technology developed at and licensed from Oak Ridge National Labratory, Sunlight Direct is developing technology that has the potential to be a disruptive force in the multi-billion dollar lighting market.The company's Solar Collection platform allows sunlight to be collected and controlled for various applications, including wide-scale application of providing natural light to commercial spaces, where currently artificial lighting accounts for 40% of the electricity used. |
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SWsoft - Herndon, VA; www.swsoft.com
SWsoft is a recognized leader in server automation and virtualization software. With more than 10,000 customers in over 100 countries, SWsoft's suite of award-winning products delivers proven performance, manageability and value. SWsoft is a high growth company funded by Bessemer Venture Partners, Insight Venture Partners and Intel Capital. |
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Telesensors -Knoxville, TN; www.telesensors.com
Telesensors is an early stage firm developing the next generation of intelligent wireless sensors, called Smart Sensors. Smart Sensors are low cost, wireless integrated circuits that can detect nuclear, chemical, or biological agents, as well as more conventional environmental conditions, such as temperature providing a combined market potential of over $3 billion. The patented technology is licensed from University of Tennessee. |
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Therasim - Durham, NC; www.therasim.com
TheraSim provides software systems for improving the quality of patient care, educating medical professionals and managing the risk of healthcare providers by measuring, predicting and reducing medical error. Medical error is a $78 billion problem in the US. |
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ViTrue - Atlanta, GA; www.vitrue.com
ViTrue is reinventing the way brand marketing is created, priced and distributed via an online video platform that combines user services, user tools and brand partnerships. ViTrue’s platform is a user-created advertising product that enables brands to leverage consumer creativity to produce more relevant and engaging advertisements at a lower cost of production. The online video ad market is expected to reach $1.5 billion in 2009. The company was launched in 2006 with funding from General Catalyst Partners.
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