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Airgate PCS

Atlanta, Georgia

AirGate PCS is the exclusive manager and operator of Sprint PCS products and services in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. (NASDAQ: PCSA - September 1999)


Aptis Communications

Chelmsford, Massachusetts

Aptis Communications developed carrier access switches. The company was acquired by Nortel Networks in March 1998. (NYSE: NT)


Argon Networks Inc

Littleton, Massachusetts

Argon Networks designed, marketed, and supported converged networking solutions that allowed telecommunications providers to efficiently create and deploy innovative services. The company was acquired by Siemens Corporation in March 1999.


Avanex

Fremont, California

Avanex Corporation develops, manufactures, and delivers photonic processors for the communications industry. (NASDAQ: AVNX - February 2000)


BladeLogic

Lexington, Massachusetts

BladeLogic makes a new class of systems management software that enables companies to improve IT productivity ten fold and reduce system downtime by safely automating and controlling change in disparate and distributed server networks. (NASDAQ:BLOG - July 2007)


Brocade Communications Systems

San Jose, California

Brocade Communications Systems develops switches to deliver the intelligent backbone infrastructure for storage area network (SAN) solutions. (NASDAQ: BRCD - May 1999)


Cerulean Technology, Inc.

Marlborough, Massachusetts

Cerulean Technology, Inc was the leader in wireless application solutions for mobile workforces in public safety. The company was acquired by Aether Systems Inc. in September 2000 (NASDAQ: AETH)


Clearwire

Kirkland, Washington

Clearwire is a provider of reliable, wireless, high-speed broadband Internet service to consumers and small businesses. Clearwire is utilizing next-generation non-line-of-sight wireless technology, developed by its subsidiary company NextNet, to connect customers to the Internet using radio spectrum, thus eliminating the confines of traditional cable or phone wiring. (NASDAQ: CLWR - March 2007)


Cloakware

Vienna, Virginia

Cloakware is an innovative developer of software that protects applications and systems from unauthorized access and piracy. Cloakware’s solutions help solve some of the most pressing business and technical problems in enterprise and consumer electronics security, such as preventing unauthorized access to confidential personal and corporate information, and protecting licensed digital content against piracy. With partners including Microsoft and Intel, the company’s solutions are currently used by leading consumer electronics device manufacturers, Federal agencies and Fortune 1000 companies.  This company was acquired by Irdeto/Naspers in November 2007 (JSE:NPN).


Creative Design Solutions

Milpitas, California

Creative Design Solutions develops thin servers (NAS) targeted at workgroups or small office LANs. The company was acquired by Maxtor. (NASDAQ: MXTR)


Digital Island

San Francisco, California

Digital Island is focused on being an application driven, content delivery network offering latency reduction and guaranteed bandwidth to global markets. (NASDAQ:ISLD - July 1999)


edocs

Natick , Massachusetts

edocs was a leading provider of Online Account Management and e-Billing software and services. The company was acquired by Siebel Systems in December of 2004. (NASDAQ: SEBL)

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enCommerce

Santa Clara, California

EnCommerce offered customized access to content based on business rules and user profiles with single access control mechanism. The company was acquired by Entrust Technologies in June 2000. (NASDAQ: ENTU)


Glu Mobile

San Mateo, California

Glu is a leading creator and publisher of connected interactive games for wireless and internet-capable devices. (NASDAQ: GLUU - March 2007)


Idiom, Inc.

Waltham, Massachusetts

Idiom, Inc. provides a software platform that allows companies to establish and maintain a consistent, high-quality global web presence.  Idiom was acquired by SDL Enterprise Technologies in February 2008.


Ingrian Networks

Redwood City, California

Ingrian Networks is a leading provider of secure content networking platforms that deliver superior security, performance, scalability, and extensibility for secure content delivery.  Ingrian Networks was acquired by SafeNet in February 2008.


Lightspan

Bloomington, Minnesota

The Lightspan Partnership develops and markets interactive educational programming for grades K-8. (NASDAQ: LSPN - February 2000)


m-Qube

Watertown, Massachusetts

M-qube was a provider of turnkey billing, delivery, and distribution platforms to deliver mobile content and messaging from content creators to wireless subscribers on a cross-carrier basis. M-qube was acquired by VeriSign in March 2006. (NASDAQ:VRSN)

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Millennial Net

Burlington, Massachusetts

Millennial Net, Inc is a privately held Cambridge, Massachusetts technology company founded by leading MIT researchers. Millenial Net is the leader in ultra-email, ultra-low power wireless computing devices for the consumer, industrial, medical and military markets.  Millennial Net was acquired by Festo.




Monterey Networks

Richardson, Texas

Monterey Networks developed products to complement new multi-gigabit Internet routers, WDM systems, and ATM switches. The company was acquired by Cisco Systems in September 1999. (NASDAQ: CSCO)


Net Perceptions

Stamford, Connecticut

Net Perceptions provides tools for adding personalization to commerce and marketing websites. (NASDAQ: NETP - April 1999)


Obsidian, Inc.

Fremont, California

Obsidian, Inc. developed unique chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) tools. The company was acquired by Applied Materials in October 1999. (NASDAQ: AMAT)


Ocular Networks

Reston, Virginia

Ocular Networks developed the Optical Service Xchange (OSX) family of next-generation optical edge solutions. The OSX family extended the reach of optical networks from the service provider's Co or POP to customer locations and aggregated both TDM and data traffic onto high-speed optical networks. The company was acquired by Tellabs in January 2002. (NASDAQ: TLAB)


Philsar Semiconductor

Sunnyvale, California

Philsar Semiconductor was a fabless developer of semiconductor solutions for personal wireless connectivity. The company was acquired by Conexant Systems in April 2000. (NASDAQ: CNXT)


Pirus Networks

Acton, Massachusetts

Pirus Networks created a new generation of IP storage networking systems. The Pirus platform was a carrier-class networking system that connects storage area networks (SANs) with IP systems (LAN and WAN). This converged infrastructure consolidates and improved management, lowered overall cost and allowed for more efficient data communications. Pirus was acquired by Sun Microsystems in November 2002. (NASDAQ:SUNW)


Reflectent

Westford, Massachusetts

Reflectent developed systems management software that helped enterprises lower the cost of supporting their desktop infrastructure. Reflectent was acquired by Citrix in May 2006. (NASDAQ:CTXS)


Revivio

Lexington, Massachusetts

Revivio is a ground-breaking startup that is pioneering a remarkable new approach to enterprise data collection. Revivio was acquired by Symantec in November 2006 (NASDAQ: SYMC).




Sendia

Santa Monica, California

Sendia enabled the delivery of enterprise applications to wireless devices for mobile workers.  Sendia was acquired by Salesforce.com in April 2006. (NYSE:CRM)


Sentient

San Ramon, California

Developed a family of ATM and Frame Relay central office concentrators and switches aimed at inter-exchange carriers (IXCs), regional bell operating companies (RBOCs) and internet service providers (ISPs). Acquired by Cisco in 1999. (NASDAQ: CSCO)




ShoreTel

Sunnyvale, California

ShoreTel is a leading provider of IP telephony solutions worldwide and well known for exceptional customer satisfaction. Since 1996, ShoreTel voice systems have been designed to make businesses smarter, setting new standards for usability and manageability while reducing telecommunications costs. (NASDAQ: SHOR - July 2007)


Silknet Software

Manchester, New Hampshire

Silknet Software creates and markets software products for Internet customer service.  (NASDAQ: SILK - May 1999)


Trigo

White Plains, New York

Trigo, formerly known as Project Austin, empowered manufacturers and distributors to take control of sales through their online channels. The company was acquired by IBM in March 2004. (NYSE: IBM)

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Virtusa

Westborough, Massachusetts

Virtusa is a global provider of software development and IT services to Fortune 1000 enterprises and leading enterprise software companies in the financial services, communications, and high technology industries.  We are a new generation global IT services company that delivers much more than cost savings.  Using our unique Productization methodology, we Conceive, Transform and Optimize our clients’ information systems to improve their business agility and efficiency. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Massachusetts, Virtusa has offices and technology centers throughout the US, UK and Asia. (NASDAQ: VRTU - August 2007).




Vixel Corporation

Bothell, Washington

Vixel Corporation is a leading provider of storage area network (SAN) solutions. (NASDAQ: VIXL - October 1998)


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Advent Solar

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Advent Solar, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of innovative solar cells and modules. Its unique,
exclusive EWT cell technology was originally developed at Sandia National Laboratories and is in a
class of solar cells referred to as back-contact cells. This technology is the basis for Advent’s high
performance products with the potential for dramatically lower cost than conventional solar
photovoltaic technology.



Agitar

Mountain View, California

Agitar is developing software solutions to help companies detect and fix programming errors during software development.


Akorri

Littleton, Massachusetts

Akorri products help IT Departments more optimally manage their information, control infrastructure costs, and improve application performance thereby increasing the value of their information assets. As data centers scale to utility/grid storage architecture, Akorri enables them to optimally manage their information.


Amalfi Semiconductor

Los Gatos, California

Amalfi Semiconductor is a fabless developer of value-added RF devices for the mobile communications industry.


Amobee

San Francisco, California

Amobee delivers a unified, telco-grade system for funding mobile content and communications through advertising revenues.  The company provides the only media system capable of dynamically inserting targeted, interactive advertisements into all types of mobile entertainment and communication channels, including videos, music, messaging, games, WAP etc., using a single, telco-grade ad-serving infrastructure.



Analogix

Santa Clara, California

Analogix is a provider of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products for the backplane interconnect, Long Reach Ethernet, and HDMI markets.


Applied Identity

San Francisco, California

Applied Identity is a provider of network identity enforcement solutions that protect enterprises from external and internal security attacks.


Arkivio

Mountain View, California

Arkivio allows IT personnel to manage & optimize storage resources based on data usage. It enables them to cost-effectively place and migrate data on the network as well as transparently grow storage resources.


Blackwave

Acton, Massachusetts

Blackwave Inc. (formerly Acinion) provides cost effective systems for storing and delivering Internet Video – providing industry leading performance and scalability designed to meet the growing needs of Content Distribution Networks (CDNs), Aggregators, and Media and Entertainment companies.


CaliSolar

Sunnyvale, California

CaliSolar aims to refine cheap dirty silicon in order to help produce photovoltaics (PV) or solar cells, which are silicon semiconductor devices that convert sunlight into direct current electricity.



Certeon

Burlington, Massachusetts

Certeon has developed a network appliance that provides application-aware bandwidth optimization over WANs.


Copan Systems

Longmont, Colorado

Copan develops high-density storage solutions for near-line storage and secondary storage applications such as disk backup, data recovery/restoration and tape replacement.


Coskata

Warrenville, Illinois

Coskata, Inc. is a biology-based renewable energy company, with technology for the production of liquid fuels. Using proprietary microorganisms and transformative bioreactor designs, the company will produce ethanol for under US$1.00 per gallon anywhere in the world, from almost any input material (feedstock).


Covergence

Maynard, Massachusetts

Covergence is the leader in scaling, securing and controlling VoIP and other real-time services based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).  The Covergence Eclipse session manager is purpose-built to address the challenges of the access edge, giving users the secure, instant, and reliable access to SIP services they expect while giving organizations the complete control and visibility they require.




Deeper

Tokyo, Japan

Deeper is a leading behavioral retargeting advertising service provider in Japan. Deeper provides a differentiator in clients’ internet advertising strategy and more effective methodology to increase CTR (Click-Through-Rate) and a conversion rate at affordable pricing.



Dotomi

Boston, Massachusetts

Dotomi™ creates a direct relationship between marketers and consumers by opening a one-to-one messaging channel through banner ad real-estate. Dotomi is 100% privacy compliant to enable consumers to rule over the messages they receive from their favorite marketers.


Exeros

Santa Clara, California

Exeros is developing software infrastructure to ease data integration in the enterprise by automating the data mapping process.


Expressor Software Corporation

Burlington, Massachusetts

Founded in 2003, expressor software develops next-generation data integration software for the global 2000.


Fortisphere

Glenwood, Maryland

Fortisphere is a leading provider of Virtual Machine Lifecycle Management software that ensures virtualized environments operate efficiently, effectively and securely.  Fortisphere is pioneering the concept of Smart Growth, a way to facilitate rapid expansion of virtual infrastructures through greater visibility, granular control, and best practices.


GlassHouse

Framingham, Massachusetts

A pioneer in the storage services sector, GlassHouse Technologies distinguishes itself by providing solutions from strategy to operations. GlassHouse offers guaranteed services focused on technology and organizational effectiveness.



Hatteras Networks

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Hatteras Networks offers carrier solutions to extend the Ethernet Service Edge for Mid-Band Ethernet services to businesses, mobile wireless cell sites and remote DSLAMs that are not served with fiber.


Incipient, Inc.

Waltham, Massachusetts

Incipient, Inc., a Waltham, MA based high-technology company, develops and markets data storage software that runs on intelligent storage network devices.




Instill

Redwood City, California

Instill provides hosted Supply Chain Solutions that provide the supply chain visibility and control necessary to reduce food costs. Unlike distributor or custom built applications, Instill delivers solutions with proven returns across a large customer base.


Jajah

Menlo Park, California

JAJAH is an innovative and simple way to make cheap calls using the Internet—without headphones, microphones or software downloads. JAJAH connects users phone-to-phone, landline or mobile, local or anywhere else in the world. An Internet connection is only necessary to initiate the call. JAJAH is the latest brainchild of founders Daniel Mattes and Roman Scharf. Inspired by the ideas of F. Jajah. Watamba, the two VoIP communication pioneers decided to realize their vision of a proprietary application that would cross existing communication borders. Simple and cost-effective: JAJAH opens up the benefits of VoIP to all Internet users—regardless of whether they have broadband or dial-up! JAJAH is based in Menlo Park, CA with a European office in Luxembourg.




Linden Lab

San Francisco, California

Linden Lab is a privately held company established to develop an extraordinary new form of shared 3D entertainment. Through its first product, "Second Life," Linden Lab offers a truly collaborative, immersive and open-ended entertainment experience, where together people create and inhabit a virtual world of their own design.


Luidia, Inc.

San Carlos, California

Luidia Inc. develops technologies and products that simplify, improve, and enhance human-computer interactions. Luidia's award-winning eBeam technology is applicable to a wide variety of markets, from large format information display to small mobile devices. The highly embeddable technology enables intuitive 2D and 3D interaction with visual data as part of OEM products or as a stand alone system.



MarketLive, Inc.

Petaluma, California

MarketLive, Inc. is the leading provider of e-commerce retail technology and services for selling online. The MarketLive® platform is an enterprise-class retail e-commerce solution specifically designed to meet the unique requirements of catalogers, retailers, direct marketers, and brand manufacturers.



Nantero

Woburn, Massachusetts

Nantero is a nanotechnology company using carbon nanotubes for the development of next-generation semiconductor devices. Nantero’s main focus is the development of NRAM™ –a high-density nonvolatile random access storage device. NRAM™ will replace all existing forms of storage, such as DRAM, SRAM and flash memory, with a high-density nonvolatile RAM – ‘universal memory.’


NextMedium

Los Angeles, California

NextMedium is developing a data standard and toolset that creates new channels of marketing and commerce for entertainment providers to increase revenues and help advertisers reach audiences.


Nominum

Redwood City, California

Nominum is a pioneering provider of IP address infrastructure software for enterprises that require reliable and secure DNS, DHCP and IP address management for their mission critical networks.


Nurien

Seoul , Korea

Nurien is a developer of a new form of 3D social media.


oDesk

Sunnyvale, California

oDesk enables buyers of services to hire, manage, and pay technology service providers from around the world.  Buyers choose oDesk for top global talent, comprehensive management tools, and a flexible hourly payment model. Service Providers choose oDesk for challenging jobs and guaranteed payment.




OpenPages

Waltham, Massachusetts

Founded in 1996, OpenPages develops enterprise governance, risk and compliance management solutions that streamline knowledge-intensive processes to improve corporate accountability, reduce disclosure process cost, enhance internal controls management productivity, and increase investor confidence. The company's portfolio of solutions includes Sarbanes-Oxley Express (SOX Express), the market-leading enterprise application for automating the corporate financial reporting and disclosure compliance requirements of Sections 404 and 302 of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act.


OpenSpan

Alpharetta, Georgia

Global 2000 enterprises leverage the OpenSpan Platform to integrate applications, service-enable legacy systems, automate business processes, extend functionality and build new composite applications in order to realize immediate value on their IT investments. OpenSpan and its partners utilize the company’s unique approach to integration to accelerate service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments and increase enterprise desktop productivity. OpenSpan received the 2008 SIIA CODiE Award for Software Newcomer of the Year, the 2008 Editors’ Choice Award from Redmond magazine and the 2007 Product of the Year Award from Customer Interaction Solutions magazine. A venture-backed company, OpenSpan is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA. More information about OpenSpan is located online at www.openspan.com.


Optaros

Boston, Massachusetts

Optaros is a consulting and systems integration firm that helps enterprises solve IT business problems by providing services and solutions that maximize the benefits of open source software.


Palo Alto Networks

San Jose, California

Palo Alto Networks™ enables visibility and policy control of applications running on enterprise networks. Based on innovative App-ID™ application classification technology, the Palo Alto Networks PA-4000 Series is a next-generation firewall that accurately identifies applications – regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic or even SSL encryption – at 10Gbps with no performance degradation.


Plaxo, Inc.

Mountain View, California

Plaxo, Inc. is dedicated to keeping people connected by solving the common but frustrating problem of out-of-date contact information.


Provigent

Santa Clara, California

Provigent develops and markets integrated silicon solutions for the broadband wireless industry. Provigent’s cost-effective "system-on-a-chip” (SOC) products enable wireless system vendors to deliver high-performance broadband wireless systems to network operators. Focusing on wireless backhaul and access systems, Provigent SOC solutions offer an unparalleled combination of increased bandwidth, extended range and enhanced flexibility with lower system costs.  




Q1 Labs

Waltham, Massachusetts

Q1 Labs provides organizations with the surveillance, analysis and control technology needed to eliminate external threats and internal policy enforcement risks. Q1 Labs' innovative product, QRadar , features intelligent, behavior-based, real-time analysis that recognizes and isolates the source of threats and anomalous behavior caused by security breaches or unacceptable internal activity.


Quartics

Irvine, California

Quartics leverages breakthrough semiconductor architectural advantages to provide dominant media processing and media extension solutions for the computer and display markets. The company's semiconductors enable the flawless transmission of video and audio for wireless PC to TV, monitors, and projectors; PC tuner cards, docking stations, HD-networked PVRs, and video conferencing.


Quattro Wireless

Waltham, Massachusetts

Quattro Wireless brings publishers, advertisers and wireless operators together to embrace the mobile Web.  Quattro combines its diverse global network of publishers with exclusive advertising inventory to form the mobile industry's premiere marketplace.


Solar Power Partners

Mill Valley, California

Solar Power Partners, Inc. (SPP™) is a developer, owner, and manager (DOM) of a distributed network of mid-size commercial Solar Energy Facilities (SEF) that is remotely managed from a central location. SPP™ provides an innovative turn-key performance based service (PBS™) that bundles development of SEF, financing through a Power Purchase Agreement, and on-going operations tailored to meet building owner's specific needs.


Sonics

Mountain View, California

Sonics develops a communication subsystem that integrates data and controls traffic on a single chip.




Steelwedge, Inc.

Pleasanton, California

Steelwedge, Inc. is an innovative developer of Enterprise Forecast Optimization software solutions that enable companies to dramatically increase margins and revenue predictability by streamlining complex demand forecasting processes.


Strata8

Bellevue, Washington

Strata8 Networks provides integrated cell phone and office phone services along with industry specific business applications. Services provide business customers web-based management control, simplified billing, quality customer service, cost savings and ease of use. Basic wireless applications (i.e. email, contacts, calendar, etc.) and advanced wireless applications (applications specific to vertical markets) are easily integrated in our open platform environment.


StrongMail

Redwood Shores, California

StrongMail provides high-performance email delivery servers for marketing and transactional email that are optimized high-deliverability.


Think3

Cincinatti, Ohio

Think3 develops powerful, affordable, and easy-to-learn 3D design software. (formerly Cad. Lab)


Vericept

Denver, Colorado

Vericept enables companies to manage financial, compliance, reputation, and productivity risk by analyzing all inbound and outbound internet traffic for any activity falling outside of a company's internal information controls and acceptable use.




Vettro

New York, New York

Vettro is the global leader in mobile on-demand applications, trusted by over 200 of the world’s most successful field sales and service organizations including BostonCoach, Carillion, Carey Limousines, Cigna, Clemson University, Cytyc, General Electric, Hitachi Data Systems, Honeywell, Loomis Fargo, McKesson, Merrill Lynch, and SuperShuttle. Vettro 360 represents an integrated suite of enterprise on-demand mobile applications designed to help companies maximize business contributions driven by the field workforce.



Wirefree Partners

Atlanta, Georgia

Wirefree Partners is a PCS wireless spectrum lessor and and service provider in 16 US markets.




Zipcar

Cambridge, Massachusetts

An internet based service that lets members reserve and access a variety of cars without the cost of ownership. Today, Zipcar has more than 80,000 consumers and 2,500 cars in London and 13 North American states and provinces including Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Toronto and Washington D.C. areas, with plans to expand.


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