Accipiter Systems, Inc. is a leading developer of innovative data networking solutions.  We offer data networking products that deliver higher value to the customer through the use of disruptive technologies.  Accipiter Systems is providing differentiating data networking expertise to government agencies, DoD contractors and commercial companies.

Aethon is the leader in the business of low-cost, pilot-less hauling of materials indoors. We substitute a pilot-less Tug® for a person.  Our competitive advantage is our patented indoor positioning system, with a manufacturing cost a fraction of our competitors, which navigates with ±3" accuracy and allows us to automate indoor transport at one-fourth the cost of a person pushing a cart.

Agentase, LLC is a technology company founded in December 1998 by Dr. Keith LeJeune and Dr. Alan Russell, two of the nation's leading experts on enzyme-polymer hybrid materials. The company possesses proprietary and patented technology in the synthesis and potential applications of enzyme containing polymers.

Alertek has developed proprietary sonsors and algorithms to monitor the conditions of the world's infrastructures.  The technology utilizes sensors and electronics that detect signals related to structure weakenning.  Specific applications include monitoring mine roofs, highway bridges and tunnels.

ALung Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”) develops intra and extracorporeal gas exchange devices for the treatment of acute and chronic respiratory disorders.  By directly delivering oxygen (O2) to the blood and removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the blood, the company’s products deliver a clinically and economically superior ventilation solution than mechanical ventilation.  ALung products are capable of supporting patients with acute breathing problems for 7 days, providing their lungs a bridge to recovery.

ATRP Solutions, Inc. is an innovative materials science company that produces specialty polymers for tomorrow’s commercial products. Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) technology is a rapidly emerging platform technology for preparation of next generation plastics. As the world leader in atom transfer radical polymerization technology our mission is to enable businesses in personal care & cosmetics, detergents & surfactants, paints, pigments & coatings and biocompatible materials to capitalize  on this technology by providing the highest quality ATRP-based polymers.

In a deal that closed September 1, 2005, Mercury acquired privately held BeatBox Technologies Inc. BeatBox's technology is a plug-and-play network appliance that passively monitors network traffic to detect Web site application errors, performance problems and security threats. BeatBox customers in e-retail, banking and insurance gain valuable insights into visitor behavior and site performance on their Web sites.

BIOSAFE’s technology provides products with microbiological protection.  Through a patented and EPA registered antimicrobial technology, products that include BIOSAFE are permanently protected bacteria, mold and mildew, algae, and even certain viruses.  BIOSAFE works in close partnership with personnel from design and development and end-user marketing to insure simple integration and communication of strong product advantage.

BitArmor is the maker of DataControl™, powerful new software that provides a faster, easier, more cost-effective way to protect and manage sensitive data throughout any organization. Unlike traditional solutions that only deal with information at specific points in the system, BitArmor DataControl software attaches a Smart Tag™ directly to the data itself — a tag that travels with the data and allows you to secure, track, and control it regardless of where it is stored or sent. BitArmor helps companies protect valuable data assets, achieve regulatory compliance, and manage data throughout its functional lifecycle.

Blue Belt Technologies, Inc., a Carnegie Mellon University spin-off company, was formed in 2003 to commercialize novel device solutions for medical interventions.  Blue Belt draws from the extensive experience of its research team to develop devices in computer-assisted surgery and diagnosis.  The company has developed Precision Freehand Sculpting™ (PFS), a solution that reintroduces robotics into the operating room to enable safer, faster, and more accurate treatment of osteoarthritis and other bone related conditions.  PFS will address the challenges of Minimally Invasive Surgery, with the goal of improving patient outcomes and lowering healthcare costs.

Bossa Nova is a Pittsburgh-based, robotic toy start-up spun out of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. Bossa Nova was launched in order to realize the founders' dream of giving kids everywhere an opportunity to interact with the most exciting robots made available to the public. Bossa Nova incorporates advanced robotic technologies from Carnegie Mellon into its products and is partnering with manufacturers and distributors to bring these products to the market.

BPL Global is a leading international provider of broadband over power line technologies, system integration solutions, and services facilitating power line communications (PLC). Partnering with leading utilities and ISPs around the world, the company’s goal is to provide ubiquitous “broadband” access to consumers and “smart grid” applications to utilities. The company offers its joint venture partners proven PLC business models and integrated, multi-vendor solutions comprised of best-of-breed infrastructure, content, applications, software and hardware. As a result, utilities can confidently deploy new revenue-generating, content-rich broadband over power line services in a cost-effective way and enjoy improved electric service reliability and operating cost reductions through the use of smart grid applications at the same time.

Caliber Infosolutions Inc, is an Enterprise Quality Management Product Company. Caliber specializes in technology solutions, to Pharmaceutical, Food & water Quality Management. It’s flagship product,   CaliberLIMS helps Pharma companies to enforce  GLP and 21CFR part 11 standards  and manage laboratory information to reduce the risk of non compliance. Certified integration with SAP  and other ERPs & instruments makes CaliberLIMS an enterprise application.  Caliber also offer software validation services as per GAMP.

Carnegie Speech markets software for testing and improving English pronunciation for non-native speakers. Using state-of-the-art speech recognition and intelligent tutoring technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University, the company markets applications that solve problems in the corporate business process outsourcing, healthcare, government and global education markets.

CastGrabber, LLC is a dynamic new company focused on creating advanced unique home electronics. Our highly experienced team created it first in a series of products – an electronic device that automatically autonomously downloads Podcasts directly to almost all MP3 players without a PC.

Cellatope is a cell analysis company that is developing research and diagnostic products and services in the field of autoimmune and inflammatory disease, with an initial focus on lupus and transplant medicine.  The Company’s technology platform – cell-bound complement activation products (CB-CAPs) – is the subject of an exclusive, world-wide license from the Universtiy of Pittsburgh (UPITT) and is based on research at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Cepstral provides speech technologies and services for the spoken delivery of information. We build high quality, natural sounding voices for hand-held, desktop, and server applications. Our technology is easy to incorporate and operates in a small memory footprint with low computing resources. In contrast with previous technologies, which are either very large systems or offer lower quality due to outdated technology, Cepstral Text-To-Speech (TTS) engines and voices can be deployed on mobile devices or in multiple instances on server platforms, making it the easiest to use and most versatile product available today. 

Ciespace's mission is to revolutionize product development for manufacturing companies by greatly improving the productivity of engineering simulation processes.  There is considerable business value in improving the productivity of engineering simulation to predict design performance prior to costly physical processes of prototyping and testing. Ciespace will accomplish this goal through its "BubbleMesh" software product which is a patented, physics-based technology that automates 2D/3D mesh creation.  A mesh is a mathematical representation of a CAD model that is required by simulation software to predict product performance earlier in the development process thereby minimizing the need for high cost, physical processes of prototyping and testing.

Civic Science, Inc. is a web-based polling and marketing research company. Through distributed polling widgets, a high-functionality web portal, and proprietary analytics software, Civic Science generates advanced intelligence about consumer preference and behavior.

ClearCount's operating room automation platform will replace the current manual, error-prone system of tracking patient data, prescription drugs and surgical equipment in hospitals.  ClearCount’s patented technology dramatically reduces costs, improves patient safety, and increases worker productivity. 

Cognition Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel therapies for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Cognition’s approach combines biological expertise around protein targets, proprietary assays that emphasize functional responses, and proprietary chemistry that insures novel, high quality small-molecule drug candidates.

Cohera Medical, Inc. is a medical device company aimed at fulfilling the market demand for a strong, safe, easy-to-use surgical adhesive to improve deep wound closure. Our first product, TissuGlue™ will be used to position tissues for optimal healing while reducing the need for fluid drains. The flexibility of our proprietary chemistry will allow us to generate a family of products that will address a variety of clinical needs for tissue fixation.

Compliance Assurance Corporation provides network security, risk management and regulatory compliance solutions for businesses that need to comply with consumer privacy and security regulations including the Gramm Leach Bliley Act (GLBA), HIPAA and FACT ACT.  Our solution, Comply On-Demand®, is a software-as-service solution that will step small to mid-sized businesses through their compliance requirements, automate the development of policy and procedural documents, and provide training, testing and audit trails for compliance. The only thing required is a phone and an internet connection.

Concurrent EDA is an emerging leader in the generation of electronic design automation and analysis tools for high-performance embedded systems. Systems that utilize a combination of hardware and software require advanced design automation tools to handle increasingly complex designs and shorter development windows. Concurrent EDA's tools rapidly identify the bottlenecks in software applications and provide methods to maximize system performance. Concurrent EDA has domain expertise in hardware/software systems for DSPs, FPGAs and ASICs. In addition to producing world-class design tools, Concurrent EDA also provides consulting and design services.

Crystalplex develops and commercializes innovative fluorescent markers for use in biological research and testing. Our technology is based on our proprietary composition-tunable nanocrystals (quantum dots). Our PLxBeadTM products enable researchers to collect multiple results simultaneously from very small sample volumes. PLxBeadsTM provide an easy-to-use solution to the cumbersome methods currently used to derive protein and genetic information. Crystalplex products promise to reduce the labor and shorten the time required for academic and pharmaceutical research.

DesignAdvance Systems, Inc. is a leading developer of EDA and MCAD design automation software solutions that reduce the amount of time it takes to design electrical and mechanical products. CircuitSpace™, the company’s flagship product, delivers user-assisted automation to the current manual process of PCB component placement, reducing design time and pushing products to market sooner at reduced cost.

In a deal that closed April 22, 2003, ITU Ventures announced the sale of portfolio company Eizel Technologies, of Pittsburgh PA, to Nokia (NYSE:NOK) of Helsinki, Finnland.  Nokia is a world leader in mobile communications, a leading supplier of mobile phones and a leading supplier of mobile, fixed broadband and IP networks.  Eizel develops server-based products that transform email messages, attachments, intranet applications and web content into formats easily accessible by any mobile device on any network.  Eizel integrated with the enterprise network security division, Nokia Internet Communications.

Entermedia Corporation is a media company whose flagship product, Qlique(TM) (pronounced "click"), actively brings people together who inhabit the same Social LANscape(TM), providing fun and creative ways of discovering, connecting and participating with others through novel forms of social entertainment and live interaction.

FASTTAC, in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University, is the developer of the FAST Document Control and Mobility Systems (DCMS) which provides a cutting edge software solution for construction drawing and document sharing, annotation and communication.  FAST DCMS synchronizes information among the project’s team to support capturing, managing, and sharing information, emails and faxes; ultimately improving productivity, cutting costs and reducing document confusion and its intrinsic related risk. FAST DCMS is currently being used by contractors and building teams on projects from coast to coast in the United States.

Fluorous Technologies, Inc. (FTI) manufactures a variety of products that facilitate the use of fluorous chemistry in traditional and high-throughput synthesis. These products are marketed under the trade name FluoroFlash®, and include fluorous protecting groups, fluorous reagents for specific synthetic reactions, fluorous scavengers, fluorous building blocks, and fluorous sorbents in a variety of formats.

Health Monitoring Systems is a pioneer in community health surveillance. The company maintains online networks to collect data from hospitals and other healthcare providers, and then offers analytics of the aggregated information to detect, pinpoint and understand real-time and emerging health and safety issues. Clients include public health authorities, hospitals and others in the healthcare industry.

HyperActive Technologies addresses the real-time decision-making problems plaguing service-driven industries, problems that managers and other technology solutions cannot solve. Our applications utilize intelligent robotics to streamline operations in high-volume, high-demand markets like Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs), retail, and the grocery industry. For example, in the largest QSR chains in the world, HyperActive Technologies is achieving enormous improvements in the industry's key metrics. Restaurants are experiencing faster service times, less product waste, and improved food quality. This translates to higher sales volume, happier customers, and in the QSR case, fresher, hotter food.

Immunetrics is a bio-simulation company, founded in 2001, that specializes in in silico disease modeling.  Immunetrics modeling technology provides critical information to drug developers to accelerate and improve the drug discovery and development process, particularly in the identification of clinically relevant biomarkers.   Immunetrics has developed a predictive software model of the human response to inflammation and coagulation, which enables drug discovery and development firms to gain comprehensive insights into a compound before investing significant resources into time-intensive and costly animal testing and human clinical trials.

ImpactGames is best known for PeaceMaker (www.peacemakergame.com), the award-winning simulation game of the Middle East conflict.  PeaceMaker was sold in over 60 countries around the world, and received critical acclaim from media like The New York Times, CNN, Al Jazeera, BBC and Time Magazine.  ImpactGames is working now on expanding its products and business to encompass a model of online participation in current events. The community-driven experience is titled "Play the News".

INTEG process group, inc. serves the Industrial Automation/Plant Asset Management Industry by designing and manufacturing software/hardware solutions that monitor and control plant equipment for the P2E (Plant to Enterprise) domain.  INTEG's technology offers customers a more open, flexible and cost-effective solution to connect, monitor and manage uptime/failures in environments where manual monitoring is costly.  Monitoring is enabled via the network and provides plant managers, operating personnel and maintenance teams a real-time view of their environment.

InvestEdge is a leading provider of wealth management solutions to large banks, trust companies, brokerage firms and financial advisors.  The InvestEdge system enables investment professionals to more effectively manage large numbers of high net worth accounts with automated tools for portfolio management, performance measurement, compliance monitoring, client reporting, and more.  InvestEdge customers include Wilmington Trust, Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, Greycourt and Co., and other leaders in wealth management.

KeyBay Pharma is dedicated to the discovery, development and commercialization of the next generation of novel antibiotics.

Knopp Neurosciences Inc. is a biotechnology company with a mission to accelerate the diagnosis and improve the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often called Lou Gehrig’s disease. Led by veteran executives from the pharmaceutical industry, Knopp is developing two synergistic technologies to address unmet needs in ALS: novel drug therapy to give patients a chance against the disease and molecular biomarkers to provide earlier diagnosis.

Landslide Technologies Inc. is a pioneer in Sales Workstyle Management, the industry’s first offering to address the work style needs of individual salespeople. Built by salespeople for salespeople, our Landslide product combines software, collaboration and a live administrative assistant to support the activities and habits of salespeople, helping maximize their time, drive action, and generate results. It codifies proven sales processes, provides step-by-step sales guidance, creates a high-touch and unique buying experience for the customer, and provides each salesperson with a live assistant to help them offload mundane administrative tasks that prevent them from staying in selling mode. As a company comprised primarily of seasoned sales veterans, we celebrate the life of the salesperson and are dedicated to helping them achieve more success, more often.

Lightfoot Inc. has automated the labor intensive and error prone manual task of case picking in distribution warehouses.  This new warehouse automation system is initially targeted at the Wine & Spirits industry (over $30 billion/year revenue).  The warehouse distribution sector is an industry where profit margins are tightly coupled to the logistical costs of moving product from the receiving dock to the shipping dock.  Lightfoot replaces picking labor (typically 55% of labor costs) and reduces replenishment labor (typically 25% of labor costs) while improving accuracy and efficiency in the case picking process.

medSage Technologies provides software and services which enable providers in the rapidly growing Home Medical Equipment (HME) industry to dramatically increase supply revenue from current patients by identifying those who require replacement supplies as soon as they are eligible.  medSage also significantly improves quality of care by identifying patients who have problems in need of clinical attention.  The underlying technology is fully developed and is presently being used by more than 30 customers and almost 100,000 of their patients.

Memory Medallion is an award winning, maintenance free, personalized remembrance product that allows for a digital picture and life story to exist for generations on any monument location, inside or outside.  It can be read by most portable computers and is about the size of a quarter.

Mobile Aspects provides advanced item level tracking, inventory and accountability applications using Radio Frequency (RFID) technology for the healthcare delivery arena.  Their initial product, InviRT (Inventory in Real Time) provides healthcare delivery organizations with real time transparency into the location, inventory level, and the last person to move their valuable supplies and medications at all times.  The Healthcare Industry has been under increasing pressure to reduce errors in their processes, which cost the industry in excess of $50 Billion per year.  Further, the entire industry is being encouraged by HMO’s and the government to significantly reduce costs, while, at the same time, improving security and accountability for high-cost, high-sensitivity items.  Mobile Aspects partners with hardware suppliers, enterprise database vendors, and equipment supply companies to provide healthcare delivery organizations with an item tracking solution that monitors each item’s movement from supply room to end use.  This helps health organizations to be more efficient, eliminate costly errors, and provide employee accountability.