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.

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.

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.

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 In contrast with previous technologies, which are either very large systems or offer lower quality due to outdated technology, Cepstral Text-To-Speech (TTS) engines and voices can be deployed on mobile devices or in multiple instances on server platforms, making it the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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

mSpoke's revolutionary Adaptive Personalization Engine intelligently filters huge amounts of information to combat information overload. FeedHub, mSpoke's newest personalization product, creates individualized RSS feeds that automatically select the most relevant posts from a set of feed sources that you choose. By using your preferences and dynamically adapting to your reading habits, FeedHub gives you the content you care about in individualized feeds so you can stay informed without being overwhelmed.

My Payment Network, Inc. (MPN) delivers electronic payment solutions to schools, small-to-medium service businesses, groups and non-profits.  Marketed via OEM resellers, My Payment Network’s flagship service, SchoolPay, allows schools to receive their 3.2 billion manual payments per year electronically, thereby, cutting costs and meeting the growing pressure they face to achieve transparent accounting.  My Payment Network is based in Pittsburgh, PA.

NuRelm is a Web site software and design firm offering solutions for business and non-profit marketing, communication, and training needs.  NuRelm software enables non-technical people manage their ongoing Web maintenance quickly and easily, through content management, e-learning / Web based training, and custom solutions such as project / workflow management, client / employee portals, and e-newsletter marketing.

Penthera provides mobile media delivery systems over multiple IP delivery networks, both unicast and multicast: HSDPA, EVDO, GPRS, WiFi, WiMax, DVB-H, T-DMB, and others.  Leveraging its real-world expertise and using a consultative approach, Penthera offers its client-server products as a managed service on behalf of network providers and media companies on a global basis.

PeriOptimum provides a broad range of products and services that help hospitals improve surgical throughput.  PeriOptimum's comprehensive solutions meet the perioperative improvement challenge with the depth and breadth to finally effect significant change with enduring results. By creating predictable and streamlined perioperative environments, throughput is increased, physician, staff and patient satisfaction are significantly improved, and tremendous bottom line gains can be achieved.  PeriOptimum customizes its implementation and project management approach based upon your unique processes and needs. Our PathFinder workflow management solution, and proven Surgical Capacity Improvement Program repeatedly helps our clients achieve unparalleled results.

Pertuity is an innovative consumer finance company that is coming to market with a set of disruptive products. Its first product, Dare to Compare, allows consumers to conduct financial benchmarking between themselves and their peers on a number of financial variables. Pertuity’s mission is to help consumers simplify their financial lives and looks to do this by continuously innovating new products that meet consumer needs.

QponDirect is a digital solution for the $8B paper coupon market, enabling a more effective, efficient and green alternative to the over 330B paper coupons distributed and managed by consumers, retailers and manufacturers each year. QponDirect was established to allow consumers and manufacturers the ability to produce, manage, distribute, redeem and fulfill coupons, rebates and customer loyalty incentives utilizing QponDirect's online marketplace in conjunction with QponDirect access card or the consumer's wireless mobile devices.

ShowClix is a live music search engine and online ticketing company created to connect musicians, venues and show promoters with live music fans around the world.  The website combines an open, live music database with an online ticketing platform, giving users an innovative, affordable way to promote their shows and sell tickets to music fans that search for, track and share concert information on the site.

Sim Ops Studios is creating technology that enables the everyday person to create and self publish 3D experiences on the web.  The technology enables the convergence of two major market trends by enabling the everyday person to easily create their own 3D immersive environments and to self publish and share these experiences with others online.

SMaSh delivers the next generation of interactivity and information delivery between businesses and mobile consumers. With text messaging at critical mass among mainstream cell phone users, SMaSh recognizes the significant opportunity to build immediate data interactions between mobile buyers and product/service providers when the consumers’ interest is initiated or peaks. And with SMaSh, those text-based interactions are fully automated, customizable, personalized, transactional, and stored.

Sponsored by $5M in DARPA, NSF, and NASA funding, the Carnegie Mellon Fluid project led to the creation of SureLogic Inc. SureLogic is the culmination of over a decade of CMU research into practical and effective approaches to software quality and assurance. SureLogic's technology is built into the development environment and provides programmers with bug finding and remediation, assurance, and design capabilities that focus on the most challenging aspects of advanced software development.

TalkShoe’s Internet website allows users to create and participate in live multi-person voice communications, in the form of discussion groups, talk shows, conversations, live podcasts, friends and family calls, sports talk forums, book clubs, and the like. We call these TalkCasts™. What’s more, when users host TalkCasts, they can get paid for their efforts!

TowerCare Technologies provides centralized, consolidated, and highly adaptive process applications for long-term health care and nonprofit organizations.  Our applications, built upon our proprietary work-flow centric architecture, enable our customers to achieve productivity improvements of over 40%, increases revenues, decrease expenses and meet new security and privacy goals.

TrueCommerce has everything you need to fully implement EDI from one source.  Since 1995, their mission has been to provide small to mid-tier companies with a comprehensive, end-to-end solution that is easy to implement, robust and affordable.  The TrueCommerce solution is used to exchange millions of EDI transactions annually within a variety of industries, ranging from banking, hardware, grocery, and mass merchandising, to healthcare and government.

Vivísimo, Inc. creates innovative software to access and cluster the world's information, for better search and discovery. Fortune 500 businesses, government agencies, academia, and millions of searchers use Vivísimo's clustering technology to better organize and navigate massive amounts of information. Vivísimo is the creator of the popular Clusty.com consumer search engine and serves enterprise customers through its search platform, Vivisimo Velocity, comprised of it clustering, search, and federated search technology.

WhereverTV delivers 1,200+ live, international television channels over the Internet directly to any TV in the world via a customizable Global Interactive Program Guide. The Guide can be accessed through a PC, set-top box or cell phone and travels with you wherever you go.