AardvarQ, LLC


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AardvarQ provides the industry's first configurable B2B AppStore Framework. When licensed, AardvarQ provides a branded, hosted AppStore that can be offered in concert with an embedded device manufacturer’s product lines.

www.aardvarq.net


Accipiter Systems, Inc.


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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.

www.accipitersystems.com


Aethon, Inc.


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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.

www.aethon.com


Agentase LLC (an ICx Company acquired by FLIR Systems)


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Agentase, LLC (an ICx company) 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.  ICx Technologies agrees to be acquired by FLIR Systems 8/16/10

www.agentase.com


Alertek, LLC


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


AllFacilities Energy Group, LLC


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AllFacilities Energy Group (AFEG) provides energy audits, regulatory reporting and vendor contracting to large, medium and small building owners and managers.

www.allfacilitiesenergygroup.com


Allpoint Systems


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Allpoint Systems offers automated processing software and services to engineers, surveyors and technicians that utilize 3Dimensional Laser Scan (3DLS) data in engineering and architectural models.  The company has created a software platform comprised of proprietary and off-the-shelf processing algorithms and engines.  Allpoint's offerings enable vast improvements in the speed at which its survey partners can deliver results, as well as enhance capabilities provided to the survey partners' customers.

www.allpointsystems.com


ALung Technologies, Inc.


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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.

www.alung.com


American Roadprinting, LLC



American Roadprinting has developed a robotic solution to enable a new form of outdoor advertising.  The product, Chalkjet, accepts personalized and advertising messages over the web and prints the messages on roadways/surfaces using proprietary inks. 

www.americanroadprinting.com


Appalachian Lighting Systems, Inc.


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Appalachian Lighting Systems, Inc. (ALSI) specializes in developing and manufacturing high-powered, ultra energy-efficient, light emitting diode (LED) lighting fixtures.   Their products include: next generation streetlights; warehouse lighting, sign illumination; parking lot, parking and garage lighting; tunnel lighting; indoor office lighting; and other specialty lighting systems.

www.appalachianlightingsystems.com


ATRP Solutions, Inc.


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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.

www.atrpsolutions.com


BIOSAFE, Inc.


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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.

www.biosafe.com


BitArmor Systems, Inc. (Acquired by Trustwave)


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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. BitArmor acquired by Trustwave 1/12/10

www.bitarmor.com


Blue Belt Technologies, Inc.


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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.

www.bluebelttech.com


Bossa Nova Concepts LLC


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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.

www.bnconcepts.com


BPL Global, Ltd.


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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.

www.bplglobal.net


Bridge Semiconductor Corporation


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Bridge Semiconductor develops and markets thermal imaging camera sensors (infrared focal plane arrays) and thermal imaging cameras based on those sensors. It is targeting high-volume commercial applications such as see-through-smoke systems for firefighters, driver vision enhancement for trucks, automobiles, and buses, and security and surveillance.

www.bridgesemi.com


Bueda


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Bueda helps web publishers more effectively monetize their traffic by optimizing online ad placement in rich media and user-generated content via its innovative semantic matching engine.  Leveraging research from Carnegie Mellon University, Bueda combines user-generated tags, existing ontologies, and semantic analysis in order to match the right advertisement to the right multi-media content.  Bueda's proprietary semantic analysis platform accurately understands the relationship between the tags found in user-generated content and those in advertisements.

www.bueda.com


Caliber Infosolutions, Inc.


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Caliber Infosolutions Inc, is an Enterprise Quality Laboratory Information Management product company. Caliber specializes in technology solutions for Pharmaceutical, Food & water Quality Management. Its 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.

www.caliberinfosolutions.com


Carmell Therapeutics Corporation


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Carmell has developed a method of manufacturing biologically-active plastic materials from blood plasma.  These plastics are sterile, off-the-shelf, easy to handle, shape and suture, have controlled degradation rates, contain known levels of bioactivity, and exhibit mechanical properties designed to match the repaired tissue.  Carmell is focused on products for the sports medicine market with devices for the repair of tendon and cartilage injuries.

www.carmellrx.com


Carnegie Speech Company, Inc.


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Carnegie Speech Company is the premier developer and provider of software for assessing and teaching spoken-language skills. Using speech recognition and artificial technologies licensed from Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Speech software enables personalized, cost-effective and scalable spoken-language assessment and training. With years of linguistic research, world-class technology and language tutoring expertise, Carnegie Speech provides spoken-language training software to a worldwide clientele in the Corporate Training/BPO, Government, Aviation, Education and Health Care sectors.

www.carnegiespeech.com


CastGrabber, LLC


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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.

www.castgrabber.net


Cellumen, Inc. (Acquired by Apredica/Cyprotex)


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Cellumen is the Systems Cell Biology company that is focused on delivering cellular models of disease and cytotoxicity that will revolutionize the drug discovery process and improve the quality of compounds entering clinical trials. The same systems cell biology approach is also being developed to optimize personalized medicine for clinical trials.  Cellumen was acquired by Apredica/Cyprotex 8/4/10.

www.cellumen.com


Cepstral, LLC


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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. 

www.cepstral.com


Ciespace Corporation


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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.


Circadiance LLC


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Circadiance is a medical device company that has developed a flexible, cloth CPAP mask for the treatment of sleep apnea.

www.circadiance.com


Civic Science, Inc.


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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.
 
www.CivicScience.com


ClearCount Medical Solutions, Inc.


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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. 

www.clearcount.com


CloudFab


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CloudFab is an online platform that provides distributed manufacturing resources ("fabrication-as-a-service") for businesses who are creating mass customized goods across various product categories.  The CloudFab system also contains tools to facilitate and enhance the quoting, ordering, and manufacturing processes.

www.cloudfab.com


Cognition Therapeutics, Inc.


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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.

www.CogRx.com


Cohera Medical, Inc.


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Cohera Medical, Inc. is a medical device company that is developing a revolutionary line of surgical adhesives and wound management products.  Cohera’s lead product under development, TissuGlu®, is an easy-to-use, resorbable adhesive that positions tissues for optimal healing while minimizing fluid accumulation.  The unique chemical design of Cohera’s products can be formulated for use in a wide variety of surgical applications including plastic surgery, general surgery and orthopedic surgery.

www.coheramed.com

 


Compliance Assurance Corporation


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Compliance Assurance Corporation provides Governance  Risk & Compliance (GRC) solutions to the insurance market place. Utilizing our solutions companies mitigate the risks associated with the doing business in the highly regulated insurance industry.
  
Our solution, Comply On-Demand Enterprise®, is a software-as-service platform that provides insurer’s with a more effective, less costly means of maintaining and demonstrating regulatory compliance.

www.complyfast.com


Concurrent Electronic Design Automation, LLC


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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.

www.concurrenteda.com


Crystalplex Corporation


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Crystalplex manufactures high-performance solid state lights and provides cutting-edge semiconductor nanocrystal technology to solid state lighting and display manufacturers.

www.crystalplex.com


Deeplocal Inc.


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Deeplocal provides an advertising platform that links the digital and physical worlds. This platform has powered location-aware campaigns for international events like the World Cup and the Tour de France.

www.deeplocal.com


DesignAdvance Systems, Inc. (Acquired by EMA Design Automation, Inc.)


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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.

EMA acquires DesignAdvance press release 04/15/09

www.designadvance.com


Diamyd, Inc. (formerly Nurel Therapeutics)


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Diamyd, Inc. was formed through the acquisition of Nurel Therapeutics in December 2005 and is the wholly-owned US subsidiary of Diamyd Medical AB, a publicly traded company based in Stockholm, Sweden.  Diamyd Medical's lead product, Diamyd®, is a novel protein therapy for the prevention of the onset of diabetes and is currently in two Phase 2 clinical trials in Sweden.  At its Pittsburgh location, Diamyd is developing novel products for the treatment of diabetes and its complications including chronic pain and diabetic neuropathy.   Diamyd's proprietary nerve targeting delivery system was developed at the University of Pittsburgh and has numerous additional applications including potential therapies for the treatment of cancer and central nervous systems disorders.

www.diamyd.com


Epiphany Solar Water Systems, LLC


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Epiphany Solar Water Systems is a product development company specializing in concentrated solar energy technologies.  Epiphany’s solar powered, high efficiency, water desalination and purification system uses concentrated solar energy, rather than fossil fuels to purify water from nearly any source.  Due to its simple, elegant design, Epiphany’s system is inexpensive to build, easy to maintain, and extremely reliable, making it an ideal solution for the growing water crisis in developing and developed nations alike.

www.epiphanylaboratories.com


Etcetera Edutainment, Inc.


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Etcetera Edutainment is a Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) spinoff company that has developed a game engine for developing simulation-based educational and training applications.  The company was founded in 2005, and has an initial target market of safety training games.

www.EtceteraEdutainment.com


FASTTAC


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FASTTAC is the developer of the first electronic drawing and document distribution software system which provides cutting edge solutions to the A/E/C industry to improve communication, increase collaboration and reduce project risk.  FASTTAC creates the “virtual set” of contract documents for a project’s Owner, Designer and Builder to reduce project costs by up to thirty percent. FASTTAC's centralized system distributes drawings and documents to all users reducing inefficiencies caused by drawings not being where they are needed when they are needed.  FASTTAC is currently being used by contractors and building teams on projects from coast to coast in the United States.

 

www.fasttac.com


FlashGroup



FlashGroup.com is a new social media website that solves the information overload problem by providing each user with a prioritized personalized stream of information.

FlashGroup.com


Fluorous Technologies, Inc.


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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.

www.fluorous.com


Health Monitoring Systems, Inc.


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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.

www.hmsinc.com


High Performance Building Systems


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High Performance Building Systems enables the production of the most cost effective, highest efficiency,  mass producible exterior wall panel available achieved through an evolutionary EPS foam core wall design, “Highper Wall” combined with an innovative “bolt on” material processing/ software /assembly technology.


HyperActive Technologies, Inc.


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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.

www.hyperactivetechnologies.com


Immunetrics, Inc.


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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.

www.immunetrics.com


ImpactGames LLC (Acquired by Hybrid Learning Systems)


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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".  ImpactGames was acquired by Hybrid Learning Systems 8/2/10.

www.impactgames.com


Industry Weapon, Inc.


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Industry Weapon's Go Hyper Digital platform provides digital media admins with a centralized content creation, management, and distribution tool unlike any they have seen before. With a click of the button, CommandCenterHD makes it simple for content creators to effectively distribute multi-media to their target audience using Digital Signage, IP phones, Mobile phones, the Desktop and the Web.

www.industryweapon.com


INTEG process group, inc.


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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.

www.integpg.com


Intimate Bridge 2 Conception, Inc.


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Intimate Bridge to Conception, Inc. (Ib2C™) is an early-stage medical device company focused on reproductive health to aid in natural fertility and conception in the privacy of the patient’s home. Our mission is to give women/couples health care products that will assist them in reaching their reproductive goals while impacting and having a positive effect in two targeted populations; individuals committed to building a family and patients diagnosed with infertility who have not been able to participate or have been unsuccessfully addressed with existing alternatives today.

www.intimatebridge2conception.com


InvestEdge, Inc.


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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.

www.investedge.com


Just Between Friends


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Just Between Friends is the official communications and membership management system of PTA as well as other mom-centric groups. The online system helps PTAs and groups easily manage their business and communicate with their members. The system also helps parents to manage their hectic lives by providing them with tools to easily organize their family’s activities.

www.justbetweenfriends.com


KeyBay Pharmaceutical



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


Knopp Biosciences LLC


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KNOPP BIOSCIENCES is a drug discovery and development company focused on delivering breakthrough treatments in neurological disorders through innovation, experience and partnership.  Knopp’s lead compound, KNS-760704 (dexpramipexole), is currently in late-stage clinical development for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, with additional indications under investigation.

www.knoppbio.com

 


kWantera (fka MobileFusion, Inc.)


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kWantera provides leading-edge power management solutions to large commercial buildings, industrial manufacturers, universities, hospitals, data centers, and many other business segments. Our SmartFusion product analyzes large volumes of high-velocity, real-time data from smart meters, sensors and other sources and uncovers hidden anomalies in the power.

www.kwantera.com


Landslide Technologies, Inc.


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Landslide Sales P3 is a sales production system that helps BtoB companies increase sales volume. It provides salespeople step by step best-practice process for closing deals, sales performance tools and personal assistants to offload data entry.

www.landslide.com


Lightfoot, Inc.


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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.

www.lightfootsystems.com


LoyalTree


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LoyalTree is a mobile customer loyalty platform, whereby any retailer can easily create a fully-customized reward program designed to attract, engage and retain customers through today's newest technologies.  LoyalTree programs are 100% hardware free and run completely through QR codes. With LoyalTree, consumers can join programs instantly, review reward status, share programs socially and receive personalized discounts directly on their device. LoyalTree also allows business owners to easily gain valuable customer, location, and purchasing data used to drive increased visit frequency and a customer's lifetime value.

www.loyaltree.com


Medallion Analytics


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Medallion Analytics is a software as a services platform that digitizes the mortgage lending process from application to closing by collecting all data in the process and connecting all players in the mortgage ecosystem.  The Medallion platform is revolutionary in that it creates a highly flexible workflow management tool by integrating lender-customized rules and government regulations that are powered by data extracted from documents housed in Medallion’s secure electronic vault.  Medallion’s error and fraud checking capability give lenders confidence that mortgage transactions are closed in accordance with government and lender-specific underwriting and compliance requirements.

www.medallionanalytics.com


medSage Technologies, LLC


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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 120 customers and almost 600,000 of their patients.

www.medsagetechnologies.com


Memory Medallion, Inc.


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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.

www.memorymedallion.com


Metis Secure Solutions


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The tragedies of 9-11, Hurricane Katrina, and the shootings at Virginia Tech University exposed the shortcomings of existing emergency notification systems (ENS).  To address the urgent need for a more effective ENS alternative, Metis Secure Solutions has developed a revolutionary new emergency warning platform.  In settings ranging from colleges and universities to public buildings, high rise office buildings and shopping malls, Metis Secure sends the right message to the right people in the right place in a matter of seconds.   Unmatched reliability, speed and ease-of-use are integral to the Metis Secure Solution notification platform, including a proprietary combination of two independent wireless data paths to deliver and receive messages.   In combination, these features make Metis Secure a superior solution with major advantages over every other emergency notification platform in the market.

www.metissecure.com


Mobile Aspects, Inc.


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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.

www.mobileaspects.com


Mobile Technologies, Inc.


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Jibbigo was built on two decades of the most advanced scientific research in speech and language processing at Mobile Technologies and now brings this state-of-the art speech translation technology to your mobile device or tablet. Mobile Technologies and Jibbigo maintain a strong research collaboration with InterACT, the International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.

www.jibbigo.com


ModCloth, Inc.


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From independent designer fashion to cute apartment wares, ModCloth.com is a mecca for discriminating female shoppers.  A well-known Indie fashion retailer with a loyal customer base, ModCloth is a trusted brand among college-aged women.  ModCloth's next-generation web experience will change the way customers look at fashion online and bring a much-needed sense of community to e-retail.

www.modcloth.com


MogiMe, Inc. (fka LeftRight Studios, Inc.)


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LeftRight has developed a social mobile platform for brands, companies and mobile application developers can grow & engage their users. LeftRight's MogiMe platform helps brands create a consistent and relevant cross-channel brand experience while seamlessly managing their marketing campaigns on Mobile, Social Media and the Web.

www.MogiMe.com


mSpoke, Inc. (Acquired by LinkedIn)


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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.

 

mSpoke acquired by LinkedIn 8/4/2010


My Payment Network, Inc.


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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.

www.mypaynet.com


nanoLambda, Inc.


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NanoLambda is a University of Pittsburgh spin-off commercializing an advanced sensor technology.  The Spectrum SensorTM chip utilizes novel plasmonics technology to, for the first time, produce a nano scale spectrum analyzer on an integrated circuit at a fraction of the size and cost of current bench-top systems.  This patented technology enables mobile/wearable health monitors such as non-invasive hemoglobin/bilirubin/glucose monitors and mobile/wearable devices that can detect multiple toxic gases/hazardous materials for security and safety. High resolution color sensing for display and printer products is also one of the early potential applications.


NeuroInterventions, Inc.


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NeuroInterventional Therapeutics, Inc. ("NIT", dba Neurointerventions, Inc.) designs and manufactures advanced catheter systems used to find, trap, and extract blood clots in a wide range of cerebral vessels, thus increasing chances of survival and minimizing disability.

www.neurointerventions.com


NewCare Solutions, LLC.


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NewCare Solutions, LLC. has developed the first truly consumer ready home monitoring solution for “at risk” individuals.  The system alerts the caregivers of changes in resident behavior that may indicate a problem in the home based upon caregiver logic and previous behavioral norms for the monitored individual.  NewCare’s unique solution allows an untrained caregiver, often a family member of the monitored resident, to install the entire monitoring system in minutes at a cost thousands of dollars less than currently available.

www.newcaresolutions.com


NoWait, Inc.


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NoWait takes the frustration out of the seating process at no-reservation restaurants for both restaurants and guests by managing the waiting list via text messages. NoWait further creates the opportunity to serve mobile web content to waiting guests by automatically building a text message marketing list for post-visit engagements. The vision of NoWait is to be the OpenTable for the casual dining market by providing real-time seating availability information for restaurants that don’t take reservations.

www.nowaitapp.com


NuRelm Inc.


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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.

www.nurelm.com


One Solar Energy, LLC


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One Solar Energy has developed a proprietary process for producing solar grade silicon (SGS) meeting the industry’s requisite standards and will supply the SGS to the photovoltaic industry for use in making silicon-based solar cells.


Penthera Partners


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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.

www.penthera.com


PeriOptimum, Inc.


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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.

www.perioptimum.com


PetsDx Imaging, Inc.


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PetsDx Veterinary Imaging, Inc. is an innovative group of individuals experienced in both veterinary medicine and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We are committed to working with local veterinarians to advance the practice of veterinary medicine by offering convenient access to state-of-the-art diagnostic technologies.

www.petsdx.com


Pittsburgh Iron Oxides LLC (PIROX)


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PITTSBURGH IRON OXIDES LLC (“PIROX”) manufactures 98%+ pure synthetic magnetite (SuperMagnetiteTM). SuperMagnetiteTM has a unique combination of magnetic properties (remnance, saturation, and coercivity) which are derived from its purity, particle size (2 to 10 microns), and particle shape. These attributes allow PIROX to compete strongly in some very large markets that include the manufacture of anodes, rust inhibition, pollution control (mercury and sulfur-dioxide removal), and the manufacture of iron phosphate for the food and batteries market.

www.piroxllc.com


Plextronics, Inc.


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Plextronics, Inc. is an international technology company that specializes in printed solar, lighting and other electronics. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, the company's focus is on organic solar cell and OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) lighting, specifically the conductive inks and process technologies that enable those and other similar applications.   Particularly relevant as the worldwide search for renewable energy becomes more urgent, the company's technology will enable the mass production of printed devices, such as low-cost organic solar cells and high-efficiency lighting. 

www.plextronics.com


Powercast Corporation


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Founded in 2003 to develop the groundbreaking Wireless Power Platform concept, Powercast is a pioneer in wire-free power that enables manufacturers to overcome the limitations of conventional power solutions.  Powercast holds numerous wirefree power technology patents and patent applications.

www.powercastco.com


Propel IT, Inc.


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Propel IT has developed a software solution to assist Class-I motor carriers in maximizing the fuel efficiency of their commercial trucking fleets.

www.propelit.net


RedPack Logistics Inc.


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RedPack Logistics, Inc.  is the leading logistics provider of parts proximity services in the U.S. The network offers convenient pick up and drop off locations, (PUDO’s) for service technicians to collect and return service parts.  The network provides dense coverage and 24/7 access. The PUDO network enable’s convenient access to parts for any field service technician in a safe controlled environment. RedPack’s technology platform track’s every “part event”, including delivery, pick up, and exceptions. Information is available to trigger the most complex SLA process. RedPack has helped leading service organizations reduce drive time, labor costs, and transportation costs while maintaining or improving service by expanding the options for any network optimization project. Our solution is “best practice” in Europe and innovating networks in the U.S.A.

www.redpacklogistics.com


RedPath Integrated Pathology, Inc.


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RedPath is a genomics-based cancer diagnostic company that provides comprehensive molecular analysis to resolve challenging diagnostic dilemmas. The company’s CLIA licensed, CAP certified laboratory delivers actionable diagnostic information that enables physicians to make personalized, effective treatment decisions for their patients.

www.redpathip.com


RedZone Robotics, Inc.


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RedZone Robotics is setting a new industry standard in trenchless technology and field service automation by delivering innovative, automated solutions that provide a more powerful, and more cost-effective method of sewer inspection and pipe rehabilitation. RedZone’s patent-pending trenchless technology is the first commercial application of sensor-fusion technologies that utilize multiple sensor inputs to enact action, leveraging our robotics and engineering expertise as well as our relentless focus on our customers’ challenges and needs. RedZone’s robotic offerings significantly outperform existing products, tools and technologies due to their modular approach, simpler operation, faster execution and continuous operation.

www.redzone.com


ReGear Life Sciences, Inc.


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ReGear Life Sciences, Inc. develops and markets innovative products that provide deep-tissue therapeutic heating to promote pain relief, reduce joint stiffness, and facilitate the body's natural healing process.

www.regearlife.com

 


SEEGRID Corporation


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Seegrid industrial mobile robots automate everyday material handling tasks in warehouses and distribution centers, allowing customers to refocus their highly skilled employees to value-added work for greater cost savings and productivity.  Seegrid robots use no lasers, tape or wires and feature WalkThroughThenWork™ set up--One walk through a facility and the robots are ready to work in minutes.

www.seegrid.com


Shoefitr, Inc.


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Shoefitr helps online shoppers find the correct size and best fitting shoe, which reduces the high rate of returns and increases consumer confidence in shopping online. Shoefitr technology is used on retailers’ websites to assist online shoppers and will be the basis for a comparative shopping site that allows customers to search and compare shoes by fit.

www.shoefitr.com


ShowClix, LLC


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ShowClix is a full-service ticketing company that provides web-based solutions to event organizers, promoters and venue managers across the United States. The company provides its clients, which include performing arts centers, nightclubs, live music venues, non-profit organizations, and colleges and universities, with an easy, affordable way to sell event tickets online, over the telephone or in-person through a point-of-sale/box office system.

www.showclix.com


Sim Ops Studios, Inc.


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Sim Ops Studios, the creator of Wild Pockets, is a spin-off from Carnegie Mellon University. Sim Ops Studios created the Wild Pockets platform to simplify the creation and delivery of 3-D content through the Web browser. Game developers and designers can sign up on the Wild Pockets website and instantly begin developing interactive 3D content, such as games, simulations and interactive ads. Content developed in Wild Pockets can be embedded and distributed instantly on any website anywhere online, similar to a YouTube video. A built-in micro-transaction system and marketplace enables developers to monetize the content they have developed.

www.wildpockets.com


SMASH


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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.

www.smashcode.com


Songwhale


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Songwhale is the leading Mobile Solutions Provider, supplying its partners with emerging technology and services that facilitate sponsorship, advertising, distribution and monetization of digital content to mobile devices.

www.songwhale.com


STARR Life Sciences Corp.


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STARR Life Sciences' mission is to improve the efficacy of medical research by creating small-animal versions of human medical diagnostic and monitoring devices.  These parallel tools ensure that medical research results, obtained using mice and rats, improve the health of humans.  STARR's cornerstone product, the MouseOx(TM), is the world's first and only pulse oximeter for mice and rats.  The MouseOx is more than just a pulse oximeter.  It provides real-time measurements of pulse rate, blood flow, arterial oxygen saturation, breath rate and effort to breath all from one simple, easy to use, non-invasive sensor.

www.starrlifesciences.com


Summit Materials LLC


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Summit Materials offers advanced materials and near-net shape manufacturing processes that save companies time and money in demanding industries such as aerospace, medical devices and oil exploration.  Our patented SM-100™ alloy is used where corrosion and wear resistance are needed simultaneously.  Efficient use of raw materials ensures minimal waste and environmental impact.

www.summitmaterials.com


TalkShoe


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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!

www.talkshoe.com


Thar Geothermal


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Thar Geothermal develops and markets highly efficient and cost effective Geothermal Heat Pump (GHP) technology and systems.  Thar Geothermal’s innovative and disruptive GHP technology dramatically reduces operating costs and is substantially more energy efficient than conventional GHP systems and conventional heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems.  The environmental footprint of Thar Geothernal’s GHP technology is also significantly reduced due to the complete elimination of conventional refrigerants which are toxic and produce considerable greenhouse gas emissions.

www.thargeo.com


Thar Pharmaceuticals, Inc.


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Thar Pharmaceuticals is focused on the development of improved versions of widely prescribed drugs that solve clinical limitations such as bioavailability, efficacy, safety, or route of administration; thus providing new clinical performance and benefits. Our goal is to quickly build a pipeline of drug candidates and to commercialize our drugs through established pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies.

www.tharpharma.com


The Resumator


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The Resumator delivers a powerful online recruiting platform to small businesses that simplifies the process of promoting jobs and reviewing resumes.

The Resumator


ThermalTherapeutic Systems, Inc.


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The VERATHERMTM Portable Hyperthermic Perfusion System is a portable hyperthermic device with proprietary technology developed by ThermalTherapeutic Systems, Inc. This device is designed to provide the medical community with an economical platform to deliver and circulate heated and unheated sterile fluids.

www.thermaltherapeutics.com


Thorley Industries LLC / 4moms


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Under the brand name 4moms, Thorley Industries has introduced robotics technology to the juvenile industry, creating innovative, well-designed products that meet parents’ real needs. Its products include the Cleanwater Collection (an infant tub and faucet cover with a built-in digital thermometers), the mamaRoo (an infant seat that moves the way parents do), and the Origami (the world’s first power-folding stroller: it folds at the touch of a button).

For more details on all 4moms' products, visit www.4moms.com


TowerCare Technologies, Inc.


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TowerCare Technologies is a rapidly growing company applying their effective software-as-a-service model to the expanding but technically under-served and under-penetrated nonprofit market.  Their flagship product, DonorPro, constituent management and fundraising software, helps all types of nonprofits raise more money (clients report double digit growth in annual donations), operate more efficiently (clients see an average 40% gain in staff productivity), and communicate more effectively with the donating public.  TowerCare has a large and ripe market, a superior product that’s better priced, a strong recurring revenue model, significant growth in sales and revenue, and a base of hundreds of reference-able clients worldwide including The ALS Association, National Cancer Center of Singapore, YWCA’s, Variety the Children’s Charities, Humane Societies, and more.

www.towercare.com


TrueCommerce, Inc. (Acquired by HighJump Software, Inc.)


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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. 
TrueCommerce was acquired by HighJump Software, Inc. 9/27/10.

www.truecommerce.com


Vivisimo, Inc.


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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.

www.vivisimo.com


Voci Technologies Incorporated


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Voci™ Technologies Incorporated (fka Silicon Vox Corporation) pioneered the first hardware-accelerated speech recognizer for enterprise analytics applications.  Voci™ speech-to-text servers convert large volumes of speech into text, operating at speeds faster than any alternative.  Conversations from one hundred phone lines or more can be simultaneously transcribed on a single Voci™ appliance.

www.vocitec.com


Westmoreland Advanced Materials


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Westmoreland Advanced Materials develops and markets unique refractory materials for niche applications where advanced materials solutions have a high degree of impact on the customers’ process. Westmoreland Advanced Materials has successfully introduced their new energy efficient refractory product to the aluminum market.

www.westadmat.biz


WhereverTV, Inc.


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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.

www.wherever.tv


Wombat Security Technologies


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Wombat Security Technologies develops interactive software-based cyber security training and filtering solutions to help organizations combat cyber security threats.  Wombat’s interactive software training solutions can reduce your employee's susceptibility to security attacks by over 70%!

www.wombatsecurity.com


Xactix, Inc.


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XACTIX, Inc. develops and produces equipment for manufacturing micro electromechanical systems (MEMS).  Manufacturing MEMS devices requires adding new manufacturing steps to the standard IC process. These new steps require new, specialized equipment to maximize yield and productivity. XACTIX leverages its unique combination of expertise in instrument and equipment design, semiconductor materials processing, micro machining and fabrication, and MEMS manufacturing to design and build leading-edge MEMS process equipment.

www.xactix.com


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