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SOFTWARE (ENTERPRISE/INTERNET)

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Software (Enterprise/Internet)
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AdventureLink

AdventureLink is the first Global Distribution System (GDS) providing consumers and travel agents the ability to easily shop, compare, and book adventure travel. The system integrates travel agents, customers and tour operators to provide a marketplace for booking adventure travel.

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Allegiance

Allegiance, Inc. is the premier provider of enterprise feedback management (EFM), on-demand solutions for measuring and managing customer and employee engagement across the enterprise. Customer and employee engagement ties directly to company growth and profits, and businesses that value and manage engagement realize more success. Allegiance helps companies increase profits, make more informed decisions and build a strong following with customers and employees through its Engage Platform — a flexible, turnkey, hosted solution offering easy implementation and no IT burden. Leading companies from around the world use Allegiance to manage their customer and employee engagement to grow their businesses.

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Apprion

Apprion provides industrial wireless application networks and services for managing and integrating multi-vendor wireless devices and applications and cost-effectively addressing process manufacturing facilities’ security, safety and compliance needs.

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Axcient

Axcient is the first data protection solution to make business continuity and online backup simple for SMBs by delivering a secure and cost-effective way to ensure uptime and data recovery. Unlike tape and typical online backup offerings, the Axcient suite of self-managing data protection services preserves application availability even if a server fails and restores lost data in minutes. With industry-leading features such as virtual server failover, onsite/offsite redundancy, multi-tier archiving and open file backup, Axcient's pay-as-you-grow model supports the rapid growth of today's small and medium sized businesses.

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CORAID

CORAID redefines storage economics with its breakthrough line of EtherDrive® storage solutions. EtherDrive delivers scale-out performance, Ethernet simplicity, and 5-8x price-performance advantage over legacy storage. Designed from the ground up for virtualization and reliability, CORAID solutions have been deployed by more than 1100 customers worldwide.

DriverSide

DriverSide

DriverSide is the first Web site specifically designed for automobile owners. DriverSide allows consumers to save time and money on servicing and maintenance as well as buy and sell automobiles, parts and accessories.  DriverSide offers free estimates of what repairs should cost for any given vehicle, as well as recall and service alerts for drivers.  With an in-house editorial staff, DriverSide offers useful advice on how to own and operate a vehicle as well as reviews on new and used automobiles. DriverSide's community allows consumers to participate in forums, meet other owners of a particular vehicle, share knowledge, and post reviews on mechanics and dealers.

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EMN8

EMN8 is building a network of unattended, rich media, consumer activated, interactive ordering and payment devices to automate the ordering and payment process in quick service restaurants and other food concessions such as movie theaters, specialty retail, airports and entertainment venues.

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IMVU

Avatar-based chat service (IM) seeking to monetize instant messaging and on-line chat with the sale of virtual objects, gaming, and other on-line activities. This is a large and growing market both domestically and internationally. IMVU intends to succeed through the creation of the world's best avatars and avatar-based chat system, as well as through a unique 3rd party development business model. The company currently has 3000 developers worldwide, who have created more that 30,000 virtual objects for sale within the IMVU world.

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Inertia

Inertia Beverage Group is an e-commerce infrastructure solution provider targeting the highly fragmented and largely inefficient wine industry distribution supply chain. Inertia's solutions allow suppliers to connect directly with their customers (consumers and retail trade) — building better commercial relationships while significantly reducing sales and distribution costs.

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Symplified

Symplified's Software as a Service (SaaS) platform SinglePoint - enables their customers to deploy secure Web applications, scale Web identity management, comply with regulations, and achieve peace of mind at a fraction of the cost and complexity of conventional Identity management products.

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WaveMaker

WaveMaker (formerly ActiveGrid) makes development tools and server software for a new generation of Web applications based on grids of Lintel commodity hardware and the LAMP software foundation (Lintel refers to the Linux + Intel combination; the acronym LAMP is derived from Linux, Apache [the "free" Web server], MySequel [the rising star of database engines] and PHP, the new scripting language for enterprise Web applications.

LEGACY COMPANIES

Communications/Networking

Ribbit Tombstone

Ribbit

[ACQUIRED by BT 2008]
Ribbit is an "open platform for telephony innovation" which developers are using to blend the phones people use today with the Internet. Ribbit's proprietary and patent pending switching and protocol normalization technology make it possible for a developer to embed sophisticated calling and communication capabilities into any web page, community or application with no previous telephony expertise.

StepUp Communications Tombstone

StepUp Communications

[SOLD to Intuit 2006]
StepUp is a leading local shopping services company that connects the inventory of local retailers with the comparison shopping queries of web-users - helping retailers use the Internet to display their in-store products and availability. StepUp's mission is to expose local inventory information from retailers of all sizes to consumers wherever they are browsing products online. Its patent-pending inventory extraction tools make it easy for any store to capitalize on online consumers' growing reliance on the web for locating products to buy locally.

Rent.com Tombstone

Rent.com

[SOLD to eBay 2005]
Rent.com operates a consumer-oriented site that provides tenant location services to apartment property managers for properties generally containing 250 or more rental units. The site earns revenue from the landlord for successfully locating a tenant who moves into a property, and rewards the tenant for ensuring Rent.com is credited with the lease.

BizRate (Shopzilla) Tombstone

BizRate (Shopzilla)

[ACQUIRED by Scripps 2005]
Shopzilla operates an online comparison shopping site providing services to consumers buying goods online. The site offers product search services, identification of reputable merchants, merchant ratings, price and availability, and promotional content that allow visitors to find products and merchants across millions of products and merchants available on the Internet.

IdeaForest Tombstone

IdeaForest

[ACQUIRED by JoAnn Stores 2007]
IdeaForest operates an e-commerce web site (www.joann.com) selling arts and crafts and related supplies to consumers online. The company operates the site in partnership with JoAnn Stores, the second largest art and crafts retailer in the U.S. JoAnn Stores operates over 900 retail arts and craft stores in 49 states.

Market Axess Tombstone

Market Axess

[ACQUIRED by Trading Edge 2004]
MarketAxess Holdings operates a private online trading network institutional investors buying and selling corporate debt.

iVillage Tombstone

iVillage Inc. (Women.com)

[IPO 2001]
Women.com is the premier stop on the Information Highway for women.

Mergent Tombstone

Mergent

[SOLD to Commerce One 2001]
Mergent developed e-commerce systems to aggregate product information from diverse suppliers' directories and catalogs.

Quokka Tombstone

Quokka

[IPO 2001]
Quokka was a digital sports entertainment company that pioneered the "total sports immersion" approach to involving site visitors as participants as opposed to passive viewers.

Apptitude Tombstone

Apptitude, Inc. (merged with Hi/fn, Inc.)

[SOLD 2000]
Apptitude is a enterprise application monitoring solutions.

Be Tombstone

Be, Inc.

[IPO 2000]
Be is a software company that has developed and is now marketing a modern operating system for personal computers. The BeOS runs on Intel architecture and hundreds of software developers are preparing applications for that platform. The BeOS is also an excellent operating system for "rich media" Internet Appliances.

Digimarc Tombstone

Digimarc, Inc.

[IPO 2000]
Digital watermarking solutions which promote and enable commerce in the digital age.

Medscape Tombstone

Medscape

[IPO 2000]
Medscape is an online registered medical community for physicians, healthcare professionals and consumers. The company went public in Q3'99 and subsequently merged with Medicalogic, Inc.

CompareNet Tombstone

CompareNet

[ACQUIRED by Microsoft 1999]
CompareNet was an Internet-based comparative shopping service.

AccelGraphics Tombstone

AccelGraphics

[SOLD 1998]
3D graphics accelerator sub-systems for NT workstations.

HyperParallel Tombstone

HyperParallel

[SOLD to Yahoo 1998]
HyperParallel (HPI) provided scalable software for data mining. HPI's software enabled companies to analyze their databases to improve Customer Relationship Marketing (CRM.)