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AccelGraphics

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

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Adventure Central

Adventure Central helps power the adventure and experiential travel industries by providing a comprehensive e-commerce infrastructure to tour operators. Adventure Central offers a standardized distribution system to tour operators, enabling potential customers to buy trips in real-time through tour operators' Web sites, the Web sites of Adventure Central's channel partners, and through traditional channels such as travel agencies. Adventure Central also enables tour operators to market and manage trips in real-time, and to convert prospects into customers.

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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 is developing a management platform for industrial wireless automation. Apprion's approach to managing wireless technologies spans applications from condition monitoring to physical security, allowing companies to focus on the issues that drive their business instead of worrying about how to best align technology with their business issues.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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CompareNet

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

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Digimarc, Inc.

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

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.)

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.

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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.

iVillage Inc.  (Women.com)

iVillage Inc. (Women.com)

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

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Market Axess

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

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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.

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Mergent

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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.

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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.