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AD PathLabs, Inc.
Newport Beach, California
AD PathLabs is a healthcare service business, which has developed a unique
model to address the Anatomic Pathology industry by consolidating all
technical Anatomic Pathology services into full service, centralized,
regional processing labs. AD PathLabs is a top-tier, nationally recognized
provider of pathology services to hospitals and outpatient facilities.
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NextCard, Inc.
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NASDAQ: NXCD
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San Francisco, California
NextCard, Inc. is the creator of the first true Internet VISA credit card. NextCard offers online approval and the ability to design specific terms for their NextCard credit card at their web site.
American Asphalt & Grading Company
Las Vegas, Nevada
American Asphalt & Grading Company is a leading provider of integrated
infrastructure construction services to private and public sector customers
in the Las Vegas region. The Company provides excavation, grading,
earthmoving, asphalt paving, paving maintenance, concrete services and
related construction services. The Company is the market leader in the
residential segment and growing rapidly in the commercial, industrial and
public works market segments.
www.aaandg.com
Cooking.com, Inc.
Santa Monica, California
An on-line retailer focused on high quality cooking related products including: cookware, tableware, cookbooks, and specialty foods. Cooking.com has over 5,000 products in addition to creative content such as articles from prominent chefs, recipes, and cooking advice.
www.cooking.com
CallConnect Communications
Boulder, Colorado
CallConnect is an innovative business services company focused on outsourcing employee benefits administration communications. Through its sophisticated call center supported by web based benefits administration tools, CallConnect improves employee access to and satisfaction with their benefits.
www.callconnect.com
IPNet Solutions, Inc.
(acquired by Inovis, Inc.)
Newport Beach, California
IPNet develops and markets a comprehensive Business-to-Business eCommerce solution that automates external business processes and seamlessly links them to internal enterprise applications. IPNet's products utilize any network, including the Internet. Inovis, Inc. acquired the company in July 2003.
www.inovis.com
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Stamps.com, Inc.
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NASDAQ:STMP
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Santa Monica, California
Stamps.com designs software that allows users to purchase and print U.S. postage online, via the internet, with no additional hardware.
www.stamps.com
UltraLink, Inc.
(formerly iBenefits, Inc.)
Costa Mesa, California
UltraLink is a provider of an integrated Internet based benefits enrollment, administration, and e-commerce product. The Company's products are designed to maximize efficiency in the insurance brokerage and carrier communities and also provide valuable information to HR operations and employees of client companies.
www.ibenefits.com
Vendavo Corp.
(formerly OfficeClick.com, Inc.)
Palo Alto, California
Vendavo provides flexible software solutions that assist manufacturers and distributors with managing, pricing and structuring contractual relationships. Vendavo Advantage is a complete, enterprise-class solution combining all aspects of deal pricing, negotiating, analysis and monitoring.
www.vendavo.com
OnPrem Networks Corporation
(acquired by Copper Mountain Networks, Inc.)
Fremont, California
OnPrem is a provider of bandwidth management products and capabilities with a specific focus on multi-tenant opportunities such as hotels, office buildings or apartment complexes. Copper Mountain Networks, Inc. acquired the company in early 2000.
www.coppermountain.com
AirClic, Inc.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
AirClic will create a network such that consumers can scan various types of information into a handheld, wireless device and either buy or research products.
www.airclic.com
Ascendent Telecommunications
(formerly Travelers Telecom)
Encino, California
Ascendent has developed hardware and software telecommunications technology that allows any type of wireless phone to be easily linked to any type of PBX.
www.ascendenttelecom.com
DispenseSource
Rancho Santa Margarita, California
DispenseSource provides a web-based supply chain management system serving the industrial and corporate markets, providing accurate point-of-use information and automatic procurement software.
www.dispensesource.com
SpectraSensors, Inc
San Dimas, California
SpectraSensors is a technology spin-off of the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA, and was incorporated in 1999. SpectraSensors solutions and technologies revolutionize the measurement and monitoring of chemical concentrations in vapor and liquid in a variety of industries such as Environmental, Energy, Water, and Chemical Process Monitoring. The company uses robust spectroscopy techniques that have been in practice for many years; recent advancements in semiconductor lasers have made this technology economically viable for a host of commercial applications. SpectraSensors standard products include moisture (H2O) sensors for atmospheric measurement, moisture and carbon dioxide (CO2) measurement in natural gas, and arsenic (As) detection in water. SpectraSensors also offers OEM packages to companies looking for sensor head modules as well as special orders for the measurement of other compounds such as CH4, NH3, HCl, H2S, CO, and NO.
Teradiant Networks Inc.
San Jose, California
Teradiant Networks Inc., located in San Jose, California is a fabless
semiconductor company that offers fourth generation Packet Processing and
Traffic Management ASSP to developers of IP routers and multiservice
switches. Teradiant's TeraPacket chip set provides scalable guaranteed wire
rate (1x10G to 4x10G) performance that combines the best of two worlds: the
flexibility of programmable network processors, and the high performance of
ASICs. Because of its unique pipelined configurable architecture, the cost
of software development and maintenance is considerably reduced. In
addition, the real estate and power of the OEM's equipment is minimized.
Hence, the real promise of Teradiant's product is in minimizing the CAPEX
and OPEX of the OEM's end customers.
www.teradiant.com
Maxima Corporation
San Diego, California
Maxima developed the new All-weather Optical Wireless (AOW) technology as the next generation of wireless Free Space Optical (FSO) communication systems. Maxima’s technology, providing fiber-like bandwidth from 1.55 Mbps to 2.5 Ggbps, will be a major catalyst in solving so called "last mile bandwidth" problem. AOW FSO will be a dominant technology in building last-mile access networks, backhaul networks for cellular, 3G and 802.11 wireless networks, and corporate WANs/LANs. Due to its unique optical characteristics in fog, rain and battlefield smoke conditions, Maxima’s technology has other important applications in law enforcement, military and defense areas, as well as commercial communications use.
www.maximacorp.com
Artifact Entertainment
Mesa, AZ
Artifact is a developer of cutting edge software for the massively multi-player online gaming industry. Its first product, Horizons, is one of the most highly anticipated games in the fantasy role playing game market and will boast the most advanced 3D graphics and server technology in the industry.
www.artifact-entertainment.com
Vativ Technologies, Inc.
(formerly Warp Networks)
San Diego, California
Vativ Technologies, Inc. provides flexible, cost-effective and extremely high data rate copper backplane interconnect solutions using proprietary DSP and communication algorithms.
www.vativ.com
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Trikon Technologies, Inc.
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NASDAQ: TRKN
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London, England
Develops, manufactures and markets a broad line of advanced processing systems for semiconductor manufacturing. These systems are used for etch, physical vapor deposition (PVD) and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) applications.
www.trikon.com
Comcore Semiconductor
(acquired by National Semiconductor, Inc.)
Calabasas, California
Comcore designs, delivers and supports integrated circuits for high-speed local and wide area networking applications. National Semiconductor purchased Comcore in May 1998.
FieldCentrix, Inc.
(acquired by ServiceCo Holdings, Inc.)
Irvine, California
Provides a software solution that operates on a handheld or palmtop CE device for field service technicians in the HVAC (heating and air conditioning), plumbing, appliance, and related service industries.
www.fieldcentrix.com
Tekni-Plex, Inc.
Somerville, New Jersey
Manufactures trays for chickens and meat packaging, egg cartons, clamshell containers for fast-food service, moisture impermeable blister packs for prescription drug packaging and closures for over-the-counter medicine bottles.
www.tekni-plex.com
InnoTech, Inc.
(acquired by Johnson & Johnson)
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NASDAQ:IIII
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Roanoke, Virginia
InnoTech was a leader in the development and marketing of in-office production systems for the fabrication of multi-focal lenses using proprietary molds and resins. Johnson & Johnson completed an acquisition of InnoTech in 1997.
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Golden State Vintners, Inc.
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NASDAQ:VINT
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Greenbrae, California
One of the largest owner / operators of vineyards and one of the largest contract wine processors in the United States. Golden State owns approximately 10,000 vineyard acres and five bulk wine processing facilities in Northern and Central California.
HFSC Holdings, Inc.
San Diego, California
Hamilton Funeral Service Centers acquires and operates funeral homes and cemeteries in non-metropolitan markets.
Crosman Acquisition Corporation
East Bloomfield, New York
The world's leading manufacturer of recreational airguns and accessories. The Company manufactures and markets a full line of airguns as well as paintball guns, slingshots, airgun ammunition, targets and other accessories under the Crosman, Benjamin Sheridan, Copperhead and Visible Impact brand names.
www.crosman.com
Pearl Izumi
Boulder, CO
Designs, manufactures, distributes and sells premium cycling and other sporting goods apparel under the "Pearl Izumi" brand label.
www.pearlizumi.com
Cytovia, Inc.
(acquired by Maxim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.)
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NASDAQ: MAXM
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San Diego, California
Commercializes a patented drug screening technology through partnerships with large pharmaceutical companies and clinical testing service companies. Cytovia was acquired by Maxim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in June 2000.
www.cytovia.com
www.maxim.com
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Vista Medical Technologies, Inc.
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NASDAQ: VMTI
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San Diego, California
Develops, manufactures and markets proprietary visualization and information systems that enable minimally invasive microsurgical procedures in cardiothoracic, head, neck, spine (HNS) and other areas for microsurgery.
www.vistamt.com
American Lighting Supply
San Diego, CA
American Lighting and Distribution provides energy efficient lighting
solutions as one of the nation's leading lighting retrofit contractors. The
Company is committed to superior customer service while finding cost
effective and environmentally friendly energy solutions for its customers.
American Lighting also specializes in locating rebate programs that further
reduce the customers' cost.
www.americanlightingsupply.com
OfficeSource
OfficeSource was founded in May 2004 to become the first national wholesaler focused exclusively on the mid-market office furniture sector. Through initial acquisitions of Kansas City-based Mid-Continent Office Distributors and Sacramento-based Equipment Distributors, OfficeSource is now the largest exclusive wholesaler of mid-market office furniture in the country.
OfficeSource's growth strategy is based on making key acquisitions of leading regional office furniture wholesalers, consolidating duplicative operating functions into one location, leveraging buying power, and implementing best practices across the organization. Today, multiple local and regionalized wholesalers service the mid-market office furniture sector. The only national distributors of office furniture that do service the mid-market focus primarily on office supplies and technology. OfficeSource aims to improve the performance and service of the mid-market channel through its acquisition strategy and organic sales growth that will result from improved operational efficiencies and nationwide distribution capabilities.
www.officesource.com
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