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Beceem
Communications, Inc.
www.beceem.com
Founded in 2003, Beceem Communications Inc.is a Santa Clara, California-based
startup company and offering semiconductor solutions on advanced
wireless communication technology, known as Mobile WiMax. Their
technologies are surpassing previous spectral efficiency thresholds
while providing excellent resistance to fading, multi-path and Doppler-shift
required for use in mobile broadband applications.
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Garage
Technology Ventures
www.garage.com
Started as Garage.com in 1997, Garage Technology Ventures is an
early-stage venture capital firm located in Silicon valley. The
co-founders, Guy Kawasaki, Craig Johnson, and Rich Karlgaard, created
the company to help entrepreneurs who need seed capital to turn
their ideas into action. The company's focus is on emerging technology
companies in California and the West Coast. Their typical investment
is from $100,000 to $1,000,000.
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Innovative
Robotics Solutions Inc.
www.innovativerobotics.com
provides specialty robotics system designed for automated processes
that requires exceptional accuracy, reliability, and ultra-cleanliness.
The company is a designer, developer, and supplier of precision
robotic equipment for semiconductor, biotech, and pharmaceutical
industries.
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Interpolls
www.interpolls.com
Founded in April 1999, Interpolls is a privately-held venture backed
California corporation providing interactive marketing solutions
and rich-media technologies for web publishers, advertisers, and
agencies. The company is the pioneer and leader in rich-media technology
that incorporates various types of questions within ad units to
interact, engage, and qualify users. Interpolls provides full service
rich-media advertising, sweepstakes, contests, and entertainment
features, which can be integrated into its proprietary rich-media
ad platform to maximize reach, awareness, and results.
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LookSmart
Ltd.
www.looksmart.com
Founded in Australia in 1995 and now based in San Francisco, Looksmart
is a leader in commercial search services and a developer of innovative
web search solutions. Combining award-winning technology, editorial
expertise, and community-based initiatives, LookSmart provides users
with highly relevant search results, while delivering targeted sales
leads to online businesses. LookSmart results reach Internet users
worldwide through top portals, ISPs, and search services including
Lycos, InfoSpace, CNET, and LookSmart.com.
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Rulespace
Inc.
www.rulespace.com
Founded in 1996, RuleSpace, Inc. is a privately held corporation
located in Portland, Oregon. RuleSpace provides the Contexion Services
product family, an internet infrastructure that powers software
and hardware solutions with automated web content recognition technology
and services that instantly recognize web content and facilitate
the delivery of relevant web information.
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Sentius
Inc.
www.sentius.com
Founded in 1993 by Marc Bookman, Sentius provides RichLink, software
that combines search and navigation capability in enterprise Web
application and automates the management of links and metadata to
deliever point-of-interest data. The company also provides RichLink
applications and services to mobile devices. Their contextual content
integration applications intelligently deliver timely and accurate
information to mobile users on their devices in the form that is
most useful and valuable for them
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SiRF
Technology Inc.
www.sirf.com
SiRF was founded in February 1995 to bring Global Positioning System
(GPS) enabled location technology and other wireless innovations
to a wide range of consumer applications. Operating as a fabless
IC company with an intellectual property (IP) licensing model, SiRF
is able to deliver solutions that will serve high-growth consumer
and commercial markets. SiRF's vision, simply stated, is to bring
location awareness to virtually everything that moves. With three
generations of GPS architectures on the market SiRF supports a broad
range of customers and mainstream platforms. SiRF's technology has
been deployed or endorsed by industry leaders such as Clarion, Delphi,
Freescale, Hitachi, HP, Hutchinson3G, Intel, Matsushita Group, Medion,
Mitac, Motorola, Nextel, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Palm, T Mobile
and Visteon. On April 22, 2004 SiRF announced an initial public
offering of 11,000,000 shares of Common Stock at a price of $12.00
per share, resulting in net proceeds of $94,334,000.
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Smart
Light Inc.
www.smartlight.com
As an Israeli corporation with wholly owned subsidiaries in the
U.S. and Germany, Smart Light's product is based on proprietary
Digital Film Viewer technology to enhance diagnostic image quality
improving the diagnostic stage and lowering the cost of healthcare
delivery. Digital Film Viewer systems represent the first advance
in film reading technology in over a century. The company's products
have proven the significant improvement in diagnosticians' ability
to better detect smaller and more subtle radiographic objects and
clinical information.
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TripWire
Security Systems Inc.
www.tripwire.com
Founded in 1997 by Dr. Eugene Spafford and Gene Kim, TripWire ,
is the leading provider of change monitoring and analysis software,
which establishes a baseline of data in its desired state, detects
and reports changes to that baseline. TripWire's solution ensures
rapid discovery and remediation when an undesired change occurs.
As a result, stretched IT staffs gain increased visibility and control
over change and establish a foundation for stable IT operations
and system security. Tripwire was recently named to The Portland
Business Journal's fastest-growing private 100 list and currently
has operations in 15 countries around the world.
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Hawaii
Superferry
www.hawaiisuperferry.com
Began as an idea in 2001, Hawaii Superferry is a Honolulu-based
company led by veteran airline, maritime, and entrepreneurial executives
whose mission is to connect people and commerce in Hawaii economically
and comportably. The company is developing an efficient, environmentally-friendly,
state-of-the-art, roll-on/roll-off ferry service for passengers
and vehicles with non-stop service between Honolulu and the islands
of Maui, Kauai and the Big island at approximately half the price
of flying, beginning in 2006.
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Nara
Bank
www.narabank.com
Nara Bank is a Los Angeles based community bank founded in 1989
to serve the needs of Korean-Americans, one of the fastest growing
segments of the Asian ethnic group over the past decade. Presently,
Nara Bank serves a diverse group of customers mirroring its community
with a nationwide network. Nara Bank specializes in core business
banking products for small to medium-sized companies with emphasis
on commercial real estate and business lending, SBA lending and
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