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Actio
Actio's materials information management solutions are architected as web-native SaaS (software as a service) applications that utilize a unique relational database structure to manage global regulatory information, substance data, and supplier content in a single, secure platform. Actio enjoys a successful track record with 250 customers in 35 countries, including dozens in the Fortune 500. For more information, visit www.actio.net.

Altus
Altus is a leading provider of video search and management solutions for sales enablement. Altus helps companies capture and deliver their valuable content via a turn-key, SaaS infrastructure and a global media delivery network. Organizations deploying Altus for sales enablement, training, collaboration, and knowledge sharing can now deliver critical knowledge to large, geographically-dispersed audiences, including employees, channel partners and customers. The Altus vSearch and VirtualEvent solution provides sales organizations the means to use searchable video content to improve sales productivity. Industry leaders like Cisco, IBM, GM, Oracle and NetApp rely on Altus to achieve outstanding ROI, substantial productivity and revenue gains, and millions of dollars of savings in reduced travel and training costs. More information is available at http://www.altuscorp.com.

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.

Bear Valley Mountain Resort
High up in the Central Sierra, past the vineyards and a bit beyond Big Trees, Bear Valley is one of the Sierra's treasures. With an abundance of natural beauty and slopes that world-class skiers have acclaimed, Bear Valley is an ideal destination for a variety of guests, from families with children to winter sports enthusiasts who enjoy challenging terrain. Bear Valley is under new ownership that includes venture capitalists Kevin Compton and Doug MacKenzie, south bay developer Chuck Toeniskoetter, and Dundee Realty USA LLC which transformed the Arapahoe Basin on Colorado's famed Ski the Summit ski area.

Brocade
Brocade is an industry leader in data center networking solutions and services that enable organizations to manage their most vital information assets. It’s no wonder that Global 500 companies rely on Brocade technology to keep their businesses running around the clock. Brocade has pioneered the technologies that enable highly reliable and secure data center connectivity. Today most of the world’s data flows through Brocade equipment and data center networks built on Brocade technology.

CertiVox
CertiVox solves the challenge of packaging, tracking, delivering, and controlling valuable user-generated and enterprise content. CertiVox is a seamless, easy to use experience for the sender and recipient. Better yet, CertiVox is built using military-grade security, providing end-to-end encryption and strong authentication.

Comcast Media Center
The Comcast Media Center is the industry’s leading provider of economical, turnkey solutions that increase revenue, decrease operating costs and support the migration to all-digital. The suite of HITS solutions integrate to optimize local cable headend architecture for the launch and support of advanced video and broadband services. Denver-based Comcast Media Center (CMC), a business unit of Comcast Cable, provides centralized content management and distribution solutions for cable systems, video content providers and advertisers. More information about the CMC is available at http://www.comcastmediacenter.com.

Coraid
CORAID redefines storage economics with its breakthrough line of EtherDrive® storage solutions. EtherDrive delivers scale-out performance, Ethernet simplicity, and a 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 1,100 customers worldwide. For more information, visit www.coraid.com.

Dyyno
Dyyno provides the breakthrough software-as-a-service (SaaS) video distribution platform that allows anyone to instantly share live video and rich media with an audience of 10 to 100,000 viewers. Dyyno's reliable and brandable video-sharing platform enables individuals, small and medium businesses (SMBs), communities, and enterprises to instantly share video and multimedia without IT involvement and for 10 times less cost than traditional solutions. Founded in 2007 and backed by Artiman Ventures and Startup Capital Ventures, the Palo Alto, California-based company has a world-class technical team with video and networking expertise from Stanford Multimedia Labs.

FishNet Security
FishNet Security is a nationally respected information security solutions provider. FishNet Security expertise includes information security strategy, continuous risk and application assessment, planning, integration, implementation, management, training and 24X7 support -- enabling businesses to meet their unique security needs. For 13 years, FishNet Security has offered information security services and products to global enterprises, government agencies, and small-medium sized businesses. We focus on the threat... so you can focus on the opportunity. For more information about FishNet Security, please visit us at www.fishnetsecurity.com.

FusionOps
FusionOps is the industry leader in enterprise on-demand solutions that enable a smarter enterprise. FusionOps has become an integral and reliable part of the business backbone of global companies powered by SAP, Oracle and other ERP systems, and delivers a comprehensive set of solutions to small and large businesses worldwide. FusionOps’ solutions, configured for each customer using simple business rules and eliminating the need for product customization, today ensure reliable management of over $1 billion in annual corporate spending. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, the company is backed by HiTek Ventures and angel investors. For more information, visit www.FusionOps.com.

Glimmerglass
Glimmerglass is the premier supplier of powerful, flexible optical switching solutions. Customers worldwide deploy Glimmerglass Intelligent Optical Switching Systems to rapidly and remotely create, monitor, and reconfigure optical connections in networks supporting telecommunications carriers, government intelligence gathering, lawful interception, enterprise data networks and Internet peering exchanges. Glimmerglass switches use pure optics to provide customers with the industry’s lowest-loss, low-profile, non-blocking and fully transparent switching. please visit www.glimmerglass.com.

GridIron Systems
Currently in stealth mode -- more details to come

hiSoft
Founded in 1996, hiSoft Technology International Ltd. is a premier global IT software and business process outsourcing service provider with operations in China, Japan, the US, Singapore and UK. With superior service offerings such as outsourced performance testing, web development and application management, hiSoft is currently the highest ranked Chinese player in IAOP's (International Association of Outsourcing Professionals) Global Outsourcing 100. For more information, visit www.hisoft.com.

iPass
iPass helps enterprises unify the management of remote and mobile connectivity and devices. With iPass software and services, customers can create easy-to-use broadband solutions for their mobile workers, home offices and branch and retail locations, complete with device management, security validation and unified billing. iPass offerings are powered by its leading global virtual network, on-demand management platform, and award-winning client software. The iPass global virtual network unifies hundreds of wireless, broadband and dial-up providers in over 160 countries. Hundreds of Global 2000 companies rely on iPass services, including Ford, Nokia, and Procter & Gamble. Founded in 1996, iPass is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

Lumenetix
Lumenetix is a lighting products company that has developed a range of innovative lighting solutions through the application of LED’s to common lighting challenges. Combining a unique mix of thermal, electronic and optical specialties, the company’s “light engines” deliver superior light output, light color, and reliability, enabling the company’s customer base of lighting systems integrators to provide new levels of lighting performance and adaptability for a range of previously underserved markets.

Nanostellar
Nanostellar, Inc., is a Redwood City-based Application Specific Nano Materials company that has 40 man-years of experience combining the use of advanced computational methods and proprietary synthesis techniques for the Rational Design and production of various nano-alloys with tailored properties for emissions control. These alloys use non-hazardous materials that are considered to be environmentally safe for emissions control purposes. The company plans to broaden the scope of their activities to include work on clean energy technologies such as catalyst materials for fuel-cells and Gas-to-Liquid/Coal-to-Liquid applications, and energy efficiency technologies in the field of display materials such as transparent conductors, phosphors, and color filters. Nanostellar is privately held, backed by premier investors including 3i, Monitor Ventures, Firelake Capital Management LLC and AsiaTech Management.

NextG Networks
NextG Networks is a leader in outdoor DAS systems, using fiber-fed distributed antenna systems to operate carrier-class wireless networks. With its proprietary fiber-optic architecture and expertise in public way access, NextG designs, permits, builds, operates, and manages DAS systems. NextG’s DAS systems are protocol-neutral, enabling them to support multiple wireless carriers, services, and technologies. NextG provides RF transport and backhaul services to wireless service providers over discrete, multi-frequency, scalable networks that improve wireless service coverage, capacity and performance. Headquartered in San Jose, California, NextG operates wholly-owned regional subsidiaries throughout the United States. For information, visit NextG Networks online at www.nextgnetworks.net.

Nimsoft
Nimsoft is the first provider of Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources. With a proven time to value measured in weeks, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution reduces an enterprise’s total cost of ownership by up to 80 percent compared to legacy systems management vendors, while scaling and extending to places they just cannot go. The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring architecture eliminates the need to deploy a new monitoring solution for outsourced services, public or private clouds, or SaaS implementations. Nearly 1,000 customers use Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solutions, including both mid-market and global organizations such as Amway Corporation, Barclays Capital, Casual Male, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Ladbrokes, TriNet, and hundreds of leading hosting, cloud and managed service providers such as 1&1, CDW, Hitachi, and Rackspace. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com.
Panasas, Inc.
Panasas, Inc., the global leader in parallel storage solutions, helps commercial, government and academic organizations accelerate their time to results leading to real world breakthroughs that improve people’s lives. Panasas’ high-performance storage systems enable customers to maximize the benefits of Linux clusters by eliminating the storage bottleneck created with legacy network storage technologies. Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage Clusters, in conjunction with the ActiveScale® Operating Environment and PanFS™ parallel file system, offer the most comprehensive portfolio of storage solutions for High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. Panasas is headquartered in Fremont, California. For more information, please visit www.panasas.com.

Presidio Networked Solutions
Presidio Networked Solutions addresses the complete technology lifecycle – design, development, deployment and management – of networking and communications products and services for the commercial and government markets. Presidio’s comprehensive portfolio comprises unified communications, wireless, security, storage, and network infrastructure solutions, and the company represents such vendor partners as Cisco, EMC, IBM, Microsoft, NetApp, Nortel, and Sun. The company holds the highest networking industry certifications from Cisco Systems (Gold Certified Partner), Nortel (Elite Advantage Partner), and IBM (Premier Partner), as well as a host of other high-level certifications. Presidio Networked Solutions also offers customers an extensive range of financing solutions, including leasing.

Rohati
Rohati Systems, Inc. is the leader in high-performance network-based entitlement control (NBEC). Rohati solutions quickly and cost-effectively enable companies to define and enforce access and entitlement policies across all applications and classes of users from a single management console. Unlike traditional approaches to identity and access management that are time- and cost-prohibitive to deploy broadly, the Rohati solution resides in the data center, is network-based to ensure high performance, and does not require agents or changes to applications. Delivering numerous industry firsts, Rohati enables companies to safeguard all their data assets to protect their business and comply with compliance regulations. Rohati is backed by Matrix Partners and Foundation Capital, and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. To learn more, visit www.rohati.com.

Secure Passage
Secure Passage, the leading provider of firewall and network device policy management solutions, is dedicated to providing better security through better management. Secure Passage solutions empower information security teams, enabling them to reduce policy complexity, maximize security, and achieve compliance. Hundreds of global enterprises and government agencies with thousands of firewalls and network devices rely on FireMon — Secure Passage’s customizable, scalable flagship product — to ensure their networks remain free from interruption and available for secure business transactions at all times. FireMon supports all major firewall and network devices, including those from Cisco, Juniper, Check Point, and McAfee. For more information, visit www.securepassage.com.

YMCA - Mt. Diablo Region
The Mt. Diablo Region YMCA has served the greater Contra Costa County area for 50 years. With four branches, 23 school-age child-care sites at local elementary schools, and four preschools, the organization is continuing to grow and expand its network to meet the ever-changing needs of the local community. The Mt. Diablo Region YMCA provides program services for all age groups, from toddlers to seniors, to more than 38,000 households. The organization is dedicated to enriching the lives of all people through programs that strengthen spirit, mind and body. Financial assistance is available to all individuals who demonstrate proven need. For more information, visit www.mdrymca.org.

Zazzle
Infinite and instant, Zazzle is the only, on-demand retail platform for consumers and major brands, offering billions of retail quality, one-of-a-kind products, many of which are produced within 24 hours. Offering the largest library of customizable digital images from world-class brands, Zazzle enables content owners to unlock their entire libraries of content, making them available for purchase and customization by consumers. Through Zazzle's innovative on-demand retail and technology platform, users can instantly create, customize to fit their personal style, purchase and sell a near infinite array of products online. The company launched in 2005 and is based in Redwood City, California. For more information, www.Zazzle.com.







