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Actional Corporation
Location: Mountain View, CA
Actional Corporation is the leading provider of SOA enablement solutions. Actional addresses the specific challenges of securing, deploying and managing service-oriented environments, from early Web services projects to enterprise wide SOA initiatives.

Alibre
Location: Richardson, TX
Alibre Inc. offers Alibre Design, an interactive design application built for the Internet, which provides 3D mechanical design, real-time collaboration and data sharing and management. The online, CAD-neutral environment of Alibre Design enables companies to securely share precise design data -- reducing costs, shortening manufacturing cycles, improving productivity and driving quality.


Atheros Communications, Inc. ATHR
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Atheros Communications is the leading developer of networking technologies for secure, high-performance wireless local area networks. As the industry innovator and market-share leader in wireless OFDM technology compliant with the IEEE 802.11 specifications, Atheros is driving transparent connections among electronic devices in the office, home and on the road.


AutoTradeCenter AUTC
Location: Mesa, AZ
AutoTradeCenter provides web-based software, technology and related services to the automotive remarketing industry. Core AutoTradeCenter services are online auctions and related support; statistical analysis, forecasting and predictive modeling; and related consulting, training and remarketing support.

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Be (acquired by Palm) PALM
Location: Mountain View, CA
Developed the Be operating system for digital media applications.

BroadLogic
Location: Milpitas, CA
Broadlogic is a fabless semiconductor company focused on providing advanced System-On-Chip solutions that perform as advanced wideband receiver front-ends for digital Set-Top Boxes, Cable Modems, PVRs, Home Gateways, Home Media Centers and Game Consoles.


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Cobalt Networks, Inc. (acquired by Sun Microsystems) SUNW
Location: Mountainview, CA
Cobalt Networks, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems (SUNW) in November 2000, was a pioneer in the network server appliance market. Cobalt's business has become the core of the Server Appliance Business Unit of Sun Microsystems. It delivers fully integrated server appliances that offer turnkey services easily, reliably and cost effectively.

Crystal Decisions - acquired by Business Objects BOBJ
Location: San Jose, CA and Paris, France
Crystal Decisions was a leading business intelligence software provider that was acquired by Business Objects in 2003.

Cygnus Solutions (acquired by Redhat) RHAT
Location: Durham, NC
Cygnus Solutions was a leading open-source software support and custom engineering company that was acquired by RedHat in January 2000.

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Devicescape Software
Location: Brisbane, CA
Devicescape Software is a leading supplier of software for wireless device manufacturers and service providers.

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Ebates
Location: San Francisco, CA
Ebates is a next-generation Internet shopping portal, which gives its members cash back when they shop online.


Encentuate
Location: Foster City, CA
Encentuate is an enterprise access security company. Their mission is to help enterprises simplify, strengthen, and track access across their digital assets and physical infrastructure.


Enuvis (acquired by SiRF) SIRF
Location: South San Francisco
Enuvis, which developed GPS technology for wireless carriers and mobile equipment manufacturers, was acquired by SiRF in 2003.

Evite (acquired by InterActiveCorp) IACI
Location: Pasadena, CA
Evite is an online invitation service that was acquired by the Ticketmaster division of InterActiveCorp.



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Genoa Corp. (acquired by Finisar) FNSR
Location: Milpitas, CA
Genoa, which developed semiconductor technology for optical telecommunications, was acquired by Finisar in 2003.


Guru
Location: San Francisco, CA
Guru combines the right mixture of science, technology, and human interaction, to deliver objectively qualified talent better, faster, and at a dramatically reduced price compared to traditional staffing firms.



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Inrix
Location: Kirkland, WA
Inrix addresses the need for nationwide, real-time, predictive traffic information across a variety of platforms, devices and distribution channels.


Iridigm Display Corp. (acquired by Qualcomm) QCOM
Location: San Francisco, CA
Iridigm Display Corporation produces revolutionary reflective displays for a variety of mobile device applications. Iridigm was acquired by Qualcomm in 2004.


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Listen (acquired by RealNetworks) RNWK
Location: San Francisco, CA
Listen is the leading independent music service provider that creates, bundles, and distributes world-class content and media delivery applications online. Listen's primary product, Rhapsody, is the only service that seamlessly integrates high-fidelity on-demand playback, professionally programmed Internet radio, rich contextual music information, and extensive editorial recommendations into a single application. Listen was acquired by RealNetworks in 2003.


Luxtera
Location: Pasadena, CA
Luxtera is developing breakthrough photonics products. The company's technology is rooted in Caltech developments in the field of nanophotonics: optical structures an order of magnitude smaller than those traditionally used in integrated optical devices.



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Magnum Semiconductor
Location: Fremont, CA
Magnum Semiconductor is a spinout of the Cirrus Logic Video Division which pioneered MPEG video recording and enables high volume, affordable DVD Recorders.


MetroFi
Location: Mountain View, CA
MetroFi is a wireless broadband provider building community area networks that change the landscape of broadband access. MetroFi leverages Wi-Fi standards to deliver affordable "go-anywhere" broadband services.

Microdisplay Corporation
Location: San Pablo, CA
Microdisplay Corporation develops, manufactures and markets low cost, high-performance, single panel Liquid-Crystal-On-Silicon displays.


Mimosa Systems
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Mimosa Systems provides immediacy, discovery & continuity for enterprise information. Mimosa combines fine-grained, immediate recovery with self-service archival access for messaging and similar data, leveraging cost-effective disk technologies. Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange unifies data protection, mailbox extension and archiving in a single solution, assuring email continuity and regulatory compliance.


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NeoPath Networks
Location: Santa Clara, CA
NeoPath is developing an enterprise-class layer 7 multi-protocol NAS switch that aggregates independent NAS servers and provides advanced manageability features to the overall NAS storage system.

NetCell
Location: San Jose, CA
NetCell is a storage semiconductor company.


Nomis Solutions
Location: San Bruno, CA
Nomis Solutions' mission is to develop, implement and support price optimization software solutions that create sustainable improvements in profitability for companies within the financial services industry.

Notiva
Location: San Mateo, CA
Notiva is developing enterprise software to optimize the financial supply chain. With Notiva's software, enterprises with high transaction volume will be able to better manage AR and AP, while gaining greater visibility into their trade relationships and the flexibility to optimize the economics of those relationships.


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Paradise Electronics (acquired by Genesis Microchip)
Location: San Jose, CA
Paradise Electronics, a developer and supplier of graphics IC's was acquired by Genesis Microchip (GNSS) in 1999.

PayCycle
Location: Palo Alto, CA
PayCycle is a small business payroll ASP. PayCycle dramatically reduces the complexity and cost of payroll management for accountants and their small business clients.


Postini
Location: Redwood City, CA
Postini develops and markets email services, including automatic virus detection and junk mail screening, to enterprises and internet service providers.


PrintPaks (acquired by Mattel) MAT
Printpaks designed arts and crafts software and supplies for children.


PulseCore Semiconductor
Location: Campbell, CA
PulseCore Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company focused primary on PLL based clock synthesizers, fanout buffers, and spread spectrum EMI reduction. www.pulsecoresemi.com


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Radlan Computer Communications (acquired by Marvell) MRVL
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Radlan, which developed routing-based embedded software and network applications, was acquired by Marvell in 2003.

Reconnex
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Reconnex is the leader in information monitoring and protection appliances designed for any organization that wants to protect its brand, maintain compliance, or secure sensitive information. Reconnex's simple-to-deploy appliance delivers accurate detection while protecting an enterprise before, during, and after any threat to corporate privacy or intellectual property. A privately held company based in Silicon Valley, Calif., Reconnex protects information for over one million users today. www.reconnex.net


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Scintera
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Scintera Networks is developing intelligent electronic solutions that enhance the performance, resilience, management, and cost effectiveness of optical networks.

Seagate Technology STX
Location: Scotts Valley, CA
Seagate is the world's largest manufacturer of disk drives, magnetic discs and read-write heads, and a leader in Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions.


Shopping.com (formerly Epinions) (acquired by Ebay) EBAY
Location: Brisbane, CA
Shopping.com, the leading shopping search engine and the fifth largest shopping service in the world, is made up of the combined entities of Epinions and Dealtime.

Six Apart
Location: San Francisco, CA
Six Apart Ltd. is the company behind the Movable Type publishing system and the TypePad personal weblogging service. Six Apart's sole focus is to create tools that enable millions of individuals, organizations and corporations to participate in the web's full potential by publishing their ideas on the Internet with simple, yet powerful software and services.


Silicon Image SIMG
Location: Cupertino, CA
Silicon Image (SIMG) provides semiconductor solutions that, among other applications, enable the all-digital connectivity between computers and digital flat panel monitors.


Splunk Technology
Location: San Francisco, CA
Splunk Technology is building a disruptive new approach to managing IT infrastructure.


Summit Microelectronics
Location: Campbell, CA
Summit designs and develops semiconductors that manage the power functions in communication systems equipment that forms the backbone of the networking and Internet infrastructure.


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Technorati
Location: San Francisco, CA
Technorati provides search and notification services for active content on the Internet. Technorati monitors over 1.8 million sources (weblogs, RSS) with over 10,000 new sources added each day.

Telocity (acquired by Hughes Electronics)
Location: Cupertino, CA
Telocity is a telecommunications services company providing Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) service that can be self-installed by end users.

Tickle (acquired by Monster Worldwide) MNST
Location: San Francisco, CA
Tickle (formerly Emode) is a member services company that fulfills the consumer's need for connection to friends and family with data-driven services centered on the individual. Attracting more than 3 million members strictly through word of mouth, Emode has quickly become a model for successful viral marketing. Tickle was acquired by Monster Worldwide in May of 2004.


Topica
Location: San Francisco, CA
Topica provides turn-key solutions for email newsletter publishers, from multinational media companies to individuals publishing news about a hobby or interest.


Trumba
Location: Seattle, WA
Trumba is creating a new type of calendar service -- the connected calendar -- that connects all the different aspects of our users' lives -- work, family, community and fun--into one easy-to-use and access calendar, and keeps people connected to others through the events they share.

Tumbleweed Communications TMWD
Location: Redwood City, CA
Tumbleweed is a leading provider of advanced messaging solutions for business communications.


TZero Technologies
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
TZero is a fabless semiconductor company developing chips for ultra-wideband communications.

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Ubicom
Location: Mountain View, CA
Ubicom is developing low-cost embedded microprocessors and software platforms for embedded communications applications.

Unity Semiconductor
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Unity is developing next-generation memory technology.

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ValiCert (acquired by Tumbleweed Communications) TMWD
Location: Mountain View, CA
ValiCert is a software and services company that enables trust and interoperability of digital certificate applications. ValiCert was acquired by Tumbleweed Communications.