Phoenix, AZ

AFS Technologies is a leading provider of fully integrated business software solutions, specifically engineered for the Food and Beverage industries. AFS new Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), based on Web Services and built on Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, provides its customers with greater IT flexibility, increased scalability of their existing systems, and more powerful functionality, all at an affordable price. AFS suite of products are designed to reduce costs, increase efficiency, streamline internal processes and assist in regulatory compliance through innovative, comprehensive and user-friendly solutions.

Morgan Hill, CA

Alien Technology has developed a manufacturing assembly technology called Fluidic Self Assembly (FSA). FSA allows for the efficient placement of arbitrarily large numbers of small components across a surface in a single operation. The technology can be used to manufacture very low-cost RFID tags and also could be applied to antennas, sensors and other devices.

Exton, PA

AllianceOne is among the largest providers of full cycle, accounts receivable management services in the United States. The Company offers comprehensive call center solutions and customized receivables management products for leading creditors in the financial services, healthcare, government, utility, retail, telecommunications, commercial and related markets. The third party consumer debt collection industry is a large, growing and highly fragmented market. AllianceOne's strategy is to add value at each stage of the receivables cycle and to augment internal growth through the acquisition and consolidation of strong regional and specialty third party accounts receivable management firms.

Columbia, MD

Applied Data Systems, Inc. (ADS) designs and develops "application-ready" embedded systems that provide core functionalities, including wireless, mobile, networked, sophisticated graphics, and Internet-connectivity for OEM markets. ADS delivers integrated hardware and software platforms that are seamlessly incorporated into end products, providing its customers minimized risk, accelerated time-to-market, reduced development costs, and enhanced design architecture. ADS' solutions include leading ARM/RISC technologies, including Intel StrongARM and next-generation XScale microprocessors, and RTOS/Windows CE and CE.NET/ Embedded Linux operating environments.

Indianapolis, IN

Aprimo is the developer of the most insightful, intuitive platform for managing today's complex and interconnected world of marketing. Their applications are used by leading companies to streamline the way they operate, get better insight into where they are investing their marketing resources, and bring unprecedented control across their extended marketing teams, inside and outside their companies. Aprimo is leading the way in defining this new class of software and services, bringing marketing efficiency and effectiveness to the next level. Since its inception in 1998, Aprimo has been focused on bringing the broadest and deepest set of integrated marketing applications to market.

Omaha, NB

Under the ownership of Aspen Holdings Inc., FirstComp Underwriters Group and its affiliates provide access to Workers' Compensation insurance to small and medium-sized businesses through independent insurance agencies. Founded in 1997 to take advantage of opportunities in the Workers' Compensation insurance market, FirstComp has flourished through its "agents first" philosophy. Since its launch in 1997, FirstComp has built out a network of more than 2,000 agents in small towns and rural areas that are not otherwise targeted by workers' compensation carriers.

Springfield, MO

Bio-Kinetic is a drug development services company that designs and conducts Phase I clinical studies for branded pharmaceutical, bio-technology, and generic drug companies. The company currently operates a 132 bed facility on its corporate campus and is in the process of expanding it to 240 beds. Bio-Kinetic, which is known for its outstanding reputation for clinical quality, flexibility and timeliness in developing, implementing and completing studies, works with many of the leading companies in the industries it serves.

Roseland, NJ

Community Education Centers (CEC) is a leading provider of treatment and education services for adult and juvenile correctional and social services populations throughout the United States. CEC is firmly committed to partnering with government agencies to provide intensive treatment and education programs that focus on changing addictive and criminal behaviors, preparing residents for reintegration and ultimately reducing recidivism. CEC operates residential and outpatient programs at 20 locations in eight states. All CEC programs concentrate on alcohol and drug treatment, life skills training, and educational and vocational instruction. CEC also provides work release/halfway house programs, day reporting, aftercare and electronic monitoring for approved offenders.

Forth Worth, TX

Conner Industries supplies crating lumber, industrial lumber, shipping material, southern yellow pine, softwood, hardwood, panel products, and specialty products to industrial, packaging, pallet and crating lumber users. The company utilizes cutting edge technology to notch, cut to length, rip, resaw, and install banding groove in all manufactured or remanufactured upper grade as well as low grade lumber products cut to customer specifications. Conner offers shipments from its own remanufacturing plants located in Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia, as well as other strategically located reload distribution points.

Scottsdale, Ariz

Cyclone Commerce is an enterprise software company which provides solutions that allow companies to connect, manage and collaborate with their business partners over the Internet. Cyclone Commerce solves a unique and urgent problem for global 2000 businesses: the need to extend their enterprises "outside the four walls" to dynamically exchange and manage business critical information and commerce transactions with suppliers, customers and other partners.

Atlanta, GA

Datatrac provides an end-to-end logistics delivery network solution to courier services, shippers, forwarders and agents. Datatrac's suite of dispatch and shipment tracking software is offered as an easy to implement, cost effective web-based service, and includes real-time GPS tracking, RFID and wireless communications.

Irvine, CA

DispenseSource is a leading provider of inventory management solutions for the industrial marketplace, specifically in the area of maintenance, repair and operations (MRO). The company’s solutions help companies decrease consumption, reduce labor, streamline the re-order process and provide total inventory visibility, all while providing users with a steady flow of supplies needed to perform their jobs. DispenseSource has established a strong installed base in many Fortune 500 companies throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico.

East Windsor, NJ

ExpertPlan is the leader in providing low-cost private label retirement solutions to the financial services industry. ExpertPlan's proprietary technology offers its partners superior branding while integrating their existing marketing and educational resources. Asset management firms, banks, broker dealers, TPA's, RIA's and independent brokers all benefit from ExpertPlan's flexible, dynamic, and scalable recordkeeping platform. The company has alliances with over 60 mutual fund companies and has over 70 private label partners.

Littleton, CO

Global Employment Solutions (GES) provides a broad range of temporary staffing, contract staffing, employee leasing, and permanent placement services. GES's targeted customer base consists of companies that have elected to outsource worker hiring and retention processes. These processes range from employee recruitment to payroll management, and worker benefits administration.

Evanston, IL

Go2Call is a leader in the global Internet telephony market. Go2Call offers free, high quality international PC-to-Phone services via its easy-to-use Java calling application and scalable network infrastructure. The company monetizes its rapidly growing user base through a combination of highly targeted advertising revenue and delivery of premium, fee-based communications services.

Houston, TX

Gyrodata is the technology and market-share leader in a highly specialized niche of the global, multi-billion dollar oil field services industry. Gyrodata uses proprietary downhole electronics technology to provide highly accurate surveys of directionally drilled wellbores to its oil industry customer base.

New York, NY

Horizon Wimba provides collaboration software for online education, language learning, and interactive communications. Their collaborative learning applications enable instructors and students to fully embrace the new wave of pedagogical opportunities afforded by campus-wide networks and the internet; regardless of geographic location, bandwidth or operating system. Their virtual rooms enable instructors to conduct live, online classes, meetings, office hours and study groups, and their vocal collaboration technologies add oral content directly into course content, webpages and assessments.

Santa Fe Springs, CA

IPMobileNet manufactures a complete line of mobile IP radios, IP base stations, high-power amplifiers, IP network controllers, voice interface units, and mobile computer products. The INVADR family of products facilitates the convergence of wireless mobile voice and data communications with the Internet. INVADR's patented Intelligent Diversity Receptional technology combined with VoIP provides a highly reliable open architecture for IP voice and date networking. With the introduction of INVADR, IPMobileNet has changed the landscape of mobile voice and data networking.

Portland, OR

The Learning Internet Inc. is at the forefront of the wave to make technology skills a standard component of the K-8 curriculum. The company's EasyTech platform allows students to build critical technology skills without disrupting teachers' lesson plans by teaching those skills in the context of other subjects, such as language arts, math, science, and social studies. The company's integrated approach has powered it to wins in over half of the selections in which it has competed. Since its 2001 introduction, EasyTech has been used by 30,000 teachers and nearly 1 million students worldwide.

Totowa, NJ

LIfeStar, through its two divisions, provides logistical nationwide services, including specialized transportation, language translation, and coordination services, to the healthcare industry. LifeStar Response provides emergency and non-emergency ambulance and wheelchair-van transportation services to public and private sector healthcare programs, healthcare facilities, and HMOs. AccessOnTime provides logistical and transportation services to private and public sector workers' compensation insurance companies, larger self-insuring organizations, case management companies, third party administrators and large service providers.

Monroe, CT

M3 Technologies provides customers with material solutions using its advanced composite materials, manufacturing expertise and application skills. M Cubed's composite materials provide the performance of ceramics with the shaping flexibility normally associated with metals. M Cubed materials are used today in light-weight armor systems, semiconductor capital equipment, motion control systems, and optical components. M3 Technologies is one of the largest suppliers of ceramic composite materials for body armor to the U.S. Military.

New York, NY

Medsite is a leading online marketing company, providing educational and value-based interactions with over 50% of US physicians. The company offers its clients innovative solutions and services through its two sales divisions: Physician Access Solutions (PAS) which focuses on providing solutions directly to pharmaceutical and biotech companies and Medsite Partnership Services (MPS) which focuses on providing services to pharmaceutical marketing and communications companies

Cranford, NJ

Metalico, Inc. is a holding company with operations in two business segments: ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal recycling, and fabrication of lead-based products. The Company operates five recycling facilities and six lead fabrication plants in six states. Metalico's common stock is traded on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol MEA.

Irvine, CA

Paciolan is a leading ticketing enabler, providing ticketing, fundraising and marketing technology solutions for top venues across North America. Paciolan provides a wholly integrated infrastructure that puts venues in direct control of their customer relationships, brands and revenue potential. Primary markets include performing arts, college athletics, professional sports, museums, and arenas. Collectively, Paciolan clients sell over 100 million tickets annually representing approximately 25% of all live event tickets sold in the US.

Irvine, CA

Parallax acquires software companies that are under-managed and takes a hands-on operating role to build value. The Company currently owns and operates UTS Global (infrastructure software for the telecommunications industry) and VistaSource (real-time, web-enabled data integration solutions to the financial services industry). The Company also owns minority interests in MicroFocus (the industry leader of providing COBOL development solutions), Infor (leading provider of enterprise business solutions to select distribution and manufacturing industries), TriSyn (back-office software solutions to the banking industry), and Innovis (builds and manages B2B communities).

Pure Cycle (Nasdaq: PCYO) develops water resources and provides wastewater treatment services using a proprietary treatment technology. The company is devoting its primary effort to the development of 3,000,000 acre-feet of ground water under a property that is within ten miles of the center of Denver.

Plymouth Meeting, PA

ReSearch Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. (RPS) provides unique outsourcing and staffing solutions to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, primarily in connection with clinical research trials. The company introduced the pharmaceutical resource organization (PRO) model in anticipation of evolving clinical strategies of the pharmaceutical sponsors. By integrating its personnel and systems with those of the sponsor companies, RPS has helped industry leaders realize significant cost savings, flexible program staffing and standardized system operations on a global scale. RPS is widely recognized as the leader and innovator in the area of clinical trials business process outsourcing.

Madison, WI

SecurePipe provides customized security solutions for small- to medium-size companies. By creating a scalable, vertically integrated product and infrastructure suite, SecurePipe can provide cost-effective managed security solutions for enterprises of any size.

Maple Grove, MN

SterilMed is one of three leading reprocessors of single-use medical devices, a market expected to grow to $800 million annually. FDA regulation implemented primarily in 2002 prevents hospitals from reprocessing such devices without approvals. SterilMed has the most approvals for reprocessing devices of any company, positioning it to provide the most savings for hospital customers. SterilMed is also the only company with an FDA-cleared, reprocessable compression sleeve that is rented to hospitals.

Secaucus, NJ

StructuredWeb empowers small and mid-sized businesses with affordable and easy to use eBusiness solutions. Tailored to specific vertical markets, StructuredWeb's fully integrates its 5 components - a professionally designed website, eCommerce-enabled product catalog, sophisticated email marketing tools, and private customer accounts - all with sophisticated customer tracking capabilities - into a single streamlined eBusiness solution.

Alexandria, VA

TransForce Inc. is a leading provider of full-service outsourcing and staffing solutions to the trucking and third-party logistics industries. The company is experiencing rapid internal growth through multiple branch openings and aims to become a leading consolidator in a fragmented industry.

New York, NY

Venaca, Inc. is a leading technology company specializing in media asset management for the broadcast, media and entertainment industry. The company utilizes a proprietary platform for streamlining an organization’s media supply chain and facilitating the storage, management, repurposing and distribution of digital media. Its customers include: Lifetime, MTV Networks, Turner Broadcast Systems, College Sports Television (div of CBS) and Sesame Workshop.