Alert Logic, Inc.
Alert Logic is the security industry's only provider of on-demand intrusion protection, vulnerability management, and IT compliance automation solutions. Unlike appliance or traditional software products, Alert Logic’s Software-as-a-Service platform delivers solutions on-demand, featuring rapid deployment, zero maintenance, and no hardware or software costs. As a result, Alert Logic customers can detect and contain network threats, discover and correct network vulnerabilities, and help ensure compliance with policies and regulations.

DNAtriX, Inc.
DNAtriX is a biotech company that is currently in stealth mode. Based in Houston, Texas, DNAtriX has licensed a set of cancer therapies for glioblastoma multiforme, a primary brain cancer, from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Glioblastoma affects approximately 14,000 patients in the U.S. each year, with a 2-year median survival rate of only 20%. The Company expects human clinical trials to start in early 2007.

Fluensee, Inc.
Fluensee is a provider of RFID-enabled asset tracking and management software solutions that improve the visibility, accuracy, security and utilization of a company's mobile and fixed assets. Based in Englewood, Colorado, Fluensee's highly configurable software combined with RFID, barcode, GPS and sensor technologies from leading hardware vendors, provides end-to-end asset and content visibility, real-time location status, alerts, improved asset cycle time and greatly reduced operating costs.

Glycos Biotechnologies, Inc.
GlycosBio is a cleantech start-up whose metabolic engineering technology enables the low cost production of high-value chemicals and fuels from renewable waste streams. GlycosBio is based in Houston, Texas.

Illumitex, Inc.
Illumitex is an innovative solid-state lighting company based in Austin, Texas.

Marval Biosciences, Inc.
Marval Biosciences is a life sciences company that is developing liposomal nanocarriers to deliver CT contrast agents, which can both extend the life of contrast agents used to diagnose acute chest pain and reduce toxicity to patients. These novel contrast agents will enable a much broader population of patients to use CT for diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases without fear of contrast-induced nephropathy, which can cause acute kidney failure, particularly in elderly and diabetic patients. Based in Houston, Texas, Marval was created through the licensing of intellectual property from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

Performix, Inc.
Performix is a next-generation manufacturing execution systems (MES) software company offering products for the Pharmaceutical, Process, and Hi Tech manufacturing industries. Based in Houston, Texas, and Pune, India, Performix provides a suite of composite applications that fill the gaps within enterprise systems and complete a customer’s MES solution by leveraging existing ERP and manufacturing system infrastructure. Performix’ flagship product, Performix xMES™ for SAP, has been developed by software industry veterans with deep manufacturing industry knowledge.

Phurnace Software, Inc.
Phurnace creates software that accelerates the deployment of Java EE™ applications. Based in Austin, Texas, Phurnace eliminates the error-prone, repetitive processes and headaches associated with the set up, configuration, and migration of software running on web application servers - regardless of vendor or version. Developers and system administrators use Phurnace to reduce errors, save time and reduce overall deployment costs.

Podcast Ready, Inc.
Podcast Ready provides software and services that remove the obstacles that are limiting the widespread adoption of podcasting, making subscribing and listening to podcasts easier and more portable. The company’s website provides podcast subscribers with an easier-to-use, feature-rich portal for the management of podcast programs and subscriptions. The company’s myPodder™ software is available pre-loaded on select MP3 players and by free download at www.podcastready.com. Unlike other companies, Podcast Ready’s enabling podcast player technology is installed on a user’s device rather than the desktop; is O/S and device independent; provides one-step syncing; allows sharing of permitted content; and remains independent of a dedicated portal. Podcast Ready was founded in Houston, Texas, by Russell Holliman, an early member of the podcasting community, and Christian Rotzoll and Hagen Tönnies, students at Bauhaus-University Weimar in Germany.

Prolacta Bioscience, Inc.
Prolacta Bioscience is a company dedicated to ensuring the availability and safety of breast milk for all babies. Headquartered in Southern California, the Company has developed improved methods for large-scale processing, formulation and testing of donor breast milk. The Company provides pharmaceutical grade specialty formulations of human milk for use in the nutrition of low birth weight (LBW) and very low birth weight (VLBW) babies. Prolacta sells its products directly to the neonatal intensive care units (NICU) of hospitals. Prolacta's dedication to quality assurance in milk testing ensures that hospitals and physicians can trust that Prolacta's human milk formulations provided to premature babies meet the highest quality and safety standards.

ShareThis, Inc.
ShareThis provides a revolutionary sharing experience across multiple communication channels, making it easy to share digital content — including photos, videos, text, Web pages and music — across PCs and mobile devices in one simple step. Based in San Francisco, California, and Dublin, Ohio, ShareThis is a private, venture-backed company whose technology was born out of collaboration between IT industry experts and researchers at the University of Illinois.

UnWired Nation, Inc.
UnWired Nation provides an innovative voice-based commerce platform that delivers real-time, interactive mobile notification and transaction services directly into the consumer's hands anytime, anywhere. Based in Austin, Texas, UnWired Nation is able to extend commerce to US based mobile phones to close event-triggered transactions via voice. The company's first platform, UnWired Buyer for eBay, allows buyers and sellers to remotely bid in the final three minutes of an auction. Since October 2005, UnWired Buyer has delivered over 1 million calls to eBay shoppers and its users have interacted with over 3 million auctions.

Vertos Medical, Inc.
Vertos is a spinal surgical device company that develops minimally invasive medical devices and procedures to treat lumbar spinal stenosis. Based in Palo Alto, California, Vertos has developed a novel procedure known as minimally invasive lumbar decompression (MILD™) to treat lumbar spinal stenosis. The Company’s patented toolkit enables the MILD procedure and converts a 2-3 hour surgery, long hospitalization, and long recovery into a quicker, simpler, and much less painful operation and recovery. .

VizionWare, Inc.
VizionWare is a revolutionary new audio and video digital interconnect technology for consumer and commercial A/V applications. Based in Austin, Texas, VizionWare' is developing technological innovations for noise reduction and high performance interconnect extension. The technology is implemented in chips and those chips are embedded into many different types of digital interconnect products, such as cables, adapters, and signal management products.