ActaCell is an Austin-based technology start-up commercializing lithium-ion battery technology developed at The University of Texas at Austin.  ActaCell is pioneering innovations in battery technology that enable safe, high-performance, and long lasting rechargeable batteries at a low cost – helping the automotive industry overcome the most significant hurdle to creating commercially viable plug-in electric and hybrid-electric vehicles.

Alert Logic is a leading provider of cloud-based IT compliance and security solutions. By enabling its customers to detect threats, eliminate vulnerabilities, and manage log data, Alert Logic provides the easiest way to secure networks and comply with policies and regulations. Alert Logic’s cloud-based platform utilizes Software-as-a-Service to deliver the benefits of rapid deployment, zero maintenance, and no upfront capital costs. As a result, Alert Logic customers benefit from easy and affordable compliance and security.

Cgate Health creates software to provide simple, flexible and cost effective Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions. Unlike the current landscape of complex, incomplete and expensive Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems, Cgate’s proven software delivers integrated access with a consolidated view of the complete patient record – a gateway to the health record. Healthcare providers and commercial vendors use Cgate’s platform to achieve their goals of productivity, quality and compliance with Federal mandates.

DNAtrix is a biotech company commercializing an oncolytic virus therapy for glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, with founders from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and the University of California San Francisco Cancer Center. DNAtrix began its human clinical trials in early 2009.

Fluensee’s RFID-enabled asset tracking and management solutions improve the visibility, accuracy, security and utilization of a company’s mobile and fixed assets. Its end-to-end solutions combine highly configurable and patented software and implementation services with hardware from leading RFID, barcode, GPS and sensor technology providers. Fluensee offers its browser-based, enterprise-class AssetTrack™ solution that tracks IT assets, pallets, tools, equipment and all types of other high-value assets, along with its Yard™ application that is designed to efficiently manage assets in transportation and distribution environments.

Gendai Games is a new kind of game company that blends powerful, accessible, and rapid game creation technologies with independent publishing. Gendai Games’ flagship product is GameSalad, a game creation system for creative professionals. GameSalad enables non-programmers to create sophisticated 2D casual games for Apple’s mobile iOS platforms, such as the iPhone and iPad. Gendai Games was founded in 2007 by Michael Agustin, Tan Tran, and Dan Treiman, who come from companies such as Apple, Hotels.com, and Epic Systems, and have shipped games for Activision and Three Rings Design.

GlycosBio is transforming the fuels and chemicals industries with biological systems that can flexibly manufacture high value products from a wide range of non-food feedstocks.  The company has acquired and developed a platform technology that enables low cost production of chemicals with environmentally friendly technologies as an alternative to petrochemical-based manufacturing. Products envisioned include replacement of existing polymers with chemically equivalent polymers entirely derived from renewable resources.

Graphic.ly is a cutting-edge digital content delivery system and community platform for the publishing world. Graphic.ly’s first product, which focuses on comic publishers, creators and enthusiasts, provides an immersive social experience and marketplace around digital comics and associated merchandise. The company looks to expand its community and content platform and become the de facto solution for print media. Graphic.ly is a 2009 graduate of TechStars, and is located in Boulder, CO and Teesside, UK.

Illumitex is an LED manufacturing company utilizing a novel approach to LED production that allows huge improvements in efficiency for display and general illumination applications.  Illumitex’ current and next-generation products will provide efficiencies that are 5-10 years ahead of the DOE roadmap for expected LED performance improvements.

Imagnx, Inc. is a next-generation, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) company focusing on disease-specific MR imaging for cancer, Alzheimer’s and other CNS degenerative diseases. The Company is in the process of commercializing major university and research center technology, based on non-toxic and non-radioactive isotopes. Imagnx is currently in stealth mode.

Kids learn best by learning to think. And they learn even better when they are doing something they love. These are the ideas that drive Kabongo, a developer and publisher of digital thinking products for kids. Developed by father and cognitive psychologist Dr. Marty Fletcher, Kabongo’s fun brain play products cultivate the thinking skills that underlie learning, inspiring self-confidence through the simple joy of play. Enthusiastically embraced in classrooms across the country, and clinically proven to improve reading skills, Kabongo’s online learning games will soon be available to all, empowering kids everywhere to become better thinkers.

Macheen is a global cloud services provider for connected devices. The company’s innovative pricing and services platform and its matrix of global partnerships provide novel service models for end users and new sources of revenue for service providers and device makers alike. Macheen is led by a senior executive team with a proven track record of creating and leading technology companies with significant market impact. Macheen is currently in stealth mode.

Marval Biosciences develops novel CT contrast agents that reduce toxicity to patients and improve imaging performance. These next-generation 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, Georgia Institute of Technology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland State University and The University of Houston.

Performix is a manufacturing execution system (MES) software company founded with a charter to develop state-of-the-art solutions and products for the batch process manufacturing industry. The Company’s suite of composite software applications, Performix xMES®, fills the gaps within enterprise systems and completes the MES solution by leveraging existing SAP solutions and manufacturing system infrastructure. Performix offers products for the chemical, pharmaceutical and high-tech manufacturing industry verticals. Performix’ MES suite of products have been developed by software industry veterans with deep manufacturing industry knowledge.

Phurnace creates software that accelerates deployments and troubleshoots configuration problems for Java EE applications. It eliminates the error-prone, repetitive processes and headaches associated with deploying, troubleshooting, configuring, and migrating of software running on web application servers – regardless of vendor or version. System administrators and developers use Phurnace to eliminate errors, save time, and reduce overall deployment costs.

Acquired by: BMC Software

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 Feedcaster 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.

Prolacta Bioscience is a life sciences company that is dedicated to improving quality of life by Advancing the Science of Human Milk™. Prolacta creates specialty preparations made from human milk, therefore containing purely human protein, for the nutritional needs of premature and critically ill infants in neo-natal intensive care units (NICUs). The company is the sole provider of a human milk fortifier made from 100% human milk, ProlactPlus H2MF. Prolacta operates a pharmaceutical grade processing plant and has designed and patented processes unique to the science of human milk. Prolacta is committed to supporting research in the areas of human milk and premature infant nutrition in order to assist health care professionals in providing the best possible care for the most fragile babies.

ShareThis is the sharing network that makes it simple and easy to share any online content. With the click of a button on a webpage or browser plug- in, ShareThis allows users to seamlessly access their contacts and networks from anywhere online and share the content through email, IM, Facebook, Digg, mobile SMS, etc. without ever leaving the current page. Publishers can deploy the ShareThis button to tap service’s universal sharing capabilities to drive traffic, stimulate viral activity and track the sharing of online content. ShareThis also simplifies social media services by reducing clutter on web pages and providing instant distribution of content across social networks, affiliate groups, and communities.

Swift Biosciences is developing molecular biology reagents for research and diagnostic applications. Swift’s products help users detect genes and gene products that other products can’t. The company’s products also help users to analyze their samples faster, at higher volume, and at a lower price-per-sample. Swift’s products are designed to be compatible with customers’ current instrumentation.

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. UnWired Nation’s Voice Publishing Platform (VPP) provides a single point of integration for IVR and speech application needs of the enterprise business. The unique, Web-services approach allows for rich, interactive DTMF and speech-enabled alerts as well as outbound and inbound voice applications.

Vertos Medical has commercialized an innovative, percutaneous treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). LSS is a painful and debilitating condition diagnosed in more than 1.5 million people each year in the U.S. The Vertos MILD (Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression) procedure can be performed under local anesthesia and substantially reduces the costs and risks associated with other minimally invasive or open surgeries.