Young Minds Inc. is a privately held company located in Southern California. Founded in 1989 by Andrew Young, David Cote, and Matthew Hornbeck, the company's original focus (as reflected in its name) was to develop educational CD-ROM titles. The lack of good CD-ROM development tools resulted in the company shifting its focus to creating CD authoring software.With the introduction of CD-R recorders, the company developed CD Studio, the first direct attach CD recording solution for Unix computers. CD Studio was well-received in the market, and has evolved into the current family of Young Minds' Studio CD-R and DVD-R solutions. These solutions include CD Studio, DVD Studio, Power Studio, and MPS4. Young Minds has always taken a leading role in expanding the capabilities of CD and DVD technology through its relationship with other prominent companies and as an active partner in various optical disc standards committees.Andrew Young, Chairman of the company, authored the Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol proposal, which defines additional functionality for ISO 9660 standard discs used in UNIX environments. It was the publication of Rock Ridge that made the use of CD and DVD technology practical in Unix environments.

Kaidara Software provides technical service knowledge management software and services that call centers, help desks, field service organizations, on-location service centers, and e-commerce Web sites use to answer customer questions, recommend products, and diagnose problems. Its software includes applications for troubleshooting, multi-language support, and data analysis and reporting. The company's customers come from fields such as automotive and transportation, retail, high tech, and electronic and medical equipment. Investors in the company include DN Capital, CDC Innovation Partners, LCF Rothschild, and Galileo Partners.

i2 Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. i2 Technologies, Inc. provides supply chain management solutions worldwide. The company offers a range of products and solutions for manufacturing and planning; transportation and distribution management; merchandising, assortment, and allocation planning; execution, collaboration, and visibility; supplier relationship management; and data management and business analytics. Its solutions for manufacturing and planning enable businesses to co-ordinate the production and distribution of goods and materials throughout the supply chain to final delivery to the customer. These products include supply planning solutions that provide multi-enterprise visibility, collaboration, decision-support, and execution capabilities; and demand management and retail management solutions that provide tools to forecast and manage demand, plan merchandising strategies, manage markdowns and promotions pricing, and optimize price quoting.i2's solutions for transportation and distribution management enable the flow of goods between suppliers, enterprise supply chain locations, and customers. Its solutions to plan execution and collaboration enable businesses to integrate the planning and execution processes, create a closed-loop environment and provide tools designed to stage inventory, plan replenishment, manage orders, and provide visibility. The company's supplier relationship management solutions are designed to bridge product development, sourcing, supply planning, and procurement across the supply chain. Its data management solution manages data from legacy, enterprise resource planning, and other applications. The i2 company also offers on-demand and software as service solutions. In addition, it provides hosted software solutions, such as business optimization and technical consulting, managed services, training, solution maintenance, and software upgrades and development.

Pronto Networks provides carrier-class Operations Support Systems (OSS) that enables network operators to deploy and manage large public WLAN networks.The company's software handles provisioning, configuration, authentication, access control, security, pre-paid and post-paid billing, and roaming settlement for large public WLAN networks.Pronto Networks is funded by BV Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and the Intel Communications Fund. In 2003, Pronto Networks received several awards including Wired Magazine's Top 25 Wi-Fi Companies to Watch, the AlwaysOn list of Top 100 Private Companies, and Computerworld's Innovative Technology Awards.

EyeWonder was one of the original pioneers in video and rich media advertising, and is now the definitive leading provider of Interactive Digital Advertising products and services. Since 1999, we have been enabling advertisers and agencies to easily connect the most compelling and effective campaigns to their most desirable audiences.EyeWonder's in-page, in-stream and custom ad products can combine the quality and power of Flash video, the latest creative features, and the most comprehensive online tracking and reporting capabilities to dramatically enhance the impact and effectiveness of any new media ad campaign. In fact, EyeWonder-powered ad campaigns consistently outperform campaigns powered by lesser rich media companies and are a testament to the innovative technologies and proactive people that make our company so unique.

Harland Clarke was formed by combining the products and services of Clarke American Corp. and the printed products segment of John H. Harland Company. Together, both highly respected companies have over 200 years of combined experience, each with a rich heritage, traditions of innovation and performance excellence. Harland Clarke offers an expanded suite of direct marketing services, delivery and anti-fraud products, contact center services and checks and check-related products to the financial institution market, including banks, credit unions, thrifts, and securities firms. Harland Clarke is a leading provider to financial and commercial institutions as well as individual consumers and small businesses. The company, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, has a national presence with manufacturing facilities and customer service centers across the country.

Spohn & Associates was founded in 1998 by CEO and owner Darren Spohn. Spohn & Associates provides a variety of consulting, implementation, and maintenance services involved in setting up and managing computer networks, using products and services from AT&T and Cisco Systems. Spohn & Associates also offers training in federal health-care regulation compliance and in telecommunications sales. The company also specializes in voice, data, and Web hosting hosting.

Aricent is a global innovation, technology and services company focused exclusively on communications. Aricent is a strategic supplier to the world's leading application, infrastructure and service providers, with operations in 19 countries worldwide.The communications industry is experiencing unprecedented change. For consumers, user experience now trumps technology and price as the key driver of purchase and adoption of new products and services. Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are facing aggressive new competition from device makers and powerful Internet companies all looking to capitalize on the mobile Internet. And for equipment manufacturers, cost pressures and the need to invest in new technologies are driving the need for new ways to improve efficiency and scale, while achieving a significantly lower cost structure.These market forces are creating a fundamental new set of innovation and system integration (SI) challenges for CSPs. These include creating a subscriber device competitive with the iPhone, delivering rich converged services, connecting a wide range of new electronics such as digital picture frames and navigation devices, and building network APIs and SDKs to best monetize cloud-based services.Equipment makers now must strike a delicate research and development (R&D) balance between investments in existing products and those required to ensure competitive readiness in new growth areas like metro Ethernet and Long Term Evolution (LTE).

Alloy Software is a leading global provider of Service Management, Asset Management, and Network Management software solutions that capitalize on continuous changes in IT business technology.Over 5 years ago, Alloy Software launched its two core solutions: Asset Navigator and Alloy Network Inventory. These solutions fulfilled the current and future business requirements of our worldwide customers' IT Service Support needs.

Datalex is a leading provider of travel distribution software and solutions that enable global travel industry suppliers and distributors to deliver increased content and choice to their customers across multiple sales channels, while enabling record reductions in distribution costs.Datalex has served the travel industry with innovative technology products and solutions for over 20 years. Our customers represent major airlines; travel distributors; hotel and resort groups. Datalex has a worldwide presence across North American, Europe and the Asia Pacific.

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