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FA Technology Ventures is proud to introduce its portfolio of Technology and Energy Technology companies. Also included are several previous investments made by affiliated funds in which key members of our team contributed significantly during financing and business development.
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A123Systems (NASDAQ: AONE)
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A123Systems has developed a new generation of Lithium-Ion batteries that use proprietary nanoscale electrode technology to achieve unprecedented levels of power, safety and life. Building on research initiated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, A123 Systems' batteries offer major advantages over other rechargeable battery chemistries. www.A123Systems.com
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Adapt Media, Inc.
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Adapt Media is the leading provider of wireless outdoor advertising infrastructure that enables advertisers to deliver dynamic real-time, geo-targeted outdoor advertising. Its patented ad|runner™ network is a mobile, digital, outdoor display system that generates advertisements on mobile display units using factors such as duration, location, date and time to determine when and where ads should be displayed. Large, national advertisers such as ESPN, Viacom, Budweiser, Time Warner Cable, Chase Bank and others have benefited from Adapt’s ad|runner™ display in advertising campaigns. Adapt’s technology presents a level of flexibility that has never existed in outdoor advertising, whereby the advertiser can create a campaign within minutes without having to spend any production dollars. The first application of the Company’s technology is the installation of taxi top digital displays.
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Auterra
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Auterra manufactures high quality semiconductor and metal-oxide nanomaterials to meet both industrial research and manufacturing needs. Its proprietary technologies offers nanomaterials that deliver superior performance in applications ranging from ultra-violet (UV) light blocking to phosphors and ultra-fine abrasives. Materials are available in volumes ranging from grams to metric tons. www.auterrainc.com
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Autotask, Inc.
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Autotask provides software solutions to professional services companies where on-time and on-budget project delivery are critical to success. Target industries include IT services firms, consulting practices, design engineering/architectural firms, and marketing/advertising companies. The product includes CRM, Sales Automation, Project Management, Time & Billing as well as Service Desk functionality, all in one integrated application. www.autotask.com
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BinOptics Corporation
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Next-generation opto-electrical components company with proprietary process and manufacturing capabilities to make monolithically integrated lasers and laser systems. These integrated devices provide substantial cost savings and performance improvements for data communications and optical storage applications. www.binoptics.com
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Concentrix Corp. (acquired by SYNNEX Corporation 9/14/06)
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Concentrix Corporation is a leader in outsourced Customer Relationship Management (CRM) services. Concentrix is headquartered in Pittsford, NY, just outside of Rochester. The Company utilizes sophisticated database analytics to assist clients in making process improvements which drive increased efficiency of their customer management investments. Concentrix provides end-to-end execution services, providing clients outsourced customer acquisition/retention and complete printing/mail services. With this full set of capabilities, the Company is able to provide clients completely outsourced CRM support.
www.Concentrix.com
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CORESense
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CORESense, founded in 2000, provides an end-to-end solution for today’s small- to mid-size retail enterprises with multi-channel sales strategies.
CORESense has experienced triple digit growth since its founding, reflecting the strength of its entirely web-based platform. CORESense technology, unparalleled in scalability and functionality, represents a new era of software programming, away from modular and vertical integration models, that harnesses dynamic functionality powered by the Internet.
www.coresense.com
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CreditSights
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CreditSights is an Internet-enabled, independent research firm providing capital market research to institutional investors. CreditSights has an experienced team of analysts, many of whom have received top Institutional Investor ratings, covering the corporate bond, credit derivatives and equity markets. The Company’s products are web-based and modular in design, enabling rapid delivery of only relevant information to each user and drill down capabilities to quickly access more detailed analysis and information. Both buy-side (e.g. hedge funds) and sell-side (e.g., broker/dealers) customers use CreditSights’ research and software products as important parts of their daily workflow in order to make informed portfolio risk management and trading decisions. www.creditsights.com
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E Ink Corporation (merged with Prime View International [8069.TW] December 22, 2009
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Founded in 1977, and based on research started at the MIT Media Lab, E Ink is the leading provider of electronic paper display (EPD) technologies. These bi-stable displays use the company's patented "ink" that is made up of tiny capsules filled with negatively charged black particles and positively charged white particles. The display is changed by changing the voltage field across each capsule (or pixel), which stays in that state until the field is changed again. E Ink's technology is intended for use in many consumer and industrial applications spanning eBooks, other handheld devices, watches, clocks, and public information displays and promotional signs. www.eink.com
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Groople (acquired by Short's Travel Management January, 2009)
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Groople is the leader in online group travel, offering one-stop group booking on hotel, cruise, air, bus, and rail, and is backed by partnerships with the largest travel suppliers worldwide. Groople is group travel made easy, with more than 60,000 hotel choices worldwide and six top cruise lines brought together in an online group booking website. Groople offers discounted rates, individual payment options and creates a single point of contact for the group travel consumer. Created by twenty travel industry veterans, Groople pioneered the online group travel space and continues to lead the group travel industry in technology, inventory and convenience.
www.groople.com
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IP MobileNet (acquired by Combined Communications October, 2009)
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IP MobileNet designs and manufactures technologically advanced mobile wireless communication products for the private radio market. Private radio networks serve public safety (e.g. police, fire), fleet (e.g. taxi cabs), transportation, utility, government, and corporate markets by providing dedicated networks for voice and data communication, free from the traffic of public networks.
www.ipmn.com
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iRobot, Inc. (NASDAQ: IRBT)
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iRobot is a leading edge product development company specializing in Artificial Intelligence, Man/Machine Interfaces, and Micro Robotics. The Company develops robotic solutions for commercial applications that leverage proprietary core technologies. These technologies are exciting and valuable because they enable the development of products that would not otherwise be possible, meet the technological requirements for a number of emerging markets, and provide a sustainable competitive advantage in many markets. Major industry players have entered into partnerships with iRobot in order to incorporate these new technologies into their domains rapidly, cost-effectively, and with low technical risk.
www.irobot.com
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ISOPur™ Fluid Technologies, Inc. (acquired by DynaSys International, April 28, 2006)
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ISOPur Fluid Technologies has developed a next-generation platform for the filtration and purification of oil, fuels, and other industrial fluids. ISOPur employs a patented technology called Balanced Charge Agglomeration. The company markets its expanding product line as ISOPur to Original Equipment Manufacturers as well as end-users, such as power plants and manufacturing facilities, for applications where its proprietary technology enables significant competitive advantage over conventional fluid filtration systems.
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Knoa Software
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Knoa® Software is the leading provider of end-user experience management solutions. Knoa Experience and Performance Manager (EPM) monitors real end-user experience and captures application and end-user metrics to drive adoption and enable efficient and effective use of enterprise applications. Knoa enables organizations to achieve and sustain ROI from the initial and ongoing investment in enterprise applications. With actionable insight into actual end-user experience and performance, the costs for end-user support, application support and training are reduced. Knoa also impacts the top line by allowing organizations to manage end-user performance for efficient, effective and compliant process execution. Knoa’s customer base includes some of the largest, most demanding, enterprise application deployments in the world with customers like British Telecom, Conagra, Kimberly Clark, Kraft Foods, Johnson & Johnson and Microsoft.
www.knoa.com
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Mechanical Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MKTY)
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Mechanical Technology, Inc. (MTI) incubates Energy Technologies companies and manufactures and sells precision diagnostic and measurement instruments. MTI, in a joint venture with Detroit Edison, created and successfully spun-out Plug Power (NASDAQ:PLUG), a designer and manufacturer of fuel cells for home and automotive applications. The recent success of Plug Power, and MTI's early development efforts with Proton Exchange Membrane ("PEM") fuel cells, gas and steam powered turbines and the Stirling Engines, has given MTI a unique position to be a leader in the evolution of Energy Technologies. MTI's Energy Technologies strategy includes: obtaining a holding in companies that have synergies with MTI's core competencies; holding positions in established Energy Technologies companies; and creating internal development and growth of the Energy Technologies businesses. MTI holds an interest in PlugPower, has a strategic relationship and investment in SatCon (NASDAQ:SATC), a developer and manufacturer of products for the energy technologies market, and has a holding in Beacon Power, an energy storage company.
www.mechtech.com
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MetaCarta, Inc.
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MetaCarta, Inc., a leading provider of geographic intelligence solutions, provides users with map-driven geographic search, geographic referencing, and data visualization capabilities. MetaCarta products make data and unstructured content “location-aware” making that information geographically relevant. These innovative solutions make it possible for customers to discover, visualize, and act on important location-based information. Founded by a team of MIT researchers in 1999, MetaCarta is privately-held, with US headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts and offices in Vienna, Virginia and Houston, Texas. For more information, please visit www.metacarta.com
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The META Group (acquired by Gartner Group (NYSE: IT) April, 2005)
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META Group helps companies make better information technology (IT) decisions by providing research and unlimited analyst consultation relevant to their specific business needs. Offering advisory services, strategic consulting, and research/interactive reports that span the full spectrum of IT, META Group addresses the latest technologies, industry trends, and business challenges. With more than 2,000 client companies worldwide, META Group differentiates itself from other information providers through its commitment to highly personal service (enabling "analysis in context"), bottom-line answers, and objectivity. The Company offers its information in print, online, in Lotus Notes format, and on CD-ROM. In addition, META Group conducts phone consultations, half-day briefings, and conferences. The Company has more than 4,000 subscribers and a 75% client renewal rate.
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OnePIN, Inc.
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OnePIN develops and markets social networking applications for mobile operators using its patented and patent-pending technologies. The initial OnePIN applications enable end-customers to exchange personal information between mobile handsets and the desktop. www.onepin.com
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Plug Power, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLUG)
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Plug Power designs and develops on-site electricity generation systems utilizing proton exchange membrane fuel cells for residential applications. The Company's residential fuel cell system will be an appliance that will produce electricity through a clean, efficient process without combustion. The Company plans to bring a residential fuel cell system to market and expects to offer different model sizes designed to meet the specific power needs of various market segments. Plug Power's partners include General Electric and DTE Corporation.
www.plugpower.com
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Seranoa Networks, Inc. (acquired by White Rock Networks, 3/7/05)
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Seranoa Networks, Inc. is a company that has developed patent-pending technologies which help ISPs get more from their edge routers by providing a new approach to wide-area circuit aggregation in order to reduce per-port costs, multiply service capacity, and enable automatic recovery from previously unrecoverable failures. Based on broadly supported standards, Seranoa Networks helps ISPs generate more revenue at less cost with any popular router make or model
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Softricity, Inc. (acquired by Microsoft Corp. 7/11/06)
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Softricity has developed a next-generation platform for the delivery and management of software applications to the enterprise. Softricity changes the paradigm for software distribution. Instead of physically installing software on individual machines, applications are installed only once on a central server. Code is then streamed on demand, where it executes on the end user's desktop. This platform takes advantage of the best aspects of the desktop-rich client software running on powerful desktop microprocessors and marries them with the best aspects of the web-central administration and ease of deployment. The company has entered into important strategic partnerships with Microsoft and Citrix.
www.softricity.com
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StreetEasy
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StreetEasy is an online real estate metasearch engine initially targeting New York City. StreetEasy aggregates NYC home listings from broker websites and various databases and offers consumers search capabilities, highly relevant contextual information related to their real estate/rental search and a community forum for discussion. Launched in December 2005 with no marketing, StreetEasy receives more web traffic than most NYC broker launched sites.
www.streeteasy.com
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