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DEALS
FINANCED
The
following companies presented to the NBA, and have received financing
from members of the NBA:
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Alantro Communications, Inc.
Santa Rosa, CA
Alantro is a "fabless" semiconductor company producing proprietary, state-of-the-art, standards based integrated circuits for communications applications. The company is currently addressing emerging, potentially high growth markets with cost-effective, high data rate wireless Ethernet solutions. Alantro was bought out by Texas Instruments.
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Allied Cash Advance
El Cerrito, CA
Allied Cash Advance is a specialty finance company focused on providing payroll advance services to consumers from its 38 locations in California and Arizona. The Company typically locates stores in middle income strip malls with a strong anchor tenant such as a grocery store (Safeway, Railey's) or large box retailer (Wal-Mart, K-Mart). Formed by two former Investement Bankers from Montgomery Securities, the Company expects to continue its rapid expansion in the Western United States.
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AR Analytics Corporation
Mill Valley, CA
AR Analytics Corporation has developed high speed software for the identification of financial problems in the healthcare, insurance and financial service sectors. The Company was founded in August, 2000, and has satellite offices in San Francisco, Costa Mesa, Colorado Springs, Dallas, Boston, Atlanta, and Jacksonville, Florida. Current clients include major medical centers. Licensing and joint venture negotiations are underway with other software firms, consulting organizations and healthcare service organizations.
For further information, contact Ernie Hubbard, President,Tel: 415-331-8293, email: ernest.hubbard@att.net.
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Array Health Solutions
Seattle, WA
Array Health Solutions is an employee benefits company whose purpose is to expand access to health benefits to more working Americans. Array provides employers with a compelling alternative to traditional group health insurance. Array's innovative solution delivered through its proprietary software as a service (SaaS) platform offers employers several powerful value propositions, including health benefit cost predictability, funding flexibility, and greater employee policy choice.
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AspenAir
Benecia, CA
AspenAir addresses the growing Indoor Air Quality market. We manufacture and distribute high efficiency air filtration products, specifically a line of the most powerful Electronic Air Cleaners available on the market today. High efficiency air filtration removes harmful Respireable Small Particles form the airstream. Our systems retrofit into and integrate with residential and commercial air handling systems, allowing low-efficiency environments to become high-efficiency with a simple change-out of their current filter media. AspenAir sells their products thought the HVAC equipment distribution channel.
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Autonomic Networks, Inc.
Atherton, CA
Autonomic Networks, looking for seed stage financing, is developing a novel system for Enterprise Network, Security, Command and Control. Initially targeted at moderate to very large sized enterprise networks, the autonomic approach is based on monitoring the massive data flows and detecting and controlling information or events that are not normal.
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BuzzHub
San Francisco, CA
BuzzHub is an interactive media company providing a powerful, interactive, self-service platform that offers marketers a one-stop shop online to buy and load ads in malls, theaters, and other locations where people congregate.
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Capton, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
For restaurants, bars, hotels, and catering operations, Capton's Beverage Tracker (BT) consists of PC software, a wireless receiver, and multiple bottle spouts that provide free-pour liquor dispensing tracking in real-time. Beverage Tracker spouts have no control wires, are completely self-contained and provide data as to which spout/bottle was activated, the time the pour took place, and the amount of the pour in ounces or milliliters. An unlimited number of spouts may be used with a single receiver. Information from the spouts is aggregated in a wide variety of reports for viewing on a customer's computer or via a website and web browser. Until Capton, this information was not readily available to food and beverage managers and has been proven in over 125 installations to provide the ability to significantly reduce operating costs--to the point where payback is a matter of months.
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ClairVoyante Laboratories, Inc.
Sebastopol, CA
ClairVoyante develops and licenses technology for the Flat Panel Display Industry that significantly improves cost/performance. A deeper understanding of human vision and perception underlies PenTile Matrix "Technology for Human Vision", a new architectural standard for color flat panel displays.
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Demandbase, Inc.
Sausalito, CA
Demandbase offers software and services to help businesses increase revenue by improving the quality and financial return of their investment in sales lead generation. The company's "Leads On Demand" solution offers sales and marketing professionals an easier way to prospect for new customers or build a marketing list for email, telephone or mailing. Sign up is free, there are no minimums or subscriptions required, and users pay only for the leads they want to purchase.
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EscapeHomes
San Francisco, CA
EscapeHomes.com is the leading online marketplace for vacation real estate and resort properties worldwide, making the search for second homes easier by bringing remote vacation properties closer to home via the Internet. EscapeHomes.com features detail-rich descriptions of vacation homes and resort destinations, profiles of high-quality real estate agents and resort developers, decision support tools, and a library of resources and advice specific to second home living. Buy, sell, and learn about maintaining your vacation home. www.escapehomes.com - the place to find yours
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Fluxion
San Francisco, CA
Fluxion Biosciences has developed a revolutionary microfluidics technology that enables high performance, high throughput, economical cell-based assays for use in drug discovery and development. The company is targeting critical development bottlenecks in such areas as cancer, auto-immune and cardiovascular disease, and drug toxicity screening.
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Gemteq Software, Inc.
Novato, CA
The eGems' vision is powered by Gemteq Software, Inc., a privately held
corporation. Its mission is to provide innovative solutions to simplify the
collection and usage of information found on the web or any electronic
source. eGems Collector is the first step towards a suite of Internet
products and services aimed at business, content providers and e-Research
communities.
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GMI Capital Corporation (Global Mezzanine)
San Mateo, CA
GMI is positioned to become one of the first financial intermediaries focused on the globalization of the technology industry. GMI's objective is to become the leading innovator and preferred provider of customized debt financing solutions and value-added advisory services to small-cap technology enterprises experiencing international expansion.
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GoalTribe, Inc.
Hercules, CA
GoalTribe is revolutionizing the $10 billion self improvement industry with a breakthrough, web 2.0 goal-achievement process. GoalTribe addresses the top pain point for the exploding $3.3 billion Personal Coaching industry by providing an online extension of a coach's services. GoalTribe expands naturally into the broader self help category through its consumer subscription service and ad-supported digital content.
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GoldMail
San Francisco, CA
GoldMail is a new category of communications: Voice-Over-Visual Messaging. GoldMail makes it simple to overlay your voice over any content and send the resultant audio-visual message via email or post it online. GoldMail is personal, powerful and simple, and it provides everyone ? quickly and at a very lost cost - the means to send high-impact communications (audio-visual messages) to their prospects, clients, employees and partners. GoldMail is a hybrid web/downloadable software service which is sold on a monthly or annual subscription basis.
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Guardian Angel Holdings, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Guardian Angel's mission is to be the great company whose innovative consumer products empower people to make better health and wellness decisions. The Company's first initiative is a revolutionary new consumer product that helps those drinking beer with friends or wine with a loved one know if they are okay to drive home and possibly avoid the life-changing mistake of a DUI or worse. The product is a simple, inexpensive, highly accurate, non-intrusive alcohol test that, in two minutes, gives drivers information about their actual alcohol level.
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Gynesonics
San Francisco, CA
Gynesonics, founded January 2005, is a development stage company focusing on minimally invasive devices for women's health.
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iMIND Education Systems
Corte Madera, CA
iMind education systems provides an efficient internet-based, affordable way to deliver high quality, state curriculum based instructional management tools to classrooms and personalized instruction to meet individual needs. Amanda's mission is to unite students, educators and parents in a community that encourages learning through on-line communication.
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Integrated Aviation Solutions, Inc. (IAS)
Hood River, OR
Integrated Aviation Solutions, Inc. (IAS) is the majority shareholder in Advanced Navigation & Positioning Corporation (ANPC) located in Hood River, Oregon. ANPC [http:\www.anpc.com] produces transponder-based precision approach landing systems, including the TLS(tm) Transponder Landing System and the Firefly(tm) tactical TLS. In December 2001, the FAA granted Type Acceptance to the TLS and designated the system operationally suitable for use in the National Airspace System. The FAA's action follows its 1998 certification of the TLS as a Category I precision landing aid that can provide precision guidance in adverse weather with a cloud ceiling as low as 200 feet and visibility as low as ½ mile.
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IntellectMarket, Inc.
Santa Rosa, CA
IntellectMarket, Inc. was founded in September 1999 to create a global exchange for reusable software components. IntellectMarket aggregates software components for access via the Internet, provides consulting services to medium and large corporations for maximizing internally and externally-developed components, and provides the technology necessary to do so. The company was sold in December 2001 to a collaboration sofware company.
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IntelliGeneScan, Inc.
IntelliGeneScan, Inc. founded in January 2006, is a early stage biotech company focused on developing a minimally invasive, yet highly accurate, diagnostic test for the detection of colon cancer. Continuing research is being conducted in partnership with California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute in San Francisco.
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Liftopia, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Liftopia is a yield management and distribution platform dedicated to the mountain resort industry. Founded by former Hotwire employees, Liftopia helps leisure providers benefit from the best (and avoid the worst) practices of online travel.
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LOCATION-net, Inc.
Sausalito, CA
LOCATION-net is an application services provider that enables a business to identify, target and reach its customers through the proper selection of business locations. LOCATION-net's proprietary technology integrates approximately ten private, public and proprietary data sources and interprets them with over 125 years of real estate experience turning raw data into useful information. LOCATION-net is initially targeting the retail real estate industry. They launched their internet business in November 2000. The company will develop additional products for other segments of the real estate industry. LOCATION-net has merged with The Green Group to become Market Insite Group. Sold company to Asterop.
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Nietech Corporation
Santa Rosa, CA
Nietech Corporation, an affinity marketing company, has launched its CommunityCoupon.com Member Card program in Sonoma County. The unique integration of "high tech" and "high touch" enables shoppers to direct a portion of a purchase from participating merchants to a school or local nonprofit organization of their choice using the Member Card.
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OMware, Inc.
Santa Rosa, CA
OMware, Inc. develops, sells and supports technology solutions for construction management. Its flagship product is The Master Builder-a full suite of task-oriented applications that delivers increased profitability to construction businesses. OMware provides a high level of support, including live, Internet-based distance training, a national network of certified Associates, and expert technical and customer services. OMware was acquired by financial software giant Intuit, Inc. for $42 million in stock. Intuit acquired by Sage.
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OnWafer™ Technologies Inc.
Pleasant Hill, CA
OnWafer™ Technologies Inc. is a technology-based venture whose objective is to provide novel measurement and control solutions for the semiconductor industry. Our products and services improve line yield and overall production efficiency while reducing the need for expensive, off-line metrology equipment. Our initial product line includes wireless in-situ sensors that can be deployed with minimum disruption to the production line, and they provide a highly detailed view of processing conditions.
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Physicians E-care.com, Inc.
Santa Rosa, CA
Physicians E-Care.com is developing an Internet based communications portal designed to improve physician productivity and profits by managing patient-physician communications with proprietary expert systems and databases.
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Reality Gap, Inc.
Seattle, WA
Reality Gap is a publisher of Massively Multiplayer Online Computer Games with a unique revenue model called MetaTIX. MetaTIX acts as a virtual token system and has the potential to become a universal e-currency for the online game world. The Company is led by Michael Williams, Mark Hood and Nolan Bushnell who have assembled a team of interactive industry veterans.
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Red Condor
Santa Rosa, CA
Red Condor is a Managed Service Provider of comprehensive email security systems that eliminate spam, viruses, spy-ware, phishing schemes, and other offensive content -- dynamic, "living" threats to security and productivity. Red Condor's next generation, behavior-based filtering technology eliminates fraudulent and predatory email based on absolute criteria that results in decisive action. The system's design has built in zero tolerance for lost email, resulting in a near-zero false-positive rate while achieving long term spam block rates exceeding 97%. The solution is precise and effective, establishing Red Condor as an industry thought leader with enthusiastic customers throughout enterprise, government, and service provider markets.
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Sensor Platforms, Inc.
Santa Rosa, CA
Sensor Platforms, Inc. enables sensor applications, providing technologies that both reduce the cost and time of sensor application development and improve sensor performance. Its revolutionary suite of technical products facilitates, for the first time, low-cost, time-efficient production of sensor applications.
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Sonoma Coast Winery LP
Sebastopol, CA
Sonoma Coast Winery LP is a newly formed partnership created to fund the winery started in 2002 under the name Sonoma Coast Vineyards & Winery, LLC. The company produces and markets wine brands under the trade names of Sonoma Coast Vineyards and Fire Station Red.
Under the SCV label, the winery makes world class Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc under the direction of acclaimed winemaker Anthony Austin. With specialization and focus on a cold climate style, the SCV brand is known for complex and elegant wines that take full advantage of the unique characteristics of the Extreme Sonoma Coast.
Under the Fire Station Red (FSR) brand, the company produces Shiraz (Syrah) and Zinfandel and soon other varietals. Millennials, who represent the target market, love the price point, the packaging, the message, and the wines. FSR wines are food friendly, and are positioned as the perfect backyard barbeque wine.
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Sonoma Sparkler
Healdsburg, CA
Sonoma Sparkler is an award-winning maker of premium sparkling juice beverages. The company's mission is to become the #1 non-alcoholic celebration beverage in America.
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Sugarshots
Novato, CA
Sugarshots produces a line of liquid cane sugars for the premium coffee and tea markets. It currently has national accounts, distribution and representation in both foodservice and grocery retail.
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Traffic School Online, Inc.
Santa Rosa, CA
TrafficSchoolOnline.com is the nations first online driver improvement company, starting back in 1997. Currently we operate in over 15 states and growing. In addition to driver improvement, TrafficSchoolOnline.com has expanded its services to Drivers' Education for new drivers with its DriversEdOnline.com program. Both sites can be reached at www.TrafficSchoolOnline.com and DriversEdOnline.com respectively.
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TravelPost.com
San Francisco, CA
The independent source for personalized reviews of hotels, resorts and places to stay.
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Triformix, Inc.
Santa Rosa, CA
Triformix designs and manufactures small, highly precise injection molded optical components and assemblies for the communications market. The devices are used in fiber optic transceivers at the conversion point between optical and electronic signals, as the light enters or exits a fiber. Leveraging an inherently lower cost manufacturing process and the ability to incorporate multiple features into a monolithic device, these optical elements allow customers to dramatically reduce costs at the component level as well as in subsequent assembly processes.
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TriVascular Systems, Inc.
Santa Rosa, CA
TriVascular Systems, Inc. is an emerging medical device company specializing in the development of innovative implant devices for the endovascular treatment of vascular disease. TriVascular is a rapidly-growing, venture-funded start-up company committed to developing new devices that address unmet clinical needs. TriVascular's first products are next-generation transluminally placed (via catheter) endovascular grafts (often referred to as stent grafts), for the treatment of aneurysmal disease in the thoracic (TAA) and abdominal aorta (AAA).
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Validare
Healdsburg, CA
Validare is the leader in a new wave of change in healthcare. By helping physicians set up an accredited office based surgery in their practice, Validare helps assure patient safety, creates new revenue for the physician, and lowers the cost for the payers. Validare supplies proprietary Internet tools, content, and domain experts to manage the entire process from accreditation preparation, through compliance maintenance, to collecting a facility fee on behalf of the facility.
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Vino Volo
San Francisco, CA
Vino Volo (derived from "wine flight" in Italian) is a high-end wine tasting and retail concept for airports, providing a sophisticated environment for air travelers to taste hand-selected wines while they wait to board their flights. With a goal to open 50 Vino Volo locations in 5 years, the company has opened two stores in Washington DC and Seattle, WA, and three more openings are scheduled in Sacramento, Baltimore, and New York over the coming six months.
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Visicon
Napa, CA
Visicon is the technology leader in machine vision for the sub-micron inspection market and the market leader in medical stent inspection systems.
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Webvanta, Inc.
Sebastopol
Webvanta provides a hosted web service that combines content
management, a special database system we call the KnowledgeBase, and
community features. Webvanta eliminates up-front development costs
while empowering the designer to deliver sites without hiring a
developer. Webvanta provides a range of back-end services for
creating, organizing, presenting, and maintaining large amounts of
content. As a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company, all
infrastructure is provided by Webvanta in a state-of-the-art facility,
relieving customers of all concerns about hosting, backup, security,
and maintenance.
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Webview, Inc.
Petaluma, CA
Webview, Inc. markets machine vision technology to industries such as plastics, paper, glass, metals, etc. for continuous process inspection in conjunction with Internet based information systems enhancing global manufacturing competitiveness.
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