Portfolio
Auterra
Auterra, formerly known as Applied NanoWorks (ANW), is an advanced inorganic materials manufacturing company located in the Albany, NY area. ANW has developed the Molecular Control Platform (MCP), an advanced materials manufacturing platform which is the first major advancement in inorganic material science in 30 years. This process is patent-pending, cost-effective, and scalable and has already delivered two new patent-pending molecules with another 4-6 more and countless derivatives anticipated. The MCP process meets a pent-up demand in the materials manufacturing industry for flexible inorganic chemicals that deliver the functionality of inorganic materials (electrical, optical, chemical and physical properties) with the flexibility and control typical in organic chemistry.
www.auterrainc.com
Allworx (Acquired by PAETEC, NASDAQ: PAET)
Allworx (formerly InSciTek Microsystems) develops and distributes IP-based voice and data networking equipment for small businesses. The company’s flagship Allworx 10x is a converged communications system combining a phone system, network server and messaging server into a single integrated product. This all-in-one solution significantly reduces the complexity and cost of a customer’s technology infrastructure, at the same time providing advanced features previously available only in enterprise class PBX systems. Allworx is based in East Rochester, NY.
www.allworx.com
The News Market
The NewsMarket is rapidly emerging as the dominant platform for management, archiving, and distribution of sponsored video news content. Fortune 5000 enterprises, governments and other organizations that produce video content for distribution to the media as part of a broader PR strategy use The NewsMarket to enable simple, searchable access to that content by the news media. The NewsMarket’s web-based platform distributes sponsored video content to over 5,000 newsrooms in 140 countries. The company’s rapidly growing client list includes General Motors, Intel, adidas, Motorola, Rolls-Royce and the U.S. Department of State. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.
www.TheNewsMarket.com
Pump Audio (Acquired by Getty Images, NYSE: GYI)
Pump Audio is a new kind of agent for independent musicians, digitally connecting them with buyers in the mainstream media. With Pump Audio, artists can license their music into productions without giving up any ownership with a no-fee, non-exclusive contract, while TV and advertising producers can discover new music ready for use. With a growing catalog of tens of thousands of songs, all by independent artists from around the world, customers access music through Pump’s innovative search software and delivery device, the “PumpBox”. The company is headquartered in Tivoli, NY.
www.pumpaudio.com
ReQuest, Inc.
ReQuest, Inc. is the marketplace leader in providing dynamic media storage and management solutions for the premium digital home market. ReQuest has won numerous best of show and product of the year awards from industry conferences and publications for its AudioReQuest and VideoReQuest product lines. ReQuest is located in Ballston Spa , NY.
www.request.com
Worktopia
Worktopia is the first and only on-line global distribution system for meeting space in hotels, conference centers, airport lounges and other venues. Worktopia is serving the $24B demand for small and medium meetings – the last important unautomated space in the travel industry – by connecting buyers with thousands of meeting facilities across the United States and abroad. With Worktopia, meeting planners can search based on their specific meeting facility requirements, compare live pricing proposals, and book the meeting space, A/V and catering from a live database …24/7, eliminating the manual, costly and inefficient RFP process. Worktopia’s search and instant booking capability is available to agents and corporate meeting planners as a feature on most major corporate travel procurement services such as Worldspan and Sabre, or as a free service on Worktopia.com.
www.worktopia.com
TxVia
TxVia (formerly TxCore) provides market-leading technology tools and services to enable improved product offerings in the rapidly growing prepaid debit card industry. TxVia allows prepaid card issuers and program managers to deploy their own scalable processing systems, providing full control over functionality and release timing as well as infrastructure and service levels.
www.txvia.com
Soft Sight, Inc., d/b/a Threadsmith (Acquired by Vistaprint, NASDAQ: VPRT)
Soft Sight is the leading apparel industry automation software company and operator of the Threadsmith.com online custom embroidery business. Threadsmith’s patented technology enables enables rapid, real-time custom embroidery design and fulfillment. Threadsmith is revolutionizing the custom apparel business with this technology, enabling logowear to be designed and customized in real time and orders to be placed in minutes, not days, and with no costly setup charges.
www.threadsmith.com
Apprenda
Apprenda is the pioneering developer of a general purpose platform for SaaS applications that focuses making SaaS accessible as a distribution model to software vendors across the globe. The SaaSGrid platform gives independent software vendors the ability to deploy and deliver scalable, multi-tenant, enterprise applications via SaaS quickly and cost effectively without deviating from their core business and development competencies.
www.apprenda.com
SmartPill
SmartPill Corporation is a leading developer of capsule-based medical devices that aid in the diagnosis, definition and therapeutic intervention of gastrointestinal (GI) motility disorders and diseases. The company’s flagship product – the SmartPill GI Monitoring System – features the SmartPill Capsule, an ingestible medical device that provides data, heretofore unavailable, that can assist physicians and researchers in the evaluation of GI motility disorders. SmartPill Corporation’s SmartPill GI Monitoring System was granted 510(k) release from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in July 2006.
www.smartpillcorp.com
Flat World Knowledge
Flat World Knowledge is a next generation educational content business that aims to disrupt the $8B annual college textbook market. The company’s fundamentally disruptive model based on 4 key principles:
- Provide first class content from top quality authors
- Deliver content in an open format with flexibility for faculty members to customize and supplement the text
- Make core content available online for free while printed copies and a la carte supplemental materials generate revenue
- Enhance the student experience by facilitating a vibrant, collaborative social learning network around the core content.
Cloverhill Enterprises
Cloverhill is a startup, stealth mode search engine optimization services business.
