4Blox, San Jose, CA
4Blox is a software company focused on dramatically improving the performance of Storage Area Networks (SAN’s) that are based on the iSCSI (Internet Small Computer Systems Interface) protocol. While there are hardware techniques and solutions that increase the performance of iSCSI today (by typically “off-loading” one or more protocols into hardware), 4Blox is a next generation software-only solution that is ideally positioned to accelerate iSCSI performance for a wide variety of storage hardware and software vendors.
Aravo Solutions, San Francisco, CA
During the technology boom of the late 90s, companies invested tens of millions of dollars in “e-procurement” software. The promise of this software is to allow large companies to do all of their purchasing electronically, but in many cases suppliers are small businesses that do not have the financial resources or technology expertise to implement expensive software solutions. Aravo solves this problem by selling an affordable, web-based software program that links a small business inventory system to the multi-million dollar e-procurement systems run by Fortune 1000 companies and large government and university procurement offices.
Comet Solutions, Albuquerque, NM
Comet Solutions provides a multi-disciplinary performance engineering workspace powered by abstract modeling that enables engineering teams to make critical design decisions during early stages of conceptual engineering and feasibility studies. The Comet Workspace is a geometry-independent, authoring tool neutral environment that captures engineering requirements and functional performance characteristics within reusable and dynamic simulation templates. Companies worldwide in industries such as aerospace, military vehicles and heavy machinery use Comet to make better decisions earlier and accelerate their product development schedules.
Filtrbox, Boulder, CO
Filtrbox is a digital information management service that provides an easy, reliable way for individual business professionals to filter and manage critical information flowing from the Internet. The service is similar to google alerts, however, Filtrbox provides a persistent, intelligent search application that has critical features like noise control, history and drill-down, multi-modal notification and tuning. Filtrbox helps professionals reduce and control the noise level associated with the explosion of online content, and it allows users to discover and process increasing amounts of information more productively and efficiently. Filtrbox is on a mission to ease the pain and complexity of staying in-the-know by delivering a solution that provides more knowledge with less noise.
Groople, Denver, CO
Online travel services are comprised of a large number of booking agencies, operators and distribution systems, with hundreds of thousands of participants, making it difficult to efficiently leverage group buying power. Amplifying the problem, legacy digital global distribution systems, used by Travelocity, Orbitz, Expedia and others to connect travel buyers and sellers with instant accommodation, currently restrict the total number of rooms booked in a single online session to four. Groople solves this problem by allowing group coordinators to plan and book travel in real-time using an automated inventory management system.
Intelisum, Salt Lake City, UT
InteliSum, Inc. has developed innovative and patented 3-D InteliCamera™ technology that fuses LIDAR XYZ coordinates, digital image (RGB) data, and geophysical position (GPS) information to create Life Dimensional™ image (LD3™) files. Our intelligent pixel (InteliPixel™) technology allows easy capture of 3-dimensional objects and environments, plus fast, seamless transition (transfer) into computer aided design (CAD) software.
While the technology is currently being implemented in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) market, it is positioned to become the new 3-D communication media for multiple markets.
Knowledge Reef Systems, Santa Fe, NM
Knowledge Reef Systems is developing the KnowledgeReef, an innovative platform for the hosting knowledge communities. Based on patent-pending technology that supports the “intelligent” distribution of various types of information amongst members and groups the KnowledgeReef enables knowledge community members to discover colleagues, documents, websites, services, products or other information to meet their needs.
Along with delivering a revolutionary change in how information is distributed in online knowledge communities, the KnowledgeReef offers its members familiar web-based community services such as targeted search, blogs, wikis, forum and listservs. Unlike conventional web deployments, these services are tightly integrated into the KnowledgeReef platform offering members a vastly richer knowledge community experience.
Knowledge Reef Systems will offer community organizers easy-to-use tools to simplify the formation of new knowledge communities. The KnowledgeReef platform will be designed to concurrently host thousands of knowledge communities, each ranging in size from several hundreds to thousands of members.
http://www.knowledgereefsystems.com/
Lingotek, Provo, UT
Lingotek Collaborative Translation Technology uses centralized translation memories in all language pairs so that human translators can capture, grow, and re-use their organization’s linguistic assets. Within the Lingotek translation interface, translation memories, machine translation, dictionaries, and project workflow are brought together for the first time. Human translators now have unprecedented control of the translation process.
MIOX Corporation, Albuquerque, NM
MIOX produces capital equipment for the on-site generation of a chlorine-based water disinfectant solution for municipal, waste water, recreational and other markets. Mixed oxidant disinfectants react with pollutants in a manner similar to chlorine gas, the standard for water disinfection for more than 80 years, but without the need to transport and handle chlorine gas and with a significant reduction in unwanted chlorine byproducts.
New West, Missoula, MT
New West Publishing LLC, the Missoula-based parent company of NewWest.Net, was founded by Jonathan Weber. He was previously the co-founder and editor in chief of The Industry Standard, an award-winning newsweekly that chronicled the emergence of the Internet economy, and before that was a writer and editor at the Los Angeles Times. The company’s node editors and writers have a passion for the West and have published extensively in local and national publications.
Packet Analytics, Santa Fe, NM
Packet Analytics, founded by the creators of Net/FSE, the Network Forensic Search Engine, specializes in tool development for IT security assessment and incident response. Packet Analytics aims to provide products that can be trusted and are backed by world-class service. The core technology behind Net/FSE has been licensed exclusively from Los Alamos National Laboratory and has been in production use for more than five years in a high-volume network environment. The founders of Packet Analytics have significant experience in developing solutions for the overwhelming amount of network data that exist in today’s enterprises. Their background includes expertise in cyber-security, particularly where it pertains to large corporations and government.
http://www.packetanalytics.com/
Samba, Albuquerque, NM
Many large industries, such as insurance, banking, titling, and automotive, depend on interaction with public records data such as driving records and vehicle registration to manage the risk associated with large driver fleets. However, in most cases, this interaction is conducted in antiquated, manual ways. Samba solves this problem by partnering with state governments to host replicas of public records data. Using this data, Samba builds web-based applications that allow private industry customers to monitor driver records and ensure that only qualified drivers operate company vehicles, or personal vehicles on company time.
Sindhara Supermedia, Palo Alto, CA
Sindhara is the creator of a revolutionary still image and video compression technology that allows DVD quality video to stream over a cellular network, or high definition video over a standard broadband connection. With a platform that allows immediate deployment over most networks to most mobile devices and Windows based PC’s, we are creating opportunities and changing what is possible for our customers. Industry leaders in the world of telecommunications, entertainment, military, government, gaming, transportation and medicine have already embraced our solution. Sindhara is the industry leader in wireless multimedia.
SkyFuel, Inc., Albuquerque, NM;
SkyFuel, Inc. is emerging as a world leader in the design and deployment of concentrating solar power (CSP) systems. The Company delivers turnkey large-scale solar plants that produce steam for power generation, desalination, wastewater treatment and other industrial applications. SkyFuel’s solar plants can be integrated into existing facilities using its proprietary FuelSaver™ approach, or can be built as stand-alone solar power plants.
SkyFuel is focused on the development of parabolic trough and linear Fresnel CSP systems, as well as thermal energy storage. With these technologies, SkyFuel is creating solar technology that can compete directly with fossil fuels, revolutionizing the energy industry and meeting the energy needs of a modern society while minimizing environmental impact.
The Micromanipulator Company, Carson City, NV
The Micromanipulator Company is a leading manufacturer of analytical probing equipment used to test 150, 200 and 300mm semiconductor wafers, solar cells, nanotechnology and MEMS devices. Micromanipulator provides probe stations and accessories for applications including reliability testing, low current/low noise IV/CV testing, high frequency testing, and probing for flat panels and PCB’s. As the realtive cost of testing continues to increase for semiconductor and other small geometry products, Micromanipulator sees opportunity to provide better, more integrated low cost solutions to our current and future customers. Micromanipulator is located in Carson City, Nevada.
http://www.micromanipulator.com
Trackvia, Golden, CO
You can only do so much with a white board or sticky notes. Spreadsheets have their place, but make poor collaboration tools and are frustrating for teams or groups to share. And if you’re tracking your work with sophisticated or specialized software, you can get bogged down with complicated features that you don’t need and don’t have time to master. Trackvia is the happy marriage of a simple web-based database and essential tracking tools for managing and sharing information online. Any group of people can use it to organize and track any type of information, and start being more effective and productive immediately.
TRED Displays, Albuquerque, NM
The worldwide signage industry is well over $100B with rapid growth in the $14B digital signage sector. However the cost for customers to move from printed graphics signs to digital LED displays can increase the price of a sign or display by 25X or more. Tred has developed the first low-cost, reflective, “green-tech” digital display that can be seamlessly integrated with large format, outdoor graphics signs. Tred’s new “hybrid” sign technology allows sign makers to add high impact digital content to graphic signs while leveraging their existing sign fabrication systems. End-customers can have digital content added to their graphic sign or display at a small fraction of the cost of digital LED displays. Tred’s display products utilize essentially no power compared to LED displays and Tred displays do not contribute to light pollution. Tred’s target market is the current digital signage and digitally-printed fixed graphic signage markets estimated at over US $17B in aggregate.
TruTouch Technologies, Albuquerque, NM
Traditional alcohol testing using specimen analysis, either breath or blood, and is a cumbersome, labor-intensive, time-consuming process. TruTouch has developed alcohol testing systems that eliminate the need for active supervision by employing near infrared spectroscopy to non-invasively measure alcohol and perform user identity verification.
http://www.trutouchtechnologies.com
Tuscany Design Automation, Ft. Collins, CO
Semiconductor chip designers face a growing problem with the resources required to craft an integrated circuit that meets performance and area goals on a schedule. Tuscany Design Automation develops customer-extensible software solutions used in the physical design flow for complex, high-performance, and low power integrated circuits that counter the secondary physics effects of 90 nanometer and smaller designs. Tuscany provides state-of-the-art tools that exploit the structure inherent in critical blocks of most designs.
