Portfolio Companies Masthead invests in entrepreneurs who have breakthrough technologies and the experience required to build market-dominant businesses. We leverage the synergies among our portfolio companies and partners to offer entrepreneurs access to new markets and pave the way to profitability. The Masthead network yields strategic alliances that help start-ups gain momentum and new business opportunities. Masthead partners have a top-tier investment track record. Some of our recent investments include: AEP Networks AEP Networks is the specialist in network and application access security. AEP's integrated suite of solutions -- spanning identity-based application security gateways, highly secure IPSec VPNs, SSL VPNs, and hardware security modules for key management -- address the most demanding security and access requirements of public-sector and commercial enterprises worldwide. www.aepnetworks.com Bitpipe (acquired by TechTarget in December 2004) Leading source of in-depth information technology content including white papers, product literature, webcasts, analyst reports, and case studies. www.bitpipe.com Ecount (acquired by Citigroup in March 2007) Enables its partners to provide industry-leading stored value cards, virtual accounts and electronic payment solutions. corp.ecount.com Centric Software Centric Software accelerates product innovation through its industry-leading Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) applications suite, Centric Innovation. The solution enables manufacturers to manage product innovation programs and campaigns to deliver market-dominating products within critical windows of opportunity. www.centricsoftware.com Chumby Chumby Industries was birthed at O’Reilly’s FOO camp in the summer of 2005 by alpha geeks who wanted to create a WiFi enabled device for the consumer market. The Chumby device acts like a clock radio, but is designed to be open, flexible and hackable. It uses the wireless Internet connection to fetch cool widgets (like Flickr photos, clocks, news information and video podcasts) from the Chumby web site. www.chumby.com ExpoTV Expo TV is a new video solution to product research, with thousands of consumer-generated reviews and product demonstrations all available in full-motion video. In addition to the video reviews contributed by our community, we also produce informative ‘how to buy’ videos and have advertising partners who have contributed product demonstration videos. www.expotv.com Genesis Networks Genesis Networks provides broadcasters with global video transmission services over fiber and satellite that leverage the cost and integration advantages of Internet Protocol (IP) technology. Its fiber optic network connects major broadcast hubs throughout the world, and provides easy access to satellites through major teleports and transportable uplinks. Genesis Networks is the first company to provide guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) parameters for video-over-IP. Genesis further offers its proprietary software system to give customers control of the network themselves, allowing dynamic, real-time and instant access the video services. www.gen-networks.com Foneshow Foneshow has built a telephony-based distribution platform for short form audio (primarily news/talk radio, sports, and podcast programming). The platform leverages the cellular telephone network and SMS technology to enable users to subscribe to, access, publish, share and consume short form audio programming immediately, from any cell phone with no client software required. www.foneshow.com Intercasting Corp. Intercasting Corp is a Location-aware Media Networking Operator (LMNO) building consumer applications for the mobile space that turn their customers into producers and distributors of location-tagged content. Their landmark product, Rabble, is the first fully mobile-centric blogging and social networking application. www.intercastingcorp.com Liquid Machines, Inc. Provides enterprise class software solutions allowing for unprecedented capabilities to secure, protect, and share intellectual property that resides in proprietary documents. www.liquidmachines.com NewsGator Technologies, Inc. NewsGator Technologies is the premier RSS (Really Simple Syndication) platform company, providing software applications and services for end-users to manage and aggregate their syndicated news and content. www.newsgator.com Nexaweb Technologies, Inc. Nexaweb delivers the leading enterprise-class Rich-Internet Application (RIA) framework for creating and deploying feature-rich, maintainable applications that leverage the power of the Internet. Nexaweb’s framework accelerates the development of standards-based Internet applications, including applications migrated from legacy client/server systems. www.nexaweb.com Packet Design, Inc. Develops a family of network appliances that improve the reliability, efficiency and predictability of IP networks by providing IP-layer (layer 3) visibility into those networks. www.packetdesign.com RuleStream Corporation Rules-driven Product Management (RPM) software. www.rulestream.com Scanbuy Scanbuy is the leading carrier-grade platform for applications that generate, image, and decode one dimensional (1D) and two dimensional (2D) barcodes for mobile devices, connecting consumers to the physical world through a single click of their camera phones. Marketers can generate highly targeted mobile campaigns connected to printed and digital media, while mobile carriers can offer highly differentiated data services to their subscribers. Scanbuy's own Shopper application offers consumers access to best prices, reviews, coupons, promotions and more by simply pointing their camera phones at barcodes on merchandise. www.scanbuy.com SyChip, Inc. (acquired by Murata Manufacturing in April 2006) Designs, develops and markets Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits and Chip Scale Modules for the wireless Internet appliance market. www.sychip.com Tacoda Systems (acquired by AOL in September 2007) A New York-based application software and services provider enabling marketing driven businesses to optimize a persistent consumer dialogue across multiple channels for maximum profitability. www.tacoda.com Tizor Boston-based startup leading a new generation of internal security appliances for Information protection and Compliance auditing across the data center. www.tizor.com Tremor Media Tremor Media provides advertisers with in-banner and in-stream video advertising inventory on 300 top-tier publisher sites with a combined 70 million unique visitors per month. Tremor provides publishers with a full suite of products and services to monetize streaming video and maximize ROI, including in-stream publisher ad insertion technology and full-service video advertising packages. Tremor's solutions provide the necessary tools for advertisers and publishers to utilize online video advertising as a powerful interactive medium. For more information visit: www.tremormedia.com TripConnect, Inc. Using social networking technologies, TripConnect helps people get travel advice from the most highly valued source: friends and family. TripConnect answers a need for trusted advice on destinations, hotels and activities by tapping into the otherwise undiscovered knowledge that exists in one's social network, thereby delivering high quality and relevant information in a simple and efficient manner. www.tripconnect.com Vernier Networks, Inc. Founded in March 2001, Vernier Networks® offers the industry’s first adaptive security products for wired and wireless networks that enable enterprises to assure business continuity. Vernier’s products proactively protect enterprise networks from increasingly complex attacks, actively resolve intrusions, while continually adapting network security policy to protect against future threats. www.verniernetworks.com World Wide Packets, Inc. Develops, manufactures and markets products enabling delivery of simultaneous telephony, video and data using Ethernet over fiber and copper. www.wwp.com © 2003 Masthead Venture Partners. All rights reserved.