DAFCA is an electronic design automation (EDA) software company developing a product suite for the creation of flexible Systems-on-Chip (SoC) solutions, which results in faster time-to-market and lower chip development costs. Vista Ventures invested alongside 3i, Kodiak Venture Partners, Bay Ventures and New Venture Partners.1

Dante Group software provides enterprise monitoring software to help companies better understand the relationship between business processes and their underlying IT infrastructure that supports them. Dante has expanded this vision to provide solutions for real-time enterprise management for both the business and IT functions. Co-investors include Mobius and Sequel Venture Partners. Dante was acquired by webMethods (NASDAQ: WEBM) in October 2003.

Groople, Inc. increases the productivity and profitability of group travel sales, through the use of advanced technology that allows for significant growth in revenue without adding associated call-center costs and the ability to book any-size group in a single online session. Groople is located in Denver, Colorado. Co-investors include Flywheel Ventures and Fatty Tuna

Indicative Software, Inc. is an enterprise management software company with headquarters in Fort Collins, Colorado. Indicative addresses the needs of today’s corporate information technology (IT) and business managers with a software suite that simplifies management of an increasingly complex IT environment. Its products provide unprecedented context, visualization and performance monitoring of a company’s entire service value chain, internal and external to the four walls of the corporate enterprise. Co-investors include Sutter Hill and Sequel Venture Partners.

LeftHand Networks Inc. pioneered the open iSCSI SAN market and is the only storage vendor to build enterprise-class SANs on industry-standard platforms. A key differentiator for LeftHand is its patented SAN/iQ storage clustering software. LeftHand’s SAN/iQ software turns standard servers like the HP ProLiant DL380 into scalable network storage ideal for primary storage, server consolidation, disaster recovery and campus SANs. LeftHand leads the fastest growing segment of the storage industry with more than 4,000 systems sold and 6,000 terabytes of storage powered by SAN/iQ, as of October 2006. The company has strategic partnerships with Intel, HP and Microsoft, and many enterprise-class customers including Alcoa, Comcast, Pfizer, Time Warner and Verizon.

LeftHand Networks is located in Boulder, CO and our co-investors include the Sprout Group, Boulder Ventures, Garage Technology Ventures, Ironside Ventures, LLC, Portage Venture Partners, Sequel Venture Partners, Wasatch Venture Fund, and William Blair New World Ventures.

MX Logic, Inc. provides advanced email protection and security solutions that safeguard enterprises, service providers and government organizations from junk email ("spam"), viruses, worms, malicious content and other harmful threats at the network perimeter. MX Logic's Email Defense solutions allow organizations to easily configure and control their email protection and security based on their overall corporate email policies. MX Logic is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Co-investors include Adams Street Partners, Grayhawk Venture Partners, UV Partners and River City Capital.

Market Force Information, Inc. is an emerging provider of store-level, customer experience information for retailers, restaurants, consumer packaged goods companies and the financial and hospitality communities. Market Force’s strategy is to acquire mystery shopping companies and invest in technology to further enhance the value and utility of the information it provides to clients. Market Force is located in Boulder, Colorado. Co-investors include Boulder Ventures and Centennial Ventures.

NewsGator Technologies is a pioneer in RSS and Enterprise 2.0 technologies. Headquartered in Denver, Colo., NewsGator develops and markets RSS aggregation solutions for individual end users, enterprises and online content providers. Using NewsGator products and solutions, businesses and consumers can subscribe to news, information, podcasts and other relevant content more efficiently and effectively than with traditional channels. With NewsGator, users have access to RSS information via the Web, Microsoft Outlook, mobile devices and both Windows- and Mac-based desktop clients. All NewsGator products synchronize seamlessly, enabling users to read their RSS feeds anywhere, anytime, with any device. Our co-investors include Masthead Ventures and Mobius Ventures.

Rally Software Development Corp. is based in Boulder, Colorado and provides the software-driven enterprise with the knowledge, coaching and tooling needed to succeed with Agile development practices. Rally's new software development management solution allows software organizations to dramatically lower the cost of change in their development efforts so they speed value delivery to the customer. Our co-investors include Boulder Ventures and Mobius Ventures.

Selero, Inc. is a premier provider of complete end-to-end solutions for internal and external straight through processing (“STP”) and integration for the Securities industry. By replacing manual processes, efficiently connecting disparate trading partners, and optimizing order processing, IBSN’s products allow securities firms to lower their costs, improve reliability and scalability, and attract and win more customers. IBSN is located in Denver, Colorado. Co-investors include Appian Venture Partners, Grayhawk Venture Partners, OCA Ventures and SAP.

SiGe Semiconductor, Inc. is a leading global supplier of front-end solutions for next-generation wireless systems. Drawing on the unique advantages of silicon germanium technology, the company designs and delivers integrated circuits and chip-scale modules with unparalleled performance and power efficiency. SiGe Semiconductor is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada and has operations in Boston, London, San Diego, and Hong Kong. Co-investors include 3i, Prism, TD Capital and VenGrowth

StrataVia Corporation provides expert database administration services on a 24x7x365 basis to companies, along with significant annual cost savings. StrataVia can guarantee such cost savings due to its innovative proprietary database automation software. StrataVia is located in Denver, Colorado. Co-investors include Adams Street Partners and Asset Management Company.

StrionAir is a revolutionary air purification company that utilizes the electrical enhancement of a proprietary mechanical filter to achieve (1) high particle removal efficiency (especially sub micron size ), (2) at very low resistance to airflow, and (3) with a germicidal effect on mold, bacteria and viruses that also protects a building's air intake from a biological or radiological terrorist attack. StrionAir's technology is based on research conducted by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories for the Department of Energy to protect nuclear facilities. StrionAir is headquarted in Louisville, Colorado. Co-investors include The Carlyle Group, Sequel Partners and Solstice Capital.

Tendril Networks, Inc. bridges the gap between wireless sensor and control networks and programmers by providing system-wide development tools, deployment engines, and professional services. Tendril is located in Boulder, Colorado. Our co-investors include Appian Ventures and Access Venture Partners.

Thought Equity is focused on the licensing and management of motion-based assets. The company specializes in advanced digital mastering, ingest, metadata, packaging and storage services that allow rapid refinement and licensing of sophisticated motion imagery. Co-investors include Access Venture Partners and Jona, Inc.

Umbria Communications, Inc. collects the unsolicited opinions and perceptions of the online community (blogs, message boards, chat, etc.) and turns it into actionable market research about companies, products, people and topics of interest. Using proprietary natural language processing and machine learning technologies, Umbria dissects the who, what and why of online opinion to provide deep insight into the buzz about products and competition. Umbria is located in Boulder, Colorado. Co-investors include Sequel Venture Partners and Arrowpath Venture Partners.

Ventria Biosciences, Inc. Ventria is a biotechnology company engaged in the development of recombinant proteins using its proprietary ExpressTec technology, which achieves yields far greater than those of the next-best plant-based system.