Ardica Technologies provides the lightest and longest lasting fuel cell heat and power solutions for consumer, commercial, and military markets. The company has developed key technologies in hydrogen generation, micro-pumps, and fuel cells that enable portable power systems offering significant energy density improvements over the best batteries. Launched out of Stanford University, we have been improving the state of the art for four years and are currently transitioning to manufacturing. The company has received funding from both professional investors and industry veterans in our target markets in addition to substantial government contracts.

Ardica: www.ardica.com 

Benda Pharmaceutical, Inc. is a Chinese drug company that identifies, discovers, develops, and manufactures both conventional medicines and Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCMs) for treatment of some of the most widespread common ailments and diseases (e.g. common cold, diabetes, cancer).

Benda, a pure play on Chinese pharma spending, is at an inflection point and ideally positioned to benefit from the explosive growth in Chinese health care spending over the next two decades.

BOOMj.com, Inc. is a leading Web-based niche social network and e-commerce site.  BOOMj incorporates personalized social networking, online shopping, travel deals, video programming, and focused content in:  health, finance, politics, lifestyle, and movies/entertainment for members. 

Boomj www.boomj.com

Conenza is a company founded on the belief that trusted relationships among people are possibly the most treasured “invisible” assets of both companies and each of us as individuals.  The rich set of shared experiences, knowledge, and connections that those who have worked together have created builds a bond that transcends time, whether or not those colleagues are still at the same company.

The Conenza Alumni Community Platform offers a wide array of benefits.  From policy compliance, flexible permissions controls and enterprise systems integration to administrative tools that give you direct control over your alumni site content, and marketing strategies that engage the full range of stakeholders, Conenza provides best-practices expertise to make it easy for your company to create a trusted online alumni community where connections, collaboration and business opportunities thrive.

Conenza  www.conenza.com

Internet REIT (iREIT) is a next-generation internet media company that acquires, develops and monetizes high-quality domain names and web properties.  iREIT’s domain portfolio includes such premier properties as the Netster.com portal, Bands.com, CreditReports.com, Shows.com, eBuy.com, Recipe.com, GoCarts.com, VietnamWar.com, OfficeSupply.com, and many others.  A leading supplier of high-value Internet traffic to advertisers, iREIT receives more than 40 million visitors per month through its growing network of media properties.

Internet REIT, L.P.  www.ireit.com

Medivation blends a unique business model with an expert team to bring promising medical technologies from lab bench to patient bedside.  Our current product development programs address lucrative markets with significant unmet medical needs.  These include:

Dimebon for Alzheimer’s disease and Huntington’s disease
MDV3100 for hormone-refractory prostate cancer

Medivation  www.medivation.com

Steel is the backbone of the New China.  Puda Coal is perfectly positioned to satisfy the intense demand for the metal both now and as Chinese Miracle continues to gain momentum.

As of April 2006, Puda is the largest coking coal cleaning company in Shanxi Province in terms of capacity.

We have expanded capacity by 440% since October 2005, from 500,000 metric tons (MT) per year to 2.7 million MT per year.

Puda Coal, Inc.  www.puda-coal.com

Purfresh is the global leader in clean, science-based solutions for fresh produce and water. Purfresh's patented technologies are developed in the laboratory to address the specific challenges facing produce growers, packers, shippers and wholesalers, as well as water bottlers, pharmaceutical companies and consumer products manufacturers.

Introduced in 2007, Purfresh's pre-harvest sunshield reduces water usage and product losses from sun damage and increases financial returns for produce growers. Purfresh's fresh produce ozone solutions are complete with product tracking technologies to preserve and protect worldwide produce throughout the post-harvest and transportation process while increasing quality and yield. Purfresh's water ozone solution is the safest, chemical-free purification and disinfection agent on the market, and is widely deployed by the world's leading water bottlers, pharmaceutical and consumer products companies.

PurFresh  www.purfresh.com

UTEK is a specialty finance company focused on technology transfer.  We enable companies of all sizes to acquire innovative technologies from universities and research laboratories worldwide.  Our unique U2B process enables publicly traded firms in a wide range of industries to rapidly acquire license to university discoveries in exchange for their equity securities.  Since its inception, UTEK has completed in excess of 85 technology transfers and currently owns stakes in approximately 60 publicly traded companies.

UTEK has operations in the United States, United Kingdom and Israel and trades on the American Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange-AIM under the ticker UTK.

UTEK Corporation  www.utekcorp.com

Web Reservations International (WRI) provides online confirmed reservations to over 50,000 accommodation providers, directly and through more than 2,500 global affiliate partners.

Customers can choose from 5 star hotels to hostels around the world through our major online brands such as hostelworld.com, worldres.com, hostels.com, trav.com and the newly launched boo.com.  WRI affiliate partners include Ryanair.com, AirAsia.com, Kayak.com, Letsgo.com and Lonelyplanet.com.

Web Reservations International was founded in 1999, is privately held and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with offices in Sydney, Australia, San Mateo, California and Shanghai, China.

WRI Holdings, Ltd.  www.webresint.com