3Point5 (www.3point5.com) would like to improve the conversation between a retailer and a consumer at the point of sale. Currently the company is the leader in online sales force education for the outdoor sports market. The have patented a unique training methodology using incentives and innovative online “edu-games” that communicates new product information from manufacturers to retailers. The company helps its clients increase sales, build customer loyalty, and deal with challenges like high turnover by better training their sales force. For the first time, a consistent message is being delivered on behalf of the manufacturers, and each sales person’s progress is tracked in real time within the system. Unlike traditional training systems, 3point5 scales with the organization and provides data…resulting data is made available to managers online. Use of the service requires no additional IT time and almost no user training.

Alpha Bay Corporation (www.alphabay.com) was founded in 2004 by a serial entrepreneur along with retail and enterprise software veterans. The company has offices and development centers in Salt Lake City, Utah and Denver, Colorado. The Adaptive Integrated Retail System—AIRS—incorporates all the key modules and applications (POS, Merchandising, Inventory Management, Business Intelligence, Warehouse Management…) needed to allow enterprise retailers to plan, manage and sell merchandise with the same IT-leveraged competitive advantages Wal-Mart used to become the world’s largest retailer. AIRS is a completely SOA customizable solution that adapts to the business processes of each specific retailer. AIRS has a fifth-generation architecture offering performance, scalability, manageability, accessibility and high availability to any retailer. AlphaBay’s knowledge, talent, and state-of-the-art technology components provide a comprehensive, integrated, real-time solution for tier 1 and tier 2 retailers.

Avinti Inc. (www.avinti.com) enables businesses to safely use e-mail as a critical communications tool without fear of emerging crimeware, keyloggers and Trojans for which no signature pattern exists. Avinti's iSolation Server® stops new e-mail crimeware, keyloggers and other attacks at the first-instance of any threat without waiting hours or days for suitable pattern updates. By testing and observing the actual behavior of attachments in a secure and isolated virtual machine environment, iSolation Server prevents first-instance threats when no known pattern exists, and prevents them before they compromise sensitive data. iSolation Server’s virtual e-mail testing delivers security beyond “day-zero” solutions, which typically detect only spam malware and are prone to false positives. iSolation Server also delivers instant ROI with reporting metrics on the number and names of unknown threats blocked before pattern file availability. Avinti's customers include government, healthcare, technology, educational and financial institutions, among others.

DriveSafety (www.drivesafety.com) is a simulation software company providing the most advanced research based driver safety training and assessment solutions available on the market today. The company has validated the real world fidelity of its teen based driving simulator through, among other techniques, biometric sciences at Kansas State University. It has completed mulitple research based curriculum modules known as the "See You in SixC" program including rear end collisions which is the number one crash type among teen drivers representing over 30% of all accidents. It is currently conducting research in its living laboratory at the Jordan School District, the 40th largest school district in the United States. DriveSafety also sells driving research simulators to leading research institutions across the country including General Motors, Ford, Nissan, Motorola Labs, Johnson Controls, Delphi Automotive and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, among others. The company is headquartered in Utah. Significant co-investors include EsNet and Wasatch Venture Fund.

InteliSum™, Inc. (www.intelisum.com) has developed and patented innovative technology that fuses Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) XYZ coordinates, digital image (RGB) data, and geophysical position (GPS) information into every pixel. This intelligent pixel™ technology (InteliPixel™) creates Life Dimensional™ pictures (LD3™ files) that enable quick and easy capture of real world data – and fast, seamless translation into CAD. The LD3 post processing system integrates server hardware and LD3 files using ISI’s LD3 Studio software application suite: (LD3 Viewer, LD3 Executive and LD3 Designer). This gives LD3 Studio users the ability to interact with LD3 scenes that can be navigated in real time, with complete freedom to browse the scene and interact with objects at any desired level. ISI’s initial market for this new technology is the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) market. The technology enables engineers, designers and surveyors the ability to perform tasks such as field quality surveying from their computer desktops.

LANDesk was acquired by Avocent Corporation (NASDAQ:AVCT) in August 2006.

Levanta (www.levanta.com) is the developer of software to manage scale-out in the data center. The company, formerly known as Linuxcare, has long-standing expertise in data center operations and operating system design. Levanta partners with customers to help them realize the benefits of the scale-out architecture on Linux, on PC Servers and IBM mainframes. Customers include leaders in the financial services industry, such as The Northern Trust, as well as Electronic Arts and Boscov’s Department Stores. Levanta is in IBM's circle of Linux Leaders and is a partner of RedHat, SuSE, Oracle, and HP. Coinvestors in Levanta include Morgenthaler Ventures, and Walden International.

Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Irvine, Calif., Netaphor Software, Inc. (www.netaphor.com) develops and sells asset management tools that help companies control printer costs. The company’s flagship product, SiteAudit, is the industry’s first software suite to identify, reduce and manage printer costs, saving organizations up to 30 percent during the printer asset lifecycle. SiteAudit customers include organizations in the pharmaceutical, industrial, technology and education industries including Prometheus Labs, USS-POSCO and Invensys PLC.

Headquartered in Sandy, UT, Symbiot Business Group (www.symbiot.biz) is a consolidator in the Property Services Market. It consolidates through the development of consortiums, recruiting top-tier regional players to act as its “branches.” To date, Symbiot’s has successfully developed consortiums in the landscaping, interior and pest industries that currently represent 537 partner companies and a combined annual buying strength of over $1 Billion. The phenomenal uptake of the Symbiot model is due to the credibility of the Symbiot management team in their target verticals and the tremendous value that Symbiot delivers to its partners. Symbiot delivers the benefits of scale in national marketing and sales, purchasing power and best practices sharing. In addition, the company is developing customized, high value subscription-based technology solutions for its loyal member base. This in turn provides property managers with the convenience of a property services option with national reach and pricing with the commitment and quality of the local entrepreneur.