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TiEcon 2005 - the Largest Conference for Entrepreneurs - Unveils 'Emerging Stars' in ERM, Internet, Networking, Semiconductor, Services, Security, Software and Wireless Categories

Posted on: Friday, 13 May 2005, 12:00 CDT

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- TiEcon 2005, the world's largest conference for entrepreneurs, today unveiled the first set of companies it will honor as Emerging Stars at this year's conference, which will be held May 13-14 at the Westin Hotel & Conference Center in Santa Clara, California.

"Our panel of industry experts started with a list of 50 to 100 companies in each category, and from that group identified the five companies we believe will be future movers and shakers within their industries, said Manish Chandra, chairman for TiEcon 2005's Emerging Stars program. "To be honored as Emerging Stars by TiE, these companies demonstrated leadership, good fundamentals, and strong continuity in the market."

Emerging Stars must be private companies -- each with at least $1 million in funding, or more than $10 million in revenues. The list of objective measures used to identify Emerging Stars included an evaluation of their management team, market and industry drivers, competitive advantage, market buzz, revenues and business model, and corporate development.

Emerging Stars will be participating on panels at TiEcon 2005. Honored companies include:

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd. -- An IT consulting partner for customers around the world, KPIT Cummins has a major presence in manufacturing, Advanced Technology Solutions-ATS (Automotive, Industry Automation, and Semiconductor Solutions) and BFSI (Banking, Financial Services, Insurance). The company has commenced high-end offerings in Risk Management and Financial Accounting. http://www.kpitcummins.com/

Logical Apps -- The market leader in global Compliance Automation Software (CAS) solutions for enterprise applications, Logical Apps' software suite provides tighter security and automated controls ensuring continuous compliance across enterprise information systems. Headquartered in Irvine, California. http://www.logicalapps.com/

MetricStream, Inc. -- A market leader in Enterprise-wide Quality and Compliance Management for global corporations, MetricStream solutions are used by leading corporations in diverse industries such as Automotive, Food, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing and Electronics to manage their quality processes, regulatory and industry-mandated compliance and corporate governance initiatives. Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California. http://www.metricstream.com/

Serus Corporation -- A leader in intelligent, collaborative value-chain solutions, Serus is a customizable software system integrating business processes and rule drivers among trading partners to achieve common production goals. Serus' real-time technology provides instantaneous automated transactions, co-managed inventory, and performance measurements throughout the value chain. http://www.serus.com/

Virsa Systems, Inc. -- The developer of real-time, compliance and controls software for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, Virsa's solutions automate risk assessment, eliminate false positives, and deliver real-time simulation and remediation capabilities. By offering the world's largest library of built-in, best practice rules, Virsa delivers accelerated implementation and faster remediation with the lowest cost of implementation. http://www.virsa.com/

Internet

Billeo, Inc. -- Its unique toolbar solution and the largest biller directory in the industry offer consolidation of online bills for consumers. Billeo works without any data aggregation or screen scraping. Billeo -- Your personal assistant for online bills. http://www.billeo.com/

Efficient Frontier -- A leading provider of search engine marketing (SEM) solutions, Efficient Frontier's advanced decision optimization process models the expected return on all variations of keyword bids and automatically selects the optimal mix to create a reliable and consistent higher rate of return. With Efficient Frontier, online marketers can maximize the effectiveness of millions of keywords across all search engines based on their business objectives and marketing budget. http://www.efrontier.com/

FatLens -- The first e-commerce search engine built with patent-pending technology specifically to enhance a user's online shopping experience, FatLens technology instantaneously brings users the web's most comprehensive, relevant and unbiased product search results, and the first-ever integrated search with instant messaging for real-time, collaborative online shopping with friends and family. http://www.fatlens.com/

Socialtext -- Enterprise social software for collaboration, Socialtext captures the best features of web-native tools called "wikis" and "weblogs" and brings them inside the enterprise to create a collaboration and knowledge tool that works the way people do. http://www.socialtext.com/

Technorati -- The leading authority on what's going on in the world of blogging, Technorati tracks over five million blogs. This makes it possible to find out what people on the Internet are saying about you, your company, your products, your competitors, your politics, or other areas of interest -- all in real time. http://www.technorati.com/

Networking

Atrica -- Mission is to deliver the most cost-effective, high-performance Carrier Ethernet solutions to forward thinking service providers building next-generation metro networks. Its revolutionary, Carrier-class Optical Ethernet Systems are designed to allow carriers to dramatically simplify their Metro network operations, significantly reduce their capital and operational expenditures, effectively scale their networks to support emerging Ethernet- based services, and efficiently leverage the same transport network to serve both business and residential customers. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California. http://www.atrica.com/

Aperto Networks -- A leader in WiMAX-class multiservice broadband wireless access systems for global markets and a board member of the WiMAX Forum, Aperto Networks was founded to provide breakthrough solutions to the bottleneck in last-mile broadband access. PacketWave's scalability and patented technologies support new wireless builds and complement wireline broadband access networks. Aperto is already deployed in over 60 countries, meeting service provider needs for installation ease, IP-rich network functionality, cost effectiveness, rapid provisioning and interference resilience. http://www.apertonet.com/

BigBand Networks, Inc. -- Designs, manufactures, sells and supports platforms for broadband multimedia services. These platforms are built on open technologies uniquely capable of communicating and processing video, voice and data for best delivery throughout networks. As a result, network operators can cost-effectively expand revenue-generating offerings of rich content and advanced, interactive services. Headquartered in Redwood City, California. http://www.bigbandnet.com/

Kasenna -- Redefining the business of television. As the acknowledged market leader in IP video delivery, the company has focused on open standards and an intelligent management infrastructure which allow service providers, enterprises, and other organizations to build commercial-grade IP video networks that support new and emerging video services. With its acquisition of ViewNow, Kasenna offers network operators the industry's only turnkey source of IP video infrastructure, applications, and VOD programming for video services. Headquartered in Mountain View, California. http://www.kasenna.com/

IP Unity -- The leader in delivering carrier-grade media servers, application servers and real-time multimedia applications over IP and TDM networks. The company's modular solutions architecture enables service providers to rapidly deploy services ranging from simple media enabled information services to complex multi-modal personal communications services. All IP Unity solutions feature carrier-class reliability and scalability, intelligent resource management and ease of customization, resulting in optimal total cost of ownership. IP Unity is the only company to have its comprehensive solutions deployed across broadband, wireless and wireline networks around the world. Headquartered in Milpitas, California. http://www.ip-unity.com/

Security

Arcsight -- The leading provider of Enterprise Security Management (ESM) solutions, ArcSight ESM enables enterprises to centrally and intelligently manage information risk. Customers include companies in the top five of the Fortune 500 financial services, banking, telecommunications, high technology, retail, healthcare, and biotech industry verticals -- and more than 20 of the top 30 U.S. federal agencies. http://www.arcsight.com/

CipherTrust, Inc. -- The leader in messaging security, CipherTrust's award-winning IronMail appliance protects the messaging systems of more than 30 percent of the Fortune 100. CipherTrust pioneered messaging security by uniquely combining the five critical e-mail security components of spam and fraud prevention, virus and worm protection, policy and content compliance, e- mail privacy, and intrusion prevention into a single easy to deploy and manage platform. http://www.ciphertrust.com/

Reconnex -- Enabling companies to guard against information security breaches that originate within an organization, Reconnex pioneered the only enterprise security platform of its kind that has the capacity to run at gigabit speeds, is non-invasive and can be deployed in hours not weeks. With Reconnex, companies now have the demonstrable proof they are in continuous compliance with real-time monitoring, detection and reporting of compliance risks. http://www.reconnex.net/

Sygate -- The market leader in network access control (NAC) solutions for the large enterprise. Through intelligent policy enforcement, the Sygate solution ensures Compliance on Contact -- a complete information process protecting computers, data and networks from misuse, malicious access, and misconfiguration. Headquartered in Fremont, California. http://www.sygate.com/

Teros -- The global leader in application security, Teros' mission is to guarantee the availability, integrity, and performance of Web and Web Services-enabled applications by defeating all known and unknown application attacks and accelerating application performance. Global 1000 corporations, small and medium-sized enterprises, and government agencies rely on Teros to secure critical applications, as well as protect sensitive corporate and customer information. http://www.teros.com/

Semiconductor

AGEIA Technologies, Inc. -- A fabless semiconductor company and the pioneer of hardware-accelerated physics for games. Its flagship product, the PhysX chip, is the world's first dedicated Physics Processing Unit (PPU) -- a completely new hardware category that bridges the gap between static virtual worlds and responsive physical reality. The PhysX chip allows developers to use active physics-based environments for a more life-like entertainment experience. http://www.ageia.com/

Matrix Semiconductor, Inc. -- The creator and developer of the world's first three-dimensional integrated circuits, Matrix's first product, Matrix(R) 3-D Memory (3DM), is a low cost, high density line of permanent, programmable, non-volatile memory that is compatible with existing standards. Matrix 3-D Memory accelerates time-to-market for publishers of digital content and is targeted for use in portable consumer electronic devices. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California. http://www.matrixsemi.com/

Sonics -- The leading provider of SMART Interconnects that deliver high SoC design predictability and increased design efficiency. Major semiconductor and systems companies including Broadcom, Samsung, Texas Instruments and Toshiba have applied Sonics SMART Interconnects in leading products in the wireless, digital multimedia and communications markets. http://www.sonicsinc.com/

Stretch, Inc. -- A family of software-configurable processors, Stretch is the first to embed programmable logic within the processor. Using familiar C/C++ programming tools, system developers automatically configure Stretch's off-the-shelf processors to achieve extraordinary performance, easy and rapid development, significant cost savings, and flexibility to address diverse markets and changing application needs. Headquartered in Mountain View, California. http://www.stretchinc.com/

SyChip -- Designs, develops and markets Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits and Chip Scale Modules for the wireless mobile market. As a result of the proprietary integration, world-class RF system design, proprietary multifunction ASICs, software and smart utilities, SyChip's RF designs drastically reduce component count, offer very small footprints and are easy to integrate into a mobile device. http://www.sychip.com/

Services

24/7 Customer -- A pioneer and leader in the BPO and offshore call center industry, 24/7 Customer provides integrated Customer Lifecycle Management to global 1000 companies. These services -- from customer support to back office and customer analytics are delivered across both voice and non-voice media. http://www.247customer.com/

APPLABS, Inc. -- A global IT services company specializing in software testing and development, including quality assurance consulting and performance testing. AppLabs is one of only a handful of software testing experts to have achieved SEI CMM Level 5, the highest quality standard attainable in software engineering. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. http://www.applabs.com/

Astra Business Services -- A BPO company focused on the U.S. collections market, Astra has built significant expertise in the U.S. collections outsourcing business. They provide a full range of solutions for the entire spectrum of the consumer collections industry. Based in San Francisco and Gurgaon, India.

Indecomm Global Services -- Offers business process outsourcing and IT services to companies in the domains of Mortgage Processing, Financial Services, Benefits Administration and Healthcare and Insurance. Through its offshore-based operations, clients enjoy both scale and cost advantages. http://www.indecommglobal.com/

Pangea3 -- Pangea3's technology platform helps law firms and in-house counsel securely communicate and maintain legal resources located in India. This service increases work process efficiency while greatly reducing the cost of legal assistance.

Software

Intacct -- The leading provider of ERP software as a service. The company delivers its ERP On Demand applications to more than 1,800 clients through direct sales and channel programs. Its patent-pending multi-entity technology centralizes key business processes, such as financials, supply chain, professional services automation and business analytics, across distributed organizations and allows remote staff to access the applications with a Web browser. http://www.intacct.com/

NetScaler -- The leading provider of networking systems that accelerate the secure delivery of critical business applications to any user in any location. The NetScaler solution tightly integrates best-in-class load balancing and content switching with industry-leading acceleration and security functionality, enabling customers to improve the performance of both web and non-web applications by up to 5x or more. Headquartered in San Jose, California. http://www.netscaler.com/

Scalix Corporation -- Developer of the industry's most powerful email and calendaring platform based on Linux and open systems. For organizations that are incorporating Linux into their infrastructure, Scalix offers a richly featured, reliable and scalable messaging solution that blends seamlessly with both open and proprietary software, including Microsoft Outlook, Exchange and Active Directory. Headquartered in San Mateo, California. http://www.scalix.com/

StorePerform Technologies -- The leader in store performance management software that bridges the gap between retailers' sales strategy and program execution. The StorePerform Workbench is the only software that provides real-time visibility into processes across the retail chain, personalized task management, and closed-loop reporting and feedback. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado. http://www.storeperform.com/

Wily Technology -- Market-leading provider of Enterprise Application Management solutions. Wily's products enable companies to successfully manage their critical Web applications and infrastructure by providing real-time, end-to-end visibility into the performance and availability of these systems. Their collaborative management approach allows enterprises to rapidly detect and diagnose application slowdowns and failures, and better assess the impact of application performance on business success. http://www.wilytech.com/

Wireless

GlobeRanger -- The leading provider of RFID, mobility and sensor-based software solutions, GlobeRanger's Edgeware(TM) platform, iMotion(TM), provides the critical infrastructure layer for managing devices, networks, data and processes at the edge of the enterprise, enabling real-time response. Headquartered in Richardson, Texas. http://www.globeranger.com/

Jabber, Inc. -- A leading provider of real-time, standards-based messaging and presence solutions, Jabber has more than five million users. Hundreds of organizations worldwide have licensed the Jabber, Inc. commercial server to bring the power of presence into their working environments. http://www.jabber.com/

Network Chemistry -- Provides enterprise-class systems that increase the security and performance of wireless networks, enabling them for business critical applications. Its award-winning RFprotect system is the industry's first high-scale wireless intrusion protection system, providing complete detection, assessment, prevention, and auditing of wireless threats and attacks, all at a breakthrough reduction of total ownership costs. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California. http://www.networkchemistry.com/

Seven -- A leading global provider of software, Seven enables mobile operators to offer their subscribers secure, low-cost, real-time access to critical information, including business and personal email and applications. SEVEN is available as Personal Edition for consumers, and Workgroup Edition, Server Edition and Enterprise Edition for businesses. Headquartered in Redwood City, California. http://www.seven.com/

Sonim Technologies, Inc. -- Enables today's wireless data networks to deliver high-margin voice services. This standards-based solution provides real-time communication services, such as Push-to-Talk, that combines the flexibility of mobile messaging with the ease-of-use of voice. The end-to-end, VoIP-based solution creates significant new revenue streams and delivers superior "return on bandwidth" for mobile operators. Headquartered in San Mateo, California. http://www.sonimtech.com/

Built on the theme, "Energizing the Global Entrepreneurial Spirit," the conference will feature keynotes by seven premier speakers, including Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, Adobe Systems' Bruce Chizen, The New York Times' Thomas L. Friedman, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers' Vinod Khosla, Yahoo's Daniel Rosensweig, and Google's Dr. Eric Schmidt. For more information on these companies and their panel presentations, go to http://www.tiecon.org/.

About TiEcon 2005

TiEcon, TiE Silicon Valley's flagship annual event, is an extraordinary opportunity for entrepreneurs to gain knowledge, inspiration and an invaluable network of contacts. Participants at the conference include successful venture capitalists, investment bankers, and policy makers, leading law firms, entrepreneurs and industry professionals from the information technology, software and communications industries across the U.S., South Asia and Europe. Last year, TiEcon attracted more than 100 expert speakers and panelists, 3000 delegates, and 100 exhibiting companies.

About TiE

A non-profit organization with 42 chapters in nine countries and a membership base in excess of 10,000, TiE fosters entrepreneurship through mentoring, networking and education. At the heart of TiE is its strong ecosystem -- which has enabled members to facilitate and create a cohesive network of strong viable and sustainable chapters worldwide. The TiE brand is synonymous with entrepreneurship and wealth creation and its greatest strength is its network.

TiEcon 2005

CONTACT: Patricia A. Roche' of Trainer Communications, +1-650-947-0845or patricia@trainercomm.com, for TiEcon 2005

Source: PRNewswire

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