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www.alnmm.com	Provider of outsourced revenue cycle management and information technology services to clinic-based physician practices (a.k.a. physician billing)
	Accipiter develops and markets Internet application software that enables web sites to deliver targeted advertising based on specific demographic profiles and to track individual visitors on a site. In April 1998, Accipiter was sold to CMG Information Services, Inc. (CMGI), a NASDAQ traded Internet company.
	Agiletrac solution uses location-based technologies (predominantly RFID) to enable hospitals to track and identify assets, including medical equipment, surgical instruments, supplies and pharmaceuticals. RFID uses tiny tags affixed to medical equipment, containers and supplies to wirelessly transmit real-time information to resource and workflow management applications. Agility helps clients leverage Agiletrac to optimize asset utilization, reduce operating costs and improve care quality for the healthcare industry. Company was sold in September 2008 to GE Healthcare.
www.aldagen.com	Aldagen is a biotechnology company advancing a pipeline of clinical-stage regenerative therapies. The company has three product candidates in clinical development for chronic heart failure, critical limb ischemia and pediatric metabolic disorders and malignancies. ALDAGEN's therapeutics are produced by a proprietary technology platform that selects potent, adult stem and progenitor cells for therapeutic use. The platform yields a broad range of therapeutic cells that can be used rapidly, without culture or expansion.
www.argostherapeutics.com	Argos develops immunotherapy treatments for cancer. The technology centers on the use of dendritic cells and tumor RNA which together constitute a vaccine. The research team is based at Duke University Medical Center and has been working on the technology for several years.
www.blackboard.com	Blackboard develops software that allows universities and corporations to host classes and training on the World Wide Web.  Blackboard currently powers learning environments at more than 3,300 institutions nationwide and in more than 70 countries worldwide.  Blackboard had its IPO in June 2004 (NASDAQ:  BBBB).
www.cardiofocus.com	The CardioFocus Catheter promises rapid, effective and permanent isolation of the pulmonary veins while overcoming the difficulties inherent in the current RF ablation procedures. Guided via integrated endoscopic visualization, the catheter helps physicians to accomplish ablation by projecting a series of overlapping arcs of both visible and infrared laser light upon the atrial wall surrounding each vein. Complete isolation is generally obtained with several 60-second energy deliveries - promising a great advantage in speed and precision in comparison to the large number of ablations required in current RF ablation procedures.
www.cardioxyl.com	Cardioxyl Pharmaceuticals' mission is the discovery and development of new classes of safe and effective therapeutic agents for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. Cardioxyl's initial program is a novel medication for the treatment of acute decompensated heart failure. Cardioxyl is located in Towson, Maryland.
www.casenetinc.com	CaseNET is a care management software solution company. Their solution provides a comprehensive suite of applications that center around the individual receiving care and the discipline of team-based care management. At the heart of the system is a highly flexible platform that incorporates a comprehensive care management environment along with real-time reporting and analysis.
www.centice.com	Centice is commercializing patented and patent-pending computational sensor technology originally developed at Duke University. The PASS Rx ™ pharmaceutical authentication sensor system is the company’s first pharmaceutical product. The PASS Rx ™ system has the potential to improve the verification process for dispensed medications, thereby increasing patient safety.
	Covelight Systems is an innovator of solutions that detect theft, fraud and abuse of critical web-enabled assets.  The company’s patent-pending solutions deliver actionable intelligence in the form of real-time incident detection and notification, operational and security analytics, and extensive forensic audit trails to ensure an enterprise’s web-application user community is held accountable. Covelight was sold to Radware (NASDAQ: RDWE) April 2007.
www.cropsolution.com	Cropsolution is focused on chemical crop protection.  The company will use its proprietary Evolutionary Chemistry technology to discover and develop novel agrochemicals for protecting crops from diseases,weeds, and insect pests, addressing current market opportunities totaling $30B.
www.dataflux.com	DataFlux is a software company that focuses on the development and commercialization of innovative database software products designed to significantly improve the accuracy and usability of an organization's data. During the second quarter of 2000, DataFlux was acquired by SAS Institute of Cary, NC.
www.digitalsmiths.com	Digitalsmiths Corporation is the digital video asset management technology company behind VideoSense, the first broadband video contextual ad-matching system to integrate seamlessly with existing online ad networks. Digitalsmiths also developed InScene, the automated video indexing technology used by motion picture and television studios to digitize feature films and television series and make them easily searchable. Founded in 1998, Digitalsmiths is based in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, with offices in Los Angeles.
www.edcaremgt.com	EDCare Management, Inc, located in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida with significant operations in Durham, North Carolina, provides a full range of outsourced emergency department and physician staffing services to acute care hospitals. EDCare provides its client hospitals with turnkey management of their emergency department operations, including physician recruiting, staffing, scheduling, payroll, administration, and patient billing and collection services. Company was sold in October 2008 to EDP Investment Holdings.
www.emageon.com	Emageon provides deep archiving, web distribution and viewing solutions for the healthcare industry.  The company’s products enable healthcare providers to immediately archive diagnostic images (MRI, CT, CR, etc.) and simultaneously make the images available to healthcare professionals across the Internet at the point of care.  Emageon had its IPO in February 2004 (NASDAQ: EMAG).
www.foresightcorp.com	Foresight provides a suite of software solutions to the healthcare industry to increase the automation, efficiency and compliance of claims, payments, and other transaction processing. Customers, including leading healthcare providers, payers, third party administrators and clearinghouses, have reduced errors, automated problem resolution, driven down their costs and assured compliance to federal standards. In 2006, Aurora sold its shares back to the company as part of a management buyout.
www.gxs.com	Global eXchange Services (GXS) operates one of the largest B2B e-commerce networks in the world, managing 1 billion transactions annually for more than 100,000 trading partners. With more than 35 years experience, GXS provides supply chain services and software to 60% of Fortune 500 companies. Aurora portfolio company, HAHT Commerce was acquired by Global eXchange Services in January 2004.
www.gomez.com	Gómez is the leading provider of on-demand web application experience management solutions, helping the world's top businesses ensure quality web experiences for their customers. Gómez ExperienceFirst applications are used by more than 800 companies worldwide. Gómez provides the industry's only complete solution for managing web application experience from development through deployment and the entire application life cycle, featuring active monitoring, competitive benchmarking, and more than 4,000 data sources worldwide.
www.hyperbranch.com	Hyperbranch is a biosurgical device company that is founded on a patent-pending, broad-platform polymer technology. By integrating polymer chemistry and biomedical engineering, HyperBranch scientists have developed unique dendritic polymers that possess highly tunable properties for medical and surgical applications. Since inception, HyperBranch researchers have been developing a solid knowledge base for surgical applications and use on a variety of wound types. The company has identified specific products for the surgical sealant market and for other markets, including organ and tissue restoration and drug delivery.
	InPhonic is the leading end-to-end solutions provider in the development and management of Virtual Private Wireless Networks, enabling its clients to deliver wireless content, access corporate data and control device management to their end-users through a combination of wireless and Internet based products and services. Inphonic had its IPO in November 2004 (NASDAQ:  INPC).
www.metabolon.com	Metabolon is a leader in the application of metabolomics, a new and powerful scientific approach, for the discovery and development of drugs.
www.micromass.com	MicroMass delivers Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software and services to enable organizations to provide tailored relationships with their customers, prospects and partners.
www.natusmed.com	Natus is a medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets proprietary, non-invasive medical instruments and related disposables for use in diagnosing diseases in newborn infants and children.  Natus had its IPO in July 2001 (NASDAQ: BABY).
www.neotropix.com	Neotropix 1 is a leading-edge virotherapy company, dedicated to the development and commercialization of virus-based therapies for the treatment of cancer and other diseases. Virotherapy holds great promise for cancer patients because it may be more efficacious and less toxic than conventional radiation and chemotherapy.
www.nextremethermal.com	Nextreme Thermal Solutions is a manufacturer of high-performance thin-film superlattice thermoelectric devices used for cooling in devices such as semi-conductor chips.
www.paringenix.com	ParinGenix is developing a proprietary, modified form of heparin to treat a range of inflammatory diseases. The company's lead drug, called PGX-100 is targeting acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD, for which there are currently only marginally effective treatments. The company has completed Phase I testing and is in the planning stages for Phase II COPD trials. Additional disease targets for the company's technology include following reperfusion damage in myocardial infarctions and stroke.
	Recordant delivers "Moment of Truth Intelligence (MOTI)" solutions through frontline capture technology in order to maximize employee potential and customer satisfaction. Frontline capture technology incorporates audio capture, analytics and consultative services enabling clients to see what is actually happening on the sales floor across every interaction, every day.
www.regadobio.com	Regado is a biotechnology company whose vision is to be the world leader in the discovery, development, and commercialization of regulatable therapeutics.  Regulatable therapeutics are designed to enhance physician control and improve patient outcomes.
www.solutiontechnologyinc.com	Solution Technology manufactures a family of polishes for precision polishing applications, including products for the optical, metallurgical and semiconductor industries. In 1997, Rodel, Inc., a manufacturer of pads used in polishing semiconductor wafers in the semiconductor industry, purchased STI.
www.strikeiron.com	StrikeIron provides live data feeds to be delivered on-demand via Web Services over the Internet to any application, mashup, or software-as-a-service provider. Up until now, companies have primarily used Web Services to share common data within their organization. StrikeIron radically extends the potential functionality of Web Services by enabling this machine-to-machine interaction over the entire Internet in a manner which makes it easy for customers to use. The company currently has over 1,200 customers utilizing its platform, known as the StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace  ™, and generates revenue primarily through subscriptions.
	SpringCM has acquired the assets of Synchris Inc., including its brand-name line of bid, proposal and contract management software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Synchris, based in Sterling, Va., owns the Privia line of bid and proposal life cycle management software for businesses bidding on federal, state and local government contracts. The newly acquired business will operate as SpringCM’s Government Solutions Division. It will remain in its Northern Virginia location. SpringCM, based in San Mateo, Calif., already offers a contract and proposal management tool for commercial contracts. With the new assets, the company will also have a product that manages government proposals and contracts.
www.trivirix.com	TriVirix is a full service contract manufacturing company focused on the manufacture and design support of complex electro-mechanical medical, diagnostic, analytical and life-science devices. TriVirix can support companies' life cycle needs, from design completion through production or at any point in between.
www.unitedemergency.com	United Emergency Services (UES) is a physician contract management company that focuses on providing experienced emergency department physicians and other health care providers to single hospital communities in the Southeastern United States.
	Unitive is a spin-off from MCNC, the non-profit technology center in RTP.  The company is a semiconductor packaging technology firm that is commercializing one of the world's premier flip chip solder bumping technologies for the electronics industry.  Unitive was acquired by Amkor Technology in August 2004.
www.unitrends.com	Unitrends develops and sells data backup and recovery systems based on proven software and state-of-the-art, disk-to-disk based hardware appliances. The company delivers hitherto unaffordable enterprise data management features to medium and small companies.
www.valorhealthcare.com	Valor Healthcare — develops and operates outpatient clinics providing primary care and mental health services to military veterans under the US Department of Veterans Affairs Community-Based Outpatient Clinic Program. They have a large market that is in the early stages of development. There are 25.6 million veterans eligible for VA healthcare services with an estimated 7 million presently enrolled, and enrollment is growing faster than VA predicted.
www.vetcentric.com	VetCentric provides outsourced solutions to veterinary clinics for the management and delivery of prescription drugs to pet owners through its mail order pharmacy. VetCentric provides the veterinarian with a single source for prescription pharmaceuticals, compounded medications, human medications and prescription diet needs.
	Virologic is a biotechnology company that performs, develops and markets drug susceptibility and resistance tests to be used in optimizing the treatment of patients with serious viral infections.  Virologic had its IPO in May 2000 (NASDAQ:  VLGC).
	WiDeFi is a fabless semiconductor chip vendor developing wireless repeater technology and solutions that improve the range, performance, quality of service, capacity and security for existing wireless networks.
www.worldcell.com	WorldCell is the leader in providing global wireless service solutions to government and enterprise users as well as the international traveler. WorldCell provides solutions through a number of technologies, ranging from an international cell phone or satellite phone to the Roaming Service Bureau platform that mediates and translates different wireless standards for wireless network operators. WorldCell acquired Aurora portfolio company Mobile-Mind in March 2006.