Charles Rivers Ventures

BigBand Networks, Inc.

BigBand Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:BBND) provides broadband service providers with innovative network solutions designed to make it easier to move, manage and monetize video. These solutions are based on BigBand’s video-networking platforms that are built to enable efficient and reliable delivery across a wide range of services, including digital TV, high definition TV, addressable advertising, video-on-demand and interactive TV. BigBand Networks’ customers include more than 200 service providers, including six of the ten largest service providers in the U.S., and leading cable and telco service providers in North America, Asia, Europe and Latin America. BigBand Networks is based in Redwood City, Calif., with offices worldwide. For additional information about the company, please call +1.650.995.5000, email (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or visit http://www.bigbandnet.com.

Broadsoft

BroadSoft provides VoIP application software that enables the delivery of hosted telephony and multimedia services. Its award-winning flagship BroadWorks® technology empowers wireless, wireline and cable carriers to deliver next-generation voice and multimedia applications and advanced features that enable them to increase revenue, enhance competitive differentiation and elevate customer satisfaction. BroadSoft’s family of carrier-class software products delivers the scale, open architecture and reliability that the world’s leading telecommunications companies demand to serve mission-critical enterprise and residential broadband customers. BroadSoft provides VoIP applications to 7 of the top 10 and 13 of the top 25 largest carriers worldwide, as measured by recent annual revenue, including Korea Telecom, KPN, SingTel, Sprint, Telefonica de Espana, Telstra, T-Systems, and Verizon. For additional information, go to http://www.BroadSoft.com.

Carrier IQ

CarrierIQ develops analytic applications for wireless carriers and handset manufacturers that enables them to maximize service. Carrier IQ provides accurate, real-time data direct from the source—your customers’ handsets. Its powerful platform aggregates, analyzes and delivers that data via easy-to-use web applications that help wireless carriers make smart business decisions. The kind that can dramatically lower operating costs, increase customer satisfaction and reduce customer churn. Across every division—marketing, sales, development, customer service, operations, and executive management—and every business unit—device, network and application. Learn more at http://www.carrieriq.com.

Cedar Point Communications

Cedar Point Communications’ totally integrated switching platforms enable the scalable, cost effective, less complex delivery of VoIP and multimedia for cable, telco, enterprise and WiMAX network operators. Designed to provide carrier-class performance and reliability, while increasing network integrity, security and privacy, Cedar Point’s SAFARI C³ Multimedia Switching System is a PacketCable™-qualified solution that supports legacy circuit, NCS and SIP-based voice services, as well as delivering core IMS capabilities. The company is based in Derry, NH. For more information, please visit http://www.cedarpointcom.com.

Crossbeam Systems

Crossbeam Systems secures the world’s largest networks with its market-leading, high performance security solutions. With the industry’s only open and extensible security hardware platform that supports best-in-class applications from the leading vendors, Crossbeam provides large organizations with unparalleled flexibility, performance and efficiency in securing their networks against constantly evolving threats. Headquartered in Boxborough, Mass., Crossbeam has offices in Europe and Asia Pacific. More information is available at: http://www.crossbeamsystems.com

GreatCall

GreatCall was founded by Arlene Harris, a 45-year veteran in wireless and creator of the highly regarded SOS emergency phone, and Martin Cooper, the father of the first portable cellular phone. GreatCall’s vision is to connect people with family and friends when they are away from home by providing a simple phone and personalized service that works the way they want it to. The company’s support and systems are centered on simplicity, personalization and an emphasis on convenience and comfort. GreatCall is located in Del Mar, CA. For more information, please visit http://www.jitterbug.com.

GupShup

GupShup is mobile group SMS service that allows users to create mobile communities and broadcast messages to them. GupShup is growing rapidly with thousands of groups on topics such as finance, entertainment, lifestyle, health, sports and technology.

http://www.smsgupshup.com

Heartland Robotics

Heartland Robotics is combining the power of computers - embodied in robots - and the extraordinary intelligence of the American workforce, to increase productivity and revitalize manufacturing. 

iControl Networks

Palo Alto-based iControl Networks is a venture-backed software and services company providing award-winning, mass-market solutions for the remote monitoring market, designed for residential and small-business use. iControl Networks partners with home security companies, Internet service providers and telecommunication companies to bring its award-winning solutions to market. Investors in iControl include Intel and Charles River Ventures. Visit http://www.icontrol.com.

iSkoot

With offices in Cambridge, Mass. and Israel, iSkoot is dedicated to enabling mobile Internet voice and chat services. iSkoot software allows users to view their buddy lists, make and receive Internet calls, and enjoy instant messaging using nearly any mobile handset. Supported on native platforms (Symbian S60, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, UIQ, and Palm) as well as J2ME and BREW platforms, iSkoot uses proprietary technology and has many patents pending for its unique client server protocol and interfaces, Mobile-to-Skype gateway and integrated presence system. For more information, visit http://www.iskoot.com.

M2Z Networks

Silicon Valley-based M2Z Networks’ goal is to boost the U.S. economy by building a free, fast and family-friendly broadband network across the United States. Since May 2006, the FCC has been considering M2Z’s license application for its network, to be constructed in the 2155-2175 MHz spectrum band. The FCC has recently extended its consideration of M2Z’s proposal in a forthcoming rulemaking. If approved, the M2Z proposal would guarantee delivery of its broadband service to at least 95 percent of Americans within 10 years. The service will be supported by locally targeted search results and will include a network-level filter to shield families using the service from indecent content. M2Z will pay the U.S. Treasury 5 percent of annual gross revenues from its premium subscription services, which could total payments of up to $1 billion over 15 years. According to two uncontested economic studies, the introduction of M2Z’s broadband service would generate $18 to $32 billion in direct consumer benefits over the next 15 years. M2Z is backed by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers; Charles River Ventures; and Redpoint Ventures; three of the most successful venture capital firms in Silicon Valley with $5 billon of capital under management. For more information, please visit http://www.M2ZNetworks.com and http://www.FreeBroadbandNow.org

Nantero

Nantero is a nanotechnology company using carbon nanotubes for the development of next-generation semiconductor devices. Nantero’s main focus is the development of NRAM™. Nantero is also working with licensees on the development of additional applications of Nantero’s core nanotube-based technology. More information on Nantero, Inc. is available in English and Japanese at http://www.nantero.com

Netezza

Netezza is the global leader in analytic appliances that dramatically simplify high-performance analytics for business users across the extended enterprise, delivering significant competitive and operational advantage in today’s information-intensive marketplaces. The Netezza Performance Server® (NPS®) family of streaming analytic™ appliances brings appliance simplicity to a broad range of complex data warehouse and analytic challenges. Customers who have realized the benefits of Netezza appliances include Ahold, Amazon.com, CNET Networks, Debenhams, Department of Veterans Affairs, Epsilon, Neiman Marcus, Orange UK, Premier, Inc., Ross Stores, Ryder System, Inc., The Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Media. Based in Framingham, Mass., Netezza has offices in Washington, DC, the United Kingdom and Asia Pacific. For more information about Netezza, please visit http://www.netezza.com.

Optiwind

Founded in 2007, Optiwind is pioneering a new market in wind energy, placing medium sized wind turbines right where they’re needed most – on site at schools, businesses and government locations. By allowing customers to capture their own clean, renewable power right at their own locations, Optiwind frees customers from the risk of continuously rising grid rates and allows them to refocus all of their resources on what they do best.

http://www.optiwind.com/

Parascale

Founded in 2004 by industry veteran Cameron Bahar, Parascale is headquartered in Silicon Valley. The company’s primary markets are media and entertainment. Additionally, Parascale provides a platform for easily handling content in the oil and gas, medical imaging, video surveillance and genomic industries. Members of Parascale’s founding engineering team have successfully delivered distributed operating systems and distributed file systems for companies including Sun (Sun Cluster), HP (Open SSI), Symantec/Veritas (Storage Foundation Clustered VM and FS), Teradata (Teradata RDBMS), and IBM (AIX TCF).For more information, contact Parascale, Inc. at 3 Results Way, Cupertino, Calif. 95014; phone (408) 716-7010; fax (408) 716-7011 or visit www.parascale.com.

Reva Systems

Reva Systems develops RFID network infrastructure products that enable customers to rapidly deploy scalable solutions in any environment. Reva’s standards-based Tag Acquisition Processor (TAP) products facilitate improved system performance, manageability and accuracy while significantly lessening implementation time and complexity. Reva products are delivered by a global network of partners and deployed worldwide by enterprises leveraging innovative RFID applications to generate value in diverse industries. Reva was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Mass., with a European office in Dusseldorf, Germany. For more information, visit http://www.revasystems.com

Rive Technology

Rive Technology, Inc is a Cambridge, Mass.-based start-up and developer of an advanced catalyst technology that makes the oil-to-gasoline conversion process more efficient.

http://www.rivetechnology.com/

Rosum

Rosum is the first and only company to use unmodified broadcast TV signals for position location of mobile assets. Rosum is also the first to combine TV and GPS signals for truly robust situational awareness in all environments. Rosum has also developed a deployable signal offering in support of defense and first response applications. Partners include Intrado Inc., Trimble, and the Boeing Company. Rosum’s founding team includes the original architects of the GPS constellation. More information is available at http://www.rosum.com.

Samplify Systems, Inc.

Samplify Systems, a Silicon Valley startup, provides the only real-time compression algorithm for high speed sampled data systems. Delivering simply the bits that matter™ Samplify`s Prism™ compression algorithm provides a cost-effective alternative to brute force hardware approaches to transport and store data within systems. Samplify targets real-time embedded applications in the medical, defense, communications, and industrial markets. Samplify`s Prism™ algorithm is available in netlist form for leading FPGA families, and as a Windows software application. Samplify Systems is a privately held company based in Silicon Valley, with funding from Charles River Ventures and Formative Ventures. For more information, visit http://www.samplifysystems.com.

Silicon Clocks

Silicon Clocks, a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Silicon Valley, develops best-in-class integrated timing products utilizing innovative MEMS and IC technologies. Serving a range of electronic systems, including: high speed serial data, wireless communications, and consumer products, Silicon Clocks delivers improvements in performance, reliability and flexibility combined with reductions in power, size, and part count to provide significant system cost savings. For more information, visit http://www.siliconclocks.com.

SpiderCloud Wireless

SpiderCloud Wireless is developing enterprise wireless solutions.

Staccato Communications

Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., Staccato Communications is an Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology pioneer with applications expertise in Wireless USB, Bluetooth 3.0 and Internet Protocol (IP) connectivity. The fabless semiconductor company serves the personal computing, mobile phone and consumer electronics industries with small form factor, single-chip, all-CMOS high-speed wireless solutions. Staccato’s WiMedia Platform Certified products include PHY, MAC, drivers, application software, development kits and reference designs. The Team Staccato Partner Program enables total solutions through alliances with industry leaders throughout the value chain. For more information, please visit http://www.staccatocommunications.com.

TerraPower

TerraPower is a clean energy company that originated from work at Intellectual Ventures.  TerraPower is focused on radically improving the design of nuclear reactors and is developing a new class of nuclear reactor called a Traveling-Wave Reactor.

http://www.intellectualventures.com/TerraPower.aspx

Vanu, Inc.

Vanu, Inc. (http://www.vanu.com) is the developer of the Anywave Software Radio solution for cellular operators, the wireless industry’s first technology to simultaneously operate multiple standar ds on a single platform. The Anywave system utilizes open standards architecture, with each wireless standard and all signal processing developed entirely in high level software running on Linux and general purpose servers. This eliminates the use of proprietary chip sets and delivers ongoing price-performance improvements throughout the life of the system. The Vanu solution also significantly reduces backhaul costs and enables new wireless standards and system capacity to be added through remote software downloads which substantially reduces operating costs. The Anywave Base Station in the first softwaredefined radio (SDR) to receive certification from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Vanu was founded in 1998 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Verenium

Today’s world faces mounting pressure arising from the end of the era of low-cost oil that fueled global prosperity in the 20th century. Diminishing oil supplies, growing concentration of petroleum in the hands of unstable or hostile political regimes, and the mounting threat of climate change all point toward the need for new ways to produce fuels and other chemical products in the 21st century. Verenium (Nasdaq: VRNM) is a new biofuels industry leader for the green millennium. The company formed as a result of a merger of publicly-held Diversa and Celunol, a CRV portfolio company.Verenium, a new biofuels industry leader for the green millennium.

vlingo

Vlingo is a voice-powered user interface that unlocks access to mobile phone wireless data services. Vlingo allows users to speak or type into any vlingo-enabled text box and get accurate, easy and consistent access to all the information, entertainment and communication made possible through today’s mobile applications. By giving consumers control of the mobile Internet with the power of their voices, vlingo provides a quantum leap in usability for mobile data services that are currently restricted by limited user interfaces. Vlingo secured its venture capital financing from Charles River Ventures and Sigma Partners. Founded in 2006, the company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Why tap when you can talk? http://www.vlingo.com.

Yammer, Inc.

Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: ‘What are you working on?’

Yammer was founded by former PayPal COO David O. Sacks and officially launched on September 8, 2008. Yammer’s management team includes seasoned industry veterans drawn from the ranks of PayPal, eBay, eGroups, Tribe, and other leaders in the software industry.

Aveksa

Aveksa provides a comprehensive, enterprise-class, access governance, risk management and compliance solution. Aveksa automates the monitoring, reporting, certification and remediation of user entitlements and roles; enables role discovery and lifecycle management; and delivers unmatched visibility into the true state of user access rights. With Aveksa, business, security and compliance teams can effectively collaborate and enforce accountability. Our growing customer base includes leading Fortune 200 organizations in financial services, healthcare, transportation and manufacturing. For more information, go to http://www.aveksa.com.

Beaumaris Networks

BNI is a software company dedicated to solving crucial problems for video service providers and their business partners. We put our customers first and we sincerely value each and every one of our employees. BNI, currently in stealth mode, is backed by world-class investors and led by an experienced Board of Directors and management team.

CloudShare

CloudShare is a quick and easy way to share copies of your complex IT environments, online, so you can collaborate with customers, partners, and colleagues – for Demos, Proofs-of-Concept, Training, or other enterprise applications – without wasting time copying gigabytes of software or shipping machines and people. Going beyond basic webinar or “virtual lab” offerings, CloudShare’s solutions enables users’ extended interaction in dedicated “hands on” production-grade replicas of their existing IT, delivered as cloud-based SaaS – while centrally monitoring and managing it all. Leading solutions providers have adopted CloudShare as their vendor of choice to extend access to their virtual infrastructure from the Enterprise to the Cloud.

EnterpriseDB

EnterpriseDB develops and supports EnterpriseDB Advanced Server, the world’s leading Oracle-compatible relational database management system (RDBMS). EnterpriseDB Advanced Server runs most applications written for Oracle unchanged and at a small fraction of Oracle’s cost. Built on PostgreSQL, the world’s most advanced open source database, EnterpriseDB Advanced Server has the reliability and scalability necessary for high-volume, mission-critical enterprise use. The company is also the world’s leading provider of enterprise-class, PostgreSQL-based products and services, including the EnterpriseDB Postgres distribution. EnterpriseDB has offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. The company was founded in March 2004 and is headquartered in Edison, N.J. For more information, please contact +44 (0) 207 269 2750 or visit http://www.enterprisedb.com.

Gridstone Research

Gridstone Research offers a powerful and flexible analysis and modeling platform that helps investment professionals make better investment decisions, faster. Gridstone is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with research operations in Mumbai, India. For more information, visit http://www.gridstoneresearch.com.

Intellectual Ventures

Intellectual Ventures is an invention company. We conceive and patent our own inventions in-house through a world-renowned staff of internal and external scientists and engineers. We also acquire and license patented inventions from other inventors around the world. Our network of invention sources includes: large and small businesses, governments, academia, and individual inventors. These inventions span a diverse range of technologies including: software, semiconductors, wireless, consumer electronics, networking, lasers, biotechnology, and medical devices. Our current focus is on developing our invention portfolio. Over time, we intend to market our portfolio on a broad and non-exclusive basis through a variety of channels including spin-out companies.

Maxthon

The Maxthon browser was awarded the Red Herring Asia 100 prize in 2005 and was named as one of the best 100 products by PC World. Equipped with features and tools not found on any other browser, Maxthon is the favorite of 30 percent of Internet users in China and is rapidly increasing its market share in the rest of the world. Since the launch of version 2.0 in 2006, it has been downloaded 40 million times, increasing its cumulative total to more than 140 million downloads. These accomplishments were achieved without marketing or advertising, attesting to the growing number of fans who have spread the word about Maxthon’s abilities. Being publicly endorsed by Microsoft and leading Wall Street Internet analysts, Maxthon (http://www.maxthon.com) also has working arrangements with Google and Skype.

Optaros

Optaros, an international consulting and systems integration firm, assembles fully supported, Next Generation Internet (NGI) solutions for superior business performance. Optaros Assembly Methodology (OptAM) assembles solutions faster and more flexibly than traditional build, buy or rent options. Optaros serves over 70 clients including ABB, Biogen, Gtech, Movielink, Serono, Swisscom, Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, The New York Times, and many others. For more about Optaros, go to http://www.optaros.com.

Passport Corporation

Passport Corporation delivers mobile workforce management solutions that help companies enhance the productivity of front-line employees and the accountability of operations. Using Passport’s mobile software applications to track labor and manage jobs at the point of activity, companies gain accurate and timely information to improve costing, billing, payroll, compliance and resource management. Founded in 1990, Passport serves customers in manufacturing, logistics, energy, construction, facilities services and other industries with mobile or remote employees. For more information, visit http://www.passportcorp.com.

Progress Financial

Progress Financial Corporation is a consumer finance company that offers unsecured credit to Hispanics that lack established credit and banking relationships. Customers are hard working immigrants who have been in the US for 10 years and at the same job for 3.3 years. Under the brand name, Progreso Financiero, the company markets, sells and disburses $500 - $5000 loans in Spanish from a network of distribution points located inside large Hispanic supermarkets and high traffic malls. Currently locations are in the Bay Area, but the company has plans to expand rapidly to other parts of California and the United States. For more information, visit http://www.progressfin.com.

RPX

RPX Corporation is a patent acquisition services company for technology and e-commerce company’s Intellectual Property and Litigation Counsels and CFOs who want to reduce their patent assertion and litigation costs and risks. Funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Charles Rivers Ventures, the company has acquired over $30 million in patent rights to date and is on track to acquire $100 million in its first year. The company was founded by patent industry professionals with over $2 billion in patent transactions in their careers. RPX will not enforce the patents that it purchases. RPX headquarters is in San Francisco, CA.

Scribd

Scribd began with a simple observation – that there’s a writer in all of us. And that even more fundamental than our desire for self-expression is our need to learn and be inspired.

Today, Scribd is the place where you publish, discover and discuss original writings and documents. More than 50 million people each month are finding or sharing fun, functional or fantastical writings and documents on Scribd.com and tens of thousands of other websites that have embedded Scribd’s document reader.

We built a technology that’s broken all barriers to traditional publishing and in the process also built one of the largest readerships in the world.

Thinkfire, Inc.

ThinkFire, Inc. (http://www.thinkfire.com) is an international intellectual property services firm that works with leading information technology, telecommunications, semiconductor, software and consumer electronics companies. ThinkFire’s IP management resources help its clients increase profitability, minimize expense, and enhance freedom to operate. Earlier this year, the company concluded a sale of key communications patents for a Global 100 corporation which netted the patent owner approximately $20 million and provided the purchasers with important assets that enhanced their portfolios. ThinkFire’s professionals include negotiators, market analysts, technologists and patent attorneys who have been previously associated with leading technology and professional services firms including IBM, British Telecom, Accenture, Siemens, PwC, Lucent Technologies, The McKenna Group, and Intel. ThinkFire offices are located in greater New York, London and San Francisco.

Virtusa

Virtusa (NASDAQ: VRTU) is a global information technology (IT) services company providing IT consulting, technology implementation and application outsourcing services. Using its enhanced global delivery model, innovative platforming approach and industry expertise, Virtusa provides cost-effective services that enable its clients to use IT to enhance business performance, accelerate time-to-market, increase productivity and improve customer service.

Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Massachusetts, Virtusa has offices in the United States and the United Kingdom, and global delivery centers in India and Sri Lanka. For more information, visit http://www.virtusa.com.

Zendesk

Zendesk is inspiring the help desk 2.0 movement through a focus on enlightened customer support. By leveraging the benefits of Web-based communications and social media, Zendesk extends good help desk karma to any company looking to offer professional-grade support service with very little effort. Backed by Charles River Ventures, Zendesk was founded in 2007 and has more than 1,000 customers including John Lewis, MSNBC and Twitter.  To learn more, go to www.zendesk.com or follow @zendesk on Twitter.

Blippy

Blippy is a service that enables users to share and discuss the things people are buying.

Conduit Labs

Conduit Labs is building a platform focused on web based social entertainment. Sorry—that’s all we can tell you right now. Check back in a couple of months!

Eons, Inc.

Eons, Inc. is a social networking site empowering a new generation of spirited boomers through interactive content, tools and community. Founded by Jeff Taylor, creator of Monster.com, Eons has attracted a team of renowned advisors and industry-leading partners and is backed by venture capital financing from General Catalyst Partners, Sequoia Capital, Charles River Ventures and Intel Capital, as well as Humana, Inc. It is supported by corporate founding partners Harrah’s Entertainment, Humana, Inc., Liberty Mutual Group, Fidelity and Verizon Wireless. Eons is headquartered in Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston. For more information about Eons, visit Eons.com.

Geni

Geni is a tool for understanding and staying in touch with your family. Geni lets you create a family tree through our fun simple interface. You can expand your tree by adding relatives’ email addresses. They will be invited to join your tree and can add other relatives. Your tree will continue to grow as relatives invite other relatives.Each family member has a profile which can be viewed by clicking their name in the tree. This helps family members learn more about each other and stay in touch. Family members can also share photos and work together to build profiles for common ancestors. Geni was founded by former executives and early employees of PayPal, Yahoo! Groups, Ebay, and Tribe. It is backed by venture capital firms Founders Fund and Charles River Ventures. Learn more at http://www.geni.com.

Glyde

Glyde is a next generation Web company.

iSkoot

With offices in Cambridge, Mass. and Israel, iSkoot is dedicated to enabling mobile Internet voice and chat services. iSkoot software allows users to view their buddy lists, make and receive Internet calls, and enjoy instant messaging using nearly any mobile handset. Supported on native platforms (Symbian S60, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, UIQ, and Palm) as well as J2ME and BREW platforms, iSkoot uses proprietary technology and has many patents pending for its unique client server protocol and interfaces, Mobile-to-Skype gateway and integrated presence system. For more information, visit http://www.iskoot.com.

LiveGamer

Live Gamer enables a complete marketplace solution for the player-to-player trading of virtual items. Through our partnerships with leading publishers and developers worldwide, players now have a convenient, secure, and reliable outlet to buy and sell virtual goods and objects. Only Live Gamer provides virtual trading the way it should be: Safe. Simple. In Game. For more information, visit http://www.livegamer.com.

Metaplace

Metaplace (formerly Areae), founded in July 2006, is working on new technology that will change how virtual worlds are made.  Sitting at the intersection between Web 2.0 and Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs), the company promises to create the next generation of virtual worlds.  Metaplace was started by veterans of game design and MMOG, Raph Koster and John Donham, who worked together at Sony Online Entertainment.  More information is available at http://www.metaplace.com/

Millenial Media

Millennial Media is the industry’s leading mobile media networks company—leveraging our quality advertising networks and extensive reach of the lucrative ‘millennial’ audience to define the mobile advertising industry.

Mochila

Mochila is redefining content syndication through its global online media marketplace for text, video, and photo content. The company’s syndication platform levels the playing field for publishers of all sizes – from long-tail blogs to large media companies. Mochila integrates its proprietary licensing-management technology with the company’s licensed ad supported program, allowing web publishers to buy and syndicate content for free and earn a percentage of the advertising revenue that accompanies that content. Founded in 2001, the company came out of stealth mode in March 2006. Mochila is privately held and based in New York, NY. For more information, visit http://www.mochila.com

SocialMedia Networks

SocialMedia Networks is the leading provider of social platform services. It fuses together three core features—management, marketing, and monetization—into a comprehensive package that advertisers and developers can use to grow awareness, and grow their applications on social platforms. For more information, visit http://www.socialmedia.com.

The Active Network, Inc.

The Active Network, Inc., based in San Diego, Calif., provides application services technology and marketing access to community service organizations, and is a leading online community for active lifestyles. The company’s solutions help sports and community service organizations improve customer service capabilities, increase revenues, and reduce the cost and complexity of managing and marketing activities and events. Its full service marketing and promotions agency, Active Marketing Group, brings direct knowledge, insight and access to active and on-the-go consumers. Through its Web properties, http://www.Active.com, http://www.eteamz.com and http://www.ActiveGolf.com, The Active Network provides consumer services and resources that support participation in healthy lifestyles. For more information, please visit http://www.TheActiveNetwork.com or call 1-888-543-7223.

Twitter

Twitter is a social utility for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected. Time Magazine says, “Twitter is well on its way to becoming the next killer app,” while the New York Times says, “It’s one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet.” Twitter is all about the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Find out more at http://www.twitter.com

WangYou

WangYou, based in China, is developing a cross-media user-generated content community through its internet-based wireless platform.

WonderHill

WonderHill creates social games for you to play with your friends and family online. When building games, we think of the kind, clean, unspoiled spot down deep inside every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget, and maybe our games can help to recall (paraphrasing Mr. Walt Disney). Our mission is to create the most happy and magical online games in the world.