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Adaptive is a market leader in enterprise wide software solutions that help complex organizations adapt and support their rapidly changing IT and business environment. Industry dynamics are driven by demands of compliance, regulatory pressures and governance requirements. The Company’s platform integrates systems post-merger, aligns strategy to business process or mapping, and manages the complex relationship between data driven applications and its multiple uses. Adaptive’s suite of products support some of the most dynamic technology trends across the largest and most complex enterprises, including Metadata Management, Enterprise Architecture, Service Oriented Support and Model Driven Architecture. The Company is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California and was founded in 1997 by leading technology professionals.
Minyanville – Minyanville Publishing and Multimedia LLC is an an Emmy Award-winning financial media company, Led by a cast of animated "Critters" including Hoofy the Bull and Boo The Bear. Minyanville uses “infotainment” to create branded properties that entertain and educate, serving sophisticated traders, individual investors, and families with children. In addition to its website and virtual world, Minyanville offers various subscription products, including their flagship premium product, buzz & banter, which offers real-time, actionable insight from 30 of the sharpest minds in business & finance. (www.minyanville.com)
SkyGrid – SkyGrid is a real-time new media predictive data company which provides an online platform to people interested in discovering and sharing things that are new and changing. SkyGrid “tunnels” throughout and forages within the vast tentacles of the Internet to collect and aggregate information from scores of social sites and blogs like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace along with countless blogs and product review sites to generate metrics that are valuable predictors of momentum, social phenomena, politic outcomes even market sentiment. Steel Pier Capital and its affiliates have served as advisors to the company on strategic and financial matters, and lead the Round 1 Series B financing. A more recent “B” round closed with $11 million, with investors including BlackRock, Inc., DFJ Frontier and RRE Ventures LLC. (www.skygrid.com)
Sionix Corporation (SINX) – Sionix engages in the design, development, and marketing of automatic water filtration systems for small water districts. The Company has developed pre-packaged and patented compact modular systems that address the critical global need for clean water. Its products include dissolved air flotation (”DAF”) systems for use in water and wastewater treatment and pre-treatment. Applications for the company’s systems range from treatment of waste water from oil & gas drilling, to emergency & disaster relief, agricultural and municipal applications and countless third-world and developing country water treatment problems. Steel Pier Capital and its affiliates have been investors in multiple rounds of debt, equity and bridge financings over a 3 year period, and were advisors to the company during its early development regarding numerous management changes, board introductions and strategic initiatives. (www.sionix.com)
Tampa Bay Lightning – Commonly referred to as the “Bolts”, the Tampa Bay Lightning are a professional ice hockey team based in Tampa, Florida. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). They have one Stanley Cup championship in their history, in 2004.
Coaltek – CoalTek is a “clean energy” company that develops processes for converting low-grade raw coal into high-grade, clean coal fuel alternatives. Its proprietary technology reduces moisture, ash, sulfur, and mercury in coal to make it burn more efficiently and cleanly. The company serves coal producers, utilities, and heavy industries. The company has opened a production facility in Calvert City, Kentucky, and is currently looking to expand its presence into China. The company has raised over $75mm to date through several rounds of financing. Steel Pier Capital and its affiliates invested in numerous rounds of financing alongside such investors as Braemar Energy Ventures, Draper Fisher Jervestson, Element Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Technology Partners and Warburg Pincus LLC. (www.coaltek.com)
Pacha New York – Europe's most exclusive nightlife experience has landed on the streets of New York City via expansion of this iconic brand-come-nightlife-destination. Pacha’s gorgeous 4 story 30,000 sq foot space has recently celebrated its six year anniversary and has become a venue for many new and up and coming performers and world renown DJs. The company is currently under discussions with numerous parties to expand the venue into other US cities.
Rev H2O – RevH2O was designed to be a distributor of different types of water treatment technologies for the benefit municipalities, industrial, mining, energy production, emergency response, military, and small residential communities. Still under development, the Company is currently negotiating distribution rights to certain water treatment and purification products. Steel Pier Capital and its affiliates are seed investors and partners in RevH2O, and additionally serve the company in various advisory capacities. (revh2o.com)
Hyperactive Technologies – HyperActive Technologies surrounds quick service restaurants with advanced technologies that improve food quality and customer service while reducing operating costs through less product waste and lower employee training costs. Hyperactive’s products include the only real-time predictive kitchen manager that tells the staff exactly what to cook and when to cook it, eliminating waste and providing for faster and fresher food delivery and service. (www.hyperactivetechnologies.com)
Ambicom Holdings , Inc. (ABHI) – Founded in 1999, Ambicom is a wireless mobile solutions provider specializing in both WIFI and Bluetooth technology applications in the healthcare, security and GPS/automotive sectors. The current and near-term emphasis is on the rapidly growing the wireless medical device side of the business. Industry experts recently reported that they expect the wireless medical device and module sub-sector to be one of the fastest growing categories within the medical industry, with growth anticipated to exceed 57% per year through 2012. (www.ambicom.com)
Infinity Technology, Inc. was founded in 1989 by two experienced software developers/engineers who continue to have active management and ownership roles. The company is a leader in secure logistics, training development and delivery, mobile solutions and other secure communications and have received awards included the SBA National Subcontractor of the Year award in 2000 and the NASA Dryden Business of the Year award in 2003. The areas Infinity specializes in are: Avionics Software Development , Aerospace Modeling & Simulation, Application Software Development, Hardware Fabrication & Manufacturing, Document Imaging, and Support Services. The company’s proven history, Top Secret clearance and long standing government and prime contractor relationships give the combined entity a strong competitive position in the government arena. Just to name a few, Infinity has worked with Lockheed Martin, Boeing, US Army, and the US Marines. Infinity Technology is located in Huntsville, Alabama.
11i Solutions, Inc. was founded in 2007 to deliver enterprise-wide security, compliance, data and communications services. The company’s founders pioneered wireless network solutions and have years of successful installations in the converged wireless world. Its customer-centric approach focuses on streamlining clients' wireless systems as a whole by anticipating new technologies and avoiding short-term obsolescence. With a wide range of solutions offered -- from asset tracking via radio frequency identification (RFID) and fixed mobile convergence to data centers and Secure Cellular Communication™ (SCC) -- 11i Solutions remains vendor agnostic to offer 'real' best-of-breed solutions.11i integrates best-of-breed technologies for large clients in a variety of industries, including Healthcare, Retail, Education, Public Safety and Homeland Security, as well as others. 11i Solutions, Inc. is headquartered in Huntsville, AL.
VisTracks is an industry leader in geospatial business intelligence, serving business automation, information services and public administration industries around the globe. VisTracks' Web 2.0 position and movement analytics technology provides a cloud-based computing platform as a service (PaaS) platform for solutions providers and partners who need to develop software to sense, record, react, analyze, predict and visualize real-time, and ongoing location-specific data streams. Capitalizing on the convergence of real-time analytics on location-based content, the emergence of mainstream cloud computing, and the proliferation of rich mobile clients, VisTracks' customers visualize information in ways never before possible to make better decisions for marketing research, customer targeting, location based services, telematics, field service management (technician dispatch), strategic asset management, energy smart grid, emergency response, government services and other solutions that benefit from integrated real-time visual analytics.
" Based on current assumptions, the PaaS market will grow over eight years to a size of $15.2 billion in total volume…PaaS market will take off in 2010." - Forrester Research
Clofine Dairy & Food Products, Inc. engages in the marketing, supplying, and manufacturing of dairy and food ingredients to markets worldwide. Clofine Dairy distributes products to corporations such as Kraft, Nabisco, Nestle, Archer Daniels Midland, General Mills and numerous other multi nationals. Its products are used for bakery, snack food, frozen dessert, cheese, beverage, confectionery, and nutritional applications. The company was founded in 1910 and is based in Linwood, New Jersey.