Active-Semi's AC/DC controller and back-lighting solutions range from high performance integrated circuits that enable battery chargers for mobile devices to ecologically sensitive energy saving architectures.

Amphastar Pharmaceuticals is a specialty pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures, markets, and sells generic and proprietary products. It currently has a portfolio of 50 products.

Ancestry.com is a leading network of family-focused interactive properties, including MyFamily.com, Ancestry.com, Rootsweb.com, Genealogy.com and Family Tree Maker. With 24,000 searchable databases and titles, Ancestry.com is the No. 1 online source for family history information.

 Exited via Initial Public Offering (NASD: ACOM)

AOptix Technologies is the leader in applying innovative optical solutions to solve challenging problems in communications and advanced biometrics.

Artemis Medical develops, manufactures and markets products for the minimally invasive diagnosis, intervention and treatment of various types of cancer.

Acquired by Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ)

Ascent Energy is an oil and natural gas exploration company that explores and develops unconventional shale gas properties. Their main properties are located in Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.

Acquired by RAM Energy (NASD: RAME)

Audience Science grows ad revenue for Web media publishers by finding, evaluating, validating, and delivering customized Web audience segments that represent prime customer targets for corporate advertisers.

Aventail is the leading SSL VPN product company and the authority on secure application access technology. Its customers consist of more than one million end users in over 75 countries among leading enterprises and service providers worldwide, such as AT&T, DuPont, IBM Global Services, MCI, Netifice, Office Depot, Sanyo, and TNT.

Acquired by SonicWALL, Inc. (NASD: SNWL)

B&G Foods, Inc. (AMEX: BGF) manufactures, sells, and distributes shelf-stable food products to retailers and food service establishments using a variety of sales channels. Its brands include Ortega, Emeril’s Original, B&G Condiments, Accent, Planer, and Wright.

 Exited via Initial Public Offering (AMEX: BGF)

Bay Microsystems is a leader in high performance, programmable network and transport processors. They offer solutions to mediate, aggregate, switch, and transport voice, video, and data traffic across network domains, including LAN, SAN, and WAN.

BigFix provides security configuration management solutions via real-time visibility and control of servers, desktops, and laptops that help organizations meet compliance needs, improve security and insure operations continuity.

Acquired by IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM)

Blackboard (NASD: BBBB) provides a complete suite of enterprise software products and services that power e-Education programs for K-12, higher education and corporations.

Brainshark provides on-demand business communication solutions. Brainshark’s hosted web applications include or enable interactive presentations, sales campaigns, rapid learning and support CRM integration.

CAMP Systems International develops maintenance and inspection management programs for business aircraft, including fully web-enabled maintenance management, inventory control and flight scheduling programs.

Acquired by Warburg Pincus

Clairvoyante, Inc. licenses their PenTile® technology to flat-panel manufacturers, and is used to improve brightness and resolution while decreasing the demand on battery life.

Acquired by Samsung Electronics

Coinmach is the leading provider of laundry equipment services in North America. They operate approximately 875,000 pieces of laundry equipment in approximately 80,000 locations and cater to some of the worlds leading property management companies, colleges and universities, and the U.S. government.

Acquired by Babcock & Brown Limited (ASX: BNB)

CollegeNET is an on-demand software company that provides software as a service to colleges, universities and non-profits.

Color Spot Nurseries is a wholesale nursery that distributes a variety of products including bedding plants, vegetables, shrubs and ornamentals, to retail and commercial customers such as Home Depot, Lowe’s, Target in the Western and Southwestern United States.

CompBenefits has been providing dental and vision benefits plans for more than 40 years to more than 4.5 million members around the country.

Acquired by Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM)

Cooking.com is an Internet services company that sells various cooking related products via its Website.

Coremetrics is the leading provider of online marketing and business optimization solutions.

Acquired by IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM)

Courion delivers identity & access management (IAM) and compliance solutions that serve as the cornerstone of an organization's governance, risk and compliance strategy. Courion addresses the essential business processes of IAM, particularly with regard to user provisioning, password management, compliance management and role management.

Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals (NASD:  CYCC) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development and commercialization of novel, mechanism-targeted drugs to treat human cancers and other serious disorders.

Datria Systems is a leading supplier of packaged, voice-enabled applications for field service management.

Delinea is an IT consulting firm focused on the utility and energy industries.

Acquired by OneNeck IT Services

Demand Media, Inc is a social media company that connects content creators and large audiences with advertisers through its network of vertical media web properties.

Double-Take Software (NASD:  DBTK) products and services enable customers to protect and recover business-critical data and applications to support disaster recovery, high availability and centralized backup.

 Acquired by Vision Solutions, Inc.

edocs is the leading provider of customer self-service and e-billing software solutions for Global 2000 businesses.

Acquired by Siebel (NASD: SEBL)

Elixir Pharmaceuticals is a genomics-based drug discovery company developing products that forestall age-related diseases and promote vigorous health into old age. The company's technology is based on recently discovered longevity genes that regulate aging and susceptibility to all diseases that accompany aging.
 

Exited via Buyout 

eRoom Technology, Inc. is a leading provider of extended enterprise collaboration software and services that enable organizations to work more closely with their customers, suppliers, and business partners.

Acquired by EMC (NYSE: EMC)

Evercare is the leading manufacturer of household lint removal products, commanding an 86 percent  market share in the category.  In addition, the Company markets a wide variety of products designed to maintain and protect the home and clothing, such as rubber gloves, cleaning and polishing wipes, cedar storage products, ironing board pads, laundry wash bags, shower curtains and pet care products.

Exopack Holding Corp., a packaging solutions company, offers graphics, design, pre-press, and production engineering services to the food, pet food, lawn and garden, cement, and agricultural and chemical industries.

Acquired by Sun Capital Partners

ExpressPoint Technology Services provides technical support services for computers, point-of-sale systems, and computer networks while focusing on wholesale repairs, refurbished spare parts, subsystems for computers, and banking equipment.

Exited via Management Buyout 

Fast Track Systems, a clinical development optimization company, provides the first and only systems approach to expediting clinical trial design, setup execution.

Acquired by Medidata

Financial Engines Founded by Nobel Prize-winning economist William F. Sharpe, Financial Engines offers advisory solutions that are personalized to each type of investor no matter the amount of time, money or interest they are willing to invest.

 Exited via Initial Public Offering (NASD: FNGN)

Fios provides end-to-end electronic discovery services to the country’s largest corporations and law firms.

General Products Corporation is a leading manufacturer of highly engineered, complex and precision-machined components and assemblies. These include critical engine components, driveline enclosures and chassis components for the light and heavy-duty vehicle industries.

Green Dot provides retail based financial services for America’s underserved community. The company offers prepaid MasterCard or Visa cards, bill payment, and direct deposit products. It also owns and operates domestic cash-acceptance networks that offer prepaid card reloading and various cash collection services to America's banks and financial services companies.

Held Initial Public Offering (NYSE: GDOT)

HealthAllies.com provides consumer-driven health care programs that reduce healthcare costs for employers and employees by using the power of the Internet and an extensive network of providers.

Acquired by United Health Group (NYSE: UNH)

Hemosense (AMEX: HEM) products bring a new level of empowerment to patients on oral anticoagulant therapy through innovative technology alternatives in the blood coagulation testing and hemostasis markets.

Exited via Initial Public Offering (AMEX: HEM)

The Hertz Corporation, a subsidiary of Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: HTZ), is the world's largest general use car rental brand, operating from approximately 8,000 locations in 147 countries worldwide. Hertz also operates one of the world's largest equipment rental businesses, Hertz Equipment Rental Corporation, through more than 375 branches in the United States, Canada, France, Spain and China.

High Technology Solutions, Inc. (HTS) is a privately owned, highly respected provider of information technology and technical services to the Federal government.

Acquired by Wireless Facilities, Inc. (NASD: WFII)

Hydro Resources specializes in the development of large scale groundwater resources for public water supplies, irrigation wells for the agricultural industry, and large commercial projects.

Exited via Managment Buyout 

Infinera (NASD: INFN) provides Digital Optical Networking systems (the DTN System) to telecommunications carriers, cable operators and other service providers worldwide. Infinera's large-scale photonic integrated circuit (PIC) incorporates 100 Gigabits per second of transmit and receive capacity and the functionality of more than 60 discrete optical components into a pair of indium phosphide chips.

 Exited via Initial Public Offering (NASD: INFN)

Instill Corporation is a leading provider of spend intelligence solutions for the foodservice industry.

Acquired by iTradeNetwork

Integrated Systems Engineering – ISE is a leading provider of Technology CAD (TCAD) software products that cover the entire range of semiconductor manufacturing process simulation to system simulation.

Acquired by Synopsys (NASD: SNPS)

Internet Brands (NASD: INET) is a leading operator of e-commerce and community websites in categories such as automotive, travel and leisure, and home. They are also a leading provider of internet software services.

 Exited via Initial Public Offering (NASD: INET)

Intranets.com is an Application Service Provider of a complete suite of collaborative solutions for businesses and organizations.

Acquired by WebEx Communications (NASD: WEBX)

KB Alloys has been developing and manufacturing master alloys and grain refiners for nearly half a century. Its high quality and research development has made KB Alloys a leader in the aluminum master alloy industry.

Keystone Group Holdings, Inc. is a national funeral home and cemetery holdings company focused on regional markets.

KhiMetrics, Inc., offers customer pricing demand software and services to the retail, consumer packaged goods, and financial services industries.

Acquired by SAP AG (NYSE: SAP)

Locus Pharmaceuticals is focused on developing novel, small molecule therapeutics to address major unmet medical needs.

MarketTools is the leader in software and services for Enterprise Feedback Management (EFM) and Market Research. The company provides customer insights to its clients through an integrated combination of its proprietary technology platforms, high-quality panels and differentiated research services, all delivered online.

Merchant e-Solutions is an e-commerce company providing traditional and internet-based payment services to community banks and merchants.

Merrill Corporation is a leading global provider of legal, marketing and communication solutions and transaction and compliance services.

Metastorm provides market-leading software solutions for enterprise architecture (EA), business process analysis and modeling (BPA), and business process management (BPM).

Mirapoint is a leading provider of email security appliances and solutions which builds message networks that intelligently and securely route, store, access and manage Internet messages and email.

MobileAccess Networks builds and installs equipment systems that provide high quality RF receiver systems for in-building wireless infrastructure.

Mzinga provides fully hosted on-demand Software-as-a Service solutions that leverage the power of workplace and customer communities for growth and innovation.

OpenTable is the leading provider of Internet-enabled customer relationship management (CRM), marketing, yield management and reservations solutions to the $500 billion global foodservice industry.

Exited via Initial Public Offering (NASD: OPEN)

Outlast Technologies researches, develops, designs and markets temperature-regulating technology for use in apparel, footwear, bedding and accessories.

Pandora Media is a personalized Internet radio and music discovery service available anytime and anywhere on the PC, in the home, and on mobile devices. Pandora uses its Music Genome Project to build playlists based on musical similarity that enable listeners to simply enter a favorite song or artist and instantly launch a personalized listening experience.

Papa Gino's operates quick service Italian restaurant chains in New England under the name Papa Gino’s and D’Angelo. It offers its classic pizza, a full line of subs, salads, and other Italian specialties. The company was founded in 1961 and is based in Dedham, Massachusetts.

Exited via Buyout

PartMiner is the leading supplier of electronic components, including hard-to-find, obsolete and shortage parts. PartMiner also provides information about these components to the electronic industry by allowing users to access data sheets on 67 million electronic components from over 2,800 manufacturers.

Plateau Systems is an established leading player in providing corporations and government entities with software and systems for performance management and leading management.

Primarion is a mixed signal integrated circuit company that addresses the inflection points in power management with disruptive technology to enable voltage regulators and controllers with better performance, lower system costs, and new features over traditional analog power solutions.

Acquired by Infineon Technologies (NYSE: IFX)

Prodigy Health Group provides benefits management, integrated health management, provider network services and insurance services to self-funded employers, managed care companies and insurers. Prodigy Health companies serve more than 4 million members across all industry sectors.

QuickArrow is the leading provider of automation and management software for billable services organizations. QuickArrow is the only PSA solution specifically designed to automate, streamline, and optimize the processes and operations specific to services organizations.

Acquired by NetSuite (NYSE: N)

QuinStreet, Inc. has been the leader in online direct marketing since 1999 and serves nearly 600 clients and over 700 brands. The Company's online marketing services and technologies deliver more customers at lower cost to the world's leading brands.

Exited via Initial Public Offering (NASD: QNST)

Reliant Pharmaceuticals acquires, develops, and markets branded, ethical pharmaceutical products to primary care physicians and specialists. Reliant’s products include: Axid, Rythmol SR, InnoPran XL, Lescol XL, and DynaCirc CR.

Acquired by GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK)

RiskMetrics (NYSE: RMG) provides financial analytics and wealth management solutions to hundreds of financial institutions, corporations and central banks worldwide. RiskMetrics' analytics, data and services enable users to measure and manage risk, and to communicate that risk to managers, clients, investors, shareholders and regulators.

 Exited via Initial Public Offering (NYSE: RMG)

Sensitech is the leading independent provider of cold-chain information and analysis that enable global leaders in food and pharmaceuticals to protect the integrity, freshness and efficacy of their temperature-sensitive products.

Acquired by Carrier Corp (a business unit of United Technologies: UTX)

SiGe Semiconductor designs and delivers innovative radio frequency (RF) solutions for next-generation wireless applications including voice, data, and video.

Silverpop Systems provides permission-based email marketing solutions, strategy, and services. It offers on-demand and Web-based software solutions serving the online relationship marketing needs of various enterprise-level organizations. The company’s software-as-a-service based solutions enable marketers to create, automate, and execute lifecycle multi-channel marketing campaigns.

SilverStorm Technologies (formerly InfiniCon Systems) is the leader in clustered networking for high performance business computing. The Company focuses on architecting innovative networking hardware and software products that dramatically improve cluster performance and value.

Acquired by Q Logic (NASD: QLGC)

Size Technologies, Inc. develops and licenses best-in-class stored value and transaction marketing applications that integrate with existing payment systems and allow payment processors and large merchants to offer numerous value added products.

Acquired by First Data Corp (NYSE: FDC)

SoloMio provides next-generation call completion and call management services and technology. Its Smart Call Services enables telecommunications operators to deliver a range of convergence, total mobility and call completion services that grow their most valuable consumer and business segments.

Acquired by Openwave Systems, Inc. (NASD: OPWV)

SS8 Networks is a provider of signaling solutions and enhanced service applications that enable service providers to profitably operate converged, hybrid networks - bridging PSTN and IP capabilities.

Tech Process Solutions Ltd. has been a leading pioneer in providing back-office Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP) solutions to various banks in India. With a focus on the retail business across the top 9 metros & mini metros in India, Tech Process quickly diversified its service line to address small & medium enterprises as well as corporations.

Thayer Aerospace manufactures structural components for the commercial aerospace, defense, and space industries, and offers advanced precision machining, kitting, full service metals processing, manufacturing, and supply chain management solutions.

Acquired by Highland Capital Partners 

Three Dog Bakery manufactures and markets high-quality, all-natural food products for dogs.

TravelCenters of America boasts the largest full-service travel centers that cater to the needs of all travelers, including diesel fuel and gasoline, restaurants and lodging.

Acquired by Hospitality Properties Trust (NYSE:  HPT)

Triformix, Inc. designs, engineers and manufactures polymer optic and opto-electronic systems, specifically fiber optics, computer peripherals and instrumentation and imaging.

Unicru is a leading provider of hiring management systems for the tracking, recruiting and staffing of hourly workers.

Acquired by Kronos (NASD: KRON)

Universal Studios Escape is a movie and television based theme park located in Orlando, Florida.

Vanguard Health Systems, Inc. owns and operates hospitals and complementary health care services in markets across the country.

Viisage Technology, Inc. (NASD: VISG) provides advanced technology solutions for identity verification, integrating secure document technologies, image and data capture, relational databases, and multiple biometrics in order to improve security, deter fraud, and reduce identification program costs.

 Exited via Initial Public Offering (NASD: VISG)

Visage Mobile provides software and service bureau solutions to enable mobile virtual networks (MVNOs) in the U.S. Various services include carrier connectivity, billing and rating, prepaid rating, data management, wireless application protocol services, subscriber authentication for data sessions, application management, third party content and business intelligence.

Exited via Management Buyout

W.R. Hambrecht is an investment banking firm committed to using the Internet and auction process to level the playing field for investors and issuers.

Exited via Management Buyout

WhereNet Corporation is the first company to deliver a single wireless location and communication infrastructure that reliably and cost-effectively manages valuable mobile resources.

Acquired by Zebra Technologies (NASD: ZBRA)

World Kitchen, LLC and its affiliates manufacture and market bakeware, dinnerware, kitchen and household tools, rangetop cookware and cutlery products sold under well-known and trusted brands including CorningWare®, Pyrex®, Corelle®, Revere®, EKCO®, Baker’s Secret®, Magnalite®, Chicago Cutlery®, and Olfa®.

Comprised of such companies as CompassLearning, Weekly Reader Corporation, World Almanac Group and Weekly Reader Corporation Custom Publishing, WRC Media provides students with one of the world's richest sources of learning and reference materials.

Acquired by Reader's Digest Association

ZNYX Networks is the leading global provider of embedded Ethernet solutions - high availability switch blades and scalable network elements - for CarrierClass™ systems. The ZNYX Networks family of hardware, software, and professional services provides design engineers with a significant time to market advantage by leveraging pre-built and pre-tested modular embedded network elements.