C.E. Unterberg, Towbin Holdings

Inuvo, Inc. is a technology company based in Little Rock, Arkansas, that specializes in developing and selling information technology solutions for marketing purposes. The company's platforms are designed to identify and engage online audiences across various devices, channels, and formats, including video, mobile, connected TV, display, social, and native advertisements. Inuvo's key products, ValidClick and IntentKey, utilize data analytics to align advertising messages with anonymous consumers, enhancing the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. The company operates a network of websites, such as alot.com and earnspendlive.com, which provide content across diverse categories including health, finance, travel, and education. Inuvo serves a wide range of clients from industries such as retail, automotive, insurance, healthcare, technology, telecommunications, and finance, generating revenue primarily from digital advertising placements on different platforms.

MicroMed Technology specializes in medical devices focused on cardiac support, particularly through its innovative MicroMed DeBakey VAD®, developed in collaboration with prominent medical professionals and NASA. This device, which weighs less than four ounces and is significantly smaller and quieter than traditional ventricular assist devices, serves as a critical solution for patients awaiting heart transplants. It aims to enhance cardiac output for individuals with failing hearts, offering a less invasive and cost-effective alternative to larger, pulsatile devices currently available in the market. The MicroMed DeBakey VAD® has the potential to improve the quality of life for thousands of patients in the United States who could benefit from heart transplants.

Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. is a provider of cloud, digital, messaging, and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, serving various markets across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey, the company offers a range of platforms and services, including its digital experience management solutions, which facilitate digital journey creation and analytics-driven interactions for IT and business stakeholders. Synchronoss also provides multi-channel messaging solutions that cater to peer-to-peer communications and application-to-person transactions, as well as IoT management technologies for smart city and building applications. Its flagship offerings include the Synchronoss Personal Cloud, designed for secure content management and engagement, as well as ActivationNow and ConvergenceNow platforms, which enhance workflow management for communications service providers. The company generates revenue primarily through subscription and transaction-based fees, leveraging both direct sales and strategic partnerships to reach its customer base.

NxtWave Communications Inc. focuses on the design and marketing of integrated circuits tailored for the telecommunications industry. The company's products are essential for various applications, including digital televisions, digital video recorders, personal computers, and cable modems. By providing high-performing, feature-rich, and cost-effective semiconductors, NxtWave enables manufacturers to enhance their broadband communication capabilities. Their commitment to error-free video and data communications positions them as a key player in the broadband sector.

Blue Pumpkin provides industry-leading workforce management solutions that improve the performance of a customer contact center’s most important and valuable asset – its people. Addressing critical business challenges and creating competitive advantage with both innovative technology and best practices professional services, the company helps customers Balance and Optimize™ three critical and often competing priorities: business growth through customer loyalty, employee satisfaction and retention, and operating costs.

Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. is a provider of cloud, digital, messaging, and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, serving various markets across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey, the company offers a range of platforms and services, including its digital experience management solutions, which facilitate digital journey creation and analytics-driven interactions for IT and business stakeholders. Synchronoss also provides multi-channel messaging solutions that cater to peer-to-peer communications and application-to-person transactions, as well as IoT management technologies for smart city and building applications. Its flagship offerings include the Synchronoss Personal Cloud, designed for secure content management and engagement, as well as ActivationNow and ConvergenceNow platforms, which enhance workflow management for communications service providers. The company generates revenue primarily through subscription and transaction-based fees, leveraging both direct sales and strategic partnerships to reach its customer base.

Nova Crystals develops and manufactures fiber-optic data/telecommunications components based on their proprietary process and wafer technologies, as well as high efficiency LEDs for display and illumination applications.

Predictive Networks is the developer of an intelligent, infrastructure-based content delivery system that offers advertisers precision targeting technology and creates new revenue streams for service providers all while providing 100% privacy to the consumer. In short, we are revolutionizing the delivery of personalized advertising on the Internet. The Predictive Network™ analyzes click-stream data to develop an in-depth understanding of individual Internet subscribers' interests and characteristics, and then sends those subscribers personalized information tailored to their needs and predicted receptivity. And it's all done anonymously, on a 100% opt-in basis. No surveys. No cookies. No personally identifiable information. Deployed in April, 2000, Predictive Networks' services are available to service providers such as ISPs, enterprise organizations seeking to become virtual ISPs (VISPs), and advertisers or any other content provider that wishes to reach highly targeted audiences with personalized messages.

Reasoning, Inc. is a pioneering application service provider (ASP) that specializes in software quality and modernization. Since 1994, Reasoning has analyzed and improved more than 100,000 applications. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley and has sales and services locations in North America, Europe, and Japan. Our clients include Global 2000 companies, commercial software developers, embedded systems companies, software services firms, and Internet companies.

Agilera, Inc. is a full-service enterprise Application Service Provider (ASP) that specializes in delivering application management and technology services to businesses across various sectors, including manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, retail, and telecommunications. The company offers an enterprise platform that facilitates access to a wide range of applications, encompassing enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, e-commerce, financials, and human resources. By leveraging economies of skill, scale, and speed, Agilera enables businesses to focus on their core competencies while benefiting from faster implementation of new functionalities and quicker access to updates. This approach supports a rapid return on investment, reduces overall costs, and lowers the Total Cost of Ownership for clients.

Cognet Corp is a privately held and rapidly growing developer of software management technologies for corporate computing and emerging personal communications devices. Cognet solves the universal problem of managing software throughout its lifecycle by automatically distributing, monitoring and maintaining applications across the Internet, extranets or intranets. The company's flagship product, Cognet 3.5, is a highly customizable electronic software distribution solution that allows network administrators to automatically distribute and maintain applications for a range of networked, desktop, mobile and remote PCs. In July 2000, Cognet acquired a complimentary software development firm, myITcorp, Ltd, based in Haifa, Israel. It's flagship product, myITware 4.0 is one of the leading integrated policy management, usage and inventory software applications for corporations and government organizations.

eCustomers, Inc. is revolutionizing the way consumers interact with businesses online. To empower consumers, eCustomers, Inc. was created to be a pioneer and leading Internet-based infomediary that delivers valuable personalized content to eBusiness systems.

SiberCore Technologies Incorporated is a pure-play, Internet IC company developing high-value-added Application Specific Standard Products (ASSPs) for intelligent hardware-based switching and routing platforms, such as Gigabit / Terabit Routers and Layer 2 / 3 / 4 Ethernet Switches. The company's initial products are a family of high-speed high-capacity packet forwarding engines based on Content Addressable Memories (CAM technology) which overcome the performance bottleneck associated with the network's routing table look-up function. This emerging market has been created by the demands of the explosion in datacom traffic, coupled with the worldwide deployment of fiber optics and DWDM. These broadband deployments have shifted the bottleneck from the Access and Transport section of the network, to the Routers and Switches connecting to these pipes. The company's founding technical team gained industry-wide recognition for its world-class design expertise in this area at Nortel Networks. A veteran Executive team in all the functional divisions of the company supplements this preeminent technical team.

PUMATECH was there. When mobile computing was in its infancy, PUMATECH was already delivering real solutions. Even in the early days when "mobile computing" mostly conjured up images of electronic organizers from companies like Sharp® and Casio®, PUMATECH was leading the charge. Since 1993, PUMATECH has consistently delivered focused solutions for the mobile worker. As a data synchronization pioneer, They were also among the first to support true two-way synchronization with small devices. And They continue to be the leading supplier of synchronization solutions involving small devices like Palm™ Organizers to this day. Their synchronization experience remains unsurpassed.

Gocollect Inc. operates a trading platform that allows collectors to trade physical items with one another. Its platform also enables users to buy, sell, and trade collectibles, such as baseball and football cards, comic books, movies, and U.S. coins; and allows users to add items quickly and easily to their private collection, wishlists, and tradelists.

Cognet Corp is a privately held and rapidly growing developer of software management technologies for corporate computing and emerging personal communications devices. Cognet solves the universal problem of managing software throughout its lifecycle by automatically distributing, monitoring and maintaining applications across the Internet, extranets or intranets. The company's flagship product, Cognet 3.5, is a highly customizable electronic software distribution solution that allows network administrators to automatically distribute and maintain applications for a range of networked, desktop, mobile and remote PCs. In July 2000, Cognet acquired a complimentary software development firm, myITcorp, Ltd, based in Haifa, Israel. It's flagship product, myITware 4.0 is one of the leading integrated policy management, usage and inventory software applications for corporations and government organizations.

Cogit Corporation, Cogit.com is a leader in emarketing, providing real-time etargeting services that apply consumer data and analytics to predict online behavior. Cogit.com is a privately held company, with strong financial backing by premier venture capital firms, including New Enterprise Associates, Institutional Venture Partners and Crosslink Capital Partners. The company is committed to excellence, with a world-class management and technical team contributing deep expertise in direct marketing, statistical analysis, and database management.

CopperCom specializes in developing next-generation end office solutions aimed at creating a unified network that supports both voice and data services. The company offers software-based switching solutions, known as softswitches, which are designed for independent operating companies, competitive local exchange carriers, and Internet service providers. Its call control server facilitates the decoupling of call processing from switching, enabling the delivery of advanced features over various network transport protocols. Through its innovative technology, CopperCom enhances the capability of service providers to offer services such as voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).

eCustomers, Inc. is revolutionizing the way consumers interact with businesses online. To empower consumers, eCustomers, Inc. was created to be a pioneer and leading Internet-based infomediary that delivers valuable personalized content to eBusiness systems.

CopperCom specializes in developing next-generation end office solutions aimed at creating a unified network that supports both voice and data services. The company offers software-based switching solutions, known as softswitches, which are designed for independent operating companies, competitive local exchange carriers, and Internet service providers. Its call control server facilitates the decoupling of call processing from switching, enabling the delivery of advanced features over various network transport protocols. Through its innovative technology, CopperCom enhances the capability of service providers to offer services such as voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).