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Black Sea Capital LLC

http://www.blackseacapital.com

Black Sea Capital LLC (BSC) is a Delaware-incorporated venture capital and investment advisory firm dedicated to investments in small and medium-size enterprises in Eastern Europe. The Company is focusing on growth opportunities in Bulgaria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Croatia, Estonia and Latvia. Based in Bulgaria and possessing extensive political and economic knowledge of Eastern Europe, BSC has regional presence and know-how necessary for the research and management of our investments.

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BA Capital Partners Europe

http://www.bacpeurope.com

BACPE enables industry leading management teams to capitalise on market opportunities by providing them with access to the full extent of the partnership's network and resources. The combination of these resources with the strategic and operational vision of our management teams forms a powerful partnership focused on value creation. If you are the owner, CEO or manager of a mid-cap European company that has exceptional growth potential, and if your company requires equity capital and resources to maximise solid value creation opportunities, we can provide you with: Private equity capital: the financial resources you need to realise your growth targets. Human capital: broad business experience coupled with strategic and financial guidance, including planning and financial structuring. In addition, our selective investment profile enables our principals to focus personally on each investment. Access to extensive global resources: as part of Bank of America, we can provide our companies with worldwide contacts and resources to which a mid-cap company would not normally have access.

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Nascendo SA

http://www.nascendo.com

Nascendo was first established in 1995 as a corporate finance and strategic advisory boutique focused on the IT and technology sector. From its early involvement in the sector, Nascendo has gained tremendous understanding of the dynamics of the technology industry and established an unparalleled network of business contacts in Europe. From mid 1999, a strengthening of our team has laid the foundation for an acceleration of the development of Nascendo into one of the leading European technology and high growth companies catalysts.

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Candover Investments plc

http://www.candoverinvestments.com

Candover Investments plc is a United Kingdom-based independent trust that organizes and invests principally in large European buyouts. It is engaged in the identification, implementation and monitoring of large buyouts and buyins. Candover investment plc makes an investment either under a co-investment agreement with third-party funds or its own account. The third party managed funds, established with commitments from a range of international institutional investors, are managed by Candover Partners Limited, which is wholly owned by Candover Investments plc. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Trust’s 10 largest investments included Ferretti, Hilding Anders, Springer Science and Business Media, DX Group, Gala Coral, Alma Consulting Group, Wood Mackenzie, EurotaxGlass’s, Wellstream and ALcontrol. It invests in sectors, such as media, financial services, support services, leisure, technology and industrials. (Source: ARS)

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Metropolitan Venture Partners

http://www.metvp.com

Metropolitan Venture Partners is a private equity fund with investments in the US and UK. Our portfolio consists of high growth, technology-based businesses across a range of sectors. Metropolitan actively participates in the development and execution of its portfolio companies. Metropolitan has the institutional backing of the Man Group plc (FTSE 100: EMG.L), a global leader in alternative investment products. MetVP delivers the combination of a focused and active private investor with the comprehensive resources of a leading global financial institution.

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IDG Ventures Europe

http://www.idgve.com

IDG Ventures Europe is part of a global $1 billion network of funds spanning Asia, Europe and North America. We are an independent partnership comprising experienced venture capitalists with in-depth operational experience and a traditional 'silicon valley' business-building approach. We are dedicated to helping entrepreneurs grow innovative companies and uniquely placed to leverage the IDG Platform - an unparalleled combination of global IT market research, media and financing resources from the world's largest IT media company. We enable our companies to understand their markets better and penetrate them faster than their competitors. As one of the few truly global venture firms, we have both the international perspective as well as the local market expertise to help companies grow from start-ups to global success stories.

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GorillaPark

http://www.gorillapark.com

GorillaPark Ventures (GP Ventures), the leading incubator and seed-stage investor in Europe, invests in early stage technology companies and provides you with the infrastructure and expertise to accelerate your growth through the critical stages of your initial development. GP Ventures leverages its global business network consisting of its current and former portfolio companies and the independent services companies in which it holds an equity position for the benefit of the entrepreneurial teams it invests in. We offer a comprehensive range of business services assisting your start-up by delivering crucial hands-on management expertise and investment capital to facilitate growth and become a Gorilla in the category you define! GP Ventures has been created early 2004 as the result of a management buy-out from GorillaPark BV. led by Jerome H. Mol.

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MyQube

http://www.myqube.com

My Qube is an early stage venture capital firm that manages the EuroQube Fund promoted by Pirelli. Other investors are Benetton, Mediobanca, Merrill Lynch and Banca Intesa. MyQube has offices in Brussels, Geneva, Helsinki, Milan, Munich and Palo Alto. Since March 2000, the company has invested in fourteen high-technology companies.

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Venturion Capital

http://www.venturioncapital.com

Venturion Capital was founded in January 1998 to specialize in making private equity investments in companies involved in or supporting the financial services industry. Sectors of the financial services industry are experiencing unprecedented change and growth on a worldwide scale. Venturion is comprised of a team with diverse skills and extensive financial services experience to take advantage of the historic investment opportunities in the financial services industry. Venturion's principal investment vehicle, the Venturion Financial Services Fund, L.P. is a financial service private equity fund capitalized principally by major global financial services companies and sophisticated pension funds and family offices. The Fund's purpose is to execute investment opportunities identified by the Venturion management team, led by Managing Directors Matthew Grayson, Geoffrey Kalish and Bruce MacFarlane. The Fund invested in eight portfolio companies, always acting as lead investor and significant shareholder. Venturion has invested the Fund opportunistically in North America and Western Europe. Venturion proactively creates value and long-term capital appreciation for its investors through market selection, industry analysis, business cycle timing, company and management due diligence, transaction structuring and execution, ongoing active management and strategy assessment, and timely exit from its investments. In August 2005, the Managing Directors of Venturion Capital joined Aquiline Capital Partners, a newly formed private equity firm founded by Jeffrey Greenberg, the former Chairman and CEO of Marsh & McLennan.

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Saffron Hill Ventures

http://www.saffronhill.com

A London-based global venture capital firm, Saffron Hill was founded in 2000 by a unique group of principals and shareholders eager to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the rapid growth of the internet, technology, and media sectors in Europe. Over the past seven years we have built a portfolio of assets within the software and media sectors, helping to build companies from the earliest stages through to IPO. We are proud to have participated in the development of several highly successful ventures - companies that you will read about in these pages - some of which have been sold and several of which continue to grow quickly. While building Saffron Hill's presence in Europe, we have also focussed on maintaining our close ties to the US, as it is clear that European technology ventures must establish a footprint in the US market in order to maximize growth. To this end, we have built a network of financial, recruiting, strategic, legal, tax, and development allies on both sides of the Atlantic, and work diligently to help our entrepreneurs expand when they are ready.

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Favonius Ventures

http://www.favoniusventures.com

Favonius Ventures is a leading European Investment Fund focusing on venture buyouts, corporate spinouts and growth capital /expansion financing for IT companies. The first fund was founded in 2001 with capital from leading European and US financial institutions. The target investment size is generally between ,3m and ,10m per suitable opportunity. Once invested, we focus our efforts on helping companies expand not only across Europe but also globally. A core differentiator is the funds dual investment approach, pairing deep technical, operational and management expertise with professional investment expertise at all levels. Favonius' partners have occupied senior management and investment positions in a broad range of successful institutions such as Philips Electronics, Tandem Computers, AT&T, ABN AMRO Bank and have also been involved in starting successful companies such as Veritas Software, Seebeyond and Nedamco Inc. The Favonius team has a successful track record of exiting multiple companies in recent years.

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NewMedia SPARK plc

http://www.newmediaspark.com

NewMedia Spark plc ("SPARK") is pleased to announce that it has invested £2 million in Unanimis Consulting Limited (Unanimis), an established premium digital advertising sales business following the announcement made today by The Unanimis Group Limited of its demerger into two businesses, Unanimis Consulting and Openads. Founded in 2001, London based Unanimis, is the UK's leading digital advertising business. Unanimis offers advertisers the opportunity to maximise their return, from internet advertising and web publishers a completely outsourced solution to delivering significant advertising revenue. The Unanimis client list includes eBay, The London Stock Exchange, Gumtree and The AA. Unanimis has been one of the UK fastest growing media and technology companies and is positioned to exploit the continued strong growth of the UK's online advertising market which grew 40% over the last year. In line with its growth plans, Unanimis has been reorganised into three new divisions; Brand, Relevance and Response, and is recruiting heavily to cope with the expansion in these areas. Under the terms of the demerger agreement Unanimis has retained a significant stake in Openads - an open source technology for serving ads on websites. It has been developed over the past 8 years and is used by 1,000s of websites globally giving it the third largest publisher reach in global online advertising after Google Adsense and DoubleClick. Jay Patel, Executive Director at NewMedia SPARK, said: "We are pleased to be backing very experienced entrepreneurs in this fast evolving sector. Since its foundation the business has developed a premium product offering with a blue chip client list. We expect internet advertising to continue its strong growth and believe the Unanimis management team is ideally placed to capitalise on this growth. We look forward to supporting them in taking the business to the next stage in its development."

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Investor Growth Capital , Inc.

http://www.novare.se

Investor Growth Capital is a venture capital and private equity advisory group wholly owned by Investor AB, the largest industrial holding company in the Nordic region. Investor Growth Capital focuses on investments in growth companies in the IT and healthcare sectors in Europe, North America and Asia.

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Atlantic Bridge Ventures

http://www.abven.com

Atlantic Bridge Ventures ("Atlantic Bridge") is a Pan European venture capital company with offices in Dublin and London. Atlantic Bridge focuses on making early and mid stage technology investments in semiconductors and software across Europe with a strong focus on a transatlantic business building and investment exit model. Atlantic Bridge brings together a unique team of technology entrepreneurs, corporate finance and investment experts with a wealth of international business experience across Europe, US and Asia. We have worked together in various capacities for the last 5-10 years and bring a partnership approach to our team and our investments. Our investors include the founders, institutions and private shareholders with a track record of investment in successful technology companies. The Atlantic Bridge Ventures portfolio currently comprises five companies operating in the semiconductor, wireless software and nanotechnology sectors.

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Cross Atlantic Capital Partners

http://www.xacp.com

Cross Atlantic Capital Partners offers its portfolio companies the essentials of success: a sound reputation, significant financial resources, seasoned business experience, and a network of relationships. We believe in creating a relationship of lasting value, through every stage of business growth.

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ETF Group

http://www.etfgroup.com

ETF Group is an evergreen investment company focused on technology venture capital opportunities in Europe and the United States. Headquartered in Lugano, Switzerland, ETF Group maintains a local presence in key markets around the world, seeking to identify the most robust and promising technologies and to combine them with scaleable business models and first-class management teams. Once an investment has been completed, the ETF team harnesses its international business development team and extensive network of employees, advisors, strategic partners and investors to provide effective assistance to the portfolio company. ETF Group's investment strategy reflects a sustained analysis of the structural, economic and technological factors driving the formation of high-growth markets for companies developing or applying advanced information and communications technologies. We seek to identify and invest in companies able to grow from their local base to the point where they can scale rapidly to address global markets. ETF investments are grouped according to four key themes: Intelligent communications Enterprise software Systems and network performance Outsourced business processes ETF Group's investment team works from offices in Lugano, London, Milan and Paris. The company's business development professionals work with portfolio companies in their key markets in Europe and the United States; ETF offices in Tokyo are dedicated to the development of portfolio company activities in Japan and the Asia Pacific region.

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Darby Overseas Investments , Ltd.

http://www.darbyoverseas.com

As the emerging markets continue to demonstrate high growth rates and improved macroeconomic fundamentals, Darby believes that a substantial opportunity exists for investments in well-managed mid-sized companies in need of expansion capital. Darby has built a proven, successful track record of investments in this area focused on a variety of sectors, including financial services, manufacturing, media and consumer goods/services. Darby's involvement in the field of emerging markets infrastructure reflects the unique position it has carved out as a leading infrastructure investor. Through extensive infrastructure experience, Darby targets investments in sectors such as transportation, energy, telecommunications, waste management and water treatment. With over a decade of experience and over 50 seasoned investment professionals in 12 offices worldwide, Darby aims to provide investors with a diversified approach to emerging market principal investing.

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Newbury Ventures

http://www.newburyven.com

Newbury Ventures was founded in 1992 with the goal of building a company known for its insight, integrity and global approach to the business of venture capital. Newbury has successfully managed investments valued over $500 million throughout the world. The firm typically invests in high growth markets within the technology, communications and IT industries. Newbury's partners have been involved with many successful companies including Oracle, Cadence, Altera, Cirrus Logic, Atmel, PMC/Sierra, Broderbund, Nellcor, Acuson, Jacada, Fundtech Ltd., Netro, ACC, Precise, Corvis, Terayon, nCipher, Okena, Highwave Optical, and LEA (Laboratoire Europeen ADSL). Newbury Ventures is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. www.newburyven.com

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ACON Investments LLC

http://www.aconinvestments.com

ACON Investments is an international private equity investment firm managing capital through varied investment funds and special purpose partnerships. ACON focuses on investing in negotiated transactions involving companies where it can add value as an active shareholder,while providing support and additional resources to management. ACON's team of investment professionals has significant experience across multiple industries and geographies and works with experienced management teams to drive shareholder value creation. Founded in 1995, ACON maintains offices in Washington DC, Los Angeles, Houston and Madrid.

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Softbank Corp.

http://www.softbank.co.jp

SOFTBANK CORP. is a Japan-based company that provides digital information services.The Company has six business segments. The Mobile Communication segment provides cellular phone services and sells attached cellular phone terminals. The Broadband and Infrastructure segment provides high-speed Internet access services, Internet protocol (IP) phone service, and contents. The Fixed Communication segment provides transmission services for audio and data, as well as exclusive line and data center services. The Internet Culture segment is engaged in the Internet advertising, broadband portal and auction businesses. The Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) segment sells personal computers (PCs), peripheral devices and software for PC use, as well as provides business-to-business and business-to-customer e-commerce services. The Others segment is involved in the broadcasting media, technology service, media marketing and overseas fund businesses. (Source: ARS)

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