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MStar Systems, LLC - James Abbondanza, CEO/CIO - [ top ]
MStar Systems, LLC is a technology development and integration company that has created a unique software platform and business model for licensing and distributing Internet based turn-key solution for Financial Markets.

Online software systems supporting the financial sectors continue to gain market share. Calyx claims over 270,000 user licenses, averaging $25.00/license/month. (MStar’s Portal Systems are Calyx compatible). Encompass Software reports that, “2.5 million mortgage broker loans were sent to lenders and were managed through their infrastructure in the past 12 months.” Lending institutions spend millions a year on software systems to manage their operations and maintain compliance. As borrowers find themselves, more than ever before, virtual prisoners of their FICO scores, there has been a significant growth in Credit Correction Services. All of these systems are dependent upon web enabled software systems that are simple, safe and compliant. The bottom line is that Financial software platforms are a multi-billion dollar industry and growing.

MStar’s National Credit Correction Portal www.AccurateCreditScore.Com and “Broker-In-A-Box Mortgage Portals level the playing field and provide licensees with 24/7 online marketing, advertising and origination capability, unprecedented access to data, timelines, real time updates and reports and a database driven affinity-marketing system to generate and support future and return business. No other technology system in the industry can provide this in one cost effective license!

All portal structures are complete as of March 2010 and MStar Systems made 5 presentations and has sold 3 Licenses. MStar is seeking $470,000.00 to create the support systems necessary to market and license its technology and business models nationally.

TimberFish, LLC (dba TimberFish Technologies) - Jere Northrop, CEO & Aaron Resnick, COO - [ top ]

TimberFish Technologies is an innovative biotechnology company specializing in nutrient separation and bioconversion, using forest byproducts and a microbial biomass to sustainably produce high quality seafood in an environmentally friendly system.

Since inception in 2008, TimberFish has developed its technology specifically for the $80 billon aquaculture fish production market (roughly half of the global seafood supply). Growing at over 7% per year, this is the fastest growing animal agriculture market segment.

While aquaculture is being called on to alleviate the pressure of overfishing our natural resources, it too is being met with a number of challenges, including high feed and energy costs, product quality and negative environmental impacts. The TimberFish technology addresses these issues by bioconverting forest byproducts, such as wood chips, into high quality fish feed which is not dependent on existing feed resources such as grains and fish meal. Energy can be produced from the partially degraded wood byproduct to run the fish raising system, and there is no harmful discharge of environmental pollutants.

TimberFish has recently partnered with a world renowned advanced aquaculture research facility located in West Virginia. This $23 million facility and its staff give TimberFish the ability to further validate the technology and develop scalable system models for large commercial operations. TimberFish expects to license its technology to land based re-circulating aquaculture facilities.

TimberFish seeks $500,000 in equity financing to fund startup operations, ongoing R&D, to fine-tune its licensing strategy and to identify pilot system partners. Visit www.timberfishtech.com for more information.

Clinical Insight Systems, Inc. - Larry Herb, President/CEO - [ top ]
Clinical Insight Systems, Inc. is an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software company formed recently when it acquired the EMR product, Pronto, from the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC). Pronto was designed, developed, and has been in clinical use for the past decade; saving the URMC millions of dollars a year while providing better patient care. Pronto is also in use at other independent cardiology practices.

ProntoCardiology is a full featured EMR system. It combines the “best practice” workflows for all the sub-specialty areas of
cardiovascular medicine with advanced decision support and expert systems tools to create the most efficient process possible whereby clinical care is made more efficient, billings are increased, and the quality of care is improved. ProntoExchange provides a means of interfacing the system with a variety of other healthcare systems including cardiac devices and equipment; such as Implantable Cardiac Devices, ultrasound equipment, and cath equipment from vendors like Medtronic, Boston Scientific, and GE.

Most EMR systems on the market today only mimic the paper based process and provide little in the way of specialized decision support capabilities. Pronto has the ability to manually or automatically capture and store procedural test results and examination findings down to its finest level of detail. Pronto uses this data to assist the physician in assessment, analysis and problem tracking.

Clinical Insight is seeking $1.5 in equity financing. Funding will be used to recruit and build the necessary sales, marketing, and product support infrastructure. Visitwww.clinicalinsight.com for additional information.

Coolture, LLC - David Bothwell, CEO & Luanne DiBernardo, COO - [ top ]
Coolture LLC was founded in 2009. Coolture’s mission is to design, manufacture, and market high quality fashionable cooling apparel at reasonable prices to the millions worldwide whose physical endurance is compromised by heat and heat stress symptoms, where at this time no fashionable cooling options exist. The vest is comprised of specialty materials that help facilitate the cooling that is provided by frozen thermal packs. The specialty materials that line the pockets containing the thermal packs help to assure an even distribution of the cooling effect, thereby avoiding cold spots while the user maintains overall comfort.

The initial target market for Coolture garments is the 50 million Americans who suffer from some form of Auto Immune Related disease (ARD), and whose symptoms are stressed and/or exacerbated by heat. The medical industry acknowledges that many chronic illnesses lower a person’s threshold to heat. Within the ARD population, approximately 500,000 Americans have multiple sclerosis (MS), and world-wide, MS affects about 2.5 million people. In addition to the medical market, Coolture is positioned to target the recreational sports and leisure markets, including the 25 million recreational golfers. Additionally, one of the capabilities of Coolture’s technology is its ability to be heated, thereby expanding Coolture’s market to cold weather enthusiasts, as well as those who are intolerant to cold for medical reasons: the 2.1 million Americans with Rheumatoid Arthritis, the 10 million with hypothyroidism, 1 in 2,000 with Lupus and vascular disorders.

Coolture seeks $400,000 to finance the Company’s start up and ongoing business operations for the introduction of the Signature cooling vest to these and other select markets.

InfoSurge, Inc. dba Info-Surge - Eran Kabakov, CEO - [ top ]
Info-Surge is a self funded revenue stage company. Utilizing a proprietary web solution Info-Surge helps physicians prepare, educate, and support patients and their families before and after medical procedures. The company was founded by healthcare professionals to help bridge communication gaps they identified while practicing in the field.

Initial target is 20 market segments comprised of 400k practitioners who perform over 100M procedures a year. Potential revenue is $20M at year three. The company has been actively signing clients (~100) since 2008 in the bariatric and aesthetic surgery markets and surveys are showing the following results:
•Direct savings to clients of $25k/year with secondary saving of ~$50-100k/year
•Improved risk management
•High patient satisfaction (97% of >5000 patient satisfaction surveys)
•Enhanced response to clients’ marketing initiatives

Info-Surge is searching for $250k-$500k Angel seed investment to bridge operation cost until A Round VC investment can be secured. Investment money will be used to penetrate 2-3 new market segments (53k potential practitioners), ramp up sales and marketing initiatives, and update technology.

Visit http://ww.info-surge.com?source=wnyvanotice for more information.

OnCell Systems Inc. - Thomas Dunne, CEO - [ top ]
OnCell Systems is a world leader in providing on site, on demand multimedia content to mobile devices. We provide the infrastructure required to create interactive tours that primarily use cell phones to deliver content. OnCell’s rich platform includes audio, text, mp3, pod casts, and image/video downloads and streaming.

OnCell Audio® utilizes the latest open source technology as well as a VoIP network using DID (Direct Inward Dialing) numbers. This proprietary technology model produces an extremely low cost and scalable platform. With over 2.8 billion cell phones and more than 532,000 museums, zoos, aquariums, gardens, parks, colleges, historical sites and other points of interest in the world today there is a plethora of markets for OnCell Systems products.

The company began operations in January 2007, and currently has 250 billing clients, including: The United States Botanic Garden, The George Eastman House (Rochester, NY), Independence National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Smithsonian and Detroit Institute of Art. OnCell provides an easy-to-use, eco-friendly, cost-effective service that allows our customers to eliminate the need for expensive equipment and gather valuable user statistics and feedback from their visitors. OnCell Systems, Inc. reached breakeven in May 2009.

Due to low cost of goods sold we expect that our gross profit margin will remain above 94%. OnCell Systems, Inc. expects to capture 5% of the market within 10 years. At the end of 2010 we hope to have 500 net cumulative sales and by 2012 we hope to increase that number to 5,000. OnCell seeks to raise $600K during Q2 2010.

Visit http://www.OnCellSystems.com for more information.

International Data Preservation, LLC dba InfoPreserve - Eric Leinberg, CEO
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InfoPreserve™ provides businesses, organizations, and government entities with the long term preservation of critical digital records in a SaaS environment. Preservation is neither backup nor archive, but an assurance that an authenticated version of critical documents, spreadsheets, images and more will be fully accessible now and for decades to come. InfoPreserve’s patent protected Preservation Vault™ solution overcomes the issues of media degradation, format obsolescence and content integrity with the creation of an immutable “preservation object” that is fully content indexed and immediately accessible online.

The Storage Network Industry Association’s survey discloses that the top five factors driving preservation needs are 1) Meeting regulatory requirements. 2) Litigation protection. 3) Protection of business or IP assets. 4) Preservation of the organization’s history. 5) Protection of customer information & records. Fines as high as $10M have been levied on companies failing to rapidly comply with discovery demands; the law requires that documents created digitally be delivered in digital format with all content and metadata intact.

Initial markets are law firms, CPA firms, financial management companies, local governments funded by NYS Local Government Records Management Improvement Fund grants and companies involved in clinical trials. The product is currently in Beta and opportunities in the pipeline are expected to begin closing in Q1 2010. Market validation resulted in 100% of potential channel partners going to next steps. Companies providing warehoused storage of paper records, conversion of paper documents to microfilm and digital data, e-discovery services and resellers of data storage solutions all see the service as a supplemental offering for their existing customers.

An experienced leadership team that includes serial entrepreneurs is complemented by the advice of initial investors from the document management and healthcare industries. The company seeks to raise $300K in Q1 2010. Information is available at www.InfoPreserve.com .

RidgeLogic Development - Jack Boyczuk, CEO - [ top ]
SceneStudio is a suite of digital signage applications developed by RidgeLogic that allow users to create, schedule and playback multimedia messages. These messages are used to impress, entertain, inform or to promote products to an audience in locations like a lobby, hotel, school or boutique shop.

RidgeLogic products are distributed by Ingram Micro and Stampede Presentation Products and are available from resellers in North America. Partnerships have been established with AOpen, NEC and Minicom and products are in use at Chevron, World Health Organization, Scripps Broadcasting, Eli Lilly, City of Vancouver, UB and other notable companies.

During three years in business RidgeLogic has developed two commercial products, a sales channel, and has identified obstacles facing all digital signage companies along with a plan, borrowed from a Fortune 500 company, to overcome them. The solid foundation that has been built will allow the company to grow rapidly and to develop deep relationships with strategic partners that will further accelerate growth and expansion into new geographies. $1m in capital was contributed by the founding members and an additional $1.2m of equity investment will allow RidgeLogic to hire staff, market its products and execute its growth plan. By early 2011 RidgeLogic will be delivering reliable monthly profits.

RidgeLogic will sell turnkey digital signage solutions into niche markets and integrate its applications with popular third party products in each market. The companies that own these products will be targeted as buyers of RidgeLogic’s Intellectual Property for use solely in their own markets, thus enabling the IP to be sold multiple times, across multiple markets. Visit www.RidgeLogic.com for additional information.

CAIL Technologies,Inc. - Ron Thompson, CEO - [ top ]
The CAIL Application Performance Factory (CAIL APF) is a software platform that analyses information system events with predictive analytics capabilities for enhanced application performance. CAIL delivers real-time reports from performance data to drive down costs while improving predictability and better assuring application responsiveness for users. For Customers, CAIL simplifies the process of gathering information from many inputs (ie: sensor, probes, events, etc.) associated with applications to deliver the most actionable performance-based information to improve IT manageability, IT Governance and system responsiveness.

CAIL collaborates with EMC, the seventh largest software company in the world by integrating reporting on Smarts historical data into CAIL APF. This provides CAIL with a strong channel for marketing CAIL APF to Fortune 1000 companies. Importantly, CAIL already has Customers and an expanding sales pipeline thanks to EMC personnel introducing CAIL into accounts needing more sophisticated analytics and reporting to extend on Smarts capabilities. CAIL anticipates $1M in sales over the next year and $5M in sales expected in 3 years.

To build on this enterprise software business opportunity, the CAIL team includes experienced Management, Sales & Marketing, Product Development, Finance, Strategic Partnering, Professional Services and IT Technical Support. Further, having customers, ongoing new sales opportunities, over $1,000,000 already invested in the business -significant progress has been made to confirm need.

After the current investment of up to $2M and sales ramping, no further funding will be expected. Further, from an exit strategy perspective, an M & A is anticipated within 3 years. Visit www.cail.com/apf for additional information.

Chequed.com - Greg Moran, CEO - [ top ]
Chequed.com provides a scientifically validated and predictive employee selection suite including behavioral assessment and reference checking for employment candidates via an online portal. The service will be used as a tool in the hiring process that reduces cost per hire, reduces time to hire and increases quality of hire for large corporations. The system is web-based software as a service (SaaS) and has an annual license, recurring revenue structure.

After successfully building and selling PeopleAnswers America, LLC, a behavioral assessment technology company, Greg Moran (the founder) conceived of the idea to apply a proven employee development concept to the recruitment and hiring process. Through a partnership with the Research Foundation of the State University of New York, the methodology for creating competency based, scientifically validated and highly predictive reference checking was created. Chequed.com has an exclusive license to the technology.

In order to accelerate speed to market, Chequed.com has negotiated the purchase of an existing provider of pre-employment assessment located in the Southern US. The acquisition has a 10 year track record, loyal customer base and recurring revenue. This acquisition will enable the Company to combine their existing assessment science and technology into the Chequed.com platform to create a full employment selection suite.

Initial targets are in 3 industries—Hospitality & Restaurant chains with 500+ employees (1,056 US companies), Hospitals with 250+ employees (4200 US) Retailers with $50M+ in sales (2,500 US). These industries are targeted because they have high volumes of hiring and applicants, frequently have less experienced hiring managers, and the management team has experience and contacts in all three segments. Future market expansion in large sales organizations, professional services, international and an e-commerce based tool for smaller businesses are all possible.

The Company seeks to raise $1,000,000 of convertible debt and has already raised $540,000 from founders and angel investors. More information is available at www.chequed.com .

LifeCellDx, Inc. - Lani J. Burkman, founder; Jeffrey O. Dann, President; John M. Moran, Jr., EVP - [ top ]

LifeCell Dx, Inc. (“LCDX”) uses proprietary methods and the power of the Internet to provide state-of-the-art male infertility testing to couples. The infertility market presents an outstanding opportunity with 10 million infertile couples in the U.S. and Canada, and one in five couples worldwide. Experts estimate that 15% of all younger couples will seek help in having a child --- this will include obtaining one or more semen analyses.

About half of all infertility is caused by sperm problems. Couples want to know if his sperm can produce a pregnancy. They want answers and options. The problems include lack of expert male infertility training in most laboratories, distance from the nearest andrology lab, and the fact that semen must be analyzed within 1-2 hours. Additionally, the standard, basic semen analysis offered at thousands of simple laboratories cannot predict whether the man’s sperm could fertilize an egg.

Now, using simple, inexpensive equipment at a clinic or physician's office, LCDX can quickly analyze transmitted videos of sperm samples to provide a detailed fertility report to couples and physicians. The company’s expert LCPredict™ report gives physicians and couples detailed information that is 90% reliable in predicting pregnancy potential. LifeCell Dx is the first business worldwide to offer advanced semen analysis using sperm video transmission through the Internet (e-fertility diagnostics). Both our "e-fertility diagnostic" approach and LCPredict™ test has been approved by the New York State Department of Health.

LifeCellDx is seeking $1 million of financing to fund the personnel, equipment and working capital required to expand service delivery.

Oral Health Innovations - David Dugan, MD, DDS, Founder & Eric Cornavaca, Chief Executive Officer - [ top ]

Oral Health Innovations has invented a hands free automated tooth brushing system. This Class I medical device requires little or no dexterity, can be hands-free, is fun to use, is fast, and most importantly is effective.

This device will assist people with limited dexterity, in brushing their teeth. Individuals with arthritis, stroke, dementia, progressive neurological disease, or developmental disabilities often have a very difficult time brushing their teeth. As a result they suffer a higher rate of decay than the rest of the population. These individuals have limited access to care due to their disabilities, and lack of income at a time when they need it the most. In many instances, a family member or nurse’s aid has to brush the teeth of the disabled person (a very difficult task).

OHI’s business strategy has 2 components. The first is to go direct to the assistive living, nursing home market. The second is to seek partnership with major suppliers such as Proctor & Gamble, Phillips, and others, and establish licensing and/or distribution agreements to take this technology to the mass consumer markets. This will give OHI broad reach and aggressive penetration rates for this invention.

OHI filed a non provisional patent in May 2009 that allows us to protect and license our technology to valued partners. OHI is developing additional intellectual property, trade secrets, and process know-how around its core brushing technology. The present invention broadly comprises a tooth brushing system adapted to simultaneously clean a set of maxilla teeth or a set of mandible teeth.

The company is currently seeking $1.4 Million to complete R&D & Clinical Trials by early 2010 as well as funding of commercial launch activities. Market entry is expected around 2Q 2010. The Company has received $300K in private funds as well as $80K in public funds to date.

Diffinity Genomics, Inc. - Jeff Helfer, CEO - [ top ]
Diffinity Genomics, Inc.’s initial product is a high margin, single-use filtration pipette tip used for DNA purification. The benefits of Diffinity Genomics’ product include improved sample quality, purification cycle time of less than 45 seconds (vs.10-30 minutes or more for competitors), significantly lower total procedure cost, ease of use and improved process reliability. Unlike existing DNA purification products, no centrifuge, magnetic extractor, vacuum manifold or addition of solvents or other reagents is required. This product is based on technology licensed from the University of Rochester as well as company-developed technology. This platform technology can be applied to the development of additional new products.

Approximately 660 million DNA purifications are performed annually worldwide, generating sales of approximately $400 million. Historical growth is in excess of 10% per year. Users include scientists and technicians in hospitals, biotech companies, clinical laboratories, government agencies, pharmaceutical companies, forensic labs, academic institutions among others.

Diffinity Genomics’ founders and managers have over 100 years of experience in scientific research, product development and manufacturing, new business development, finance, sales & marketing, program management and post-launch product support. They have successful track records launching new companies and bringing new life science products to market, resulting in billions of dollars in sales.

The company is seeking to raise the final $175,000 of a $500,000 round of angel funding. The proceeds will be used to finalize product design, initiate manufacturing, and launch sales and marketing within the next 9 months.

Hyper Wall, LLC - Dave Martens, Founder - [ top ]
HYPER Wall, LLC (“HW”) has developed and is currently prototyping a new production technology that modifies existing wood frame wall panel manufacturing lines to produce HYPER Wall, an innovative, EPS foam core panel surpassing current fiberglass insulated walls in both performance and cost. HYPER Wall is the only product available that can provide R values ranging from R19 to over R30 at competitive costs. HW estimates that its R30 model can cut typical home heating and cooling cost by up to 30%, and by more than 50% when combined with energy saving windows and increased attic insulation. HW has applied for patent protection on the technology and the wall design.

HW will license its production technology to wall panel manufacturers, obtaining a royalty on each lineal foot of product sold. This technology has been designed to fit relatively seamlessly into almost any existing wall panel assembly line regardless of equipment type and level of automation. HW’s primary role will be creating and supporting the marketing and brand management of HYPER Wall.

HW has begun prototyping with Rockett Lumber in Toronto, who is contributing facilities, goods and services in exchange for ownership in HW and licensing rights to southern Ontario. HW and Rockett expect to install panels in a new housing development in 2Q09. HW’s goal is to develop and install processing equipment at Rockett within 6 months. HW already has 2 other manufacturers waiting to license its technology in PA and NY. As product gets into the local market, HW will seek to establish a number of additional presales to other manufacturers.

HW is seeking $800K - $1 million to fund the development of at least one fully operational assembly line and pre-sales to a number of additional licensees.

Techrigy, Inc. - Aaron Newman, President - [ top ]
Techrigy’s SM2 solution is the most advanced social media monitoring solution available. With social media marketing gaining rapid acceptance, there is an untapped market for tools to monitor and measure social media. Techrigy is uniquely positioned to capture that market which is estimated to grow to $3 billion by 2012.

Over the past year, SM2 has collected over one billion pieces of social media content and continues to collect another ten million new pieces each day, making it the most comprehensive social media database available and allowing Techrigy to provide the best data and analytics needed to support a social media campaign. By partnering with PR agencies, market researchers, brand managers, and social media platforms, SM2 can provide the social media monitoring and measurement data specifically required by these organizations.

Since its release in August 2008, Techrigy has added over 25 paying customers and over 1900 freemium users. These customers include the largest PR agencies and brands in the world – PR agencies such as Edelman, Text 100, Qorvis Communication, and Porter Novelli – and Brands such as Amgen, Chevron, Hanes, Saturn and Radisson.

Techrigy was founded by Aaron Newman, a serial entrepreneur and the founder of Application Security, Inc. ( www.appsecinc.com ). Aaron has assembled a world-class technology, marketing and sales team to significantly scale the business and secure SM2’s leadership position in the market. The Company’s VP of Sales and Marketing has helped grow one of the top five market research companies in the world from $10 million annual revenue to $200 million today.

Techrigy is seeking an investment of $500,000 to accelerate sales and marketing activities. Visit www.techrigy.com to learn more about the company.

Vaspian LLC - Greg Schreiber, Vice President
Founded in 2004, Vaspian LLC provides a bundled voice, internet and virtual phone system service for small-to-medium-sized businesses based purely on today’s digital technology without capital intensive on-premise solutions. Vaspian’s solution, X-Tone, creates value by giving businesses the phone system features that they need, complete and real-time control over their telecom services and configuration, optimal utilization of capital, significantly lower rates, elimination of their office phone system & maintenance and great customer service.

Vaspian closed the year at $3.8 million in revenue, up $900,000 from 2007. Vaspian has 350+ customers, 9000+ seats and less than 2% customer churn. Vaspian finished 2008 EBITDA neutral and is set to be both net income positive and cash flow positive in 2009. With 340,000 addressable seats in Buffalo and $35/seat average monthly recurring revenue, the market for X-Tone is $143 million in annual revenue. With $330/seat average one-time revenues, there is another $112 million in non-recurring revenue. With 50 U.S. metro areas at least as large as Buffalo, the total U.S. market is $16 billion annual recurring revenue.

Vaspian’s management team has significant telecom and technology industry experience. The team’s breadth includes strategy, industry contacts, operations, sales technology and information architecture and product development. The company is seeking $750,000 in equity to grow the existing sales force and install a backlog of customer contracts. Visit www.vaspian.com for more information about Vaspian.

AireXpert Technics,Ltd. - Andy Hakes, President - [ top ]
AireXpert Technics, Ltd. develops, integrates and markets technology based service solutions for the $51 million aircraft maintenance industry which directly impact both the rate and duration of airline & aircraft flight delays and cancellations.

The company’s core focus lies in an easily navigated global market, and provides a uniquely proactive solution to the exorbitantly expensive challenge of effectively managing aircraft technical failures in non-hub or base locations. Boeing estimates that the cost of a one-to-two hour flight delay ranges from $10,000 to $150,000. Pending FAA regulatory changes and recent Congressional attention to aircraft maintenance outsourcing issues increase the value proposition of AireXpert’s services, and market acceptance has been validated with limited sales activity.

Founder and Buffalo native Andy Hakes has been entrenched in the industry for 20 years in maintenance and technical roles, and is respected within the industry for his views and expert commentary on global aircraft maintenance issues.

The company is seeking to raise $1 million, the proceeds of which will be invested to secure intellectual property rights, supplement the management team, hire in-house staff for key functions, upgrade to production grade infrastructure and execute sales & marketing strategies which directly drive revenue. Anticipated investor exit strategy will be via acquisition by an aviation services aggregator such as Boeing Commercial Aviation Services, Lufthansa Technik or similar OEM. The company's services are described in detail at www.aogdesk.com .

Nexus iSR, LLC - Evhen Tupis, Vice President - [ top ]
Nexus iSR, headquartered in Rochester, NY, has established itself as a company that provides remote connectivity to information securely and reliably, anytime over any network. Nexus does this by manufacturing and providing industrial grade wireless communication products and solutions. The Company’s flagship product, the Nexus Hawk™ has been in the marketplace since Q2 2007.

The company's 'anywhere, any time, any network' technologies serve a variety of sectors. The initial target market is public safety (police, ambulance, border patrol, etc.) with follow on markets of transportation (auto, bus and rail), construction (field offices, remote projects), finance/accounting firms (mobile auditing teams) and everyone who benefits from secure-and-assured connectivity, anywhere.

The Company is executing its business plan with an indirect channel marketing approach utilizing resellers and integrator partnerships. Nexus is currently serving the North American region, US and Canada, with an international geographic future.

The product line was born from technology developed by Phoenix Systems Corp (PSC), under a U.S. Defense Department prime contract. PSC is the research company which formed itself Nexus iSR, LLC.

With this market-mature flagship product (more products pending), and despite a lack of a formal sales and marketing staff, Nexus iSR has over $1 million in sales as of 11/2008 and is on-target to surpass $2 million in sales in 2009.

The company is seeking an initial and immediate raise of $825,000 for the purpose of establishing a formal sales and marketing team, provide working capital to fill existing and expected customer orders and bring additional related products to market. Visit www.nexusisr.com for additional information.

Sensorcon,Inc. - Mark Wagner, President - [ top ]
Sensorcon is a new manufacturer of electrochemical devices & related systems for environmental monitoring and clean energy applications. Products ready to manufacture include industrial quality electrochemical gas sensors that can offer a 50-80% cost savings vs. existing sensors, and Carbon Monoxide detectors that are nearly 50% smaller and 20-30% less expensive than existing consumer products. A product pipeline also exists for portable alcohol & toxic gas detectors, as well as electrochemical supercapacitors for electrical energy storage & delivery.

Addressable target markets are estimated at $1.7B, and are forecasted to grow to $2.6B in 5 years. Products capable of addressing nearly $800M of the present market are ready to be transferred to manufacturing. Due to growing global environmental and energy concerns, these markets are poised for even greater growth as costs are reduced.

Sensorcon’s team has a diverse background, with experience in the development & manufacture of various electronics components & systems, batteries, and chemicals in the US and in Asia. These combined experiences have allowed Sensorcon to develop products with lower cost and improved performance by combining better materials, simpler designs, and unique manufacturing methods. The company is currently seeking $1M to setup pilot production of sensors & CO detectors, gain UL approval for consumer CO detectors, strengthen its IP position, and further the development and marketing efforts. Visit www.sensorcon.com for additional information.

SensiVida Medical Systems, Inc. - Kamal Sarbadhikari, CEO - [ top ]
SensiVida Medical Systems, a spin-off of Infotonics Technology Center, a NY State Center of Excellence, is a minimally invasive diagnostic device company. Their proprietary Micro-systems based technology automates bio-sensing and electronic data acquisition while minimizing patient discomfort. While the platform technology (9 patents filed) can address a number of disease state diagnostics – Allergy Testing, pain-free Glucose monitoring, blood Coagulation Testing, Cholesterol monitoring, and TB Testing – the Company’s singular focus is to commercialize a digital Allergy Test that is pain-free and 2X as productive.

The US allergy test market is estimated to be $1.5B ($3.2B worldwide). In the US, 6 million skin prick/scratch tests are done each year, growing at 7% CAGR. These tests are manual, subjective and invasive, especially for children. The SensiVida test will improve the Allergists’ profitability by 25% by improving cycle time by 2X and creating digital electronic medical records, eliminating today’s subjective, time-consuming testing. Over time, SensiVida’s allergy test will become available at US Retail Clinics as a screening test targeting the needs of 32M patients that are currently undiagnosed.

SensiVida’s allergy testing system consists of (1) a disposable micro-lancet chip/cartridge that painlessly and rapidly administers the allergens, (2) a compact imaging module/digital imager (provided at no cost) that captures real-time allergic reactions and sends images to a computer and (3) user-friendly software that allows the user to monitor the allergic reaction. An e-record patient report is automatically created which can be printed or transmitted.

SensiVida seeks $800 K of equity funding needed to develop opto-electronic systems, algorithm and to conduct 100 patient clinical trials.

SocialVoter, LLC - Michael Falencki, CEO - [ top ]
SocialVoter will become a full-service, one-stop provider for political content and user interaction on the web. SocialVoter is being created to attract users seeking to view or engage in a community focused on social and political issues. The community will have all the attributes of popular social networks, and in addition, will raise user interest through social issue and political news, voting records, politician biographies, and campaign contribution history.

Through SocialVoter, not only will users have the ability to directly interact with politicians and their campaigns, but the community will also allow them to communicate with like-minded people and debate with people of differing viewpoints, while discussing the social and political issues that matter to them most.

In the same way that the Internet has changed the way the world communicates, SocialVoter will change the way politicians and voters interact with each other. Most importantly, the community provides a means for voters to have a voice in defining social and political issues that supports one of the principles by which our country was initially formed – a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people”. SocialVoter – Your issues. Your Voice. Your impact.

SocialVoter, LLC is looking for $1 million to cover development costs and staffing requirements. An unfunded Beta version of SocialVoter is already under development.

AndroBioSys, Inc. - Michael Zwick, PhD, CEO- [ top ]
AndroBioSys, Inc. (ABS) is a biotechnology company with focus on treating prostate disease. ABS is identifying specific targets in prostate tumors (e.g. prostate vasculature, tumor stem cells and androgen metabolism) which may be developed to improve prostate cancer treatment. Using unique human cell and tissue-based screening tools, the Company will identify candidate drugs and verify their specificity and activity.

ABS provides contract research services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies for further clinical evaluation of potential therapeutic agents. Androgen deprivation therapy is the most common systemic treatment for prostate cancer; the treatment is very effective for inducing remission but those remissions last only a few years. The primary goal of ABS is to pioneer new therapeutic approaches for advanced prostate cancer that will make therapy curative, not palliative. Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed potentially life-threatening cancer in men in the United States. One in six men will be affected by this disease during their lifetime.

ABS was formed by two investigators at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) in Buffalo, NY. The Company has exclusively licensed three technologies (in the form of pending patent applications) from RPCI. The Company’s CEO has a very strong background in the commercialization of technologies and has over 15 years experience in the biotechnology industry with senior management positions at several start up companies.

ABS seeks $300,000 to accelerate its angiogenesis and anti-androgen programs and to validate the angiogenesis model. ABS will be poised to compete with contract research organizations such as MDS and Covance. With a lead compound discovered in the angiogenesis model, ABS will look to validate a prostate cancer angiogenesis target. With a lead drug candidate to a novel androgen target, ABS will look to commercialize a drug for a piece of the $4 billion plus market in anti-androgen therapy. Visit www.androbiosys.com for more information.

FloodWatch, LLC - John Slocum, CEO- [ top ]
FloodWatch, LLC has developed a revolutionary optical based moisture alert system. This technology is able to detect very small quantities of water and other fluids from up to 20 feet away while being unobtrusive. As FloodWatch is optical it can be mounted on the wall or ceiling. This gives it many advantages over contact based solutions including reliability, large coverage area, flexibility and safety.

Each year, water causes over $7 billion dollars in damage to homes and commercial buildings in the U.S. This includes over 1.4 million insurance claims costing on average $5,000. While you might think most of these are caused by weather, according to Safeco Insurance, 92% of these claims are actually caused by appliance failure or faulty plumbing and are often followed by an even bigger problem for building owners – Toxic Mold.

Based on a survey by Chubb Insurance, 37% of U.S. home-owners have reported water related damage and yet only 3% of the over 100 Million home owners have installed a water detection system.

On a worldwide basis, there is the opportunity to place hundreds of millions of water detectors. Placing just 5% of the North American market is a revenue opportunity of over $500 million.

FloodWatch, LC is looking for $500,000 to $1M in funding and is projecting a 4th quarter 2008 entry into the market.

Crosswater Digital Media - John Adamo, President & Armin St. George, Sr.VP
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Crosswater Digital Media, LLC (CDM) is a “one-stop” marketing media company that creates, programs, distributes, and broadcasts targeted and compelling digital entertainment, messaging, and advertising via broadband or satellite to “captive audiences” in retail, financial, hospitality, and professional venues.

On the verge of fast growth, Crosswater is an established, revenue generating business that currently reaches over 7 million captive consumers a day through its in-store retail networks.

The in-store marketplace is a powerful alternative to traditional media, representing over $19 billion spent annually in the US domestic marketplace alone. Crosswater’s software has global application capabilities. Crosswater’s proven results, combined with its persistent education of retailers and advertisers alike, has helped poise the company to become a leader in the in-store marketing arena.

The Company derives its primary revenue from the sale of audio advertising broadcast over the in-store/on-site “airwaves” of its customer networks as well as from creating and producing advertising and promotional campaigns, and from the sale of commercial music via its strategic partner, Music Choice.

Since 1991, Crosswater has been an award winning company servicing the local, regional and national advertising industry as a creative and production resource for traditional radio and TV commercials, as well as satellite delivered in-store message providers.

In 2003, Crosswater took advantage of its 11 year production experience with the other in-store satellite broadcasting services and developed their own in-store retail model that includes an incremental revenue component for retailers, higher caliber creativity, call to action productions, and a more reliable/flexible broadband delivery solution that, unlike satellite services, verifies the message is reaching its audience.

The company is looking to close its first round of investment to fund growth and expansion. Visit www.crosswater.net for additional information about the company.
Visit www.crosswater.net for more information about the company.

Trusted Nurse Staffing Inc. - Jamie Jayes, Co-Founder - [ top ]
Trusted Nurse Staffing Inc.’s (TNS) mission is to become the choice employment source for qualified nurses in the healthcare industry.

After surveying 33 facilities and 20 nurses in its targeted market regions, TNS found that the hospitals were not pleased with the service provided by many of their top temporary staffing vendors. Trusted Nurse Staffing Inc. has identified a huge void in this industry and has developed key strategies for both the client and the candidate that will allow the company to thrive in the over $12 Billion per year temporary health care staffing market.

The co-owners of Trusted Nurse staffing Inc. have a proven track record. One of the two co-founders has worked in the staffing industry for 4 years and was most recently employed as a Branch Manager in Tampa, FL. Each year, he has consistently produced over $1.5 million in revenue while maintaining profit margin goals. Jamie Jayes has worked for multiple years as a Pharmaceutical Representative and has been in the top 1% of the sales force each year. In addition TNS has the confirmation of employment from a top recruiter in the industry who has consistently generated average production revenue of $4,000,000 per year.

Trusted Nurse Staffing is seeking $150,000 in equity and $300,000 in secured debt in order to fund payroll and other operating expenses.

Cardvark Incorporated - Thomas Pecoraro, President/CEO - [ top ]
Cardvark Incorporated provides custom prepaid VISA, Mastercard and American Express co-branded debit gift cards to targeted business environments in the real estate, insurance and financial services industries. Custom prepaid debit gift cards are used as a reward-based product by agents who desire new, unique and exciting marketing tools. Cardvark has national contracts with some of the major players in the real estate industry and has already provided prepaid solutions for some of the nation's largest companies, including Time Warner, ABC, Homes.org, and Prudential Real Estate and Exit Realty. Future targeted industries include the automobile and mortgage industries.

The prepaid gift card market is growing rapidly. Recent reports forecast $32 billion in spending on branded prepaid cards this year and $79 billion by 2010. Carvark has targeted large markets. For example, the real estate agent market alone provides an attractive market of 260,000 real estate companies in the U.S.

Cardvark has long-standing relationships with card associations, networks and processors and offers prepaid card programs that are innovative, flexible and designed to deliver a significant return on investment. Cardvark’s management team has management, sales and business ownership experience in transaction services, vending, card technology, web development and publishing industries. The founders have personally funded the Company’s initial growth.

Cardvark is seeking funding of $500,000 to fund expansion of its marketing efforts and sales growth. Visit www.welcomehomegiftcards.com and www.cardvark.us for more information about the company.

Ceno Technologies, LLC - Scottpatrick Sellitto, Co-Founder - [ top ]
Ceno Technologies is an exciting new venture which will specialize in the research, design and manufacture of coated microscopic cenospheres and other particles utilizing state of the art technology. The Company uses a proprietary process to coat hollow cenospheres and particles with a thin layer of silver and other alloys. An example of the benefit of these materials is that it allows the finished cenosphere to perform like silver in electrical conduction, possess infra-red and other EMF (Electro Magnetic Frequencies) reflection/masking and simultaneously perform like a ceramic in thermal insulation, offering low cost, low maintenance and ease of use. When added to paints, adhesives, sealers, and resin composite materials at appropriate ratios, these materials can then provide electrical conductivity and shielding of electronic devices against Electro Magnetic Interference (EMI) without the weight and cost of ‘traditional’ shielding materials.

The flagship product is Silver Coated Cenospheres which is used as a substitute for solid silver particles, dramatically decreasing cost and weight. Historically, stealth coatings used on military and hi-tech products were usually thick, heavy coatings of silver ball paint or similar paints. These paints were difficult and time consuming in application and required frequent maintenance. Ceno Technologies’ silver coated cenospheres can be applied thinly in one lightweight application and require far less maintenance and are highly cost efficient. Recent increased use of lightweight composites in aircraft manufacture has revealed several new uses for silver coated cenospheres including lightning strike survival, radio frequency interference screening and stealth coatings. This advantage has made this new venture very attractive to military, hi-tech and other companies ranging from Fortune 100 entities to other technology groups worldwide who will purchase the Company’s products upon commencement of production. Ceno Technologies has been contracted for long term production and R&D for a variety of classified BLACK projects for the Military and it partnering Defense Contractors with other projects currently in negotiations.

Ceno Technologies’ founders have a combination of technical expertise and business experience selling to the defense and hi-tech industry. Ceno Technologies plans to commence phase 1 of manufacturing by late January and full scale production by June-July of 2008. The Company has identified its production facility and is seeking $600,000 to commence production and order fulfillment. Visit www.cenotechnologies.com for more information.

Retail Advantage - Robert Richardson, Founder - [ top ]
Consumer Electronics (CE) retailers such as Best Buy, Circuit City and Wal-Mart struggle to effectively train their CE sales associates. CE retailers and merchandisers know that today’s sales associate training does not adequately equip the sales associates to sell the most products. Retail Advantage has developed a proven proprietary method to quickly train sales associates to (1) engage the consumer in a meaningful conversation about their needs and (2) confidently educate the customer about complex, changing products.

Retail Advantage will “train the trainers” – it will train the merchandisers’ employees, who are hired by the CE retailers to train the retailers’ sales associates. Retail Advantage will earn a license fee from both the merchandising companies and the CE retailers. Retail Advantage’s intellectual property will consist of a comprehensive library of training materials designed to quickly provide measurable sales improvements. It will include the exercises, examples and testing needed to train and certify them at all levels. Retail Advantage will also produce companion guides for the instructors as well as host conferences where the instructors will be certified in the material.

The market is large – at any one time there are 300,000 CE retail sales associates at 40 retailers and 50 merchandising firms in the US who turn over 30% per year on average. Retailers spend $1,000 - $2,000 per associate per year on training, totaling more than $300 million per year for the industry.

The founders of Retail Advantage have an extensive background in CE retail sales training which includes leading the development of a training program for CE associates and managers at Wal-Mart Stores and overseeing the national roll-out of the program. This program dramatically increased CE sales at Wal-Mart. The founders of Retail Advantage have relationships with leading merchandisers who will license Retail Advantage’s training library.

Retail Advantage seeks to raise start up investment of $800,000.

Thistle & Co. - Paul Wold & Rob Stein, Founders - [ top ]
Thistle & Co. is a development stage company competing in the golf apparel and men’s sportswear industry. The founders, Paul Wold and Rob Stein have many years experience and close working relationships with many of the top golf shops and club professionals in America.

The founders have uncovered a niche for classically styled sportswear using technical yarns. Technical yarns are a recent phenomenon to the golf industry and the main providers have been Nike and Adidas. Their distribution policies are in direct conflict with the independent golf shops’ best interests. Furthermore, their styling preferences are often not appropriate for country club dress codes.

The founders have extensive brand building experience from previous endeavors including Bobby Jones, Hugo Boss, Pringle of Scotland, and Jack Nicklaus. In addition to Paul and Rob the company has verbal commitments from two highly experienced sales executives both of whom worked for the Founders in previous endeavors. One of the two executives will also be an investor in the company.

Based on their experience and relationships, the founders project a limited distribution to 10% of the pro shop market or 1,600 on-course golf shops. Additionally, they will market to select men’s specialty stores and corporate sales channels. The business plan conservatively projects 6th year sales of $10 million dollars. The market for men’s golf sportswear is estimated by the National Golf Foundation at $2-2.5 billion dollars. The game of golf is extremely stable, growing 2-3% annually.

The company is offering $1.4 - $1.8 million of Series A Preferred Stock. Additionally, the founders are committing $175,000 of their personal money to common shares. The funds will be used to finance the start up costs of the business and to finance the first year’s product purchases and trade receivables. Visit www.thistleandco.com for more information about the company.

Niagara Dispensing Technologies, Inc. - Ken Burke, President - [ top ]
Niagara Dispensing Technologies, Inc. has developed patented technology that significantly improves upon traditional beer pouring taps, which worldwide, has not been changed since the 1920’s. NDT's devices provide a rapid, measured and control pour of draft beer with extensive data collection capabilities while also dramatically improving keg yield and thus profits. NDT's products are sold under the Exactap brand.

NDT has transitioned from a start-up phase company, and has now completed its product development. The Exactap units have now been sold, and installed, in high profile stadiums/arenas including Cincinnati, Boston, Detroit and Cleveland, as well as several European installations, including Munich's Allianz Arena. The NDT products are truly a solution to a global issue regarding both the speed and monitoring of draft beer dispensing in these high volume venues. NDT has been successful at entering their targeted markets, by developing relationships with significant brewer, concessionaire and OEM accounts, including Delaware North and Aramark.

NDT estimates that their are over 10 million beer taps in use world wide, and the potential annual market for these dispensing units in high volume or control critical venues is estimated to be approximately 20,000 units. NDT's R&D efforts have also identified related products and enhancements to existing products in the beer dispensing markets, which will expand the potential markets for future NDT products.

NDT has an experienced executive team and board of directors that includes experts in fluid dynamics, beer dispensing equipment sales, a European based sales manager as well as its institutional investors, Rand Capital, Erie County RDC and NYS Foundation for Science and Technology.

The company is seeking to raise $2.5 million to fund additional product development, launch its sales and marketing campaigns, and working capital. The financing round will include a mix of existing investors, (both angel and institutional) as well as new investors. The financing round is being led by Rand Capital. Visit www.exactap.com for more information.

Rocket Broadband Networks Inc. - Phil Yawman, CEO - [ top ]
Rocket provides “triple play” telecom services to multiple dwelling units in partnership with the property owners. The company executes long term (7-10+ years) right of entry agreements and exclusive marketing agreements with the property owners.

Rocket provides its video programming through DirecTV who is aggressively trying to penetrate the MDU market. Voice and data services are offered via Broadband access that Rocket brings into the property via owned and lease facilities.

Initially funded in December of 2005 with a $2.5M paid in equity investment led by High Peaks Venture Partners, Rocket has made strong progress over the past year, particularly over the past 4-6 months.

Rocket currently has 9 employees, 17 completed property build-outs and approximately 1,000 subscribers in service. Rocket is actively working to secure contracts or pilots which could lead to substantial organic growth in western NY. Additionally, the company has negotiated an LOI for the acquisition of a profitable WNY MDU video provider. The acquisition is comprised of 16 properties, over 2,800 subs, $1.3MM revenues and $350,000 in annual EBITDA. At closing of the acquisition, Rocket will have 31 properties and nearly 4,000 subscribers and expects to EBITDA positive by year end 2007.

Rocket’s CEO is Phil Yawman who was one of the co-founders of Choice One Communications, a Rochester-based CLEC. Mr. Yawman joined Rocket as CEO when the Series A round in late 2005 was completed. Visit www.rocketbroadband.com for more about the company.

RiverWright, LLC - Rick Smith III, Chairman - [ top ]

RiverWright, LLC was formed in the Spring of 2006 to build and operate a 110 million gallon per year ethanol plant in Buffalo, NY. The ethanol will be produced from 40 million bushels of corn feedstock and sold to blend with gasoline as an octane enhancer and fuel oxygenate. The by-product of Distillers Dried Grain Solubles (DDGS) will be sold to feedlots and dairies as a valuable protein feed supplement.

RiverWright, LLC Chairman Rick Smith III is President of Rigidized Metals, Inc., located adjacent to the new ethanol plant location. Co-founder and President Kevin Townsell will oversee construction and day-to-day operations of the plant. Development partners include design/build contractors KL Process Design Group, specializing in the refit of properties for ethanol production.

In April 2006, a site feasibility assessment was conducted by KL Process Design Group that validated the original founders’ idea of developing the site for ethanol production. The property has the infrastructure and physical plant requirements to house ethanol process piping and equipment.

There are several factors related to the RiverWright business that will enable it to compete effectively in the fuel ethanol production industry. These include an existing plant infrastructure and grain storage, existing water and rail infrastructure into the plant property, ready-markets for ethanol into New York State, perfect project timing with an unprecedented demand for ethanol, the recent extension of the federal Small Producer Tax Credit, a strong bi-partisan national political support for ethanol, and a strong and dedicated project team.

The Company seeks to raise up to $20 million of equity as part of total financing of $89 million.

Variant Products, Ltd. - Chris Gardner, President - [ top ]
Since its’ launch in 1996, Variant Products has uniquely solved a common problem for people who carry vitamins and meds – to safely carry and dispense tablets in one simple to use container. The Company currently has nine products in production, patented styling features, and a customer base consisting of a variety of outlets including multi-level marketers, specialty catalogs, distributors and retailers. Variant Products continues to develop new and innovative solutions and has several products under development for target launch within the next two years. The Company’s expertise in product development has led to programs for customers who want proprietary designs as well.

The Company estimates the addressable retail and volume retail market for medical compliance products to have annual revenue potential of approximately $50 million, with catalog sales offering an equivalent opportunity. Demand for Variant’s products is growing as the over 65 population, the fastest growing segment, increases.

Variant recently signed a vendor agreement with one of the world’s largest retail chains and requires capital to build inventory and expand operations. The Company is seeking between $450,000 to up to $1,000,000 in additional equity to fund increased inventory, add staff to support expanded operations, build tooling to support higher volume production, fund new product development and support working capital. This funding will supplement previous investment received from angel investors. Visit www.variantproducts.com for additional information.

Empire Genomics, Anthony Johnson, Interim CEO - [ top ]
Empire Genomics (EG) will provide molecular diagnostic kits, analytical services and related products that leverage its expertise in the array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) technology platform. aCGH detects small alterations in the human genome that are associated with a number of mental and physical defects including Down’s Syndrome and various forms of cancer. This technology has unprecedented speed and accuracy and greatly reduced cost compared to traditional cytogenetic tests.

The aCGH technology has been built in part from the research of Dr. Norma Nowak, the founder of Empire Genomics. Dr. Nowak is well renowned in the field of genomics, is the Director, Scientific Planning at the NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences and is director of the Microarray and Genomics Facility at Roswell Park Cancer Institute.

EG’s products and services will initially be sold to the research market, but the company will penetrate the much larger diagnostic (clinical) market after receiving the required certifications. EG plans to participate in the areas of molecular diagnostics, drug discovery, prenatal screening, personalized medicine initiatives and stem cell biology. These potential markets are very large and growing, with a projected global microarray market of >$1 B, molecular cytogenetic diagnostic market of $1.5 B and cancer diagnostic market of $7.4 B in 2010.

Initial business management will be provided by Buffalo BioSciences LLC, which possesses a collective 70+ years experience and has assembled a cohesive team supported by legal, accounting and production expertise. EG is seeking to complete its initial funding round of ~$1MM to fund infrastructure, business launch, staffing and marketing activities.

Jacobs Ladder LLC, Robert A. Palka, Jr., President - [ top ]
Jacobs Ladder LLC manufactures and sells the Jacobs Ladder TM - total body exerciser. The patented treadmill climber is designed for fitness professionals to provide peak aerobic endurance and anaerobic conditioning. Jacobs Ladder has proven its effectiveness to fitness professionals around the country. The response has been quite impressive and the company has received numerous testimonials from customers including NFL sports teams, major college athletic programs, physical therapists and commercial health clubs.

Jacobs Ladder has a network of 45 dealers in the US and overseas and has also directly penetrated market segments including health clubs, universities, military, police and fire departments, personal trainers and professional sports teams. The commercial cardio equipment market is significant, generating $1 billion in annual sales. Jacobs Ladder compares favorably to competitors’ products such as the Nautilus Stepmill and the Versaclimber.

Bob Palka acquired Jacobs Ladder from its founder in 2004 and initiated a marketing plan that has demonstrated the ability to increase sales. The company is now seeking $300,000 from investors to fund accelerated marketing activities and enable the company to serve larger accounts. Visit www.jacobsladderexercise.com for additional information about the company.

Dynamic Eye, Inc., Christopher Mullin, CEO - [ top ]
Dynamic Eye, Inc., is revolutionizing the $6 billion worldwide sunglasses market by developing sunglasses that darken only in a small spot between the user’s pupils and any glaring light source (such as the sun) in the field of view. The rest of the lens remains clear. The sunglasses react instantly, so it’s like putting a hand up to block the glare, but with no effort. By dimming only what the wearer doesn’t want to see, Dynamic Eye improves the vision of what the user does want to see. Furthermore, because the glasses only dim the glare, they can dim it far more than regular sunglasses, making the wearer’s eyes more comfortable and better light adapted for the rest of the scene.

The sunglasses market serves as an excellent place to introduce a high technology product, because many consumers already pay high prices for their eyewear. Initial products will find a willing market at higher price points, and as manufacturing ramps up and costs come down, lower prices will capture the larger market.

Founded in 2003, Dynamic Eye has produced steadily improving prototypes that provide full functionality while running on watch batteries, and will be demonstrated during the presentation. This year, the Air Force awarded Dynamic Eye a two-year SBIR contract for a specialized version that is funding the company’s current activities. Dynamic Eye plans to shock the Oakleys and Raybans of the world next summer with a consumer prototype based on high fashion frames.

Dynamic Eye has exclusive rights to three patents and is seeking $200,000 to support additional patent development and refine the consumer prototype.

Tel-e-Atrics, Inc., Don Turrell, President & CEO, - [ top ]
Tel-e-Atrics provides a fully functional telemedicine platform that enables virtual medical office visits that are live, real-time encounters providing diagnosis and treatment using the communication facilities of the Internet. Tel-e-Atrics does not engage in providing health services but has relationships with several health care organizations providing this service, using the Company’s system sold under the tradename Tel-e-Atrics ConnectTM.

Tel-e-Atrics’ focus is providing telemedicine capabilities for timely and cost effective medical care in child care centers, elementary schools and group homes for developmentally challenged patients. Forty-one sites including schools, childcare centers, and group homes are operational. These sites electronically interconnect patients with doctors at ten private pediatric practices, the University of Rochester Children’s Hospital and 4 after-hour on call nursing stations. Current system users include six different customers, over 200 health care providers and over 1,800 registered patients. Several thousand virtual office visits have been completed.

Successful deployments have occurred in western NY but are now beginning to expand to several other geographic and market areas. The Company is in active discussion with three of the major contract child care providers who work with major corporations providing day care services for employees at or near work locations.

Tel-e-Atrics’ management includes individuals who have grown companies from startup to IPO as well as healthcare practitioners. The Company is seeking $2.0 million to be used primarily to increase sales and marketing activities and expand into new geographic markets. Visit www.teleatrics.com for additional information and a complete executive summary.

As It Is,Inc. - [ top ]
Bill Koehler, President & CEO As It Is, Inc. was founded in 1999. As It Is, Inc. is an Artificial Intelligence research and development company that is commercializing a subscriber-based intelligent website called www.TrueThinker.com that automates and facilitates the discovery, retrieval and organization of information sought by users on the internet. TrueThinker solves the problem of search engine disorganization and web information overload. Once trained by the user, TrueThinker will perceive, intuit, think, value and act on its own to provide the user the data they really wanted, saving both time and money.

TrueThinker.com was launched in late August, 2006. Sunscribers pay $2.99 per month or a $24.95 annual fee. As It Is, Inc. has engaged Corecubed, a renowned virtual marketing company on a “pay for performance” contract to market TrueThinker to consumers and industry players as well as to engage in licenses to affinity groups. As It Is, Inc. and Corecubed have targeted to build and retain a base of 1 million subscribers.

The core Semiotic intellectual property that reads signs and symbols is protected by five patents. In addition to using the technology in TrueThinker, As It Is, Inc. will license its technology world-wide in various other applications.

As It Is, Inc. is seeking to raise an initial round of $350,000 which will be used to support the launch and initial expansion of TrueThinker. Additional rounds of $5 - $10 million are anticipated to fund future product development. Visit www.TrueThinker.com and www.asitisinc.com for additional information.

Central Xchange, Inc. - [ top ]
Michael Doyle, President Central Xchange is a technology-based service firm successfully blending web, telecom, and data base technologies together with our proprietary matching algorithms to automatically place the most qualified substitute into the school classroom. Unlike time consuming manual, or costly older systems, our service is faster, less expensive, and results in a better learning experience for students.

Each day, one in ten of this country's three million classrooms need a substitute teacher. Ninety percent of all substitutes are still called in one-at-a-time, ‘by hand.’ This antiquated method allows 30,000 teacher absences go unfilled every day. Our Substitute Teacher Management System, Sub - IT, enables districts to routinely place the most qualified substitute into the classroom where they can have the most impact.

Central Xchange built Sub-IT as a secure, password protected tool for teachers to record absences & match the "Best Qualified" substitute to the opening. The service integrates normal "phone call" functionality to allow teachers to record absences on an automated Interactive Voice Response unit (IVR) and for the IVR to automatically place calls to the "Best Qualified" Substitute. Full administration control and reporting is provided via standard Internet connections. Sub-IT also maintains a regional substitute database to augment each district's daily sub pool.

Our concept, software, methodology, technology framework, and go-to-market strategy have been carefully researched, developed, tested, refined, proven & sold! We have a production system that works, a growing sales team that knows how to sell it, and customers who will endorse its value enthusiastically. We are seeking $650,000 to grow and expand our business. Please access additional information at www.centralxchange.com.

ZAPiT Games Inc. - Richard Fast, President - [ top ]
ZAPiT Games is a leading designer, developer and marketer of ZAPiT Game Wave, an innovative propriety DVD-based game system that delivers the highest quality of interactive home entertainment game experience for families and adults alike. Founded in 2003 with headquarters in Toronto, Canada, ZAPiT Games is dedicated to creating game content to fulfill the need of family and friends to laugh, compete and interact. Game Wave has received favorable reviews in many publications including USA Today and the New York Times.

ZAPiT Games has invested over $5 million to develop all necessary hardware, software and game designs. The Company completed a successful “soft launch” of the product with Toys R Us and Mastermind stores in Canada and is now ready to bring Game Wave to the national market. ZAPiT Games is negotiating national programs in Canada and the U.S. with several major retailers.

The Company has built a strong management team, board of directors and investors and is seeking to raise an additional $12 million to fund the production of game units and to support marketing and promotion and is accepting minimum investments of $25,000. Visit www.zapitgames.com for additional information.

Warm Lake Estate - Michael J. VonHeckler, LLC Manager - [ top ]
Warm Lake Estate was established in 2000 with the aim of producing “World Class Pinot Noir from the Niagara Escarpment.” The Niagara Escarpment is perfectly suited to the task and the founder and LLC manager, Mr. Michael J. VonHeckler, has the experience and training necessary to achieve the objective. Three vintages of Pinot Noir produced have clearly demonstrated that the objective is achievable.

Begun in 1996 as a research project while studying with the Institute of the Masters of Wine, Mr. VonHeckler discovered that the Niagara Escarpment in Niagara County, New York shares with Ontario, Canada the same soils, climate and aspect as that is found in the Burgundy region of France. Vincor, a Canadian wine company based in the Niagara Escarpment, was recently sold to Constellation Brands for $1.5B.

Warm Lake Estate is making a private offering of $400,000 to finance expansion of the wine making facilities and cover cash flow requirements until sales of existing inventory of wine can be sold. Visit www.WarmLakeEstate.com for additional information.

Esensors - Darold Wobschall, President - [ top ]
Esensors was established in 2000 with the aim of developing, manufacturing and marketing a series of digital sensors with network capabilities. The company is led by Dr. Darold Wobschall, a retired faculty member from the University at Buffalo Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Esensors maintains a close relationship with the University at Buffalo and engineers in the area and has access to a high level of electronic engineering expertise.

The company’s initial networked sensor, the HVAC websensor, has been well received by the sensor market and its networked gas monitors, supported by the Dept. of Homeland Security, are nearly ready for market introduction. Recently introduced wireless sensors have also attracted customer interest at trade shows. Sales of the company’s websensor have increased steadily since its introduction two years ago.

Esensors is making a stock offering of $900,000 to finance the expanded manufacturing and marketing of its existing networked sensor products and to introduce new products including the gas monitor, wireless sensors and energy conservation controls. The funding is sought in two phases over 18 months. Visit www.eesensors.com for additional information.

Lucidity Works LLC - Linda Stevenson, President - [ top ]
Lucidity Works LLC, is a Rochester-based company founded November, 2004. The company offers a patent-pending search, retrieval and reporting software application targeted to analysts, that increases their productivity by 65% and accelerates the time-to-decision making. Lucidity’s product has the unique capability to synthesize data from disparate multi-format sources (documents, images, multimedia, spreadsheets and databases) into an end-user designed customizable report in real time. The Lucidity application is a direct result of its founder, Linda Stevenson’s 20+ years experience in performing analytical research for Fortune 1000 companies.

Lucidity Works has two fully-functioning prototypes – commercial (competitive) and research (drug) intelligence. Extensive market validation has been done with eight top healthcare companies and the company is having discussions with a Fortune 20 pharmaceutical company to install a beta application. Lucidity Works will initially market to more than 700 identified healthcare companies in targeted regions of the U.S.

The company is seeking investment of $500,000 phased with milestone achievements. Proceeds will be used to hire key personnel, develop infrastructure and fund patent protection, product development and commercialization. Visit www.LucidityWorks.com for additional information.

Small Economies - Edmund Kaczynski, Founder - [ top ]
Small Economies is a startup software company developing an online application platform to facilitate exchanges in small and relevant markets. Small Economies will leverage the rapid growth of the online classifieds market with a simplified, robust, and cutting-edge platform to create value for customers and users. The Small Economies approach to online classifieds provides users with fast and direct access to other users who share a common interest and location. Small Economies provides value by focusing advertising scope and eliminating the complexities of shipping and payment.

The company's founder (Edmund Kaczynski) has information technology management experience in both startup and mature companies, including experience in developing and implementing other online classified advertising systems. An early stage management team and advisory board
are also in place.

Small Economies is seeking $250,000 to fund application platform development, marketing, and personnel. Small Economies is also seeking additional advisory board members with expertise in sales, technology, and marketing.

SuperGrouper - Mike Brennan, Founder - [ top ]
SuperGrouper is a startup company designing web-based programs and services for students to manage group projects within in a virtual setting. The business takes the concept of paper-based day planners and various group collaboration methods and adds computer technology to provide a service tailored to the needs of a college student enrolled in a school program that emphasizes team work.

The increased activities/assignments faced by today's students can create a situation that takes focus away from group goals and puts it on the process. Having a tool in place that will assist in the planning and time management component of group work will allow students to focus more attention on what is most important: the class lesson. SuperGrouper will provide students with tools to manage every step of the group process in a one stop shop.

The company's founder has extensive application development experience and is committed to launching the product over the next 6-12 months.

SuperGrouper is seeking $400,000 to fund the company's growth. The funds will provide the company with sufficient cash flow for development of the software as well as launching the business. These funds will provide adequate working capital until sufficient cash flow is achieved.

FALCONEER Technologies LLC - Douglas Lenz, President - [ top ]
FALCONEER Technologies LLC, formed in 2003, provides the FALCONEER™ IV Process Performance Solution. This patent-pending software provides real-time intelligent monitoring & information management to watch over almost all process industries and is designed to make plants smarter, safer and more profitable.

The Plant Asset Management (PAM) systems market niche for smart plant software, such as FALCONEER™ IV Process Performance Solution, is forecast to grow at compound annual growth rates greater than 10% over the next 4-5 years to become a $1.8 Billion market by 2009. Our current target industries are chemical/petrochemical and pulp & paper. There is also significant opportunity in the wastewater treatment, power generation, pharmaceutical, food, primary metals, glass, and oil/gas pipeline industries.

FALCONEER will leverage on-going pilots & single process sales in the chemical / petrochemical and wastewater treatment markets into intra-corporate multiple sales or corporate licensing with these types of companies - FMC, BASF, PPG, and Buffalo Sewer Authority. The Company is also working with Intergraph Corporation, the leading supplier of Smart Plant software for designing, building and operating plants, to integrate FALCONEER software with their products and has an agreement on a work scope for an initial energy savings project with Chevron Energy Solutions.

FALCONEER is seeking $300,000 for additional product development and marketing. Visit www.falconeertech.com for additional information.

Solar Sentry Corp. - Gordon Presher, CEO - [ top ]
Solar Sentry is a startup company developing a monitoring system that pinpoints operating problems in solar photovoltaic systems and report them over the internet for appropriate dispatch of service personnel.

Solar Sentry's unique approach monitors the power output of each solar panel using inexpensive wireless communications. It also monitors every wiring connection in the system and can identify the type and location of virtually any operating problem, including fully or partially defective solar panels, disconnected or broken wires, panel shading problems, soiled solar panels, blown fuses, defective blocking diodes and defective inverters. When a dispatched technician arrives at the reported problem location, he or she receives visual confirmation from LED indicators on the equipment, simplifying maintenance.

Solar Sentry's low price is recovered by its ability to reduce installation labor, resulting in a system that has higher initial quality and built-in diagnostics yet costs the same. Once installed, Solar Sentry's products and services protect the customer's solar investment for the expected 30 year life of the installation.

The Company's founders have senior management experience in both startup and mature companies. The former CEO and former CTO of BP Solar serve on Solar Sentry's Board of Advisors.

Solar Sentry is seeking $900,000 to further develop its product line, complete patenting, install a beta system and develop relationships with solar electric system installers. See www.SolarSentry.com for contact information.

SVS Video Systems, Inc. - Michael Rodems, President - [ top ]
Sound Video Solutions, Inc., is an audio visual contracting company that has developed and launched the SVS 300 line of portable AV systems targeted for use in the educational and corporate markets. The product line is manufactured by Sound Video Systems, Inc. a newly-formed spinoff under substantially common ownership. The SVS 300 line offers the reliability, security and functionality of permanently installed audio visual systems at a fraction of the cost, while offering the advantages of flexibility of scheduling, elimination of installation issues and convenient serviceability. A patent application has been filed for this unique projector mounting apparatus.

Since the product's launch in early 2004, SVS 300 product sales have exceeded $750,000 using a part-time sales and marketing effort. More than 80% of the demos have resulted in orders for systems and most purchasers have bought additional systems or have indicated that they plan to do so. SVS has received a four-year procurement contract with New York State that facilitates sales to educational institutions and is negotiating similar contracts with other states and a nationwide purchasing group for Catholic schools. SVS is also recently begun selling through a national distributor and is in discussions with dealers in other areas of the U.S.

Mr Rodems has extensive experience and has served as CEO, COO and CFO in several manufacturing, contracting and distribution operations. He is supported by a staff of 18 people.

SVS is seeking to raise $250,000 to fund the company's growth. These funds will supplement an initial capital contribution of $50,000 and a recent $25,000 loan from the ECIDA. Investors will receive shares of Sound Video Systems.

Visit www.svsny.com for additional information.

Vaspian, LLC - Perry Ciambella, President & Brian Hurley, CEO - [ top ]
Vaspian offers small to medium size businesses a significant (30%+) cost savings in voice and data telecommunications expense through a complete network-based Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) platform called X-Tone. X-Tone provides full range of data, voice and phone system features, but requires minimal up-front capital dollars and no ongoing service contracts from the customer. Vaspian has designed and developed a virtual phone system that can serve up to 10,000 customers on one networked server, utilizing dynamic allocation of voice and data.

The Company has launched its service in Western New York, is currently generating sales and has begun generating positive cash flow. Most customers have entered into multi-year contracts with 3-5 year terms. The overall VoIP phone system market, which has just under 100,000 lines today is expected to grow to more than 1.7 million lines by 2007.

The company's management team has a mix of talent and experience coming from a range of world class companies including AT&T, Bell Labs, Western Union, Wang, Broadview Networks, Roche Labs and Value Line.

Vaspian is offering $1,000,000 of convertible debt to fund the company's expansion into additional cities. See www.vaspian.com for additional information.

Auction Cruncher, LLC - Alan Zdon, President - [ top ]
Auction Cruncher LLC was the winner of the University at Buffalo's Panasci Business Plan contest in 2005. The company is a start-up that intends to become the leading provider of consumer product pricing information in the online retail market, with an initial concentration on the eBay market. Auction Cruncher will market eBay's historical closed auction information directed to approximately 136 million registered users of eBay.com, the world's largest online auction site. The idea: eliminating the guesswork that often goes into calculating the actual fair market value of consumer goods. With auctions closing every second on the site, eBay can provide real-time market information where none previously existed.

AuctionCruncher.com will provide auction buyers and sellers with customizable product pricing tools that will allow them to make educated purchases and smarter selling decisions. These tools include, but are not limited to; average selling price, price range, sell through rates, product life cycle, trend analysis and selling recommendations. Historical closed auction data will be given for all retail goods broken down by manufacturer, model number and condition (new, used, or refurbished).

BiddingBuddy is a groundbreaking innovative software package designed specifically for eBay auction buyers who are looking for streamlined historical product pricing information. This software program will allow customers the ability to view average selling price and price range information while surfing active eBay auctions. BiddingBuddy allows users to instantly make smarter bidding decisions without any research, thus saving users both time and money.

The company is currently seeking investor capital of $400,000, which will fund our three separate stages of development. $165,000 is needed for the first stage. These funds would provide the company with sufficient cash flow for development of the software and website. $110,000 is needed for the second stage. These funds would provide the company with sufficient cash flow to purchase eBay's Data Licensing Agreement, further development and launch of the business model outlined in our business plan. $125,000 is needed for the third stage. These funds would provide the company with adequate working capital until sufficient cash flow is achieved. Overall, development time is expected to be 9-12 months. Visit www.auctioncruncher.com for additional information.

First Tracks, Inc. - Scott Carter - [ top ]
First Tracks was the winner of the University at Buffalo's Panasci Business Plan Contest in 2003. The company has designed and is offering to the education community the first universally practical solution for reporting assessment data as required by State and Federal education programs. First Tracks will be building onto this platform with online test software for scoring and reporting. The time savings in scoring and grade recording from this new testing software will allow teachers to focus on educating. First Tracks displays the progress of every student against national benchmarks, while providing comprehensive reports and analysis to promote focused instruction in areas of need. None of First Tracks' three competitors have this feature.

Currently over 20 New York school districts are using First Tracks to provide immediate feedback to teachers of their Reading First Assessment data requirements for NY's No Child Left Behind initiative. First Tracks is targeting 10,325 school districts in the U.S. An average size school district with 2000 K-12 students will pay $16,000 for a one-year contract. Eligible schools may include funding to pay for the First Tracks program in grant applications under federal programs that have over $4 billion allocated to them for each school year.

First Tracks' management team has combined expertise and experience in reading education, information technology, sales and business management. The company is now looking for $1.2 million in financing over the next 18 months to expand the software's scope and launch a national sales campaign. See www.firsttrackseducation.com for more information about the company.

Cerebral Assessment Sytems, LLC - Robert Ruppenthal, CEO - [ top ]
Cerebral Assessment Systems, Inc. (CAS) is a clinical research organization and medical evaluation service. The initial focus of the Company's CRO activities is on the assessment of drug efficacy for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease based on data gathered at doctor's offices, multi-practice clinics, and hospitals using the Company's proprietary Cerebral Assessment Technology. Revenue will be derived from pharmaceutical company contracts for evaluating new drugs. CAS's approach to assessing and monitoring patients is a significant advancement over current methods and a patent has been awarded to the University of Rochester for these unique techniques. CAS is the exclusive licensee of that patent. This patented methodology results in faster data collection and objective analysis of disease progression. Clinical trials utilizing the CAS approach will yield more reliable results, faster and at substantially less cost than current methods. In short, CAS is commercializing the next generation of cognitive assessment tools.

Over 4.5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease (AD). Population growth and longer life expectancy is significantly increasing the number of Americans over 65. As a result, the prevalence of AD will more than triple by 2050. The financial impact of AD is already at a critical stage, costing government $100B and business $37B annually. The pharmaceutical industry is focusing on new treatments for AD. They have created a robust pipeline with nearly 400 drugs now at various stages of development. CAS believes that the current method by which the pharmaceutical industry evaluates the effectiveness of new drugs is inefficient, crude and unnecessarily expensive. CAS has developed a better solution.

CAS's technology is directly scalable to broader markets each with increasing revenue potential. Beginning in Phase II (beginning in year 3), additional revenues will derive from patient monitoring services at clinical sites. In Phase III (beginning in year 6), CAS will extend its activities into early detection of Alzheimer's where every adult could potentially benefit from CAS's technology.

The Company is seeking initial funding of $750k for the first six months of operation. An additional $500k will be sought to support commercial validation studies in the second six months. Another $1-2M will be raised in the second year to fund the creation of CAS server headquarters and to deploy client CAS CABs at clinical care sites.

Lumetrics - John Hart, President - [ top ]
Lumetrics provides optical measurement products and services to the high value specialty films, medical device, and pharmaceutical, ophthalmics, and precision optics industries. The Company's high-precision, fiber-optic dual interferometer instruments, (trade name OPTIGAUGETM) provide extremely accurate and rapid measurement of physical properties of complex surfaces and objects. Lumetrics licensed its core technology from Eastman Kodak and has submitted patents for applications and enhancements around this technology. Lumetrics has sales traction with customers such as Corning, Abbott, and CIBA Vision.

Lumetrics is managed by John Hart, CEO, with experience at Bausch and Lomb, Allergan optical and Holotek, Steve Heveron-Smith, VP Marketing and Sales, with experience in senior product management at Nortel Networks, and Todd Blalock, University of Rochester Institute of Optics graduate with experience at Agfa and the Laboratory for Laser Energetics.

Lumetrics is seeking additional capital of $800K to fund its growth in its 3 principle early markets. To date, $100k has been closed, $200K has been committed by the NY State Small Business Technology Investment Fund (SBTIF), leaving a target of $500K.

Visit www.lumetrics.net for additional information.

Harvest Precision Components, Inc., Richard McPhillips, President - [ top ]
Harvest Precision Components, Inc. is a pre-revenue WNY manufacturing company, formed in 2002, for production of small, tight-tolerance, precision ceramic components, offering significant, long term product advantages and superior customer economics. These features, easily understood by customers, are combined with resistance to wear, corrosion and oxidation, for sale into bio-medical and other high-value applications. This patent / trade secret protected material and manufacturing technology, has been proven in multiple trials. Mutually-advantageous relationships have been solidified with 2 world class suppliers of sophisticated capital equipment, involved in the production of these products. Sales into selected, advanced technology markets are planned through segment leaders, with proven, well-established distribution channels. FDA filings have already been accomplished and relationships have been established with the FDA, NIH, and a prestigious medical institution.

Markets for specific, individual components have been identified and developed in semiconductor capillaries (~$1 billion), precision surgical devices (>$1.0 Billion), and DNA analytical tools ($150 million) market segments, as introductory targeted products, replacing competitive products precision machined from gem-quality diamond and other expensive ceramic and metal-based materials. Component designs have been established and are in the process of being presented to selected customers for developmental purchase orders.

The company is raising $500,000 through the sale of convertible debt/equity, for financing the production of qualification samples, produced through subcontractors, to be delivered to these customers, and for staffing the initial phase of the 5-year (>$100 million Sales, >90% GM) business plan. Very attractive returns (>200% IRR) for investors are projected by virtue of the high gross margins anticipated for these very specialized, and defendable components. Traditional exit strategies are augmented by the anticipated sale of exclusive turnkey, controlled-royalty, manufacturing licenses to individual market segment leaders, while retaining the core technology and value of the company.

ENrG Incorporated, John Olenick, President - [ top ]
ENrG Incorporated (ENrG) is a fuel cell engineering and manufacturing company located in an Economic Development Zone at the Buffalo Free Trade Center. ENrG works with OEMs to design and manufacture ceramic components and stacks required for the commercialization of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) systems. The eight principals are an experienced, established, customer-focused team having worked together since 2000; initially for Tyco International where the team developed and manufactured fuel cell components for the Department of Energy's SOFC program. ENrG has collaborative partnerships and contracts with Corning Inc., Ferro Corporation, GenCell Corporation, SenCer Inc. and Refractron Inc.

For OEMs to achieve market entry costs for their fuel cell systems, it is a requirement that the SOFC stack meet cost and performance targets. ENrG's experience in developing and producing SOFC components in areas greatly exceeding industry standards, along with ENrG's prior experience in ceramics, metals, multi-layer ceramic processing puts ENrG in prime position to work with strategic partners to resolve technical issues and introduce ceramic cell components into this market.

ENrG's strategy is to leverage private capital with government grant opportunities to achieve large area ceramic technology developments and manufacturing capability leading to commercial products. ENrG plans to introduce fuel cell components in 2005 and subsequent stack assemblies starting in 2008. In support of this strategy, ENrG in 2003 was granted two NYSERDA grants of $600,000 for the development of ultra-thin ceramic membrane manufacturing capability and a feasibility study to produce a ceramic fuel cell stack using a unique flow field supported design. In July of 2004, ENrG was awarded $500,000 in NYSERDA funding to develop and implement large area ceramic membrane manufacturing capability and in October 2004 was awarded a $3.3 MM National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ATP grant on the same subject. ENrG is currently seeking to raise its second round of financing of a minimum of $1,000,000. Visit www.enrg-inc.com for additional information.

Crosswater Digital Media - John Adamo, Pres. and Armin St. George, VP
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Formed out of two profitable companies, Crosswater Digital Media, LLC ("CDM") is an existing, revenue generating enterprise which produces, sells, delivers, and monitors targeted digital entertainment and advertising at the point of sale in retail; produces and delivers message-on-hold services; and produces original product for traditional media services. It is tested and proven effective with firms such as Charter One Bank, Kodak, Saturn Car Company, Warner Brothers Home Video, Ahold, Oracle Corporation and Seibel Systems.

As part of the complete solution, CDM has become the internet distributor of MUSIC CHOICE, the premier music service heard in over 37 million homes and 60,000 businesses in North America. MUSIC CHOICE is owned by 5 of the 6 top leading cable companies, SONY, EMI, and Motorola. After 9 years of servicing MUSIC CHOICE's national production and marketing needs, CDM has been chosen to deliver the next generation of MUSIC CHOICE's music programming to their commercial customers via the internet.

CDM earns monthly recurring revenue through the sale of its music service and programmed entertainment and advertising. The CDM solution provides retailers and manufacturers with genuine and verifiable product sales lift and permits retailers to introduce desired digital media systems and the compelling benefits of these systems into stores at minimal or no cost through its revenue sharing model. CDM has teamed with the world's largest established advertising agency � WPP and its subsidiary The Food Group � to drive the sales of advertising on the in-store "airwaves" of retailers.

CDM requires funding to provide working capital during the transition period prior to the execution of contracts for in store services. Equity and debt funding in the amount of $ 992,000 has been raised by the company to date. It is seeking an additional $1 million. Visit www.crosswater.net for additional information.

MYOTECH, LLC - Jeffrey L. Helfer, CEO - [ top ]
MYOTECH, LLC intends to commercialize a minimally invasive next-generation Ventricular Assist Device ("VAD"), called the MYOTECH MYO-VAD. The MYO-VAD is a flexible polymer cup that can be installed around the heart in approximately 3 minutes. Incorporating a pneumatically activated liner, the MYO-VAD operates by compressing and expanding bi-directionally, providing the energy that allows the heart to restore the input and output of blood to life sustaining levels. Following years of research, MYOTECH's Founders have proved in medical studies that their technology works and is ready for commercialization. Prototype devices have been installed in over 700 animals and more than 60 humans. The MYOTECH MYO-VAD avoids stroke, bleeding, and infection complications common to all mechanical blood pumps, the only cardiac assist devices currently available.

The Company has developed a substantial intellectual property portfolio to protect current and future applications of its technologies. MYOTECH is setting up the manufacturing of the MYO-VAD, and is preparing for clinical studies to obtain regulatory approval for using the product to provide the short term support required to treat multiple forms of heart disease. In parallel with these activities, MYOTECH has initiated partnerships to develop the additional diagnostic, therapeutic, and operational capabilities required for the MYO-VAD to participate in follow-on market segments requiring longer term support. CEO, Jeffrey Helfer, has assembled an experienced medical product commercialization team. The Team has proven, industry track records with Johnson and Johnson and Eastman Kodak involving Class II and III medical flagship products that have achieved significant commercial success. The Company is currently seeking to raise $1.5 million of funding from angel investors.

Bubble Flow Technologies, Inc. - Daniel C. Kornacki, CEO - [ top ]
Bubble Flow Technologies, Inc. has developed revolutionary intellectual property to digitally monitor the anaerobic fermentation process for the production of alcoholic beverages such as wine and beer. The state of the art involves visual observation, manual testing and recording � guesswork. The Bubble Flow system directs in-time adjustments based on continuous 24/7 monitoring amalgamated with embedded expertise of world-renowned vintners. This system effectively has "vintners holding the customer's hand" through the entire process to assure optimal results � no guesswork.

An existing market for this technology is "U-vints". A U-vint is an establishment where customers make their own wine on premises. The U-vint industry has grown exponentially. Currently there are about 700 U-vint establishments in Canada. The Bubble Flow system will increase throughput, increase sales to fill this capacity and automate administrative overhead and will result in payback for the U-vint of less than one year. The second product launch for home users will be propelled by the Bubble Flow reputation built on professional use in U-vints.
Canadian gross sales of wine kits amounts to over 200 million dollars annually. The US market is in its infancy trailing Canada by 10 to 15 years. Parity between these markets would result in five-fold growth. The three main competitors range in size with one being a part of a billion-dollar company. Intellectual property that differentiates the consumables market vis-�-vis these competitors enables Bubble Flow to leverage them or become their acquisition target.

Bubble Flow has functional prototypes and a favorable office action by the US Patent and Trademark Office � international examination in progress. Bubble Flow requires $500,000 to beta the information system and revise the device for manufacturing cost reductions. For full production additional working capital funds of $500,000 to $1,000,000 will be required.

Therex, LLC - Joseph A. Dunn, PhD.- [ top ]
Therex LLC is an emerging biotechnology company located in Buffalo, New York that discovers and develops improved products for the oral and dermal health care markets. Therex utilizes its proprietary and patented drug platform technology, i.e., topically active drugs that posses both antibacterial and anti-inflammatory activities, to produce safer and more effective treatments for oral and skin conditions with large markets and unmet needs. These conditions include gingivitis and resultant periodontal disease, acne, and chronic skin wounds such as those found in diabetic ulcers, bed sores and severe burns.

Therex's lead drug candidate, Naphthafluor, is currently in development as a treatment for gingivitis and acne supported, in part, with funds from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through its Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) programs and from its strategic partner, a Fortune 500 U.S. based oral and personal care product company.

The total US oral health care market in 2002 was approximately $5 B, and toothpastes constituted the largest product category with sales greater than $1.75 B. Mouth rinses were second, with sales greater than $600 M. Colgate's recently introduced "Total" brand of anti-gingivitis toothpaste captured 8% of the toothpaste market in 2002, and other companies such as Pfizer are attempting to enter this new market category with existing products having new anti-gingivitis claims. In side by side evaluations, Naphthfluor performed significantly better than all of the active ingredients in each of these products.

Therex has just received a $1.1 M "Fast Track" SBIR grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) at the NIH to assist in progressing Naphthafluor as a treatment for gingivitis and resultant periodontal disease. Therex is seeking to raise an additional $1M in investor funding to complete those preclinical development studies of Naphthafluor required by the US Food and Drug Administration so testing in humans can commence (in collaboration with our strategic partner).

Blue Sky Optimum Energy, Inc.- [ top ]
BlueSky developed a revolutionary processing method for the production of biodiesel at a profitable level without government subsidies, or tax incentives. Biodiesel is a carbon based fuel source, similar to petroleum diesel, but manufactured from organic compounds (i.e. soybeans, yellow grease, and mustard seed). Third party laboratories conducted successful tests of the process which was developed over the past three years. The BlueSky method varies greatly with respect to the traditional methods of biodiesel production and produces numerous efficiencies.

Federal, state, and local government agencies promote the use of biodiesel as an alternative fuel source for the many environmental, health, economic, and national security benefits. The EPAct of 2001 mandates the gradual introduction of alternative fuels into all government fleets over the next several years. Additionally, the introduction of biodiesel as an alternative fuel source does not require any change to the existing fuel infrastructure or the existing diesel engine. The U.S. Department of Energy predicts that demand should grow to over 800 million gallons annually in the next 15 years, current production remains at 60 million gallons per year. Significant performance benefits have been identified when using a blend of petroleum and biodiesel at levels as low as 5%. At current usage levels of 41 billion gallons of petroleum diesel per year, this corresponds to a potential market of more than 2 billion gallons, annually.

Blue Sky is looking to raise a total of $1 million. The company has identified SBA and ECIDA loan programs and intends to apply for NYSERDA and DOE grants. At present they are seeking between $500,000 and $750,000 from angel investors and venture capitalists. The funds will be used to construct the processing lines, purchase raw materials, and for initial permits and engineering costs.

ShoptoCook, Inc. -[ top ]
ShoptoCook, Inc., founded in 2001, provides food retailers an interactive recipe and coupon center located in the meat and seafood aisle. 70% of consumers do not know what they are having for dinner at 4PM and 68% of food purchased is based on impulse. ShoptoCook provides shoppers with branded meal solution ideas and promotions at the most influential point of the decision making process; in the meat and seafood aisle.

ShoptoCook's recipe center kiosks are installed in twenty five supermarkets in New York, PA, OH & NC with thirteen additional units contracted for installation during next two quarters. Customers include two divisions of AholdUSA - the nation's 7th largest food retailer with 1700 stores, and Food Lion/Bloom, a division of Delhaize America, the nations 11th largest retailer with 1500 stores. Retailers pay ShoptoCook a monthly service fee for hardware, software, daily reporting and content management services. Negotiations are underway with Giant Food Stores for 200 additional stores rolling out in Q4 2004.

Self service kiosks represent a new multimedia marketing channel for the nation's retail food stores. Manufacturers currently spend $11 billion trying to build brand awareness through newspaper coupons, magazines and television ads. Self service kiosks offer an efficient, cost effective alternative for influencing consumers at the point of decision making. ShoptoCook's patent applied for application and computer based kiosk network represents the first step towards creation of a content distribution network providing shoppers in produce, deli, seafood and meat with recipe ideas and promotions at point of decision making.

ShoptoCook is seeking $285,000 in investor funding to meet current market demand and expand its sales and marketing effort and technology infrastructure. Visit www.shoptocook.com for additional information.

Coolblox Corporation- [ top ]
COOLBLOX� and COOLBLOX miniT (new for 2004 ) are new and exciting proprietary soft construction/building block toys that are fun, educational and encourages physical activity. It is the recipient of numerous prestigious industry awards and reviews from national publications shortly after its launch. COOLBLOX� has its own play place at a few renowned children's theme parks such as Ontario Place in Toronto. It can be seen on several prime time TV shows and will be seen in a few upcoming major motion pictures.

COOLBLOX� are available from well over 80% of the major online toy channels and 1/3 of the school catalogue houses within 6 months after product launch. Continued repeat sales from all current buyers. The push for 2004 is both national retail and independent sales. The domestic educational toy market is a 3 billion USD industry. In addition, the construction building category generates US$1.4 billion for LEGO� in 2003 and $224 million with a net profit of $12.7 million for MegaBloksT.
CoolBlox Corporation's proprietary products service a sizeable new niche market. It is in an ideal role to secure a profitable position as the activities of the past two quarters and continued sales activities have shown. Additional funding is welcomed to grow the company effectively and efficiently, and hopefully towards the realization of "Made in WNY".

We are looking to raise $500,000 to develop new markets and other operational growth requirements. Please visit www.coolblox.com for additional information.

Wallace Wireless, Inc. - [ top ]
Wallace Wireless, founded in 2001, is the leading provider of wireless software applications for crisis communications and incident management. Their innovative Wallace Incident Communicator™ product enables government and corporate clients to always have Business Continuity and Emergency Management plans, procedures, checklists and other critical data with them at all times so they have the information to make the right decision in the event of a disruptive incident. Clients include Scotiabank, Sun Life Insurance, MTO, and the U.S.Office of Secretary of Defense.

Wallace also offers existing software vendors a quick and easy way to extend their applications to the wireless world. Wallace Courier Complete helps software companies extend their existing application to meet the wireless dispatch and order management needs of their clients.

Wallace has strategic partnerships with Research in Motion, wireless carriers including Telus, Bell Mobility, Rogers Wireless, Cingular, Nextel, AT&T and T-Mobile, and resellers including SRA Inc. The Company is seeking investment up to $1,000,000 to expand its sales force, develop additional vertical markets and to develop additional technology features. Visit www.wallacewireless.com for additional information.

Bridges TV, Mo S. Hassan, CEO - [ top ]
Bridges TV intends to launch an English language entertainment channel on cable and satellite targeting 8 million American Muslims in 2004. With a 6% annual growth rate, American Muslims are the fastest growing demographic in the country. This market is younger, better educated and more affluent than the U.S. average. The channel will be a premium pay service priced at $15 per month. The Company has already signed up 40,000 homes pre-launch, 6,000 of these homes have already started paying $10 per month in support of the channel and for a package of 4 movies on DVD.

First quarter of launch will require 250 hours of original content. The Company has identified 3,000 hours of programming content and is in the process of acquiring exclusive broadcast rights. Carriage contracts are being worked upon with the DISH Network, Comcast, Time Warner, Cablevision and Globecast. Bridges TV has received extensive media coverage that includes CNN, FOX, ABC, Newsday, Washington Post, Al-Jazeera, MSNBC, Voice of America, Newsweek and many more. This has resulted in a very high level of awareness and excitement within the target market.

Bridges TV has received endorsements from the world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, NBA star Hakeem Olajuwan, the U.S. State Department and all major American Muslim organizations. The Company has assembled a strong team of professionals with experience at PBS, MTV, ABC, TLC and Discovery. Bridges TV has built a dB of 500,000 opted-in email addresses and phone numbers of American Muslims. With an overseas Call Center and electronic newsletters, the Company can inexpensively reach its target audience quickly.

Bridges TV currently has $800,000 in cash to launch this historic project. The Company is in the process of raising an additional $500K at a $7 million pre-money valuation. Mr. Mike Pinto, Vice Chairman and CFO of M&T Bank, is the financial advisor for Bridges TV. Additional information on Bridges TV is available at www.BridgesTV.com

Logical Images, Inc., Michael O'Connor, President - [ top ]
Logical Images, Inc. is a Rochester, NY, medical informatics company with core expertise in the development of comprehensive point-of-care diagnostic software focused on the visually diagnosable areas of medicine. Logical Images' patent-pending diagnostic system, VisualDx�, began development in 1995 and was first commercially licensed in March, 2001. The company's development team is composed of leading physicians, computer software engineers, graphic artists, database and lexical experts.

VisualDx currently offers nine modules written by recognized experts in their field. Two to three new modules are added each year. The system covers over 300 diseases, which are illustrated by over 8,000 high-resolution digital images, sorted and presented on the screen based on the input and observations of the clinician. Included in VisualDx is a Bioterrorism Recognition module, of significant interest to public health officials and others responsible for Bioterrorism preparedness and training. VisualDx can be installed on a desktop or laptop computer or can be accessed over the internet. Decision-support software such as VisualDx will be the core of Electronic Medical Records systems as they become more widely used.

Current customers include US ARMY, CDC, multiple State and County public health agencies, ER's (10% of all ERs in NYS), health care institutions, residency programs and pharmaceutical companies. A consumer version of our software is under consideration in response to interest expressed by health insurers and pharmacy companies. 2003 sales were $1M and are projected to reach $ 5 M in 2004. Additional funding of $500,000 is being sought to further develop consumer and paraprofessional markets and develop a suite of training products.

Please visit www.logicalimages.com for a brief software demonstration and additional information.

Darlogix, Inc., Robert Taylor, President - [ top ]
Founded in 1995 by Robert and Aaron Taylor, Darlogix is a Williamsville, NY based information technology company. Darlogix offers a comprehensive and fully integrated suite of software solutions and professional services targeted to the correctional healthcare market. Features include an electronic patient management system including medical record and operations management, a dental suite, a center control/traffic office and medication management.

Darlogix has gained valuable experience about its market place. Target markets for Darlogix's software products are federal and state correctional facilities, local, county, city and town correctional facilities, information technology integrators, and pharmacies and laboratories providing services to correctional facilities.

Darlogix's strategy is to reach its target market through both a diversified channel approach as well as direct sales, splitting evenly between the two. This will be accomplished with the addition of a focused group of sales professionals blanketing the United States. The company, through an alliance with its current channel partner Prison Health Services (PHS), will get exposure to 100% of the federal and state markets over the next five years. The local marketplace will be covered via direct sales.

Darlogix is seeking to raise up to $400,000 in equity (preferred class A stock) on a pre-money valuation of $2 million. Darlogix intends to use the capital for execution of its sales and marketing plan ($350,000), and to continue to develop its products and services ($50,000). Information about the company is available at www.darlogix.com

Pneuma Partners, LLC, Edmund Egan, MD, Managing Director - [ top ]
ONY, Inc. manufactures Infasurf (calfactant) a drug that is life saving for newborn babies with respiratory failure from lung surfactant deficiency. Recently ONY, Inc. and Nektar Therapeutic Systems developed and tested a new, inhaleable powder formulation, Infasurf PulmoSpheres. The small size of the newborn surfactant market ($60M/yr in the US) and the success of the current liquid formulation ruled out changing formulation for newborns. However, Infasurf PulmoSpheres are most active in small airways � the site in the lung where asthma and chronic obstructive lung disease strike.

Approximately 1 out of every 5 of the 7,000,000+ patients/year who go to emergency rooms (ER) unable to breathe adequately because of asthma or chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) are admitted to the hospital. The small air tubes that are narrowed and blocked in these patients require a lining film of lung surfactant for normal function. We postulate, but have not proven, that patients who today fail ER treatment and are hospitalized could inhale Infasurf PulmoSpheres in the ER, re-establish their lining film, improve their breathing and go home.

Pneuma Partners, LLP has been established to determine if Infasurf PulmoSpheres are effective in Asthma and COPD. A detailed, 2 year, $2,000,000 program has been developed which will provide sufficient, scientifically secure data so that a positive result will yield the partnership rights to a billion dollar/year drug (1+ million patients/yr @ >$1,000/dose). Infasurf PulmoSpheres revealed it was sub-optimal for newborns but has properties that predict success for adults, a parallel to Viagra, which failed as a heart medicine, but was exploited for another use.

American Aerogel Corporation - [ top ]
www.americanaerogel.com.

Innovative Biotechnologies International, Inc. - [ top ]
For the past ten years IBI has been acquiring a series of complementary technologies from Cornell University and integrating them along with other technologies into a biosensor platform with applications in multiple markets. By establishing strategic relationships with multiple corporations in various markets, IBI is working to commercialize products based upon the intellectual property it has licensed.

Presently, the company is performing feasibility studies on behalf of major corporations in such fields as human "point-of-care" testing, national defense/homeland security, and food/water testing. Since IBI has the right to sublicense the Cornell technologies, upon successful completion of the various feasibility studies, the Company is able to offer favorable sublicense terms to its various partners.

In order to dramatically reduce its cost of doing business, IBI subcontracts all of its research programs (presently six are underway) to Cornell University, thus permitting the Company to take advantage of a world-class research institution and scientists. In addition, IBI is presently the recipient of approximately $ 1.0 Million in NIH grant funding.

The Company's business model has allowed it to operate on a profitable basis for the past three years, during which it has also been cash flow positive. As the Company's relationship with Cornell University has continued to prosper, IBI is presently seeking to raise an additional $ 2.5 Million of equity to permit the acquisition and development of other cutting edge technologies made available by Cornell University. More information about the Company is available at www.ibi.cc.

FP Technologies, Inc. - [ top ]
FP Technologies has developed and sells VIGILANCE™ Safe Indoor Air System. The system, based on Ultra Violet Light and High Efficiency Filtration, can be installed in any forced air system, where it will protect the building from the distribution of naturally occurring organisms or biological, chemical or radioactive warfare agents. Systems are currently operating both in public and private buildings.

Target areas for marketing and sales have been identified, both within the private and public sector, such as high profile buildings, cruise line ships, casinos, sports arenas, clean room and food manufacturing facilities. The estimated market potential is estimated to exceed $20 billion.

Extensive development and marketing activities during 2002 and 2003 have opened a number of quickly developing projects in areas above. A contract with the General Services Administration (GSA) established FP Technologies as the sole supplier of air safety systems to the Federal Government and related organizations. Projects are currently in progress with several New York State Counties, United Nations and the Federal Reserve.

To fully capitalize on the rapidly increasing interest for VIGILANCE™ Indoor Air Safety System, FP Technologies needs to increase its marketing and sales capacity as well as its capacity for design and assembly of systems. The Company is looking for investments up to $3 million. More information about the Company is available at www.fptechinc.com .

Lateral Eye, Inc. - [ top ]
Lateral Eye develops innovative manufacturing knowledge mapping and discovery software for product development and quality engineering that automatically converts geometric feature in a CAD model into manufacturing strategies. Designers and manufacturing engineers can instantly see the effect of design features that they add or modify in a part and carry out accurate cost, six sigma and resource requirement analysis in real-time and predict their implications during the later stages of manufacturing.

Lateral Eyes' solution is mathematically more advanced than current commercially available CAD- CAM solutions, yet remains compatible with standard solid modeling software such as UNIGRAPHICS, CATIA and SOLIDWORKS. Our customers can see immediate return on their investment in the form of lower product development costs and improved downstream quality. Target customers include discrete manufacturing companies (Aerospace, Automobile etc) and machine tool companies. Other potential OEM customers are CAD software vendors. Based on recent research, the manufacturing knowledge engineering and discovery segment is expected to grow to $1.6 Billion by the year 2006.

Lateral Eye has just completed limited release beta testing successfully and is ready to aggressively implement sales and marketing initiatives over the next twelve months. The company is seeking up to $500,000 to fund channel sales and partnerships, and continue development of the product. Further information regarding the company and its products and services can be found at www.lateraleye.com .

LiquidPixels, Inc. - [ top ]
LiquidPixels' products significantly reduce the costs associated with creating, managing, and delivering visual content via the Internet. LiquiFire� Dynamic Imaging Server products also enable businesses to automatically customize graphics, images, and graphic-text on a per-user basis, dramatically improving the online experience and increasing conversion rates.

Target customers include direct marketers, retailers, eCommerce outsourcing companies, content management providers, and other industries seeking enhanced productivity and customized image delivery for Web and print � a market that will exceed $1.2B within five years. LiquiFire is currently deployed on over 35 nationally branded commercial websites, with one customer reporting a full payback on investment in LiquiFire within several months.

LiquiFire is an enterprise solution, delivered as a highly scalable, turnkey server optimized for images. The patent-pending "image middleware" is HTTP, FTP, and .Net compatible, supports over 100 file formats, and has the power to perform customer-defined on-the-fly processing of images for thousands of simultaneous users.

LiquidPixels has filed seven patent applications, registered its trademarks, and generated significant sales momentum in the past several months since having emerged from "stealth mode." The company is seeking up to $3M in Series-A financing to fund expansion. The funds will be used to secure staff including direct sales executives, ramp-up channel partnerships, and aggressively roll out sales and marketing initiatives. Further information regarding the company and its products and services can be found at www.liquidpixels.com.

Beautiful Lawns & Gardens, LLC - [ top ]
Beautiful Lawns & Gardens, LLC has been formed to manufacture and sell the "Fertiflo Residential Fertigation System". The "FertiFlo System" addresses a large segment of the rapidly expanding 30 billion dollar Lawn and Garden Industry. Fertigation technology combines the activities of fertilization and irrigation into one, time saving, cost effective and environmentally superior activity relative to current technologies. Fertigation technology is prevalent in the Agriculture, Golf Course and Nursery industries but remains largely unknown to the residential market.

Revenue streams result from the sale of the delivery system and more importantly from sales of our proprietary fertigation grade liquid fertilizer that will be generally consumed, continuously replenished by system users and targeted to compete specifically with #1 brand Miracle Gro and all other traditional fertilization products and methods.

The "FertiFlo System" will be marketed initially via nationwide Infomercial advertising to generate widespread consumer brand awareness and substantial profits. This Direct Response marketing campaign will be augmented by an aggressive summer 2003 initiative to achieve product placement into national retail sales channels (Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Lowe's etc.) as well as all other Lawn and Garden products retail and wholesale sales channels.

Final Engineering for mass production molds is nearing completion. Infomercial filming will be completed March 22. The "FertiFlo System" is on schedule for product launch in early May, 2003. The Company has raised over $350,000 funding substantial progress towards an aggressive multi faceted marketing plan in place. We are immediately seeking an additional $650,000 to complete the mission.

ROI multiples of 20:1 are reasonably achieved and Exit strategy multiples of 40:1 are possible

VirtualScopics, LLC - [ top ]
VirtualScopics, LLC is a provider of advanced image-based biomarker analytic technology and services to leading pharmaceutical companies including Pfizer and Amgen. The company's technology significantly accelerates the development and testing of compounds. Headquartered in Rochester, NY, the imaging capital of the world, VirtualScopics builds upon over ten years of imaging and digital signal processing research. VirtualScopics' proprietary software algorithms can assemble hundreds of separate medical images taken during an MRI session into a single, three-dimensional model. This 3D model can be mined with advanced image-processing technology to segment subcomponent structures, for example isolating bone from tissue objects, and to precisely quantify position, shape, and volume of subtle and minute structures in response to drug therapy. Key shareholders and partners for VirtualScopics include GE Medical Systems, Pfizer, Anderson Orthopaedic Research Institute and the University of Rochester.

VirtualScopics is seeking $500K to $1 million in additional funding. The funds are to be used for the expansion of the sales force as well as for further development of the company's diagnostic products offering. More information about the company can be found at www.virtualscopics.com .

Brilliant Optical Networks - [ top ]
Brilliant Optical Networks is commercializing an emerging method of communications networking that simplifies and radically cost reduces today's multiple-layer networks into a single multiple-service network. The Company's initial focus is to provide patent protected processor and software components to incumbent manufacturers of internet routers, telecommunications switches and military mixed signal communications systems � an approximately $4B component market.

Brilliant's approach, Labeled Optical Burst Switching (LOBS), captures the cost benefits of all optical networks while maintaining the backwards compatibility and intelligence of electronic networks. LOBS allows an equipment manufacturer to eliminate >90% of the internal cost of manufacturing a high performance internet router with similar savings accruing to other equipment manufacturers. Service providers who adopt LOBS greatly improve operating expenses, return on invested capital and new services revenue opportunities without penalty to reliability and service level guarantees.

Brilliant has developed nine domestic and PCT patents pending and a proprietary network simulator and is in evaluation discussions with selected equipment manufacturers and service providers. Brilliant's close-knit management team includes a globally recognized authority on high speed and wireless networks, an experienced cross-functional technology executive, and former executive officers of both AT&T and Lucent. The Company seeks to raise $1 million of equity to be used to complete patent filings and support joint network evaluation projects with these equipment manufacturers and network service providers. (no web site)

Synctomi Software - [ top ]
Synctomi Software manages access to enterprise applications via a web browser, while "securing" communications via a patent pending method of data exchange called "Session Management". Implementation of Synctomi provides immediate cost savings using it's streamlined Administration (Access) Manager module and Network Security via reduction of exposure to online intruders (hackers). The market for Synctomi is Fortune 1000 customers, beginning with Banking and Healthcare.

Synctomi is shipping product NOW and owns the proprietary rights to 4 million lines of code. Synctomi's software is sold via site license and bundled license, yielding recurring revenues. The Company has business alliance partners in place and will soon announce a significant joint marketing alliance with a major New York based international software company, and Western New York Computer Solutions. This alliance provides for the "bundling" of Synctomi Session management, with the partner company security solutions, and will be presented via a 6-city road show of executive briefings beginning in October.

Synctomi is looking for $3 million Series A for market channel development. The Company seeks a lead investor who can help leverage the company's position and sales and three investors who are software savvy. More information about the Company is available at www.isiteisit.com.

Weather Holdings, LLC - [ top ]
Founded in April 1999, Weather Holdings, LLC (WHLLC) provides LIVE weather data and robotic WeatherCams under an exclusive contract with AccuWeather, Inc. AccuWeather is the world's largest supplier of weather, with over 1800 media clients. AccuWeather branded the WHLLC product as iSight™ and has contracts for our service, from Yahoo!, MSNBC.com, Netscape/CompuServe, Chicago Sun-Times, KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh LIVE, Cape Cod Times, Buffalo News. Contracts with New York Times, Washington Post and the ABC-owned television stations in 7 of the top 10 major US markets will be added in 4Q 2002/1Q 2003. AccuWeather purchased shares of WHLLC in early 2002 and currently owns 10% of WHLLC.

WHLLC has exclusive contracts for the use of the robotically controlled camera technology for weather applications in the media and Internet. WHLLC uses proprietary code to combine these images with live weather station data for presentation to the Internet. Though the iSight™ program is currently Internet based, the current technology can be used to stream LIVE visuals to TV stations for use within their news broadcasts. AccuWeather and WHLLC are adapting the current technology to the new Galileo™ television weather presentation technology to be available in 2003 to television stations.

WHLLC owns the entire network of robotic weather cameras and earns a majority of its revenues through guaranteed fees from AccuWeather. WHLLC is currently looking to raise funds to fulfill three WeatherCam orders from AccuWeather for a total of 41 cameras. The Company is looking to raise a total of $615,000 in the form of three convertible notes to fund the equipment, installation and service expense for these contracts. The guaranteed revenue from AccuWeather will provide funds for payback of the notes. Terms are 30, 28 and 26 months with an annualized IRR averaging 20%. See www.weatherforecast.net for more information about the Company.

Affinity Express Inc. - [ top ]
For almost 80 years, Affinity Express's predecessor and its affiliates have produced competitively priced, high quality custom logo products � both designs and hard goods � for affinity groups and corporations around the world. The creation of Affinity Express combines world-leading screen art/embroidery digitizing operations and high-speed production facilities with the business to business potential of the Internet. This has allowed the company to create an interactive, fast, cost-efficient solution to design, quote, track and deliver custom logo products � at extremely competitive prices � to its clients. Affinity Express creates Custom Factory websites through which an affinity group's members can quickly and easily order fully customized logo products online using world-class graphics. In addition to utilizing its digitizing operations for its own products Affinity Express also provides these services to other high profile apparel suppliers in North America.

Affinity Express serves an attractive market. Total logo product sales to affinity groups in the U.S. were over $15 billion dollars in 2000. The company has a broad management team with significant industry experience. Headquartered in Sanborn, New York, Affinity Express has offices in Toronto, Chicago and a state of the art design, digitizing and document creation facility in Pune India.

The company raised $5.1 million in venture capital in March 2001, $1.5 million in March 2002 and is now seeking additional investment of $1.0 million to be used to fund growth in the document creation business segment. Document creation is estimated to be a $20 � 100 billion market. See www.affinityexpress.com for more information about the company.

Convergence Datacom LLC - [ top ]
Convergence Datacom's Nexserver Pro is a single device that gives small businesses tremendous computer networking power. Benefits include the ability to collaboratively share work documents, share office printers, send and receive email, host the company web site, and access work files securely from home.

The solution has been engineered to outperform Microsoft based server solutions, with significant total cost of ownership and reliability advantages for a small business owner. The Nexserver Pro features a proprietary set of guiding web pages that make the maintenance and administration of the product easy for non-technical employees.

The company has acquired over 75 authorized resellers throughout the United States, recently executed its first OEM licensing agreement, and is completing the translation of its product for its Japanese partner, TTME engineering. The company is building a nationwide sales infrastructure, and is raising up to $500,000 in additional equity and debt to support its channel growth and 2002 product development milestones. See Convergence Datacom's website www.nexserver.com for more information about the company.

Clearwire Equipment, LLC - [ top ]
Clearwire Equipment (www.clearwireeq.net) provides fixed wireless network equipment for broadband connectivity within a metropolitan area for applications such as high speed Internet access, lottery, university and other data services. Clearwire's products offer high speed, high reliability and cost-effective broadband service. The high Quality-of-Service (QoS) included in the Company's products enables network operators to offer carrier class service making them a cost-effective alternative to DSL, ISDN, and T-1. Clearwire is one of the industry leaders in designing and deploying wireless metropolitan area point-to-multipoint networks based on its deployment experience and its leadership in Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology. The Company's technology enables connectivity over long distances in non line-of-sight conditions. Clearwire's products have a higher capacity and are less expensive to deploy than competitive systems. Clearwire's first generation product, which operates in the 2.4 GHz license-exempt band, was launched in November 1998 for high speed Internet access applications. Clearwire is currently working with carriers to offer its wireless technology for the 2.5 GHz MMDS/ITFS license band.

Clearwire generated revenue of $4.6 million in 2001 from installation of fixed wireless networks for Internet access and lottery. Industry analysts predict a growing worldwide market that will exceed $1 billion by 2006. Clearwire Equipment is seeking $2 million of equity investment to increase its marketing effort and to complete development of its lower cost, increased capability and multiple frequency second generation product.

PakHound, Inc. - [ top ]
PakHound (www.PakHound.com) primarily provides high volume, small package shippers with a web-based service to track and obtain refunds on delayed shipments. Major parcel carriers (UPS and FedEx) guarantee on-time delivery or a full refund. PakHound's proprietary technology monitors customer shipments, identifies parcels that are not delivered within the carriers' guaranteed delivery times and requests refunds on behalf of its clients. PakHound receives a percentage of the savings from its client. PakHound is targeting a significant market - the $7 million a day in refunds that go unclaimed � and PakHound has saved clients over $1.25 million in the past six months. PakHound's software uses a patent-pending methodology that allows it to track packages more effectively and process higher volumes of data faster than existing methods. In internal tests, PakHound's product has identified twice the amount of late deliveries compared to other entrants in the field. The Company's management team has significant business development, sales, technology and operations experience with major companies, including UPS. PakHound is seeking $500,000 of equity investment to fund working capital to grow the company.

iDashes, Inc. - [ top ]
iDashes improves results by providing the most innovative, easy-to-use online performance management solutions to executives of mid-sized organizations. These solutions convert manual processes and paper-based systems to online, graphical dashboards for presenting performance, combined with collaborative tools to facilitate communication and accountability. Customers experience improved performance through better and more rapid decision-making, increased management discipline and accountability, and much less time preparing and reading pages of numbers. ExecDash™, iDashes flagship product, allows companies to make better, faster decisions using fact-based performance management. ExecDash™ consolidates business performance reporting (financial and nonfinancial key performance indicators) on a daily, weekly and monthly basis in a single, web-based Dashboard that provides the right information to the right people at the right time. Executives highlight problem areas immediately and ensure initiatives are on track. ExecDash™ is sold as a web subscription or as a software license. iDashes began in early 2000 and to-date has signed ten contracts for ExecDash™ and three beta contracts for ProjectDash™, including local companies Praxair, High Falls Brewery, Seneca Foods, and Thompson Health.

Based outside Rochester, New York, iDashes has raised $1.7 million to-date through Angel offerings and is seeking $200,000 - $500,000 for sales and marketing to reach cash flow breakeven in late 2002.

Microlanguage LLC - [ top ]
Microlanguage designs, develops, and sells patent-pending human language processing software that is integrated with content retrieval and management systems; voice recognition platforms; and database platforms to dramatically increase functionality. Microlanguage's revolutionary software is language independent (multilingual) and has the ability to retrieve and analyze large amounts of data with extreme precision and recall.

The company's market strategy is to partner with software providers to create solutions for government and Fortune 500 companies. Its first partnership is with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), the largest provider of IT-outsourcing and consulting to the defense intelligence agencies of the US Government. The company is working with SAIC on a variety of Homeland Defense-related solutions as well as business solutions for its corporate customers. Microlanguage's software has been beta tested at several government agencies. Microlanguage has also entered into discussions with several large publicly traded software companies for integration of its software into their content management and consumer software products.

The company has a very experienced management team. Robert Fritzinger, CEO and President, was the co-founder of Voice Technologies Group (VTG), which he sold to Intel in early 2000 for a significant return. The company has an exit strategy of roughly three years and is looking for funding of $750,000 to be used primarily for staffing, product development, and marketing.

Enercom Ltd. - [ top ]
Enercom Ltd. markets and implements an Energy Enterprise Management (EEM) system that enables private companies and institutions to lower their overall energy expenses, and take advantage of opportunities in deregulated energy markets. EnerDynTM, Enercom's proprietary software, is a web browser-enabled application created to assist companies with facilities located in multiple utility areas to greatly enhance their efficiencies in comparison analytics, data administration, and lowest cost energy procurement. Volume in the deregulated energy markets in the northeast U.S. and eastern Canada is greater than $75 billion annually, expanding both geographically and internally as other states and new customer categories become eligible to purchase deregulated energy. Simply, the EnerDynTM EEM application is very user-friendly and makes sense of energy management and purchasing in the deregulated energy markets, as well as providing customers with guaranteed savings. Customers can access and monitor energy cost and usage data 24/7 via the EnerDynTM website. The company, based in Buffalo, NY, has closed its' Angel round of financing in the amount of $1,000,000 through private placement investors, and is seeking $300,000 - $500,000 in funding and board participation to execute growth initiatives. The company employs a unique revenue model of front-end, on going, and back-end sales revenue, along with a tightly correlated income and expense model.

Stemgenix LLC - [ top ]
Stemgenix LLC, was formed in October, 2001 to develop, manufacture and market specialized media necessary for the isolation, propagation and manipulation of stem cells and specialized immune cells for research and clinical applications. Stemgenix has agreed to acquire the Stem Cell Biology Division of GenCyte LLC, an Amherst, NY biotechnology company at which Dr. Swartzwelder and two other Stemgenix founders are currently employees. After the acquisition, Stemgenix will have a line of thirteen cell culture media and reagents, which are currently being sold directly and through Sigma-Aldrich Corporation. Stemgenix is also about to commence sales of a serum-free hematopoietic stem cell expansion medium developed through a Development and Licensing Agreement with Sigma-Aldrich. Under this agreement, Sigma-Aldrich will license, manufacture and sell Stemgenix product. Stemgenix has the right to also sell the product directly to end-users. The Company plans to develop and market several new specialized stem cell expansion media over the next few years. Stemgenix has determined that the market for its specific products was $27.5 million in 2000 and is expected to grow to $84 million by 2005. The Company is seeking to raise between $650,000 - $800,000 under a private placement to fund the acquisition and to purchase equipment, supplies, and support working capital. $450,000 of this amount has already been committed.

MetroFlex,Inc. - [ top ]
MetroFlex,"The National Mass Transit and Parking Benefit Plan" is a web based qualified transportation benefit plan that takes advantage of IRS Code 132 (f). MetroFlex, Inc. the Buffalo based company that created it, is launching its product on a national basis from its New York City sales office in late September. A key component of the MetroFlex Plan is the MetroFlex Card, which is a MasterCard debit card that gives plan participants the ability to pay for mass transit and parking expenses with pre-tax money, saving them up to 50%. The company likes to compare the MetroFlex Card to E-Z Pass with a tax break. The card takes advantage of the Automated Fare Collection Systems that are currently being installed in the major mass transit markets. Plan participants can access transaction histories and account balances 24/7 through MetroFlex's website. The plan is the first to give employers a seamless transportation and parking benefit that can be utilized throughout the United States. The company recently closed on $600,000 in first round financing with Clarence-based Spaulding Ventures. There are preferred "A" first round co-investment opportunities available. Marc T. Hudak founded MetroFlex and serves as its President and CEO. Marc also serves as President and CEO of affiliate company ee-plan, LLC a web based administrator of employee benefit plans.

Network Security Corp. - [ top ]
Network Security Corp (NSEC) markets comprehensive managed network security services and resells network security products to businesses primarily in the U.S. and Canada. The U.S. market for these services is $3.5 billion and is projected to grow at an annual rate of 24% thru 2004. Founded in 1997 by security and software professionals, NSEC provides customized network security solutions required to support the online community. NSEC combines extensive research and continual education programs with proprietary and commercial tools and techniques to implement state of the art solutions. A profitable company since its inception, NSEC has over 170 customers which include 3 of the top 10 financial institutions, 2 of the top 5 insurance companies and 1 of the top 5 diversified financial companies. Based in Amherst, NY, NSEC also has locations in Raleigh, NC, and New York City. NSEC is looking for $2 to $3 million in funding for current growth initiatives and participation at the Board level.

ACEN - American Construction Exchange Network, Inc. - [ top ]
ACEN is an information technology company devoted to the construction industry. www.ACEN.com contains an expertise locator and five, 2-way exchanges tailored to the needs of the construction industry. ACEN subscribers use the site to find and communicate with specialist designers, engineers, owners and builders. ACEN also builds custom websites with database software to enable its clients to manage contacts, documents, portfolio items, building projects and other information online. ACEN's mission is to be the Internet Guide for the construction industry, enabling this $3.7 trillion industry to use the unique power of the Internet to share information instantaneously, universally and free.

ACEN is seeking $300,000 of equity capital to support investments in proprietary software, a data center, and the creation of a standardized curriculum for training and supporting Internet Guides, the company's sales persons. By the fourth quarter, ACEN will be ready to scale into adjoining metropolitan areas. Local Internet Guides will sell ACEN software and subscriptions. Development, hosting and marketing support will be provided via the Internet from ACEN's base in Buffalo.

ACEN is a three-year old company with over 250 customers and rapidly rising revenues. Start-up capital has been provided by founders and local angel investors.

Harvest Precision Components - [ top ]
Harvest Precision Components is a start-up ceramic component manufacturing company. Harvest's patented technology manufactures precision, high volume injected molded parts using a proprietary EDM finishing process. This process allows Harvest to manufacture a much higher volume of parts at a much lower cost than its competitors, which must use a diamond machining process. Harvest estimates that the current market for diamond machined ceramic and hardened metal components is $9.1 billion, growing greater than 15% per year. The company has targeted precision surgical blades (estimated $275 million market) and gas combustion components (estimated $153 million market) as its initial products.

Harvest's management team will consist of individuals with management and manufacturing experience at Corning, Carborundum, GE and other major companies. The company is seeking $2.7 million of equity to fund the development of manufacturing capacity, startup costs and working capital.

Airbag Testing Technology, Inc. - [ top ]
Airbag Testing Technology (ATT) has developed proprietary technology (patents pending) to scientifically test and re-certify recycled, automotive original equipment (OE) airbags. ATT's technology enables un-deployed OE airbags to be tested non-destructively, ensuring they meet the manufacturer's original specifications and therefore are safe to install in collision repair vehicles. The introduction of re-certified airbag modules, known as RAM™ to the collision repair market increases choice and offers cost savings of up to 40% vs new service parts while ensuring the safety of the component. ATT estimates that the world market for re-certified airbags is currently $33 million and expects it to grow to $129 million by 2005. RAM™ is available now through ATT's partner, CARS of Maryland, a dismantler and reseller of used auto parts. ATT has also developed a relationship with the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, which is authorizing the use of certified recycled airbags throughout the province beginning April 1, 2001.

ATT's management team has extensive management, sales and engineering experience with major automotive parts manufacturers. ATT is looking to raise $1 million of equity to be used to fund marketing, the addition of another testing location and additional product development. ATT's longer-term plans include the manufacture and sale of new airbag modules.

WorldWebDex Corporation - [ top ]
In response to mounting frustration associated with Internet search engines and the growing disenchantment with Internet banner ads, WorldWebDex has developed an Internet Directory tool that organizes the web in a familiar, easy-to-use format. Structured similarly to printed yellow pages, WorldWebDex's Internet Directory lists and advertises commercial Internet sites alphabetically according to category. Users appreciate the familiar and logical organization of data while advertisers have the ability to place their brand in front of users during the most critical stage in the buying cycle. For greater reach and increased traffic, WorldWebDex intends to license this comprehensive database to Internet portals, community pages and search engines. Forrester Research forecasts that online directory services will grow to become a $1.1 billion industry by 2003.

WorldWebDex has assembled a management and advisory team that combines marketing and Internet knowledge with traditional business experience. The company seeks $1 million of equity to increase its marketing efforts and to continue the growth of its database.

Student Voice (formerly TRIAD College Market Research Group)
Student Voice was created in 1999 to gather consumer research exclusively from college students while utilizing emerging technology to obtain the most accurate, efficient results for the company's clients. Utilizing handheld technology and teams of on-campus representatives, TRIAD will provide up-to-the-minute information about the trends and thoughts motivating the college market. TRIAD plans to penetrate the $6 billion market for consumer research services by (i) utilizing emerging technology for efficient data collection and real-time reporting, (ii) forming an unmatched network of college representatives on campuses across the country, (iii) and providing clients with custom, proprietary options for the most accurate market research and analysis available.

TRIAD's team has career experience in the networked market research industry, which led them to identify industry voids, especially in an age demographic that spends over $100 billion annually. TRIAD seeks to raise $500,000 of equity to be used to fund proprietary software development and to expand the company's network of campus representatives.

VerticalGrocer - [ top ]
VerticalGrocer aims to become the leading application service provider (ASP) for the traditional grocery store industry. During its initial stage of development, the company will focus on revenue-enhancing solutions for traditional grocers and outsourcing of their IT activities. Later stages will incorporate cost saving and productivity solutions for grocers. VerticalGrocer's centerpiece application will be its Household Inventory and Shopping Management System, which will allow consumers to track household inventory of groceries, prepare shopping lists and transmit grocery orders in advance for pickup. From reminding customers when they are about to run out of products, to billing and having their orders bagged and ready to pick up, the entire inventory process will be handled by VerticalGrocer and its grocery store partners.

VerticalGrocer seeks to raise $500,000 of equity to fund a test project with a Canadian grocery chain, which will then position VerticalGrocer for further expansion into the Western New York and national markets.

University at Buffalo Technology Transfer & Licensing - [ top ]
TTL specializes in licensing the university's patent portfolio and intellectual property to the private sector. UB technologies generate new products, improve processes and help businesses grow and become more profitable. UB's patent portfolio categories are assistive technology, biomedical, biotechnology, chemistry, dentistry, engineering, materials and composites, optics and electronic hardware, pharmaceutical, and software.

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