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Technical Services

CCI Telecom

CCI is a leading international telecommunications infrastructure service provider with offices in the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean. CCI supplies deployment and maintenance services to the communications industry. It manages a wide range of communication infrastructure projects — from wireless and wireline networks to satellite and radar systems.

Optasite, Inc.

Optasite offers site acquisition services to wireless carriers, general contractors and large tower companies throughout New England, New York and New Jersey. In addition to its traditional services business, Optasite is growing rapidly and is actively investing in the acquisition and development of communications tower locations throughout the region as well as other related, wireless businesses in northeast markets.

Village Ventures

Village Ventures, through an operating company and a companion limited partnership, has built an extensive network of early stage funds and direct investments in regions traditionally overlooked by the venture capital industry.

Zentox

Zentox Corporation is an industrial and commercial water treatment company with three major products. The company's lead product, the Cascade™ water reuse system is designed for the food processing industry, with a particular focus on poultry processors. It allows for the recycling of large volumes of process water. The PathX™ system effectively controls the spread of pathogen borne diseases in food processing by adding proprietary chemicals to cleaning water. The third product is an integrated system for the treatment of water in evaporative cooling towers which utilizes the company's Clean Streams™ ozone transfer process. The Clean Streams™ process enables the company to provide its customers with reliable and cost effective ozone-based solutions for cooling tower treatment.

   

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Information Technologies & Software

Mediaguide

Using a compact representation of audio content ("audio fingerprint"), Mediaguide technology identifies broadcasted songs, advertisements and other recorded date by matching them to a database with the fingerprints of registered works.

PHT Corp

PHT Corporation provides pharmaceutical companies, CROs, biotechnology firms, and medical device companies with a technology-based infrastructure for the collection and processing of the data used in the development and marketing of pharmaceutical compounds. PHT provides mobile and Web technologies that help pharmaceutical companies simplify clinical trials by dramatically improving the process of collecting and managing accurate clinical trial data.

Comergent Technologies, Inc.

Comergent Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of Demand Chain Management software solutions. Comergent's out-of-the-box enterprise applications can be installed at an enterprise's site or hosted. These demand chain management applications are completely open and are designed to be easily integrated with data sources both inside and outside the firewall. Comergent's applications support the selling processes for all sales channels and are engineered for scalability, reliability, and rapid implementation. Through the use of these applications, enterprises make it easier for customers to do business while simultaneously reducing the costs of selling and providing service.

WebCT

WebCT has developed and sells course management systems to more than 2,400 colleges and universities in 75 countries. The Company’s mission is to be the preferred partner of institutions that are creating total e-learning solutions. WebCT is available in 10 languages. A quarter of the company’s installed base is located outside of North America.

   

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Life Sciences and Medical

CardioFocus, Inc.

CardioFocus, Inc. has developed medical devices used to control or cure atrial fibrillation, which severly impacts 4 million people a year. The company's catheter-based energy delivery system is designed to correct or cure atrial fibrillation through a minimally invasive procedure. The product is expected to be in human trials by year-end 2004.

Xanthus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Xanthus is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, acquisition and commercialization of small-molecule therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune disorders. We believe that our scientific depth and broad clinical development expertise provide us with the capability to discover novel therapies, as well as identify, license or acquire products that address cancer and autoimmune disorders not adequately treated with existing therapies.

   

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Retail/Consumer Products

Autolines

AutoLines has developed a car superstore for high quality pre-owned cars and trucks. The site is located on Route 18 in Whitman, Massachusetts. It employs a fixed price strategy and prides itself on customer service.

Kabloom

Kabloom first opened its doors in 1997 and has proven to be more than just any flower shop. The company uses proprietary relationships with growers to deliver a fresher product in a cost-effective way. With more than 70 company and franchised owned stores, Kabloom is pursuing rapid growth plans to become a nation wide florist shop.

   

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Basic Industry and Manufacturing

Clarity Imaging Technologies, Inc.

Clarity Imaging Technologies, Inc. manufactures and markets PageMax™ laser toner cartridges, which have double the yield of most OEM products. PageMax users can typically save about 30% on their total cartridge costs and can cut the disruption caused by cartridge replacement in half.

   

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Past Investments

Colonial Mills

Braided rug manufacturer.

IntraServer

IntraServer was founded in April, 1996, to develop and manufacture hardware and software to enable high speed data transfer between computers. The company was acquired by LSI Logic, a global supplier of custom, high-performance semiconductors, in a stock transaction on May 26, 2000.

PixelVision

PixelVision designed, manufacturered and marketed products and services related to high-information-content flat-panel display solutions. PixelVision was acquired by Avocent in 2001.

Transfusion Technologies

Transfusion Technology Corporation designed, developed and marketed systems for the processing of human blood for transfusion to patients. The company was acquired by Haemonetics in 2000.

   

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