Ten Emerging Technology Companies Named "Investors' Choice" At Technologic Partners' Technology Outlook Conference
SAN FRANCISCO -- Dec. 10, 1998 -- Ten companies developing products in a wide range of emerging technologies were selected for "Investors' Choice" honors at the new Technology Outlook conference hosted here by Technologic Partners earlier this week. The companies were chosen as "most likely to succeed" from among more than 70 privately financed technology companies that presented their business plans to an audience of several hundred venture capitalists, money managers, investment bankers, and industry executives.
Technologic Partners' outlook conferences, now in their 14th year, provide a unique forum for chief executives of the most important new companies in key technology areas. Following each presentation, the audience is asked to rate the company's prospects for success. The results were announced at the conference by Richard A. Shaffer, founder of Technologic Partners (http://www.tpsite.com) and the conference's host. Technologic is the leading producer of investment forums for investors in early-stage technology companies and the publisher of the authoritative newsletters ComputerLetter and VentureFinance.
"We have noted a resurgence of investor interest in core-technology companies," said Shaffer. "While the public markets remain focused on a few electronic commerce companies, private investors have picked up on the wave of innovation that's sweeping many other technology sectors. The level of enthusiasm at this conference was remarkably high." In addition to voting by the audience, selection for the Investors' Choice award was based on recommendations from a panel of distinguished technology investors that included Jonathan Meyers, managing director at SoundView Financial Group; Michael Murphy, editor of the California Technology Stock Letter; Andrew Rappaport, partner at August Capital, and Peter Wagner, partner at Accel Partners.
Here, in alphabetical order, are the Investors' Choice winners, together with highlights from the conference presentation of each CEO: Chorum Technologies, of Richardson, Texas, develops advanced optical networking products. The company, which raised a $17-million venture capital round last month, is working to boost the capacity and flexibility of fiber-optic networks.
Cielo Communications, of Broomfield, Colo., develops high-speed optical interconnect products that enable gigabit-per-second communications. Cielo, a spinout of Vixel, provides components for networking products made by Cisco Systems and 3Com.
Epigram, of Sunnyvale, Calif., develops high-speed residential networking technology for use over existing phone lines. The company makes integrated circuits that transmit Ethernet at 10 Mbps and plans to demonstrate 100 Mbps products by the end of 1999.
Numerical Technologies, also of Sunnyvale, Calif., develops software design tools for creating integrated circuit features that are smaller than the wavelength of the light used to draw them. This profitable company has joint development agreements with DuPont Photomasks and Duet Technologies.
NVIDIA, of Santa Clara, Calif., develops high-performance 3-D graphics processors that enable PCs to create realistic graphics and animation. The company is in registration for an IPO.
ShareWave, of El Dorado Hills, Calif., develops technology for wireless home networks. PCs can be linked to share Internet access and peripherals, and in the company's first application for non-PC devices, a set-top box links a television into the communications network.
SkyStream, of Mountain View, Calif., develops digital broadcasting products for a variety of media including digital television, Internet data, and commercial advertising. The company will be raising $10 million in the first quarter of next year.
Softcom Microsystems, of Fremont, Calif., develops chips and subsystems for accelerating the performance of networking equipment.. The company's GigaBlade board can process information at line speeds up to OC-12 SONET, or 622Mbps, and will offer OC-48 line speeds, or 2.5 Gbps, in the first half of 1999.
Tut Systems, of Pleasant Hill, Calif., develops high-speed data connectivity products for campus networks, service providers, home networks, and apartment buildings. The company, which is in registration for an IPO, recently annouced its Expresso MDU system, a single server which can provide high-speed Internet access for up to 135 units in an apartment building or hotel.
Virage, of San Mateo, Calif., has developed a video and image search engine. AltaVista used the company's technology to make President Clinton's grand jury testimony searchable online. Virage will introduce audio searching capability early next year using speech recognition technology from IBM.
The presenting companies at Internet Outlook were selected by the editors and research staff of Technologic Partners. "Our editors constantly monitor our database of thousands of venture-backed companies, looking for trends and hot prospects," said Denise Canniff, marketing director of Technologic. "Four times a year, they select 80 to 100 of what they believe are the most promising private companies in a promising market area and create a conference around them. The goal is to provide an independent forum in which the best startups can tell their stories, and to provide a timely context through speeches and panels that will help investors evaluate those stories." About Technologic Founded in 1984, Technologic Partners provides information to technology investors and executives through newsletters, research studies, and industry conferences. The company is based in New York City, with offices in San Francisco and Palo Alto. Technologic Partners has been following venture investing for 14 years, and maintains a proprietary database of thousands of venture-backed companies. Technologic has been producing investment-oriented technology conferences since 1985.
The founder, Richard A. Shaffer, was formerly the science and technology editor of The Wall Street Journal, and a long-time columnist at Forbes magazine. He now writes the "Watch This Space" column for Fortune magazine, and is editor-in-chief of Fortune's bi-annual technology guides. He is also editorial director of The Wall Street Journal Technology and Health Care Summits.
More information about Technologic Partners can be found at the company's Web site at http://www.tpsite.com/.
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