Aviacode Inc. is a healthcare revenue solutions company that has developed a suite of web technologies to better manage the medical coding process that will improve the ability of hospitals and physicians to reduce costs, improve revenues and shorten the time this process has taken historically.

Caveon, LLC is a privately-held Utah limited liability company providing services to the standardized testing industry (e.g., SAT, GMAT, etc.) to combat the age-old, but growing problem of cheating on tests.

ClearPlay Inc. has invented and patented advanced Parental Filtering™ technology and continues to develop Parental Control capabilities for consumer electronic (CE) devices. ClearPlay’s product and service offerings provide consumers with new and inventive controls for filtering, blocking, and monitoring the media content their families watch.

CoMeT Solutions™, Inc. provides software-based solutions for manufacturing companies and their suppliers which build complex engineered products to achieve a high return on investment from Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE).  The Company has developed a breakthrough data model for managing CAE models, processes and data, the Universal Engineering Model™, which has allowed the Company to deliver the industry’s first Integrated Simulation Environment.

Innovasic Semiconductor is an Albuquerque-based fabless semiconductor manufacturer focused on serving the industrial marketplace with a unique business model.

Lingotek is a software development company building the Language Search Engine. The software is not machine translation. The software helps human translators translate faster, better, and cheaper.

Nanopoint, Inc. is a privately-held nano-biotechnology company that develops and markets miniaturized cellular imaging systems for the life sciences market. Nanopoint’s cellTRAY™-based solutions are high resolution, picoliter-scaled cell culture and imaging systems with application-specific kits for live cell-based assays. Nanopoint’s products have broad applications to life science research, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical production as well as other areas where single cell analysis is important.

Q Therapeutics, Inc. is developing cell-based therapies using glial progenitor cells (Q-Cells™) to treat multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, enzyme deficiency diseases and other demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system.

SimpliPhones sells a simple, affordable and powerful PBX-type telephone system directly to businesses through retail channels.  Businesses can purchase a complete PBX system in a single box from a retail store such as Sam’s Club or Costco, install the system and have it up and running the same day.

TechniScan Medical Systems (TMS) is a privately held medical device company engaged in the development and commercialization of a revolutionary ultrasound imaging system, UltraSound CTTM (USCTTM). TMS’ imaging system is designed to provide physicians with a new, non-invasive, diagnostic imaging tool that will provide detailed information about the anatomy (i.e. physical structures within the breast) and pathology (i.e. bulk tissue properties).

Early Stage – Founder or Angel backed and/or annual sales less than $1 million

Alias Semiconductor has developed an innovative programmable architecture yielding performance up to 10x today’s fastest FPGAs.  Customers will be able to use industry standard Verilog and VHDL design languages with compilers far faster than traditional FPGA compilers, enhancing productivity and enabling them to field products with time-to-market of less than one year.

AlphaSpine is focused on discovering, developing and commercializing a new generation of spinal devices that employ minimally traumatic techniques to decrease surgical damage; thus, speeding recovery and improving clinical outcomes. The trend to minimally traumatic techniques is a natural evolution that follows the trends in other surgical specialties.

High West Distillery is building a boutique distillery in Park City Utah to develop and market a line of super-premium spirits branded with the imagery of the American West.

iWorlds is organized to provide socially responsible entertainment to various markets through a unique full-immersion simulation product.  The company combines elements from virtual reality, video games, and educational curriculums to create an interactive learning system in a gaming environment.

Know More Media is a rapidly growing online resource of business information and news and one of the Internet's leading business blog networks.  The company takes advantage of the disruption in the traditional business media by utilizing new media technologies to publish, distribute, promote, and monetize business content.

Precision sells a data collection instrument to civil engineers and land surveyors engaged in all forms of land measurement. The company’s data collector, the “DC49”, controls robotic measurement tools and Global Positioning System (GPS) equipment and stores the collected measurements for later use in the generation of property deeds, maps and construction plans.

Sopogy is an early stage, clean technology company with the mission to become the world’s largest manufacturer of solar power and energy products. Sopogy’s proprietary product combines Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technology with the economics of traditional fluorescent light fixture manufacturing.

Thrombo Vision has created a simple, inexpensive solution to help physicians and their patients monitor and assess anti-platelet therapies.  The ThromboGuideTM platelet function monitor (T-Guide) measures platelet aggregation using a patented light scattering technology developed by scientists at Brigham Young University and Thrombodyne, Inc.

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