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Current Portfolio Companies
   
Game Ready

Cool Systems Inc., makers of Game Ready, manufacture and market pneumatic cryotherapy systems for both people and animals. The systems provide intermittent or cyclical compression while simultaneously delivering dry, adjustable cold therapy when applied to the affected area. The system can be operated with minimal training, and with its patented ergonomic wraps, adjustable temperature and compression levels, and its portable design, can be incorporated into many treatment protocols.

solazyme

Solazyme, Inc. provides sustainable oils and bioproducts for food, fuel, for life (TM).

Solazyme's unique technology allows algae to produce oil and biomaterials in standard fermentation facilities quickly, efficiently and at at large scale.

These natural oils and biomaterials are tailored, not only for fuel production, but also as replacements for fossil-derived petroleum and a variety of natural plant oils and compounds. This makes them useful in a wide range of products, from oleochemicals, to cosmetics, to foods.  Solazyme's oils and fuels provide compelling solutions to increasingly complex problems of fuel scarcity, energy security and environmental impact while fitting cleanly into the pre-existing multi-trillion dollar fuel infrastructure.


Former Portfolio Companies
Ask.com

Ask.com (acquired by IAC - Nasdag: IACI) answers questions with fast, reliable, trustworthy results and is one of the most popular sites on the Web.

Founded as Ask Jeeves in 1996, and re-named Ask.com in 2005, the company has been acclaimed for its innovative technologies, including Answer Farms and Smart Answers, that allow users to get the information they need without having to click through to multiple websites. Ask.com maintains a vibrant community that allows users to post and answer questions from around the world.

Based in Oakland, California, Ask.com has offices throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Ask.com branches in Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom complement our flagship U.S. search engine.

Ask.com is a wholly owned business of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI).  Ask Networks is a family of businesses under the Ask.com brand. Ask.com brands also include Ask Sponsored Listings, Ask.com Mobile, Ask Kids, Dictionary.com, and Bloglines.

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Cardstore.com (acquired by American Greetings - NYSE: AM) combines beautiful artwork, personalized greetings, and professional printing to help create tangible reminders of life's events, big and small.

Cardstore greeting cards are perfect for all of life's important occasions, with card styles that are smart, stylish, playful, original, and modern.

And our convenient personalization tools allow you to customize your greetings with photos and special messages to create a one-of-a-kind greeting card they'll never forget!
American Greetings is renowned for its 100+ years of design expertise in innovative social expression products and personal connection tools.

PolyServe

PolyServe (acquired by Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HP) consolidates servers and storage into manageable, available and scalable utilities for database and file serving.

Companies in many industries all around the world have realized cost saving benefits, and achieved greater performance results by including Polyserve software in their clustered system solutions.

SightSpeed

SightSpeed, Inc. (acquired by Logitech - NASDAG: LOGI) is the award-winning provider of the high quality, feature rich, and easy-to-use Internet video communications services for both businesses and consumers.

SightSpeed's services, which are SIP-based and standards-compliant, deliver superior quality on everyday computers and consumer broadband connections.

SightSpeed's best in class communications services include multi-party video conferencing, integrated video mail, rich and innovative voice and text features and "one click" web-based video communications.