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Cardstore.com is an Emeryville, California-based personalized online custom greeting cards retailer and printer. Cardstore.com integrates the most advanced web technology with superior digital printing techniques. The finest American artists offer their work through this service. All production and order fulfillment is in the U.S. Since 1999, Cardstore.com has printed over 50 million personalized cards for industry leaders such as Snapfish, American Greetings, Papyrus, and Hallmark. Cardstore.com provides custom greeting cards and personalized stationery for all occasions; including birth announcements, party invitations, holiday photo cards, Christmas cards, thank you cards, and wedding cards. |
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Based in Alameda, California, Cool Systems Inc., makers of Game Ready, manufactures and markets pneumatic cryotherapy sysmtes 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 a multitude of treatment protocols.
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Ravenflow enables enterprises to deliver applications faster. The award-winning RAVEN software (Requirements Authoring and Validation Environment) quickly builds stakeholder consensus on requirements, reduces the time required for stakeholders to approve specifications, reduces developer rework due to requirements errors, and seamlessly integrates requirements and testing. Ravenflow was founded in 2000 and is based in Emeryville, California. The company is privately funded, and investors include Alloy Ventures, Palomar Ventures, and The Roda Group. |
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Solazyme, Inc. is a renewable oil production company and the leader in algal synthetic biology. Solazyme's unique microbial conversion technology process allows algae to produce oil in standard industrial facilities quickly, efficiently and at large scale. These oils are tailored not only for advanced biofuel production, but also as replacements for fossil petroleum and plant oils in a diverse range of products running from green household cleaning supplies to cosmetics and foods. The company was founded in 2003 and has its headquarters in South San Francisco, California. |
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Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves, Inc.) - A leading search engine on the Web, Ask.com combines world-class search technology with one-of-a-kind search tools to help people get what they are looking for faster. Ask.com sites include Ask.com US ( http://www.Ask.com ), Ask.com Deutschland, Ask.com Espana, Ask.com France, Ask.com Italia, Ask.com Japan, Ask.com Nederland and Ask.com UK. Additionally, Ask.com syndicates its search technology and advertising units to a network of affiliate partners. Ask.com is a
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PolyServe (acquired by HP Invent) - PolyServe software 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 our software in their clustered system solutions. |
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SightSpeed, Inc. (acquired by Logitech International) is the award-winning provider of Internet video communications for both the consumer and business user. The company offers the broadest portfolio of industry-leading Internet video communications services, including SightSpeed Light, SightSpeed Free and SightSpeed PLUS, the most widely praised consumer-focused video chat services, which turn a PC or Mac into an easy-to-use video phone to communicate with friends and family around the world; and SightSpeed Business, the world's first high-quality, cost-effective and hardware-free videoconferencing service for all businesses (including SMBs). SightSpeed's services are SIP-based and standards-compliant. Founded in 2001 and based in Berkeley, California, the company's revolutionary human perception-based technology is patented and based on more than ten years of research and development originating out of Cornell University. |
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