Partners (alphabetical order)

Clear Channel Worldwide
Clear Channel Worldwide, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is a global leader in the media advertising and entertainment industries owning radio and television stations, outdoor advertising businesses, and live entertainment productions and venues throughout the U.S. and in 65 countries around the world. Clear Channel owns over 1,200 radio stations and over 40 TV stations. Clear Channel Outdoor offers advertisers a chance to present their messages on billboards, with airport advertising, in mall advertising, on Taxi-Top advertising and on spectacular displays in places like New York’s Times Square. Channel Entertainment produces and tours diverse and exciting musical acts, theatrical productions, museum exhibitions, family entertainment shows and sporting events.

Ernst & Young
Ernst & Young Austin is one of the largest providers of professional services in Central Texas, with eight partners and more than 120 total staff.Since 1962, we have continuously demonstrated our commitment to emerging and rapid-growth companies across all industries. Our Emerging Growth Practice being the cornerstone of our office, we work closely with our entrepreneurial clients, auditing more than 50 percent of the venture-backed companies in Austin.Because of this dedication, Ernst & Young is the firm of choice for IPO services, and our teams have worked on nine of the last 14 initial public offerings.

H. E. Butt Company
The story of H-E-B began almost 100 years ago in a tiny family shop in Kerrville. Today H-E-B serves families all over Texas, Louisiana and internationally in Mexico with more than 300 grocery stores. H-E-B's commitment to excellence has made it one of the nations largest independently owned food retailers. Yet H-E-B's success has not changed its commitment to giving the customer exceptional service, low prices and friendly shopping. For more information, visit H-E-B at www.heb.com.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation at Kansas City
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation works with partners to encourage entrepreneurship across America and improve the education of children and youth. The Kauffman Foundation was established in the mid-1960s by the late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman.

Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship
The Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship supports academic research, teaching and programs related to new venture development.It brings together financial resources, leading entrepreneurs, students and faculty from multiple disciplines and multiple colleges and universities to develop and communicate new knowledge about entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial processes.As new technologies are created, the Center seeks to support research and teaching that concentrates on commercialization of new products.

The NASDAQ Stock Market Educational Foundation, Inc.
The NASDAQ Stock Market, which debuted in 1971 as the world’s first electronic stock market, is the fastest growing stock market in the United States. With more than 4,100 foreign and domestic companies listed, NASDAQ, averaging over $2 billion shares per day, and is positioning itself to become the world’s first truly global securities market.In 1994, NASDAQ established The NASDAQ Stock Market Educational Foundation, Inc. to support educational projects, curriculum and research that advance financial markets literacy.

Sponsors

Austin Technology Incubator
The Austin Technology Incubator supports promising high growth companies in a variety of technology-based industries, through a targeted services package which includes strategic advice, access to financing, marketing & PR support, benefits program, mentoring and turn-key infrastructure. ATI serves as The University of Texas' "entrepreneurial laboratory" for students and faculty and works with a variety of investors, a "know-how network" of professional service providers, outside industry experts and others for benefit of its member companies.

Austin Ventures
Austin Ventures invests nationally in communications, software and services, and semiconductor companies. Its primary emphasis is on emerging companies in Texas, where it is the largest and most active venture investor. The firm has invested in over 100 Texas companies during the past 20 years, including Tivoli, Vignette, Metasolv, Mission Critical, Motive, BroadJump, Pentasafe, Active Power, Silicon Labs, Agere, Santera, and Crossroads.

Blabbermouth
BlabberMouth is a full-service public relations firm, offering public relations, strategic communications, and investor relations services to companies in complex and dynamic sectors. The BlabberMouth team understands that public relation’s practices, when implemented appropriately, can be among the most cost-effective and sophisticated means of communicating your organization’s value proposition. They specialize in high-level, targeted representation designed to reach and influence specific audiences core to your business strategy – from press and analysts, to customers and prospects, as well as employees, partners and investors.

BMC Software, Inc.
BMC Software, Inc. [NYSE:BMC], is a leader in enterprise management. The company focuses on Assuring Business Availability® for its customers by helping them proactively improve service, reduce costs and increase value to their business. BMC Software solutions span enterprise systems, applications and databases. Founded in 1980, BMC Software has offices worldwide and is a member of the S&P 500, with fiscal year 2002 revenues of approximately $1.3 billion.

CenterPoint Ventures
CenterPoint Ventures is a Dallas and Austin, Texas-based limited partnership formed in 1996 to invest primarily in early stage start-up companies in the information technology area.Building on a strong technical and operational foundation, CenterPoint invests in areas where the highest degree of expertise and value can be contributed. Target investment areas include communications infrastructure, business software technologies, semiconductor products and new industrial technologies.

Comerica Bank
Comerica Bank's Technology and Life Sciences Division is one of the nation's leading technology banking practices, offering a wide range of financial services tailored to corporate customers, entrepreneurs and professionals. Veteran bankers provide credit and financial services to young, professionally backed technology companies as well as their more mature counterparts in the computer products, Internet services, telecommunications, life sciences and e-commerce industries. From 18 offices across the U.S., Comerica’s Technology and Life Sciences Division serves all major technology centers.

Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce
The Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce is a private, nonprofit, volunteer-driven business organization governed by a board of directors and funded by annual membership investments. Founded in 1877, the Chamber serves the interests of businesses throughout a five-county region. Volunteers from member companies and a professional staff carry out the organization’s Program of Work.

Hewlett-Packard
HP is a leading global provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers and businesses. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. HP completed its acquisition of Compaq Computer Corporation on May 3, 2002. In 1972, HP invented the world's first scientific handheld calculator. Since then, HP has broadened its product offering to offer a comprehensive range of calculators designed for math and science students, engineers, scientists, realtors, doctors and financial and business consultants. More information about HP's entire range of calculators is available at http://www.hp-calculators.com.

Hunt Ventures
Hunt Ventures, with offices in Dallas and Austin, is a diversified investment firm with a primary focus on seed and early-stage investments in information technology companies. Our portfolio includes investments in communications, software, semiconductor and life sciences companies. Hunt Ventures is part of the group of privately held companies which are wholly owned subsidiaries of Hunt Consolidated, Inc. with its major subsidiaries engaged in oil and gas exploration and production, real estate development, electric power, refining, agriculture and private investing.

IDRESCO
With 15 offices located throughout the world, IDRESCO delivers integrated, full-service solutions that anticipate changing customer needs and set new industry standards by leveraging a limitless global real estate network, cutting edge technology, and best practice processes. Our core services are brokerage, development, and project management. We provide end-to-end services tailored for both users of commercial real estate and facilities, and investors in commercial real estate. With expertise in office, industrial, and retail properties - in virtually every industry around the globe - we are the industry's single source for certified NABE (Native American Business Entity) integrated real estate solutions.

Locke Liddell & Sapp
Established in 1891, Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP is recognized as one of the leading law firms in Texas and throughout the nation. A full service law firm with offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston and New Orleans, Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP has more than 400 lawyers who represent a broad range of businesses and individual clients having extensive domestic and foreign business interests.

Murphree Venture Partners
Murphree Venture Partners, founded in 1987, is one of the most active early-stage venture capital firms in the Southwest region. The company has eleven principals located in five cities: Houston, Austin, Albuquerque, Boulder and Colorado Springs. The MVP partners all come from an entrepreneurial background which gives them the practical experience and real world point of view necessary to take our high-tech and life science portfolio from the business plan stage through commercial success.

Onramp Access
Founded in 1994, Austin-based Onramp Access has provided complete Internet solutions for more than 10,000 businesses and consumers across Texas. Services include dial-up and high-speed Internet connections, hardware sales and system network integration support. In November of 1999, the Web Business Factory was introduced as a benefit for customers to encapsulate website design, production, programming and hosting.

Prime Management Group
Prime Management Group brings together under one umbrella organization a series of companies and partnerships focused on making investments in telecommunications, media and entertainment. They combine extensive investment experience and know-how in technology, marketing and management with a high level of credibility in the financial community.

Thompson & Knight
Thompson & Knight is a Texas firm, 345 lawyers strong and growing. From the Internet and e-commerce to global intellectual property rights and venture capital, we confidently guide our clients into the future. We counsel new technology companies planning future acquisitions or an IPO. We represent start-up and later-stage companies in negotiations with venture capitalists or in connection with mergers and acquisitions. We have deep experience in corporate formation, tax, contracts, employment law, employee benefits and immigration.

Verity Ventures
Verity Ventures is an Austin-based venture capital fund which works actively with entrepreneurs of early stage companies to provide business insight, capital and a network of contacts. Verity invests where its seasoned partners can leverage their experience and knowledge to help entrepreneurs build great companies. Verity focuses its resources on technology and telecom companies located in Texas. The Verity partners have worked with some of the best known Austin and Dallas-area success stories.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is the premier legal advisor to technology and emerging growth business enterprises worldwide. The firm is a nationally recognized leader in corporate governance, public and private offerings of equity and debt, mergers and acquisitions, securities class action litigation, intellectual property litigation, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and technology licensing and other intellectual property transactions.The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, with offices in Austin, Kirkland, New York, Reston, Salt Lake City and San Francisco.

Access Venture Partners
Andrews & Kurth
Gray Cary
Haynes & Boone
Science Applications International Corporation
Silicon Valley Bank
Triton Ventures