Software 2005: Funding Forum

Innovation is still alive and well in the software industry. Sand Hill Group’s call for promising companies to participate in the Funding Forum received dozens of worthy responses. After scrutinizing the entrants, the sixteen emerging companies and two non-profits below were chosen to present their business plan to investors at Software 2005. Watch these entrepreneurs describe their diverse range of ideas and solutions in Great America #3.
| Tuesday, April 26, 2005: 10:45am – 12:15pm |
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Cenzic Cenzic Hailstorm uses a patent-pending technology and comes with a pre-crafted Attack Objects Library. This comprehensive library, which is updated on a regular basis for new vulnerabilities, allows enterprises to discover, analyze, and resolve security vulnerabilities in web applications Cenzic is funded by top-tier investors including Mohr Davidow Ventures, JK&B Capital, Hummer Winblad, and Symantec Corporation.
Commendo Software
Intelesoft Technologies
Pantero Unlike most integration approaches where hand coding must be executed to achieve business integrity, Pantero’s unique metadata-driven Exchange Model™ technology manages both the format integrity and the business integrity of data, replacing hand code with reuse and automation.
Tomo Software
Transera Communications
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| Tuesday, April 26, 2005: 4:00pm – 5:00pm |
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Adaptive Planning
Elemental Security
Intellext
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| Wednesday, April 27, 2005: 10:45am – 12:15pm |
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Greeneye The platform is fully developed by a seasoned team with 25 years experience. It is about to go into production with several major clients and is poised to expand beyond the initial FX beachhead. New sales are targeted at retail brokers and fund managers looking for easy access to the explosive growth in the recently deregulated currency markets. Green Eye has succeeded in partnering, not competing, with all market participants, and its unique “Visual Trading” and “portal marketing” deliver its customers more profit with less risk.
N8 Systems This real-time capability to “see what you said” surfaces omissions and ambiguities in the description. Deficiencies can then be readily recognized, and easily corrected, leading rapidly to clear, consistent and complete process descriptions. N8 plans a family of products based on the object model its technology produces from English text.
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Sapphire Infotech Self-funded by industry veterans, this 4-year old profitable company has gained rapid traction with Fortune 500 customer installations. Initial solutions address VoIP, DVIP, and Wireless segments. Immense opportunities also exist to capture the Automobile and Entertainment industries. The company is looking for funding for business development, product extensions, and service infrastructure for leadership position in this growing multi-billion dollar market opportunity.
ScheduleSource Scheduling, forecasting/optimization, schedule bidding, shift swapping, a rich capability for schedule change management, and a complete rules based time and attendance system over the web provide incredible productivity boosts to firms such as jetBlue Airlines and 24 Hour Fitness, among many others. Almost 50 million work shifts have been scheduled with ScheduleSource since 1999. ScheduleSource TeamWork is provided either as a subscription priced service over the web, as a licensed/hosted solution or as a licensed/installed system.
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