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EDUCATION AND DISTANCE LEARNING

Proven K-12 Online and CD-Based Home and School Tutorial Systems

The company is a leading developer and marketer of home tutorial products in K-12 mathematics. Its goal is to become the most comprehensive tutorial and remedial education resource for parents, school-age students, adults and educators. There is a crisis in education today due to inexperienced teachers, poor classroom environments, lack of personalized attention, parents who do not have the time or the appropriate skills and lack of student motivation. The objective is to supplement what traditional public education does not provide. With more than $30 million in historic sales and a substantial base of over 300,000 customers for Math Made Easy™, its core product, there is strong evidence of the appeal of the current product and potential demand for the online and CD versions. Math Made Easy™, it’s live tutorial site, The Tutorial Channel has been launched.

ENERGY

Cutting-Edge Small-Scale Natural Gas Liquefication Process

The company has recently been formed to manufacture and assemble a unique new product, a small-scale natural gas liquefier capable of producing Liquefied Natural Gas (“LNG”). Using cutting-edge technology, the company’s natural gas liquefier, produces, stores and dispenses liquefied natural gas - a new, cost-effective alternative to gasoline and diesel. At the present time, The company controls 4 patents, covering 70 claims for technologies developed during the research, development, prototyping and testing phases. With The company’s unique, patented technology, LNG will perform better, cleaner and more cost-effectively than other principal competitors - gasoline and diesel.

Low-Risk Domestic Oil And Natural Gas Development

Founded in 1979, the company drills and develops domestic natural gas and oil prospects in the Mid-Continent, Rocky Mountain, and Gulf Coast regions. The company’s highly motivated technical team utilizes state-of-the-art 3-dimensional seismic and nuclear logging tools to identify new oil and gas reservoirs. In addition, Whitmar specializes in recovering oil and gas from “tight” reservoirs that are lower risk to drill, but require higher maintenance to produce. These “tight” or “unconventional reservoirs, such as the Barnett and Fayetteville Shales, provide low risk/long life production that offer exceptional investment opportunities. WhitMar co-invests at least 15% in each prospect and has produced a strong track record.

ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE AND IT SOLUTIONS

Centralized Single-Platform IT Compliance Solutions

The company’s first product for financial institutions is designed to solve the problems disparate legacy systems as well as the lack centralized information and control by moving all business to a single platform that provides an efficient trading environment that will increase profitability, simplify process flow from the sales person to the trading desk through to the middle office, and provide affective real-time management control. To address the new regulatory world, the company has a fully integrated, real-time compliance process that will give the client a market lead in addressing the needs of regulators. The long term view is that the company’s core technology will create a range of infrastructure software applications that can be sold into a range of diverse industrial sectors. These applications will address issues such as scalability, recoverability and security.

Unique Productivity Tool for Information Management

The company’s software application makes it easy for people to manage their relevant information across the enterprise by connecting it all through our single user interface. Connections is a startlingly simple software solution that is powerful enough to establish a new category at the center of every user’s workspace. Underneath its simple interface is a powerful “relationship” engine – but users only see the ease of usage this interface provides. Connections makes every knowledge worker more productive. A Fortune 50 company's internal analysis of Connections estimated a yearly $3 million per 1000 user savings Integrality’s product (two month payback).

ENTERTAINMENT

New York Based Feature Film Development and Production

Over the next year, the company will produce a feature film, a dramatic family comedy about American culture and religion. The company will be involved in the development, production, and distribution of this $1.5 million budgeted film. The mission of the company is to develop and produce feature length narrative and documentary film projects in upstate New York that reach both family and mature audiences in foreign and domestic markets. The company’s plans to complete two documentaries and establish the company outside the Incubator program of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The company’s goals are to further develop on-line distribution of independent programming, and become a key player in low budget independent filmmaking.

ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY

Ultra-Improved Water Treatment Processing Technology

The company’s scientific team combines developments in biochemistry, electrochemistry, and plasma physics to produce a process with unparalleled potential in agriculture, food processing, industrial processes, waste treatment and healthcare. The combined technologies produce a water treatment process which is substantiality better than any other single technology. The technology offers very cost effective, low maintenance solutions to many potable water, wastewater treatment and sterilization requirements around the world. The technology is scaleable in its product designs to enable the company to produce many products with compatible parts and service requirements which can treat from 100 GPH (gallons per hour) to 100,000 GPH, appropriate for small home units up to large industrial and municipal applications.

Breakthrough Air Movement and Purification Technology

The company is an application development and licensing company that has significantly changed the way air is moved, filtered and sterilized. The company has achieved patented breakthroughs in the development of a cost effective technology that causes silent air movement, filtration and sterilization without fan blades, electrical motors or filters. The company is actively commercializing its technology for standalone and embedded products across residential, commercial, industrial, and military markets. Serving the multi-billion dollar Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) market, the company’s technology uses state-of-the-art high voltage process without the use of traditional mechanical fans and filters. Licensing and product development partners in select markets include: Homedics, IKEA of Sweden, Gulfstream, Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy.

Hybrid Electric Vehicle Propulsion Systems for Trucks and Buses

The company designs and develops electric power conversion, control and energy storage systems. The company’s primary line of business is the development, manufacture and installation of Hybrid Electric Vehicle (“PLUG-IN HEV”) propulsion systems for medium/heavy-duty trucks and buses. The PLUG-IN HEV systems are series configuration hybrids that offer users significant advantages when compared to the more familiar parallel architecture found in hybrid passenger cars today. The company’s proprietary technologies and expertise in electrical and thermal management and battery management systems is critical to this business. The company has received development funding from Long Island Power Authority, the Electric Power Research Institute, New York State Energy Research & Development Authority and the Greater Long Island Clean Cities Coalition.

Cutting-Edge Small-Scale Natural Gas Liquefication Process

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Innovative Debit Card Based Money Transfer Services

The company was formed to raise capital for the launch of a proven product platform, being the two-card debit card product. This product platform has been piloted and performs as required on a worldwide basis, specifically facilitating money transfers from the U.S. to countries in Central and South America, the Caribbean and especially Mexico and as a checking account like product in the U.S. The company has developed the only product platform that use the existing banking networks to LOAD cards, resulting in five million merchants capable of selling and loading its cards in the U.S. vs. 55,000 for Western Union and Money Gram.

TRNC-Focused Residential Mortgages and Business Loans

The company will provide funding for residential mortgages, re-mortgages, personal loans and business loans to individuals who wish to purchase homes in North Cyprus and Turkey. The company expects to be the largest and most competitive lending facility doing business in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) and Turkey. The real estate market in TRNC is at an all time high and property prices have increased on average by 50% year on year over the past 3 years. A comprehensive mortgage service would enable non-cash buyers to begin purchasing properties, in what is now primarily an all-cash market. Currently, TRNC has been identified as one of the best real estate investment opportunities in the Mediterranean. Initially 99% of customers will come from the UK, where the company is based.

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

Unique Productivity Tool for Information Management

Game-Changing Advanced Mobile Data Collection Systems

The company’s goal is to be the solution of choice for mobile data collection systems that interfaces and synchronizes with enterprise systems. The company’s solution, AccessPoint, does this and enables organizations to make better decisions, faster – improving service levels and efficiency. AccessPoint is an end-to-end configurable mobile business tool used by government and business organizations to deploy forms, and collect, transmit and view data using all major handheld devices with enterprise level reliability and security. The tool has a sophisticated easy-to-use Form Builder for creating intelligent forms and a Web Application for user and data management, supports multiple methods of synchronization, and easily integrates with existing enterprise systems.

LIFE SCIENCES

Proprietary Non-Invasive Disease Diagnosis and Prediction

The company is at the forefront of an emerging trend in medicine: the use of non-invasive and minimally invasive techniques for diagnosis or prediction of disease. Using proprietary technology, GeneEx is creating diagnostics for numerous autoimmune and infectious diseases, including periodontitis, type-1 diabetes and systemic fungal infections. The company is focusing first on a diagnostic test it can bring to the U.S. market by Q4 2006: an inexpensive, rapid chair-side test that dentists will use 1) to screen patients for periodontal disease, 2) to measure treatment efficacy and the progression or regression of the disease and 3) as an objective tool to aid in patient compliance.

Revolutionary Software for the Manufacture of Organic Compounds

The company has invented software that automates chemical retrosynthesis, revolutionizing the manufacture of organic compounds and producing savings of 50%, or more, for 75% (90,000) of known commercial organic compounds. Retrosynthesis is the process of working backwards from a compound to uncover basic materials and alternate production paths. Chemists agree it is the method that will lead to the greatest cost savings in the manufacture of drugs and other commercial products. The company is an Organic Chemistry Service Bureau providing computerized retrosynthetic analysis to pharmaceutical houses, chemical manufacturers and government agencies. The company will draw income from a percentage of savings generated by its process.

SPECIALTY CONSUMER PRODUCTS

Unique Personalized Digital Printing for Families

The company is not a typical book publisher. The company uses digital printing to make personalized books. More precisely, they create book templates and then let customers add their own photographs and captions to convert our basic templates into something that's a lot of fun – a one-of-a-kind book featuring pictures of you and your family. The final product is a hardcover book that is priceless to the person receiving it. With a core product that combines the ability of books to tell stories with the power of photographs to evoke memories, the company is at the cross-section of three exploding industries: digital photography, scrapbooking, and on-demand printing.

Patented New Category of Interactive 3D Touch Products

The company is pioneering a new category of interactive 3D touch (haptic) products for the consumer market. The company’s patented technology adds high-fidelity, interactive touch to computing, fundamentally changing how people play and interact. In 2007 they will introduce their flagship product, the Novint Falcon, to the $35 billion global video game market. The company’s product is a revolutionary interface device that makes interactive 3D touch possible and practical for consumer computing for the first time. Using the product, which like all true 3D touch controllers is, in essence, a robot; players feel weight, shape, texture, dimension, dynamics, 3D motion and force effects from their interactions.

Innovative Exercise Equipment with Video Game Technology

The company is a leading developer of innovative technologies that transform video games and other computer interactive simulations into physically demanding activities. The company had developed, and continues to develop, new applications for its technology in diverse markets and has implemented a strategy of building market presence through strategic relationships (licenses, co-marketing, etc) or where risk/reward merits, enter markets directly. The company’s internally developed technology is supported by 17 issued or pending patents. This technology allows isometric muscle contractions to control computer and video games. It is the only technology that provides strength exercise while playing off-the-shelf video games.

SUPPLY CHAIN

Supply Chain Management: State-of-the-Art Cargo Tracking

The company’s solutions allow businesses to ensure the physical and environmental integrity of their cargo throughout the supply chain and product distribution lifecycles. The company offers customized business solutions for companies of all sizes. The company was born out of technology developed over the last eight years within the companies Strategic R&D Group. It uses state-of-the-art satellite, cellular and sensor technology interfaced directly through the Internet. The company’s solutions address Cargo shrink, supply chain productivity, and tight customer margins. The company’s solutions are intermodal and there are significant technology and regulatory barriers to current and future competitors.

WEB-BASED BUSINESS SOLUTIONS

Dynamic Web-Based Auction Purchasing Platform for Hospitals

The company is an e-sourcing platform for the healthcare industry that uses the power of the internet to lower prices on new equipment and supplies. The medical community is under constant pressure to reduce costs. Low reimbursement from insurers, increased labor costs and patient-demanded services are forcing hospitals and physicians to find ways to reduce costs in order to improve their bottom line. The company’s on-demand platform helps hospitals and GPO’s overcome these challenges by reducing purchasing costs and streamlining the procurement process. All that is needed is a web browser - no expensive software or IT. The company’s platform provides private web-portals and e-sourcing software to buyers so that they can conduct Reverse Auctions and negotiations for new equipment and supplies.

Web-Based Productivity Tools for Financial Services Institutions

The company set-up to accelerate growth in two complementary businesses that focus on increasing organizational productivity – one a product and services business, the other a pure service play. 1) Agility is a suite of modular web-based applications delivered on an enterprise class Relationship Management platform. These vertically targeted solutions enable financial services firms to quickly identify, track and manage opportunities, regardless of the distribution model. In three short years Agility has become a leading solution for Financial Services firms looking to increase revenues through more effective targeting of and marketing to prospective clients and distribution partners. 2) Navaya provides strategic consulting and development services targeted to small commercial software companies.

Cost-Saving Web-Based Automation of Document Preparation

The company is an innovator in proposal automation. Its entirely web-based platform is used by companies such as Screenvision, MasterCard International, Taro Pharmaceuticals, Scripps Television Networks, and others. The software allows sales and marketing departments to work together. The company’s platform has reduced the time sales reps spend on proposal generation by over 65%, saving their clients millions per year. The company’s software has immediate bottom-line benefits. Sales reps spend more time generating leads and speaking with prospects instead of spending time at a computer. This increases deal-flow, and the software itself increases win-rates. It allows for proposal tracking and management insight into the proposal process and integrates with virtually any other sales system. The company is profitable and has proven itself in the market.

WIRELESS

Game-Changing Advanced Mobile Data Collection Systems

Puerto Rico Based Business-Focused Broadband Wireless Network

The company currently operates the largest broadband wireless network in Puerto Rico covering 85% of the 3500 square mile island. Its wireless customer base is comprised 100% corporate customers including McDonalds, US Post Office, Subway, FedEx among others. Islanet offers corporate customers the ability to connect remote locations together over a single network. The network is used to transmit VOIP, point of sale data, ATM/Credit card processing among others. It operates the only wireless frame relay and ATM backbone on the island using Cisco Technology. Currently, the company is the most viable alternative throughout Puerto Rico for high-speed data lines normally offered by traditional telephone companies.

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