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Investment Opportunities Involving Search Engines, email authentication, high efficiency minipumps and VoIP for midsize firms Draws Crowd to Business Alliance Grubstake Breakfast
March 23, 2006, FAIRFAX, Va.---190 business leaders, investors and entrepreneurs attended the year's first Business Alliance Grubstake Breakfast to see presentations by the following selected companies seeking $250K-2M in investment capital:
Dumbfind, Inc. – Provider of enhanced web search capability using a unique query refinement process that presents relevant, timesaving suggestions for which direction to turn when you can’t find the information you are seeking.
HotPads.com – A map-based housing search engine currently positioned as the technological leader in real estate listing by location for the U.S. residential rental market.
Message Level – The only email authentication solution that prevents impersonation of legitimate email addresses through a process requiring no action by the end user or a third party—making it ideal for large volume email senders of sensitive financial information.
nexVortex, Inc. – A next generation telecommunications provider for small and medium businesses offering low cost business grade VoIP trunking and line services and managed converged services (e.g. wireline/wireless messaging, enterprise and ecommerce applications).
SubMachine Corp. – A developer of proprietary high-power, high-efficiency miniature pumps and compressors significantly more powerful and less expensive than those currently on the market for a wide range of technology, medical device and consumer product applications.
The breakfast also featured a panel of investment experts--Updata Partners' Tim Meyers, Telecommunications Development Fund's Jim Pastoriza, and Maryland Venture Fund's Elizabeth Good--who provided a brief overview of their funds and the market from their perspectives and then offered feedback to the companies presenting their business investment opportunities.
The Business Alliance Grubstake Breakfast program is run by the Business Alliance of George Mason University. Business Alliance members volunteer their time with applicant recruitment, selection, coaching and feedback activities. MBA students in the university's School of Management (SOM) and SOM faculty and students and Mason Enterprise Center staff also participate in this process with the students able to augment their classroom education through this live-lab learning opportunity.
The next two Grubstake Breakfasts are scheduled for June 15, 2006 and October 26, 2006 with presenter application deadlines of May 10, 2006 and September 10, 2006 respectively.
