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	A.V. Smoot
Washington, DC A.V. Smoot is a results-oriented business specializing in the historic preservation and restoration of landmarks within the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. The company provides services to a broad range of government and private sector clients. From initial conception to project completion, A.V. Smoot is committed to delivering a new standard of service excellence, attention to detail and client satisfaction. View Website
	Able Planet Inc.
Fort Collins, Colorado Able Planet is a technology solutions provider. The company's mission is to provide access to the world of sound and communications for people with all levels of hearing, and to develop products that help preserve hearing. Through innovations such as the award-winning LINX AUDIO technology embedded into communication devices such as telephones, stereo headsets and cellular hands free systems, millions of individuals with all degrees of hearing loss have the opportunity to participate in the same activities together. View Website
	Adventure Central
Altadena, California Adventure Central, now owned by California-based AdventureLink, is committed to developing and delivering solutions that enable more travelers to be transformed by adventure and experiential travel. The company has grown into a leading provider of innovative online booking and travel inventory management solutions for adventure and experiential tour operators and outfitters. View Website
	agencyQ
Washington, DC, DC agencyQ is a digital marketing agency that excels in four core services: Digital Marketing, Technology, Strategy and Design. The company helps businesses harness the web to transform ideas into effective websites, applications and digital marketing campaigns. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., agencyQ serves a global portfolio of commercial, government, healthcare and non-profit organizations. View Website
	AGIS Network, Inc.
San Ramon, California AGIS Network is the leading online community providing comprehensive information and access to eldercare solutions and services. Since 1998, AGIS Network has been providing technology driven resources for the aging and disability communities. The company helps improve the quality of life for seniors and their families by uniting eldercare education with local, regional and national support services. View Website
	Agri-Source
Dade City, Florida Agri-Source fuels is a company committed to bringing green jobs to a community hard hit by the southward movement of the citrus industry. The facility, a former citrus processing plant converted earlier into a bio-diesel manufacturer, is being retrofitted to produce high grade glycerin. View Website
	AlfaLight, LLC
Madison, Wisconsin Alfalight designs and manufactures high-power diode lasers for the industrial, defense and telecommunications markets. Alfalight's innovative technology is based on advanced aluminum-free active region (ALFA) laser structures, enabling the manufacture of laser diodes with exceptionally high reliability and industry-leading efficiency. View Website
	Anark Corporation
Boulder, Colorado Anark Corporation, located in Boulder, Colorado, is a multimedia software company that has developed a new software authoring and delivery platform that allows customers to easily bring together real-time 3D graphics, 2D graphics, video, audio and text into a single and compact interactive presentation. View Website
	ArcMail Technology
Shreveport, Louisiana ArcMail Technology is a leading provider of email archiving and management technology. The company provides simple, secure and cost-effective email archive solutions to the small and medium-sized business market. ArcMail's email archive product improves the end-user experience, reduces the load on IT resources, and safely and securely retains the business information contained in emails. View Website
	AuthenTec, Inc.
Melbourne, Florida With more than 20 million sensors in use worldwide, AuthenTec is the world's leading provider of fingerprint authentication sensors and solutions to the high-volume PC, wireless device, and access control markets. AuthenTec's award-winning sensors utilize the company's patented TruePrint technology. The company delivers convenient, reliable fingerprint recognition in real-world situations, replacing keys, passwords, access cards, and Personal Identification Numbers (PINs). AuthenTec completed its initial public offering in July 2007 and is traded on the NASDAQ exchange under the ticker symbol 'AUTH.' View Website
	Barton Nelson
Kansas City, Missouri Barton Nelson, Inc. (BNI) is ranked as one of the Top 25 manufacturers of specialty advertising products nationwide. The company rebranded the original sticky note as a self-adhesive marketing tool. Multicolor printing, die cuts, cubes, bright papers, pastels, raised printing, and multiple imprints are all innovations first introduced by BNI. Into the new century, BNI continues with a host of new innovations including multicolor SpiderTac® Flag Dispensers, high quality 4 color Cubes, Lenticular Products, Magnets, E-commerce and a promise of more to come. View Website
	Bizzuka
Lafayette, Louisiana Bizzuka has developed and markets a unique, component based content management platform. In addition to giving companies the ability to easily edit all areas of content within their site, their On Demand Content and Components (OnDeCC) gives companies on-demand access to a library of over 120 Web based applications inside of their Web site, intranet or extranet. Bizzuka creates custom Web site designs for their client sites and also allows advertising agencies and other reseller partners to create custom designs for the OnDeCC platform. View Website
	Butler's Pantry
St. Louis, Missouri Founded in 1966, Butler's Pantry is one of Missouri's largest and finest full service catering companies. Butler's Pantry has catered corporate events and social gatherings for more than 40 years and is dedicated to creating successful food events. View Website
	Carbolytic Materials Company
Maryville, Missouri Carbolytic Materials Co. is the first company to successfully recover a carbon black alternative suitable for commercial use from existing rubber products. ApexCM' pellets and powder provide excellent physical properties similar to those of carbon black. The companys experienced rubber and plastics industry veterans help a variety of manufacturers incorporate high-quality, low-cost ApexCM into their manufacturing process instead of traditional carbon black. View Website
	Cardax Pharmaceuticals
Aiea, Hawaii Cardax Pharmaceuticals is developing proprietary small molecule therapies for large unmet needs where oxidative stress and inflammation play important causative roles - including cardiovascular disease, hepatitis, macular degeneration and many cancers. The company's proprietary, synthetic, natural compound derivatives represent a novel treatment approach that offers efficacy along with an outstanding safety profile, oral bioavailability and tissue selectivity. View Website
	Chapman Instruments, Inc.
Rochester, New York Chapman Instruments, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets test equipment for measuring the surface roughness of magnetic disks used in computers as well as silicon wafers used in computer chips. View Website
	Code Red Training
Chicago, Illinois Code Red Training is a leading national provider of training in cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR), first aid and the use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs). The company is one of only a few national training organizations to be recognized as a national American Heart Association Authorized Training Center. Code Red trains approximately 40,000 individuals every year in life-saving techniques. View Website
	Computime, Inc.
St. Louis, Missouri Founded in 1980, Computime provides a wide range of services, including high-tech sales and sales consultation, distribution, logistics, asset management, post-sales support and marketing services. Computime is a trusted source for electronic signature capture products, serving over 7,000 resellers and end users in 90 countries. View Website
	Crown Plastics
Festus, Missouri Crown Plastics is a manufacturer of plastic lighting enclosures. Their U.S.-made products include top quality acrylic, polycarbonate and polyethylene plastic spheres, streetlamps, cubes, cylinders, and special shapes and accessories. View Website
	Current Solutions, LLC
Austin, Texas Current Solutions, LLC was formed in July 2009 to acquire Koalaty Products, Inc., a provider of electrical stimulation products used for pain management, rehabilitation and physical therapy. In addition to the innovative TENS units, Koalaty also distributes electrodes, orthopedic pillows, braces, batteries and topical analgesics. Current Solutions relocated to Austin in 2009. View Website
	Digium / Asterisk
Huntsville, Alabama Digium, Inc., the Asterisk company, is the original creator and primary developer of Asterisk, the industry's first open source telephony platform. Digium provides hardware and software products to enterprises and telecommunications providers worldwide. Digium also offers a full range of professional services, including consulting, technical support and custom software development. Used in combination with Digium's telephony interface cards, Asterisk offers a strategic, highly cost-effective approach to voice and data transport over IP, TDM, switched and Ethernet architectures. Digium's offerings include VoIP, conferencing, legacy PBX, IVR, auto attendant, media servers and gateways, and application servers and gateways. View Website
	DomaniCom Corporation
Shelton, Connecticut DomaniCom Corporation is developing a software-centric system that would serve as a single platform to integrate and manage services delivered by cable, telephone, and direct broadcast satellite companies. DomaniCom's product will eliminate the need for multiple single-function products and will allow users to integrate linear television with a multi-room digital video recorder plus IP-TV and non-video services such as managed wireless internet, electric meter reading, alarm and surveillance capabilities.
	EmergingMed
New York, New York EmergingMed's mission is to leverage the power of the Internet to increase treatment options for people with serious illnesses and to speed up drug development through increased enrollment in clinical trials. EmergingMed.com has created an unparalleled matching technology that allows people with serious illnesses, their caregivers and physicians to compare a short personal profile to the enrollment criteria of thousands of clinical trials. EmergingMed has partnered with numerous organizations, including the American Cancer Society and the Lance Armstrong Foundation, to offer its services through private-label collaborations. View Website
	Environmental Operations, Inc.
St. Louis, Missouri Founded in 1986, Environmental Operations, Inc. (EOI) provides specialized environmental services to clients throughout the St. Louis region. The company identifies and resolves environmental site issues, including its expertise in Brownfield incentives and risk assumption tools. EOI integrates the skills of its operational, technical, risk management, legal, financial specialists, real estate specialists and partners with state-of-the-art project delivery systems to offer a level of experience unmatched by others. View Website
	Fire Rock Manufacturing, Inc.
Birmingham, Alabama Fire Rock Manufacturing specializes in pre-engineered, masonry fireplace systems suitable for indoor or outdoor fireplaces. Fire Rock products utilize volcanic pumice and calcium aluminates cements to form refractory components that reflect heat back into the home. Fire Rock products install in a fraction of the time it takes to build a masonry fireplace from concrete or brick. The components are designed to insure proper draw on every firebox. Once installed, a Fire Rock fireplace can be covered in a variety of veneers. The system is American made, patented and tested to UL standards. View Website
	FleetCor Technologies, Inc.
New Orleans, Louisiana FleetCor is the worldwide leader in fuel card processing. Since its establishment in 2000, FleetCor has acquired and developed a number of major fuel card brands in North America and Europe. The company's card programs are marketed under a variety of globally-recognized brand names including Fuelman, CFN, Mannatec, Keyfuels and CCS. FleetCor's systems address the logistical complexities involved in managing, containing and documenting commercial fleet vehicle expenses. Collectively, FleetCor's card programs serve over 500,000 businesses with approximately 3 million active cardholders. The company processes purchases of over $12 billion of fuel annually. The company had its IPO in December 2010 and trades on NYSE (FLT). View Website
	Floop, Inc.
Woodbridge, Connecticut Floop, Inc., is a mobile app that provides a next generation real time graphical interface to let users express opinions and see what their friends and the world think as events unfold. Floop is a new way to experience events, participate in the live stream, and share with friends. View Website
	Greenleaf Biofuels
Guilford, Connecticut Greenleaf Biofuels is developing a biodiesel processing operation at New Haven Terminal. The company is committed to producing American-made biofuels from recycled waste materials that will not only help secure U.S. energy independence, but also provide for a cleaner environment. View Website
	GridApp Systems
New York, New York GridApp Systems is the leading provider of database automation solutions to help businesses gain control of their heterogeneous database infrastructures. Currently supporting hundreds of customer installations worldwide, across multiple industries such as financial services, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, education, eCommerce and technology, GridApp's market leading products and services have helped businesses deploy and better manage their critical database assets. View Website
	GridPoint Inc.
Washington, DC GridPoint's mission is to align the interests of electric utilities, consumers and the environment. GridPoint's innovative SmartGrid Platform empowers utilities to achieve business objectives, increase grid reliability, promote environmental stewardship and fuel the adoption of renewable energy sources. GridPoint's platform provides utilities with an intelligent network of distributed energy conservation and generation resources that controls load, stores energy and produces power. View Website
	Group 360
St. Louis, Missouri Group 360 is a marketing firm that specializes in understanding the design, prepress, and printing variables needed to enhance a clients visual presence in the marketplace. Founded in 1956, the company provides solutions for achieving national and international marketing goals and objectives. View Website
	Guild.com
Madison, Wisconsin Based in Madison, Wisconsin, Guild, LLC sells original artwork on-line and through its frequent catalogs. An outgrowth of THE GUILD, an art publishing company founded in 1985, the Company currently offers retail and professional art buyers over 10,000 original works of art direct from the studios of nearly 1,200 leading artists, galleries and art print publishers. The Company distinguishes itself by offering highly personalized customer service, exclusive artwork, and online content from experts in the field of fine arts and crafts. View Website
	Halifax Media Holdings
Daytona Beach, Florida In 2010, Halifax Media Holdings acquired the Daytona Beach News-Journal which is the primary source of news and advertising for the east-central coast of Florida. The News-Journal has a daily circulation of 68,000, 85,000 on Sunday, and is complemented by a long-established shopper network, two area telephone books and a portfolio of niche products. View Website
	Hawaii Biotech, Inc.
Aiea, Hawaii Hawaii Biotech, Inc. (HBI) is a privately held biotechnology company focused on the research and development of vaccines for established and emerging infectious diseases. The company has developed a proprietary protein production platform that is applicable to the production of vaccine antigens. The company's lead vaccine candidates target the West Nile virus and the viruses responsible for seasonal influenza. A dengue vaccine is also under development for individuals traveling to or living in dengue endemic areas. View Website
	Historic Restoration, Inc.
New Orleans, Louisiana HRI specializes in the revitalization of historic buildings through the development of multi-use real estate projects. The company is a fully integrated real estate company with expertise in urban planning, design, construction, marketing, finance, brokerage, property asset management and parking operations. View Website
	Hospice Partners of Texas
San Antonio, Texas Hospice Partners of Texas provides its services to terminally ill patients with cancer, AIDS, emphysema, heart failure and other life-limiting illnesses. The company provides a comprehensive approach to end-of-life care, with a focus on patient comfort ensuring that the final stage of life is satisfying for the patient and their family. View Website
	iCardiac Technologies
Rochester, New York iCardiac Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Rochester, New York, is a leading provider of advanced cardiac safety analysis technologies. The company evolved from research carried out at the Heart Research Follow-up Program at the University of Rochester. The company's technology provides more rigorous characterization of the cardiac safety profiles of in-development and on-market drugs. This allows iCardiac's customers to both accelerate drug development as well as bring compounds forward in clinical trials with more confidence about their cardiac safety. Additionally, the company's core technology has applications in ECG-based cardiac diagnostics and medical devices. View Website
	Illinois Neurospine Institute, PC
Bourbonnais, Illinois Illinois Neurospine Institute (INI) was founded in 2001 and has become a leader in innovative, cutting edge and advanced spinal surgery and spine care. Over the past ten years, INI has grown to be one of the largest neurosurgery and spine practices in the state of Illinois.
	ILMO Products Company
Jacksonville, Illinois ILMO Products Company is a family-owned business responsible for the distribution of medical, industrial and laboratory gases for health care, manufacturing and research based industries. Additionally, ILMO Offers welding equipment, sales, services and supply. Established in 1913, ILMO has grown to 10 branches and distribution centers throughout Illinois and Missouri and operates three specialty divisions, ILMO Medical Gases, ILMO Specialty Gases and ILMO Propane. View Website
	INDEECO
Cuba, Missouri Established in 1929, INDEECO designs and manufactures a complete line of heating equipment, including space heaters, industrial component heaters and electronic controls for commercial, industrial and marine markets in North America and abroad. INDEECO is based in Missouri and maintains three manufacturing facilities in the state: one in St. Louis, one in Boonville and one in Cuba. View Website
	Inside Higher Ed
Washington, DC Inside Higher Ed is the online source for news, opinion and jobs for all of higher education. The site provides breaking news, feature stories, provocative daily commentary, areas for comment on every article, practical career columns and a powerful suite of tools to help higher education professionals get jobs and help colleges identify and hire employees. View Website
	Jahabow Industries, Inc.
Owensville, Missouri Jahabow Industries, Inc. is a complete provider of glass, wood and metal display case and store fixture solutions. Jahabow is the second largest employer in the rural community of Owensville, Mo., and its manufacturing, office and warehouse complex covers nearly 250,000 square feet. View Website
	Kereos
St. Louis, Missouri Kereos, Inc. develops targeted molecular imaging agents and therapeutics designed to detect and treat cancer and cardiovascular disease earlier and more specifically than currently possible. The specificity and unique capabilities of Kereos' molecular imaging agents enable earlier and more definitive diagnosis of disease. Similarly, Kereos' targeted therapeutics seek out definitive disease biomarkers and carry powerful payloads of proven chemotherapeutics, making them potentially more effective and less toxic in treating disease. With its lead candidates projected to enter the clinic in 2008, Kereos is at the forefront in bringing targeted therapy and molecular imaging to patients. Independently and with its partners, Kereos is committed to developing its pipeline of products tackling America's top two killers. View Website
	Lawrence Group
St. Louis, Missouri The Lawrence Group is one of the largest building design, planning, and project delivery firms in St. Louis with network offices in Texas, New York, Colorado and North Carolina. Named in the 'Top 100 Giants' by Interior Design magazine, the Lawrence Group offers architecture, interior design, a retail furniture showroom, graphic design, town planning, construction management, and real estate development services to health care, commercial and housing clients. Lawrence Group is a member of the American Institute of Architects, the U.S. Green Building Council and the Urban Land Institute. View Website
	Lift for Life Academy
St. Louis, Missouri Lift for Life Academy is a charter school located in St. Louis' Soulard neighborhood. Established in 1988, Lift for Life began as a weightlifting gym and later grew to include free year-round after-school care for children ages 8 to 18. In 2000, the organization opened an Academy, becoming the first independent charter middle school in the city of St. Louis. The school, currently comprised of 350 students, is free and open to all St. Louis students in grades six through nine. View Website
	Louisiana Technology Fund
Baton Rouge, Louisiana www.latechpark.com www.intertechsciencepark.com www.uno.edu/rtp/facilities.htm The Louisiana Technology Fund, controlled by the state's four research parks, will invest in companies engaged in or intending to engage in technology-based products or services in information technology, communications, medical, biomedical, advanced materials, food environment or micro-manufacturing technologies. The research parks included are the Louisiana Technology Park in Baton Rouge, University of New Orleans Research and Technology Park, University Research Park in Lafayette and InterTech Science Park in Shreveport.
	Manna Pro Products
Tampa, Florida Manna Pro Products, with locations in Florida, Georgia, Colorado and Missouri, produces high-quality animal nutrition and care products for a broad range of animals. Its largest group of products is geared toward horses, but the company also produces feed for goats, chickens, cows, pigs, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs and birds. Manna Pro's product lines primarily serve the ''lifestyle farmer'' market - people who own acreage with farm animals, and operate their farms as a hobby rather than a business. Manna Pro was founded in 1985 as the successor to Carnation Company Milling Division, and the company's products have been trusted for generations. View Website
	Mason Manufacturing
Decatur, Illinois Mason Manufacturing is a leading manufacturer of high quality heat exchangers, dryers and vessels for major national and international clients including the biotechnology, biofuels, grain processing, chemical, petroleum, power and water treatment industries. Over the last 60 years Mason Manufacturing has established a reputation for exceptional quality, service and dependability. View Website
	Mezmeriz, Inc.
Ithaca, New York Mezmeriz is building a revolution in digital television. Based on research at Cornell University's famed nanotechnology laboratory, Mezmeriz has developed breakthrough micro-mirror technology that will enable a new generation of displays. This technology will lead to video projectors that are no larger than a matchbook, enabling all devices to be mobile theaters. It will also enable the manufacture of massive rear projection high-definition television that can hang on the wall using a simple picture hook. View Website
	Mid America Brick
Mexico, Missouri Mid America Brick & Structural Clay Products, LLC is a face brick production plant for residential and commercial building construction. In 2010, Mid America Brick successfully acquired and re-commissioned the iconic A.P. Green Plant. The new plant is now officially open for business and Mid America Brick expects to produce more than 60 million bricks a year when it is fully operational. View Website
	Monarch Machine Tool
Cortland, New York Monarch Machine Tool in Cortland makes some of the most precise and reliable machine tools in the world. Their customers are a who's who of manufacturing in automobiles, jet aircraft and military equipment. Monarch's award-winning facility, which houses all of its production, engineering and sales operations, is located in an Empire Zone. View Website
	Motion Computing
Austin, Texas Motion Computing is a leading provider of integrated mobile computing solutions, combining world-class products with services customized for the unique needs of target vertical markets. The companys enhanced line of rugged tablet PCs, mobile point of care solutions and accessories are designed to increase mobile productivity while providing portability, security, power and versatility. Operating in more than 25 countries worldwide, Motion sells its solutions through a global network of value-added resellers and distributors. View Website
	Nanopoint Inc.
Honolulu, Hawaii Nanopoint, Inc. is a privately-held biotechnology company that develops and markets unique cellular imaging systems for the life sciences market. Nanopoint's cellTRAY®-based solutions are miniaturized cell culture and imaging systems for live cell-based assays. Nanopoint's products have broad applications to life science research, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical production as well as other areas where single cell analysis is important. View Website
	NeuWave Medical, Inc.
Madison, Wisconsin NeuWave Medical Inc. is a medical device company with a microwave ablation system for cancerous tumors. Founded by two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors, the company's minimally invasive patented technology involves inserting a needle-like probe into a patient's skin to deliver microwaves that heat the tumor to 140 degrees, thus destroying it. NeuWave plans to bring the technology to market by 2010 and offer a superior alternative to existing procedures for destroying liver, kidney and lung tumors. View Website
	New England Linen Supply Company, Inc.
New Haven, Connecticut New England Linen Supply Company, Inc. offers the rental and sale of employee uniforms, table linen, napkins and other textiles products to the foodservice industry. The company is headquartered in and operates from New Haven, as well as from an affiliated company in New Jersey, and serves customers from the Boston metropolitan area to greater Philadelphia. View Website
	NovaTract Surgical, LLC
New Haven, Connecticut NovaTract Surgical, LLC is the developer of a specialized, next-generation surgical tool, based upon technology licensed from Yale University. NovaTract is addressing the long term goal of reducing the number of incisions necessary to perform minimally invasive surgeries including the rapidly growing field of Single-Port Laparoscopic Surgery and Natural Orifice Transluminal Edoscopic Surgery (''NOTES''). Fewer incisions lead to less pain and scarring, faster recovering times, and less risk of adhesions, infections, or hernias in the abdomen wall for patients. View Website
	Novelos Therapeutics
Madison, Wisconsin Novelos Therapeutics is a radiopharmaceuticals company that designs and develops products to detect, treat and monitor a wide variety of human cancers. Cellectar's novel product candidates combine lipid-like molecules, phospholipid ethers (PLEs), with radioisotopes that destroy malignant cells. Cellectar's products' unique mechanism of action is based on selective accumulation and retention in malignant tumors and not normal cells. View Website
	Pasteuria Bioscience, LLC
Alachua, Florida Pasteuria Bioscience, LLC is addressing agriculture's largest unsolved pest problem: plant-parasitic nematodes. The company's revolutionary new technology allows the rapid and cost-effective growth of multiple strains of Pasteuria penetrans in traditional commercial fermentation tanks using easily available growth media. This in-vitro production process will enable the launch of a less expensive and more effective nematicide, which will not only replace methyl bromide and other chemicals, but also will enable control of nematode problems for which there currently are no safe or cost-effective treatment options. View Website
	Portico Learning Solutions
Baton Rouge, Louisiana Portico Learning Solutions (formerly Flying Fish Creative Services, Inc.) is a premier provider of e-Learning training programs delivered via the Internet to corporate and government clients. Specializing in courseware management and custom e-Learning development, the company has implemented Internet-based learning systems successfully in a wide range of government, corporate and technical environments. Portico currently provides e-Learning to over 100,000 personnel worldwide. View Website
	Producers' Choice Soy Energy, LLC
Moberly, Missouri Producers' Choice Soy Energy is building a soybean processing plant and biodiesel production facility in Moberly, Missouri. The soybean crush will process up to 250 tons of soybeans daily for biodiesel conversion, as well as 65,000 tons of extruded soybean meal each year. View Website
	Quality Wood Products
Kansas City, Missouri Quality Wood Products is a manufacturer of custom kitchen, bathroom, bar and library cabinets for the new home and remodeling markets. The company's cabinets are used in a full range of homes built in the Kansas City region. Founded in 1961 as a part-time endeavor by a local firefighter, QWP has grown over the years to become a substantial business with more than 230 employees. View Website
	Quickoffice
Plano, Texas Based in Plano, Texas, Quickoffice is a world leader in providing mobile office document software for smartphones. The company's flagship product, Quickoffice Premier, continues to receive awards and recognition from industry analysts, the media and users. The software allows users to open, edit and send their original, native Microsoft files without the need for desktop conversion or synchronization. Fully localized in 36 languages, and shipping worldwide as a built-in solution on millions of smartphones, Quickoffice has been a top-selling mobile office application since its market introduction. View Website
	Renaissance Financial Corporation
St. Louis, Missouri Founded in 1994, Renaissance Financial provides customized solutions to assist individuals and businesses in reaching their financial goals. The financial services firm offers estate planning, individual financial services, investments, protection planning and retirement services for businesses and high net worth individuals. Renaissance Financial is based in St. Louis, with additional offices in Omaha, Nebraska; and Kansas City, Kansas. View Website
	Rucker's Wholesale & Service Company
Bridgeport, Illinois Rucker's Candy is one of the fastest growing candy distributors in the country. The family-operated company has grown from a small home-based business in 1985 into a nationwide distributorship that serves more than 1,777 stores with 37 distribution centers. Rucker's provides full service, direct store delivery of confectionery and snack products to a variety of retail outlets including farm and ranch stores and outdoor sporting goods stores. View Website
	Selltis, LLC
Mandeville, Louisiana Selltis is a sales force automation software company. The company's products unite industrial sales teams through a more comprehensive sales automation solution. The Selltis package was designed by experienced industry sales professionals as a better way to manage the front end of the sales cycle, the critical steps between identifying an opportunity and presenting the client with a quote. View Website
	Soft Switching Technologies
Middleton, Wisconsin Soft Switching Technologies develops, manufactures and markets patented and proprietary solutions that enhance the quality and reliability of electric power used in critical manufacturing and information technology applications. The company also provides power electronics to distributed resource Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and is introducing new products and services for the power monitoring and energy information markets. View Website
	SOMS Technologies, Inc.
Valhalla, New York SOMS Technologies, Inc. is the manufacturer of the microGreen^(TM) oil filter, a patented 'green' technology designed to keep oil cleaner for a longer duration. The microGreen oil filter patented design utilizes two filters while maintaining the standard Spin-On Canister form factor. It replaces conventional oil filter assembly without requiring any modifications to the engine or filter housing. By continuously filtering a small portion of the engine oil through the secondary micro-filter system, the microGreen filtration system allows a vehicle to operate up to 30,000 miles without changing the engine oil. View Website
	Stereotaxis, Inc.
St. Louis, Missouri Stereotaxis is a medical device company engaged in the field of image guided interventional surgery. The company's proprietary technology, the Magnetic Surgery System, is composed of a surgical workstation that uses superconducting magnets and digital computer imaging to guide surgical instruments to precise targets in the body. This technology will allow practitioners to exercise digital control of imaging, device movement and positioning using minimally invasive medical techniques. The company had its Initial Public Offering in August 2004 and trades on NASDAQ (STXS). View Website
	Stout Industries
St. Louis, Missouri Stout Industries is a family-owned sheet metal printing and fabrication company with extensive imaging capabilities used to produce attractive, commercial point-of-sale signage, imaging fascia and other architectural elements for businesses. The company has existed since 1886 when a young entrepreneur created one of the first metal signs for public service use. Today the company produces a myriad of sheet metal products in both short and long production runs and services some of the largest consumer-branded corporations in North America. View Website
	Summit Aerospace
Miami, Florida Summit Aerospace is the flagship company for Aerospace Engineering Group (AEG), which was founded in 2001 and has become a best-of-class, international, one-stop MRO able to address the entire spectrum of aircraft component repair needs. AEG is backed by an experienced team and state-of-the-art equipment. The company is qualified to service almost every major accessory and component, across more than 100 civil and military aircraft platforms. View Website
	Summit Broadband
Orlando, Florida Summit Broadband is a communications provider focused on delivering Internet, cable and telephone services to customers located within the Orlando MSA. The company is a fiber facilities-based certified competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) providing service to hotels, apartments, student-housing facilities, single-family home developments and businesses throughout Orlando. View Website
	Sunburst Farms
Miami, Florida Sunburst Farms is one of the oldest and most respected fresh cut flower importers and distributors in the U.S. Sunburst supplies over 32 different flower types to national supermarket chains, big box retailers and traditional wholesale florists. The company sources its products from some of the best known quality farms in Colombia and Ecuador. The company also provides merchandising, product design, marketing and category management support to its customers. View Website
	Sunflower Food & Spice Company
Kansas City, Missouri Founded in 1994, Sunflower Food & Spice produces gourmet snacks for the specialty food industry. Largely known for its colorful Sunny Seed Drops®, the company also offers a variety of other snacks made from sunflower seeds, as well as nuts and pretzel snacks, bagel spread mixes and much more. The Sunflower Food & Spice products are sold throughout the country to department stores, gourmet retailers and the food service industry. View Website
	Synacor, Inc.
Buffalo, New York Synacor is the leading provider of technology supporting the delivery of unbranded bundled online services. Synacor enables Internet Access Providers to easily bundle a variety of subscription-only premium, entertainment and value added services into their Internet access products. View Website
	T&K Machine
Paris, Texas T&K Machine is a manufacturer of highly engineered precision-machined airframe components and light assemblies for the commercial and military aerospace markets. The company produces a wide range of structural and airframe components, such as door latches and parts for wing boxes and cargo boxes. T&K serves some of the leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Tier 1 aerospace suppliers including Spirit AeroSystems, Goodrich Corporation, Boeing and Vought Aircraft. View Website
	The Green Life Guides, LLC
New Haven, Connecticut The Green Life Guides, LLC operates an online site for green wedding ideas, products, and services. The site is committed to promoting environmental awareness and social change by offering eco-friendly alternatives to the modern bride. The Green Life Guides launched the country's first green wedding gift registry which provides free carbon neutral shipping. The company plans to expand the New Haven-based business in the future to include baby showers and additional life-cycle events. View Website
	Truist
Washington, DC Truist was formed in July 2008 by the merger of CreateHope and United eWay. The company, with offices in Washington, DC and New York, offers a complete portfolio of solutions supportive of global employee- and community-involvement program administration. Truist delivers innovative technology and services to more than 1,000 customers across more than 50 countries, representing a cumulative 3,000 programs, 1 million volunteers and $2.5 billion in charitable contributions. View Website
	Turbo Squid, Inc.
New Orleans, Louisiana Turbo Squid is the fastest growing on-line marketplace for 3D assets, such as models, images, textures, motion files, behaviors and sound files. The marketplace is a venue for professional developers to post on and buy from the Turbo Squid system. The company has revolutionized the way that 3D assets are bought, sold and delivered by creating a new and focused digital marketplace designed to offer large selections of affordable products while providing maximum returns to intellectual property owners. View Website
	Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.
St. Louis, Missouri Headquartered in St. Louis, Veran Medical Technologies is a privately held image guided medical device company focused on developing the next standard of care for minimally invasive delivery of interventional oncology therapies. Veran provides proprietary 4D registration capability for precise targeting of lesions. The Veran platform aims to reduce procedure times and increase accuracy enabling physicians to cost effectively treat patients with reduced co-morbidity risk. View Website
	Virent Energy Systems, Inc.
Madison, Wisconsin Virent Energy Systems, Inc., headquartered in Madison, Wis., is dedicated to enabling the hydrogen economy by dramatically increasing energy densities and eliminating hydrogen storage issues through widespread use of its Aqueous Phase Reforming (APR) process. Virent's APR system offers a cost-effective method for producing hydrogen and natural gas using a renewable biomass. Through increased energy densities and reduced energy and equipment costs, this low-temperature, direct conversion process can be used for distributed power systems and fuel stations. View Website
	Voxitas
St. Louis, Missouri Voxitas (formerly NetLogic) is a Quality of Service (QoS) Business-Class Internet telephony service provider (ITSP). The company offers feature-rich, next generation voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) telephony services, utilitizing SIP trunks. In addition, the company provides long distance, Internet, toll-free and emergency 911 services to single and multi-site IPBX systems, in-bound and out-bound call centers, small to medium-sized enterprises, and wholesale carriers. View Website
	Waste Remedies
St. Louis, Missouri Waste Remedies provides consulting, management and brokerage services for waste removal. For customers that include property managers, manufacturers, retailers and restaurants, Waste Remedies arranges waste removal and recycling at considerably less expense than most companies can obtain for themselves, saving clients an average of 30-50% off their current waste expenses. View Website
	Westport Linen Services, LLC
Baton Rouge, Louisiana Founded in 2000, Westport Linen Services provides laundry services primarily to hospitals and healthcare centers in southern Louisiana and Mississippi. Westport Linen launders sheets, towels, hospital gowns, sterile surgical linens, and other linens. The company operates under long-term contracts for the majority of its customers, processing over 260,000 pounds of retail linen per week.
	Willert Home Products
St. Louis, Missouri Willert Home Products is the largest manufacturer of moth preventives in the United States, the largest manufacturer of toilet bowl deodorizers and one of the largest manufacturers of automatic toilet bowl cleaners in the world. View Website
	Worley Catastrophe Response, LLC
Hammond, Louisiana Founded in 1976, The Worley Companies is a leading provider of catastrophe management services and outsourced adjustment services to large companies and self-insured industrial companies. View Website