ARYx Therapeutics

Sector(s): Pharmaceutical
Location: Fremont, CA 
Status: Public

The ARYx mission is to make proven therapies safer. By applying its retrometabolic approach to pharmaceutical discovery and development, ARYx intends to serve patients by fundamentally improving the safety of oral therapies in large, chronic markets while maintaining their efficacy. To optimize shareholder value, ARYx's goal is to be a profitable company with a continuing pipeline of products, balancing risk against rewards through collaborations with pharmaceutical partners. In November 2007 the company completed an initial public offering led by Morgan Stanley and trdes under the NASDAQ symbol ARYX.

Imagelock

Sector(s): Digital Content
Location: San Francisco, CA
Status: Wound down

Imagelock image protection and management service provides customers with instant access to information about the use and misuse of their digital image assets on the Web. Powered by BitShark patent-pending spidering and crawling technology, ImageLock.com locates and digitally fingerprints images,text, audio, MP3, and video on over nine million Web sites.  At any given time, over 200 million digital objects are being monitored.  Tracking and monitoring information is archived to enable ongoing infringement resolution.

Lifeline Technologies

Sector(s): Biotechnology

Location: Chesterfield, MO

Status: Private

Lifeline Technologies is a health sciences development company focused on novel strategies for lowering human cholesterol absorption by using plant sterols and stanols to block the absorption of free cholesterol in the small intestine. The company is using licensed patented intellectual property from Washington University, St. Louis, to develop complementary approaches in the following three areas: dietary supplements, food ingredients and pharmaceuticals. The company has ready access to an enabling clinical technology for the measurement of human cholesterol absorption that permits rapid assessment of promising cholesterol lowering candidates and dosing regimens. Lifeline has entered into a licensing arrangement with Archer Daniels Midland Company for worldwide food and beverage applications.

Privada

Sector(s): Digital Privacy
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Status: Wound down

Privada Network is a network that allows Internet users to communicate privately via an anonymous, secure identity. The sender's real world identity and personal information are maintained a secret from everyone -- including the Privada Network. 

Speedchain

Sector(s): Digital Commerce
Location: San Francisco, CA
Status: acquired by Vastera 

Speedchain is a provider of supply chain event management and global e-logistics solutions. Through a Web-native framework its solutions increase cross-enterprise collaboration and information sharing, ultimately resulting in faster shipment cycle times and improved customer service for its clients. Its global e-logistics solutions assist companies optimize their global supply chain operations by leveraging sophisticated rules based engines and intelligent algorithms. Speedchain Networks was acquired by Vastera in April, 2001.