SEVEN Wins Investors' Choice Award at Technologic Partners' Wireless Ventures Conference

Technologic Partners

Technologic Partners, the publisher of VentureWire, announced the winners of its prestigious Investors' Choice award at the conclusion of its two-day Wireless Ventures private equity conference held this week in Burlingame, Calif. The Investors' Choice award goes to the ten privately held companies presenting at the conference judged most likely to succeed.

The winners, in alphabetical order, are:

• Airvana of Chelmsford, Mass.
• Bermai of Palo Alto, Calif.
• Bluesocket of Burlington, Mass.
• Canesta of San Jose, Calif.
• EnvoyWorldWide of Bedford, Mass.
• MeshNetworks of Maitland, Fla.
• NetMotion of Seattle
• Rosum of Redwood City, Calif.
• SEVEN of Redwood City, Calif.
• WaterCove Networks of Chelmsford, Mass.

Winners were selected from the 84 privately held companies that presented their business plans at the conference. The awards were based on voting by the audience of 450 entrepreneurs, investors, and industry executives, as well as a panel of experts comprising Jon Auerbach, principal at Highland Capital Partners; Rajeev Chand, analyst at Rutberg & Co.; Frank Marsala, equity analyst for Robertson Stephens; and John Zeisler, general partner at Nokia Venture Partners. Technologic Partners founder and VentureWire editor-in-chief Richard A. Shaffer presented the awards.

The new Wireless Ventures conference highlights emerging, venture-backed companies that are developing a wide range of wireless technologies, services, and applications--from advanced integrated circuits, smart antennas, and enterprise applications to wireless middleware, the carrier infrastructure, and mobile Internet devices and services.

The two-day program consists of presentations by CEOs of emerging companies describing their business plans and prospects, framed by the insights generated by panel discussions and keynote speeches on industry issues. It is produced annually by Technologic Partners and VentureWire and held in the Bay Area.

Among the keynote speakers at this year's conference were Adel Al-Saleh, general manager of global wireless e-business at IBM; Eric Benhamou, chairman & CEO of Palm; Sky Dayton, chairman, CEO & founder, of Boingo Wireless; Mark Kelley, chief technology officer at Leap Wireless International; and Don Listwin, president & CEO of Openwave Systems.

Technologic Partners is a publishing and events firm that has been covering venture capital and high-tech startups since 1984. Technologic publishes the VentureWire newsletters, as well as ComputerLetter and VentureFinance, and also produces a series of premier investor conferences. More information is available at www.venturewire.com.

For more information on Wireless Ventures, visit www.wireless-ventures.com.