Second Annual 2002 SmartStart Venture Forum^®

The second annual SmartStart Venture Forum was held in Albany, New York on October 2 and 3, 2002. The event showcased the best and brightest emerging technology companies and business innovators from across New York. The Forum united these companies with investors and professional service providers throughout the East Coast.

Presenting Companies

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• APPRO Healthcare
• Autotask Group
• Biodiesel Technologies
• CardoMag
• Connected Energy
• Crystal IS
• Diamond Visionics
• Drug Risk Solutions
• Ecochlor
• EcoTech Solutions
• Evident Technologies
• ExerGen Biosciences
• Folsom Technologies
• Gene Network Sciences
• GliaMed
• InSciTek Microsystems
• LifeTesting LLC
• Linguagen Corp
• Med Graph Inc.
• Microlanguage
• PJ Solutions
• Psyche Pharmaceuticals Inc.
• RealCosmetics
• Silicon Imaging
• Starfire Systems Inc
• SwingCam Inc.
• Terakeet Corporation
• Valogix Inc
• Velox Logic
• Wirespeed Technologies

SmartStart In the news

• Event introduces venture capitalists, upstate companies seeking investors
• Microlanguage selected as tech forum finalist
• Web wave over, venture capital slows to trickle 
• Venture funding remains a capital idea in region 
• Best of Business Ideas Seek Venture Capital
• Hoping to Start Some Long Courtships
• Microlanguage Receives SmartStart Venture Forum Award
• SmartStart Venture Forum Attendance Outpaces Last Year for Both Entrepreneurs and Investors
• B. Frezza, "The Role of Venture Capital: Turning Science into Money"
• High-tech firms make pitch for capital at Colonie forum
• MRS Bulletin, Vol. 27 No. 8 (2002) p. 580.
  PDF document based on a presentation by Bill Frezza (Adams Capital Management Inc.) in Symposium X: Frontiers of Materials Research at the 2002 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in San Francisco on April 2.

Companies in Attendance (not a full list)

1 to 1 Venture Partners Adams Capital Management, Inc. Ascend Venture Group Boston Community Venture Fund BR Ventures Brook Venture Fund Cayuga Venture Fund II LLC Colmen Capital Advisors Deloitte Touche Enhanced Capital Partners FA Technology Ventures GWBS High Peaks Venture Partners Info River Valley JP Morgan Chase Bank National Venture Capital Association Next Generation Ventures NYS Senate Finance Committee Parmele,McDermott & Thomas PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP Rochester Venture Capital Group/Germanow Co. Sear Brown Senator Schumer's Office SOFTBANK, Inc. Summer Street Capital Partners The CASE Center Village Ventures, Inc.

ACE-Net.Org, Inc. Advantage Capital Partners Baird Boylan Brown Code Vigdor & Wilson Brettle Financial Group Brownstone Capital Partners CNYTDO Daily Gazette Diamond Visionics, LLC Erie County IDA/Niagara Region Ventures Fund Finger Lakes Entrepreneurs' Forum Hatheway Venture Consulting High Technology of Rochester IBM MBL International Corporation NetAnyware Corporation NYS Common Retirement Fund NYS Small Business Technology Investment Fund Palisade Capital Management Rand Capital Corporation SASInvestors Senator Bruno's Office Silicon Alley Venture Partners Stonehenge Capital Corporation Tech Valley Angel Network The InVentures Group VantagePoint Venture Partners

2002 Sponsors

Event Photos