Third Annual 2003 SmartStart Venture Forum^®

The third annual SmartStart Venture ForumSM was held in Albany, New York on October 1 and 2, 2003. The event showcased the best and brightest emerging technology companies and business innovators from across New York.

Presenting Companies

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• Aereon Solutions, Inc.
• American Aerogel Corporation
• Aviation Technologies Group
• BREONICS, Inc.
• Capital Programs, Inc.
• Critical Technologies, Inc.
• Crystal IS
• Custom Systems Integration Incorporated
• Darlogix, Inc.
• DEALTEK
• Design2Launch
• Glia Med
• GlucoLight Corp
• Hamilton Thorne
• HealthcareOne
• Innovation Business Partners
• Innovative Biotech
• Links Point
• NGMTEC
• NovaSterilis
• OrcaGear
• PharmaNova
• Phytobials
• PlanarSemiconductor
• Plethooratechnology
• SleepSolutions
• SYNCTOMI
• VERTEX
• ViralTherapeutics

SmartStart In the news

• Presenting Companies Secure Funding After Empire State Venture Group's SmartStart Venture Forum
• 29 Companies to Present at 3rd Annual SmartStart Venture Forum
• Firms compete for capital in capital city
• Microlanguage Wins Award for "Best Emerging Company"
• Companies to Present at Third Annual SmartStart Venture Forum
• Brook opens Albany, NY office & sponsors venture event
• Venture Capital is up in upstate New York

Companies in Attendance (not a full list)

Adams & Royer, Inc. Advantage Capital Partners Alliance for Manufacturing & Technology Ascend Venture Group Brook Venture Fund Cayuga Venture Fund Center Square Consulting Counter Point Ventures Early Stage East Empire Information Services FA Technology Ventures Glimmerglass LTD Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C. High Tech Rochester Landmark Captial Corp. NextRidge NJ Angels NYSTAR Orange County Angel Network Parmele, McDermott & Thomas Rand Capital Corporation Rensselaer Tech Park Rose & Kiernan, Inc. Summer Street Capital Syracuse University Times Union TWJ Capital LLC UVANY Webster Bank Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP

Adirondack Venture Fund Albany Law School Anchor Agency Inc. Attract Capital, LLC Capstone Center for Economic Growth Cornell University Daily Gazette ECC Advisors Empire State Development/SBTIF Futrfab Inc. Greenhill SAVP High Peaks Venture Partners Hudson Valley Center for Innovation New York Angels Nixon Peabody NYSERDA Onondaga Venture Capital Ordway Research Institute Phillips Lytle Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Research Foundation of SUNY Stonehenge Capital Co. Silicon Valley Bank The Business Review Tupper Lake Free Press University at Buffalo Virtual Recall Inc. Weybridge Partners Zone 5

2003 Sponsors