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A-H

ABC Window Co.
Ontario, CA
www.abcwindowco.com
Industry: Business & Financial Services
Stage: Recapitalization
ABC Window is a leading manufacturer of custom, vinyl and aluminum windows and patio doors servicing regional and national developers and contractors in Southern California.

ABRA Auto Body & Glass
Minneapolis, MN
www.abraauto.com
Industry: Consumer
Stage: Later-Stage Growth
ABRA owns and operates 50 company-operated collision repair centers and 17 actively supervised franchised centers located in 10 states. The equity capital will be used fund expansion in the company's existing markets as well as acquisitions and developments of collision repair centers in new markets.

Airpax
Cambridge, MD
www.airpaxcorp.com
Industry: Business & Financial Services
Stage: Recapitalization
Airpax is the leading worldwide manufacturer of hydraulic magnetic circuit breakers and select thermostats and temperature sensors. These products provide protection for equipment, machinery and instruments in end markets including telecommunications, wireless communication, power, information processing, HVAC, industrial and defense.

American Blind & Wallpaper Factory
Plymouth, MI
www.decoratetoday.com
Industry: Consumer
Stage: Later-Stage Growth
American Blind & Wallpaper Factory is the largest direct marketer of quality, name brand and private label special order window treatments and wall coverings.

American Civil Constructors
Denver, CO www.acconstruct.com
Industry: Business & Financial Services
Stage: Later-Stage Growth
American Civil Constructors (“ACC”) is a leading provider of civil infrastructure services. ACC is focused on the reconstruction, retrofit, rehabilitation and reclamation sectors of the industry as opposed to new construction. The equity capital will be used to grow the company’s core business as well as to pursue acquisitions of complementary small and medium sized civil infrastructure service providers.

Apropos Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: APRS)
Oakbrook, IL
www.apropos.com
Industry: Technology
Stage: Expansion
Apropos Technology is a leading provider of real time multi-channel interaction management application for managing customer interactions across a variety of communications media, including E-mail, Web and Voice.

AtheroGenics, Inc.
(NASDAQ: AGIX)
Alpharetta, GA
www.atherogenics.com
Industry: Health Care Services & Products
Stage: Expansion
AtheroGenics is a development-stage pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of novel therapeutics for the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular and other diseases.

Carpathia Financial Services, LLC
Milwaukee, WI
www.carpathiacorporation.com
Industry: Business & Financial Services
Stage: Recapitalization
Carpathia Financial Services, LLC is an innovative provider of accounting, staffing and recruiting services. Services are delivered through placement of senior-level full-time, interim or part-time accountants to meet diverse client needs for accounting assistance in any area of their business, including Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

CLP Resources, Inc.
Reno, NV
www.clp.com
Industry: Business & Financial Services
Stage: Recapitalization
CLP provides temporary staffing services for skilled tradesman including carpenters, electricians, plumbers and day laborers. The company serves over 2,200 customers, primarily construction contractors and other industrial customers, from 45 branches.

Compete, Inc
Boston, MA
www.compete.com
Industry: Business & Financial Services
Stage: Expansion
Compete, Inc. provides data-driven insights and recommendations based on analysis of online and offline consumer behavior.

Coverall North America
Fort Lauderdale, FL
www.coverall.com
Industry: Business & Financial Services
Stage: Recapitalization
Coverall North America franchises and operates commercial cleaning services. The company has approximately 20 master franchisees and several thousand janitorial franchisees that clean offices, retail stores, health care institutions and other commercial locations in the U.S. and around the world.

CPRi, Inc.
Chicago, IL
www.cpri.com
Industry: Business & Financial Services
Stage: Expansion
CPRi is the largest national firm to deliver interim marketing associates and specialized insourcing to Fortune 500 companies, providing clients with flexible staffing services on an individual or departmental basis.

CryoCor, Inc.
San Diego, CA
www.cryocor.com
Industry: Health Care Services & Products
Stage: Expansion
CryoCor is a development stage medical technology company, specializing in the use of cardiac cryoablation therapy to cure cardiac arrhythmias.

Cubic Wafer
Austin, TX
www.cubicwafer.com
Industry: Technology
Stage: Expansion
Cubic Wafer is a privately-owned company that delivers proprietary platform technology to accomplish 3D chip stacking and integration without the size and scalability limitations of conventional flip-chip and wire bond approaches. Cubic Wafer’s technology fuses integrated circuits (ICs) at the die or wafer level thereby replacing expensive system-on-chip or system-in-package solutions by providing unlimited integration capabilities and leveraging best-in-category materials and suppliers. The result enables breakthrough high-density, high-performance, multi-material and multi-functional ICs for the consumer electronics, digital, wireless and data communications industries.

Cypress Medical Products
McHenry, IL
www.cypressmed.com
Industry: Health Care Services & Products
Stage: Recapitalization
Cypress is a leading producer and marketer of high quality disposable medical products including medical exam gloves, dressings, disposable apparel, diagnostics, procedure kits and trays, crutches and patient aids. The company sells its products primarily through medical product distributors who ultimately sell to hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities and non-hospital based health care practitioners.

Dots, LLC
Solon, OH
www.dots.com
Industry: Consumer
Stage: Recapitalization
Dots is a value-based, specialty retailer of women's apparel and accessories.

eInstruction Corporation
Denton, TX
www.einstruction.com
Industry: Business & Financial Services
Stage: Recapitalization
eInstruction is a researcher, developer and distributor of educational products designed to enhance the learning process in institutional environments through the use of computer-based technology, software and the Internet. The company introduced its real time, interactive, wireless response pad technology in 2000 – and this innovation has helped distinguish eInstruction as the leader and preferred provider of cutting-edge products and technologies for the education market.

Extended Care Information Network
Northbrook, IL
www.extendedcare.com
Industry: Health Care Services & Products
Stage: Expansion
Extended Care is the leading Internet-based resource of extended care information services. Through a suite of Internet-based products, ECIN intends to bridge the information gaps that currently exist between the nation's 80,000 extended care providers and other health care participants.

Favrille, Inc.
San Diego, CA
www.favrille.com
Industry: Health Care Services & Products
Stage: Later-Stage Growth
Favrille is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the research, development and commercialization of targeted immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and other diseases of the immune system.

Genoptix, Inc.
San Diego, CA
www.genoptix.com
Industry: Health Care Services & Products
Stage: Expansion
Genoptix provides Personalized Medicine Services to hematologists and oncologists which allow them to more effectively and efficiently manage patient care. The Company’s Personalized Medicine Services combine proprietary and exclusive tests with advanced clinical techniques to provide comprehensive evaluation to individual patients.

Golf Galaxy, Inc.
Edina, MN
www.golfgalaxy.com
Industry: Consumer
Stage: Expansion
Golf Galaxy operates large format, category dominant golf superstores. These stores, which range from 16,000 to 20,000 square feet, sell branded golf equipment, apparel, supplies, accessories, footwear and gifts.

Healthtrax, Inc.
Glastonbury, CT
www.healthtrax.com
Industry: Health Care Services & Products
Stage: Later-Stage Growth
Healthtrax develops and operates community wellness centers in conjunction with hospital partners. Community wellness centers combine traditional fitness centers with related primary care and rehabilitation health services. In addition, Healthtrax operates Workfit, on-site workers' compensation rehabilitation clinics, for large employers.

HouseValues, Inc.
Bellevue, WA
www.housevaluesinc.com
Industry: Business & Financial Services
Stage: Later-Stage Growth
HouseValues, Inc. is a leads, training, marketing and business development tool for real estate agents.

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I-O
 

Inhibitex, Inc.
Alpharetta, GA
www.inhibitex.com
Industry: Health Care Services & Products
Stage: Expansion
Inhibitex is a development stage pharmaceutical company pursuing the development and commercialization of biotechnology based products for the infectious disease market.

KaBloom, Ltd.
Woburn, MA
www.kabloom.com
Industry: Consumer
Stage: Later-Stage Growth
KaBloom sells fresh flowers through customer friendly retail stores in high traffic locations and through its web-site.

MatrixOne, Inc.
(NASDAQ: MONE)
Chelmsford, MA
www.matrix-one.com
Industry: Technology
Stage: Expansion
MatrixOne develops internet-based collaboration software for global manufacturers. MatrixOne products provide an infrastructure for establishing business-to-business collaboration among trusted customers, suppliers, and other business partners.

Morton Grove Pharmaceuticals
Morton Grove, IL
www.mgp-online.com
Industry: Health Care Services & Products
Stage: Recapitalization
Morton Grove Pharmaceuticals is a fully integrated generic and specialty pharmaceutical company focused on oral liquid and topical liquid prescription drugs.

NuVasive, Inc.
San Diego, CA
www.nuvasive.com
Industry: Health Care Services & Products
Stage: Expansion
NuVasive is a medical device company that designs, manufactures and markets less invasive spine surgery technology. The company's expertise is in minimally invasive posterior access to the spine, novel fusion constructs, treatment of nerve related pathology, and alternative treatments for degenerative disc disease.

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P-Z
 

Pac-West Telecomm, Inc.
(NASDAQ: PACW)
Stockton, CA
www.pacwest.com
Industry: Business & Financial Services
Stage: Recapitalization
Pac-West Telecomm is a provider of integrated telecommunications services to the Internet service providers (ISPs) and business customers in the western U.S.

Pavilion Technologies
Austin, TX
www.pav.com
Industry: Technology
Stage: Expansion
Venture Capital Pavilion Technologies provides manufacturing and business process optimization software with accompanying services to clients in a broad range of industries, including financial services, chemicals/polymers, energy, food and beverage, environmental, cement and pulp and paper.

Penda Corporation
Portage, WI
www.pendacorp.com
Industry: Consumer
Stage: Recapitalization
Penda Corporation is a leading manufacturer and marketer of pickup truck accessories serving both original equipment manufacturers and the traditional automotive aftermarket.

PharmaResearch Corporation
Morrisville, NC
www.pharmaresearch.com
Industry: Health Care Services & Products
Stage: Later-Stage Growth
PharmaResearch provides clinical research and development services to the worldwide pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. The company designs, monitors and manages U.S. and international clinical trials, and provides data management, biostatistical, regulatory and information system services to its customers.

Point Biomedical
San Carlos, CA
www.pointbio.com
Industry: Health Care Services & Products
Stage: Later-Stage Growth
POINT Biomedical is developing novel technology platforms for imaging and drug delivery applications. Upon completion of Phase 2 trials, CardioSphere, an ultrasound-imaging agent for assessing myocardial perfusion, will be entering Phase 3 clinical testing in the United States. At the outcome of the Phase 3 trials, CardioSphere could allow a cardiologist to determine the state of a patient's coronary artery circulation in the office setting, without the use of radioactive isotopes.

PRIMIS Marketing Group, Inc.
Chicago, IL
www.accudata.com
www.primismarketing.com
Industry: Business & Financial Services
Stage: Recapitalization
PRIMIS, an acronym for Premier Integrated Marketing Information Solutions, was formed to create and grow a leading integrated provider of marketing solutions to middle market companies by executing a “buy and build” strategy in the fragmented marketing information services industry. PRIMIS is building an industry leader through a series of initial acquisitions, organic growth in the acquired companies and future niche acquisitions. Funding provided the acquisition of AccuData America, a leading provider of direct marketing services that help companies identify prospects, capture more new customers and retain and grow existing customers.

SilverTrain, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
www.silvertraininc.com
Industry: Business & Financial Services
Stage: Expansion
SilverTrain Inc. is a provider of consulting and outsourcing services in the areas of technology planning, application services and infrastructure management.

TargeGen, Inc.
San Diego, CA
www.targegen.com
Industry: Health Care Services & Products
Stage: Later-Stage Growth
TargeGen, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focusing on treatments for cardiovascular (ischemic) diseases and cancer.  This round of financing will allow them to take their first two drug leads into human clinical trials and accelerate other discovery and development programs.

TimePlus Payroll
Roswell, GA
www.timeplus.com
Industry: Business & Financial Services
Stage: Recapitalization
TimePlus Payroll is a leading-edge payroll services company providing innovative solutions and unparalleled personal service to small and mid-size companies.

Towne Air Freight, Inc.
South Bend, IN
www.towneair.com
Industry: Business & Financial Services
Stage: Recapitalization
Towne Air Freight is a leading provider of airfreight and less-than-truckload trucking services in the Midwest.

Ultra Stores, Inc.
Chicago, IL
www.ultrastores.com
Industry: Consumer
Stage: Later-Stage Growth
Ultra Stores is the leading national retailer of fine jewelry in outlet centers, value malls, leased departments and other high traffic locations.

Union Corrugating Co.
Fayetteville, NC
www.unioncorrugating.com
Industry: Business & Financial Services
Stage: Leveraged Buyout/Recapitalization
Union Corrugating is the Southeast’s largest supplier of metal roofing systems for the residential, light commercial and agricultural markets.

U.S. Education Corporation
Irvine, CA
www.useducationcorp.com
Industry: Business & Financial Services
Stage: Later-Stage Growth
U.S. Education Corporation was formed in partnership with leading industry executives to acquire, develop and operate private, for-profit, postsecondary colleges that emphasize career-oriented information technology and health care training.

Vericept Corporation
Englewood, CO
www.vericept.com
Industry: Technology
Stage: Expansion
Vericept Corporation is a leader in providing solutions that enable corporations, schools and government agencies to dramatically reduce network abuse and information security breaches through comprehensive network content monitoring. Vericept’s products are unique in their ability to analyze the content of ALL forms of network communication including web, e-mail, webmail, chat, instant messaging, Internet postings, P2P, ftp and telnet for inappropriate content.

ZYCOS, Inc.
Lexington, MA
www.zycos.com
Industry: Health Care Services & Products
Stage: Expansion
ZYCOS creates DNA-based drugs that work naturally with the human body's own systems to fight diseases.

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