Investors



Bain Capital Ventures partners with exceptional management teams to help early stage companies become long-term leaders in their markets. Bain Capital Ventures draws upon its experience building strong companies, while leveraging the broad resources of Bain Capital. These resources include 115 investment professionals, a network of over 180 portfolio companies, and the knowledge from 17 years of successful venture and technology investing. In March 2001, BCV raised a $250 million fund that is focused on first and second institutional round investments in software, business services, hardware, and information companies. Bain Capital employees have committed an additional $32 million toward these investments, maintaining the firm's tradition of being the largest investor in each of its transactions.

Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net worth individuals. Founded in 1869, it is one of the oldest and largest investment banking firms. The firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.

Intel Capital, Intel's strategic investment program, is one of the largest worldwide corporate venture programs investing in the technology segment. Our company selection criteria blend strategic focus with financial discipline. Intel Capital investments support Intel's mission to be the pre-eminent building block supplier to the worldwide Internet economy. Investments support Intel product initiatives, Intel's new business thrusts, emerging trends and worldwide Internet deployment.

NeoCarta Ventures is a leading venture capital firm specializing in early to mid-stage technology investments. Focus areas include infrastructure investments in software, hardware, networking and wireless. With three offices in San Francisco, New York and Boston, NeoCarta partners' backgrounds include senior investment experience with outstanding track records at GE Capital, Intel Capital, Thomson, NBC and Softbank Venture Capital. The company's managing directors have financed over ninety private technology companies, forty of which have succeeded in going public and/or merging with public companies. Like most venture capitalists, NeoCarta is adept at working closely with management teams at the board level, providing the appropriate assistance where needed. Beyond that, NeoCarta sets itself apart from other venture capital firms by creating real strategic value for their portfolio companies. With NeoCarta's unique mix of financial, operational, and technical expertise, the company is able to add value at all stages of a company's development. The company's Web site address is: www.neocarta.com

Silicon Alley Venture Partners LLC (SAVP) is a venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage investing in Internet startup companies in the NYC Metropolitan Area. SAVP limited partners include TL Ventures, TD Capital, Tudor Capital, Boston Millennia Partners and principals of Draper, Fisher Jurvetson, Sculley Brothers, and Brahman Capital.

Stonehenge Capital Corporation is a private venture capital management firm providing equity and mezzanine financing for both early and later-stage growth-oriented companies. Stonehenge was formed in 1999 by the former principals of Banc One Capital Markets, Inc., the venture capital and investment-banking subsidiary of Bank One Corporation. Stonehenge Capital Corporation currently manages several distinct private equity funds with approximately $500 million in capital, through its offices in New York, Louisiana, Florida, Ohio, Missouri and Wisconsin. Corporation

The NYC Investment Fund and certain of its principals have financed DataSynapse. The New York City Investment Fund was created to leverage the city's remarkable assets today - talent, money, diversity, ideas - to promote business development and job creation in the growth industries of tomorrow and to extend opportunities to participate in a growing economy to all of the City's residents and neighborhoods.

Wachovia Strategic Ventures makes strategic equity investments that support Wachovia Corporation's technology initiatives. The group invests in enabling technology that offers substantial operating efficiencies or generates incremental revenue to any of Wachovia's business units with a current focus on security, enterprise application integration, distributed computing solutions and customer relationship management. To date, the Strategic Ventures Group has invested over $150 million in 20 companies.

Wachovia Strategic Ventures is a subsidiary of Wachovia Corporation (NYSE:WB), created through the September 1, 2001, merger of First Union and Wachovia with assets of $326 billion as of September 30 and $29 billion in stockholders' equity, is a leading provider of financial services to 19 million retail and corporate customers throughout the East Coast and the nation. The company operates full-service banking offices under the First Union and Wachovia names in 11 East Coast states and Washington, D.C., and offers full-service brokerage with offices in 48 states and global services through more than 30 international offices. Online banking and brokerage products and services are available through wachovia.com.



Wand Partners invests in, and builds, businesses that make decisions based on good information and continuous feedback, particularly from the customer. Wand focuses on thoroughly integrating the benefits of Internet technology and database management into general business practice.