Investors

Crescendo Ventures
Crescendo Ventures is a global venture capital firm that provides early stage financing and growth resources to high potential companies in the communications and enterprise infrastructure industries.

Crescendo's investment philosophy is to work with high potential teams that they believe to be on the cusp of helping to lead a major advance in the development of their market. They seek involvement in opportunities where they can help support a management team as they strive to create an entirely new market segment or a major technical breakthrough significant enough to alter an industry's current commercial paradigm.

Founded in 1993, Crescendo Ventures manages more than $1 billion from its headquarters in Palo Alto, California and offices in Minneapolis and London. Additional information on Crescendo Ventures or its portfolio companies can be found at www.crescendoventures.com.

El Dorado Ventures
El Dorado Ventures is a private venture capital partnership founded in 1986. EDV funds invest in early-stage, technology based companies with a particular focus on enterprise software and services, communications, and semiconductors and systems.

El Dorado's investment philosophy is to create partnerships with entrepreneurs and help them turn startups into companies of lasting value. They value long term relationships, and are involved investors. They are committed to helping their clients form the right team, build their business, create strategic alliances, plan for the future and troubleshoot along the way.

El Dorado's general partners have funded more than 100 start-ups over the past 25 years, including such notable companies as Sun Microsystems and NuSpeed (acquired by Cisco), Efficient Networks and Earthlink Networks. Additional information can be found at www.eldorado.com.

Cargill Ventures
Cargill Ventures is a wholly-owned venture investment group of Cargill, a privately-held company with operations in 59 countries and revenues of approximately $50 billion. Cargill Ventures invests in emerging technology companies that enable commerce, innovation and supply chain efficiencies that help Cargill be a global leader in providing goods and services necessary for life, health and growth.

Cargill's investment philosophy for information technology, is to invest in early stage private companies that will add value to Global 2000 enterprises like Cargill. They look for great companies with world-class technologies that can benefit from Cargill's global enterprise expertise. They use their deep knowledge of core business processes such as trading, commodity processing, logistics, international business operations, global workforce management and risk management to validate business concepts and provide invaluable counsel. Cargill Ventures maintains offices in San Mateo, California and Minneapolis. Additional information can be found at www.cargillventures.com.

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