Buzz Media, Inc.

Buzz Media, Inc. was founded in 2005 as Buzznet by chief creative officer Anthony Batt. The buzz surrounding Buzz Media is that this company's Web sites are for diehard music fans. The company's Buzznet.com site differentiates itself from other online communities by having users create their own programming. Members vote (build "buzz") on the interactive content that appears on the front page. Buzz Media cultivates relationships with artists who act as guest bloggers and promote their own work. Launched as a music site, Buzz Media has expanded to include a collection of entertainment sites. It has received funding from Redpoint Ventures and Anthem Venture Partners, both early investors of MySpace.com.

Weather Decision Technologies, Inc.

Weather Decision Technologies (WDT) offers weather data and related technologies to local news stations, online weather sites, and other weather services organizations that provide information to consumers. Its offerings include iMap Weather, a customizable weather map designed for integration into customer Web sites; iWatch, a severe weather monitoring and alert system; as well as forecasting technologies, real-time lightening tracking systems, and other products. Operating in the US and abroad, WDT has served CNN, ABC, The Weather Channel, and Bonnier, among other customers. CEO Michael Eiltsa co-founded the company in 1999.

Rakuten, Inc.

Rakuten was founded in 1997 by chairman and CEO Hiroshi Mikitani. Rakuten is Japan's largest online retailer and a leading provider of Internet-based services. The company's business segments and subsidiaries include Rakuten Ichiba (an online shopping mall), Rakuten Auction (online auctions), Rakuten Books (online bookstore), Infoseek (Internet search, Web logs, and job boards), Rakuten Travel, and Rakuten Securities (online trading). The firm's entertainment activities include television broadcasting in Japan and ownership of a professional baseball team. Its financial services unit offers credit cards and consumer loans. Its Fusion Communications subsidiary (acquired in 2007) provides Internet phone service.

Healthline Networks, Inc.

Healthline Networks, Inc. was formed in 1999 as YourDoctor.com; it floundered during the dot com bust and eventually resurfaced as Healthline Networks in 2005 with funding from companies such as VantagePoint and Reed Elsevier. Healthline Networks wants to give you a direct connection to health information. The company's Web site uses proprietary semantic taxonomy to match everyday language with medical terms for a more complete look at interconnected topics from diseases and conditions to causes and treatments. In addition to operating its own ad-supported consumer Web site, Healthline powers search, advertising, and content services to a network of publishers, advertisers, health Web sites, and health plans.

Demand Media, Inc.

Demand Media knows that Web branding is in demand. Attracting more than 85 million visitors each month, the company operates through a variety of Web-related enterprises that exist to help drive Web traffic to its clients' sites. Subsidiaries include domain-name wholesaler eNom and Pluck, a blog syndicator and provider of social media tools used for integrating websites. Other Demand Media websites include niche Web content provider eHow, humor site Cracked.com, and Trails.com, a site catering to outdoor enthusiasts. It also produces online video and written articles through its Demand Studios business, which employs freelancers to provide content for its websites. Demand Media filed for an IPO in mid-2010.

Zaio Corporation

Zaio Corp. is the North American leader in developing and maintaining a site-verified database of photos, valuations and property information of virtually every residential property for entire cities, using a proprietary “GeoScore™” property rating system. Zaio and its network of premiere, local appraiser experts photograph and appraise entire cities, one building at a time from the street. Zaio is a public corporation that trades under the symbol "ZAO" on the TSX-V Exchange in Canada. Zaio was awarded “Venture-50” status by the stock exchange ranking it among the top 10 technology firms out of 2,000 public companies based on return on investment, revenues, market cap and trading volume. Additional information is available for US investors under the symbol "ZAOFF".

HealthStream, Inc.

HealthStream, Inc. provides Internet-based learning and research solutions for the training, information, and education needs of the healthcare industry in the United States. The company operates in two segments, HealthStream Learning and HealthStream Research. The HealthStream Learning segment, through its Internet-based platforms, the HealthStream Learning Center and HealthStream Express, provides training and education content with administrative and management tools. Its learning management system supports healthcare administrators in configuring training for various groups of employees, modifying training materials, and documenting completed training. This segment also provides training, implementation, and account management services for the adoption of its platform. In addition, it develops, manages, and distributes online, live, and print education and training activities for provider-based healthcare professionals and physicians, as well as provides online education and training services for sales representatives. The HealthStream Research segment provides the hospital-based customers with patient, physician, employee, and community surveys; data analyses of survey results; and other research-based measurement tools. The company sells its products and services primarily through its direct sales teams, consultants, and account relationship managers to healthcare organizations, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, and other entities in the healthcare industry. HealthStream, Inc. was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

Digital River, Inc.

Digital River, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides outsourced e-commerce solutions worldwide. Its services assist in establishing an online sales channel capability and to manage online sales. The company offers design, development, and hosting of online stores and shopping carts; store merchandising and optimization; order management; fraud prevention screening; online payment methods; export controls and management; denied parties screening; tax compliance and management; digital product delivery through download; physical product fulfillment; multilingual customer service; subscription management; online marketing, including email marketing; management of paid search programs; payment processing services; Web site optimization; Web analytics and reporting; and CD production and delivery solutions. Digital River also provides paid search advertising, search engine optimization, affiliate marketing, multi-variant testing, and email optimization services. It serves software, consumer electronics, and computer and video game product manufacturers, as well as online channel partners, including retailers and affiliates through the Internet. Digital River, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

Vocus, Inc.

The internet has changed the way organizations communicate. Today, fewer and fewer people rely on a single source for all their news. The internet continues to complement and even replace traditional outlets such as broadcast television and newspapers. Blogs have allowed a much broader group of "citizen journalists" to play a significant role in the news life cycle. The emergence and viral nature of social media means that an organization's reputation can be made or destroyed in an afternoon.Founded in 1991, Vocus has changed the way communications professionals do their jobs. Vocus provides the ability to leverage the ubiquity of the internet to interact with the media, publish their news online where it can be found by millions, monitor news and social media conversations from virtually any source and track their results to compare them with key competitors.

Pathfire, Inc.

Pathfire is a subsidiary of digital media services firm DG FastChannel. Pathfire delivers the lowdown on the hottest news. The company provides digital content distribution and management services to broadcast media outlets. Pathfire delivers primarily news and syndicated programming, including shows such as Jeopardy, Friends, and Wheel of Fortune. Major networks such as ABC and CNN rely on the Pathfire network to distribute thousands of news stories to hundreds of television affiliates. Pathfire company also provides digital media distribution and management services for advertising delivery. All total, it distributes content to more than 1,300 television stations throughout the US.