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September 15, 2010 * Doubletree Hotel
Little Rock, Arkansas

Companies Selected to Present at Venture Forum

BLUEINGREEN
BlueInGreen® was co-founded in 2004 by Scott Osborn and Marty Matlock in partnership with the University of Arkansas and Virtual Incubation Company (www.virtual-incubation.com) with the mission of providing innovative new products for improving and maintaining water quality.

BIOLOGICSMD
Formed in 2010, BiologicsMD’s mission is “to translate promising technology into profitable medications.” Our team is well balanced, with significant experience in key areas including grant writing, drug development strategy, and business start up. BMD is currently developing PTH-CBD to address the $9 billion osteoporosis treatment market with an exclusive license to a patent pending application filed in the US, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

NANOMECH
NanoMech, an award-winning and nationally recognized technology company based in Springdale, Ark., is a designer and manufacturer of innovative application-specific nanoparticle additives, nanoparticle-based coatings and coating deposition systems. Partnered with global leaders in energy, lubrication, industrial machining, military, and medical markets, the Company is now transitioning from development stage to profitable, commercial activity.

VASTECH
VASTECH provides self-paced online wellness screenings that help people monitor their health and motivate them to make positive changes.

SILICON SOLAR SOLUTIONS
The greatest challenge facing the solar industry is reducing the price of its energy to those of traditional energy sources. Price and cost reductions can be accomplished by increasing the energy output of solar cells and/or reducing manufacturing costs. Silicon Solar Solutions, LLC (SSS) was founded by graduate students at the University of Arkansas around a technology that addresses both of these challenges.

ACUMEN HOLDINGS
Acumen Holdings is a hyper-growth internet company currently operating 3 e-commerce stores featuring 30 national brands. Over the next 3 years, we will launch 25 additional stores and add 1000 additional brands to our product lineup creating a $100+ million company. We will also release our proprietary Ruby on Rails shopping cart, e-commerce management software, and pay per click management algorithms as a stand alone software company.

BLACK OAK PARTNERS
Black Oak Partners products and services give data intensive companies a way to empirically improve the data they use every day in business applications. Using our products improves outcomes and drives optimal decisions. Our offerings: 1) decrease the risk of bad or wrong data used in decision making, 2) reduce the cost and improve the outcome of business decisions and 3) improve the accuracy and timeliness of decisions.

VERTICAL STUDIO
Vertical Studio is an outsourced option for Applied Web Analytics Optimization and Online Business Management that provides a cost effective, ROI based Continuous Improvement Process to grow revenues and profits for clients. Unlike other narrowly focused Internet Marketing companies, we have a structured methodology coupled with proprietary Internet Marketing tools to help businesses climb the Online Business Hierarchy of Needs.

WEBCAST COMPANIES ONLY:
RX RESULTS
RxResults is a joint-venture with the University of Arkansas College of Pharmacy and their Evidence-Based Medicine program (EBRx). This evidence-based / low net-cost model has proof-of-concept since 2004 when 2 public entities (Ark Medicaid, Ark State Employees) implemented this program. Following great success, over $100MM in drug savings, RxResults was created to commercialize this model and offer to other large self-insured employers.

BALM INNOVATIONS
Balm Innovations, LLC is a provider of innovative, effective natural health care products. The Company’s initial product line, Omnibalm, includes highly effective tea tree oil-based topical creams based on a proprietary formula developed by Dr. Bill Gurley, a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) pharmaceutical researcher. Balm licensed the proprietary formula from UAMS and has exclusive, worldwide rights.

MERCHANTVIEW
Retail sales can now be analyzed against nearly any metric. Due to archaic collection methods, it is not possible to analyze sales on the effects of in-store merchandising. The absence of such data analysis prevents the full utilization of the $2B spent annually on those activities. Capturing this data would add $100Ms in value to both retailers and CPG companies. MV will be the leader in using technology and processes to collect this data.

PATHAGILITY
Pathagility’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform enables laboratories to generate custom reports, distribute clinical data and health records, collaborate with physicians and partner groups in real time, and integrate with hospital, laboratory, and specialty physician systems through a secure, web-based platform.

Venture Forum Agenda Announced

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7:30 – 8:00 a.m. – Registration and Breakfast
8:00 – 8:30 a.m. – Opening Remarks
8:30 – 9:15 a.m. – Fundraising Panel
   Representatives from venture capital firms throughout the region will discuss the attributes a company should posses in        
   order to garner investment.  Additionally they will discuss the “best” and “worst” pitches made by entrepreneurs and their   
   response following the pitches.
9:15 – 10:00 a.m. – Arkansas Angel Investor Climate
   The panel will discuss the Angel investor climate in Arkansas and will also provide perspective from subject matter experts  
   from outside the state.  These subject matter experts will discuss how initiatives in other states/regions are working to fill the
   critical early stage funding gaps.  
10:00 – 10:20 a.m. – Networking
10:20 – 10:50 a.m. – Company Presentations
10:50 – 11:10 a.m. – Networking
11:10 – 11:40 a.m. – Company Presentations
11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. – Luncheon with Keynote Speaker Howard Morgan
   Howard Morgan, Ph.D. has been a Director, President, or Vice Chairman of Idealab since February 1999.  He is a founding
   partner of First Round Capital, a seed stage venture fund.  He also serves as a director for a number of public companies,
   including Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. and Internet Brands, Inc.  Since 1989, Dr. Morgan has been President of Arca
   Group, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in the areas of computers and communications technologies.  Dr. Morgan received
   his Ph.D. in operations research from Cornell University, and was Professor of Decision Sciences at the Wharton School and
   Professor of Computer Science at the Moore School of the University of Pennsylvania from 1972 through 1986.
1:00 – 1:30 p.m. – Company Presentations
1:30 – 1:45 p.m. – Networking
1:45 – 2:15 p.m. – Company Presentations
2:15 – 3:00 p.m. – Entrepreneur Development
   An entrepreneur, lead investor, and the company’s professional services team (lawyer and accountant) will discuss highs,
   lows, and everything in between, beginning with the inception of the company and ending with where the company is today.  
3:00 p.m. – Closing Remarks

2010 Event Co-Chairs

Allen Engstrom, CFO Network Managing Partner, has an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and previously worked for Motorola Semiconductor as well as Intel Corporation in a variety of roles within Finance, Strategy and Business Development. For years prior to joining CFO, Mr. Engstrom has been involved in small business development and mentoring, serving on the Planning Committees of both the Arizona Venture Capital Conference and the Arkansas Venture Forum. He has also been involved in working with universities such as Arizona State on developing technology into growing companies. His last role at Intel was an Alliance Manager where he worked directly with small companies to form partnerships with Intel. Prior to that, Mr. Engstrom spent 2.5 years working for Intel Capital executing mergers and acquisitions for Intel’s Communications Group.

C. Sam Walls is a native Arkansan and a graduate of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His background includes several decades of involvement with private sector enterprises engaged in a variety of endeavors. Since 1989, Mr. Walls has provided leadership to the Arkansas Capital Corporation and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Arkansas Capital is a private, non-profit entity established by the business community more than 50 years ago. Its mission is economic development focused on enterprise creation within Arkansas. Under his guidance, ACC has evolved into an organization encompassing seven affiliate companies engaged in venture capital, debt financing, entrepreneurial development, and most recently has been named by the Arkansas State Legislature to lead the expansion of broadband availability to all Arkansans through operation of the Connect Arkansas project. The fundamental underlying principal of all the affiliated companies is to serve in a performance driven, cooperative manner.