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Agilence Inc.
Nov 2007	Agilence Names Industry Veteran J. Russell Hawkins to CEO Position Press Release, 11/12/07 Event-based Video Analytics Provider Rounds Out Executive Team in Preparation for Market Expansion and Accelerated Growth
Sept 2007	Agilence Secures Funding to Continue Expansion Press Release, 09/25/07 Agilence, Inc., Expands Sales and Development, Moves into Waterfront Technology Center at Camden
June 2007	Event-based Video Analytics Provider Secures Funding to Continue Expansion of Direct and Channel Sales Press Release, 06/14/07 Agilence, Inc., the leading provider of Event-based Video Analytics (eVA), announced today that it has closed an investment round with NextStage Capital as the lead investor.
Hx Technologies Inc.
Jan 2007	Poised to assist the medical sector in... Connecting the Data Philadelphia Inquirer, 01/21/07 HxTI featured in article on how technology must bridge existing islands of medical information now stored in files in doctors' offices, pharmacies, insurance companies, hospitals, laboratories and workplaces.
Jan 2007	Technology helps rival hospitals share imaging test data Philadelphia Business Journal, 01/08/07 How HxTI's exchange, which electronically links unaffiliated health-care facilities, encompasses five Philadelphia hospitals and eight freestanding imaging centers in Philadelphia.
Magnify.net
May 2007	Magnify.Net: Channel Your Inner TV Exec Under the Radar, 05/15/07 Under the Radar Blog, produced by DealMaker Media, features an exclusive interview with Magnify CEO Steve Rosenbaum on why it should be fun and fast for people to put video on their sites.
March 2007	Magnify.net to Drive Bicycling.com User-Generated Videos Press Release, 03/22/07 Cycling enthusiasts can now search and, collect cycling videos from across the web; post, share, rank and discuss their own cycling videos.
Feb 2007	Magnify.net Raises $1.2 Million New TeeVee, 02/12/07 Magnify.net, the self-serve white-label web video service covered earlier this month, has closed a $1.2 million round of funding.
Feb 2007	Demo 2007: Interview with Magnify.net CEO VC Rating, Daily Deal Blog, 02/01/07 Video aggregation is one of the big themes at Demo this year. Magnify.net is one of the entrants in the crowded sector but all the competition doesn't worry company CEO Steven Rosenbaum.
HardMetrics
May 2007	Get ready for the CEO-marketing ‘show me the metrics’ conversation DM News, 05/24/07 Closed loop analysis (a process intended to set business goals, monitor progress, assess impact or effectiveness and realign objectives as required) is essential to ensure that marketing activities are optimized to support profitability targets.
April 2007	Preview: HardMetrics goes for deep -- not broad -- BPM solutions InfoWorld, 04/19/07 Unlike other companies, HardMetrics is making its products deeper and more focused rather than broadening their scope.
Jan 2007	HardMetrics Inc. Unveils Marketing Performance Manager (MPM) CRM Today, 01/17/07 HardMetrics Inc., announced the availability of Marketing Performance Manager (MPM), the industry's first marketing outcome analysis tool that eliminates at least 80% of the time, effort and cost involved in closed-loop marketing.
Dec 2006	HardMetrics makes its business out of identifying success keys Philadelphia Business Journal, 12/15/06 The Doylestown company's software enables organizations to monitor and measure their performance, or the performance of a division or campaign, against predefined goals.
Dec 2006	Software Firm Lands Huge Investment The Intelligencer, 12/06/06 HardMetrics, a software maker headquartered in the Carversville section of Solebury, secured $2 million in venture capital financing, with $2 million more to come if it meets certain performance milestones.
Dec 2006	Business Software Firm Gets $2M in Venture Funds Philadelphia Business Journal, 12/05/06 HardMetrics Inc. said Tuesday it has received a commitment of $2 million in venture capital with the option to obtain $2 million more if it meets growth milestones.
RCD Technology
Jan 2007	RCD Technology Makes Key Appointments to Executive Leadership Team Press Release, 01/31/07 New team members from Symbol Technologies and Topflight lend expertise to RCD’s business development team and board.
June 2006	RCD Loads Up $2M Funding for its Antenna Technology Philadelphia Business Journal, 6/02/06 A company with what it says is a breakthrough technology for making the antennae that go in radio frequency identification (RFID) tags has received a $2 million, first-round, venture-capital investment.
May 2006	Custom RFID Tag Manufacturer Gets $2 Million RFID Update, 5/31/06 RCD Technology announced series A funding in the amount of $2 million from NextStage Capital, Zon Capital, and Ben Franklin Technology Partners. RFID Update spoke with CEO Jeff White about the funding and RCD Technology's strategy within the RFID market.
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