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Alien Technology

Alien Technology provides UHF Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) products and services to customers in retail, consumer goods, manufacturing, defense, transportation and logistics, pharmaceuticals and other industries. Organizations use Alien's RFID products and services to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and security of their supply chains, logistics and asset tracking operations. Alien's products include RFID tags, RFID readers and related training and professional services.

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Bloom Energy

Bloom Energy is changing the way the world generates and consumes energy. Their unique on-site power generation systems utilize an innovative new fuel cell technology with roots in NASA's Mars program. Derived from a common sand-like powder, and leveraging breakthrough advances in materials science, their technology is able to produce clean, reliable, affordable power,... practically anywhere,... from a wide range of renewable or traditional fuels.

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Blue Spark Technologies

Blue SparkTechnologies, an Eveready spin out, produces disposable, thin, flexible batteries that can be manufactured in high volumes at low cost using existing printing equipment and capacity.  The batteries are used in the rapidly emerging markets for active and semi-passive RFID tags, data loggers, active packaging, and smart medical patches.

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Concur Japan (sold to parent company)

Concur is a leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions. The company was founded in 1993 on the premise of helping to drive costs out of business through innovation. In Q1 2011, SunBridge and Concur partnered to create Concur Japan, a joint venture to help Concur enter and expand into the Japanese enterprise market.With approximately 20 percent of T&E spend out of policy*, Concur’s easy-to-use Web-based and mobile solutions help companies and their employees control costs and save time. For organizations, Concur helps ensure that corporate travel is booked within policy before the trip is taken and reconciles expenses after travel is completed. And by delivering electronic receipts – from airlines, hotels, and car rental companies – directly into expense reports, Concur virtually eliminates the need to track and manage paper receipts.Trusted by thousands of businesses in more than 90 countries, Concur’s on-demand services process over $35 billion in travel and entertainment (T&E) spend a year. In fact, it’s estimated that roughly 10 percent of the world’s T&E spend is processed by Concur.

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Demandware Japan (sold to parent company)

Demandware (now Commerce Cloud at Salesforce) provides a cloud-based unified e-commerce platform with mobile, AI personalization, order management capabilities, and related services for B2C and B2B retailers and brand manufacturers around the world.

G-Mode (JASDAQ: 2333)

G-Mode was established in July 2000 as the world's first mobile network game contents provider specializing in Java game software for cell phones.

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GaiaX (NSE: 3775)

Gaix plans, develops and manages clients’ rich media portal website communities, including systems offering users entertainment content delivery, multiplayer gaming, instant messaging, video messaging, chat and bulletin board services, avatars, etc.

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istyle (TSE: 3660)

istyle is the provider of two cosmetics focused web portals, Cosme.com and @Cosme (cosme.net). These sites sell cosmetics and offer customer reviews of products. Revenues come from product sales, advertising and market research.

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ITMedia (TSE: 2148)

ITmedia is the largest online IT publisher in Japan, offering numerous forums on various subjects, technical articles and case studies. In addition to providing online advice, support and information, the company also offers conference and seminar planning and management.

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Kyriba Japan (sold to parent company)

Kyriba is the global leader in cloud treasury and finance solutions, delivering mission-critical capabilities for cash and risk management, payments and working capital solutions.More than 2,000 clients worldwide rely on Kyriba to get 100% cash visibility, better manage FX losses, reduce fraud and make better, faster decisions through improved insight and intelligence.

MacroMill (TSE: 3730)

MacroMill is an online application service provider, coordinating the planning, design and execution of market research via the Internet, creating analytical reports and offering marketing consulting services.

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Marketo Japan (sold to parent company)

Marketo develops and sells marketing automation software for account-based marketing and other marketing services and products including SEO and content creation.

New IT Venture

NITV is one of Japan's premier IT service, consultancy and support providers. The company provides streaming media, IP telephony, software development and customized support solutions to small and medium enterprise customers. NITV also hosts a consumer IPTV platform for South Asian media content (nepalchannels.com).

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OKWave (NSE: 3808)

Web community offering structured broad-ranging questions and community monitored answer threads. Providing corporations outsourced customer service resources through integration of customer inquiries into web Q&A community. Offering Q&A system software for enterprise use in help desk and knowledge management applications.

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Salesforce Japan (sold to parent company)

Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company. Based on salesforce.com’s real-time, multitenant architecture, the company’s platform and CRM applications have revolutionized the way companies collaborate and communicate with their customers, including:* The Sales Cloud, for sales force automation and contact management * The Service Cloud, for customer service and support solutions * Chatter, for social collaboration * The Force.com platform, for custom application development * The AppExchange, the world’s leading marketplace for enterprise cloud computing applicationsSalesforce.com offers the fastest path to customer success with cloud computing. As of April 30, 2010, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 77,300 customers including Allianz Commercial, Dell, Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, and SunTrust Banks.

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Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM)

Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company. Based on salesforce.com’s real-time, multitenant architecture, the company’s platform and CRM applications have revolutionized the way companies collaborate and communicate with their customers, including:* The Sales Cloud, for sales force automation and contact management * The Service Cloud, for customer service and support solutions * Chatter, for social collaboration * The Force.com platform, for custom application development * The AppExchange, the world’s leading marketplace for enterprise cloud computing applicationsSalesforce.com offers the fastest path to customer success with cloud computing. As of April 30, 2010, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 77,300 customers including Allianz Commercial, Dell, Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, and SunTrust Banks.

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Shicoh Engineering (TSE: 6667)

Shicoh Engineering manufactures miniaturized vibration, auto-focus, fan and linear motors for camera phones and other devices requiring extremely small footprint and weight, with high durability and long life-cycle demands.

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TalentA

TalentA is a reseller of several leading Cloud-based HR and talent management solutions into the Japanese market.TalentA's solutions include HireVue, an AI-driven employee evaluation solution and video interviewing platform; Blue, an employee survey and insight solution from Explorance; Monday, a cloud-based task management tool; Fuel50, an AI-talent marketplace for internal talent mobility; SilkRoad Performance; 3Rings, a skills management system.TalentA began as a joint venture with SilkRoad Technologies in 2011, and restructured in 2013 as an independent reseller.

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Yap (sold)

Founded in 2006, Yap® pioneered the world's first high accuracy, fully automated cloud-based speech recognition platform. The company offers a simple, scalable and cost effective approach to implementing advanced speech transcription services. Today, service providers and enterprise communications companies including MetroPCS, Microsoft and Sprint use Yap's Speech CloudTM to quickly deploy innovative applications such as voicemail-to- text, mobile messaging, conference call transcription and call mining.

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Zipit Wireless

Zipit Wireless focuses on delivering fully connected, wireless IP devices that use the company’s unique strengths in wireless connectivity, user-friendly device software, and server infrastructure to access Internet-based services. The technology created by Zipit has been shipping in Zipit branded and top tier branded devices since 2004 – enabling people to connect to people and their personalized Internet content.

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