Aepona provides products and services to Telcos globally, enabling them to adopt the emerging Network as a Service (NaaS) business model and unleash the full power of their network assets. With NaaS, Telcos can profit from the current trend towards Mobile Cloud Computing by publishing and monetizing their assets as Web-based APIs towards Enterprises, Web-Based Service Providers and Application Developers.

Aepona's products are used by operators globally to power 1.2 billion monthly transactions and deliver $1 billion annual revenues to operators, application and content providers. Aepona is also the technology provider for the GSMA's OneAPI initiative. For more information, visit www.aepona.com.

buzzd is a location-sensitive entertainment listings service with branded editorial and real-time user generated content on the mobile device."Your city, in real-time," buzzd allows consumers to know what's happening at any venue right now, rate events, and connect with friends and people in the area. The buzzd platform brings together the freshest local event listings, up-to the minute nightlife reviews and integrated social networking features to keep you and your friends connected and plugged into the hottest buzz wherever you are. buzzd has partnered with carriers and content providers such as Helio, Virgin Mobile, Alltel, metroPCS, AT&T, Flavorpill, Time Out, ZAGAT, Metromix, Citysearch and many more.

Digby is a leader in the mcommerce platform market. The Company's service is a mobile commerce software platform that enables consumers to purchase physical goods and services from their mobile device and provides merchants with a turn-key infrastructure for mcommerce deployment. It has built a significant competitive advantage over direct and indirect competitors in the market with a rich yet simple user experience, patent pending mobile catalogue and location-based offer process, merchant analytics services and a write-once, deploy-to-many architecture.

Digby has built and launched both the Powered by Digby ("PbD") platform and Digby Marketplace. PbD is a turn-key infrastructure that enables merchants, carriers, payments providers and hardware manufacturers to create and manage a branded mcommerce storefront as part of a multichannel retail experience for their customers. To date the Company has launched 1800 Flowers and Godiva stores on the BlackBerry platform. The Digby Marketplace is a virtual mall application that is downloaded to a mobile device enabling a consumer to browse for items for sale from major national brands all within the same application. To date the Company has partnered with leading national brands including Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, FTD, Godiva, Wine.com, OfficeMax, Drugstore.com, Overstock.com, and Sears Toys.

Neuralitic Systems was founded in January 2007 with a mission to help mobile service operators understand the mobile data user behaviours that influence data service adoption, so that they can automatically uncover new trends and habits and dynamically leverage these emerging behaviours to ignite data revenue growth.

Business intelligence (BI) is moving to centre stage in the telecom industry, as operators shift their focus from subscriber acquisition to better understanding their data service buying patterns and habits. In today's environment characterized by market saturation (over 30 markets have reached 100% penetration), high cost of customer acquisition and flattening voice revenues, operators are under pressure to embrace BI tools to reduce churn, maximize non-voice and IP services revenues and differentiate themselves in the marketplace.

Nexage is a leading developer of mobile advertising solutions that enable companies to maximize profitability from their mobile properties. Founded in 2006, its leading product is AdMax, a hosted Ad Optimization Platform that enables premium mobile publishers to fully control and maximize the profitability of their mobile services. It enables mobile publishers to maximize revenues from mobile ads while reducing internal operating expenses by more efficiently connecting to multiple ad networks.

With customers that include Reuters and Nokia, Nexage has excellent early market traction in capturing some of the world's most premium mobile publishers and will look to extend their customer base by continuously adding enhanced value to the AdMax platform.

Payfone is a new global mobile payment processor. They enable consumers to buy games and digital goods through "app stores" and social networking sites using their mobile account. Their payment system integrates into the carrier's billing system using the cross industry standard developed for roaming.

The Payfone network, by virtue of using the inter-carrier roaming infrastructure, can deliver one click purchasing, full remediation and refund support, and transparent billing with significant improvements in customer experience over current alternatives.

PocketGear is the world's largest cross platform, open app store and content marketplace with a catalog of more than 140,000 paid and free titles and relationships with more than 32,000 developers. PocketGear powers storefront and content solutions for over 40 partners, including 4 of the world's top 5 handset manufacturers, 3 of the top 5 mobile operators in the US, 3 of the top 10 mobile operators globally, and leading media and ecommerce companies, including Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson, Research in Motion, Microsoft, T-Mobile, AT&T Wireless, and Verizon Wireless. PocketGear is headquartered in Durham, NC with offices in Munich, Germany and Irving, TX. 

SocialDeck is a cross-platform, social gaming company based in Toronto, Canada with a vision of enabling anytime, anywhere, anyone gaming. socialDeck connects fragmented players and communities across platforms including Facebook, BlackBerry and iPhone and adds a social context to existing mobile and social games. The company was founded in July 2008 by Anish Acharya and Jeson Patel.

Transpera is The Attention Network, fostering pure, undivided attention between mobile consumers and brands. For brand advertisers, our mobile video ads captivate audiences to achieve the most consumer focus and receptivity possible. For publishers, our ad platform provides the highest revenue per impression and further unlocks the revenue potential of apps, games, and services by creating premium mobile video inventory.

Transpera's mobile video ad network includes premium publisher brands such as AccuWeather.com, CBS News, Discovery Communications, Msnbc.com, MTV Networks, SHOWTIME®, Travel Channel and more. Transpera is based in San Francisco, Calif. and is funded by top venture firms Flybridge Capital, Intel Capital, First Round Capital, Labrador Ventures and BlackBerry Partners Fund. For more information, visit www.transpera.com.

Viewdle has developed a fast, accurate and lightweight facial recognition algorithm that recognizes, detects and indexes human faces in digital videos and photos. Viewdle's platform works on mobile devices, PCs and in the cloud. The company is creating a consumer desktop and mobile application to index video and provide real-time face detection and identification. The Company's facial recognition application will transform video management for consumers by automatically tagging, searching and sharing media, in real-time, on desktops and mobile devices.

Viewdle's software will also help consumers organize and manage personal content libraries. Photo filenames rarely describe who is in the picture and videos are generally represented by thumbnails which only describe one frame of the video and not the entire clip. Viewdle's search capabilities allow users to instantly retrieve particular photos or video clips of specific individuals.

WorldMate's mission is to help ensure that travellers are never stranded, never late and never lost. WorldMate Live, their flagship product, is a travel service that makes it easy for business travelers to plan and manage their trips. It is the only service that serves your needs both before and during travel by automatically assembling an entire itinerary, including meetings, in one place and ensuring your personal web site, calendar and mobile device are always in sync. Unlike all other Web and mobile sites or SMS flight alerts, WorldMate Live roams with you in real time, delivering relevant information, warning of potential pitfalls, and making it easy to resolve issues, so your trip is as efficient and enjoyable as possible.

WorldMate turns your mobile device into your personal travel assistant. It provides valuable travel information and resources and keeps you out of trouble while you're on the road. WorldMate users can find out when their flights are canceled or delayed directly on their mobile phones. In addition, travelers inconvenienced by last-minute changes can check updated flight schedules to rebook quickly and save time at the airport. WorldMate includes a host of free services such as Weather Forecasts, World Clocks, a Currency Converter, a World Day/Night Map and many others. Premium services, available for a nominal subscription fee, include real-time Flight Status for more than 175 airlines and Flight Schedules for over 800 airlines.

Xobni is a San Francisco, California based startup that is revolutionizing the way people manage, organize, and search Outlook email. Xobni is a relationship management tool that offers lightning fast search and organization of your inbox. Xobni creates profiles for each person that emails you. These profiles contain relationship statistics, contact information, social connections, threaded conversations, and shared attachments.

The company was founded in the spring of 2006 by Adam Smith and Matt Brezina, launched to private beta in September 2007 and opened to the public in May 2008. Xobni is funded by Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, Cisco Systems, First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures, Atomico Investments, BlackBerry Partners Fund and others.