Oak Ridge, TN (September 24, 2007) , Among the 15 companies chosen to present at this years Tennessee Valley Venture Forum (TVVF) presented by Technology 2020, five are client companies of The Centers for Entrepreneurial Growth (CEG). They include Phenotype Screening Corporation, SunsOil, Voices Heard, Protein Discovery and Tricycle. The 11 th annual Tennessee Valley Venture Forum will be September 26 – 27, 2007 at the Knoxville Convention Center in Knoxville, TN. Tech2020 president Tom Rogers said, “The Venture Forum grew from modest beginnings eleven years ago to become one of the major venture conferences in the south and the only venture forum in Tennessee” Rogers went on further to say, “The feedback we have gotten, both from participants and VC’s has been consistently positive. The value of the coaching we provide as part of our forum has resulted in well prepared and high quality presentations.” “We are very proud of our client’s who were selected to present at this year’s forum,” says Shawn Carson, Director of the UT/Battelle CEG program. “This is a very competitive process. Applicants were selected by a panel of venture capitalists so everyone earned their spot. There were no free passes.” Phenotype Screening Corporation develops scientific instrumentation for the projected one-trillion dollar crop biotech and bio-based products market. Its focus is on enabling rapid discovery of key, economically significant plant traits to accelerate the introduction of advanced, next-generation plant varieties, seeds, and bio-based products. www.phenotypescreening.com SunsOil LLC has been developing the company’s biodiesel process technology and supply relationships. SunsOil has demonstrated its capability to produce quality biodiesel from a variety of plentiful, inexpensive feedstocks, delivering significant cost advantages over soy-based biodiesel. Independent lab tests confirm that SunsOil’s biodiesel exceeds every metric of ASTM 6751, the US biodiesel standard. www.suns-oil.com Voices Heard Media (VHM) has created the most genuine interaction between the public and an athlete or celebrity or politician – anytime, anywhere. Through a patent-pending application of natural language processing (NLP) and search engine technology, VHM has developed a system that will take massive numbers of questions from multiple sources (SMS text messaging, email and web) and intelligently distill them into a small number of representative questions reflecting the public’s voice. www.voicesheardmedia.com Protein Discovery , Inc. is targeting the >$3B market opportunity for biomedical mass spectrometry sample preparation. Mass spectrometry is a central analytical technique used in clinical research and pharmaceutical drug development and is poised to become a dominant tool in medical diagnostics. Protein Discovery’s products address all categories of these existing and emerging markets, from small molecule quantification to new diagnostic discovery research to in - hospital clinical specimen testing. www.proteindiscovery.com Tricycle Inc. enables sustainable design, sometimes referred to as eco-design, using a digital rendition of manufactured product that is effective across the entire lifecycle of product creation, manufacturing, sales, marketing and product selection. This provides a cost savings to the product manufacturer and a more convenient process for the product specifier (interior designers who plan and specify products to be purchased) while enabling a smaller environmental footprint for the industry. www.trticylceinc.com The Centers for Entrepreneurial Growth (CEG) is part of Technology 2020 located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. For the past twelve years, Technology 2020 has worked to establish an unparalleled entrepreneurial support system which will help the Tennessee Valley Corridor become one of America’s new technology hot spots. The CEG is a program run by corporate professionals with the experience to help companies drive growth and successful completion of exit strategies through their stage based client development program. www.tech2020.org |
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