The Future Fund has chosen the following companies for capital investment.
Below you will find brief descriptions of each company and its subsequent link to each web site.

The Allegheny Child Care Academy (ACCA) specializes in offering high quality child services in economically depressed, inner-city communities with the quality to appeal to a professional clientele while efficiently managing costs to accept public subsidy clients.The majority of ACCA’s parents are welfare recipients who are reentering employment through welfare to work placement programs or single low-income working parents.
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Automated Cell finds the proteins that lead to the cure of disease and dramatically focuses and shortens drug development efforts. Automated Cell documents how human proteins change cells related to disease. It provides the understanding of what each protein does and how well it does it. Automated Cell can select the very few proteins that are the most promising targets for drug development. Automated Cell contracts with pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms to identify drug targets from their libraries of proprietary proteins.

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology is catalyzing a similar paradigm shift in the mechanical sensing industry. MEMS technology was invented in the 1980s and 90s to fabricate mechanical devices on silicon ICs the same way electronic elements are fabricated. This resulted in MEMS devices that are small, reliable, and, potentially, very inexpensive. But, the cost of today's MEMS devices prohibits widespread adoption.

IC Mechanics' unique MEMS manufacturing process is changing all that. The company is positioned to become a leader by providing low-cost, superior MEMS devices to new and existing mass markets.

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LogicLibrary is a leading provider of software and services for getting companies started with Web services. LogicLibrary Logidex, a software development asset (SDA) mapping and discovery engine, allows enterprise IT organizations to represent their inherently complex application environments in understandable and visual contexts. A company's Logidex SDA Library can include XML schemas, software components, legacy applications and associated documentation mapped to the business' technical and business process models. Software developers, architects and business analysts can search the catalog using search options ranging from simple, keyword searches to sophisticated, model-based searches. When a search is run, SDAs are identified and scored according to their 'fit' with the specified business and technical requirements. The Logidex mapping and discovery engine significantly reduces the time required to build high-quality Web services applications and/or extend legacy requirements.

MindMatters was formed in February 2000 to help companies reduce the costs and headaches associated with creating and managing innovation and intellectual property assets. MindMatters' solution, the Innovator(tm) Innovation Management System, is the foundation for creating a comprehensive environment conducive to breakthrough innovation. The Innovator IMS carefully combines the legal, financial, motivational, analytical, and collaborative elements that are necessary to build strong, enduring and valuable innovation within a corporation. It speeds the process from when employees conceive ideas to when these ideas become new assets.

Personity provides PAM for current and future communications systems such as text messaging, voice calling, voice over IP, video and multimedia conferencing.
Personity can be used to add open standard PAM capabilities to applications such as collaboration, customer service, supply-chain management, and e-commerce.

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Precision Therapeutics, Inc. (PTI) is a Pittsburgh-based company dedicated to improving the lives of cancer patients by being the leading provider of comprehensive, personalized, cancer management information to the medical community and customized, preclinical testing services to the biopharmaceutical community.
The company’s tissue culture-based platform technology is a patented technique for successfully growing human tumor-derived cells in culture and evaluating their in vitro response to anticancer therapies. Test results provide physicians with unique, patient-specific tumor information for primary, recurrent and metastatic cancers.
Physicians can utilize this tumor-specific information to personalize cancer therapy. Additionally, PTI's Pharmaceutical Services Program will offer biopharmaceutical companies customized, preclinical drug testing services to aid in the evaluation of pharmacologic, immunologic, radiologic and gene-based cancer therapies.

Quantapoint has been in operation since 1990. Our team is dedicated to producing the best methods of Existing Condition Documentation available to architects. Our technology is state of the art, and we continue to remain the leaders in fast, accurate ECD. We built the first 360-degree laser scanning device in 1992, and our technology remains at the forefront of complete, flexible, and reliable building measurement technology.
The founders of Quantapoint are all current or former members of the robotics research community at Carnegie Mellon University.
The Quantapoint team has more than 30 years of experience in Existing Condition Documentation. We have steadily broadened our knowledge base with work in condition assessments, site surveys, and visualization technology. Among Quantapoint‘s technical personnel are 40 scientists and technicians. Current growth projections indicate a total staff of approximately 100 by the end of 2001.
We have documented millions of square feet of contemporary structures and historic landmarks ranging from museums to churches, retail stores to bank buildings.

TissueInformatics (www.TissueInformatics.com) is the pioneer of automated hyperquantification analysis of normal and pathological tissue.
TissueInformatics has revolutionized the tissue analysis process by enabling automated quantitative analysis of tissue and this enables the company to provide the industry with both TissueAnalytics™Software and TissueAnalytics™Services.
TissueInformatics integrates sophisticated tissue imaging with its proprietary tissue analysis software to enable precise mathematical comparison of tissues. TissueInformatics sophisticated imaging and analysis software and services allows greater speed, consistency and accuracy where the precise comparison of tissue is critical, such as in automated toxicology, pre-clinical and clinical pharmacology, diagnostic and product safety applications, and quality assurance in tissue engineering. In addition, the quantitative data generated can be useful in correlation with other biological information to associate clinical status and tissue structure with genomic and proteomic expression levels in drug target discovery and development.

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TimeSys Linux provides the ideal foundation for embedded systems with any kind of performance requirements. From non-real-time, to soft real-time, all the way to hard real-time, TimeSys Linux offers unsurpassed predictability, robustness, scalability, and is available on a variety of board/microprocessor configurations.

True Commerce, Inc. specializes in the electronic commerce needs of small and mid-tier companies, making it possible for them to conduct business in an environment traditionally dominated by very large companies.

Webmedx is a Pittsburgh-based software developer for the healthcare diagnostic imaging industry. Their Electronic Radiology Jacket is a revolutionary new web-based electronic radiology jacket that gives today's medical professionals significantly faster, easier access to the diagnostic information that they need to improve service, productivity and profitability. It delivers greater value than other radiology management solutions, because it makes diagnostic information available instantly - on demand - anytime, anywhere.

Co-founded by Nori Suzuki, former executive vice president of Sony Electronics Inc. in charge of Research & Development, and former director of IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory; and Takeo Kanade, director of Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute and internationally recognized expert in vision systems, Zaxel Systems, Inc. has been creating video asset management solutions and interactive 3D imaging systems since April 1998.
Video asset management solutions from Zaxel® cut hardware costs and increase quality for the e-cinema, semiconductor inspection and medical imaging industries. 3D video products from Zaxel® target the training, sports and entertainment markets, allowing content creators to deliver a new level of interaction and new depth of information to viewers. 3D still products from Zaxel® target the product imaging market, providing product visualization solutions to manufacturers, retailers, wholesalers and others seeking to improve product merchandising. Zaxel Systems, Inc. has offices in Los Altos Hills, CA, and Pittsburgh, PA.

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