Snap-In Selected as Top Growth Company
Press Release

Seattle, WA - Venture All Stars™ today announced the selection of its 50 finalist Pacific Northwest emerging growth companies, who will now contend to be selected as one of the top 25 Venture All Stars of 2005. The awards will be presented at the 5th Annual Venture All Stars™ Awards Gala and NASDAQ Golf Tournament. The event will be held on Friday, June 3, 2005 at the prestigious Golf Club at Newcastle located in Bellevue, Washington. At the event, Venture All Stars will also announce an overall top company from among the top 25 finalists and a northwest regional best of British Columbia, Washington and Oregon.

“The Venture All Stars Event provides an unmatched view into the best deal flow and investment trends taking place in the Pacific Northwest, and a snapshot into the future of what the next high-growth NASDAQ IPO’s may look like,” said Gary Ritner from Puget Sound Venture Club.

The 2005 Venture All Stars selection committee consists of representatives from more than 35 venture capital organizations including Motorola Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, Arch Venture Partners, Voyager Capital, OVP Venture Partners, Greenstone VC, Yaletown Venture Partners, and the Puget Sound Venture Club. This group represents billions of dollars in venture capital that are actively seeking to help entrepreneurs make their next fortune.

The 2005 Top 50 Venture All Star companies, which come from all sectors and stages, were selected over a six-week period, and were evaluated from multiple business and funding criteria including strong management, financial backing and high-growth potential. Congratulations to the following companies that made it to the finalist:

3Plains
A Place for Mom
Abebooks
Adaptix
All Star Directories
Avidian Technologies
Beon Media dba GalleryPlayer
Brainwave Science-Medical Group
CallVision
CardioMetrix, Inc.
Colligo networks, Inc.
Congruent
Dyaptive Systems
enGene
Entomo, Inc.
eProject, Inc.
Essential Security
Estorian
Finanlyntica
Genologics Life Sciences Software
Home Technologies
iDelix Software, Inc.
Impinj, Inc
Isilon
Jobster
Klir Technologies
Knowledge Anywhere, Inc
Majestic Diamonds & Metals
Medio Systems
Melodeo
Mercent
Mobidia, Inc.
Monsoon, Inc.
Mpire
Neah Power Systems
NewHeights Software Corp
NGRAIN
Novinium, Inc.
Ocularis Pharma Inc.
Pure Networks, Inc.
RadioFrame Networks
Small Potatoes Urban Delivery (SPUD)
SNAPin Software
Strata Health Solutions, Inc.
Sunnybrook Technologies, Inc.
Sunstream Boats
Tableau Software
Teranode Company
World Wide Packets
Zango

The Venture All Stars event is the only event of its kind that brings together and honors companies from both in the United States and Canada. Past Venture All Star companies include vCustomer, Impinj, FIOS, nGrain, HouseValues and Mforma.

About Venture All Stars
Venture All Stars™ Group is a five year old integrated media, marketing and advisory services organization that provides access to the Pacific Northwest’s seed to mid-stage venture ecosystem. In addition to the annual Venture All Stars Event, it operates a partner network consisting of premier venture capital, angel investor, entrepreneur, corporate executives, governmental trade agencies and industry groups in the USA, Canada and China. The organization’s services include venture events, investor readiness training, radio style podcasting shows, email newsletters and the region’s official Venture Calendar. Venture All Stars publishes the Venture Map, the de-facto visual representation of the northwest venture ecosystem with a distribution of more than 50,000 units.