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5 December 2005 - Geneva, Switzerland The World Economic Forum has announced today 36 visionary companies selected as Technology Pioneers 2006. The companies, whose products range from real 3D screens to fuel cell motorbikes and intelligent prosthetics, were nominated by the world’s leading venture capital and technology companies. The final selection from 97 nominees was made by a panel of leading technology experts appointed by the World Economic Forum.
§ Innovalight, Santa Clara, CA, USA - The company has discovered that the unique light emission and light absorption properties of silicon can be tuned at the quantum level. This technology will have enormous impacts in replacing conventional crystalling silicon solar cells and traditional lighting technologies due to the advantages in production costs, energy savings and lifetime of the materials that the company has developed. § MBA Polymers, Richmond, CA, USA - MBA Polymers has developed an automated process to recover plastics and other materials from durable goods such as electronics, computers and automobiles containing commingled materials.
§ XDx, South San Francisco, CA, USA - XDx has developed and launched a technology called AlloMap™ testing that enables transplant cardiologists to determine with a simple blood test whether a patient is rejecting a transplanted heart.
§ Matrix Semiconductor, Santa Clara, CA USA - Matrix Semiconductor, Inc. has pioneered the design and development of three-dimensional (3-D) integrated circuits. This fundamental breakthrough in IC design enables a new class of low cost, high density, secure One-Time-Programmable (OTP), non-volatile memory products, designed to meet the unique requirements of high volume consumer electronic markets. § Navio Systems, Cupertino, CA, USA - Navio is a pioneer of rights-based commerce. By enabling publishers to sell rights and not just files, Navio unleashes the power of digital commerce to deliver revenue, retention, and customer relationships via any consumer touch point, on the Web or mobile phone. § Rosum, Mountain View, CA, USA - Rosum provides seamless indoor/outdoor location technology that is rapid, available, and accurate. Rosum TV-GPS integrates signals from existing commercial TV towers with signals from GPS satellites to support positioning in all environments. § Silicon Optix, San Jose , CA, USA - The Company makes digital image processing chips that correct distortion in video displays by adjusting the scale and warp of projected images. § UPEK, Emeryville, CA, USA - The company provides a variety of biometric authentication products including fingerprint sensors, biometric algorithms, and software. Customers use the company's products to secure access to notebooks, mobile and desktop PCs, as well as managing physical access to doors, safes, and automobiles. § Voltage Security, Palo Alto, CA, USA - Voltage Security delivers the leading enterprise privacy management platform for protecting all forms of digital business communication. Based on an award winning breakthrough in security and usability called Identity-Based Encryption (IBE), Voltage provides solutions for secure communication to leading financial services, healthcare, government and pharmaceutical companies. The Technology Pioneers programme is run by the World Economic Forum with guidance from Apax Partners and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Apax Partners published today the fourth Technology Pioneers report entitled Pathways to success: a taxonomy of innovation available online at www.weforum.org/techpioneers/pdf/apax2006.pdf. Richard Wilson, Partner at Apax Partners Worldwide LLP and Head of its European Tech and Telecom team, said: "Four styles of innovation emerge from this year's Technology Pioneers: incremental – continuous improvement of existing technology; modular – using new technology for existing applications; architectural – applying existing technology in new combinations; and radical - totally new technology to solve new problems. These areas of Technology Pioneer innovation are evident across technology, telecommunications, biotechnology and alternative energy sources. The Technology Pioneers are an increasingly important annual barometer of technology developments." "It was exciting to see the nominations received for this year's Technology Pioneer class reflect a more diverse population. This wasn't only by sector with an almost even distribution for the first time across IT, biotech and energy– but also a diverse population by geography. We received several nominations from growth areas of the world such as India and Korea. As for those selected as the Tech Pioneer class of 2006, your innovations will certainly impact the global village we live in today – congratulations on your current successes and we'll be watching for more to come." said Anne Taylor, Advisory Partner for the Tech Pioneer programme, Deloitte & Touche, USA. Go to www.weforum.org/techpioneers/2006 for the entire list of Technology Pioneers and interviews with the CEOs of the selected companies. For more specific information, please e-mail: tech.pioneers@weforum.org Download print-quality high resolution photographs of the CEOs of the selected companies at: www.pbase.com/forumweb/techpioneers2006 Web Editors, do not forget to cross-link to our special page on The Technology Pioneers 2006 at: www.weforum.org/techpioneers Nominate a company to be a 2007 Technology Pioneer at: www.weforum.org/pdf/techpioneers/nomination_form_2007.pdf. Deadline for submissions is May 2006. “Pathways to success: a taxonomy of innovation” will be available on-line at: www.apax.com, www.deloitte.com and www.weforum.org/pdf/techpioneers/apax2006.pdf For further information, please contact: Matthias Lüfkens Senior Media Manager Tel.: +41 (0)22 869 1424 Fax: +41 (0)22 869 1394 matthias.luefkens@weforum.org www.weforum.org About Apax Partners Apax Partners is one of the world's leading private equity investment groups, operating across the United States, Europe and Israel. Apax Partners has raised or advised approximately US$ 20 billion around the world. With more than 30 years of direct investing experience, Apax Partners’ Funds provide long-term equity financing to build and strengthen world-class companies. It pursues a multi-stage equity investment strategy, investing in late venture, growth capital and buyouts. Apax Partners’ Funds invest in companies across its global sectors of Tech & Telecoms, Retail & Consumer, Media, Healthcare and Financial & Business Services For further information, please contact: Siobhan Loftus Clare Fancourt Tel: +44 (0)20 7872 6495 Tel: +44 (0)20 7872 6476 Email: Siobhan.Loftus@apax.com Email: Clare.Fancourt@apax.com About Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, a Swiss Verein, its member firms and their respective subsidiaries and affiliates. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is an organization of member firms around the world devoted to excellence in providing professional services and advice, focused on client service through a global strategy executed locally in nearly 150 countries. With access to the deep intellectual capital of 120,000 people worldwide, Deloitte delivers services in four professional areas: audit, tax, consulting and financial advisory services, and serves more than one-half of the world's largest companies, as well as large national enterprises, public institutions, locally important clients and successful, fast-growing global growth companies. Services are not provided by the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Verein and, for regulatory and other reasons, certain member firms do not provide services in all four professional areas. As a Swiss Verein (association), neither Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu nor any of its member firms has any liability for each other's acts or omissions. Each of the member firms is a separate and independent legal entity operating under the names "Deloitte," "Deloitte & Touche," "Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu," or other related names. For further information, please contact: Tia Narciso Kelly Campbell Harris Tel.: +1 212 436 2967 Tel.: +1 212 492 4559 E-mail: tnarciso@deloitte.com E-mail: kellcampbell@deloitte.com __________________________________________ The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders in partnerships to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Incorporated as a foundation in 1971, and based in Geneva, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum is impartial and not-for-profit; it is tied to no political, partisan or national interests. (www.weforum.org) For more information, please contact: Communications and Public Affairs World Economic Forum Tel.: +41 (0) 22 869 1212 Fax: +41 (0) 22 869 1394 E-mail: public.affairs@weforum.org
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