packetvideo and portalplayer included in ten private digital media companies judged most likely to succeed
Technologic Partners announced the ten private digital media companies judged most likely to succeed at its Digital Media Outlook conference held here this week. The selected companies were given the title Investors' Choice. Based on selections by an audience of about 300 leading investment and industry professionals, the ten winners were selected from among 48 invited companies whose CEOs presented their business plans.
``Despite the slowdown in the public markets, private venture-backed companies are creating innovative technologies and business models that deepen the role of rich media on the Internet and bring interactivity to television,'' said Richard A. Shaffer, principal of Technologic Partners.
In addition to voting by the audience, selection for the Investors' Choice award was based on recommendations from a panel of distinguished investors, which included Bill Frezza, general partner at Adams Capital Management; Doug Barry, general partner at Selby Venture Partners; John Corcoran, Internet/Digital New Media analyst at CIBC World Markets; and Lou Mazzucchelli, senior vice president at Gerard Klauer Mattison.
Here, in alphabetical order, are this year's Investors' Choice winners:
Anystream (www.anystream.com) provides enterprise-class products for encoding streaming media.
Context Media (www.contextmedia.com) provides products and services that wrap business rules around digital content for its protection and management.
eMotion (www.emotion.com) provides digital media management services and products.
Equator Technologies (www.equator.com) develops DSP chips for digital imaging and digital communications.
Omneon Video Networks (www.omneon.com) provides equipment for multiformat digital video networking and storage.
PacketVideo (www.pv.com) develops software for the delivery, management, and viewing of multimedia over wireless networks.
PortalPlayer (www.portalplayer.com) provides CE manufacturers with chips and software for non-PC digital audio recording and playback devices.
SkyStream Networks (www.skystream.com) sells networking products that enable the delivery of Internet video and audio over satellite and other existing broadcast networks.
Telecruz Technology (www.telecruz.com) provides low-cost software chips for the manufacture of televisions with interactive capability.
Vbrick Systems (www.vbrick.com) offers appliances for converting video into MPEG streams.
