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Audigence located in Melbourne Florida provides a software-based optimization technique for assessing and tuning digital hearing devices, such as hearing aids and cochlear implants. The Audigence technology enables customized tuning of existing hardware devices to enhance the capabilities of hearing impaired patients. Speech-based optimization results in improved performance in speech perception and this is the primary reason individuals use such devices. For more information please refer to their website www.audigenceinc.com

Avalon HealthcareHoldings, Inc. located in Tampa, Florida sells consumer directed high deductible health insurance plans in all of Florida's 67 counties. It is the first approved health plan statewide in 12 years. Plan designs start at $1,000 deductibles and are available up to $10,000 deductibles. Plan designs are compatible with health savings accounts (HSA) and health reimbursement accounts (HRA). Products are sold to individuals and all size groups. The company has also created the concept of Micro-Plans for specific markets. For more information please refer to their website www.avalonhealthcare.com .

BioMers Products, LLC located in Naples, Florida with a manufacturing facility in Singapore. The company is engaged in developing novel polymer composite products for orthodontics. The company’s first product is a patented translucent arch wire for the orthodontic treatment market. Aside from being nearly invisible, the arch wires have the necessary mechanical properties to straighten teeth as effectively as other orthodontic treatment alternatives. The product was launched in May of 2008. The company has launched a translucent retainer wire. The ASTICS™ retainer wire may replace all of the metal wires currently used with the Hawley retainers, which represent 65% of the U.S. retainer market. There is not a translucent retainer wire in the orthodontic market today. For more information please refer to their website  www.biomersbraces.com .

Disc Motion Technologies located in Boca Raton, Florida is focused on the innovation development and global marketing of an advanced line of spinal implants featuring the world's first total lumbar joint replacement system called the True TSMS. The TSMS may become the standard of care for millions of patients with degenerative lumbar joint disease.DMT will also offer lumbar dyanmic stabilization and fusion products.  For more information please refer to their website www.discmotion.com.

Intermark Foods (El Latino) located in Miami, Florida is a leading brand of refrigerated and frozen Hispanic foods in South Florida. The Company’s methodically developed brand identity highlights its authentic flavors and high quality ingredients. The product line includes over 166 dairy, meat, frozen food, juice, bread and desert products. Country-specific “nostalgic” products appeal to immigrants in each sub-ethnicity within the Hispanic community; while the products’ high quality ingredients, healthy alternatives and convenient pre-sliced cheeses appeal to increasingly influential first generation families. El Latino’s supplies to over 2,500 locations including Wal-Mart, Publix, Sedano’s  and hundreds of independent retailers in seven states, Washington DC and Puerto Rico.

iSirona, LLC located in Panama City, Florida  develops and sells clinical automation solutions to streamline workflow. They use our extensive experience in healthcare systems integration and interoperability to partner with hospitals, medical device manufacturers and CIS vendors to better serve our customers' needs. Hospitals use our products because iSirona helps them cope with growing safety concerns, documentation requirements, higher acuity patients, and the nursing shortage. For more information please refer to their website www.isirona.com .

My Therapy Journal.com located in Jupiter, Florida is the winner of the Florida collegiate business plan competition. MyTherapyJournal.com, an innovative online journaling experience, has a category-defining feature — a personal Progress GraphSM. Dedicated to facilitating positive change, www.MyTherapyJournal.com enables members to measure their own progress by responding to pre-set or customized questions. This easy-to-use tool is designed for people who want to improve their lives — at any stage. Every group in society can benefit from MyTherapyJournal.com — from those experiencing anxiety or depression to those who want to stop smoking. Its broad appeal extends to over-stressed parents, to adolescents seeking privacy, as well as to military officers and their families.  For more information please refer to their website www.MytherapyJournal.com .     

OttLite® Technologies is located in Tampa, Florida and is the leading designer and marketer of OttLite® branded natural daylight, High Definition products. Founded in 1989, OttLite®’s products simulate specific wavelengths of natural daylight utilizing specially formulated phosphor combinations to enhance indoor activities. As the dominant company in the rapidly growing natural daylight category, OttLite® products function as essential tools for a wide range of activities that benefit from natural daylight conditions and that help people “do what they do better.” The Company targets its products at a diverse range of hobbies and activities that require enhanced visual acuity and color perception including reading, sewing, quilting, painting, scrapbooking, gardening and knitting. Management has leveraged its deep understanding of OttLite® end user market demographics and buying behavior to target the significant traditional big box retailer and mass market. Recently, OttLite® has developed an ecommerce business unit to sell directly to customers via OttLite.com and affiliate sites. Since vision is critical to a vast number of activities that can benefit from OttLite®’s proprietary illumination technology, product and distribution channel opportunities are excellent. For more information please refer to their website www.ottlite.com .

RedVector  founded in 2000 and located in Tampa, Florida  is the leading provider of online compliance and continuing education for professionals in the design and construction industry and the long term health care industry.  The Company owns and manages a course library that features over 1,400 online courses, authored by over 200 subject matter experts, specializing in continuing education, certification, exam preparation and corporate training,.  RedVector’s courses are designed to meet state board and professional organization requirements.  RedVector’s Enterprise Division operates on a SaaS (Software as a Service) model whereby it provides its corporate customers with branded online campuses (websites) that provide their employees with complete access to the RedVector library of courses as well as customized courses designed specifically for the client.  RedVector.com provides services and online courses for the following professions; engineers, contractors, architects, land surveyors, interior designers, construction supervisors, and building inspectors.  Care2Learn (RedVector’s long term health group) provides services and online courses for nursing home administrators, nurses, certified nursing assistants, occupational therapists, physical therapists, social workers, message therapists, and speech audiologists.  For additional information please refer to www.redvector.com or www.care2learn.com.      

ScriptRx, Inc. located in West Palm Beach, Florida is a leading provider of discharge software systems to the “walk–in” ambulatory sector of healthcare, including hospital emergency rooms, urgent care centers and retail health clinics. ScriptRx systems allow physicians to print electronic prescriptions, discharge instructions, follow-up orders, and access medical reference materials, all on an easy-to-use touch screen kiosk. The company is currently developing a new web-based version of its popular software, and will be adding additional modules to meet the needs of the rapidly growing urgent care market. ScriptRx’s new modules will include: Registration, Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and On-Site Medication Dispensing.  For more information please refer to their website www.scriptrx.com .

Sharklet Technologies, Inc. located in Alachua, Florida has engineered a revolutionary new surface technology product called Sharklet™ that controls the growth of dangerous bacteria such as Staph a., Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and E. coli among others. Unlike anything in the marketplace today, Sharklet™ is the first non-toxic, long-lasting and no-kill surface to control the growth of undesirable microorganisms and inhibit the formation of biofilms. For more information please refer to their website www.sharklet.com .     

Sunbelt Software located in Clearwater, Florida is a leading developer and provider of Windows security software with product solutions in the areas of antispam and antivirus, antispyware, and vulnerability assessment. Leading products include the VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware product line for both enterprises and consumers, the CounterSpy product line, Sunbelt Exchange Archiver, Ninja Email Security and Sunbelt's endpoint firewall technologies. The company was founded in 1994 and offers product solutions that enable companies to protect and secure their infrastructure from costly inefficiencies including spam and viruses, spyware and malware, Windows system downtime and network security vulnerabilities. For more information please refer to their website at www.sunbeltsoftware.com.

T3 Communications, Inc. located in Ft. Myers, Florida is a “next generation” CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange carrier), providing basic and advanced communication services to SMB (Small and Medium sized Businesses) in Southwest Florida. With ‘softswitch’ technology at its core the Company offers advanced services at lower cost and with higher value than the incumbent provider. These services include local and long distance telephone services as well as hosted telephony and installed telephony systems and solutions integrated with data and internet communications. T3 Business Units: 1. Next generation CLEC – voice, Internet and data services 2. Data Centers – Colocation, hosting in two carrier neutral facilities 3. Telephone systems – Sales and service of Avaya, Altigen and other systems 4. Structured Cabling – The Intelligent Networks division provides cabling, wireless and help desk services for national accounts and local government.  For more information please refer to their website  www.t3com.com .

Transgeneron Therapeutics, Inc. located in Gainesville, Florida is  a biotherapeutics development company integrating breakthrough regenerative medicine discoveries to develop injectable therapeutics. The company mission is to exploit the biology of in vivo transdifferentiation to regenerate ischemic or diseased organs. Transdifferentiation occurs when a patient’s cells can be reprogrammed (using pharmaceutical or biological agents) to differentiate into functioning tissue.  For more information please refer to their website www.transgeneron.com .

TxtVox, Inc. located in Boca Raton, Florida is   a patent-pending interactive platform for connecting content providers, consumers and advertisers using text messaging and related technologies. It permits interested consumers to opt-in to various content channels and receive relevant, timely SMS messages. Each text message contains a brief advertisement, giving advertisers a targeted, cost effective and responsive method to reach mobile consumers. The content may be sourced and provided by TxtVox™ or may be contributed by third-party publishers using the TxtVox™ Open API. TxtVox™ has the capacity to mobilize any XML information source including blogs, postings, RSS feeds, etc. and convert them into personalized information alerts. For more information please refer to their website  www.TxtVox.com .

Virsona, Inc., located in Boca Raton, Florida is building the world's leading interactive dialog engine.  Designed to 'remember, reason and react' our engine emulates a real, fictional or historical person via an instant messaging based conversation.  With applications from education to entertainment as well as ecommerce to social networking our virsonas (virtual personas) literally bring life to the web.For more information please refer to their website www.virsona.com .

Wound Technology Network, Inc. (WTN) located in Hollywood, Florida is a Physician Group Practice that offers a unique, integrated wound treatment program that offers superior outcomes for chronic and advanced wounds at significant savings to payers. The business model is focused on providing services to Health Plans. The Company currently provides services in Florida and California. WTN reduces healing times by 50% and can reduce patient care costs by greater than 50% by minimizing the number of doctor visits, recurrences and hospitalizations. WTN’s wound treatment program ensures that two wound specialists (one on location, another through voice- and video-over IP) are simultaneously assessing and treating each wound patient at every visit. Through its centralized specialist call center and care management software, WTN makes available to its patients a level of wound care expertise, standardized protocols, and cross-situs consistency in quality of care that is unmatched, even by the best specialty wound care clinics. Through its network of contracted wound care providers, WTN expands the point of service by bringing advanced wound healing services to the physician office/clinic, to the skilled nursing or assisted living facility, and even directly to the patient’s home or bedside and manages treatment life cycle across settings. The WTN program incorporates a variety of operating elements that result in higher quality wound dressing, advanced protocols, and greater patient compliance. This combination yields superior performance. The key operating elements include: • Use of the most advanced, proven wound care technology and dressings • Proprietary evidence-based treatment standards that are refined through the most comprehensive wound treatment database in the industry • Unparalleled level of patient interaction with wound care specialists at every visit to enhance compliance. For more information please refer to their website. www.woundtech.net .


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