Alcatel Ventures is a venture capital partnership investing in privately held companies which command unique technology or concrete plans to build it. They invest primarily in US technology companies related to hardware and software. Valere Power is a portfolio client of Alcatel Ventures, Inc.

Dali, Hook Partners, a venture capital firm with offices in Menlo Park, California and Dallas, Texas, was founded in 2001 with an investment focus on early stage enterprise software, communications and semiconductor companies. Investing in privately held companies in varying early stages of development including seed and start-up, this seasoned team, Paul Dali, David Hook and George Chase, is dedicated to assisting entrepreneurs create leading information technology companies of lasting value by offering a network of people and resources that provide strategic counsel and operating support. Their firms have been involved in the successes of companies such as Clarify (purchased by Nortel Networks), Cybermedia, Entegrity Solutions, Etec Systems (purchased by Applied Materials), Harmonic, IC Works (purchased by Cypress Semi-conductor), NetSolve, Power Integrations, Maxtor, MediaVision, Octel Communications (purchased by Lucent Technologies), Promatory Communications (purchased by Nortel Networks), Repeater Technologies, Serius, TriQuint Semiconductor and Vitesse Semiconductor.

Current investments include Astute Networks, Confluence Networks, Spatial Wireless, SteelEye Technology and UltraPhotonics.

More information is available at www.dhpartners.com.

J.P. Morgan Partners, LLC (“JPMP”) is a leading private equity organization. Its primary goal is to build a diversified portfolio of investments in middle-market buyouts, growth equity and venture in the United States and Europe, and across its five core industry segments. JPMP complements this strategy with focused efforts in emerging markets in Latin America and Asia. Gluing this strategy together is the global integrated network, which enables JPMP to draw on expert resources residing within JP Morgan Chase, its extensive portfolio, and worldwide contact network to source attractive opportunities and manage its investments.

More information is available at www.jpmorgan.com.

Sierra Ventures, founded in 1982, is a privately held venture capital firm focused on investments in communications, enterprise software and Internet related content and infrastructure companies. Sierra Ventures manages eight venture capital partnerships with more than $1 billion of capital under management. Some of the firm's investments include StrataCom (acquired by Cisco), Teradata (acquired by NCR), Centex (acquired by MFS-Worldcom), Combinet (acquired by Cisco), ConvergeNet (acquired by Dell), Active Software (acquired by WebMethods), FatBrain (acquired by Barnes and Noble), Healtheon (merged with WebMD), Interact Commerce (acquired by Sage), Intuit (INTU), Micromuse (MUSE), OnLink (acquired by Siebel), Quinta (acquired by Seagate), Terayon (TERN), Vina (VINA) and Vertel (VRTL).

More information is available at www.sierraventures.com.