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deCarta is privately funded. Investors include premier venture capital firms such as Norwest Venture Partners, T-Mobile Venture Fund, Mobius Venture Capital, Cardinal Venture Capital, Hotung Group, Translink Capital and Best Buy Capital.

As a company focused on growth, Best Buy continually looks toward the future. To shape that perspective, we look to learn about new businesses and new technologies - their products, services and business models. To that end, Best Buy Capital (a function within Best Buy) focuses exclusively on making investments in innovative start-ups and companies in consumer technology and media. Best Buy Capital's mission is to look for company growth opportunities by providing entrepreneurs with capital, resources, networks, and expertise to help drive innovations on behalf of consumers. Investments are supported by two funds: the CORE Fund and the ALPHA Fund.

Cardinal Venture Capital invests in early stage information technology companies, including enterprise software and services, internet infrastructure software, wireless applications, electronic payments and digital media. Cardinal's investing team helps build successful technology-based businesses by applying their extensive experience as entrepreneurs and operating managers. Cardinal Venture Capital is based in Menlo Park, California.

Hotung Group("Hotung") was established in 1987. The founding shareholders include Tai Lung Capital, DaiWa Securities, now NIF SMBC Ventures Co., Chiatung Bank, now Mega International Financial Holding Corp. and Feng Tay Enterprise, etc.

After 20 years' successful investments and proven track record, Hotung has evolved and become one of the top venture capital firms in Taiwan with over $350M under management. More than 130 companies in our portfolio went public in Asia and USA. Over time, Hotung Group has invested in more than 460 companies worldwide, of which more than 90 are in the US. This network is a very important resource for our value-adds and future investments. Hotung has since returned more than $600M capital to its fund investors.

Hotung currently has offices in Taipei, Shanghai and Silicon Valley with over 30 seasoned professionals handling cross-Pacific and local investments. We also have strategic partners in the US, Japan, Korea, Germany and China. Collectively, our team has 200 years of experience in securities, private equity and venture capital business.

Hotung's US investments started in the early 1990s. In 2002 Hotung set up an office in the heart of Silicon Valley, and have since become one of the leading Asian VCs to invest in cutting-edge technologies in the Bay Area and the rest of North America. Significant exits include: AATI, Infinera, Airespace/Cisco, Resonext/RFMD, Cicada/Vitesse, Berkana/Qualcomm, Opnext, and Rasvia/Quanta, just to name a few.

Mobius Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund comprised of seasoned veterans and entrepreneurs from leading technology companies, who bring not only deep domain expertise, but also hands-on operating experience to the companies in our portfolio. Mobius Venture Capital began investing in 1996. The current fund, Mobius VI, has been invested in over sixty innovative technology companies including, Akustica, Danger, deCarta, FeedBurner (Acq. GOOG), Impinj, Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN), LRN, Postini (Acq. GOOG), Quova, Sling Media (Acq. DISH), Stratify (Acq. IRM), and Technorati. The company has offices in Boulder, Colorado and Palo Alto, California.

Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) is a global venture capital firm that has actively partnered with entrepeneurs to build great businesses for more than 45 years. NVP foucuses on investments in information technology including: software, services, enterprise and communications systems, semiconductor/components and Internet, media and consumer. The firm currently manages more than $2.5 billion in venture capital out of its office in Palo Alto, California. NVP has funded over 400 companies in the U.S. since inception, as well as several direct investments in India and more than 20 cross-border companies.

NVP has funded over 450 companies in the U.S. since inception, as well as several direct investments in India and more than 20 cross border companies. Some of the firm's recent investments and transactions include Adventity, Airespace (acquired by Cisco Systems), deCarta, KACE, mBlox, Omneon, Open-Silicon (acquired by Unicorn Investment Bank), Persistent Systems, Rackspace, Resonext Communications (acquired by RF Micro Devices), SideStep (acquired by Kayak), Spinnaker Networks (acquired by Network Appliance), Veraz Networks, Winphoria Networks (acquired by Motorola) Yatra, and Yipes (acquired by Reliance/Flag Telecom). NVP has also funded such market leaders as Actel Corporation, Cerent (acquired by Cisco Systems), Documentum, Extreme Networks, Forte Software (acquired by Sun Microsystems), PeopleSoft and Tivoli Systems (acquired by IBM).

T-Mobile Venture Fund is managed by T-Venture, the venture capital entity of Deutsche Telekom. The activities of the T-Mobile Venture Fund provide T-Mobile with an innovative edge and strong commercial synergies. T-Mobile International is one of the world's leading companies in mobile communications. As one of Deutsche Telekom's three strategic business units, T-Mobile concentrates on the most dynamic markets in Europe and the United States.

TransLink Capital is a Palo Alto-based venture capital fund focused on early expansion stage startups in mobile, communications, and digital media. The TransLink team consists of experienced investors with deep connections with many of the leading early adopter customers in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Our investment strategy is to partner with top-tier VC firms on high-profile early-stage companies where we can demonstrate our value-added by successfully closing Asian strategic partnerships and investing the subsequent rounds.