Red Herring Spring 2006 offers high-tech companies, investment firms, and service providers an excellent opportunity to associate with innovation and deal-flow in the technology industry.

We designed the sponsorship program to create maximum exposure to thousands of potential attendees and direct access to a most exclusive group of well over 300 C-level decision makers at Red Herring Spring 2006.

For more information on the conference sponsorship program, please contact Michael Felber at mfelber@redherring.com or 650.585.3414.

RED HERRING SPRING 2006 SPONSORS

Red Herring Spring 2006 is proud to have the support of an elite group of companies and organizations that lead the way for the business of technology. Please learn more about them and their products and services by clicking the links below:

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources and a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills, and technologies to help clients improve their performance.

DCM is a top-performing venture capital firm supporting entrepreneurs building early-stage technology companies. DCM partners manage over US$1billion and have funded leading technology companies including 2Wire, 51job (Nasdaq: JOBS), About.com (The New York Times Co.), All About (JASDAQ: 2454), @Motion (Openwave), Foundry Networks (Nasdaq: FDRY), HireRight, Internap (AMEX: IIP), IPivot (Intel), JCI (Nasdaq Japan - Hercules: 9424), Kabu.com (TSE:8703), nQuire (Siebel), PGP Corporation, Recourse Technologies (Symantec), Sigmatel (Nasdaq: SGTL), SMIC (NYSE: SMI), and UUNet (MCI). DCM offers hands-on operational guidance and access to an extensive network of resources, including close relationships with many of the Pacific Rim's leading companies and investors.

Invest in France Agency (IFA) is the national body responsible for promoting, prospecting and facilitating of international investment in France. It also coordinates initiatives promoting the appeal and image of France. The IFA network operates worldwide, with offices in France at both national and local level. It draws on the expertise of specialists in a range of disciplines based at its head office in Paris, as well as in offices in North America, Europe and Asia. In France, IFA works in partnership with regional development agencies to offer international investors outstanding business opportunities and customized services.

Every process has its place, and world industry leaders like Microsoft, Alien Technology, Amazon.com and American Express have all chosen North Dakota for processes critical to their business. Smart companies choose North Dakota to capitalize on our expertise -- microelectronics including RFID, coatings, soft and hard, nanocomposite-based biomaterials, high-performance computing, UAV technology and next-generation-biotechnology…for starters. You will also find real access to political officials and a pro-business government, all in a central time zone. Business is just easier and more profitable in North Dakota.

Nova Scotia, Canada is North America's most cost-competitive location for Information Technology. The province has the most university graduates per capita in Canada, including the largest graduate school in computer science, world-class telecom and broadband infrastructure, and strong incentive programs. Keane, CGI, EDS, RIM, Xerox - just a few of more than 500 firms that have discovered the advantages of doing business in Nova Scotia.

M1’s Business Convergence Platform harnesses the power of IP Convergence and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in a single hosted technology platform to deliver the next-generation of business applications, called communication-enabled business applications, on demand. M1’s radical innovation comes in the form of a simple process modeling tool, called the Convergence Studio, controlling a powerful IP-based business process platform. Through its unique ability to model voice, web and data flows, customers design, deploy and adapt innovative business processes involving communications and information in a fraction of the time and cost of traditional 'spend and integrate' methods. Convergence Studio serves as a single-point of control for accessing and customizing the integrated interaction management, voice/ web self service, real-time collaboration, business process management, and data integration capability included in our On Demand Platform. With M1 companies of all sizes can now quickly and cost-effectively create, deploy and adapt communication-enabled business applications to create solutions that redefine the customer experience, streamline work distribution across the value chain, and enhance business agility.

With one of the most robust networks of venture capital and investment banking firms, Sonnenschein’s Venture Technology Group is recognized in its laser-like efforts to work with clients to access capital and understand the implications of the related underlying strategic decisions. With over 50 venture attorneys, the Sonnenschein Venture Technology Group manages the delivery of legal services with a focus on strategic, business and finance. The Group counsels emerging growth and Fortune 500 clients involving a broad array of sectors including life sciences, medical devices, telecommunications, and information technology. In corporate matters, the team brings a high degree of sophistication to the structuring and negotiating of venture capital, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and initial public offerings. The team has also been involved in a broad array of transactions with leading national and regional venture capital and investment banking firms and other financing institutions.

Founded in 2003, Teneros has pioneered a new product category that assures continuity of operations for the mission critical Microsoft applications fueling corporations worldwide - the Teneros Application Continuity Appliance(tm). Funded by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Sevin Rosen Funds, and STAR Ventures, the company is developing a family of plug-&-go(tm), business continuity appliances to serve the needs of mid-market companies and branch offices of large enterprises. Teneros is an Advanced Infrastructure Solutions Microsoft Gold Partner.

Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Transera Communications is the first company to offer an on-demand global IP call center solution for multi-sourced call centers. Seratel, Transera's awardwinning software, delivered as a service, enables organizations to globalize, diversify and grow call center operations to deliver exceptional customer care with no infrastructure investment required. Transera provides an unprecedented level of visibility, control and quality management empowering organizations of any size to rapidly deploy a feature-rich call center for agents located anywhere in the world, including in-house, outsourced, remote, branch offices or at home. Transera is funded by Accel Partners, Apax Partners, and Storm Ventures.

Market Wire, a CCNMatthews Company, is the third-largest newswire in the U.S. A full-service distributor of company press releases and financial news announcements, Market Wire offers the best value in the newswire industry, boasting the most secure, innovative, cost-effective, and comprehensive distribution of news with real-time news feeds to AP, Dow Jones, Bloomberg, Reuters, Yahoo!, MarketWatch, AOL, MSNBC, Motley Fool, Lexis-Nexis, Factiva and thousands of other leading websites, newswires, and databases. Market Wire's news is directly integrated into the editorial systems of hundreds of newspapers and broadcast outlets, and is also sent to more than 30,000 individual journalists. The Company has more than 3,000 clients.

Terpin Communications Group is a full-service public relations and marketing strategy firm, with an international client base and strong domain expertise in high technology, media/entertainment, consumer electronics, medical/consumer health and consumer products. Founded in 1990, the Firm has been a pioneer in promoting the acceptance of many leading consumer technologies. The Firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, with satellite offices in San Francisco and New York.

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