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Freeze.com is
an internationally recognized online media company that is
growing rapidly by providing an assortment of premium
entertainment downloads. The company has attracted over
85,000,000 registered users since 2000 and is ranked as the 31st
fastest growing company by Donal Trump's Entrepreneur Magazine
in 2004. Much of the company’s success is due to the
promotion of premium screensavers, wallpaper, and ringtones
through its websites, Freeze.com, Screensaver.com,
Wallpapers.com and Ringtone.com, as well as promotions on
thousands of sites throughout the Internet. Freeze.com has
evolved into the Internet’s premier screen enhancement site.
From their in the free stuff category (original site
freestuffcenter.com -- a directory of free offers on the
Internet), they determined that there were few sites that
actually offered high quality, free content. This caused
Internet users to spend hours surfing before they could locate
the answer to their particular problem. Freeze's founders are
committed to providing quality, fresh, family content in a
frictionless format. They are located in St. Cloud.
www.freeze.com
Ron Eibenstiener,
CEO,
Wyncrest Capital is one
of Minnesota's most renowned and respected angel investors and
immediate past Chairman of the MN Republican Party. He is
either a current or past board member of Stellent, OneLink
Communicaitons, Diametrics, OnHealth Network, BigCharts (sold to
CBS MarketWatch), Prodea Software and Arden Medical Systems.
His public policy interests include the Center for the American
Experiment (director) and KidsFirst Scholarship Fund (Chairman).
Mr. Eibensteiner is spearheading an
effort to tap the $47 billion Minnesota Investment Board (IB)
funds towards venture capital funds which invest exclusively in
Minnesota start-up companies. The effort, if successful,
will involve 1% of the MN IB funds or a total of $470 million.
The effort will require Legislative and Executive branch
approval.
Onion Networks
suite of network technologies provide the quality of service,
speed, and scalability necessary to enable Internet TV and new
killer Internet applications. The company's patent-pending
innovations such as Swarmstreaming(TM) and Swarmcast(TM) provide
order-of-magnitude improvements over today's networks by
providing 10x faster content delivery and up to 90% or more
bandwidth cost savings while maintaining compatibility with
existing infrastructure. Swarmcast: Internet TV.
Delivered.
www.onionnetworks.com
Facet Technology
has created patented computer vision software
that is being applied to diverse industries like food
processing, digital rights management, brand protection, and
roadway mapping. Facet has created the largest collection of
street-level imagery throughout the US. Future markets that will
benefit from the Facet image warehouse are location-based
services, real estate, local search, and in-vehicle navigation.
www.facet-tech.com
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... by
Matt Noah 
