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Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (Virginia Innovation Partnership) is a private equity/venture capital non-profit operating division of the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority firm founded in 1985. The firm is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia.

Verical, Inc. sells electronic components on-line through online. It provides products, services, and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions. The firm’s products include electronics, components, parts, shortage, catalog, purchasing, chips, electronic components, microcontrollers, circuit breakers, and electromechanical relays. The company was founded by Josef T. Ruef and John P. Brown in 2007 and is headquartered in Englewood, CO.

Scentric, Inc. provides data management and information technology solutions. Its software addresses large companies for long-term storage needs specifically to bridge the information gap between business users and storage administrators. The company's software optimizes existing storage investments, protecting intellectual capital and translating regulatory requirements into established IT processes. It was founded by Hemant Kurande in 2004 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA.

FBR Technology Venture Partners (FBR) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996. The firm is headquartered in Virginia, US.

Visiant Holdings, Inc. provides enterprise-level cloud computing technologies. The firm specializes in core administration solutions, government services, sales and Member acquisition and medical management and enterprise solutions which include commercial, medicare and medicard. The company was founded by Ravi Ika in 1999 and is headquartered in Southborough, MA.

Boston Academic Publishing, Inc. publishes academic textbooks in print and electronic format. The firm offers various categories of textbooks such as business and economics, mathematics, sciences and professional and applied sciences. The company was founded by Jeff Shelstad and Eric Frank in 2007 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Northern Virginia Technology Council operates as a membership and trade association for the technology community in Northern Virginia. It serves businesses from all sectors of the technology industry, service providers, universities, foreign embassies, non-profit organizations and government agencies. The company is headquartered in Herndon, VA.

ServiceBench, Inc. provides web based service management solutions. It focuses on optimizing the delivery of post-sales service by integrating the service supply chain. Its solutions integrate post-sales service activities, including service calls, field service management, parts ordering, claims management, and extended service agreements. The company was founded by John Estrada, Robert Baily, and Louis Rose in 1995 and is headquartered in Sterling, VA.

Persystent Technology Corp. provides software solutions for automated PC repair, high speed imaging, compliance, and disaster recovery for PC environments in North America. It serves government, health care, and education sectors. Persystent Technology was founded by Raymond Weadock, Dhaval Patel, Thomas Sturgeon, Stephen Kirchoff and Joseph Grabowski in 2002 and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.