2006 DEMOgala Showcase Companies

Aestis (Boulder) - Aestis is a newly-formed company based in Boulder that has developed a medical breakthrough for the treatment of obesity through controlled hypoxia technology. The company is a spin out from Colorado Altitude Training, the world’s leader in altitude simulation equipment.

Aqueous (Colorado Springs) - Aqueous has made new discoveries about how cells respond to chemical interactions and physical forces caused by biomedical implants. Using this knowledge, we are developing unique biocompatible materials and geometric designs that work with the body. This revolutionary approach can be applied across a wide range of technologies, including stents, shunts, artificial organs, and drug delivery devices, to make these implants more effective and longer lasting.

Boulder Innovation Group, B.I.G. (Boulder) - B.I.G designs and manufactures tracking systems based on the use of infrared light. These systems include non-invasive surgical applications, industrial measuring systems used with boats and cars, spine analysis systems and dynamic fitting systems.

Charlotte Grace Studio (Denver) - Charlotte Grace uses her exploration of a complete digital process by using a flat bed lense, digital software, a computer, and a digital printer to demonstrate what she finds to be a beautiful marriage between technology and the artistic endeavor. All of her images are composed "live" in the studio with real objects as opposed to importing objects via Photoshop and contain enough data to enlarge the images up to 4’x6’ without loosing detail.

Colorado FIRST (Denver) - A unique sport of the mind designed to help young people discover how interesting and rewarding the life of scientists and engineers can be. With mentors from industry and universities, high school students have just six weeks to design and build a robot from a standard kit of parts to compete with over 1,100 other teams at 33 FIRST Regional Competitions in FIRST’s culture of "gracious professionalism." For elementary and middle schoolers, there is FIRST LEGO League and the FIRST Vex Challenge.

CU College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Boulder) – The Integrated Teaching and Learning Program demonstrates a grades 3-12 engineering program in the Lafayette schools, supported by the TeachEngineering digital library — a free, standards-based, searchable, online collection of hands-on engineering curricula.

DU - Serious Gaming Program (Denver) The Digital Animation Center is committed to providing quality instruction in 3D theory and techniques intended to prepare its students to succeed. Students will be prepared to excel in a multitude of industries including feature film, broadcast, scientific visualization, medical imaging and engineering. The DAC's precisely focused curriculum prepares students for careers within an urban, 4-year university experience that is a well-rounded liberal arts education with the traditional components of a fine arts education, in state-of-the-art facilities and acquiring high-tech skills needed for this demanding curriculum.

Echostar (Englewood) - Echostar is a leader in the design and engineering of DBS satellite TV set-top boxes and associated DBS antenna equipment. With world-wide operations and clients, EchoStar Technologies is the principle producer of products for DISH Network satellite TV service, a leading DBS satellite TV provider with nearly 13 Million subscribers

Energistic Systems (Golden) - Energistic Systems’ vision is to offer exceptional solar energy related projects to the world. Our Products represent the finest engineering and manufacturing efforts in the field of renewable resources. Great consideration is given to the practical aspects of this technology and has real-world applications from individuals and companies to villages and towns. Energistic Systems designs, manufactures and sells: a Solar Thermal Concentrating Collector for higher temperature hot water applications and a Solar Rechargeable Flashlight for Developing Nations and off-grid applications.

FlightSafety Service Corp. (Denver) - FlightSafety Services Corporation provides quality Total Training Systems, Training System Management and Integration, Training Delivery Services, and Contractor Logistics Support to the US Government, prime government contractors, and commercial entities. We are an integral part of the world's premier crew training organization, FlightSafety International, which annually delivers over 1 million hours of air crew, ship crew, and maintenance training to civilian and military customers.

Fluensee (Englewood) - Fluensee’s RFID-enabled asset tracking and supply chain management solutions improve the visibility, accuracy, security and utilization of a company’s mobile and fixed assets. Our end-to-end solutions combine highly-configurable and patented software and implementation services with hardware from leading RFID, barcode, GPS and sensor technology providers. Real-time asset location, condition and alerts result in more efficient use of inventory, improved utilization and reduced operating costs.

HD Communications (Denver) - HD Communications LLC is a full service commercial and residential audio/video integrator. HD Communication's philosophy is to provide the highest quality equipment and installation services at the best value on the marketplace. The company’s success has been based on exceeding customer expectations for both local and national clients. HD Communications client-friendly approach, provides customers a wide range of flexibility to meet virtually any size requirement.

Hensmann Technology (Castle Rock) - As a reliable and established business partner, Hensmann Technology delivers comprehensive single source IT products, services and professional consulting to enterprise clients in three (3) major areas including Business Solution Consulting; Managed Services; and Procurement Services. Their skills, industry knowledge, and experience with new technologies, make their services invaluable to the IT marketplace.

IBM (Englewood) - IBM is the world’s largest information technology and services company with over 325,000 employees in 170 countries. IBM also is Colorado’s largest technology employer with 6,000 local employees. In 2005, IBM extended its innovation leadership by earning 2,941 U.S. patents, more than any other company for the thirteenth consecutive year.

ISYS Search Software (Englewood) - ISYS Search Software is a global supplier of enterprise search solutions for business and government. The company's award-winning software suite offers a broad range of products designed for searching desktops, networks, websites, internets and custom applications.

LifeSpan Technology Recycling (Denver) - With Colorado offices in Denver and Grand Junction, LifeSpan Technology Recycling provides electronics recycling and data destruction services throughout Colorado and the United States. LifeSpan works with companies and organizations that are concerned with managing data privacy, environmental, and reputation risks associated with recycling expired computers and electronics equipment.

Logisens Corporation (Ft. Collins) - Logisens is the winner of the 2006 CSIA Apex Award for Most Innovative Company - Logisens Corporation offers complete solutions for skills optimization that improve people and companies’ effectiveness. Logisens’ innovations include a Web 2.0 platform capable of a variety of Skill Optimization Trainings, a Sensdevice Mouse with built in Bio-Sensors measuring both Skin conductance and Peripheral Temperature which directly relates to Stress, Anxiety and Emotional Reactions plus a set of Skill Optimization Trainings that span from stress management and fitness at your desk to effectiveness and decision making. Logisens Solutions have demonstrated significant impact in decreasing Stress and burnout in the workplace and increasing job satisfaction and productivity.

Mania TV (Denver) - William Paley gave us network television with CBS. Ted Turner gave us cable television with CNN. Now, The ManiaTV! Network delivers the next revolution in TV. Broadcasting 24/7, ManiaTV! is the world's first Internet-based television network. ManiaTV! delivers Internet addicts live and on-demand TV channels where viewers can get the best music, celebrity talk shows, short films, animations, action sports, news and more. ManiaTV! also gives viewers a platform for producing their own channels.

Mountain States Pipe & Supply (Colorado Springs) - Mountain States Pipe and Supply is Colorado Springs based and provides turnkey automated meter reading technology to utility companies and municipalities. Investor owned, MSPS uses sub-metering applications for apartments, manufacturing, housing, commercial buildings who use gas, water and electric meters.

NCAR (Boulder) - The National Center for Atmospheric Research is part of a collaborative research community dedicated to understanding the atmosphere—the air around us—and the interconnected processes that make up the Earth system, from the ocean floor to the Sun's core. NCAR supports the community of atmospheric and geoscience researchers with tools such as aircraft and radar, to observe the atmosphere, and technology and assistance to interpret and use these observations, including supercomputer access, computer models, and user support.

NetDevil (Louisville) - NetDevil was founded in 1997 in Louisville, CO as an independently owned and operated game development company dedicated to the construction of massively multiplayer universes. NetDevil is committed to creating immersive, interactive virtual worlds in unique settings outside the typical fantasy genre. NetDevil has steadily grown from 3 part-timers to over 40 full time developers, with development led by Scott Brown, Peter Grundy, and Ryan Seabury. With Auto Assault, NetDevil is aiming to raise the bar in MMOGs for gameplay, graphics, and interactivity, bringing the level of quality expected in traditional offline titles to the online space.

netFactor Corporation (Littleton) - netFactor Corporation provides a suite of products driving new levels of performance from the Internet marketing investment for business-to-business clients. Through the company’s core VisitorTrack® technology platform, invisible website traffic is transformed into detailed intelligence about who is visiting, what they want, and how to contact them - all captured automatically without any registration. netFactor enables customers across multiple industries including software, telecom, healthcare, technology, professional services, manufacturing, media, and transportation.

Phase IV Engineering (Boulder) - Phase IV is a leading innovator in the total asset visibility and wireless sensing industry. Phase IV has developed and is currently fielding, a wireless mesh asset monitoring system that provides users the ability to monitor and track assets where no infrastructure is available. Phase IV also develops custom RFID sensing ICs that can passively (without a power source) monitor temperature and capacitive MEMS sensors.

Photobucket (Denver) - Photobucket provides a simple, fast, and reliable service that enables efficient sharing and publishing of visual digital content online. Images and videos can be directly linked from Photobucket to any site, including popular sites like MySpace, eBay, LiveJournal, Xanga, Friendster, and Neopets. Photobucket was named the fastest growing site of 2005 according to Nielsen/Netratings and now ranks as a Top 100 site by traffic. The key to Photobucket's success has been its focus on delivering a simple and reliable service. Currently, Photobucket has over 23 Million users growing by over 65,000 users per day. Photobucket serves over 50 Billion images per month.

Rally Software Development (Boulder) - Rally's on-demand, hosted subscription service enables software organizations to reliably deliver valuable software in rapid iterations by marrying Agile project management with customer-centric requirements management, early testing and defect tracking. Rally's world-class coaching team and technical advisory board is comprised of luminaries in the Agile community and software development industry.

RedZone Software (Boulder) - RedZone Software, based in Boulder, Colorado, is a software development company committed to providing innovative GIS capabilities for emergency responders. RedZone Software’s suite of products provides agencies a comprehensive solution to data collection, visualization and map production. New projects within RedZone include responder tracking and real time weather maps for emergency responders.

Regis University (Denver) - Regis University contains three schools, each serving distinctly different populations, which allow students to pursue their education goals within a culture aimed at developing contributing members of society. Regis College serves students of traditional college age in a value-centered learning model, The Rueckert-Hartman School for Health Professions educates leaders committed to excellence within the health care professions, and The School for Profession Studies offers classroom and world-wide online Baccalaureate and Masters Degrees designed specifically for working adults.

Rivet Software (Englewood) - Rivet Software was created by software and accounting industry veterans to produce easy-to-use, yet highly scalable software for complex organizations. Built around the concept of Financial Integrity Management, Rivet develops software based on cutting edge technology and industry standards to provide sophisticated, user-designed financial aggregation and reporting solutions.

RoadNarrows (Loveland and CSU Ft. Collins) - The Robotics and Autonomous Machines Lab at CSU focuses on design processes and architectures for autonomous robots as well as developing new robotic platform concepts. RoadNarrows LLC designs, develops, and sells intelligent robotic hardware and software. The primary customers are academic researchers and educators who use small autonomous robots and related software as tools in their research and course work. A key part of RoadNarrows' strategy is to collaborate with institutions such as Colorado State University to take world-class robotic technology created in their labs and develop it into commercial products.

SANZ (Denver) - SANZ is a nationwide data storage consulting and integration firm focused exclusively on the design, deployment and support of intelligent data management. By utilizing a unique Data Protection ContinuumTM methodology, SANZ delivers solutions that allow corporations and government agencies to secure their business-critical environments and maximize their IT investments. EarthWhereTM, a web-based software product from SANZ, is the first data provisioning application that easily manages, processes and delivers maps and other vital geospatial imagery.

SimAuthor (Boulder) - SimAuthor provides aircraft and flight simulator operators around the world the ability to satisfy their demand for measurably lower operating costs and increased return on invested capital via our proprietary visualization and analysis products and services.

SkyeTek (Westminster) - SkyeTek™ develops reader technology that allows customers to embed Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) as a feature into their products, applications and solutions enabling increased security, safety, productivity and competitive differentiation. SkyeTek customers represent numerous vertical markets and range from mid-market companies to Fortune 500 corporations. What they share in common is the use of SkyeTek’s technology to create new applications and value propositions for their existing product lines in areas such as anti-counterfeiting, contactless payment, inventory management, patient safety and patron management.

Skyline Products (Colorado Springs) - Skyline Products is a leading developer, manufacturer, and provider of electronic sign technology and solutions designed to meet the information distribution and communication needs of organizations in industries including transportation, convenience store, truck stop, and petroleum marketing.

SpireMedia (Denver) - For more than 8 years, SpireMedia has been Colorado's top Web development firm, working with clients including EchoStar, Great-West Healthcare, Qwest, Western Union and Charter Communications. Now, the Denver-based brain trust has released its first packaged application, SpireESM - Enterprise Site Manager allows organizations to manage multiple Web properties and digital assets from a single platform.

Starsys (Boulder) - Starsys, Inc. delivers extraordinary results in spacecraft mechanisms and mechanical systems. Starsys technologies enable critical spacecraft functions such as; pointing solar arrays and communication antennas, restraint and deployment of mission critical hardware, and actuation of moving spacecraft and mission payload components. Starsys, Inc. employs more than 160 innovative and skilled people in Boulder, Colorado and Durham, North Carolina.

Umbria (Boulder) - Umbria is a Boulder based marketing intelligence company that analyzes the unaided opinions, perceptions, attitudes and behaviors of the online world (comprised of blogs, message boards, Usenet, product review sites, etc.) and distills it into actionable insights about companies, brands, products, people and issues. Umbria analyzes voices of the online community by using proprietary Natural Language Processing and machine learning algorithms to dissect the who, what and why of online opinion, offering in-depth insights for some of the world’s leading brands, including Verizon, IBM, Microsoft, Wild Oats and many others.

ViaWest (Denver) - ViaWest provides a unique set of collocation, managed hosting solutions and comprehensive services to mid-sized businesses. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, ViaWest offers broad and deep expertise to furnish its customers with leading technology infrastructure solutions and the critical resources to support their unique business needs.

Walking Orbit (Longmont) - A Southwestern US technology-based company dedicated to building better management tools for companies with mobile assets by integrating GPS, GIS, wireless bit technology thereby becoming a future leader in the telematics industry.

Zynex Medical (Littleton) - Since 1996, Zynex Medical has been a leading provider of relief for patients with functional disability through the creation, distribution and marketing of the highest quality electrotherapy products available today. Zynex Medical continuously strives to uphold its mission to improve the quality of life for patients suffering from debilitating pain or illness by using various methods of non-invasive muscle stimulation and state-of-the-art electromyography technology, Interferential Current (IFC) and Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation. Zynex Medical offers patients a new lease on life through increased mobility and independence.

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