June 6, 2002 Technologic Names Top Ten Startups at Enterprise Outlook Technologic Partners, the publisher of VentureWire, announced the winners of its prestigious Investors' Choice award at the conclusion of its two-day Enterprise Outlook private equity conference held this week in Burlingame, Calif. The Investors' Choice award goes to the ten privately held companies presenting at the conference judged most likely to succeed. The winners, in alphabetical order, are: AlphaBlox of Mountain View, Calif. ArcSight of Sunnyvale, Calif. Cape Clear Software of Campbell, Calif. Datasweep of San Jose, Calif. Grand Central Communications of San Francisco Managed Objects of McLean, Va. Salesforce.com of San Francisco SeeCommerce of Palo Alto, Calif. TeaLeaf Technology of San Francisco Upshot of Mountain View, Calif. Winners were selected from the 85 privately held companies that presented their business plans at the conference. The awards were based on voting by the audience of nearly 600 entrepreneurs, investors, and industry executives, as well as a panel of experts comprising Andrew Brosseau, managing director and head of technology research at SG Cowen Securities; Paul Phillips, managing director of the high technology group at Goldman Sachs Group; and Thomas Hirschfeld, managing director and co-head of venture capital at J. & W. Seligman. Technologic Partners founder and VentureWire editor-in-chief Richard A. Shaffer presented the awards. Enterprise Outlook, now in its seventh year, presents a carefully selected group of promising private companies in the rapidly changing market for enterprise software and services. The two-day program helps investors and industry executives make sense of the scores of companies jostling for position in the important new markets for collaboration, business process integration, supply-chain software, and other business critcial functions. The Enterprise Outlook program consists of presentations by CEOs of emerging companies describing their business plans and prospects, framed by the insights generated by panel discussions and keynote speeches on industry issues. It is produced annually by Technologic Partners and VentureWire and held in the Bay Area. Among the keynote speakers at this year's conference were Radha Basu, chairman, president, and CEO of SupportSoft; James Demetriades, president, CEO, and founder of SeeBeyond Technology; Gaurav Dhillon, CEO and co-founder of Informatica; and Ram Gupta, executive vice president of products and technology at PeopleSoft. Technologic Partners is a publishing and events firm that has been covering venture capital and high-tech startups since 1984. Technologic publishes the VentureWire newsletters, as well as ComputerLetter and VentureFinance, and also produces a series of premier investor conferences. More information is available at www.venturewire.com.