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Current Portfolio Companies
Heath Care
Technology & Communications
MobiTV
SeatAdvisor, Inc.
Private company located in San Diego that is developing software to enable
live event venues to manage box office and ticket operations using a web-based
application service (ASP) provided by SeatAdvisor.
XAD
Private company located in San Diego, California developing multi-modal applications for wireless carriers.
Prior Portfolio Companies
Heath Care
Cameron Health, Inc.
Private medical device company located in San Clemente, California that
develops implantable devices for treatment of cardiac disorders.
Catheter Innovations, Inc.
Medical device company located in Salt Lake City, Utah that designs, manufactures and markets central venous catheters and needle-free access devices; acquired by Boston Scientific Corporation.
CombiChem, Inc.
Drug discovery company located in San Diego that uses technology to create and synthesize new drug compounds; acquired by DuPont Co.
Corvas International, Inc.
Public biotechnology company (NASDAQ – "CVAS") located in San Diego that develops therapeutic agents for the prevention and treatment of major cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases.
DepoTech Corporation
Drug delivery company located in San Diego that develops sustained-release therapeutic products based upon DepoFoam, a proprietary injectable drug delivery technology; acquired by SkyePharma PLC.
Endonetics, Inc.
Private medical device company located in San Diego that develops devices for the diagnosis and treatment of a variety of gastrointestinal diseases; acquired by Medtronic, Inc.
Digirad Corporation
Public medical device company (NASDAQ – “DRAD) located in San Diego that developed the first solid-state gamma camera for use in nuclear medicine.
Pharmaceutical company located in San Diego; subsidiary of Gensia Sicor Inc.
IDEC Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Public pharmaceutical company (NASDAQ – "IDPH") located in San Diego that develops targeted immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases.
Idun Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Privately-held biopharmaceutical company located in San Diego, CA, dedicated to the discovery and development of novel therapeutics in the areas of liver disease, inflammation, and cancer.
Medical device company located in San Diego that develops and markets medical respiratory equipment; acquired by Nellcor Puritan Bennett.
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company
Public pharmaceutical company (NASDAQ – "LJPC") located in San Diego that targets autoimmune diseases.
Laser Diagnostic Technologies, Inc.
Private medical device company located in San Diego that manufactures and markets ophthalmic equipment for the detection of glaucoma and other diseases of the eye.
Medication Delivery Devices, Inc.
Medical device company located in San Diego that develops and markets pumps and disposable sets for infusing medication outside the hospital; acquired by Baxter Healthcare Corporation.
Mitokor
Private biotechnology company located in San Diego that identifies and isolates the role of mitochondrial DNA in the manifestation of degenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, diabetes mellitus and schizophrenia; acquired by MIGENIX, Inc.
Mycogen Corporation
Agricultural biotechnology company located in San Diego; subsidiary of Dow Chemical Company.
Neurogenetics
Neurogenetics, Inc. has currently has three programs in development: a post-operative pain medication, a treatment for Schizophrenia and a potential cure for Alzheimers.
Gensia Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Viagene, Inc.
Biopharmaceutical company located in San Diego; acquired by Chiron Corporation.
Vical, Inc.
Public gene therapy company (NASDAQ – "VICL") located in San Diego that develops drugs based upon its naked DNA technology.
Technology & Communications
A-Life Medical, Inc.
Private software company located in San Diego that uses natural language
processing techniques to "read" the narrative text of medical
records and automatically assign the proper Medicare and insurance reimbursement
codes.
ESI Software, Inc.
Software company located in Carlsbad, California that develops software tools to create Web sites; acquired by Macromedia, Inc.
FieldCentrix, Inc.
Private mobile computing technology company located in Irvine, California that links corporate offices of field service companies with field service technicians using wireless personal digital assistants (PDAs).
Idetic, Inc.
Private company located in Berkley , California developing wireless network management software and wireless applications.
Keylime Software, Inc.
Software company located in San Diego that develops e-business analysis tools leveraging client-side collection technology to evaluate web-site effectiveness; acquired by Yahoo!, Inc.
LAM Research Company
Public semiconductor manufacturing equipment company (NASDAQ -- "LRCX") located in Fremont, California; acquired Monkowski-Rhine, Inc.
Pacific Communication Sciences, Inc.
Communications company located in San Diego that develops hardware and software for mobile communications and networking fields; acquired by Cirrus Logic, Inc.
Primary Access Corporation
Telecommunications network access company located in San Diego; acquired by 3COM Corporation.
University Netcasting, Inc.
Internet commerce company located in Carlsbad, California that develops and manages the official sports programs Web sites for major colleges and operates the FansOnly network; acquired by Student Advantage, Inc.
Retail
Garden Fresh Restaurant Corporation
Public company (NASDAQ – "LTUS") located in San Diego that operates salad-buffet restaurants under the Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes name.
Hot Topic, Inc.
Public specialty retail company (NASDAQ – "HOTT") located in City of Industry, California that sells MTV- influenced apparel and accessories.