Max S. Bautin

Millicom Telecommunications SA develops and operates cellular telephone networks. The company is headquartered in Luxembourg.

OnRelay Ltd. is a privately held Unified Communications software company focused on Cellular Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC). OnRelay MBX, the company's global private mobile branch exchange software, offers enterprises and operators the seamless Cellular Fixed Mobile Convergence solution to address the needs of the market. OnRelay has commercial deployments in Tier 1 operators and Fortune 500 companies and has partnered with the major voice players in the industry. Its multinational team has industry expertise in Fixed Mobile Convergence, SIP, CTI integration, Linux, open source, Voice over IP and wireless technologies. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in London, UK.

Phonetic Arts produces natural speech synthesis products. It provides speech solutions to the software and entertainment industry. The firm comprises three main applications including composer, generator, and LipSync. It offers Morpher, which transforms speech to sound like it comes from a different character; LipSync, which provides the lip sync information for natural and recorded speech; and Synthesizer, which transforms the way speech is used in games. Phonetic Arts delivers technology that generates natural expressive speech, allowing computer games to say any sentence in any type of voice. With world leading expertise in all aspects of speech technology, its goal is to free games developers from the constraints of recorded samples and allow them to create rich, expressive and responsive dialog within their games.

Harnessing the power of novel light-harvesting polymeric materials, Sirigen's amplification technology offers High Sensitivity Fluorescence™ (HSF™) detection to the Diagnostic and Life Science marketplaces. The company's versatile and HSF™ technology simplifies sample processing and instrumentation requirements in both immunodiagnostic and nucleic acid based applications, and facilitates high volume screening in theradiagnostics and other personal care applications. Its platform agnostic, enabling technology represents a quantum leap in detection capabilities, amplifying the sensitivity of a wide range of existing instrumentation and detection platforms by up to 100 fold. The company's technology is applicable to a diverse cross section of the biomedical industry including the $6billion drug discovery industry which can use it to test the efficacy of new drugs, the $12billion life sciences industry which can use Sirigen to develop new detection platforms, and the $35billion diagnostics industry, which can work with the company to optimise existing diagnostic techniques and to develop the next generation of diagnostic tools. Indeed the potential to deliver real time testing on miniaturised monitoring devices is close to reality.

Part of QUALCOMM, Inc., Nigel Power LLC develops wireless transmitting devices. The company is based in San Diego, CA. Nigel Power was acquired by QUALCOMM, Inc. on May 20, 2009.

IQ Capital Partners LLP (IQ Capital) is a venture capital firm, a susbidiary of NW Brown Group Ltd. IQ Capital was founded in 2000 by Nigel Brown, Ed Stacey, Max Bautin and Kerry Baldwin. The firm Is headquartered in the UK.

Grapeshot Ltd. provides information retrieval software solutions. The firm’s products include audience retargeting, live audience, keyword signal and grapeshot predicts. The company was founded by Martin Frederick Porter and John Harvey Snyder in 2002 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.