Established in 1997, BAJobs.com has become a staple for Bay Area employers and job seekers. The formula for their success is pretty simple.

Early on, they recognized the growing utility and popularity of the Internet as a recruiting medium. They combined this knowledge with the simple fact that recruitment takes place, by and large, at the local level. Thus, the concept of a local web site focused on the Bay Area job market was born.

KANA (NASDAQ: KANA) provides the industry's leading external facing eCRM solutions to the largest businesses in the world, helping them to better service, market to, and understand their customers and partners, while improving results and decreasing costs in contact centers and marketing departments.

Through comprehensive multi-channel customer relationship management that combines the best-in-class KANA iCARE Architecture with enterprise applications, KANA has become one of the fastest-growing providers of next generation eCRM technology.

Kinetics was founded in Santa Clara in 1973 as a fabricator and installer of high-purity piping systems.

Today, Kinetics is the world's largest provider of critical process infrastructures uniquely positioned to meet its customers' needs for integrating new process manufacturing technologies and expanding capacity in their facilities.

Neopolitan Networks has created the most elegant and cost-effective solution for delivering data communications.

Their pure IP network is engineered to bring simplicity and optimization to Internet-enabled businesses.

New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is a leading venture capital firm investing primarily in information technology, biotechnology and medical/life sciences companies.

Practicing classic venture capital for over 20 years, NEA focuses on early-stage investments, playing an active role in assisting management to build companies of lasting value.

Tasman Networks is a leading provider of mid-range and branch-office routing systems that deliver the power and performance of local-area networked applications over the wide-area network.

Their products achieve breakthrough price/performance levels that redefine the economics of broadband access and advanced IP services for enterprises and service provider customers, driving intelligence from edge to edge.

Yipes is the defining provider of instantly scalable Ethernet services, ranging from 1 Megabit per second to 1 Gigabit per second in 1 Mbps increments.

Yipes' highly affordable services, available in 21 markets coast-to-coast, include Yipes MAN (Metro Area Networking), Yipes NAN (National Area Networking) and Yipes NET (high-speed Internet access).

YY is the world leader in Natural Language Processing technology, offering software that enables computers to really understand language as people naturally speak or write it.