CyberStateU.com, Inc. is funded by several leading venture capital groups including: Sigma Partners Sigma Partners, with offices in Menlo Park, California, and Boston, Massachusetts, is a privately held venture capital partnership organized in 1984 to make equity investments in businesses which offer favorable opportunity for significant growth in size and value. The partnership has a history of successful investing in entrepreneurial companies, including Accent, Electronic Arts, Global Village, and INS. Sigma currently manages four funds with combined capital of over $300 million. Compass Technology Partners Compass Technology Partners of Menlo Park, Calif. invests in emerging, high-growth potential, public and private companies with a focus on science and technology, innovation, and intellectual property. Compass investments are based upon several factors including management strength, ranking of the company, end-market growth opportunity, valuation, and intellectual property position. Novus Ventures Novus Ventures, headquartered in Cupertino, California, manages $40 million of investment capital. The firm is focused on emerging Internet and software companies, which provide business-to-business solutions. Novus was founded in 1994 as a limited partnership by General partners Dan Tompkins, Shirley Cerrudo and Tom Van Overbeek who provide base funding with 80 other limited partners. iMinds Established in 1995, iMinds Ventures ("iMinds") is a leading professional venture catalyst firm serving the Internet industry. The firm's founding principals, Randy Haykin and Carl Nichols, recognize that most new companies not only seek funding but also desire active "hands-on" assistance. iMinds leverages the extensive operating backgrounds of its principals and their established network of seasoned industry professionals ("the Catalyst Team"). Such active "hands-on" involvement has proven valuable in helping to launch and to accelerate the growth of companies, such as Yahoo!, NetChannel, GoTo.com, Epicentric, Impulse! Buy Network, America Online's Greenhouse, and eCircles. In 1999, iMinds launched its latest venture fund, with $70 million targeting early stage Internet-related opportunities. iMinds' prior fund has been ranked in the top quartile of all similar vintage funds. iMinds has been the initial venture group involved in funding the launch of companies that are now worth over $7 billion, such as GoTo.com (NASDAQ: GOTO), Wit Capital (NASDAQ: WITC), Impulse! Buy Network (acquired by Inktomi) and MarketHome (acquired by ClickAction.)

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