Borealis portfolio company Flurry, creator of technology that brings mobile email and personal information to the masses, recently presented at DEMOfall 2006, an invitation-only event that highlights emerging technology companies. The DEMO format provides each participant 3 minutes on stage in front of attendees to pitch their product or service and vision. Such DEMO appearances in the past have helped catapult companies like Six Apart, Palm, E*Trade, and Handspring to success, and Flurry’s appearance at DEMOfall 2006 provided a similarly valuable introduction for the Company to key members of the industry press, the financial community, and potential strategic partners. The following link will direct you to a video of Flurry’s presentation: http://www.demo.com/de monstrators/demo2006fall/79816.php

Flurry has been growing explosively since its commercial launch earlier this year. Flurrymail (the first of a series of thin applications developed by Flurry) offers a Blackberry- like email experience on ordinary cell phones so consumers can access their email and news while they are on the go. Targeting the mass market of nearly 200 million cell phone subscribers in the United States and the 2 billion cell phone subscribers worldwide, Flurrymail is handset agnostic and remarkably easy to use. Flurrymail earlier this year won the important “Duke’s Choice Award for Innovation” at Sun Microsystems’s 2006 JavaONE Developer Conference.

On October 21, Dartmouth College hosted its annual Greener Ventures conference on entrepreneurship. With this year’s theme of "Risk: Winning and Losing in Entrepreneurship," the conference explored how entrepreneurs can identify, manage and overcome risk. As in the past, GV2006 attracted several hundred students, faculty, researchers, and alumni from Dartmouth College and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for a slate of panel discussions, practical workshops, startup presentations, and networking activities. Borealis Ventures has been a premier sponsor of Greener Ventures every year since it was first held in 2002. The Borealis team also had a hand in the conference programming, as Jesse Devitte, Phil Ferneau, Matt Rightmire and Mark Sawyer all participated in one or more sessions as moderators or panelists.