Annual Award Recognizes Startups that will lead the Next Wave of Disruption and Innovation

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., April 23, 2008 – Accordent Technologies, Inc., today announced that it has been chosen as a finalist by the editorial staff of Red Herring Magazine for the coveted Red Herring Top Technology Startup 100 list for 2008.

For more than ten years, Red Herring has been the leader in finding and advocating the most promising technology startups, diligently surveying entrepreneurship around the globe. Technology industry executives, investors, and observers have regarded the Red Herring 100 list as an invaluable instrument to discover and advocate the promising startups that will lead the next wave of disruption and innovation.

Past award winners include Google, Yahoo!, Skype, Netscape, Salesforce.com and YouTube.

The Red Herring 100 North America Award winners will be revealed at the Red Herring North America conference, May 12 – 14th, in San Jose, Calif.

The nomination culminates a series of recent milestones achieved by Accordent Technologies that include the grant of US patent 7,299,289 for the core process of synchronizing streaming media with graphics; a 2008 Editors' Choice award for its ground-breaking Accordent Media Management System™ by Streaming Media Magazine; and its largest ever corporate wins, including an enterprise-wide webcasting platform for Verisign.

The Accordent Rich Media Communications Suite is the only automated, end-to-end infrastructure for creating, distributing, managing and measuring the effectiveness of multimedia presentation assets. The company's rich media creation products include its flagship Accordent PresenterPRO™, a live and on-demand webcasting solution with interactive features, such as polling, surveys and moderated Q&A; the Accordent Capture Station™, an easy-to-use, room-based appliance that enables anyone to webcast and record high-value presentations that take place every day in the world's meeting rooms, classrooms and boardrooms; and Accordent Engage™, a behind-the-firewall, enhanced audio webcasting system that enables multimedia webcasting from the desktop. The company’s media management platform is the Accordent Media Management System, the first centralized online communications management infrastructure for ingesting, organizing, searching, publishing and securing multi-level access to Accordent presentations and other multimedia communications - including archived web- and video-conferences.

About Accordent Technologies, Inc.
Accordent Technologies provides enterprise-wide rich media communications solutions that enable world-class organizations to inform, train and engage their audiences online. More than 1500 customers worldwide, including Unisys, JPMorgan Chase, Ford, Harvard and National Institutes of Health, rely on Accordent solutions to create, manage, distribute and measure the effectiveness of their multimedia presentation assets. Accordent has earned distinction for its award-winning products and long-standing commitment to the success of its customers and partners. Learn more about Accordent's exceptional solutions at www.accordent.com.

Accordent Capture Station, Accordent PresenterPRO, Accordent Engage and Accordent Media Management System are trademarks of Accordent Technologies. Other trademarks that may be mentioned in this release are the intellectual property of their respective owners.

Contact : Darian Germain, Accordent Technologies, 703-608-3404

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