The Artemis Project

2009 Competition

Announcing The Artemis Project Top 50 Water Companies

The 2010 Competition is now underway! We are currently accepting company recommendations

“[The competition] has been a nice boost for us to have our business recognized as one of the top companies in the water industry.” Bill Yost, CEO, Electrolytic Ozone Inc. (EOI)

"[The Artemis Project Top 50 Competition] has given Epuramat considerable exposure and recognition, a much needed boost. [That] our reach has gone global so quickly shows that The Artemis Project Top 50 Competition is the perfect vehicle to accomplish this [with] our limited PR budget." Epuramat was recently named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.

The Artemis Project Water Top 50 The Artemis Project sponsored the first Top 50 Water Companies Competition to identify the leading game-changing technologies that provide venture grade investment opportunities in the water sector.

The competition goes beyond identifying visionary or exciting technology to assess a company's ability to become an industry leader through market opportunity coupled by a depth of intellectual property and know-how. The Artemis Project Company Rating Matrix combines these measures with an evaluation of the company management team and its investors. The judging criteria included ipCapital Group's proprietary patent scoring algorithm, ipDimensional Scoring, which objectively ranks companies within a particular sector based on the relative value of its patents.

The Team

Nancy

Nancy Cronin

Principal Partner, ipCapital Group

Slava

Vyacheslav Libman

Senior Technical Advisor, MS-Zander, USA

Paul

Paul O'Callaghan

Founding CEO, O2 Environmental

Tom

Tom Rooney

Managing partner, RCI Consulting

Laura Shenkar

Principal, The Artemis Project

Support:

- Regan Communications

- The Artemis Project

Top 50 in the Press and Online

> Water and Wastes Digest

> Storm Water Solutions

> Water Quality Products

> Water World

> Water and Wastewater News

> Cleantech-Israel Blog

ipCG Dimensional Scoring:

ipCG Dimensional Scoring : ipCG developed a proprietary method of relative ranking for patents based on studying patterns in successfully monetized patents in the marketplace. Thus the factors in our model correlate to value in a business transaction rather than hypothetical measurements of patent value. Not all patents are created alike, and those that exhibit key characteristics such as technical breadth and citation by other companies correlate with more valuable IP. Particularly when it comes to shareholder value, M&A, licensing, or IP litigation, perceived value of patents does matter, and in a business deal, a solid IP portfolio becomes an attractive piece of the overall value proposition.

IAM Magazine's article illustrates another use of the scoring methodology for patent estate assessment.

Judging Criteria:

We have rendered our opinion based on the material provided in the company application. We have assumed that the companies have submitted this information in good faith and that the information is accurate.

In addition, we have assumed an optimistic perspective that the teams behind each of these companies can fulfill the promise of their early-stage ventures.

A venture-grade investment opportunity is defined as a company that spends a significant up-front investment to develop IP and know-how that enables it to: create a fully developed solution to an urgent, strategic problem; address a large, mass market which provides for sustainable, rapid growth; address a market of customers with similar needs that can use an off-the-shelf product and make decisions within in a 3 months to one-year time frame and then purchase significant units of the product; increase sales rapidly; establish a sustainable leadership position with a high profit margin.

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The Artemis Project is proud to announce the winners of its first annual Top 50 Water Companies Competition. This award distinguishes advanced water and water-related technology companies as leaders in their trade for helping to build water into one of the great high-growth industries of the 21st Century. The companies were selected by a panel of experts based on an integrated matrix of four criteria: technology, intellectual property and know-how, team and market potential. Congratulations to each of the The Artemis Project's Water Top 50! Congratulations, also, to the 5 companies we are honoring as leaders in the industry.

1	AbTech Industries, Inc.	Arizona, USA	Storm water filtration
2	Oasys Water, Inc.	Massachusetts, USA	Membrane-based water purification
3	Seldon Technologies, Inc.	Vermont, USA	Water purification/Nanotech
4	Emefcy	Caesarea, Israel	Waste processing/beneficial waste harvesting
5	NanoH2O	California, USA	Membrane-based Water purification/Nanotech
6	SolarBee, Inc.	North Dakota, USA	Disinfection, water quality
7	AquaPure	Upper Galilee, Israel	Disinfection, advanced oxidation process
8	HydroPoint	California, USA	Automated irrigation/ Evapotranspiration
9	MIOX Corporation	New Mexico, USA	Disinfection, onsite chlorine and mix oxidant generation
10	ScFi	Cork, Ireland	Waste processing/beneficial waste harvesting
11	Puralytics	Oregon, USA	Disinfection/LED Ultraviolet
12	Globe Protect, Inc.	California, USA	Physical water purification/Acoustic water purification
13	Aqua-PhyD, Inc.	California, USA	Physical water purification
14	Calera Corporation	California, USA	Beneficial use of waste
15	PAX Water	San Rafael, CA	Disinfection/Water quality
16	Derceto, Inc.	California, USA	Water treatment plant management software
17	Aquaporin A/S	Copenhagen, Denmark	Clean water solutions
18	Verdant Power, Inc.	New York, USA	Water as energy
19	7-Technologies	Copenhagen, Denmark	Smart water management
20	Agua Via Ltd	California, USA	Water purification/Nanotech
21	CheckLight	Qiryat Tivon, Israel	Water monitoring
22	Epuramat S.A.	Contern, Luxembourg	Waste processing/beneficial waste harvesting
23	Stonybrook Purification	New York, USA	Water purification/Nanotech
24	Aquavive Technologies Inc.	British Columbia, Canada	Onsite waste water treatment/Beneficial waste harvesting
25	Xeros Ltd	Leeds, UK	Water efficient laundry machine
26	EnviroTower, Inc.	Ontario, Canada	Cooling tower optimization
27	Green Wireless Systems, Inc.	California, USA	Moisture sensor/Automated irrigation
28	Aquarius Technologies, Inc.	Wisconsin, USA	Waste processing/Sludge minimization
29	Clean Water Technology, Inc.	California, USA	Onsite waste water treatment/Beneficial waste harvesting
30	ATD Waste Systems, Inc.	British Columbia, Canada	Onsite waste water treatment/Beneficial waste harvesting
31	Ionic Water Technologies, Inc.	Nevada, USA	Onsite waste water treatment/Beneficial waste harvesting
32	Crystal Clear Technologies, Inc.	California, USA	Water purification/Nanotech
33	Cyber-Rain, Inc.	California, USA	Moisture sensor/Automated irrigation
34	American Micro Detection Systems, Inc.	California, USA	Water monitoring
35	Grundfos BioBooster A/S	Bjerringbro, Denmark	Onsite waste water treatment
36	ProWell Technologies Ltd	Tel Aviv, Israel	Groundwater management/Pump optimization
37	Green World Solutions	California, USA	GIS-based water distribution software/Automated irrigation
38	Ocean Pacific Technologies	California, USA	Pump optimization/Energy recovery
39	HaloSource, Inc.	Washington, USA	Disinfection
40	Ioteq IP Pty Ltd	Sydney, Australia	Disinfection/Water purification
41	GO2 Water	California, USA	Wastewater solutions
42	349Q	Massachusetts, USA	Disinfection
43	Aqua Sciences, Inc.	Florida, USA	Water harvesting
44	Electrolytic Ozone, Inc.	Massachusetts, USA	Disinfection/Ozonation
45	Falcon Waterfree Technologies, LLC	California, USA	Waterless urinal
46	Air Water Treatment	Barcelona, Spain	Waste minimization
47	Oberon FMR, Inc.	Colorado, USA	Onsite wastewater treatment/Beneficial waste harvesting
48	Lesico CleanTech	Holon, Israel	Waste minimization
49	BioPetroClean, Inc.	New York, USA	Onsite waste water treatment/Beneficial waste harvesting
50	GeoPure Water Technologies, LLC	Texas, USA	Produced water

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Leading-edge Innovation from Established Water Companies

In addition to selecting the leading early-stage companies in advanced high technology, The Artemis Project Water Top 50 Competition selected five established water-related companies to honor for pioneering technologies that they are developing in-house.

Eka Systems, Inc.	Maryland, USA	Advanced water meter
Energy Recovery, Inc.	California, USA	Pump optimization/Energy recovery
IDE Technologies, Ltd.	Kadima, Israel	Water purification/Waste minimization
Netafim USA	California, USA	Automated irrigation/Drip irrigation
Schlumberger Water Services	Paris, France	Groundwater management