Portfolio Company Press Releases 2000

Palo Alto, CA, - December 29, 2000
Incyte Completes Acquisition of Proteome, Inc.
Incyte Genomics, Inc. (Nasdaq: INCY), today announced the completion of its acquisition of Proteome, Inc., a privately held company based in Beverly, Massachusetts.

San Francisco, CA - December 14, 2000
MimEcom Changes Company Name to Totality
MimEcom Corp., a leading provider of Application and Infrastructure Management (AIM) services for e-businesses, announced today the company has changed its name to Totality Corp.

BOSTON, MA - December 4, 2000
MedCompanion Secures Second Round of Financing
MedCompanion Inc. announced today that it has secured a significant institutional round of financing led by Boston Millennia Partners. Previous investors including Citizens Capital and Lee Capital Holdings, LLC. Also participated in the round.

New York, NY and Acton, MA. - November 28, 2000
Yantra and Accenture Form Alliance to Help Complex Enterprises Manage Supply Chain Challenges of E-Business
Accenture and Yantra Corporation today announced a broad strategic alliance to provide supply chain solutions through PureEcommerce"!, a fully Web-enabled application that manages, tracks and executes complex customer transactions across a company' s extended supply chain.

St. Louis, MO, and Greenville, SC, - November 2, 2000
Gabriel Communications and TriVergent Complete Merger
Gabriel Communications, a rapidly growing, facilities based broadband services provider, today announced that it has completed its merger with TriVergent Communications.

Tokyo and Englewood, Colo. – September 11, 2000
NTT Communications and Verio Announce Completion of Merger
NTT Communications Corporation and Verio Inc. today announced that a subsidiary of NTT Communications has merged with and into Verio, with Verio surviving as an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Communications.

Minneapolis, Minn. - August 28, 2000
Optical Solutions Raises Additional $14.3 Million; Brings Current Funding Round to $79.8 Million
Optical Solutions Inc, the first in its industry to enable service providers to deliver voice, video and data services to the home over an all-fiber optic network, today announced an additional $14.3 million in Series D financing, bringing the company's current equity funding round to $79.8 million.

Acton, MA - August 22, 2000
Yantra Secures $41 Million In Strategic Investments From Industry Leaders and Other Investors
Yantra Corporation (www.yantra.com), the leading provider of e-Commerce solutions for complex transaction management, today announced that it has closed a $41 million round of equity financing with investors...

San Francisco, CA - July 24, 2000
MimEcom Secures $100 Million in Second Round Funding
MimEcom Corp., a leading provider of Application & Infrastructure Management ^sm (AIM) services for e-businesses, today announced it has secured $100 million in its second round of funding.

Minneapolis, Minn. - June 5, 2000
Optical Solutions Inc. Secures $66 Million in Expansion Financing
Optical Solutions Inc, the industry's first fiber optic solutions provider to bring voice, video and high-speed data directly to the home, today announced the completion of a $65.5 million round of equity financing led by The Sprout Group, venture capital affiliate of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

Tokyo - May 8, 2000
Verio and NTT Communications Sign Merger Agreement
NTT Communications Corporation (“NTT Communications”) and Verio Inc. (NASDAQ: VRIO) announced today that the companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement in which NTT Communications will acquire all of the shares of Verio for approximately $5.5 billion.

RESTON, VA - Feb. 11, 2000
VIA NET.WORKS announces initial public offering of 15 million shares at $21 per share ($315 million)
VIA NET.WORKS, Inc. announced today its initial public offering of 14.3 million shares of common stock at $21 per share (21.31 Euros).