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Portfolio Companies in the News

Specialty Food Products

Blue Smoke Salsa

Bon Appetit, Blue Smoke Salsa' Hot Pepper Jelly and Triple-X Hot Salsa is the featured 'What to Buy' food in Bon Apetit's "United Plates of America: A guide to the best things to eat, drink, and buy in all 50 states." May 2009.

WCHS TV, Traveling West Virginia, "Blue Smoke Salsa, West Virginia's best salsa, gets even better." September 2008. (Video)

 

The Crazy Baker

West Virginia Living, "The Crazy Baker." Winter 2009

The State Journal, "The Crazy Baker Strives to Make Knees Buckle." June, 6 2008.

 

Custard Stand Food Products

State Journal, "Custard Stand Chili Among NCIF’s Success Stories." July, 11, 2008.

Forest Products

Image Tree

Wall Street Journal, "What's New" in Technology section. June 2, 2009.

TechJournal South, "ImageTree Spreads Branches for its Geospatial Imaging Tech." May 13, 2009.

State Journal, "ImageTree Corp. Takes Technology from the Forests to the Intelligence Community." May 8, 2009.

Venture Beat, "The forest has…ears? CIA invests in ImageTree." May 4, 2009.

Biomass Magazine, "ImageTree prepares to measure forest carbon change", March 2009.

The State Journal, "ImageTree Embraces Green Expansion Project," April 11, 2008.

American Venture Magazine, "Battelle Ventures Leads $4.5-Million Oversubscribed Series B Round for Forestry Co.: Funding for ImageTree Corp. Marks First for Firm," November 2, 2007.

Red Herring, "VCs Bark Up ImageTree With $4.5M," October 30, 2007.

 

Laurel Creek Hardwoods

W.K. Kellogg Foundation News Highlights, "Natural Capital Investment Fund Helps Local Entrepreneur Build on Appalachia’s Natural Forest Assets," June 2008.

Manufacturing

Washington Homeopathic Products

West Virginia Public Radio, "Zicam scare doesn’t affect Berkeley Springs business." July 8, 2009.

Wonderful West Virginia Magazine, "Homeopathic Powerhouse," February, 2008.

B2B Outlook: The Panhandle’s Monthly Business Magazine, "Medicine Man, Business Man," December 2007. (View PDF) (Reprinted with permission)

The Oprah Winfrey Show, "What the Stylemakers Can't Live Without: Washington Homeopathic Products Homeopathic Remedy Kit a favorite of Cindy Crawford," October, 30, 2007.

Green Building

LightsON!

"LightsON! West Virginia Gives New, Green Life to Oak Hill Building," July 18, 2008."Renick Millworks Finds New Uses for Old Wood," July 18, 2008

The Register-Herald, "Group wants to make state’s downtown buildings ‘green’," November 1, 2008.

Renewable Energy

FLS Energy, Inc.

Cleantech News, "North Carolina landfill going solar," October 27, 2008.

Natural Capital Investment Fund

Marketwise, "Green Financing Opportunities: Taking a Chance on a Green Future." Spring/Summer 2009.

The State Journal, "Bringing Back the Farmer. Locally grown foods the mission of new farm research center." October 31, 2008.

"Natural Capital Investment Fund Works to Help Economy, Environment," July 11, 2008.

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