ADVISORY/Kodiak Venture Partners' Mike O'Neill to Participate in MicroVentures 2003; Panel to Discuss `Private Companies Most Likely to Succeed' at VentureWire Event.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Wednesday (Dec. 10)

MicroVentures 2003

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Mike O'Neill, Partner at Kodiak Venture Partners, will participate on a panel of notable investors who will discuss the leading semiconductor startups selected as "the private companies most likely to succeed," at VentureWire's MicroVentures 2003. Taking the votes of the audience together with the expert insight of the panelists, this review starts by nominating the top ten companies, and assesses each one in turn on its prospects for success.

In addition to O'Neill, this investor roundtable will include:

-- Roundtable moderator Richard Schaffer, Editor-in-Chief,

VentureWire

-- Gordon Campbell, Executive Director, Techfarm Ventures

-- Jack Carsten, Managing Director, Horizon Ventures

-- Michael Wishart, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs Group

Details

What:   Mike O'Neill of Kodiak Venture Partners will participate in
        an investor roundtable at MicroVentures 2003. The panelists
        will assess which of the 50 leading semiconductor startups
        presenting at MicroVentures are most likely to succeed.

Where:  MicroVentures 2003
        Crowne Plaza Hotel
        4290 El Camino Real
        Palo Alto, Calif. 94306

When:   Wednesday, December 10, 2003 at 4:15 p.m. PT

Mike O'Neill, Partner, Kodiak Venture Partners

Mike O'Neill is Chairman of the Board of IceFyre Semiconductor, Inc., Legra Systems, Inc., Silicon Dimensions, Inc. and Taral Networks, Inc. He is a Board Member of DAFCA, Millennial Net, Inc. and Motia, Inc.

O'Neill's experience includes engineering, marketing and general management in semiconductors and hardware for the communications and IT industries. He served in various mainframe hardware development and engineering management roles at IBM. In the early 90s, he helped build IBM's merchant semiconductor business, where he was responsible for the definition and implementation of IBM's ASIC design methodology, technical marketing, and the establishment of multiple chip design centers. In 1998, O'Neill joined Philsar Semiconductor, and as VP of Sales & Marketing, drove the company's transformation from a design services team to a fabless semiconductor company with multiple RF semiconductor products. He joined Kodiak in 2000, following the acquisition of Philsar Semiconductor by Conexant Systems.

O'Neill holds a BSEE and an MSEE from Virginia Tech.

About Kodiak Venture Partners

Kodiak Venture Partners is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage investments in emerging communications/IT, semiconductor and software companies. With a focus in the eastern regions of the U.S. and Canada, Kodiak Venture Partners builds relationships with entrepreneurs seeking accelerated market success. Kodiak's investment partners are successful high-technology business entrepreneurs who take a high-impact, hands-on approach to forming, operating, building and funding market leaders. For more information, visit www.kodiakvp.com.