ENVISION PRODUCT DESIGN LLC

Location: Anchorage

Website: www.cmosxray.com

Founded: 1993

Key Innovation: Envision makes high-resolution automated digital X-ray and gamma-ray imaging devices using complementary metal oxide silicon (CMOS) sensors that can be applied in field applications. The company's products are applicable to the aerospace and automotive industries for quality control inspections. For example, Envision has done digital X-ray inspection of the Space Shuttle wings' leading edge, and has built a system to inspect rockets varying in size from 7 feet to 20 feet tall and weighing up to 16,000 pounds. Envision has developed manipulators to handle cast aluminum automotive parts for a Chinese manufacturer without slowing down the manufacturing process.

Key People: John Cope, radiographic manager; John Pursley, president; Sandy Pursley, administrative manager and owner.

Money Raised: The company has been financed primarily by debt, John Pursley says. The company has grown to $3 million in annual gross revenue.

Measure of Success: Envision is a small company that goes after (and wins) projects in an environment where they compete against very large companies, like Kodak, Fuji and General Electric.

Employees: 10

What's Next: Envision will continue to look for more business in China and is also working on a new security project for the U.S. Department of Justice that is scheduled for delivery in 2007.

ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC

Location: Anchorage

Website: www.anlit.com

Founded: 2005

Key Innovation: The company developed a method to automate the formatting and reinstalling of system software on individual and networked computers over the Internet. CEO Juan Pulido spent two years developing and refining the process. Analytical Technologies (Anlit) has several patents pending for the use of technology that switches between more than 12 platforms to perform its functions. Pulido says this is the first time in the world that automation via the Internet can completely uninstall and reinstall software and emulate the actions of corporate and IT computer experts with a completely unattended process. "This makes it easy for the user and simplifies the deployment and sales of licensed software," Pulido says. The Web-based computer cleaner will work on networks and with proprietary software.

Key People: CEO and President Juan Pulido leads a group of programmers but relies on Keith Applegarth, director of research and development, and Rebecca L. Shortman, executive manager, to develop and maintain the company team.

Money Raised: $500,000 from individual investors.

Measure of Success: Anlit has successfully run 1,400 sessions where the automated technology was able to uninstall software, clean hard drives and reinstall software on individual and company networks via the Internet. "We are proud to be able to prove to the world that there is a better way to fix computers," says Pulido.

Employees: 8

What's Next: The company's business plan is to service up to 4 million computers daily by its fourth year. Anlit also wants to offer sales of software using its strategic position in repair and wants to distribute software for major companies. Anlit is also developing a license verification system that will soon use a separate server to check for invalid or stolen software keys.

ADS-B TECHNOLOGIES LLC

Location: Anchorage

Website: www.ads-b.com

Founded: 2005

Key Innovation: ADS-B Technologies is the first private company to market and deploy the radically new air traffic management technology known as Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) outside the U.S. The technology provides weather reports, terrain maps and live air traffic tracking right in the cockpit using an in-aircraft transceiver that offers aircraft-to-aircraft and air-toground tracking in real time. ADS-B is poised to replace expensive 1950s-era radar and offers developing countries an alternative to radar-based air traffic control systems.