Shop2gether.com Information

Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., SHOP2gether.com (http://www.SHOP2gether.com) is an innovative industry leader that provides Web-based purchasing power to educational institutions and businesses, and customized procurement solutions for vertical markets. The mission of SHOP2gether.com and its Collective Purchasing ServiceSM is to assist educational communities and small business organizations to achieve the maximum benefits of Web-based procurement and fully integrated group-buying capabilities. DEFTA PARTNERS (www.defta-partners.com), one of the leading Venture Capital firms in the eCommerce and net generation field, is a Global Venture Capital firm that operates in the U.S., Israel, United Kingdom and Japan. DEFTA focuses on investing in information technology start-ups and helps its investment portfolio companies in forming strategic alliances with major IT companies in the three major markets of the US, Europe, and Japan. DEFTA PARTNERS' portfolio companies include Cybergold (NASDAQ: CGLD), which completed a successful IPO in September 1999 and Zoran Corporation (NASDAQ: ZRAN) that concluded a secondary offering December 1999, as well as Tradex, which was acquired by Ariba Corporation (NASDAQ: ARBA) in December 1999 for $1.86 billion and Micrcosm, in the UK, which was acquired by Conexant (NASDAQ: CNXT) in January 2000.