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Foster City, Calif. - June 26, 2007 - Scale Venture Partners (formerly BA Venture Partners) today announced that Mary Denten has joined the firm as Chief Financial Officer. Denten, with more than 15 years in finance and over a decade of experience in the venture industry, comes to ScaleVP from Global Catalyst Partners, where she was the firm's CFO. As ScaleVP's CFO, Denten will be responsible for the financial and administrative functions of the firm.

"Mary brings extensive venture-focused financial experience to the firm," said Kate Mitchell, Managing Director with ScaleVP. "As a central member of our team, Mary's knowledge and network within the venture community will be invaluable as we continue to invest and manage Fund II and lay the foundation for subsequent funds."

Denten was with Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Global Catalyst Partners for five years, where she managed a broad range of activities for the venture capital firm including fund raising, management, accounting, cash management, reporting, investor relations and portfolio company financings. She also managed the analysis of four venture capital funds with more than $300 million in assets and approximately 250 limited partners. Denten also was responsible for all aspects of the Human Resources, IT and legal functions of the firm, and worked closely with portfolio companies to establish the structure for Human Resources and a variety of Finance department functions.

"Scale Venture Partners has had an incredible start to 2007, with its first institutional fundraising, several financings and five exits," said Mary Denten. "I'm excited to join the ScaleVP team at a time of growth and expansion."

Prior to Global Catalyst Partners, Denten was the Controller for Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, a Menlo Park, Calif-based venture capital firm for six years. As Controller, she was responsible for management, accounting, reporting and investor relations for more than 25 venture capital funds with over $3 billion in assets and more than 1,000 limited partners.

Prior to joining Kleiner Perkins, Denten held finance department positions with Polycom and Price Waterhouse Coopers. She earned M.B.A. and B.S. degrees from Santa Clara University. Denten also is a Certified Public Accountant.

About Scale Venture Partners
Scale Venture Partners employs a thesis-based strategy to identify innovative development-stage technology and healthcare investments. The ScaleVP team works with technology and healthcare companies to accelerate their growth and become more valuable to entrepreneurs, investors and consumers. Based in Foster City, California, the ScaleVP team collectively offers decades of technology and venture industry experience to development-stage companies in hardware, software, healthcare and medical devices. Representative portfolio companies include Alimera, Frontbridge, Glu Mobile, Good Technology, Monolithic Power Systems, Omniture, Orexigen, Placeware, ScanSafe, Seattle Genetics, Somaxon, Wayport and Xceive. For more information, visit www.scalevp.com.

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