August 5, 2002
Salt Lake City, UT

Attensity Corporation, the emerging leader in text extraction solutions, announced  today a $3.4M Series A round of financing that is being led by In-Q-Tel, Inc.,  a private not-for-profit venture group funded by the U.S. Central Intelligence  Agency. Other institutional investors are participating in the round, including  Germany-based Triangle Venture Capital Group. This round will bring the total  amount of capital raised by Attensity to more than $6M.

Attensity and  In-Q-Tel
Attensity  has worked with In-Q-Tel since January 2002 when the company's advanced text  extraction technology was selected for a pilot. The funding from In-Q-Tel  includes an equity investment in Attensity and also a revenue component for  Attensity, making In-Q-Tel both an investor and a strategic customer.

Attensity's  technology addresses one of the most difficult and pervasive information  technology challenges facing government agencies that collect and analyze  intelligence for national defense and homeland security," said Gilman  Louie, In-Q-Tel's president and CEO. "The amount of text-based information  generated by these agencies on a daily basis is overwhelming. They need  automated solutions that extract structured events and relationships from text  records so that the information can be aggregated and analyzed quickly and  effectively. We set out looking for a best-of-breed text extraction solution to  address this problem and we found our answer in Attensity."

"We  are excited about having In-Q-Tel as both an investor and a customer,"  said Todd Wakefield, Attensity's president and CEO. "Information overload  is a challenge facing government agencies and commercial customers alike. By  putting our technology through a demanding series of tests and reviews before  deciding to adopt and invest in it, In-Q-Tel not only confirmed Attensity's  readiness for the rigorous demands of the intelligence community, but they have  undertaken an instrumental role in helping to ensure that our solutions are  ready for the commercial marketplace."

About Attensity  Corporation
Attensity Corporation develops innovative text extraction solutions that leverage  breakthrough linguistic processing technology to extract valuable information  from natural language text sources. The extracted information is then stored in  a structuredformat so that it can be effectively analyzed for better  decision making. The company offers solutions for both the commercial  marketplace and government agencies. Attensity Corporation is a privately held  company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah and with an office in Mountain  View, California. Founded in 2000, Attensity's technology is the culmination of  nearly a decade of research at the University of Utah, whose computer science  department has spawned companies like Adobe Systems, Evans & Sutherland,  Netscape, Pixar, and Silicon Graphics.