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NoblePeak Vision Raises $12.0 Million in Series B Financing



    NoblePeak Vision Corp. (www.noblepeak.com), whose technology is
    transforming the night vision market, today announced that it has
    raised $12.0 million in Series B equity financing. The Series B round
    was led by Chart Venture Partners, a new NoblePeak investor.
    NoblePeak´s original investors, Matrix Partners and Northbridge
    Venture Partners, also fully participated in the round.

    The Series B funding will provide growth capital as the company
    launches it´s new, TriWave(R) night vision technology into key
    commercial, government and military markets. The company is currently
    taking orders for its high-resolution NPV700 evaluation camera
    platform and developing a camera core product that will be supplied to
    camera OEM partners in the third quarter of 2008.

    "Our Series B round was oversubscribed," said Mike Decelle,
    president and CEO of NoblePeak. "This infusion of capital enables us
    to add key hires to our camera core design, development and
    manufacturing teams, plus build out our business development and
    customer support organizations. Our decision to work with Chart was
    strategic and based on their deep experience and relationships within
    the government and military markets."

    "NoblePeak stands out in the industry as a company with a
    technology platform perfectly suited to achieving the vision of
    low-cost high-performance night vision imaging," said Cole Van Nice,
    partner at Chart Venture Partners. "Our team at Chart is well aware of
    the limitations of existing technologies and we understand the need
    for night vision solutions that provide world-class night image
    quality but at a price point that enables broad deployment in the
    commercial and military/government markets. We believe NoblePeak has
    the answer to this need."

    About Chart Venture Partners

    Chart Venture Partners is a venture capital fund focused on
    investments in breakthrough defense and security technologies that
    have dual use application in large-scale commercial markets. For more
    information on Chart, visit http://www.chartventure.com.

    About NoblePeak Vision Corporation:

    NoblePeak Vision (www.noblepeak.com) provides imaging products
    that are sensitive over the visible to short-wave infrared (SWIR)
    spectrum and which enable breakthrough night vision performance with
    applications in the commercial security, transportation, and defense
    markets. At the heart of these components is TriWave(R), a
    revolutionary germanium-enhanced monolithic CMOS image sensor
    technology. This integrated approach allows the entire infrared image
    sensor to be manufactured in a standard silicon process line, enabling
    unprecedented resolution, performance, and cost. NoblePeak Vision was
    recently named the winner of the 2007 Global Security Challenge for
    the world´s most promising security technology start up company.
    Founded in 2002, NoblePeak Vision is a private company headquartered
    in Wakefield, Massachusetts.