21.   Last week, ATV announced two new technical partners, who help the investing partners source deals and provide assistance to portfolio companies.

22.   Matrix Partners, in Waltham, may hire someone to collect salary and bonus data that its portfolio companies can share.

23.   Other profit-sharing stock allocations often take place when a venture portfolio company is sold.

24.   Scouts like former Hewlett-Packard engineer and current UC Berkeley graduate student Kai Xu receive a monthly retainer plus equity stakes in portfolio companies as well as ITU.

25.   Some VCs have hired marketing partners to help those portfolio companies with everything from advertising and targeting customers to public relations.

26.   Softbank often works as a kind of cyber hub for its portfolio companies.

27.   That focus often means that portfolio companies become takeover targets.

28.   That means portfolio companies may stay private longer to mature before they hit the public market.

29.   The Crusader is a heavy-duty tank made by a Carlyle portfolio company and other contractors.

30.   The money will be spent on portfolio companies that could not attract outside capital.