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Uptilt Recognized As One of the Fastest Growing Private Companies in Both the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley

Product Innovation and Customer Adoption Keys to Sustained Growth

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – October 18, 2004 – Uptilt, a leading provider of Web-based email marketing and CRM solutions, today announced it has been named to both the San Francisco Business Times’ “Fast 100” and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal’s “50 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Silicon Valley.” Read the article.

With an impressive 508.4 percent growth rate, Uptilt is the 13^th fastest growing company in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the 12^th fastest growing company in Silicon Valley, according to data published in October by the San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, respectively.  The company has been growing consistently since it launched its EmailLabs product in May 2000, doubling revenues each year.

“We’re grabbing marketshare because of our nimble Web-based architecture, the inherent value of our marketing and CRM solutions, and our unflagging commitment to our customers,” said Dave Sousa, CEO and founder of Uptilt.  “Growth for the sake of growing isn’t what we’re about at Uptilt.  We will continue to adapt our products to allow our current and future customers to more effectively understand, retain and deal with their customers.”

The San Francisco Business Times Fast 100 and Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal 50 Fastest-Growing Private Companies awards are leading components of the Book of Lists program, owned by the American City Business Journals, Inc.  The lists rank both Bay Area and Silicon Valley-based private companies by revenue growth for the three-year period 2001 to 2003.

About EmailLabs
EmailLabs is a leading provider of high-performance email marketing solutions to agencies, publishers and marketing departments of middle-market and Global 2000 companies. The EmailLabs email marketing platform is provided as an ASP (Web-based) service, and is easily integrated with a company's Web site, sales force automation and CRM technologies through EmailLabs' application programming interface (API). For the fourth consecutive year, EmailLabs has been recognized by ASPnews.com as one of the Top 50 ASPs worldwide and as a Top 25 Service Provider for the Software-as-a Service (SaaS) and Business Service Provider category. The company provides email marketing solutions to more than 550 companies, including Nokia, Agilent, PalmSource and Jupitermedia. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., EmailLabs was founded in 1999 and is a subsidiary of Lyris, Inc. (OTCBB:JLHY). For more information, visit www.EmailLabs.com.