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Keating Capital's First Portfolio Company Completes IPO

Keating Capital acquired 10,000 shares of NeoPhotonics' Series X convertible preferred stock in January 2010 for $1,000,000. Prior to the IPO, Keating Capital's preferred shares converted into 160,000 shares of NeoPhotonics' common stock. These common shares are subject to a customary 180-day lockup provision.

NeoPhotonics (www.NeoPhotonics.com) is a developer and vertically integrated manufacturer of photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based components, modules and subsystems for use in telecommunications networks. NeoPhotonics' products include active semiconductor, passive PLC and MEMS multi-dimensional switching functions in a single product. This integration is enabled by nanomaterials and nanoscale design and fabrication technologies. NeoPhotonics maintains headquarters in San Jose, California, and ISO 9001:2000 certified engineering and manufacturing facilities in Silicon Valley and Shenzhen, China.

About Keating Capital, Inc.

Keating Capital (www.KeatingCapital.com) is a business development company that specializes in making pre-IPO investments in innovative, high growth private companies that are committed to and capable of becoming public. Keating Capital provides individual investors with the ability to participate in a unique fund that invests in a private company's late stage, pre-IPO financing round - an opportunity that has historically been reserved for institutional investors.

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Keating Capital, Inc.
Margie L. Blackwell, 720-889-0133
Investor Relations Director
mb@keatinginvestments.com