The seventh annual Early-Stage Investment Forum is taking place today at the Bell Harbor Conference Center in Seattle. The event, which allows early-stage companies to pitch their ideas to a roomful of investors, is thrown by the Northwest Entrepreneur Network.

Alex Osadzinski of Trinity Venture will deliver the keynote address, "Seattle's Hot -- A Bay Area Investor Tells All." In addition, there will be two "in the lab" presentations by Microsoft Research and Oregon State University.

Companies presenting include ADI Thermal Power, AudienceCentral, BeDynamic, Blue Lake Children's Publishing, Braincandy, Charter Bus America, Chelsey Henry, CleverSet, Coffee Equipment Company, SNAPforSeniors, Festival Media, Greenwood Technologies, Insight Schools, Lagotek, LINQware, MitoSciences, Movaya Wireless, Pluggd, Protelus, PRN ThermalCare, Red Llama, Resatech Systems, RIPL, Smart Desktop, SynerG Software, Torrent Technologies.