Bridge Bank to Participate in Inaugural AlwaysOn Venture Summit East Conference in Boston

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - April 7, 2008) - Bridge Capital Holdings (NASDAQ: BBNK), whose subsidiary is Bridge Bank, National Association, one of the best performing full-service business banks in California and the Nation, announced today that it will participate in the inaugural AlwaysOn Venture Summit East Conference. This event will be held April 7 - 9, 2008 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston.

Venture Summit East is a two and one-half day event that highlights the significant economic, political, and technology trends impacting the global growth investor. The conference will feature the most influential institutional investors, venture capitalists, corporate buyers, investment bankers and research analysts in the Eastern US in keynote presentations and panel debates. Venture Summit East will also host 14 "Best of Breed CEO Showcases" handpicked from the AlwaysOn annual top 100 private company list, and 36 other qualified six-minute CEO pitches from companies seeking later-stage capital or potential acquirers. The theme of the conference will be "Where The Big Money Meets The Big Ideas."

The goal of Venture Summit East is to match growth-company buyers and sellers and identify the most promising innovation-driven, growth investment opportunities. At the Venture Summit, AlwaysOn editors will also honor the "AO Top DealMakers" and the annual "AO Industry Analyst All-Star Team."

Five hundred institutional investors, venture capitalists, investment bankers, research analysts and corporate buyers are expected to attend Venture Summit East. The most influential members of the financial and technology media and blogging community will also be on hand to moderate debates and cover the action.

Bridge Bank specializes in providing superior service and customized banking solutions to small- and middle-market, and emerging technology businesses, in Silicon Valley, California, and the Nation. The bank's product offerings include 24/7 internet-based business cash and treasury management, on-line account statement and item imaging, remote deposit capture, commercial lines of credit, growth capital financing, construction loans, Small Business Administration 7(a) and 504 loans as an SBA Preferred Lender Participant-accredited direct lender, and factoring and asset-based loans through its Bridge Capital Finance Group.

In its January 2008 issue, US Banker magazine listed Bridge Capital Holdings among the top 25 banks of 2008, based upon the company's return on equity. In the same issue, Daniel P. Myers, Chief Executive Officer of Bridge Bank, N.A. and Bridge Capital Holdings was also named to the 2008 All-Star Banking Team as one of the top ten bank CEO's in the nation.

About Bridge Capital Holdings

Bridge Capital Holdings is the holding company for Bridge Bank, National Association. Bridge Capital Holdings was formed on October 1, 2004 and holds a Global Select listing on The NASDAQ Stock Market under the trading symbol BBNK. Visit Bridge Capital Holdings on the web at www.bridgecapitalholdings.com.

About Bridge Bank, N.A.

Bridge Bank, N.A. is Silicon Valley's full-service professional business bank. The Bank is dedicated to meeting the financial needs of small, middle-market, and emerging technology businesses. Bridge Bank provides its clients with a comprehensive package of business banking solutions delivered through experienced, professional bankers. Visit Bridge Bank on the web at www.bridgebank.com.

About AlwaysOn

AlwaysOn ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a community blog network. In 2004, AlwaysOn continued to lead the industry in innovation by engaging its bloggers in a social network. AlwaysOn is also revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (OnMedia NYC, Venture Summit East and West, On Hollywood, the Broadband Digital, Stanford Summit, and Going Green) and quarterly print "Blogozine." No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event participants.

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain matters discussed in this press release constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and are subject to the safe harbors created by that Act. Forward-looking statements describe future plans, strategies, and expectations, and are based on currently available information, expectations, assumptions, projections, and management's judgment about the Bank, the banking industry and general economic conditions. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed, suggested or implied by the forward-looking statements.

These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: (1) competitive pressures in the banking industry; (2) changes in interest rate environment; (3) general economic conditions, nationally, regionally, and in operating markets; (4) changes in the regulatory environment; (5) changes in business conditions and inflation; (6) changes in securities markets; (7) future credit loss experience; (8) the ability to satisfy requirements related to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other regulation on internal control; (9) civil disturbances or terrorist threats or acts, or apprehension about the possible future occurrences of acts of this type; and (10) the involvement of the United States in war or other hostilities.

The reader should refer to the more complete discussion of such risks in Bridge Capital Holdings reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q on file with the SEC.