Elad Gottlib

Metricom, Inc. is an independent software development company. It offers semi-custom and fully customized software systems and complete project outsourcing services for health care enterprises. In addition, the firm provides technical information systems consulting and software applications development on a contract basis to create complete technology-based business solutions. The company was founded by Paul Baran in December 1985 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Mellanox Technologies, Inc. supplies end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand intelligent interconnect solutions and services for servers, storage, and hyper-converged infrastructure. It offers solutions such as network and multicore processors, network adapters, switches, cables, and software and silicon. The company was founded by Roni Ahuri, Shai Cohen, Michael T. Kagan, and Eyal Waldman in May 1999 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

MagnaLynx, Inc. develops serial chip-to-chip interfaces. The company was founded by Scott Irwin in 2003 and is headquartered in Ames, IA.

Exclara, Inc. provides fabless semiconductor devices. It provides integrated-circuit and module-based solutions to system designers and manufacturers for delivering and managing power to LED light engines over a variety of applications and form factors. Its target markets include residential, commercial, and industrial or outdoor. The company was founded by Anatoly Shteynberg and Harry Rodriguez in June 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Qumulo, Inc. engages in the provision of enterprise data storage platform. It helps application owners and information technology teams store and manage all the data. The firm serves to animation, broadcast, gaming, research computing, government healthcare, video surveillance and data analytics industries. The company was founded by Neal Fachan, Peter Godman and Aaron Passey in 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLC (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins, Brook Byers and Frank J. Caufield. The firm is headquartered in California, US.

Part of Graphics Properties Holdings, Inc., Mips Computer Systems, Inc. is a company that develops microprocessors. The company is based in Sunnyvale, CA. The company was founded by Chris Rowen, John LeRoy Hennessy. Mips Computer Systems was acquired by Silicon Graphics, Inc. on June 30, 1992 for $333.91 million.

California Institute of Technology provides education focusing on science, engineering, academia, business, and public service. The company was founded in 1891 and it is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

Iwakaze Capital, Inc. (Iwakaze Capital) is an independent private equity firm headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The firm was founded by Kenji Ueda in 2008.

Amprius Technologies, Inc. manufactures and develops high energy and high capacity lithium-ion batteries. Its silicon anode technology was originally developed at Stanford University and enables dramatic improvements in the energy density and specific energy of lithium-ion batteries. The company was founded by Mark C. Platshon and Yi Cui in May 2008 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Ambiq Micro, Inc. provides semiconductor technology services. It develops ultra-low power integrated circuits for power-sensitive applications. The firm develops a patented subthreshold power optimized technology platform that dramatically reduces the amount of power consumed by semiconductors. The company was founded by Scott Hanson, Dennis Sylvester, and David Blaauw in 2010 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Alta Devices, Inc. develops and manufactures mobile power technology solutions. The firm specializes in the development of a technology that extends the energy source of a system, with focus on cell and module single junction conversion efficiency. It offers single and dual junction solar cells, bringing flexible and portable power that can be embedded into any other material. The company was founded by Eli Yablonovitch, Nasreen Chopra and Harry A. Atwater in 2007 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Movella, Inc. engages in the provision of micro-electromechanical sensors. It offers accelerometer, magnetometer, and iGyro hardware and software solutions. The firm provides single-chip motion sensors that are utilized by consumer electronics companies to improve user interactivity and enable new motion-based applications. The company was founded by Charles Yang in 2009 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Mistletoe Japan GK (Mistletoe) is an independent venture capital firm headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The firm was founded in 2013 by Taizo Son.

Tidal Systems, Inc. develops and manufactures solid-state drive controllers. It also offers Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) technology. The company was founded by Mike Lee and Cody Wu and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Desktop Metal Operating, Inc. engages in the provision of three dimensional printing services. It offers studio, production, and software solutions. The firm serves to automotive, heavy industrial, manufacturing tooling and machine design industries. The company was founded by Ric Fulop, Jonah Meyerberg, Emanuel Sachs, Rick Chin, A. John Hart, Christopher A. Schuh, and Yet Ming Chiang, in October 2015 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

relayr, Inc. provides Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. It offers IoT middleware platform, edge device management, IoT analytics and insights, industrial IoT starter kit, and IoT acceleration starter kit. The company was founded 2014 and is headquartered Boston, MA.

Ripcord, Inc. operates robotic digitization company. Its solutions include compliance, finance, healthcare, legal, and infrastructure. The company was founded by Alex Fielding, Kevin Hall, and Kim Lembo and is headquartered in Hayward, CA.

AEye Technologies, Inc. engages in the development of vision hardware, software and algorithms that act as the eyes and visual cortex of autonomous vehicles. It specializes in computer vision, autonomous driving, robotic vision, autonomous vehicles, lidar, sensor fusion, and three dimensional mapping. The company was founded by Luis Dussan, Ranson Wuller, Barry Behnken, and Jordan Greene in 2013 and is headquartered in Dublin, CA.

Abies Ventures (Abies VC) is an independent venture capital firm headquartered in Tokyo.

A*Quantum, Inc. specializes in quantum computer software. The company was founded by Sousa Sakura and is headquartered in Minato-ku, Japan.

Crossbar, Inc. develops and licenses memory storage flash technology. Its products include IP licensing, 3D RRAM. The firm engages in delivering terabyte storage on a postage stamp-sized chip, with power low enough for massive adoption throughout the internet of things, Crossbar RRAM is easy to tailor for a broad range of applications. The company was founded by George Minassian, Wei D. Lu, and Hagop Nazarian in 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.