Yoshio Tanaka

Barra LLC provides investment analytics, trading solutions and software to investment professions. The company provides risk management technology for investment professionals. Barra was founded by Barr Rosenberg and Andrew Rudd in 1975 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Founded in 1976, Apax Partners, Inc. is a venture capital/private equity firm located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of London-based Apax Partners LLP

Sevin Rosen Bayless Management Co (Sevin Rosen Bayless) is a venture capital firm founded in 1981. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Adams Capital Management, Inc. (ACM) is a venture capital firm founded in 1994 by Joel Adams. The firm is headquartered in Sewickley, Pennsylvania.

Luxtera, Inc. engages in the development and delivery of silicon complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) photonics. Its CMOS technology provides bandwidth for applications ranging from local area network to chip-to-chip interconnect. The company was founded by Alex Dickinson, Axel Scherer, Eli Yablonovitch and Lawrence Cary Gunn III in 2001 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

AVX Antenna, Inc. provides embedded antennas and radio frequency system solutions. The firm's products include active antenna systems, RFIC's, Bluetooth, cellular, industrial handsets, tablets, laptops, net books, portable television, routers, healthcare devices, GPS, WiFi, WiMAX, WLAN, mobile entertainment and unique applications. The company was founded by Laurent Desclos, Sebastian Rowson and Eli Yablonovitch in 2000 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Volumetrics Medical Imaging, Inc. provides diagnostic ultrasound system. The company also provides instantaneous and quantifiable ultrasound scans of a whole organ, rather than a single slice. The company was established in 2001 and is headquartered in Hillsborough, NC.

Sapience360 provides software solutions for the communications providers' market. The company provides integrated service fulfillment solutions that helps communications providers manage their network resources. It also offers solutions for real-world problems through a suite of complementary applications. Sapience360 was founded in 1985 and is located in Phoenix, AZ.

Metabolon, Inc. operates as a health technology company. It offers precision medicine, clinical diagnostic, and metabolomics services. The firm serves to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, consumer product industries. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

Qspeed Semiconductor provides the industry's highest performance silicon power devices to help reduce worldwide energy consumption. Based on proprietary technologies, the company's portfolio includes highly efficient and cost-effective 300V and 600V power diodes for AC-to-DC power supplies, inverters, motor controls and other power applications greater than 150W. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., Qspeed has a global sales and distribution network across Asia, North America and Europe.

First Insight, Inc. provides predictive analytic platform that retailers use to select the most profitable new products for improved sales, margins, and inventory turnover. The firm's predictive analytics solution gives retailers guidance for product design, buying, assortment planning, pricing, and marketing decisions. The company was founded by Gregory J. Petro in 2007 and is headquartered in Warrendale, PA.

Hazelcast, Inc. develops, distributes and supports open source in-memory data grid. It provides commercially licensed hazelcast enterprise, management center and professional open source training, development support, and deployment support services. The company was founded by Talip Ozturk, Enes Akar and Fuad Malikov in 2008 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Airwavz Solutions, Inc. engages in the provision of telecommunication services. The company was founded by Adrian Wilson and Mark Horinko in 2013 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

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.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Peking University provides post-secondary education services. It offers undergraduate and graduate courses. It provides courses such as basic and applied sciences, social sciences and the humanities, sciences of medicine, management, and education. The company was founded by JiaNai Sun in 1898 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

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.

Touchdown Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures and supports MEMS probecards. It products include flash, and dram. The firm offers ACCU-TORQ and GIGA-TORQ probecards for testing full pin count NAND and DRAM wafers. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Baldwin Park, CA.

Scintera Networks LLC delivers high performance, compact and very low-power system-on-chip solutions to measure, modify and monitor radio frequency signals and systems. Its products are used in cellular infrastructure, microwave point-to-point backhaul, microwave radio, broadcast infrastructure, and general purpose power amplifier linearization applications; and various other applications, such as software defined radios, HMS mobile military communications and white space, public safety mobile and portable transmitters, and customer premises equipment. Scintera Networks was founded by Abhijit G. Shanbhag and Abhijit Phanse in 2001 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Luminescent Systems, Inc. supplies aerospace lighting systems. Its products include cabin and exterior lighting, cockpit lighting systems, lighting control products and night vision. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in East Aurora, NY.

The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. is a non-profit organization that owns and operates technical professional association. It provides membership and services, societies and communities support, publication services, and conferences and events. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

National Venture Capital Association provides business association services. It facilitates networking opportunities and provides research data to its members. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

The Optical Society of America provides publications, meetings, and membership programs in optics and photonics. The private company is based in Washington. The CEO of the American company is Elizabeth Rogan.

Mindshare Medical, Inc. develops clinical decision support technology for clinicians and healthcare organizations. The company was founded by Samir Chowdhury, Ilya Goldberg, Michael Calhoun and Jack Kreindler in 2014 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

IBM Ventures (IBM Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Cytegen Corp. engages in the development and discovery of therapies that extend health span. The company is headquartered in Shorewood, WI.

Contract Wrangler, Inc. develops contracts management software. The company was founded by Neil M. Peretz and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

AV8 Ventures (AV8 Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Global Weather & Climate Solutions, Inc. provides radio occultation data for weather forecasting, climate research and space weather monitoring by launching satellites. The company was founded by Chris Charles McCormick and E. Robert Kursinski in 2012 and is headquartered in Golden, CO.