Bernie Sardinha

Teranetics is a leading mixed-signal IC company that develops silicon products for the most advanced communication applications. The company's core development team has a strong track record of successful product development efforts in advanced communication systems and silicon. Teranetics is backed by a strong consortium of venture investors with in-depth experience and success in the semiconductor and communication markets. Teranetics provides state-of-the-art silicon solutions that enable 10G rate over the traditional UTP copper cabling, an order of magnitude improvement over rates available in enterprise networks. Teranetics products allow data centers and enterprise networks to increase scalability and improve throughput while dramatically lowering the cost of ownership for 10G links. Teranetics solutions are being adopted by many of the networking industries leading OEMs and equipment providers.

Velio Communications, Inc. develops high-speed switching software and technology. It provides interconnect and switch fabric application specific standard products include high-bandwidth data switch fabric, TDM STS-1 switch fabric and engineering services. The company was founded by Ramin Farjad-Rad, Raju Chekuri and William James Dally in 1999 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA

IMP, Inc. designed, manufactured, and marketed value-added integrated circuits, high performance, standard analog. The company's main objective was to provide a broad portfolio of devices to manage the power supply needs of the portable, wireless and Internet-based systems that were driving computer and communications revolution. The company was founded in 1981 and was located in Santa Clara, CA.

Magnum Semiconductor, Inc. provides silicon, modules, software and Internet protocol. It provides line of products, tools, and technologies for the entire video content creation and distribution chain, from contribution and production through distribution over cable, satellite and IPTV to Over-the-Top video streaming. The company was founded by Jack Guedj on June 30, 2005 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

SandForce, Inc. maufactures chip products. The company was founded by Alex Naqvi and Radoslav Danilak in 2006 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Avalanche Technology, Inc. develops digital memory storage technology products. It offers spin programmable memory, a non-volatile ultra low power magnetic memory. The firm's products include stand-alone discrete memory chips, AvRAM and solid-state cache. The company was founded by Rajiv Y. Ranjan and Petro Estakhri in August 2006 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.