Bill Burger

Formative Ventures LLC (Formative ventures) is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 2000 by Brian Connors and Clint Chao. The firm is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Broadcom Corp. designs, develops and supplies semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. The company was founded by Henry T. Nicholas III and Henry Samueli on August 16, 1991 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

IC Works, Inc. designs, develops and markets signal integrated circuits used for applications in the personal computer motherboard, PC peripheral or Internet device and wireless and cable communications markets. The company's clocks are used in personal computers, workstations, servers, routers, printers, date storage devices, and digital cameras. Radio frequency synthesizers are used in high frequency applications like wireless local loop equipment, wireless local area networks, cable modems, and digital set-top boxes. The company is headquartered in San Jose, CA

Maverick Networks manufactured network switches, which handle voice, video and data on business networks. In 1999 Maverick Networks was acquired by Broadcom (BRCM). The company was headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Adaptec, Inc. provides innovative data storage hardware and software solutions. It supplies technologies and applications supported by major storage and system OEMs, system integrators, system builders, and value-added resellers that deliver enabling technology and products to address many of the most critical applications in data storage. It delivers ASICs, host-bus adapters, value-oriented and high-performance SATA/SAS and SCSI RAID controllers, and storage software for IP storage area networks. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Nextech Batteries, Inc. develops lithium sulfur battery technology. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Carson City, NV.