Florian M Waas

National Semiconductor Corp. develops and manufactures analog intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The firm’s product portfolio includes power management circuits, audio and operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog converters, communication interface circuits, lighting and display circuits, adaptive voltage scaling circuits, and radio frequency integrated circuits, as well as power references, regulators, and switches. The company was founded by Arie Brish on June 29, 1959 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Hedvig, Inc. provides software defined storage solutions. It offers deployment options, management and plugins, cloudscale reference architectures and universal data plane. The firm accelerates data to value by collapsing disparate storage systems into a single platform, creating a virtualized pool. The company was founded by Avinash Lakshman and Srinivas Lakshman in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

BlueData Software, Inc. develops data private cloud for enterprises. It offers simplified data infrastructure and eliminates complexities involved with data deployments. The company was founded by Kumar Sreekanti and Thomas Phelan in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Orion Labs, Inc. engages in the development of a voice platform. The company was founded by Jesse Robbins, Greg Albrecht, and Roger Wood in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Barefoot Networks, Inc. designs and develops Ethernet switch chips. It specializes in cloud network architectures, P4-programmable high-speed data paths, switch silicon development, P4 compilers, driver software, network telemetry and computational networking. The company was founded by Martin Izzard, Patrick Bosshart, Daniel E. Lenoski and Nick McKeown in May 2013 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Intel Capital Corp (Intel Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of Intel Corp founded in 1991 by Les Vadasz, and Avram Miller. The firm is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

Part of Broadcom Inc., SiByte, Inc. develops high performance, highly integrated processor chips for networking and communications applications. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA. The company was founded by Leo Joseph, Daniel W. Dobberpuhl, Amarjit Gill. SiByte was acquired by Broadcom Corp., part of Broadcom Inc. from February 02, 2016 on December 18, 2000 for $1,381.69 million.

Frazier Technology Management LLC (Frazier Technology Ventures) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Frazier Management LLC founded in 2000. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Bahwan CyberTek Pvt Ltd. provides software products and solutions. It offers business transformation solutions for banking, financial services and insurance, government, energy and utilities and supply chain logistics and manufacturing organizations. The firm specializes product development, middleware and integration, business process management, systems integration, business intelligence, BPO, SAP consulting services, independent testing, training, consulting and infrastructure management. The company was founded by Hind Suhail Bahwan and Shanmugam Durgaprasad in 1999 and is headquartered in Chennai, India.

Frazier Technology Ventures II LP invests in companies located in the US, primarily in the Pacific Northwest region. The fund invests in wireless & mobile, software & web services, communications and networking sectors. It provides financing for seed and early stage capital requirements and makes co-investments. It also takes a seat on the board of directors.

Socrata, Inc. provides cloud solutions for open data and data-driven governments. Its products include capital projects explorer, citizen connect, insights dashboard, open finance, performance, perspectives and publica open data. The firm also offers financial insights, open data and citizen management, performance improvement and accountability solutions, blueprint and socrata support site services. The company was founded by Kevin Merritt in 2007 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Relief International operates as a non-profit organization that provides emergency, rehabilitation, and development services. It offers programs including health, shelter construction, education, community development, agriculture, food, income-generation, and conflict resolution. The company was founded by Farshad Rastegar in 1990 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Movidius, Inc. provides multimedia applications for mobile phones and other electronics. It designs compact, high-performance, ultralow power, multi-core, computational image-processor chips, software and development tools and reference designs, to revolutionize computational imaging and computer vision on mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and electronic eyewear. The company was founded by Paul Joseph Costigan, Sean Patrick Mitchell, David Macdara Moloney, and Valentin Muresan in 2005 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Bossa Nova Robotics, Inc. designs and manufactures robotic toys. The company was founded by Sarjounin Skaff and David Palmer in Febrauary 2005 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Quadgen Networks Pvt Ltd. offers voice and data system design, implementation, and management solutions. It offers managed services and staff augmentation to tier telecommunications operators and vendors. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Gooru operates as a learning platform. The private company is based in Palo Alto, CA.

EMC Ventures is a Private Equity firm, a subsidiary of Blackstone Corporate Private Equity founded in 2013. Blackstone Strategic Capital Advisors LLC is headquartered in Palo Alto.

Platform9 Systems, Inc. operates as a software service cloud platform. It offers OpenStack transforms users existing servers into self-service private cloud within minutes, enabling organizations to run private clouds. The company was founded by Sirish Raghuram, Bich Le, Madhura Maskasky and Roopak Parikh in 2013 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Portworx, Inc. provide storage, availability, data protection, data security, and cloud mobility for containers deployed in hybrid cloud architectures. It offers Portworx PWX, a container-aware infrastructure that provides software-defined scale-out block storage to containerized applications. The company was founded by Goutham Rao, Murli Thirumale and Vinoid Javaraman in 2014 and is headquartered in Los Altos, CA.

Noodle Analytics, Inc. offers pioneering business solutions. The firm provides professional services and technical solutions to innovative companies to improve customer interactions, decision making and optimize business processes via customer data analytics, product data analytics and enterprise data analytics. The company was founded by Stephen Pratt, Raj Joshi, Matt Denesuk and Ted Gaubert in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Celesta Global Capital Managers LLC (Celesta Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Michael Marks, Nicholas Brathwaite, Sriram Viswanathan and Lip-Bu Tan. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Quadgen Wireless Solutions, Inc. engages in the provision of network and engineering services. It offers radio network integration, RF optimization, carrier wifi, solutions, small cell and DAS, IP and transport network, and operation support management services. It serves telecommunications, general contractors, real estate and large enterprise, utility, sports and entertainment venues, and education industries. The company was founded by Chunduru Sambasiva Rao and Srikalahasti Mallikarjunarao Vagvala on June 20, 2007 and is headquartered in King of Prussia, PA.

ParkourSC, Inc. engages in the provision of end-to-end technology solution. It offers supply chain visibility platform which delivers complete, real-time views, and insights across the eco-system from suppliers through production and distribution to customers; and sensor data platform which focuses on Sensor Fabric product. It serves pharmaceutical, manufacturing, distribution, and food and beverage. The company was founded by Harish Sarma, Raj Kulkarni, Ravi Roopreddy and Sharath Narahari in 2014 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Clairvolex Knowledge Processes Pvt Ltd. provides global intellectual property solutions. It develops IP Asset Management (IPAM) model which is a patent life cycle management system through which the firm on behalf of its clients, manage their patent portfolio. The firm also develops internal platform Clairvolex which provides critical analytics and business intelligence to the client throughout the portfolio life cycle. The company was founded by Manoj Pillai, Arun Kumar and Sushil Kumar and is headquartered in Gurgaon, India.

Baffle, Inc. develops and offers data encryption software. The company was founded by Ameesh Divatia in 2015 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Provino Technologies, Inc. designs and develops interconnect platform for next generation SoCs targeted applications. The company was founded by Shailendra Desai and is headquartered in Santa Clara , CA.

Dell Technologies Capital (Dell Technologies Capital) is venture capital firm founded in 2012. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Movandi Corp. manufactures RF, antennas and communications systems. It offers wireless, fixed wireless, mobile wireless, millimeter wave 5G and wireless broadband products. The company was founded by Maryam Rofougaran and Reza Rofougaran and is headquartered in Newport Beach, CA.

Agastya International Foundation, founded in 2011, engages in science education programming activities for children. The private company is based in Bangalore, India.

Recogni, Inc. engages in designing and developing an artificial intelligence system for vehicles. Its platform focuses on real-time object recognition that allows vehicles to see farther and make driving decisions. The company was founded by R. K. Anand, Ashwini Choudhary, Gilles Backhus, Eugene M. Feinberg, and Valerie Chan in 2017 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Quartic.ai Canada, Inc. designs and develops an artificial intelligence and IIoT industry platform for process manufacturing industries implementing digital transformation with AI and IIoT. The firm offers Quartic platform. The company was founded by Ashish Kumar Bhardwaj, Pranav Prakash and Rajiv Anand in 2017 and is headquartered in Oakville, Canada.

Nuvia, Inc. develops silicon chips and CPU products. The company was founded by Gerard Williams III, Manu Gulati and John Bruno in 2019 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Stealth Startup Solutions LLC engages in provision of consulting services. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Auradine, Inc. is a company that specializes in web infrastructure solutions with a focus on blockchain, AI, and security. Auradine is based in Santa Clara, CA. The company is developing innovative software, hardware, and cloud solutions to create a highly scalable, sustainable, and secure infrastructure. The company was founded in 2022 by a team of experienced entrepreneurs and technologists with expertise in security, SaaS, semiconductors, and systems. The company was founded by Patrick Xu, Barun Kar, Rajiv Khemani. Rajiv Khemani has been the CEO since incorporation.