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Chelsio Communications, Inc. provides high-speed protocol-acceleration products. It is a technology company focused on solving high performance networking and storage challenges for virtualized enterprise data centers, cloud service installations and cluster computing environments. The firm delivers hardware and software solutions including unified wire ethernet network adapter cards, unified storage software, high performance storage gateways, unified management software, bypass cards and other solutions focused on specialized applications. The company was founded by Kianoosh Naghshineh in 1997 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Aeluros, Inc. manufactures semiconductor devices. It focuses on high-performance, high-density physical layer solutions in mainstream CMOS technology for the datacom and storage markets. The was founded by Stefanos Sidiropoulos, Marc Loinaz, Haw-Jyh Liaw, and Nader Gamini in June 2001 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Aquantia Corp. engages in design, development, and marketing of communications integrated circuits for ethernet connectivity in the data center, enterprise infrastructure, and access markets. Its products include Aquantia AQrate PHYs, Multi-Gig Phys, and AQtion AQC107. The company was founded by Ramin Shirani, Phillippe Delansay and Ramin Farjad-Rad on January 27, 2004 and is headquartered in San Jones, CA.

SiBEAM is a privately-held fabless semiconductor company and founding member of the WirelessHD™ Consortium. A pioneer in developing intelligent millimeter wave technologies for wireless communications, SiBEAM is the first to build 60GHz chipsets using standard CMOS technology. The first applications for the company's innovative technology are based on the WirelessHD™ specification for home multimedia content delivery and A/V connectivity. SiBEAM is a global leader in driving the architecture and semiconductor implementation for the distribution and presentation of high-definition content in the consumer electronics and personal computing markets. Solutions for wireless personal area networks (WPAN) and WLAN automotive will follow. The company is actively involved in organizations leading the next-generation of digital home connectivity, including IEEE, CEA and MPAA The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in San Diego, Seoul and Tokyo.

RingThree Technologies, Inc. provides software solutions. It offers innovative virtualization technologies for the deployment of enterprise solutions. The company is located in Mountain View, CA.

SuVolta, Inc. develops and licenses scalable semiconductor technologies. It also develops deeply depleted channel technology that provides significant power and performance benefits to integrated circuits and that is fabricated in conventional CMOS. DDC transistor technology enables scaling of two of the most critical transistor parameters supply voltage and transistor. The firm's technology enables the reduction of both leakage power and active power consumption, primarily by addressing transistor threshold voltage (VT) variation and carrier mobility issues. The company was founded in February 2006 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, CA.

Rinera Networks, Inc. provides internet video distribution services. Its products are used in live delivery of events, linear programming, on-demand and user-generated videos. The company was founded by Hui Zhang and Ion Stoica in 2006 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

RingCube Technologies, Inc. provides personalized solution for virtual desktops. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Aprius is a venture-backed company developing technology to bring the performance advantage of PCIe Express to the Ethernet network. Aprius technology extends a server's internal PCIe bus out over the Ethernet network, enabling groups of servers to access and share network-attached pools of PCIe Express devices at near-native PCIe performance levels. Aprius technology enables server vendors to build dense slot-less servers with virtual I/O by connecting the servers to needed PCIe devices such as SAN HBAs, Disk Controllers, and PCIe SSDs over the Ethernet fabric. Aprius gives data center managers dedicated PCIe performance but with the economics of sharing, and allows a broad range of applications with varying I/O needs to be virtualized on cost-effective and homogeneous server infrastructure, reducing costs by nearly 50%.

Serious Energy, Inc. sells manufacturers, and delivers acoustical and thermal solutions. It provides services through its QuietRock and iWindow brands. The company was founded by Marc U. Porat in 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Bandgap Engineering, Inc. develops renewable energy technologies. It provides photovoltaic and storage batteries. The firm engages in nano-structuring silicon and applying these technologies to photovoltaic systems and lithium ion batteries. It also provides nanotechnology based photovoltaic solar cells. The company was founded by Chris Hobson and Marcie R. Black in 2007 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

Azuray Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures solar power electronics solutions. Azuray’s line of products include the AP250 and AP260 MPPT power optimizers, the AP300 smart junction box, the AC160 solar module performance monitor and the ACM300 communications gateway. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Durham, OR.

AstroWatt, Inc. develops thin crystalline solar cell technology. The firms technology creates an ultra-thin crystalline silicon cell with zero wafer handling or breakage concerns. The company was founded by Dharmesh Jawarani and Leo Mathew in 2006 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Svaya Nanotechnologies, Inc. develops and manufactures multifunction polyfilms. It offers filters, optics, nanoparticles, polymers and surface engineering services. The firm’s technology is a molecular self-assembly process that produces uniform films on large area substrates. The company was founded by Benjamin Wang, Erik Allen and Kevin Krogman in 2008 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Sentons, Inc. operates as a fables semiconductor company and develops multi-touch sensors. It offers zero-deflection force sensing, large multi-touch screens, and sonapen. The company was founded by Shih-Ming Shih and Samuel W. Sheng in 2011 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Graphite Systems, Inc. develops storage technology solutions. The company was founded by Frederic Roy and Mark Himelstein and is headquartered in Lehi, UT.

Kumu Networks, Inc. designs and manufactures wireless systems using full-duplex wireless design technology. Its wireless full-duplex allows a radio to transmit and receive signals at the same time using a single frequency channel. The company was founded by Jung-il Choi, Philip Levis, Sachin Katti, Steven Hong, Mayank Jain and Jeffrey A. Mehlman in 2012 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Bitglass, Inc. provides transparent protection and security solution for mobile access of corporate data. It solutions include cloud security and encryption, mobile security, and breach discovery. Its products include Office 365, Google apps, salesforce, Amazon, exchange, box, dpopbox, slack, and JIRA. The company was founded by Balas Natarajan Kausik and Anurag Kahol in 2013 is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Qualcomm Atheros, Inc. provides wireless and wired technologies for the mobile, networking, computing and consumer electronics markets. The company was founded in May 1998 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

New Enterprise Associates LLC (New Enterprise Associates) is a venture capital firm founded in 1977. The firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Viking Enterprise Solutions engages in designing, manufacture and sale of data center products. It offers storage expansion product platforms for performance, space efficiency, storage application platforms for server and storage integration. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Nanochip, Inc. developed data storage devices. It specialized in the development of MEMS storage chips for consumer electronic applications. The company was founded in 1996 and was headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Data Domain LLC provides deduplication storage systems for disk backup, data archiving, disaster recovery and remote office data protection applications. The company was founded in October 2001 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Foveon, Inc. engages in the design and development of image sensors and image capture systems. The firm offers digital single lens reflex and pro, CMOS, and direct image sensors. The company was founded by Jan-Dieter Spalink, Brian Gullette Richard B. Merrill, K. Michael Munsch and Carver A. Mead in August 1997 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

T-RAM Semiconductor, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets embedded memory IP solutions. The company was founded by Farid Nemati and Robert Homan Igehy in 2000 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

E2open LLC provides solutions for supply chain management. It serves the pharmaceutical, consumer goods, industrial manufacturing and automotive sectors. The firm’s solutions include channel data management, inventory visibility, sourcing and procurement. The company was founded by John B. Mumford in July 2000 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

National Laboratory Partners LLC provides laboratory home care services. It provides services in clinical, cytological, surgical pathology, and anatomic pathology. The company operates a reference testing laboratory and patient service centers. National Laboratory Partners is headquartered in New York, NY.

Arch Rock is a pioneer in IP-based wireless sensor network technology, connecting the physical and digital worlds. They help customers achieve their energy efficiency goals through real-time visibility and analysis from fine-grained electrical, environmental and thermal sensor data. Its 'no wires' networked sensing approach eliminates costly wiring barriers to deployment. They make the benefits of detailed energy and environmental analysis possible without the previously daunting aspects of deploying the corresponding instrumentation. They also uniquely maintain an end-to-end open standards approach with IP-based networking throughout and with open IT data access paradigms. This enables its customers to analyze their energy-related and environmental sensing data in broader context with the rest of their enterprise data, to reveal further insights and benefits than would be available when the sensor data is kept isolated. The Arch Rock founding team pioneered the research and development of wireless sensor networking and its integration into enterprise data management. Its combination of real-world know-how, technical expertise, and visionary insight drives its mission to expand the Internet with awareness of the physical world of matter, space, and time. The company has a demonstrated track record of bringing innovative solutions to a wide range of application domains from emergency response, rail transportation, and retail asset tracking, to Brownfield's monitoring, street-side services and precision agriculture; and now in the vital new application area of commercial building energy optimization.

Part of The National Academies of Science, the National Academy of Engineering operates as a professional membership organization. The private company is based in Washington.

Fusion-io LLC developed solid-state architecture and input and output solutions. It provided next generation datacenter solutions that accelerate databases, virtualization, cloud computing, big data, and the applications to drive business from the smallest e-tailers to largest data centers and social media leaders. The company was founded on December 23, 2005 by David A. Flynn and Rick C. White and was headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

illumitex, Inc. Designs and develops semiconductors and light-emitting diode (LED) technology. The firm offers eclipse, neosol DS, LS, NS, cirrus high bay, corona CS, power control, harvest and proflex products. The company was founded by Duong Tien Dung on March 1, 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Conviva, Inc. engages in the provision of online video optimization and online video analytics. The firm helps operators and broadcasters to meet audience expectations for video experience, across a multi-screen viewing environment. The company was founded by Hui Zhang and Ion Stoica in 2006 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

Solar Junction Corp. manufactures solar cells and receivers for the terrestrial concentrated photovoltaic market. Its products include triple junction solar cells, four junction solar cells. The firm engages in developing and manufacturing next-generation solar cells for space power applications. Solar Junction was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

NovaTorque, Inc. manufactures electric motors for a variety of different applications. It offers NovaMAX motors, an electronically commutated permanent magnet motors. Its products designed for air handling, pump, data centers, conveyors, general industrial, and other applications. The company was founded by Ken G. Wasson, Don Burch, and John Petro in 2005 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

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.

Terrajoule Corp. provides energy storage solutions. It distributes solar energy with proprietary power and storage technology. The firm develops applications in the industrial and agricultural sectors. The company was founded by Stephen James Bisset, Robert Charles Mierisch, and David Henkel-Wallace in 2009 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

QBotix, Inc. manufactures robot-enabled dual-axis solar tracking systems. The company is an optimized solar PV tracker company that delivers innovative robotic and tracking solutions in the commercial and utility-scale solar sectors. Its products include solbot is a mobile robot that automatically travels to trackers to make adjustments; manages PV array; and provides real-time information to optimize solar arrays. In addition, it offers trackers; and tracks that provide the travel path for the robot and robotic tracking system is an optimized, dual-axis tracking system that maximizes energy production. QBotix was founded by Wasiq Bokhari and Thomas Currier in August 2010 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Turi, Inc. operates a platform for building predictive and intelligent applications. It offers GraphLab Create is a machine learning platform that enables data scientists and app developers to easily create intelligent apps at scale. The company also offers data engineering, data intelligence and deployment services. Turi was founded by Joseph E. Gonzalez, Jay Gu, Danny Bickson and Carlos Ernesto Guestrin in 2009 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Luminate Wireless, Inc. develops mobile cloud controller software solutions. The firm builds a transformative web-scale distributed computing platform that will enable mobile operators to rapidly densify networks and deploy new services. The company was founded by Murari Srinivasan and Kevin Yu in September 2013 and is headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

Branch Metrics, Inc. provides deep linking technology to mobile application developers. It offers organic growth, higher activation rates, paid growth optimization and web to application optimization services. The company was founded by Mada Seghete, Alexander Austin, Mike Molinet and Dmitri Gaskin in May 2014 and is headquartered in Redwood city, CA.

Timescale, Inc. extracts Insights from device data. Its time-series database and visualization tool designed for connected hardware. The company was founded by Ajay Kulkarni and Ajay Kulkarni and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Smartcar, Inc. operates a software platform for car services. The company was founded by Sanketh Katta and Sahas Katta and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Built Robotics, Inc. provides computer integrated systems design services. The firm specializes in robotics, autonomous vehicles, construction, artificial intelligence, machine learning and autonomy. The company was founded by Andrew Liang, Juan Sebastian Jurado and Noah Ready-Cambel in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Pacific Light & Hologram, Inc. engages in provision of electronic machines. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in South Pasadena, CA.

Beyond Identity, Inc. engages in the provision of computer and network security services. Its products include SSO and SDK-based integration. It enables customers to increase business velocity, implement new business models, reduce operating costs, and achieve complete password less identity management. The company was founded by James H. Clark and Thomas A. Jermoluk in 2019 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Ketra, Inc. provides lighting solutions to retail, hospitality, and office spaces. Its products include luminaires, lamps, interfaces, controls and integration. The company was founded by Horace Ho and David J. Knapp in 2009 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Mimosa Networks, Inc. engages in the provision of wireless broadband solutions that delivers connectivity to service providers and enterprise, industrial and government operators. It offers point to point, point to multipoint, antennas, and accessories. The company was founded by Brian L. Hinman, Tabetha Hinman, and Jaime Fink in 2012 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.