Konstantin Othmer

Ascend Communications Inc. develops, manufactures, sells and services wide area networking solutions for telecommunications carriers, Internet service providers and corporate customers worldwide. Lucent Technologies has acquired Ascend Communications, Inc.

Stratus Computer, Inc. designed and serviced computer systems. It was a producer of fault tolerant mainframe computers. Its traditional markets were financial services companies like banks and security exchanges. The firm was located in Maynard, MA.

CEPHEID develops, manufactures and markets fully-integrated systems that perform genetic analysis. The firm's systems enable molecular testing for organisms and genetic-based diseases by automating otherwise complex manual laboratory procedures. The company was founded by Thomas L. Gutshall, William McMillan, Kurt Petersen, Greg Kovacs and M. Allen Northrup on March 4, 1996 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Carrier iQ, Inc. provides mobile service intelligence solutions that use mobile devices to deliver insight into the mobile experience for network operators and device manufacturers. It offers IQ Insight device analyzer that accelerates the mobile service and mobile device pre-launch activities at wireless carriers and mobile device vendors and IQ Insight data card analyzer, which gives users the information to troubleshoot, analyze, and optimize mobile data card population. The company was founded by Konstantin Othmer and Bruce Leak in 2005 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Dokkio, Inc. provides hosted collaboration solutions for businesses and education workspaces. The firm offers across-platform, auto-classification, tagging and search products. It offers creative agencies, business development, marketing, professional and project management services. The company was founded by Nathan Schmidt, Ramit Singh Sethi, David E. Weekly and Chris Yeh in 2005 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.