Stephen Difranco

ATI Technologies, Inc. designs, makes and, sells graphics accelerators and multimedia solutions. It offers visual and graphics processors for displaying images on personal computer monitors. It also supplies graphics, video and, multimedia products for desktop, workstation & notebook personal computers, digital televisions, cell phones, and game consoles. The company sells its products through personal computer original equipment manufacturers, system integrators, add-in board manufacturers, retail stores & consumer electronics manufacturers in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. The firm was founded by Kwok Yuen Ho in 1985 and is located in Markham, Canada.

Anzu Partners LLC (Anzu Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by David Michael and David Seldin. The firm is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

Skyhive Technologies, Inc. provides artificial technology platform for workforce reskilling and upskilling. It employs real-time labour market intelligence to help enterprises build their future workforces through talent acquisition, peer mentorship, career pathways, training & development, data & analytics, and workforce planning. The company was founded by Sean Hinton and Sergiy Osypchuk in 2017 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Axelera AI BV is a Dutch company that provides advanced solutions for AI at the edge. The company's Metis AI platform is a hardware and software solution that enables computer vision applications to become more accessible, powerful, and user-friendly. The company is headquartered in the AI innovation center of the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Netherlands, with R&D offices in other countries and more than 130 employees in 15 countries. Axelera AI offers scalable solutions that can be easily integrated into any system, delivering scalable, flexible, GPU-like acceleration within limited budgets. The company was founded in 2019 by Cyril Vancura, Fabrizio del Maffeo, Evangelos Eleftheriou, and Fabrizio del Maffeo has been the CEO since 2019.

Electric Last Mile, Inc. operates as micro mobility company. The company is headquartered in Auburn Hills, MI.

Encharge AI, Inc. is a leader in advanced AI hardware and software systems for edge computing. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA. The company's robust and scalable next-generation in-memory computing technology provides orders-of-magnitude higher compute efficiency and density compared to today's solutions. Encharge AI launched in 2022 and is led by veteran technologists with backgrounds in semiconductor design and AI systems. Encharge AI's high-performance solutions will enable the immense potential of AI to be accessible at scale, in power, energy, and space constrained applications. The company was founded by Kailash Gopalakrishnan, Echere Iroaga, Naveen Verma. Naveen Verma has been the CEO since incorporation.

AM Batteries, Inc. is a company that focuses on higher throughput dry-electrode manufacturing for lithium-ion batteries. The company is based in Acton, MA. The company's technology completely eliminates solvent recovery and electrode drying, which can reduce the energy consumption of a battery plant by more than 40%% and save up to 40%% in capital expenditures in electrode manufacturing, while reducing the plants carbon footprint by nearly 40%%. Yan Wang has been the CEOs since incorporation. The company was founded by Yan Wang, Heng Pan.

Liquid Instruments Pty Ltd. engages in the manufacturing of precision measurement and gravitational wave detector instrumentation. It also offers hardware and software. The company was founded by Daniel Shaddock, Magnus Hsu, David Rabeling and Danielle Wuchenich in 2014 and is headquartered in Acton, Australia.

South 8 Technologies, Inc. has developed a novel liquefied gas electrolyte, Ligas®, to power the next generation of lithium-ion batteries and advance the world's clean energy future. The company is based in San Diego, CA. Its patented technology enables a substantial increase in energy, improved safety, and an exceptionally wide operating temperature. Leveraging conventional materials and manufacturing, South 8 Technologies offers a unique solution for a variety of e-mobility, energy storage, and industrial applications. The company was founded in 2016 as a spin-out of UC where the founding team developed its breakthrough new liquefied gas electrolyte (Ligas®) chemistry for next-generation lithium batteries. Cyrus Rustomji and Jungwoo Lee founded the company in 2015, and Cyrus Rustomji has been the CEO since then.

Niron Magnetics, Inc. creates novel advanced materials for the magnetics industry based on proprietary scientific and technological advances. The company was founded by Francis Thibodeau and is headquartered in East Palo Alto, 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.

NetOctave, Inc. develops and manufactures security processors and accelerator boards and cards including silicon based network security solutions for the SSL, IPsec and IP storage markets. Its security processors and add-in cards provide scalable, turnkey security for OEM customers. The company's OEM solutions enable networking system companies to meet customers growing need for wire-speed SSL and IPsec security protocol implementations. The company is headquartered in Morrisville, NC

Part of Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc., Skyhive Technologies Holdings, Inc. is an artificial intelligence company that optimizes the world's transition from jobs-based to skills-based, essential to workforce transformation. The company is based in Palo Alto, CA. The company was founded by Mohan Reddy and Sean Hinton. The CEO is Sean Hinton. Skyhive Technologies Holdings was acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc. on May 22, 2024.