Venkat Baladhandapani

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.

VeriFone, Inc. designs and manufactures transaction automation systems. The company was founded by William Melton on April 14, 1981 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

MIPS Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of intellectual property processor architectures and cores. Its products include Warrior M-Class, Warrior I-Class, Warrior-P Class, AptiveGeneration, and microMIPS ISA. The company was founded by John L. Hennessy in 1984 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Part of HCL Technologies Ltd., HCL Technologies America, Inc. is a technology company that employs over 225,000 people in 60 countries. HCL Technologies America is based in Sunnyvale, CA. The company's focus is on supercharging progress for top enterprises by combining technology with their skilled workforce.

OptiSoft, Inc. designs and manufactures traffic and pedestrian signal platforms which reduce energy costs by 95% and has embedded video cameras that provide 4-way intersection monitoring, and a number of upgradeable traffic safety improvements and homeland security features that increase public safety. The company was founded by Michael Hutchison in 1997 and is located in Richardson, TX.

Personify, Inc. (Illinois) provides video communication solutions. Its products include ChromaCam, Fusion, and Presenter. The company was founded by Minh N. Do, Quang Nguyen, Sanjay Jeram Patel, Wen-Mei Hwu and Dennis Lin in 2010 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Palmchip Corp. provides software and cloud based smartgrid applications. It offers cyber security, secure SOC platforms, and secure mobile apps. The company was founded by Jauher Zaidi in 1996 and is headquartered in Fallbrook, CA.

Celox Networks, Inc. provides network related hardware and software. The private company is based in St. Louis, MO. The company was founded by Manju V. Hegde, Curtis Davis.

Larsen & Toubro Infotech LLC engages in the provision of information technology support services and solutions. The firm provides its services and solutions to banking, financial, insurance, energy, petrochemicals, manufacturing, media and entertainment, telecom-product engineering and other emerging vertical industries. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Edison, NJ.

MinMax Technologies, Inc. provides software-based productivity tools for utilities managing assets for substations, transmission and distribution operations. It offers substation maintenance and asset reliability tracking tool (SMART) design as a complete asset management and inspection system for substation operators by substation professionals. The company was founded by Nand Singh in 2007 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Cadence, Inc. manufactures and designs cutting and piercing instruments. Its products include advanced surgical, custom OEM products, specialty blades-custom, specialty blades catalog, and cadence science catalog. The company was founded by Martin F. Lightsey in 1985 and is headquartered in Staunton, VA.

Pratham USA provides contributions and support services. It focuses on innovative interventions to address gaps in the education system. The firm is a volunteer-driven organization with 14 chapters across the United States that raises awareness and mobilize financial resources for work on the ground. The company was founded by Vijay Goradia, Farida Lambay and Madhav Chavan in 1999 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

SoftRisk Technologies Ltd. develops software. It also develops emergency management system called SoftRisk that helps reduce risks to people, property and the environment from the full range of natural and human-induced emergencies and disasters. The company was founded by Williams and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

TiE Silicon Valley is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1992 by entrepreneurs and executives of South Asian origin. The non-profit company is based in Santa Clara, CA. The company is dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship through mentoring, networking, education, incubating, and funding programs and activities. TiE events bring together the entrepreneurial community to learn from leaders and each other. The economic value enabled through TiE's entrepreneurial endeavors is estimated to exceed over time.

Inspirit IoT, Inc. delivers general-purpose High-Level Synthesis (HLS) with a focus on Machine-Learning and FPGA-based accelerators for IoT devices, cloud vendors and data centers. The company is headquartered in Champaign, IL.

3i Partners (3i Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Kumar Ganapathy. 3i Partners is headquartered in Los Altos, California.