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Sun Microsystems, Inc. provides network computing infrastructure solutions. It offers its solutions under the Java technology platform, Solaris Operating System, MySQL database management system, Sun StorageTek storage solutions, and UltraSPARC processor brands. The company also develops networking computing products and technologies which include servers, storage, open source software, tools, and training. The company provides solutions to the social networking, entertainment, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, news, energy, and engineering companies. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLC (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins, Brook Byers and Frank J. Caufield. The firm is headquartered in California, US.

SpikeSource, Inc. provides testing and certified open source software solutions. The firm offers a platform that assembles, tests, packages, certifies, updates open source and other software solutions. The company was founded by Murugan Pal, Kim K. Polese and Raymond J. Lane in 2003 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

MetaRAM, Inc. provides semiconductor memory performance technology. It products are designed for rack-mount servers and workstations that run compute-intensive applications such as CAD/EDA simulations, database transaction processing, business intelligence, digital content creation and virtualization. The company was founded in september, 2005 by Fred Weber and Suresh Rajan and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

The Aspen Institute operates an institution that fosters leadership skills and open-minded dialogue. It conducts seminars, policy programs, conferences and leadership development initiatives, the Institute and its international partners seek to promote nonpartisan inquiry. The company was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

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.

Siluria Technologies, Inc. develops and manufactures a direct chemical process for plastics and fuels from natural gas. Its second process technology can convert ethylene to liquid fuels such as gasoline, diesel or jet fuel. The firm’s revolutionary catalyst technologies uniquely combine nanomaterials, biotechnology and chemical engineering, to convert an abundant, ubiquitous, and inexpensive feedstock into high value, drop-in fuels and chemicals using processes that can be seamlessly integrated into existing industry infrastructure. The company was founded by Clinton Whitewood Bybee and Alexander Tkachenko in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, 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.