Edward A. Wagner

Centigram Communications Corp. designs and manufactures systems and software for users to access a broad range communications applications. The company is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

LTX Corp. manufactures semiconductor test equipment. The company is headquartered in Norwood, MA.

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.

Part of Applied Materials, Inc., Opal, Inc. is a private company that makes electronic microscope systems used in manufacturing integrated circuits. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA. Opal was acquired by Orion Corp I on January 10, 1997 for $175 million.

VoiceFlash Networks, Inc. develops and markets speech recognition technology software. The company was founded on October 11, 1995 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, FL.

Portal Software, Inc. provides accounting services. The firm offers billing and revenue management solutions for the communications and media companies. The company provides platform for the end-to-end management of customer revenue across offerings, channels, and geographies. The company was founded by John E. Little in 1985 and is located in Cupertino, CA.

Redback Networks, Inc. designs, develops, and builds routers. It offers services like VoIP, IPTV, on-demand video, and online gaming. The firm's products enable carriers & service providers to deploy broadband Internet access. The company was founded is headquartered in Dover, DE.

Vitria Technology, Inc. develops software platforms for real time e-business. It offers VIA IoT analytics platform, IoT analytics paaS, operational intelligence and businessware as products. It provides enterprise application integration software that works to integrate dissimilar software platforms and computer hardware with the Internet. The company was founded by JoMei Chang and Dale Skeen in 1994 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

ActiveVideo Networks, Inc. provides a web-based programming platform. It offers CloudTV, a cloud-based software platform that enables service providers, and content aggregators to virtualize CPE functions in the cloud for the purposes of delivering next-generation user interfaces, online content, and interactive advertising for television to set-tops and connected devices. The company was founded by Leo W. Hoarty in 1988 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Finjan Software, Inc. provided web security solutions and also offers web and email content security in the world. Its solutions provided unified web security by combining productivity, liability and bandwidth control via URL categorization, content caching and applications control technologies. The firm enabled quick deployment, simplified management and reduction of operational costs. The company was founded by Shlomo Touboul in 1996 and was headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Part of Cohu, Inc., Optonics, Inc. develops integrated solutions used for emission-based optical diagnostics and failure analysis for advanced semiconductor products. The company is based in Mountain View, CA. The company was founded by Israel Niv, Nader Pakdaman, James S. Vickers. Optonics was acquired by Credence Systems Corp. on January 22, 2003 for $17.52 million.

T.M.T., Inc. designs and manufactures automatic test equipment for volume producers of RF/wireless, mixed-signal and linear semiconductor devices. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Sacramento, CA.

Pentagon Technologies Group, Inc. provides manufacturing support services, contamination detection, and protection products to the semiconductor, microelectronic and solar industries. It offers QIII surface particle detectors, fan filter units, and shield systems. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Hayward, CA.

MySQL AB develops and markets open source database server software solutions. Its products include MySQL Standard Edition, MySQL Enterprise Edition, and MySQL Cluster. The company was founded by David Axmark, Allan Larsson, and Michael Widenius in 1995 and is Headquartered in Solna, Sweden.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Exponential Interactive, Inc. engages in the provision of advertising intelligence and digital media solutions to brand advertisers. Its solutions also include brand intelligence, consumer targeting, and user engagement enable brand advertisers to learn, reach, and engage audience through emotive advertising, analyze, and refine their marketing campaigns. The company was founded by Dilip S. DaSilva in 2001 and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

Hercules Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Scott Harvey, Manuel Henriquez, and Roy Liu. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

DataStax, Inc. designs and develops database management software. Its products include DataStax enterprise, built on Cassandra which provides the massive scalability, continuous availability and enhanced data security big data applications demand, DataStax opscenter is a simplified management for DataStax enterprise and Apache Cassandra database clusters and DataStax sandbox is a packaged and personal virtual machine image that contains everything customer need to get started with DataStax software. The firm also offers training, consulting and support services. The company was founded by Jonathan Ellis and Matt Pfeil in 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

AEON Biopharma Sub, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company. It focuses on developing a proprietary botulinum toxin complex, ABP-450, for debilitating medical conditions, with an initial focus on the neurology and gastroenterology markets. The company was founded by Robert E. Grant on February 24, 2012 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, CA.