Bryan Kang

HGST, a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC), develops innovative, advanced hard disk drives, enterprise-class solid state drives, external storage solutions and services used to store, preserve and manage the world’s most valued data. HGST addresses customers’ rapidly changing storage needs by delivering intelligent storage devices that tightly integrate hardware and software to maximize solution performance. Founded by the pioneers of hard drives, HGST provides high-value storage for a broad range of market segments, including Enterprise, Cloud, Data Center, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Personal Storage. HGST was established in 2003 and maintains its U.S. headquarters in San Jose, California.

Part of Motorola Solutions, Inc., Motorola Semiconducteurs SA is an American company that manufactures semiconductors and related products. The company is based in San Francisco, CA.

Kenet, Inc. designs semiconductor devices. The company was founded by Michael P. Anthony, John C.C. Fan, Paul J. Mitchellin and Gerhard Sollner in April 2002 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Tanvas, Inc. provides technology services. It specializes in haptic touchscreen, surface haptics, touch experience and haptic technologies. The comapny was founded by Michael A. Peshkin and Edward J. Colgate in 2011 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

NanoLock Security Ltd. develops technology to protect currently unprotected IoT devices. The company was founded by Eran Fine, Amir Sadeh, Erez Kreiner and Oren Shlomo and is headquartered in Nitzanei Oz, Israel.

Seven Rocks LLC is a private company based in Los Gatos, CA. Seven Rocks LLC was founded by Kevin Conley. The CEO is Tanya Chuang Conley.

Corsair Components, Inc. develops and manufactures high-performance gear and technology for gamers, content creators, and PC enthusiasts. It offers DDR3 memory upgrades, USB flash drives and power supply units. The company was founded by Andrew J. Paul, John S. Beekley and Donald A. Lieberman in 1994 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Applied Brain Research, Inc. is a Canadian AI design company that creates low-power embedded AI systems for various devices such as smartphones, drones, robots, cars, cameras, clothing, wearables, and sensors. The private company is based in Waterloo, Canada and was founded by Peter Suma, Xuan Choo, Terry Stewart, Travis DeWolf, Daniel Rasmussen, Trevor Bekolay, Chris Eliasmith. The company discovered an AI time-series processing algorithm called the Legendre Memory Unit (LMU) which outperforms LSTMs and transformers on time-series applications by a factor of 10x. ABR's AI chips and software are inspired by the efficiency of brain circuits and backed by neuroscientists and AI engineers. ABR has used the LMU to create an ultra-efficient time series processor chip which will be available in 2023. ABR is a leading company in edge artificial intelligence (AI) with proprietary hardware and software for AI-enabled products. Kevin Conley has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. manufactures and designs micro controllers, processors and semiconductors. The company was founded in 1948 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Cumbre Pharmaceuticals, Inc. discovers, develops, and markets anti-infective products for the treatment of serious and life-threatening infections, particularly caused by antibiotic resistant pathogens. Cumbre Pharmaceuticals was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX

Knupath, Inc. provides hardware architecture services for neural computing. The private company is based in Austin.

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.

Druva, Inc. provides advanced data protection solutions. The firm offers cloud backup and restore, cloud-native disaster recovery, architecture, ransomware protection and compliance monitoring services. It serves the life sciences, government, high tech, manufacturing and education industries. The company was founded by Milind Borate, Ramani Kothandaraman and Jaspreet Singh in 2007 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Reltio, Inc. provides enterprise data-driven applications and modern data management services. The firm?s products include cloud master data management, reference data management, workflow and collaboration, data as a service, reltio IQ and data-driven applications. It also provides solutions in the areas of key account management, cloud master data management, mergers and acquisitions and data monetization. The company was founded by Manish Sood and Anastasia Zamyshlyaeva in 2011 and is headquartered in Redwood Shores, CA.

ClearDB, Inc. develops cloud-based data services platform for enterprises. The company was founded by Cashton Coleman and is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Matterport Operating, Inc. operates as a spatial data company that focuses on digitizing and indexing the built world. Its products include 3D content platform, pro2 3D camera, 360 cameras, virtual reality and mobile apps. The firm serves residential real estate, engineering and construction, travel and hospitality and commercial real estate sectors. The company was founded by Michael Beebe, Matthew Bell and David Gausebeck in 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Pavilion Data Systems, Inc. designs and develops NVMe-oF storage technologies. Its NVMe-over-Fabric Storage Array ingests, processes, stores, and serves an order of magnitude more data for massively-parallel, modern applications. The company was founded by Kiran Malwankar, V. R. Satish, and Sundar Kanthadai in 2014 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Druva Technologies Pte Ltd. provides advanced data protection solutions. The company is headquartered in Singapore.

The Multiple Sclerosis Society is an organization that aims to find treatments for everyone affected by multiple sclerosis. The non-profit company is based in London, UK. The British company offers award-winning publications, factsheets, and booklets through their online shop. The society conducts surveys to shape the future direction of MS research, with the latest survey held in 2022 with over 6,500 participants. The company's current focus is on the STARMS trial, which compares HSCT with other highly effective treatments for relapsing MS. The treatment involves using chemotherapy to remove harmful immune cells and regrow the immune system using the patient's own stem cells. Nick Moberly has been the CEO of the company since 2019.

Artiman Management LLC (Artiman Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Amit Dilip Shah. The firm is headquartered in East Palo Alto, California.

Indico Data Solutions, Inc. engages in the development of intelligent process automation solutions. Its products include Indico Discover, Indico Review, Indico Teach, and Indico Enterprise AI APIs. The company was founded by Slater Victoroff, May Madison, Diana Yuan, and Alec Radford in 2014 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.