Itamar Heim

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.

Tekelec Global, Inc. provides mobile broadband solutions. The company was founded by Jean-Claude Asscher in December 1971 and was headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

VGO Communications, Inc. develops and markets robotic telepresence solutions for healthcare, education and the workplace. It develops automated robotic solutions for material handling, enterprise patient engagement solutions for healthcare, and funded research and development for technical challenges. The company was founded by Timothy D. Root, Grinnell More and Thomas Ryden in 2007 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Part of Motorola Solutions, Inc., Cayman Systems, Inc. develops and supplies business class ADSL and ethernet routers. The company is based in Billerica, MA. Cayman Systems was acquired by Netopia, Inc. on October 12, 2001 for $10.20 million.

Harmon.ie Corp. provides software solutions. It empowers the digital workplace by delivering the single-screen contextual workstream today’s tech-saturated users demand and giving companies a way to securely support their employees’ changing work dynamic, the firm now delivers the seamless user experience needed to increase productivity and collaboration and to make the right business decisions anytime, anywhere and on any device. The company was founded by Yaacov Cohen, David Lavenda and Roy Sheinfeld in 1993 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Circadiant Systems, Inc. provides optical test systems. Its products include Hydra SFP+, Hydra MTS, OST-ST, and OST -RW. The company was founded by John S. French and Willam J. Thompson in 2000 and is headquartered in Allentown, PA.

Micropolis Corp. manufactures hard drives. The American company was founded by William J. Gervais.

Beacon Angels Services LLC (Beacon Angels) is a ventures capital firm founded in 2006 by Daniel S. Von Kohorn and William F. Swiggart. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Ras Labs, Inc. develops tactile sensors for robotic grippers. The private company is based in Boston, MA. The company was founded by Lenore Rasmussen. The CEO is Peter N. Vicars.