Michael J. Buehler-Garcia

Synergy Semiconductor Corp. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits using its proprietary Bipolar and BiCMOS processes. Its products include digital logic for advanced system applications, precision mixed-signal time-clock generators for workstations and telecommunication systems, and mixed-signal communications circuits for local and wide area networks. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

GEC, Inc. provides engineering consulting services. The firm offers engineering and design, environmental sciences and engineering, planning services, coastal sciences and engineering, construction services, GIS mapping, and project management. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Baton Rouge, LA.

Clear Shape Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures semiconductor. Its products transform ideal-GDSII design to true silicon-accurate design by quickly and accurately accounting for systematic manufacturing variations due to lithography, RET, OPC and Copper on both device and interconnect. The company was founded by Thomas Kailath in 2003 and is located in Santa Clara, CA.

Sirific Wireless Ltd. designs and develops RF transceiver integrated circuits. It offers digital direct conversion, transmitter, and transceiver. The company was founded by Tazinder Manku in 2000 and is located in Waterloo, CA.

Global Equipment Services & Manufacturing, Inc. provides outsourced service solutions to the high tech equipment markets. The firm’s services include design engineering, contract manufacturing, field service, software, and after market service. It also offers worldwide design, engineering field support, and manufacturing services to the semiconductor, solar, FPD production equipment, and semiconductor manufacturing industries. The company was founded by Don V. Tran in 2006 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Cogenra Solar, Inc. manufactures photovoltaic panels and systems. It offers T14 low concentration photovoltaic (LCPV) system that combines dense cell interconnect (DCI) technology. The company was founded by Gilad Almogy in 2009 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Mars, Inc. engages in the production of confectionery and animal food products. Its brands include M&M?s, Snickers, Twix, Milky Way, Dove, Pedigree, Whiskas, Extra, Skittles, Uncle Ben's, and Cocoavia. The company was founded by Franklin Clarence Mars in 1911 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

Part of Synopsys, Inc., Aristo Technology, Inc. develops and markets automated block based design planning and assembly tools for the rapid design of large integrated circuits. The company is based in Cupertino, CA. The company was founded by Simon Bloch. Aristo Technology was acquired by Monterey Design Systems, Inc. on March 13, 2001.

Stream Machine Co. provides semiconductor solutions that enable video and audio compression. Its compression technology offers video at low bit-rates and is compatible with consumer standards, including MPEG-2, MP3 and Dolby Digital. The company is located in Milpitas, CA.

Sentient Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Austin, Texas with an additional office in Village of Palmetto Bay, Florida. They manage the Whitecap Texas Opportunity Fund LP.

USVP Management Co. LLC (US Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1981 by Bill Bowes. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

DAFCA, Inc. develops programmable IP, embedded security for system and device assurance, and software solutions that automate and accelerate ASIC and FPGA validation. The company was established in 2003 and it is headquartered in Framingham, MA.

Brion Technologies, Inc. develops computational lithography technologies. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Silicom Ventures LLC (Silicom Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Gadi Behar. The firm is headquartered in Los Altos, California.

Mayfield Fund LLC (Mayfield Fund) is a venture capital firm founded in 1969 by Mark Jay Levin. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

GainSpan Corp. designs and develops semiconductor solutions. It specializes in wireless connectivity products such as, Wi-Fi chips, software applications, and Wi-Fi modules. The company was founded by Lewis Adams and Vijay Parmar in September 2006 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Camgian Microsystems Corp. develops sensing and information processing technologies that deliver real-time, actionable intelligence. The firm specializes in combining low-power microelectronics, sensors, wireless communications and real-time signal processing to fill intelligence gaps for both the defense and commercial markets. The company was founded by Gary D. Butler in December 2006 and is headquartered in Starkville, MS.

Vidder, Inc. develops network security solutions based on the software defined perimeter standard. It offers software defined perimeter, software defined security, enterprise security, next generation network access control, network security, cloud migration, multifactor authentication, server vulnerability protection and credential theft protection. The company was founded in 2005 by by John S. McFarlane, Junaid Islam and Carl Williams and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Bookham Technology, Inc. designs and manufactures wire telephone and telegraph equipment. The American company was founded by Andrew George Rickman.

The Israel National Nanotechnology Initiative provides federal program for engineering, science, and technology research. The company is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

LDVP Management LLC (LDV Partners) is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Winston Fu. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

eJoule International Ltd. operates as a early stage development company. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

AutoTech Management LLC (AutoTech Management) is venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Quin Garcia & Alexei Andreev. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

AEye Technologies, Inc. engages in the development of vision hardware, software and algorithms that act as the eyes and visual cortex of autonomous vehicles. It specializes in computer vision, autonomous driving, robotic vision, autonomous vehicles, lidar, sensor fusion, and three dimensional mapping. The company was founded by Luis Dussan, Ranson Wuller, Barry Behnken, and Jordan Greene in 2013 and is headquartered in Dublin, CA.

Cepton Technologies, Inc. engages in the manufacture and distribution of sensing and ranging systems for automotive, industrial and mapping industries. It offers AV and ADAS, intelligent traffic systems, security and safety, crowd analytics, infrastructure, and mapping and surveying. The company was founded by Jun Pei and Mark McCord in 2016 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.