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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 STMicroelectronics NV, Faroudja, Inc. designs, develops, and markets video image enhancement products for the home theater. The company is based in Sunnyvale, CA. The company was founded by Spencer F. Segura. Faroudja was acquired by Sage, Inc., part of STMicroelectronics NV from February 20, 2002 on June 07, 2000 for $54.38 million.

Tensilica, Inc. is dedicated to helping its customers successfully to use its processor cores in its SOC designs. Its processor cores are often used in places engineering teams haven't considered using processors before - as a matter of fact, the company specialized in the hardest data-intensive applications. There are so many applications for Tensilica's processors that its customers have helped to become the fastest growing semiconductor IP supplier in 2008, according to the Gartner Group. The company makes some of the fastest, lowest power 32-bit RISC microprocessor cores on the market. Its Diamond Standard family of controllers uses its core technology to excel at control plane tasks. Tensilica is the recognized leader in customizable dataplane processors. Dataplane Processor Units (DPUs) consist of performance intensive DSP (audio, video, imaging, and baseband signal processing) and embedded RISC processing functions (security, networking, and deeply embedded control). The automated design tools behind all of Tensilica's application-specific processor cores enable rapid customization to meet specific data-plane performance targets. Tensilica's processors power top tier semiconductor companies, innovative start-ups, and system OEMs for high-volume products including mobile phones, consumer electronics devices (including portable media players, digital TV, and broadband set top boxes), computers, and storage, networking and communications equipment.

Magnum Semiconductor, Inc. provides silicon, modules, software and Internet protocol. It provides line of products, tools, and technologies for the entire video content creation and distribution chain, from contribution and production through distribution over cable, satellite and IPTV to Over-the-Top video streaming. The company was founded by Jack Guedj on June 30, 2005 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

SmartCap AS (SC) is a venture capital subsidiary of KredEx headquartered in Estonia and was founded in 2007.

Wise Guys Investment OÜ (Wise Guys) is venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Herty Tammo. The firm is headquarters in Harjumaa of Estonia.

Defendec OU provides remote premises surveillance technology products. Its product uses battery powered intelligent wireless sensors to monitor a specified area, detect intruders, analyze data and send an alarm with visual confirmation. The firm offers offers Smartdec perimeter intruder detection system, a wireless surveillance system for perimeter intruder detection in remote areas. The company was founded by Tauri Tuubel in 2006 and is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia.

Monese Ltd. provides digital banking services. It serves corporate and private sectors. The company was founded by Norris Koppel on October 7, 2013 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Scoro Software OÜ develops work management software solution for professionals. The firm provides dashboard, calendar, tasks, finance, reports, integrations, customization and media services. The company was founded by Fred Krieger and Priit Matiisen in 2013 is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia.

Tera Ventures OÜ (Tera Ventures) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Andrus Oks, Stanislav Ivanov and James McDougall. The firm is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia with additional offices in Tartu, Estonia, Helsinki, Finland and Burbank, California.

Brainbase, Inc. develops and operates software application for sales management. The company was founded by Nate Cavanaugh in 2016 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Snackable, Inc. operates search engine to make audio as searchable as text. The company was founded by Mari Joller and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Numem Inc. is a leading provider of advanced soc compute in memory ip cores based on its patented nuram (mram), and soc ip cores and chiplets based on its patented, smartmem technologies. The company is based in Sunnyvale, CA. The company provides an excellent sram and flash alternative for soc designers/ architects with 2.5x smaller area and >20x lower leakage power than sram. Numem smartmem provides an end-to-end solution that is disrupting the semiconductor industry by enabling ultra-low power, high-performance integration of persistent memory for a variety of memory types including: numem, other mram, rram/reram, pcram, and embedded and standalone flash. Jack Guedj has been the CEOs since incorporation. The company was founded by Nilesh Gharia, Jack Guedj.

WeatherMe OÜ develops farm management software that enables users to manage and monitor various farming operations online. The firm’s VitalFields, offers a tool for farm management, field level weather forecasting, plant disease forecasting, and farm stock keeping system in Europe. Its solution enables users to plan fieldwork at suitable weather conditions and track crop phases, cost of inputs on the field, and others. The company was founded by Martin Rand and Vahur Meus in August 2011 and is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia.

NOW! Innovations Solutions BV provides a payment platform for parking and other mobility services. The firm's billing platform is applicable on on-street parking, off-street parking, car sharing, permit issuing, enforcement, penalty collection, merchant programs, and asset management. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Jobbatical OU operates an online marketplace for short-term jobs. It runs a marketplace for ‘short-term jobs with life-changing experiences’, matching those who wish to take a work a sabbatical with employers seeking potentially short-term but skilled hires. The company was founded in 2014 by Karoli Hindriks, Allan Mäeots and Ronald Hindriks and is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia.