Scott T. Becker

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.

Artisan Components, Inc. develops and manufactures high density embedded memories. The firm's products include standard cell libraries, embedded memories, input/output cells, analog functions, and high-speed interface IP. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

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.

Ponte Solutions, Inc. develops and markets unique model-based software products, that are used to predict and enable optimization of semiconductor yields at the design stage. It has offices in Mountain View-California, Grenoble-France, Tokyo-Japan and Yerevan-Armenia. The company was founded in 2002 and is located in Mountain View, CA.

CLK Design Automation, Inc. provides software for semiconductor companies. It specializes in electronic design automation, static timing and variation. The company was founded by Joao Geada, Hal Conklin, Isadore T. Katz and Lee LaFrance in 2004 and is headquartered in Littleton, MA.

Solido Design Automation, Inc. provides variation analysis and design software solutions for custom ICs. The firm makes variation designer the world’s top CAD software for semiconductor variation analysis and debugging and is used to improve chip yield, improve performance, reduce die area, and reduce power consumption. The company was founded by Amit K. Gupta and Trent Lorne McConaghy in 2005 and is headquartered in Saskatoon, Canada.

Nortel Networks, Inc. provides digital network solutions and services. It offers end-to-end broadband, voice over Internet Protocol, multimedia services and applications, and wireless broadband technology solutions. The company is headquartered in Nashville, TN.

Scoperta, Inc. integrates metal and amorphous alloys. It offers amorphous alloys, Vecalloy, conventional and nanostructure metals in terms of corrosion, wear resistance, hardness and scratch resistance. The firm products serve the industrial applications including offshore, marine, cutting tools, military, mining, power generation enhancing product life and performance. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Nimbic, Inc. provides innovative 3D fullwave solutions. The company was founded by Vikram Jandhyala and Swagato Chakraborty in 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

LiquidSpace, Inc. operates as an online marketplace for finding and booking flexible office and meeting space. It provides desks, meeting rooms and private offices to freelancers and virtual companies. The firm also offers a central directory of what is available, handles reservations, collects fees and performs the necessary back-office accounting tasks. The company was founded by Mark Gilbreath and Marinaro E. Douglas, Sr. in 2010 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Arm Ltd. engages in the licensing, marketing, and research and development of microprocessors, system intellectual property (IP), graphics processors, physical IP and associated systems IP, software and tools. Its products include Pelion IoT platform, Mbed OS, IoT SoC, and Kigen SIM. The company was founded by Michael Peter Muller in November 1990 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP provides legal services. It counsels clients in litigation, corporate and tax, intellectual property and restructuring matters. The firm offers intellectual property, antitrust and competition, international trade and national security, real estate and tax, benefits and estate planning services. The company was founded in 1909 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC provides legal services. Its services include corporate law and governance, public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, mergers and acquisitions, securities class action litigation, intellectual property litigation, antitrust counseling and litigation, joint ventures and strategic alliances, technology licensing and other intellectual property transactions, tax, and employee benefits and employment law. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Sonics, Inc. provides system Internet protocol services. It offers SonicsLX (SLX), a NoC that provides systems-on-chip designers with the connectivity needed for CPUs and other processing engines to memory. The firm provides system Internet protocol solutions, which include security, power, and memory subsystems; development tools; performance analysis solutions and topology structures for the network design. The company was founded by Drew E. Wingard, Grant A. Pierce, and Geert Rosseel in September 1996 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

OneSpin Solutions GmbH develops and provides software solutions. The firm’s products include OneSpin technology platform, specialized apps, third party apps, and 360 DV-inspect. Its solutions include agile design evaluation, metric-driven verification, block integration validation, abstract C++ and SysC analysis, FPGA implementation QoR, and safety critical verification. The company was founded by Wolfram Büttner and Raik Brinkmann in 2005 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Intellectual Ventures Management LLC (Intellectual Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Nathan Myhrvold, Edward Jung, Peter N Detkin and Greg Gorder. The firm is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington..

Black Diamond Ventures LLC (Black Diamond Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1998 by Christopher B. Lucas. The firm is headquartered in Glendale, California.

Peripheral Systems, Inc. is a private company that specializes in the wholesale distribution of electrical power equipment. The company is based in Oklahoma City, OK and has subsidiaries in the United States.

Overture, Inc. is a web marketing company which offers keyword advertisements placed on an Internet portal site. The company was founded on September 7, 2002 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Altos Design Automation, Inc. develops, manufactures and distributes software for IP development. The firm provides ultra fast characterization technology to enable IP reuse via accurate modeling of timing, noise, power and process variation. The company was founded by Jim McCanny, Ken Tseng, Kevin Chou and Wenkung Chu in January 2005 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Vayavya Labs Pvt Ltd engages in the provision of systems design and engineering tools and services. It offers product development, system modeling and virtual platforms, porting, and protocol stack development. The company was founded by Parag Naik, Venugopal Kolathur, Uma Bondada, and RK Patil in 2006 and is headquartered in Belagavi, India.

Methodics, Inc. is engaged in providing intellectual property lifecycle management and traceability solutions. Its products include percipient, versic and warpstar. The firm offers functional safety, verification traceability, IP security assurance, and software design solutions. The co9mpany was founded by Simon Butler and Fergus Slorach in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.