Suzan Schanin

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.

Centillium Communications, Inc. designs, develops and supplies integrated programmable system-on-a-chip solutions that enable high-speed broadband access. Its products include passive optical network chip solutions; mixed-signal integrated circuits, hardware and software applications. The firm also offers fiber to the premises products that include central office transceivers, protocol processors, customer premise equipment transceivers and protocol processors. The company was founded in 1997 by Faraj Aalaei and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. engages in the design, development, and sale of integrated circuits. The company offers System-on-a-Chip devices, which leverages technology portfolio of intellectual property in the areas of analog, mixed-signal, digital signal processing, and embedded and standalone integrated circuits. It also develops integrated hardware platforms along with software that incorporates digital computing technologies designed and configured to provide an optimized computing solution. The company was founded by Sehat Sutardja, Weili Dai and Pantas Sutardja in January 1995 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc. develops and markets multifunction location platforms based on semiconductor and software products that are designed to enable location-awareness utilizing GPS and other location technologies, enhanced by wireless connectivity and multimedia capabilities, for high-volume mobile consumer devices and commercial applications. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Green Hills Software, Inc. develops and supplies compilers, software development tools and real-time operating systems. It offers platform solutions, operating systems, hypervisor, OS middleware, development tools, and processor probes. The company was founded by Daniel D. O'Dowd in 1982 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

Multiplex, Inc. engages in the manufacture semiconductor laser devices for the telecommunications industry. It offers electro-absorption modulated lasers, high-sensitivity photo receivers, fixed wavelength and tunable transponders, as well as higher functionality subsystems. The company was founded by Tawee Tanbun-Ek and Won T. Tsang in March 1998 and is headquartered in South Plainfield, NJ.

Global Semiconductor Alliance provides information on and organizes events for the semiconductor industry in order to ensure growth and profitability of the industry. The private company is based in Dallas, TX. The company was founded by Jodi L. Shelton. Jodi L. Shelton has been the CEO since incorporation.

Bay Area Rescue Mission provides social services for the homeless and impoverished. It offers emergency shelter, discipleship programs, transitional living, job skills training, food pantry, and mobile and youth outreach. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Richmond, CA.

Part of Flex Ltd., Flextronics International, Inc. is a company that manufactures and supplies semiconductor devices. The company is based in Plano, TX.

Part of The Protectoseal Co., Electronic System Design, Inc. is a company that specializes in electronics technology for the water industry. The company is based in Palatine, IL. The company provides water process control boards for reverse osmosis water purification systems and water vending machines. Electronic System Design was acquired by The Protectoseal Co. on December 18, 2012.

Vayyar Imaging Ltd. designs and develops radio frequency (RF)-based four-dimensional (4D) imaging sensors that enables applications ranging from breast cancer screening to detecting water leakage, people tracking, and vital signs. The firm offers Vayyar smart products. The company was founded by Naftali Chayat, Miri Ratner, and Raviv Melamed in 2011 and is headquartered in Yehud, Israel.

Komprise, Inc. provides data management software. It offers archival, capacity planning, data migration, and replication and data recovery. The firm serves the education, engineering and semiconductor, financial services, healthcare, oil and gas, public sector, and media and entertainment industries. The company was founded by Krishna Subramanian, Kumar K. Goswami and Michael Peercy in 2014 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Eta Compute, Inc. is engaged in revolutionizing low power consumption for the Internet of Things. The firm provides consulting and design services. It offers a range of licensing models. The company also offers Circuit design, Low voltage standard cell library development, SoC and ASIC design. Eta Compute was founded by Gopal Raghavan, Timothy D. Semones and Paul Washkewicz in 2015 and is headquartered in Westlake Village, CA.

Tagore Technology, Inc. designs and manufactures RF switches and transistors. The firm also provides design, power management and support services. The company was founded by Amitava Das and Manish Shah in 2011 and is headquartered in Arlington Heights, IL.

Celesta Global Capital Managers LLC (Celesta Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Michael Marks, Nicholas Brathwaite, Sriram Viswanathan and Lip-Bu Tan. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Innovium, Inc. develops disruptive semiconductor based solutions. It offers Innovium TERALYNX The company was founded by Rajiv Khemani, Puneet Agarwal, and Mohammad Issa in December 2014 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

RF Pixels, Inc. provides next generations’ wireless solutions. The company was founded by Siva V. Thyagarajan and Sriramkumar Venugopalan and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Oryx Vision Ltd. develops solid state depth vision solutions for autonomous vehicles. The company was founded by Rani Wellingstein and David Ben-Bassat in 2009 and is headquartered in Petach Tikvah, Israel.

Aura Semiconductor Pvt Ltd. develops and markets integrated circuits. Its products include IoT radio, high performance timing and portable audio. The company was founded by Shyam Somayajula in 2010 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

WRV-BLI III LLC provides investment services. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Fungible, Inc. engages in the development of data center infrastructure solutions. Its platform, the Fungible Data Processing Unit, enables hyperdisaggregation of compute and storage resources across data center scales. The company was founded by Krishna Yarlagadda, Pradeep S. Sindhu, and Bertrand Serlet and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Movandi Corp. manufactures RF, antennas and communications systems. It offers wireless, fixed wireless, mobile wireless, millimeter wave 5G and wireless broadband products. The company was founded by Maryam Rofougaran and Reza Rofougaran and is headquartered in Newport Beach, CA.

VDOO Connected Trust Ltd. provides the only end-to-end IoT security solution that enables security and trust for IoT devices. The company was founded by Uri Alter, Netanel Davidi, and Asaf Karas on July 9, 2017 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.

Candou Ventures LLC (Candou Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Faraj Aalaei and Shahin Hedayat. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Sambanova Systems, Inc. develops machine learning and data analytics applications. The company was founded by Rodrigo Liang, Kunle Olukotun and Christopher Re in November 2017 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

LightBits Labs, Inc. engages in addressing the challenges of a new generation of cloud infrastructure. It offers light operating system, lightfield, and super solid state drives. The company was founded by Eran Kirzner, Avigdor Willenz, Sagi Grimberg, Ofir Efrati, George Agasandian and Muli Ben-Yehuda in 2015 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

ProteanTecs Ltd. develops software for electronics industry. It specializes in chip design, machine learning, and analytics software. The company was founded by Roni Ashuri, Shai Cohen, and Evelyn Landman and is headquartered in Haifa, Israel.

Nuvia, Inc. develops silicon chips and CPU products. The company was founded by Gerard Williams III, Manu Gulati and John Bruno in 2019 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.