Al Heshmati

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.

Pacific Community Ventures LLC (PCV) is a private equity firm founded in 1999. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Acclaim Communications, Inc. provides electrical switches and products. Acclaim Communications was acquired by Level One Communications, Inc. on July 06, 1998 for $120.63 million.

Wave Computing, Inc. develops IP and semiconductor solutions. The firm enables enterprises to accelerate their AI applications. The company was founded by Peter Foley and Karl Fant on December 8, 2009 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Pixim, Inc. develops chipsets and digital imaging technology for enterprise security cameras. It offers products for financial, retail, industrial, gaming, school/campus, correctional facility, perimeter, airport, port, train, light rail, and bus security applications worldwide. The company was founded by Abbas El Gamal in 1999 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

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.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, 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.

Teja Technologies, Inc. develops & supplies embedded networking and communications software solutions. It provides software solutions for multiprocessor architectures. The company was founded by Akash Deshpande in May 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Part of Intel Corp., Chips & Technologies, Inc. is a company that designs, develops, and markets very large-scale integrated circuit devices. The company is based in San Jose, CA. The company was founded by Gordon A. Campbell, Diosdado P. Banatao. Chips & Technologies was acquired by Intel Corp. on February 02, 1998 for $393.26 million.

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.

Tallwood Venture Capital (Tallwood Venture Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Diosdado P. Banatao. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Nextjuris, Inc. provides legal case and in-house matter management software. The private company is based in Atlanta.

Inxeption Corp. develops ecommerce management software. It offers process payments, finance, drive traffic, sell online, and growth leverage solutions. The company was founded by Farzad Dibachi, Terry Garnett, and Mark Moore in 2017 and is headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

Redfern Integrated Optics, Inc. develops and manufactures optical sources and subsystems. It manufactures based on its proprietary planar external cavity laser technology. The company was founded by John Canning and Michael Bazylenko in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Validity Sensors, Inc. provides intelligent fingerprint sensing solutions. The company was founded in November 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

IKANO Communications, Inc. provides private-label, wholesale, and retail Internet services. It offers hosted voice and broadband solutions for consumers and businesses through direct and wholesale channels. The company was founded by Henry Smith, Jeffrey Madison and Smith Doris in 1999 and is headquartered in Northridge, CA.

DSLExtreme.com, Inc. provides high-speed and traditional Internet services. It offers a suite of online products and services for consumer and business customers throughout the United States. The company was founded by Ari Ramezani and Jim Murphy in May 1999 and is headquartered in Chatsworth, CA.

RETC LLC provides engineering services. It offers testing, cell characterization, salt spray, site commisioning, ammonia corrosion test, partial discharge test, outdoor testing, yellow index, peel testing, FSEC listing, module characterization, thresher test, accelerated UV, bankability, soiling effects, and gel content services. The company was founded by Alelie Funcell on December 16, 2009 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES Singapore Pte. Ltd. provides semiconductor wafer fabrication and supplies related technologies to suppliers. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Alphion Corp. provides broadband solutions. It develops, manufactures and markets access systems, subsystems and integrated photonic devices. The firm's products include the AOLT-4000 GPON Optical Line Terminal, the AONT family of GPON Optical Network Terminals, PON Extenders, AEMS Element Management System and a wide selection of active and passive hardware components for power and fiber management, passive splitters and distribution frames for central office, outside plant, customer premise and network management. The company was founded by Bharat P. Dave in July 2000 and is headquartered in Princeton Junction, NJ.