Anthony T. Maher

STAR Ventures GmbH (STAR) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1991 by Meir Barel. The firm is headquartered in Gruenwald, Germany with additional offices in Herzliya Pituach and Texas.

Founded in 1999, Next47, Inc. is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The firm is the U.S. investment division of Siemens Venture Capital GmbH. Their ultimate parent is Siemens AG (NYSE: SI).

Xtellus is a leading supplier of ROADM technology and dynamic optical modules for Agile Optical Networking systems. Agile Optical Networks are reconfigurable DWDM networks that are used to provide rapid provisioning and efficient operation of triple-play high-speed Internet, video and telephone services. Xtellus is headquartered in Morris Plains, NJ, with manufacturing and development facilities in Israel and South Korea.

Wavecom SA provides embedded wireless technology solutions for machine-to-machine communication. The company offers a range of GSM/GPRS, CDMA, EDGE, and 3G Wireless CPUs as well as programmable processors. Its solutions are used in automotive telematics, smart metering, fleet management, GSM/GPS/satellite tracking, wireless alarms, WLL, remote monitoring, and other machine-to-machine applications. The firm was founded on June 28, and is headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.

Cube Optics AG manufactured and marketed miniaturized fiber-optic components. The company was founded by Ingo Smaglinski, Thomas Paatzsch and Sven Krüger in August 2008 and was headquartered in Mainz, Germany.

Verivue, Inc. provided digital content delivery and distribution solutions. The firm specialized in bandwidth optimization, high quality video streaming, mobile data acceleration, content delivery network (CDN) management, and cloud edge optimization. The company was founded in 2006 and was headquartered in Westford, MA.