Thomas Krause

Techwell, Inc. designed and marketed integrated circuits. The company was founded in 1997 by Hiro Kozato and was headquartered in San Jose, CA.

TCMI, Inc.(TCV) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Jay Crandall Hoag and Richard Herrick Kimball. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Avago Technologies Ltd. designs, develops and supplies analog semiconductor devices. It operates through the following segments: Wireless Communications, Wired Infrastructure, Enterprise Storage and Industrial. The firm offers radio frequency semiconductor devices such as front end modules, duplexers, monolithic or discrete microwave integrated circuit filters, diodes and discrete transistors. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Singapore.

BCD Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd. designs, develops, manufactures and sells integrated circuit boards. The company focus on high volume growth segments in the computing, consumer and communications markets, such as personal computers, flat panel televisions and monitors, mobile phone chargers and a wide variety of consumer and portable electronic devices. It also offers a diversified and expanding portfolio of over 300 products, including power management ICs within the following subcategories: linear, AC/DC and DC/DC. BCD Semiconductor Manufacturing was founded by Chieh Chang, Kuo Wei Chang, Yen-Liang Liu, Ming Hao Wong and Jiwei Sun and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.

Emulex Corp. provides hardware and software solutions for global networks that support enterprise, cloud, government, and telecommunications. The firm operates through two business segments: Networking and Visibility Segment. The Networking Segment includes network connectivity products (NCP), storage connectivity products (SCP), and advanced technology and other products. Its SCP include InSpeed, switch-on-a-chip or backend connectivity, bridge, and router products; and the advanced technology and other products consists of its pilot integrated baseboard management controllers and other products and services. The company was founded by Fred B. Cox on February 15, 1979 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Brocade Communications Systems LLC provides semiconductor connectivity solutions. It offers switches, storage networking, routers, software networking, automation, network visibility, mobile networking, transceivers, network management, and professional and residency. The company was founded by Paul R. Bonderson, Jr., Kumar Malavalli, and Seth D. Nieman in 1995 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Connectem, Inc. designs and develops wireless device solutions. The company was founded on January 12, 2012 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.