Tom Valis

Celtic House Venture Partners, Inc. is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1994 by Roger John Maggs. Celtic House Venture Partners, Inc. is headquartered in Ottawa.

Dundee Securities Corp. is a broker/dealer located in Toronto with additional offices in Montreal and Calgary. The firm is a subsidiary of Dundee Wealth Management, Inc. (TSE: DW). Dundee Securities is a full service investment dealer engaged in wealth management and financial advisory services, retail brokerage, institutional sales and trading, equity research and investment banking. The firm operates a sell-side institutional sales and trading floor. Dundee Securities is a member of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada and the CIPF.

BlazePhotonics Ltd. previously engaged in developing photonic crystal fibre technology (PCF). PCF is an optical fibre incorporating an array of air holes that run along its length that use a series of nanosized holes instead of cladding to keep the light in the fibre. In 2004 a Denmark based company Crystal Fibre A/S acquired the assets of BlazePhotonics. It was established in 2001 and headquartered in Bath, UK.

Tropic Networks, Inc. designed, developed and marketed regional and metro-area optical networking equipment for use in telephony, data and cable applications. Recognized that service providers in both the telecom and cable industries are standardizing on wavelengths for their metro backbone networks, the company had purpose built a Wavelength Tracker, a powered optical transport solution for application in both these key markets. The company was founded in May, 2007 and was headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

ITF Optical Technologies, Inc. provided photonics solutions. It used to design, manufacture and offer advanced photonics solutions based All-Fiber technology for networks and high-power lasers and amplifiers. The company was founded in 1997 and was located in Montreal, Canada.

Diablo Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of products for memory system design performance and capability enhancement. The company was founded by Riccardo Badalone, Michael Parziale, and Franco Forlini in 2003 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Ontology-Partners Ltd. develops software solutions for the telecommunications industry. It offers Ontology 3, a semantic search product that finds and aligns business entities held across operational, business and infrastructure systems providing an enterprise-wide view of customers, services, and network assets. The firm also provides ontology intelligent applications, a suite of core applications for users in network operations, customer care, finance, sales and marketing. The company was founded by Benedict Enweani and Leo Zancani in 2005 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

NOVX Systems, Inc. develops drug screening solutions. Its products include PatientVu, PatientVu Pain and UDS Tests and Dips. The company was founded by Tino Alavie in March 2001 and is headquartered in Richmond Hill, Canada.

Virtensys' award winning VIO-4000 series I/O virtualization appliances are changing the way IT managers manage and deploy I/O resources to their standard rack mount based servers enabling a more agile, scalable and dynamic data center. Built upon Virtensys' patented PCIe I/O virtualization technology, their solution consolidates and virtualizes traditional server network and storage I/O connectivity for both physical and virtualized server environments. With the VIO-4000 series, a server administrator can simply 'wire-once' and remotely manage/provision their I/O resource needs on-demand. Virtensys simplifies the way server administrators provision I/O connectivity to a standard rack mount server, making the task easy, efficient and affordable essentially turning standard rack mount servers into 'blades' in a rack and where the rack becomes the 'blade chassis'. Virtensys was founded in 2005 and is backed by premier technology venture capital investors.