Avinash Lakshman

Firecomms Ltd. develops semiconductor related devices. It provides lasers and LEDs provide the groundwork that will revolutionize optical data communications for small area networks, such as in-car networks and home networks. It offers low power visible lasers unleash the potential for medical devices, barcode scanners and optical storage devices. The company was founded by John Lambkin and Thomas Moriarty in May 2001 and is headquartered in Cork, Ireland.

DecaWave Ltd. engages in the manufacture of integrated circuits for indoor location and communications. It offers semiconductors, software, modules, and reference designs. The company was founded by Ciaran Connell and Michael McLaughlin in 2004 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

LoopFuse, Inc. operates as a business to business marketing automation platform. It provides reports on online customer behavior in merchants’ websites. The company was founded by Sean Dwyer, Roy Russo and Thomas M. Elrod in 2007 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

BlueData Software, Inc. develops data private cloud for enterprises. It offers simplified data infrastructure and eliminates complexities involved with data deployments. The company was founded by Kumar Sreekanti and Thomas Phelan in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Lion Semiconductor, Inc. develops technologies for power management solutions. It offers power management IC on mobile phone. The company was founded by John Crossley, Hanh-Phuc Le, and Wonyoung Kim in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

CEVA Santé Animale SA develops and manufactures animal health products. It offers parasiticides, metabolism correctors, and pharmaceutical products for companion animals, ruminants, swine, and poultry. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Libourne, France.

BridgeCo, a networked entertainment pioneer, offers the world’s most comprehensive, cost-effective and highly integrated processor IC and software platforms for connecting Internet media sources, computers and consumer electronics throughout the home. BridgeCo platforms are targeted at the multi-billion dollar global market for stand-alone after-market and embedded audio applications. BridgeCo platforms are the core technologies underlying digital media players (DMPs), audio/video receivers (AVRs), musical instruments and external multi-channel sound cards.

GloNav, Inc. develops global positioning system (GPS) and other satellite navigation technologies and products. The firm is positioned in the large and growing GPS market, which includes GPS-enabled wireless handsets and personal navigation devices (PND). The company was founded in 2006 and is located in Newport Beach, CA.

Semtech EMEA Ltd. operates as a fables chip company. It develops, manufactures and sells analog and mixed-signal driver and receiver ICs for fiber-optics-based communications. The firm's products include plastic optical fiber, limiting amplifiers, and LED/ VCSEL drivers products. The company was founded by Gary Steele on May 12, 2003 and is headquartered in Bristol, the United Kingdom.

Movidius, Inc. provides multimedia applications for mobile phones and other electronics. It designs compact, high-performance, ultralow power, multi-core, computational image-processor chips, software and development tools and reference designs, to revolutionize computational imaging and computer vision on mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and electronic eyewear. The company was founded by Paul Joseph Costigan, Sean Patrick Mitchell, David Macdara Moloney, and Valentin Muresan in 2005 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Nodeable, Inc. provides a social platform for systems data. It offers real-time data stream processing for big data applications. The company was founded by Mark Griffin, Neil Levine and Dave Rosenberg in March 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Swrve New Media, Inc. operates an integrated marketing and optimization platform for mobile applications. Its services include quick start, smart on boarding, managed and strategic services. The firm serves the airline, transportation, telecom, media and entertainment industries. The company was founded by Hugh Reynolds and Steven Collins in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

3D Robotics, Inc. designs and manufactures electronics and aerial vehicles. Its products include Site Scan and Pixhawk. The company was founded by Gregory Christoper Anderson and Jordi Munoz Bardales in 2009 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Part of Meta Platforms, Inc., Osmeta, Inc. provides mobile device software. The company is based in Mountain View, CA. Osmeta was acquired by Meta Platforms, Inc. on April 10, 2013.

npm, Inc. provides services and support for the node.js and npm projects. It offers docusign, siriusXM, uber, and visa, to manage and deploy packages. The company was founded by Roderick Boothby, Isaac Z. Schlueter and Laurie James Voss in 2014 and is headquartered in Monterey, CA.

Understory, Inc. provides weather data. It offers weather technology and revolutionary hail monitoring networks. The firm offers weather data to insurance, agriculture and utility companies. The company was founded by Alexander Kubicek, Bryan Dow and Alexander Jacobs in 2012 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

Navitas Semiconductor, Inc. develops GaN power ICs for the power supply markets. It develops GaN power electronics technology for mobile phone, laptop, and tablet chargers, LED lighting, datacenters, and TV monitors. The company was founded by Nicholas Fichtenbaum, Daniel M. Kinzer and Gene Sheridan in 2013 and is headquartered in El Segundo, CA.

HC Capital Management LLC (HC Capital Management ) is a venture capital subsidiary of Vertex Venture Holdings Ltd. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Datos IO, Inc. develops time management software for enterprise. Its products include scale-out software, scalable versioning, reliable recovery and semantic deduplication. The firm offers backup and recovery, cloud data protection and big data solutions. The company was founded by Tarun Thakur and Prasenjit Sarka in June 2014 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Nod, Inc. develops and markets gesture recognition and motion tracking hardware. It offers backspin, a wireless controller that offers 3DoF tracking in a form factor designed for portability and casual play. The company was founded by Anush Elangovan and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Gradle, Inc. provides software services. It offers services include training, consulting and support. The company was founded by Hans Dockter and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Hilight Semiconductor Ltd. designs and supplies analogue and mixed-signal CMOS ICs for high speed fiber-optics based communications and networking applications. The firm's products include TIA and combo. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Southampton, the United Kingdom.

MessageGears LLC provides hybrid email marketing services. Its service allows global enterprise brands to communicate with a customer in real-time. The company was founded by Dan Roy and Taylor Jones in 2010 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

solo.io, Inc. develops cloud-based solutions. Its products and services include Squash, debugger for microservices applications; Unik, platform for building and running unikernels; and Talks, an open source community. The company was founded by Idit Levine on February 7, 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Pulse Q&A, Inc. engages in providing real-time business insights for data-driven executives. The company was founded by Anand Thaker and Mayank R. Mehta in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Hi Marley, Inc. acts as a software provider offering the AI-enabled conversation platform designed for the insurance industry. It enables insurance carriers to easily communicate with customers and other partners in the insurance ecosystem. The company was founded by Michael Greene, John Miller and Mitesh Suchak and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Part of Navitas Semiconductor Corp., Navitas Semiconductor Ltd. is an Irish company that develops gas power integrated circuits for the power supply markets. The company is based in Saint Peter's, Ireland. The company was founded in 2014 by Daniel M. Kinzer, Gene Sheridan, Jason Zhang, Nick Fichtenbaum. Gene Sheridan has been the CEO of the company since 2014. Navitas Semiconductor was acquired by Live Oak Acquisition Corp. II on October 19, 2021 for $1,476.67 million.

gBox Inc. operates an online music store. It creates a platform, portal and tools to interact on social networking sites and internet venues to buy and receive gifts. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

Tray.io, Inc. operates a platform that makes users to build and share SaaS integrations. It provides event bus systems to send messages between modules and event loop based programming models. The company was founded by Rich Waldron, Alistair Russell and Dominic Lewis in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.