Bum-Soo Kim

Sage, Inc. designs, develops and markets digital display processors. It is developing products that bring the home theater experience to the mass consumer and PC-display market through digitally enhanced television, projection displays, DVD players and internet appliances. The company is located in Milpitas, CA.

Centillium Communications, Inc. designs, develops and supplies integrated programmable system-on-a-chip solutions that enable high-speed broadband access. Its products include passive optical network chip solutions; mixed-signal integrated circuits, hardware and software applications. The firm also offers fiber to the premises products that include central office transceivers, protocol processors, customer premise equipment transceivers and protocol processors. The company was founded in 1997 by Faraj Aalaei and is headquartered in Fremont, 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.

Fortemedia, Inc. provides mobile software technology solutions. The firm offers mobile communications, consumer and Internet of Things (IoT), automotive infotainment systems, and personal computing. Its Advanced Microphone Array Processing (AMAP), a hybrid voice processing system that combines spatial filtering, source separation, and adaptive statistical signal processing to deliver advanced voice and audio capabilities to consumer electronic devices. The company was founded by Tom Hsia and Ming Zhang in 1996 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc. provides specialized power management semiconductors for use in a variety of computing, communications, and consumer electronics applications. It develops power management semiconductors for mobile consumer electronic devices, such as wireless handsets, notebook and tablet computers, smartphones, digital cameras, and digital audio players. The company was founded in August 1997 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Praesagus, Inc. provides characterization and modeling products for the chemical mechanical polishing semiconductor manufacturing process. The private company is based in Campbell, CA. The company was founded by Nickhil Jakatdar.

InveStar Capital, Inc. is a venture capital firm based in Taipei with an office in Silicon Valley. InveStar was established in 1996 by Kenneth Chung Hou Tai and Herbert Kuo Wei Chang. The firm manages a series of specialist venture capital funds. Their investors include Taiwanese and U.S. technology companies and financial institutions.

Part of BorgWarner, Inc., Daewoo Motor Co. is a manufacturer of automobiles. The company is based in Inchon, South Korea.

Global Communication Semiconductors LLC manufactures compound semiconductor foundry services. It offers semiconductor devices, radio frequency and millimeter wave integrated circuits, and solutions for wireless, telecommunications, power electronics, fiber optical communications, and optoelectronics markets. The firm also offers PIN photodetectors and photodetector arrays for datacom, telecom, lightpeak, thunderbolt, active optical cable, and parallel optical interconnect applications. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Torrance, CA.

UMC Capital Corp. is the corporate venture arm and a wholly-owned subsidiary of UMC-United Microelectronics Corp. (NYSE: UMC; TP: 2303). UMC is a Taiwan-based semiconductor foundry established in 1980, and a global contract manufacturing leader. They make advanced process integrated circuits for applications spanning the entire semiconductor industry. UMC has facilities in Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Europe and the US. Established in 2001, UMC Capital operates from offices in the Cayman Islands, Taipei and Sunnyvale, California.

SL Investment Ltd. is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 2000. The firm is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

KIPP Austin Public Schools operates as a network of 10 college-preparatory, public charter schools educating elementary, middle, and high school students. The company was founded by Jill Kolasinski in 2001 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Shanghai Winking Entertainment Ltd. engages in the development of online and mobile games. Its services include two dimension and three dimension artwork, game development and consultant. The company was founded by Johnny Jan, HanMing Chang, and ZhengYu Huang in July 2000 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.

Celltrion GSC Co., Ltd. is a holding company, which manufactures pharmaceutical subsidiary materials. It also engages in research and development of pharmaceutical materials and product localization. The company was founded on June 14, 2000 and is headquartered in Incheon, South Korea.

Humax Automotive Co., Ltd. develops automobile sound system equipment and accessories. It offers EM/entry radio, color radio, display audio and navigations. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Seongnam, South Korea.

C-Pro Electronics Co., Ltd. manufactures security cameras. Its products include Internet protocol, serial digital interface, and analog camera. The company was founded by Young-Soo Lee on September 24, 1996 and is headquartered in Seongnam-si, South Korea.

Part of OmniVision Technologies, Inc., Aurora Systems, Inc. (California) designs, manufactures and distributes liquid crystal on silicon-based microdisplay panels. The company is based in San Jose, CA. Aurora Systems, Inc. (California was acquired by OmniVision Technologies, Inc. on March 25, 2010 for $5.60 million.

Beijing Palm Wide Mobile Media Technology Co., Ltd. develops mobile advertising platform. It offers solutions to application developers and advertisers. The company was founded by Wang Xudong in 2010 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

Songhyun Investment Ltd. (Songhyun Investment) is a private equity and venture capital firm headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. The firm was founded in 2000.

Part of Parade Technologies, Ltd., Parade Technologies, Inc. (Shanghai) is a Chinese company that manufactures and supplies integrated circuits. The company is based in Shanghai, China.

X2 Power Technologies Ltd. manufactures consumer electronics. The company is headquartered in George Town, Cayman Islands.

ACVC Management LLC (ACVC Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, US.

The WestEd is a nonpartisan, nonprofit agency that provides a range of services for education and other communities. The non-profit company is based in San Francisco, CA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company's services include research and evaluation, professional learning, technical assistance, and policy guidance. The main goal of WestEd is to promote success for every learner, and they are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion in their work.

SiFotonics Technologies (USA), Inc. designs and manufactures silicon photonic integrated circuits and discrete devices. The firm offers discrete devices for the applications in consumer electronics, computation and communications. Its products include avalanche photodiode detectors, photo detectors, transimpedance amplifiers, integrated optical receiver, and high speed receiver modules. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.