Ebrahim Abedifard

National Semiconductor Corp. develops and manufactures analog intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The firm’s product portfolio includes power management circuits, audio and operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog converters, communication interface circuits, lighting and display circuits, adaptive voltage scaling circuits, and radio frequency integrated circuits, as well as power references, regulators, and switches. The company was founded by Arie Brish on June 29, 1959 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Read Rite Corp. is one of the three major independent suppliers of magnetic recording heads for the hard disk drive and tape drive markets. The Company designs, manufactures and markets magnetic recording heads as head gimbal assemblies and incorporate multiple head gimbal assemblies into head stack assemblies. The Company is a market leader in providing magnetoresistive and inductive tape heads to the entry level through mid-range tape drive markets. The Company operates in an industry with limited visibility. It is located in Fremont, CA.

Conexant Systems LLC provides semiconductor solutions for imaging, audio, embedded modem, and video surveillance applications. The company is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Lexar Media, Inc. designs, develops and markets digital film and connectivity products. It is a marketing firm of digital media and other flash based storage products for consumer markets that utilize digital media for the capture and retrieval of digital content. The firm also offers a line of digital music players and portable data storage devices as well as various connectivity products that link its media products to personal computers and other electronic host devices. The company was founded in 1996 by Paul Wenz, Mike Liccardo, John Reimer and Petro Estakhri and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Miradia, Inc. designs and manufactures digital micro display components. The company was founded by Dongmin Chen and in 2003 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Grandis, Inc. develops and licenses non-volatile memory solutions. It specializes in semiconductor memories, STT-RAM, MRAM, DRAM, Flash, NAND, NOR, and embeded memories. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Eccentex Corp. provides case management cloud solutions. It offers AppBase platform as a Service (PaaS) to rapidly deliver, deploy, maintain and run enterprise business processes for case management solutions in a cloud-based environment. The firm has built numerous SaaS applications on its platform as a service (PaaS), AppBase, for major industry verticals including MyCaseRecords, an end-to-end case management system for healthcare; CollectionCycle, a financial recovery solution for financial services; and a complaints management solution for government organizations. The company was founded by Alex Stein and Len Tokar in 2005 and is headquartered in Culver City, CA.

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.

Apixio, Inc. operates as a data science company for healthcare. Its patented cognitive computing platform extracts and analyzes clinical data in electronic and PDF health records, generating deep insights into patient health. The firm feeds these insights into applications such as HCC Profiler which enables HCC coding review. The company was founded by Shahin Hedayat, Shawn Dastmalchi, Imran Chaudhri and Bob Rogers in 2009 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Latham & Watkins LLP operates as a full-service law firm or legal matters. It offers services in the areas of finance, litigation, accounting, banking, life sciences, private equity, real estate, government relations, employment law, and outsourcing. The company was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Global Factory, Inc. provides collaborative manufacturing execution systems. The firm's software gather, organize & analyze demand, production & quality data from various sources and monitor key indicators & execute business processes to control, manage & optimize distributed manufacturing operations. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory provides nuclear testing services. The Laboratory's security needs include countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and strengthening homeland security against the terrorist use of such weapons. The company was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Livermore, CA.

Summa Telecom Ltd. provides broadband internet and other telecommunication services. The company is based in Moscow, Russian Federation and has subsidiaries in the Russian Federation. The CEO of the Russian company is Vladimir Androsik.

Solta Medical, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets energy-based medical device systems for aesthetic applications. Its brands include Clear + Brilliant pélo, Thermage, Liposonix, VASER, Fraxel, Clear + Brilliant, and Isolaz systems which are used to address various aesthetic issues. The company was founded by Edward W. Knowlton on January 11, 1996 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Thomvest Ventures, Inc (Thomvest Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Peter J. Thomson. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

FlashSoft Corp. develops and produces software utilities and tools. It offers software designed to identify and cache the most frequently used data on any solid state device in the server and improve enterprise application performance. The company was founded by Ted Sanford and Serge Shats in 2009 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Ladder Financial, Inc. provides commercial real estate financing services. The company was founded by James A. Hale, Laura Hale, Jeff Merkel and Jack Dubie in 2015 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Mynd Management, Inc. engages in the provision of property management services. It offers resident mobile application, leasing, real-time financial reporting, repair and maintenance, issue resolution, and property analysis. The company was founded by Colin T. Wiel and Douglas R. Brien in 2016 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Unqork, Inc. develops software application solutions. It serves the insurance, financial services, government, and education sectors. The company was founded by Gary Hoberman in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Ocrolus, Inc. engages in the provision of data verification and analysis for bank statements and other financial documents. Its products include document capture, intelligent fraud detection, and robust cash-flow analytics. The company was founded by Sam Bobley, John Guerci, Victoria Meakin, and Peter A. Bobley in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Ultrasense Systems, Inc. engages in information technology services. Its products include TouchPoint and Development Kit. THe firm also offers mobile phones, wearbles, appliances and home, automotive and medical and industrial. The company was founded by Mo Maghsoudnia, Daniel Goehl, Hao-Yen and Sina Akhbari and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Broadsmart Global, Inc. engages in the provision of technical consulting services. The company is headquartered in West Palm Beach, FL.

Netbase Quid provides social media and text analytic services. It offers enterprise social intel, consumer insight, brand analysis, campaign tracking, product launch, influencer insight, dci, purchase intent, customer care, risk management, competitive intelligence, partner monitoring, category analysis, product innovation, and social media analytics. The company was founded by and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Capchase, Inc. operates as an online platform for getting cash from accounts receivable. The company was founded by Miguel Fernández Larrea, Luis Basagoiti Marqués, Przemek Gotfryd and Ignacio Moreno Pubul and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Part of Monitor Co. Group International Holding LLC, Monitor Company (Europe) is a British company that provides strategic business advisory and consulting services. The company is based in London, UK. The company was founded in 1985 by Eric B. Stang.