Frank Schmidt

ERS Electronic GmbH designs and manufactures thermal wafer chucks and other thermal solutions. Its products include AirCool3 modular chuck system for various testing situations, and PowerSense chuck system for detecting and dissipating heat during wafer test for high-wattage high-end logic chips, and WaferTherm chuck system for thermal wafer testing for the laboratory environment, and ERS AirCool3 package level thermal system for the air-only tritemp testing of packaged devices. The firm also manufactures custom solutions for thermal testing and processing issues. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Germering, Germany.

Texas Instruments Norway AS provides fabless semiconductor devices. It engages in designing, producing, and marketing radio frequency integrated circuits for use in a variety of wireless applications. It serves the home and building automation, consumer electronics, and automatic meter reading markets. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.

BEKON GmbH operates as a holding company which develops biogas, energy and waste treatment plants. It specializes in a dry fermentation technology that aims to revolutionize the energy and waste management industry. The firm facilitates both the production of quality compost and the use of potential energy from waste. Its focus areas encompass the plant design, construction, project financing, and plant operation and maintenance. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Unterfohring, Germany.

Part of Koninklijke Philips NV, Philips Components is a company that manufactures electronic components. The company is based in Sunnyvale, CA.

PowerHouse Dynamics, Inc. engages in the provision of energy management solutions. It offers IoT-based platform that connects, monitors, analyzes, and controls equipment to deliver enterprise-wide operational efficiencies to portfolios of small commercial facilities, including restaurants, convenience stores, retailers, and others. The company was founded by Carstern Steenberg and Nielsen van Duijn in 2009 and is headquartered in Newton, MA.

Emerald Technology Ventures AG (ETV) is a venture capital investment firm with headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland and offices in Montreal, Canada. The firm originated in 2000 as the Sustainable Asset Management (SAM) Group. In 2007, ETV was formed following an MBO by the SAM private equity management. The firm specializes in the global clean technology investment sector. ETV manages several venture capital funds and venture capital portfolio mandates. Among investors are financial institutions and multinational corporations.

Founded in 2000, Emerald Technology Ventures, Inc. is a venture capital firm located in Montreal, Quebec. The firm is a subsidiary of Emerald Technology Ventures AG

Part of CommScope Holding Co., Inc., Philips Broadband Networks, Inc. is a company that provides broadband products and services. The company is based in Manlius, NY. Philips Broadband Networks was acquired by C-COR, Inc. from Koninklijke Philips NV on September 16, 2002 for $77.88 million.

VERTILAS GmbH develops, produces, and distributes laser diodes for optical communications technology, sensor engineering, and measurement methods. The company's products include gas sensing spectroscopy, data and telecommunication applications, spectroscopic diode lasers, and engineering services in the fields of fiberoptics, semiconductors, laser diodes, and vertical cavity surface-emitting laser diodes. The company was founded in December 2001 by Markus Ortsiefer and Markus-Christian Amann and is headquartered in Garching, Germany.

Sobera Capital GmbH (Sobera Capital) is an independent private equity and venture capital firm founded by Johannes Rabini and Dr. Stefan Beil in 2010. The firm is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

SET Management BV (SET Ventures) is the venture capital subsidiary of SET Holding Powered By Chrysalix & Robeco BV founded in 2007 by Rene Savelsberg, Wouter Jonk and Wal van Lierop. SET Management BV is headquartered in Amsterdam.

EnOcean, Inc. develops patented energy harvesting wireless technology. The firm's technology include energy harvesting, ultra-low power management, radio technology, patents and white papers. Its applications include building automation, smart home, wireless LED controls and machine to machine. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Cottonwood Heights, UT.

T-Mobile International AG & Co. KG provides telecommunications services. As strategic business segment of Deutschen Telekom AG for mobile telephony, the company concentrates on mobile telephony markets in Europe and the USA. The company is a partner of the FreeMove alliance, which they founded together with three other european mobile phone providers: Orange, Telefónica Móviles Espana and TIM (Telecom Italia Mobile). The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Bonn, Germany.

Wellington Partners GmbH (Wellington Partners) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1991 by Rolf Christof Dienst. The firm is headquartered in Munich, with offices in Zurich, London, and Palo Alto.

Cirque Corp. is a private company that specializes in capacitive touch technology. The company is based in Salt Lake City, UT and was founded by Jim OCallaghan. The company has invented the original capacitive touch technology and have continued to innovate into markets like VR gaming, secure touch, and proximity touch. The company offers custom solutions and showcase the possibilities of their technology. The company also offers off-the-shelf OEM trackpads and rugged input solutions. Additionally, they provide developer resources and development kits to unlock design potential. The company has also developed Glidepoint, the original trackpad technology, which has provided a reliable and versatile user interface for decades.

ZigBee Alliance creates, maintains and delivers open and global wireless standards. Its products include talkingplug 11202, safe plug 1202, 1313-11-SE-9942, safeplug 1313-01-SE-9935, safe plug 1203, YDF40, demo color light and demo color scene remote. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Davis, CA.

Figure 8 Wireless, Inc. provides software and networking solutions for wireless communications. Its customers include OEMs and semiconductor companies. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

GreenCom Networks AG develops energy management software for the energy industry. The firm offers solutions for energy control and consumption control for end customers, as well as for the management of local energy production and electric cars. It provides solutions for electric vehicle management, distributed generation management, smart consumption, and energy monitoring for power and grid operators, utility retailers, and end customers. The company is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Luxexcel Group BV provides printoptical solutions for the LED lighting industry. It develops, manufactures, and markets optical solutions for the LED lighting industry. The firm offers Fresnel lenses, linear prism structures, micro optics, lens combinations, integrated-graphics, color lenses, and lens arrays. Its products are used in linear fixtures, LED arrays, recessed spotlights, recessed floor lights, table and floor lamps, and special applications. It also provides optics design, optical prototyping, small series production, and large-scale manufacturing services. The company was founded by Richard van de Vrie and Kurt Blessing in 2009 and is headquartered in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Greenfield Capital Partners BV is an independent private equity investment firm located in Naardent, the Netherlands. Founded in 1995, Greenfield specializes in providing capital for growth, MBO/MBI, buy-and-build opportunities or strategic re-positioning in mid- to later-stage firms active in the sectors of telecommunications, media and technology. Greenfield manages four active funds, namely Greenfield Capital Fund II, NEThave, Berghave, and NethCorp.