Hemant Kanakia

Columbia Capital LLC (Columbia Capital) is a venture capital/private equity firm founded in 1989 by Dave P. Mixer. The firm is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia.

Part of Meriton Networks, Inc., Photuris, Inc. is a company that manufactures and supplies optical services equipment. The company is based in Piscataway, NJ. The company was founded by Jefferson L. Wagener, Ashish Vengsarkar, Hemant Ratubhai Kanakia. Photuris was acquired by Mahi Networks, Inc. on 2004-06-14.

Teranetics is a leading mixed-signal IC company that develops silicon products for the most advanced communication applications. The company's core development team has a strong track record of successful product development efforts in advanced communication systems and silicon. Teranetics is backed by a strong consortium of venture investors with in-depth experience and success in the semiconductor and communication markets. Teranetics provides state-of-the-art silicon solutions that enable 10G rate over the traditional UTP copper cabling, an order of magnitude improvement over rates available in enterprise networks. Teranetics products allow data centers and enterprise networks to increase scalability and improve throughput while dramatically lowering the cost of ownership for 10G links. Teranetics solutions are being adopted by many of the networking industries leading OEMs and equipment providers.

Enpirion, Inc. operates as an analog semiconductor company, which offers integrated power management solutions. It develops power systems-on-a-chip DC-DC converters featuring integrated inductors, that enables the combination of efficiency, footprint and low-noise performance. The company was founded by Robert Filas, Trifon Liakopolous, Ashraf Lotfi, Troutman William and Jain Tan in 2001 and is headquartered in Hampton, NJ.

WiNetworks, Inc. provides wireless broadband access solutions. The firm provides Win-Max systems that offer a range of products, including compact base stations, customer premise equipment, and relay stations. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

EZchip Semiconductor, Inc. provided fables semiconductor related products. It was a global leader and innovator in many core processors for network intelligence, video and cloud computing. The firm also developed highest performance, low-power, general purpose many core processors. It designed multi core embedded processors for networking, digital multimedia, and wireless infrastructure markets. The company offered multi core processors for processing and power requirements, multi core software development tools, cloud computing processors, and boards. The company was founded in October 2004 by Devesh Nandan Garg, Vijay K. Aggarwal and Anant Agarwal and was headquartered in San Jose, CA.

FiberZone Networks, Inc. develops and markets fiber management systems. It delivers remote fiber connectivity solutions to datacenters and networks with its Automatic Fiber Management (AFM) product line, delivering reliability, flexibility, fault tolerance and management to the fiber infrastructure. The company was founded in 2003 by Joseph Arol and Zohar Avrahami and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

Torrent Network Technologies Corp. provided Internet-class routing solutions for operators and service provider networks. Torrent Networking Technologies was acquired by Ericsson. Torrent Network Technologies is located in Silver Spring, MD