Keith Mueller

Artisan Components, Inc. develops and manufactures high density embedded memories. The firm's products include standard cell libraries, embedded memories, input/output cells, analog functions, and high-speed interface IP. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Part of Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Symbionics Group Ltd provides technology design services to manufacturers in the electronics market. The company is based in Cambridge, UK. Symbionics Group was acquired by Cadence Design Systems, Inc. on March 03, 1998 for $56.70 million.

Optigo Networks, Inc. develops secure networking solutions for smart buildings. Its products include optigo connect, optigo insight and visual bacnet. The company was founded by Daniel Ronald and Pook Ping Yao in 2012 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Ag-West Bio, Inc. provides business planning support and regulatory advice services. The company works as a catalyst for developing partnerships and industry growth in the bio-economy through investments, aiding strategic alliances and providing business planning support, regulatory advice and communications. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Saskatoon, Canada.

Westcap Mgt Ltd (Westcap) is a private equity & venture capital firm founded in 1980 by Grant J. Kook. The firm is headquartered in Saskatoon, Canada.

GGSL Holdings Ltd. engages in retail and lease of construction and yard care equipment. It also specializes in the remarketing of pre-owned construction equipment including Bobcat skid-steer loaders, and other brands of tele-handlers and forklifts. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Prince Albert, Canada.

Avalon Oil & Gas Ltd. explores and produces heavy oil and gas. The company is engaged in the exploration, development and acquisition of both conventional and thermal heavy oil properties in the greater Lloydminster area of Alberta and Saskatchewan. The company is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Analog Design Automation, Inc. designs software to help design mixed signal and analog circuits. The company is headquartered in Saratoga, CA.

Part of Fortive Corp., Veridae Systems, Inc. develops debug and validation technology solutions. The company is based in Vancouver, Canada. Veridae Systems was acquired by Tektronix, Inc. on July 05, 2011.

Harris RF Communications is a supplier of secure radio communications products, systems and networks. It provides communications solutions for military, public safety, government and commercial customers. The firm’s product include tactical radios and networking, airborne radio products, C4ISR, vehicular intercom system, and communications security and encryption products. The company is headquartered in Rochester, NY.

Part of The Protectoseal Co., Electronic System Design, Inc. is a company that specializes in electronics technology for the water industry. The company is based in Palatine, IL. The company provides water process control boards for reverse osmosis water purification systems and water vending machines. Electronic System Design was acquired by The Protectoseal Co. on December 18, 2012.

BDC Venture Capital (BDC Venture Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1975. The firm is headquartered in Québec, Canada.

Tbaytel, Inc. is the largest independently owned telecommunications provider in Northern Ontario. The private company is based in Thunder Bay, Canada. Since its founding in 1902, the Canadian company has been committed to providing its customers with the best telecommunications services available to them where they live. The CEO of the company is Dan Topatigh.

Optosecurity, Inc. develops security software solutions. Its eVelocity software suite enables centralized remote screening of hand luggage. The firm also offers OptoScreener, a disruptive security product for checkpoints based on intelligent 3D computer vision and advanced material science. Its products are designed as an in-line detection system aimed at preventing terrorist events or attacks in high-profile facilities, such as airports and critical infrastructures. The company was founded by Eric Bergeron in 2003 and is headquartered in Quebec, Canada.

Optessa, Inc. develops and markets Web-based software solutions. Its products include Optessa MLP, an enterprise wide demand and capacity planning application; Optessa MLS, a scheduling and sequencing application; and Optessa RTS, an in-plant application for real-time re-sequencing and re-scheduling. The company was founded by Vidya Srinivas, Ashok Erramilli and Srinivas Netrakanti in 2001 and is headquartered in Edmonton, Canada.

Methodics, Inc. is engaged in providing intellectual property lifecycle management and traceability solutions. Its products include percipient, versic and warpstar. The firm offers functional safety, verification traceability, IP security assurance, and software design solutions. The co9mpany was founded by Simon Butler and Fergus Slorach in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

CLK Design Automation, Inc. provides software for semiconductor companies. It specializes in electronic design automation, static timing and variation. The company was founded by Joao Geada, Hal Conklin, Isadore T. Katz and Lee LaFrance in 2004 and is headquartered in Littleton, MA.

Clear Shape Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures semiconductor. Its products transform ideal-GDSII design to true silicon-accurate design by quickly and accurately accounting for systematic manufacturing variations due to lithography, RET, OPC and Copper on both device and interconnect. The company was founded by Thomas Kailath in 2003 and is located in Santa Clara, CA.

Ponte Solutions, Inc. develops and markets unique model-based software products, that are used to predict and enable optimization of semiconductor yields at the design stage. It has offices in Mountain View-California, Grenoble-France, Tokyo-Japan and Yerevan-Armenia. The company was founded in 2002 and is located in Mountain View, CA.

Tela Innovations, Inc. provides solutions addressing the challenge of scaling semiconductor design and manufacturing to advanced process nodes. The company was founded by Scott T. Becker, James H. Hogan, John Gerard Malecki and Dhrumil J. Gandhi in 2005 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, CA.

Nimbic, Inc. provides innovative 3D fullwave solutions. The company was founded by Vikram Jandhyala and Swagato Chakraborty in 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

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.

Sonics, Inc. provides system Internet protocol services. It offers SonicsLX (SLX), a NoC that provides systems-on-chip designers with the connectivity needed for CPUs and other processing engines to memory. The firm provides system Internet protocol solutions, which include security, power, and memory subsystems; development tools; performance analysis solutions and topology structures for the network design. The company was founded by Drew E. Wingard, Grant A. Pierce, and Geert Rosseel in September 1996 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Scoperta, Inc. integrates metal and amorphous alloys. It offers amorphous alloys, Vecalloy, conventional and nanostructure metals in terms of corrosion, wear resistance, hardness and scratch resistance. The firm products serve the industrial applications including offshore, marine, cutting tools, military, mining, power generation enhancing product life and performance. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Altos Design Automation, Inc. develops, manufactures and distributes software for IP development. The firm provides ultra fast characterization technology to enable IP reuse via accurate modeling of timing, noise, power and process variation. The company was founded by Jim McCanny, Ken Tseng, Kevin Chou and Wenkung Chu in January 2005 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Vayavya Labs Pvt Ltd engages in the provision of systems design and engineering tools and services. It offers product development, system modeling and virtual platforms, porting, and protocol stack development. The company was founded by Parag Naik, Venugopal Kolathur, Uma Bondada, and RK Patil in 2006 and is headquartered in Belagavi, India.

OneSpin Solutions GmbH develops and provides software solutions. The firm’s products include OneSpin technology platform, specialized apps, third party apps, and 360 DV-inspect. Its solutions include agile design evaluation, metric-driven verification, block integration validation, abstract C++ and SysC analysis, FPGA implementation QoR, and safety critical verification. The company was founded by Wolfram Büttner and Raik Brinkmann in 2005 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.