Steve Payne

IGNITE Group, Inc. (Ignite Group) is a venture capital firm established in 1997. The firm is headquartered in Redwood, California.

iPolicy Networks, Inc. provides network security solutions. It offers intrusion prevention firewall appliance; Security Manager, a security management system to service providers, enterprises, financial services firms, education institutions and government agencies. The company was founded in 2000 by Pankaj Parekh and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

SEGA of America, Inc. develops, publishes and distributes entertainment software products. It makes games for PCs, wireless devices, and consoles such as the Sony play station, Nintendo Game Cube and Microsoft Xbox. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. engages in the provision of management and technology consulting services. Its services include consulting, analytics, digital solutions, engineering, cyber security, and product. The company was founded by Edwin G. Booz in 1914 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

Nayna Networks, Inc. provides next-generation broadband access solutions. The company was founded in 2000 by Naveen S. Bisht and Raj Jain and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Xcieve Corp. operates as a venture-backed fabless semiconductor company. It develops RF silicon solutions for television signal reception which replace the bulky 'Can' tuner modules traditionally used inside television sets. The firm produces silicon tuner which provides performance surpassing that of tuner modules. The company was founded by Pierre Favrat on July 1, 2001 and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.

Nazomi Communications, Inc. provides multimedia application processor solutions to mobile phone and semiconductor makers. Its solutions support processing and performance boosting of Java software, video, imaging, 2D/3D graphic, animation, gaming and other multimedia platforms. The company was founded in 1998 and is located in Santa Clara, CA.

AZTEQ Mobile Corp. develops game platform for mobile devices. It offers camera, music, video, mobile gaming solution, and television services with voice and basic data to mobile consumers. The company was founded by Mica Imamura, Masahiko Kuwabara and Hiroyuki Kumasaki in 2004 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Erlang Technology, Inc. is a premier engineering solutions provider for the communications and computer industries. Its products include a wide variety of Advanced TCA hardware and software, two generations of switch fabric chips, content search engine, general purpose network management platform, and several board level products. Erlang provides professional services including chip, FPGA, board and system prototyping and software development. The company was founded by Dr. Paul Min, along with core members of the renowned Research Group in Telecommunications (RGIT), at Washington University, in St. Louis. Between, 1993 and 2000, Dr. Min led core members of RGIT to design and implement several generations of prototype switch fabric chipsets. The company provides outstanding switch solutions in the form of ASSPs and ASICs. Erlang has compiled several design wins, and is serving notable customers and strategic partners around the world. The Erlang Network Element Technology (ENET™) chipsets, Erlang's switch fabric products, include three chipsets, ENET Se, ENET Xe and ENET Te, as well as system accelerators, in the form of development kits. These highly functional, highly scalable chipsets were created to target next generation Multi Services Switch Routers that support data, voice, and video traffic. Its chipsets are developed in partnerships with multiple third party vendors and manufacturers of network processors to optimize system performance and accelerate time-to-market for system developers. The costs of Erlang's solutions scale linearly as system capacity grows, ensuring that system designers can build on the enormous investment as they evolve from generation to generation. In addition, Erlang currently offers several board products. PSNB™ is a PCI form factor board that contains Intel IXP2400™ Network Processor along with Erlang's PS2K™ content search engine chip. PSNB™ is suited for general purpose Layers 2-7 processing at multi gigabit wire speeds. PSB™ is a PCI form factor board that contains Erlang's PS2K™ content search engine chip. PSB™ is suited for pattern matching tasks at multi gigabit wire speeds. PNB™ is a PCI form factor board that contains Intel INP2400™ Network Processor. PNB™ is suited for protocol processing at multi gigabit wire speeds. Erlang's PS2K™ content search engine is in an FPGA design that can process pattern matching tasks with over 4,000 signatures in multi gigabit wire speeds. Currently PS2K™ is implemented in several customer designs providing intrusion detection and prevention, Denial of Service attack prevention, and port scanning prevention. Erlang offers a general purpose network management platform, SOCRATES™. SOCRATES™ can be programmed to perform monitoring, filtering, and controlling network packets. SOCRATES generates active probing packets that can actively and proactively manage the networks at Layers 2-7. SOCRATES™ is suited for managing networks for high performance, integrity, security, and user experiences. Erlang Technology, Inc. is a privately held company.