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Astria Semiconductor Holdings – Chief Financial
Officer
 Vice President Global Sales
Vice President of Marketing
Astria Semiconductor Holdings is the parent company of MicroProbe and Micromanipulator, two longstanding suppliers to the semiconductor test segment. In addition, to offering a broad suite of conventional cantilever and vertical probe cards, the company has received recent validation of its MEMs-enabled probe products to achieve rapid global adoption among logic, RF, and SOC customers. Revenue growth has been recognized by Deloitte as #33 in 2008 Technology Fast 50.
Funded by Intel Capital, Flywheel Ventures and Gemini Investors. |
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Purcell Systems – Senior Vice President Sales and Business Development
Purcell Systems designs and manufactures smart, green cabinet and equipment enclosures, configurable with integrated power and environmental systems, cabling, and battery backup for the wire-less, wire-line, cable/mso and smart grid service provider markets.
Funded by Weston Presidio. |
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GigOptix – Chief Executive
Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Vice President of Marketing
Vice President of Sales
Vice President Optical Communications Sales
Vice President Global Operations
Member, Board of Directors
GigOptix is a leading fabless semiconductor manufacturer of optoelectronic ICs for optically connected systems. It offers the industries' widest selection of high speed optical Physical media Dependent (PMD) ICs with a portfolio including modulator drivers, laser drivers and TIAs for telecom, datacom, Infiniband and consumer optical systems, from 3.125G - 100G, covering all laser technologies, serial and parallel. GigOptix is a privately held company headquartered in Palo Alto, CA and subsidiary GigOptix - Helix AG in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. – U.S. Subsidiary President
Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. is a leading global semiconductor equipment manufacturer with solutions and services that are used by 21 of the largest 25 IC manufacturers. Nova’s expertise in Thin Film and Optical CD & shape profiling metrology systems are addressing the complex measurement and process control challenges of High Volume Production (HVM) in 300 & 200 mm IC manufacturing, from 90nm to the demanding 45nm and 32nm technology nodes.
NASDAQ: NVMI |
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SVTC Technologies – Vice President Sales and Marketing
Sales Operations Senior Director
SVTC Technologies, a leading independent semiconductor development foundry, enables the development and commercialization of innovative semiconductor-based technologies and products in an accelerated, cost-effective and IP-secure way. SVTC' competes in rapidly growing markets such as MEMS/MOEMS, Photovoltaics, Biotech, Novel memory and high-voltage applications.
Funded by Tallwood Ventures and Oak Hill Capital Partners in March 2007.
Funded by Tallwood Ventures and Oak Hill Capital Partners in March 2007. |
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Xradia – Chief Executive
Officer
Vice President Marketing
Vice President Global Sales and Field Operations
Vice President Finance
Asia Pacific Managing Director Commercial Operations
Xradia is dedicated to serving a diverse and growing applications base, including semiconductors, advanced materials, nanotechnology, bio-tech and life sciences. The company’s advanced 3D imaging products include commercial systems for industry and research as well as specialty solutions for the Synchrotron radiation community. Xradia’s imaging technology is the latest advancement in a progression of ever more sophisticated generations of imaging techniques that began with optical microscopes and has progressed through SEMs, TEMs and AFMs.
Funded by Harris & Harris, Intel Capital and influential private investors. |
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Multibeam Systems– Chief Executive Officer
Multibeam Systems has developed new technology for a multiple-beam, linear-array electron-beam lithography system to enable cost-effective production of integrated circuits through "maskless" or direct-write lithography.
Funded by DynaFund Ventures, NIST, SEMATECH and infulential angel investors. |
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Molecular Imprints – Vice President Sales and Marketing
Molecular Imprints was founded in Austin, TX, in 2001 to design, develop, manufacture and support imprint lithography systems to be used by semiconductor device and other industry manufacturers. Molecular Imprints is the largest single organization in the world working solely on imprint lithography. The company over 400 patent and patent applications worldwide, related to all aspects of Step and Flash® imprint lithography (S-FIL®), including intellectual property in the areas of fluid dispense and control, overlay alignment, template fabrication, and imprint materials.
Funded by Alloy Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Harris & Harris, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Motorola Ventures, KT Ventures, Hakuto Co, Asset Management Partners and others. |
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Metrosol – President and Chief Executive Officer
Recipient of the 2006 SEMICON West Technology Innovation Showcase (TIS) Award,
Metrosol’s state-of-the-art thin film measurement systems solve the needs
of next-generation semiconductor manufacturing. Metrosol has developed and patented
a means to enhance and extend the capabilities of Spectroscopic Reflectometry
with its Short Wavelength Optical Metrology technology, which extends the Vacuum
Ultra-Violet (VUV) wavelength region - down to 120 nm. Metrosol’s fully
automated in-line system is designed to fab specifications and provides extremely
fast measurement within a small spot size for ultrathin films.
Funded
by Silverton Partners and influential private investors. |
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Akrion – Chief Operations
Officer
Akrion is a leading provider of single-wafer and batch-immersion cleaning systems
for the semiconductor industry. The company's products are used in the production
of a diverse range of semiconductor and related devices, including integrated
circuits for DRAM, Flash, Logic and micro-electrical mechanical systems (MEMS)
and photomasks.
Funded by Sunrise Capital Partners, L.P., an affiliate of
Houlihan, Lokey, Howard and Zukin; and senior members of the company's management
group. |
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New Focus - Vice President of
Worldwide Sales
New Focus develops and manufactures innovative photonics solutions for the semiconductor
capital equipment, industrial and scientific markets. New Focus’ product
portfolio includes tunable lasers, advanced photonics tools and sophisticated
optical sub-assemblies. Founded in 1990 the New Focus is a leader in the development
and manufacture of “Simply Better” optical tools and solutions. The
company is headquartered in San Jose, Ca and is operated as an independent subsidiary
of Bookham Inc.
NASDAQ: BKHM |
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VaST Systems Technology – Vice President Engineering
VaST Systems Technologyprovides system-level tools and models for engineering SoCs and embedded systems. These products are used to create high-performance, accurate virtual systems prototypes. Virtual systems prototypes are software simulation-based models of electronic systems and SoCs that are used for hardware verification and software development. VaST's customers are worldwide leaders in automotive electronics, wireless systems, consumer electronics and semiconductors. Using VaST reduces development time, project risk and cost, and improves quality. Headquarters is in Sunnyvale, California with additional offices in Michigan and Texas in the US, Australia, Germany, Japan, and the UK.
Funded by Foundation Capital, Mohr, Davidow Ventures and Allen & Buckeridge. |
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Industrial Origami – Vice
President Marketing & Strategic Alliances
Industrial Origami, Inc. (IOI) has developed a new and dramatically different
approach to folding sheet materials—metals, plastics, and composites—that
offers manufacturers valuable benefits over traditional fabrication processes.
The patented, scalable forming process is applicable to manufactured products
of virtually every size from a cellular RF shield or a computer chassis to an
airplane wing or a radio tower. Headquartered in San Francisco and privately held,
the company was was incorporated in 2002 after the issuance of the first IOI method
patent.
Funded by Palo Alto Investors, Angel Investors, LP and influential private investors. |
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Accenia -
Vice President of Engineering
Accenia was founded in August 2001 to enable Embedded Supersystems Virtualization (ESV), a new class of technology aimed at revolutionizing the embedded software development process. The company’s flagship product, Accenia Studio™, provides accurate virtualization of complex hardware systems on the desktop to increase the speed and efficiency of in-house software development and testing efforts. Accenia Studio accelerates time-to-market by expediting development and testing tasks associated with the production of complex hardware systems such as telecommunications switches, storage servers, communications equipment and medical imaging devices.
Funded by Walden International, U.S. Venture Partners and leading industry angel investors. |
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Metara -
Chief Executive Officer
A pioneer and technology leader in the emerging in-line chemical metrology arena.
Metara is focused on helping the global semiconductor industry monitor and control
its chemical processes. The company’s automated SENTRY platform is the industry’s
first production-worthy, automated, inline chemical metrology solution designed
for real-time, non-invasive characterization of the process chemistries used in
manufacturing today’s most advanced devices.
Funded by VantagePoint Ventures Partners, Cipio Partners,
Merifin Capital N.V. and other influential investors. |
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OnWafer Technologies - Chief Executive
Officer
Vice President Worldwide Sales
Vice
President Marketing
Vice
President Manufacturing Operations
Vice
President Engineering
A pioneer in the development of a new generation of semiconductor metrology tools
that directly measure process conditions experienced on the wafer surface during
the manufacturing process and exploit this previously inaccessible data to enable
advanced equipment and process control.
Funded by
Mohr, Davidow Ventures, ITU Ventures, Newbury Ventures and influential private
investors. OnWafer Technologies was acquired January 2007 by KLA-Tencor.
NASDAQ: KLAC |
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ReVera Corp. - Vice President
Technology & Market Development
Nominated as one of Silicon Strategies' 60 Emerging Start-ups, ReVera Corp., based
in Sunnyvale, CA, is addressing needs in the semiconductor metrology area providing
precise measurements of film thickness and composition, with emphasis on ultra-thin
film stacks below 50 Angstroms. These films are being adopted in a variety of
applications, including high-k transistor gates, advanced DRAM capacitor structures,
and low resistivity interconnects.
ReVera was formed on January 23, 2004 by implementing a leveraged buyout and raising a venture round of financing led by Crosslink Capital that included an influential private investor and select members of the management team. |
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Jasper Design Automation - Vice
President Product Operations
Vice
President Marketing
Vice President Worldwide Sales
Jasper Design Automation, formerly Tempus Fugit, was founded in 1999 and is a
privately funded Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company. Based on true formal
functional verification, the company's breakthrough PreCognitive Formal Verification
Technology begins at the spec-level to deliver 100% exhaustive design requirement
proof for today's ultra complex Integrated Circuits.
Funded by Cambrian Ventures, Foundation Capital, Accel Partners and industry
angel investor Alain Labat, President and CEO Tera Systems. Jasper is located
in Mountain View, California. |
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Catalytic - Vice President Engineering
Vice President Marketing
Catalytic was founded in September 2001 by Dr. Randy Allen, a successful entrepreneur and world-renowned expert in compiler technology. Catalytic is focused on producing software products that greatly increase the productivity of digital signal processor (DSP) programmers, thereby greatly reducing the time it takes to get a DSP algorithm from MATLAB® onto a target DSP processor. Catalytic's products focus on the difficult bottlenecks of DSP programming: converting floating-point algorithms into fixed-point implementations, providing high-speed simulation, and automating the manual parts of the development process. Catalytic expects to reduce the time required to create a new DSP application by at least 60% and to reduce the manpower required by at least 40%.
Funded by NEA (New Enterprise Associates), ITU Ventures, and leading industry angel investors Curt Widdoes and Kurt Keutzer. Catalytic is located in Palo Alto, California. |
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Consilient - Vice President Marketing
A leading provider of peer-to-peer Internet infrastructure software whose technology extends and leverages existing software applications and platforms for a more efficient, adaptive, and intelligent way to do business.
Funded by Oak Hill Venture Partners, Trilogy Advisors |
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Juniper Networks- Vice President Mergers & Acquisitions
A leading provider of Internet systems used by more than 500 carriers and service providers worldwide to rapidly create and deploy Internet service offerings.
Nasdaq: JNPR |
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Corsair Communications - Vice President Engineering
Markets and sells cloning fraud solutions, as well as real-time billing and mobile commerce (mCommerce) systems to wireless carriers in the US and internationally in the fast growing Latin American, Asian and European markets.
Nasdaq: LTBG |
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Logictier - Chief Financial Officer
Senior Vice President Product Development
An e-business operations sourcing company, designs and manages Internet operations solutions for companies with high-requirement websites.
Funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Technology Crossover Ventures and has strategic partnerships with Level 3 Communications, Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, Oracle and Marimba. |
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Terraspring - Senior Vice President Product Development
Senior Director Software Development
An infrastructure automation software company, whose revolutionary software changes the economics of computing by creating a centralized pool of IT resources that can be re-purposed within minutes using a web browser interface.
Funded by Mohr, Davidow Ventures, Accel Partners, EMC Corporation and Hewlett-Packard Company. Terraspring was acquired November, 2002 by Sun Microsystems.
NASDAQ: SUNW |
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SkyStream Networks - Vice President Worldwide Field Operations
A worldwide networking infrastructure company whose products enable service providers to deliver revolutionary digital services over converged broadcast and broadband networks.
Funded by AOL Time Warner Investments, Amerindo Investment Advisors, Crosslink Capital, IVP, Intel, Integral Capital Partners, Mayfield, Norwest Venture Partners, WestBridge Ventures and Shaw Ventures. SkyStream Networks was acquired April 2006 by Tandberg Television.
OBX: TAT
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Reflectivity - Vice President Engineering
Develops innovative optical MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical-systems) devices on CMOS silicon backplanes for high definition micro displays and other exciting applications.
Funded by Acer Technology Ventures, Intel Capital, Investar, and Sony Venture Investments. Reflectivity was acquired June 2006 Texas Instruments. NYSE: (TXN) |
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Advanced Data Exchange - Chief Technology Officer
Advanced Data Exchange provides an easy, outsourced EDI and XML translation service that enables companies to exchange business documents electronically with all of their suppliers and customers.
Funded by American Express, webMethods, CMGI @Ventures, Intel Capital, Acacia Research, Talkot Capital, Wasserstein Adelson Ventures, Invemed Associates, iCentennial Ventures, and Ovation Capital Partners. |
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Timbre Technology - Chief Executive Officer
Developed the most advanced measurement software technology, which is essential for manufacturing semiconductor chip patterns at the sub-100nm level. Timbre's breakthrough computer software approach yields critical dimension (CD), cross sectional profile and film thickness in a single measurement. It enables precise device pattern cross-section to be generated with high repeatability in seconds.
Funded by Sevin Rosen Funds, Timbre Technologies Inc. and was acquired by Tokyo Electron Limited in February, 2001. |
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Alvesta - Chief Financial Officer, Vice President Marketing
Provides low-cost fiber optic bandwidth transport solutions that transcend the limitations of current copper-based interconnects to manufacturers of central office and enterprise networking and storage systems.
Funded by Intel Corporation, Enterprise Partners, Hamarex Holdings, Quantum Technology Ventures, and Cypress Semiconductor. |
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Broadstream - Chief Executive Officer
Optimizes the delivery and performance of all types of digital content over IP networks and distinguishes itself from other solutions by measuring, monitoring and managing content from the true edge of the network - at the end-user device.
Funded by EastWest VentureGroup, Change Technologies, and FGII Ventures. |
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Good Technology - Vice President Operations
An innovator in the enterprise mobile computing market, Good develops wireless software, services and handhelds that provide mobile professionals with a continuously synchronized wireless connection to their corporate email and information.
Funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Benchmark Capital. Good Technology was acquired January 2007 by Motorola. NYSE: MOT |
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Silicon Light Machine - Vice President Marketing
Pioneered the development of Grating Light Valve™ (GLV™) technology as a means for creating a high-performance spatial light modulator on the surface of a silicon chip for terabit-capacity optical network systems.
Funded by Mayfield Fund, Institutional Venture Partners, Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation and Cypress Semiconductor, Silicon Light Machines was acquired by Cypress Semiconductor in August 2000, and is now a wholly owned subsidiary. |
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Xicor - Vice President Worldwide Sales
Xicor is leveraging its unique strengths in nonvolatile technology and mixed signal design to be the leading provider of reprogrammable mixed signal products for the communications, consumer and industrial markets.
Xicor was acquired by Intersil Corp March, 2004. Nasdaq: ISIL
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