Chris Thelander

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.

Quantance, Inc. manufactures ultra-fast, envelope tracking power supplies. The company was founded by Vikas Vinayak and Serge Francois Drogi in 2006 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Xtalic Corp. provides nanostructure alloys for hard metal coatings industry. The firm offers xtronic, luna and nano-AL solutions. It offers dynamic nanostructure control technology. The company was founded by Christopher A. Schuh and Alan Lund in August 2005 and is headquartered in Marlborough, MA.

RipCode delivers transcoding solutions to providers of mobile, desktop and IPTV content. Its transcoding platform uniquely supports both live and file-based transcoding applications with the broadest codec support, most extensive device coverage, and widest range of picture resolutions. The platform provides this transcoding flexibility while enabling customer-optimized tradeoffs between concurrency, real-time performance, and quality of experience - enabling video transcoding and delivery to be closely aligned with specific business model needs. Its platform is fully integrated with all popular forms of video delivery applications including RTSP streaming, Adaptive RTSP streaming, HTTP Progressive Download, Apple iPhone 3.0 Streaming, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, and Adobe's upcoming HTTP Adaptive Download. The RipCode TransAct Platform™ sets them apart from traditional 'box' transcoding vendors. The TransAct portfolio extends industry-leading transcoding technology to a policy-driven video delivery platform elevating scalable, easy to deploy, revenue-generating video delivery to an on-the-fly, real-time network transaction tuned to the needs of each provider's business goals.

Qualtré, Inc. operates as a holding company, which engages in the development of solid-state silicon micro-electro-mechanical systems based motion sensor solutions for consumer electronics. Its product is bulk acoustic wave. The company was founded by Farrokh Ayazi and Mehran Mehregany in 2008 and is headquartered in Marlborough, MA.

Pelican Imaging Corp. provides camera technology solutions for mobile devices. The firm offers 3D image viewer, depth for AR and MR and mobile solutions. It specializes in Computational Imaging, Mobile Application Technology and Light-field photography. The company was founded by Kartik Venkataraman, Robert H. Mullis and Aman Jabbi in 2008 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Qpid Health, Inc. provides health record acceleration software and intelligence solutions. It develops clinical insights software for use by hospitals and medical groups. The firm’s QPID solution uses natural language processing and proprietary tools to improve how clinical and administrative users can have access to information stored in electronic health records. The company was founded by Michael Zalis and Mitchell Harris in 2011 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Granite Ventures LLC (Granite Ventures) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1992 by Jackie Berterretche, Sam D. Kingsland and Chris B. Hollenbeck. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Matrix Management Corp. (Matrix Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1977 by Paul Ferri. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts with additional offices in China and India.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

CampVentures LLC (CampVentures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Justin Camp and Jerome Camp. The firm is headquartered in Los Altos, California.

Mojo Networks LLC engages in the provision of wireless intrusion prevention and performance management solutions. It offers access points, cloud WiFi, and multiservices platform products. It serves the enterprise, K-12, higher education, retail and hospitality, service provider, and federal government industry. The company was founded by Samir Palnitkar, Jai Rawat, Pravin Bhagwat and Kiran Deshpande in 2003 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

RF Magic, Inc. manufactures broadband radio frequency integrated circuits. It offers services for consumer markets, broadband & digital broadcast entertainment industries. RF Magic has design center and sales office in Nice, France. The company was founded by Mark Foley and Dale Hancock in 2000 and is headquarters is located in San Diego, CA

Aspen Avionics, Inc. manufactures and distributes advanced technology aviation products. It produces flight display systems for general aviation aircrafts, class III aircrafts, and helicopters. The firm engages in bringing the advanced technology and capability from the commercial and business aviation markets into general aviation cockpits. The company was founded in 2004 by Peter Lyons and Jeff Bethel and is headquartered in Albuquerque, NM.

Kachi Partners is a private equity firm Founded in 2004 by Eric Weissmann. The firm is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

Instrument Sales & Service, Inc. manufactures and distributes automotive parts and offers supply chain solutions for the automotive and capital equipment industries. Its offerings encompass electromechanical parts, product realization solutions, end-of-life-cycle solutions, and transitioning existing programs. The company was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

National Semiconductor (Maine), Inc. develops and manufactures silicon diffused transistors and other semiconductor devices. The company was founded on October 1, 1957 and is headquartered in South Portland, ME.

J2 Partners, Inc. (J2 partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2008 by Gary Jacobs and John Helson. The firm is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

The Genesee Group, Inc. provides precision metal stamping and fabrication services. The firm's services include custom metal stamping, precision fabrication, laser cutting, CNC machining and engineering and tooling. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Grand Prairie, TX.

Empowered Careers Corp. operates as a mobile learning platform technology company. The company was founded by Stephen L. Poizner in 2011 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Morgan Keegan & Co. LLC is a broker/dealer headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. The firm was founded in 1969 and is a subsidiary of Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF). Morgan Keegan & Co. provides securities brokerage services to various types of clients.

Carmera, Inc. operates as a next generation data platform for smart cities and the future of transit. The company was founded by Ro Gupta and Justin Day and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

Lightmatter, Inc. provides software consultancy services which builds chips for artificial intelligence computing. The company was founded by arius Bunandar, Thomas Graham and Nicholas Harri in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

LoGrocket, Inc. develops front-end application performance management platform. Its application understand technical bugs and user experience problems. The company was founded by Matthew Arbesfeld and Ben Edelstein in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Lightforce Orthodontics provides bracket-based orthodontic treatment. The firm uses 3D printing technology for treating patients. The firm's products include cloud brackets, light and turbo tray. The company was founded by Alfred Griffin and Lou Shuman in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.