John Flynn

ACT Venture Capital Ltd(ACT Venture Capital) is a independent venture capital firm founded by Niall Carroll and Owen Murphy in 1994.The firm is headquartered in Dublin,Ireland with an additional office in Belfast.

Eblana Photonics Ltd. designs and manufactures laser diode products for the fiber-optic communications industry. It offers products for broadband, access, and enterprise markets, as well as wavelength division multiplexing, sensor, and medical applications. The company was founded by James O’Gorman and John Hegarty in 2001 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Corvil Ltd. provides electronic trading and market data latency management services. It offers Corvil Appliances, a network data analytics appliance that passively taps into network data, and discovers, decodes, and reconstructs various details of application and business data flows; and Corvil Plug-ins that identify and track messages, transactions and performance in real-time across various trading, middleware and enterprise data protocols. The company was founded by Raymond Russell and Ferhgal Toomey in April 2000 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Lime Microsystems Ltd. develops mixed signal radio frequency integrated circuits. Its products include transceivers, software defined radio and limenet. It offers single-chip multi-band, multi-standard broadband transceiver integrated circuits. The firm specializes in field programmable RF transceivers, which support wireless communication networking equipment that can be set and reconfigured to run on any wireless communications frequency and mobile standard. The company was founded by Ebrahim Bushehri in March 2005 and is headquartered in Guildford, the United Kingdom.

DecaWave Ltd. engages in the manufacture of integrated circuits for indoor location and communications. It offers semiconductors, software, modules, and reference designs. The company was founded by Ciaran Connell and Michael McLaughlin in 2004 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Cape Clear Software provides services-oriented architecture (SOA) and enterprise service bus (ESB) technology. Its products include Server, a runtime engine that supports service hosting, of BPEL, Java, assembly, and database services; and multiple transports out-of-the-box; Studio, an Eclipse-based tools environment for the development of SOA-based and on-demand applications.

The Irish Venture Capital Association is a representative organization for venture capital and private equity firms in Ireland. The Irish company invests in private, unlisted companies with high growth potential and work with the investee company management teams to support growth plans and make improvements to the business with the aim of increasing its value. The IVCA offers a range of services to its members and benefits of membership. The company's full members are venture capital and private equity firms that provide equity funding to growing unquoted companies. Associate members of the IVCA include firms that provide advisory services including corporate finance houses, commercial and intellectual property law firms, accountants and other advisers experienced in the venture capital field.

PrismTech Group Ltd. provides software integration and infrastructure solutions. Its products include vortex, DDS community and spectra. Its clients include aura, harbrick, prorail, rockwell collins and coflight. The company was founded by Keith Raymond Steele in 1992 and is headquartered in Stirling, the United Kingdom.

Straatum was the leading provider of real-time fault detection and classification solutions to the semiconductor sector worldwide. Fault detection and classification is seen as the foundation stone to meeting the advanced process control (APC) requirements long anticipated in the marketplace...'advanced process control is emerging as an essential ingredient of future wafer processing as necessary process performance challenges the limits of wafer processing equipment' Gartner June 2002.