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Emerald Technology Ventures AG (ETV) is a venture capital investment firm with headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland and offices in Montreal, Canada. The firm originated in 2000 as the Sustainable Asset Management (SAM) Group. In 2007, ETV was formed following an MBO by the SAM private equity management. The firm specializes in the global clean technology investment sector. ETV manages several venture capital funds and venture capital portfolio mandates. Among investors are financial institutions and multinational corporations.

Cirque Corp. is a private company that specializes in capacitive touch technology. The company is based in Salt Lake City, UT and was founded by Jim OCallaghan. The company has invented the original capacitive touch technology and have continued to innovate into markets like VR gaming, secure touch, and proximity touch. The company offers custom solutions and showcase the possibilities of their technology. The company also offers off-the-shelf OEM trackpads and rugged input solutions. Additionally, they provide developer resources and development kits to unlock design potential. The company has also developed Glidepoint, the original trackpad technology, which has provided a reliable and versatile user interface for decades.

EnOcean, Inc. develops patented energy harvesting wireless technology. The firm's technology include energy harvesting, ultra-low power management, radio technology, patents and white papers. Its applications include building automation, smart home, wireless LED controls and machine to machine. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Cottonwood Heights, UT.

ZigBee Alliance creates, maintains and delivers open and global wireless standards. Its products include talkingplug 11202, safe plug 1202, 1313-11-SE-9942, safeplug 1313-01-SE-9935, safe plug 1203, YDF40, demo color light and demo color scene remote. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Davis, CA.

Figure 8 Wireless, Inc. provides software and networking solutions for wireless communications. Its customers include OEMs and semiconductor companies. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

ERS Electronic GmbH designs and manufactures thermal wafer chucks and other thermal solutions. Its products include AirCool3 modular chuck system for various testing situations, and PowerSense chuck system for detecting and dissipating heat during wafer test for high-wattage high-end logic chips, and WaferTherm chuck system for thermal wafer testing for the laboratory environment, and ERS AirCool3 package level thermal system for the air-only tritemp testing of packaged devices. The firm also manufactures custom solutions for thermal testing and processing issues. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Germering, Germany.

Texas Instruments Norway AS provides fabless semiconductor devices. It engages in designing, producing, and marketing radio frequency integrated circuits for use in a variety of wireless applications. It serves the home and building automation, consumer electronics, and automatic meter reading markets. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.

Adaptricity AG engages in the development of simulation and optimization software tools for adapting electric distribution grids for the transition towards renewable energies. It also provides consulting services on calculation and simulation tasks. The firm specializes in distributed generation, demand response, and energy storage. The company was founded by Stephan Koch, Andreas Ulbig, and Francesco Ferrucci in March 2014 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Greenteg AG is a private company based in Zurich, CH that specializes in the development, manufacturing, and sales of heatflux sensors. The company was founded in 2009 as an ETH Zurich Spinoff. Greenteg has partnered with Schauenburg Systems to improve work-safety in mines, which has been recognized as beneficial.

Siemens Technology Accelerator GmbH (STA) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Siemens AG (FR: SIE) in Germany. Created in 2001, the firm aims to externally commercialize innovative technologies of Siemens which are not turned into products within Siemens itself, typically through spin-offs, licensing or sales. Based in Munich, the STA offers access to the Siemens network through various links. Because Siemens operates a worldwide infrastructure for the management of patents and trademarks, the STA is able to support new businesses with Intellectual Property issues which may arise. The firm also has an external network comprised of German and international venture capitalists.