Bruce Sachs

Flarion Technologies, Inc. develops and provides broadband communication technologies and services. Flarion is engaged in mobilizing the Internet with its mobile communications network technology, flash-OFDM™. Flarion's technology enables mobile operators to offer Internet Protocol (IP)-based broadband services. Flarion's RadioRouter® base station product easily overlays onto an operator's existing network and radio spectrum and provides a seamless routing interface to the operator's existing IP network and the company's flash-OFDM-based devices provide users mobile Internet access with a true broadband experience. Flarion Technologies is headquartered in Bedminster, NJ.

Nantero, Inc. develops and manufactures semiconductor devices. It develops a new generation of memory called NRAM (non-volatile random access memory) that can enable a variety of exciting new features and products in both consumer and enterprise electronics. The company was founded by Thomas Rueckes and Greg Schmergel in March 2001 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

Carrier iQ, Inc. provides mobile service intelligence solutions that use mobile devices to deliver insight into the mobile experience for network operators and device manufacturers. It offers IQ Insight device analyzer that accelerates the mobile service and mobile device pre-launch activities at wireless carriers and mobile device vendors and IQ Insight data card analyzer, which gives users the information to troubleshoot, analyze, and optimize mobile data card population. The company was founded by Konstantin Othmer and Bruce Leak in 2005 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

The landscape for high-speed Internet access was dominated by a small number of telecommunications firms and cable providers who have a monopoly over spectrum assets. In most corners of America, consumers can only choose between one or two providers. This lack of competition in the marketplace has resulted in limited product choice, high prices, a slow pace of technical innovation and poor customer services. M2Z had assembled a group of leading technology vendors, consumer device and distribution partners and financial sponsors to support its innovative business model. As a new entrant, without any incumbent baggage, M2Z aims to improve the quality of people's lives and to spark a new cycle of innovation that will make America more competitive around the world through a free and nearly ubiquitous broadband services.

Samplify Systems, Inc. is a provider of intellectual property solutions which solve data acquisition and data processing bottlenecks. Its Prism Compression addresses data acquisition bottlenecks in industrial, scientific, medical markets, while its APAX technology accelerates software applications which are performance-limited by I/O, storage, or memory bandwidth bottlenecks in the computing, consumer, and mobile device markets. It is a private company based in Silicon Valley, with backing from leading venture capitalists, Charles River Ventures and Formative Ventures and strategic partners Schlumberger, IDT, and Cosmo.

Vanu, Inc. provides wireless infrastructure solutions. It enables operators to access new markets and new revenue streams and is the developer of the Anywave Base Station, the first U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-certified software radio, Anywave's software-only design runs on commercial off-the-shelf processors rather than ex­pensive proprietary hardware. The company was founded by Vanu G. Bose in 1998 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

GreatCall, Inc. provides active aging and independent living solutions. It products include splash, jitterbug5, and touch3. The firm also offers health, safety and medical applications such as urgent care, med coach, and 5star. The company was founded by Martin Cooper and Arlene Harris in 2006 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

ParaScale ('Parallel Scalability') was founded in 2004 on the premise that advances in computer hardware over the past ten years make possible better solutions for file storage, management, and distribution. Better means solutions that are more reliable, with more storage capacity, with higher read/write bandwidth, easier-to-manage, and less expensive to buy and operate than ever before. ParaScale recognized the need for a new class of storage solutions designed to support the wave of digital-content-intensive applications being adopted in the 21st century. These new applications-made possible by declining costs of semiconductors and the growth of the Internet-include video-on-demand, digital document archiving, scientific data analysis, video surveillance management, and medical image remote diagnosis. Adopting the best technologies in software design and leveraging the best tools available, ParaScale has delivered the ParaScale ParaScale Cloud Storage (PCS) system software layered on the Linux XFS file system, the Linux operating system, and the Internet Protocol (IP) networking protocol stack. ParaScale's founders have extensive experience in the development of systems software including operating systems, file systems, and database management systems on which modern applications rely. Members of ParaScale's founding engineering team have successfully delivered distributed operating systems and distributed file systems for companies including Sun (Sun Cluster), HP (Open SSI), Teradata (Teradata RDBMS), and IBM (AIX TCF). Headquartered in Silicon Valley, all of ParaScale's development is conducted in California. Maintaining a disciplined balance between creative design engineers and skeptical quality assurance (QA) engineers, ParaScale is dedicated to delivering hardened system software, expert professional services, and prompt technical support to customers worldwide.

Charles River Ventures, Inc. is a venture capital firm founded in 1970. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Memotec, Inc. develops next-generation solutions for telecommunications service providers, mobile network operators, and corporate customers. The company is based in Montréal, Canada. Memotec was acquired by Shiva Corp. /Old/ on April 22, 2003.

Water Cove Networks, Inc. develops mobile networking technology. The company also offers next generation networking equipment for wireless service providers looking to rapidly deploy mobile data services within their existing infrastructure and accelerate the rollout of personalized content and services using mobile appliances. Water Cove Networks was founded in 2000 and is located in Chelmsford, MA.

SnowShore Networks, a telecommunications equipment company, provides innovative IP communications infrastructure products to service providers worldwide

BigBand Networks, Inc. provides broadband services. It develops, markets and sells network-based platforms, that enable cable multiple system operators (MSOs) and telecommunications companies (collectively, service providers) to offer video services over coaxial, fiber and copper networks. It offers its customers Broadcast Video, TelcoTV, Switched Digital Video and IPTV (Personalized Video) solutions that are comprised of a combination of software and programmable hardware platforms. The company was founded by Amir Bassan-Eskenazi and Ran Oz on December 3, 1998 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Celerica, Inc. distributes cell site architecture solutions to overcome the complex challenges of mobile network deployment and enable an optimized distribution of existing capacity. The firm specializes in extending RF coverage and optimizing network capacity distribution of mobile communications in urban, suburban and rural areas, using optical wireless, fiber optics and microwave technology. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Morristown, NJ.

Bell Laboratories provides research and development services. It provides communications technologies including transistors, digital networking, signal processing, lasers and fiber-optic communications systems, communication satellites, cellular telephony, electronic switching of calls, touch-tone dialing and modems. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Murray Hill, NJ.

iControl Networks, Inc. provides remote monitoring software solutions. The company was founded by Wade Cohn, Reza Raji, Gerry Gutt, David Proft, Chris Stevens, and Jim Kitchen in 2003 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

The Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis cures multiple sclerosis (MS) by determining the cause. It specializes in research, biobanking, collaboration, fundraising, nonprofit. The company was founded by Art Mellor in 2000 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

SpiderCloud Wireless, Inc. develops small cell network platforms that enables mobile operators to deliver coverage, capacity, and cloud services to enterprises and venues. The firm offers Radio Node, Services Node, and Spidernet. The company was founded by Peter L. Wexler, Allan Baw, and Michael K. Gallagher on August 27, 2007 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

SimpliVity Corp. provides hyperconverged infrastructure that accelerates the deployment of resources and workloads. Its product OmniCube delivers the economies of scale of a cloud computing model while still ensuring enterprise information technology (IT) performance and resiliency for virtual workloads. It services include data center consolidation, data protection, disaster recovery, cloud computing, and data migration services. The company was founded by Doron Kempel and Steve Bagby in 2009 and is headquartered in Westborough, MA.

DataGravity, Inc. develops data-aware storage platform. Its products include datagravity for availability and datagravity for vitualization. The company was founded by Paula A. Long and John P. Joseph in 2012 and is headquartered in Nashua, NH.

Tonian Systems, Inc. developed software in the enterprise infrastructure and virtualization space. It developed standards-based innovations in enterprise storage based upon the pNFS standards. The company was founded in 2011 and was headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

OneCloud Software, Inc. provides enterprise data center solutions. It offers hyper-scale public cloud computing services that enable organizations to revolutionize their information technology strategies. The company was founded by Yoshi Okayama, Suresh Madhu and Marc Crespi in 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Jibo, Inc. develops robots that can interact with humans. The firm’s product Jibo acts like a smart assistant, reminding users of tasks and interacting with the household. It enables 3rd party developers to bring the engagement and emotional lift of social robots to their apps and services. It can be connected to multiple devices in its network including mobile devices, personal computers and even other Jibos. The company was founded by Cynthia Breazeal and Jerilyn P. Asher in 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.