Edward G. Tiedemann

Open Connectivity Foundation, Inc. creates a specification and sponsors an open source project to unlock the massive opportunities in the IoT market, accelerate industry innovation and help developers and companies to create solutions that map to a single open specification. The company is headquartered in Beaverton, OR.

Multefire Alliance helps private networks discover available spectrum options around the world, including locally licensed, shared, and unlicensed options. Multefire Alliance is based in Fremont, CA and was founded in 2015 by Stephan Litjens. The company offers a shared PLMN-ID that can uniquely identify private networks. The company provides uni5g technology blueprints to help implement features for 5G private network devices.

Open Interconnect Consortium, Inc. defined connectivity requirements to ensure interoperability of devices that will make up the emerging Internet of Things. The company was headquartered in Beaverton, OR.

QUALCOMM Ventures (QUALCOMM Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of QUALCOMM, Inc. The firm is headquartered in San Diego, California.