Ernest Maddock

Riverbed Technology, Inc. develops applications, websites, networks, data centers, the cloud, and remote offices. It offers visibility, intelligent optimization, and simplified control for all applications. The firm's solutions include application performance monitoring, network performance monitoring, end-to-end performance management, hyper-converge branch, wide area network optimization and hybrid wide area network. The company was founded by Jerry M. Kennelly and Steven McCanne in May 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Silvaco, Inc. provides electronic design automation software solutions. It offers technology computer aided design products such as process simulation, stress simulation and virtual wafer fab and interactive tools. The company was founded by Ivan Pesic and Kathy Pesic in 1984 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Novaled GmbH designs and develops organic light-emitting diode technologies. Its products include organic materials, OLED display materials, OLED lighting materials and organic photovoltaic materials. The company was founded by Karl Leo, Jan Blochwitz-Nimoth, Martin Pfeiffer and Jorg Amelung in 2001 and is headquartered in Dresden, Germany.

Velodyne Lidar, Inc. provides smart, powerful lidar solutions for autonomous vehicles, driver assistance, delivery solutions, robotics, navigation and mapping. Its sensor and software solutions provide flexibility, quality and performance to meet the needs of various industries, including autonomous vehicles, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), smart cities and security. The company was founded by David S. Hall in 1983 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.