Nick Penwarden

CommVerge Solutions (Asia) Ltd. provides network integration and services. It offers independent and unbiased end-to-end solutions to service providers in addressing their various technical, operational and business needs. The firm also offers managed unified communications, remote and security services, network device management and information technology services. The company was founded by Tjerk van Rijk, Edmund C. C. Wei, Jimmy Cheung and Amer K. Salem in 1999 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.

Sony Corp. of America manufactures audio, video, communications and information technology products. The firm offers its products under the categories of computer, cameras, photo and video, televisions, video and home theater, mobile, tablets and smart devices, playstation, portable devices, home audio, car and marine. The company was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Force10 Networks, Inc. is a technology company, which engages in the provision of infrastructure solutions to build and secure intelligent services networks. The company was founded by Prabhat K. Dubey, Steve Sinclair, and Bruce Miller on September 30, 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Miradia, Inc. designs and manufactures digital micro display components. The company was founded by Dongmin Chen and in 2003 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

ONStor, Inc. provides scalable clustered solutions for enterprise. It offers storage solutions on brand names pantera and bobcat series gateway. The company's software solutions include data replication, gateway manager, ever on platform and global namespace virtualization. It has offices in the United Kingdom, Germany and, Japan. ONStor was founded in October 2000 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Cogent Communications is a company that operates as an internet service provider. The company's headqaurters is located in Boca Raton, Florida

3PAR, Inc. provides utility storage solutions. It also provides platform for the delivery of enterprise IT as a utility service. The company was founded by Jeffrey Price and Ashok Singhal in 1999 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

ZiiLABS Pte Ltd. designs and supplies software graphics accelerator solutions and integrated hardware solutions to Computer Aided Design, Digital Content Creation, and visual simulation professionals. The company offers large amount of memory needed by graphics, workstations, and other platforms. 3DLABS was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Meritech Capital Partners (Meritech Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Mike Gorden, Paul Madera and Rob Ward. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Icon Ventures LLC (Icon Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of JAFCO Group Co Ltd founded in 2003 by Joseph Horowitz. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Worldview Management Corp. (Worldview Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by James Wei and Michael Orsak. The firm is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Tensilica, Inc. is dedicated to helping its customers successfully to use its processor cores in its SOC designs. Its processor cores are often used in places engineering teams haven't considered using processors before - as a matter of fact, the company specialized in the hardest data-intensive applications. There are so many applications for Tensilica's processors that its customers have helped to become the fastest growing semiconductor IP supplier in 2008, according to the Gartner Group. The company makes some of the fastest, lowest power 32-bit RISC microprocessor cores on the market. Its Diamond Standard family of controllers uses its core technology to excel at control plane tasks. Tensilica is the recognized leader in customizable dataplane processors. Dataplane Processor Units (DPUs) consist of performance intensive DSP (audio, video, imaging, and baseband signal processing) and embedded RISC processing functions (security, networking, and deeply embedded control). The automated design tools behind all of Tensilica's application-specific processor cores enable rapid customization to meet specific data-plane performance targets. Tensilica's processors power top tier semiconductor companies, innovative start-ups, and system OEMs for high-volume products including mobile phones, consumer electronics devices (including portable media players, digital TV, and broadband set top boxes), computers, and storage, networking and communications equipment.

Hawaii Community Foundation provides charitable services. It serves as a resource on philanthropy, community issues, and trends. The firm has locations in island of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui. The company was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in Honolulu, HI.

National Utility Contractors Association operates as a trade association working for utility construction and excavation industries. Its chapters represent utility contractors, excavators, suppliers, manufacturers, and other providers in the water, sewer, gas, electric, telecommunications, treatment plant, and excavation industries. The company was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. is an organization for educated women. The non-profit company is based in Washington.

Olson Technology, Inc. manufactures and supplies frequency agile community access television (CATV) headend products. Its products include CATV transport, return path block converters, ethernet and data transport. The company was founded in July 1985 and is headquartered in Mi-Wuk Village, CA.

CALY Networks, Inc. provides broadband services. The private company is based in Sunnyvale, CA.

Varcode Ltd. provides cold chain monitoring services. The firm offers monitoring of temperature sensitive products and protect the supply of food, pharma and other temperature sensitive products. The company was founded by Yaron Nemet and is headquartered in Raanana, Israel.

Texas Capital Bank provides commercial banking services. It offers credit solutions, treasury and liquidity, mortgage services, private wealth, and personal banking. The company was founded by Jody Grant and C. Keith Cargill on December 18, 1998 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

PL Developments, Inc. manufactures, packages, and distributes over-the-counter (OTC) pharmaceutical products and consumer healthcare goods. It offers solid and liquid dose OTC, powders, first aid, electrolytes, personal and feminine care, supplements, and nicotine replace therapy products. The company was founded by Mitch Singer and Mort Rezack in 1988 and is headquartered in Westbury, NY.

iWorld Networking, Inc. manufactures networking and video monitoring solutions.

Varcode, Inc. provides cold chain temperature monitoring technology solutions. The company is based in Chicago, IL.