Christel Mauffet-Smith

Zetex Plc designs, manufactures, and supplies electronic components. It provides analog semiconductor products for signal processing and power management. The company designs and manufactures standard and application focused linear integrated circuits and discrete semiconductor products using a wide variety of wafer processing technologies. It has offices in Munich, Hong Kong, and New York. Zetex is located in Oldham, UK.

Encore Industries, Inc. molds and thermoforms containers, paint trays, mixing containers and industrial pails for a variety of markets. It uses regrind to mold its EcoSmart product line and uses a lot of regrind for its industrial pails. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Bellevue, OH.

MIPS Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of intellectual property processor architectures and cores. Its products include Warrior M-Class, Warrior I-Class, Warrior-P Class, AptiveGeneration, and microMIPS ISA. The company was founded by John L. Hennessy in 1984 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Corsair Components, Inc. develops and manufactures high-performance gear and technology for gamers, content creators, and PC enthusiasts. It offers DDR3 memory upgrades, USB flash drives and power supply units. The company was founded by Andrew J. Paul, John S. Beekley and Donald A. Lieberman in 1994 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Arm Ltd. engages in the licensing, marketing, and research and development of microprocessors, system intellectual property (IP), graphics processors, physical IP and associated systems IP, software and tools. Its products include Pelion IoT platform, Mbed OS, IoT SoC, and Kigen SIM. The company was founded by Michael Peter Muller in November 1990 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

New Enterprise Associates LLC (New Enterprise Associates) is a venture capital firm founded in 1977. The firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

eASIC Corp. engages in the development of fabless semiconductor technology solutions. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

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.

Bank of the West operates as a state chartered commercial bank. It offers retail banking, small and medium enterprise banking, pacific rim banking, commercial banking, wealth management, and personal finance. The company was founded in 1874 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

New York State Bar Association is a non-profit organization, which provides legal services and offers a membership program for lawyers. It also publishes an array of books, bar journals, law digest, and State Bar news. The company was founded in 1876 and is headquartered in Alban, NY.

National Association of Corporate Directors provides online and print information services to directors of public companies. It offers in-boardroom education, evaluation, governance reviews, board composition and succession planning, board recruitment, ongoing advisory, insights, and analytics services. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

The District of Columbia Bar provides legal services. The private company is based in Washington.

National Venture Capital Association provides business association services. It facilitates networking opportunities and provides research data to its members. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

State Bar of Texas provides legal educational programming services. The private company is based in Austin, TX.

The State Bar of California operates as an official attorney licensing agency. The non-profit company is based in San Francisco, CA. Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker has been the CEO of the company since 2015.

Part of International Business Machines Corp., IBM Research is a corporate research lab with over 3,000 researchers in 19 locations across six continents. The company is based in Yorktown Heights, NY and was founded by Thomas Boudalier. The company invests in breakthroughs such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and blockchain technology. IBM Research is dedicated to applying AI and science to industry challenges, from healthcare to environmentalism to retail.

Illuminate Management LLC (Illuminate Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Cindy B. Padnos. The firm is headquartered in Oakland, California.

Part of Bank of Montreal, BMO Financial Corp. provides banking and investment services. The company is based in Wilmington, DE. Darrel Hackett has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

The Lemelson Foundation engages in the provision of philanthropic services. It focuses on nurturing invention-based businesses developing physical products to address global and community challenges. The company was founded by Jerome Lemelson and Dorothy Lemelson in 1992 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

Part of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd., PricewaterhouseCoopers (Turkey) is a Turkish company that provides transparency, trust, and consistency in business processes. The company is based in Besiktas, Turkey. The company offers tax consultancy services for mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and asset/business transfers. PwC also provides sector-focused audit, tax, and consulting services to public institutions and private organizations worldwide. The company was founded by Adnan Nas.

Lycée Français de San Francisco is an educational institution that operates an elementary and secondary school. The non-profit company is based in San Francisco, CA.

Mawsonia Ltd. provides media publication and data services for the corporate venture capital industry. It offers consulting and advisory services, financial and legal services, and executive search and recruitment services. The company was founded by James Mawson in May 2010 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

IBM Ventures (IBM Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in New York.

QuantalRF AG is an innovative RF semiconductor company based in Zurich, Switzerland, with R&D centers in the USA. The Swiss company is focused on developing novel quantal technologies for RF front-end module (FEM) and semiconductor manufacturer customers, as well as solutions for customers with specialized applications. The company's patented quantal technology is transforming the RF front-end with ultra-compact solutions in CMOS SOI technology, rivaling wave and GaAs performance for commercial broadband applications. The CEO of the company is Ali Fard.