Jose F. Suarez

eSilicon Corp. specializes in designing, productizing, and manufacturing of application specific integrated circuits. Its services include ASIC design services, custom three-dimensional packaging, high bandwidth memory solutions, semiconductor manufacturing services, multi-project wafer, and design and test services. The company was founded by Duy-Loan T. Le, John R. Harding, A. J. Sen, and Patrick Kwok in 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Patricia Industries, Inc. (Patricia Industries) is a private equity subsidiary of Investor Growth Capital AB founded in 1995, ultimately held by Investor AB in Sweden. The firm is headquartered in New York City with an additional office in Palo Alto, California. It was formerly known as Investor Growth Capital.

Atrenta, Inc. provides system on chip realization solutions for the semiconductor and electronics industries. The company was founded by Ajoy Bose in 2001 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Magnum Semiconductor, Inc. provides silicon, modules, software and Internet protocol. It provides line of products, tools, and technologies for the entire video content creation and distribution chain, from contribution and production through distribution over cable, satellite and IPTV to Over-the-Top video streaming. The company was founded by Jack Guedj on June 30, 2005 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Chelsio Communications, Inc. provides high-speed protocol-acceleration products. It is a technology company focused on solving high performance networking and storage challenges for virtualized enterprise data centers, cloud service installations and cluster computing environments. The firm delivers hardware and software solutions including unified wire ethernet network adapter cards, unified storage software, high performance storage gateways, unified management software, bypass cards and other solutions focused on specialized applications. The company was founded by Kianoosh Naghshineh in 1997 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Formed in 2000, Innovative Micro Technology (IMT) is a leading MEMS manufacturing partner with a diversified range of projects and products. IMT's overriding goal is to partner with companies to develop and manufacture products based on MEMS technology. The company was built for high-volume manufacturing and its 130,000 sq ft facility contains a 30,000 sq ft clean room/fab, the largest and best-equipped independent MEMS fab in the world. The management team has over 100 years of combined experience in high-technology manufacturing. IMT currently has 93 employees and 21 customers in diverse applications, including drug discovery, drug delivery, biomedical implants and cell purifiers, microfluidics, inertial navigation, optical telecommunications, printing, various sensors, night vision, IR emitters, telephone/DSL switching, RF devices, power management, and others.

Atomica Corp. engages in the provision of turn-key foundry services from design and development to prototyping and volume production. It offers technology platforms and technology modules to reduce the development cycle and to reach production in the shortest time. The company was founded by Peter T. Altavilla, Paul Rubel and Mike Shillinger in April, 2000 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

ExaGrid Systems, Inc. provides disk based data protection solutions. Its products include product architecture, scalability, data deduplication, and supported backup applications. The firm combines SATA drives compression and byte-level data reduplication for reliable backups and restores. The company was founded by James Pownell and David James Therrien in 2002 and is headquartered in Westborough, MA.

BlueArc Corp. develops and sells clustered network-attached storage systems for storing and managing digital content and unstructured file-based data. The company’s products use a scalable file system that allows for multiple storage appliances (nodes) to be managed as a single pool. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.