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Xylan Corp. provides bandwidth switching systems, which enhance the performance of existing local areas. The company was founded by Steve Y. Kim and Yuri Pikover in 1993 and is headquartered in Calabasas, CA.

PictureTel LLC develops, manufactures, and markets videoconferencing systems. It offers video streaming, visual, and data collaboration technologies to facilitate businesses, schools, medical facilities, government, and other organizations. It is a subsidiary of Polycom, Inc. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Andover, MA.

Part of Cisco Systems, Inc., GeoTel Communications Corp. is a telecommunications company that specializes in providing GIS services for the telecommunications industry. The company is based in Lowell, MA. GeoTel's distributor program is designed to help channel partners capitalize on the fast-growing telecommunications infrastructure data market. The company's GIS services include digitizing carrier routes for FCC compliance, digitizing records of fiber route information, and creating custom carrier maps. GeoTel Communications was acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc. on June 24, 1999 for $1,729.47 million.

Part of Nokia Oyj, NetStar, Inc. is the largest provider of OEM website categorization technology and intelligence. The company is based in Minneapolis, MN. The company offers internet categorization and filtering solutions for the OEM market, with comprehensive coverage and partner support. NetStar's Incompass technology has been embedded into the leading URL and IP address categorization and reputation scoring solution in the OEM space since 2001. The company was founded by Duane S. Carlson. NetStar was acquired by Ascend Communications, Inc. on August 15, 1996 for $231.31 million.

Part of Cisco Systems, Inc., Summa Four, Inc. provides open, programmable switching systems and advanced signaling solutions. The company is based in Manchester, NH. Summa Four was acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc. on November 05, 1998 for $102.49 million.

Inlet Technologies LLC provides encoding solutions for audio and video. The company was founded by Habib Haddah, Jon Bishop and Neal Page on April 1, 2011 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Nistica, Inc. supplies agile optical modules and subsystems. Its products include FLEDGE, FOURIER, high port-count, and ROADM linecard. The company was founded by Thomas A. Strasser and Jefferson L. Wagener in January 2005 and is headquartered in Bridgewater, NJ.

Technology Venture Partners LLC (Technology Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Bryson Hollimon. The firm is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Digi-Key Corp. distributes electronic components. It also distributes semiconductors, discrete, electromechanical parts. Its products include audio products, batteries, cable assemblies, capacitors, computer & video accessories, connectors, crystals & oscillators, discrete semiconductor products and many more. The company was founded by Ronald A. Stordahl in 1972 and is headquartered in Thief River Falls, MN.

RedShift Bioanalytics, Inc. manufactures and markets thermal imaging systems, infrared cameras and infrared detectors. Its products are used in various applications, such as tunable laser spectroscopy, tunable infrared illuminators, line narrowing filters, gas analyzers and handheld spectrometers. The company was founded by Matthias Wagner, Eugene Y. Ma and Stuart Nixdorff in 2005 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

7signal Solutions, Inc. provides wireless performance optimization solutions for wireless LAN applications. Its product Sapphire system is a vendor agnostic solution that works with any wireless access point which allows users to manage WLAN performance and generate Wi-Fi analytics as well as obtain information and directions for step-by-step Wi-Fi network optimization. The company serves hospitals, universities, enterprises, and distribution centers. 7signal Solutions was founded by Veli-Pekka Ketonen and Marko Pirinen in February 2006 and is headquartered in Akron, OH.

Elevation Spine Inc is a medical device company that specializes in spinal fusion procedures. The company is based in Monterey, CA. The company's proprietary technology platform, Saber Technology, offers a minimally invasive approach to spinal fusion that is highly efficient. Saber Technology is designed to improve patient outcomes while providing surgeons with a high-tech, yet simple approach to spinal fusion procedures. The first FDA cleared Saber Technology product, Saber-C, is comprised of a zero-profile anterior cervical plate that accepts multiple spacer material & fixation options. The CEO of the company is Charles Gilbride.

Wireless World, Inc. operates as an online platform for selling mobile and cellular devices. The company was founded by Gardner, Daniel and in 1984 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

AFL Telecommunications LLC engages in the provision of solutions to the energy, service provider, enterprise, and industrial markets. Its products include fiber optic cable, conductor accessories, fiber optic connectivity, test and inspection, fusion splicing, specialty optical fiber, board level fiber connectivity, aluminum clad steel, rail transit systems, copper apparatus, and fiber optic cleaning. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Duncan, SC.

Vesbridge Partners LLC (Vesbridge Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Jeff Hinck and Zenas Hutcheson. The firm is headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

Hospital for Special Surgery provides healthcare services. Its services include orthopedic, rheumatology, and rehabilitation specific surgery services. The company was founded by James A. Knight and Robert M. Hartley in 1863 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art operates as an arts institution that maintains a museum and library of art, encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and the application of arts to manufacture and practical life. The company was founded in 1870 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

dBm Optics, Inc. manufactures and markets optical test equipment. The company is headquartered in Lafayette, CO.

Associated Electric & Gas Insurance Services Ltd. provides underwriting, claims, and loss control services to member companies on an individual basis. Associated Electric & Gas Insurance Services is based in New York, NY, and has subsidiaries in Bermuda, United States, Canada, and United Kingdom. The policies are tailored to fit the specific needs of each member company at a fair price that accurately reflects the risk. The private company offers deep expertise and a wide range of loss control products, services, and educational opportunities that can't be matched by commercial insurers.

Lightship Telecom offers data, Internet, and voice telecommunications services over its digital switching network that serves New England business clients. The company offers local exchange access, long-distance, and broadband Internet access, as well as frame relay data transmission and data lines. Lightship Telecom has operations in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

The Corning Museum of Glass collects, preserves, and displays collection of art and historical glass. It cares and displays the collection of art and historical glass. The company was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Corning, NY.

The Harvard Corp. is a private company that was founded in 1973. The company is based in Evansville, WI. The company manufactures and sell oil filtration systems.

The Pierpont Morgan Library, Inc. is a non-profit company that sells photographic and digital reproductions of rare material in the Morgan's collections. The company is based in New York, NY, specifically in a complex of buildings in the heart of the city. The Morgan Library & Museum was originally the private library of financier Pierpont Morgan, who was one of the preeminent collectors and cultural benefactors in the area.