Andrew Waterman

Benu Networks, Inc. provides networking and wireless communication products. Its virtual service edge offers fixed and mobile operators a scalable, access-independent real-time subscriber management platform that changes the paradigm from competing on speed and price to enabling revenue-generating public and private cloud-based services at the edge of the IP network. The company was founded by David F. Callan, Rajender Duggal and Michael R. Brown in 2010 and is headquartered in Billerica, MA.

Open-Silicon, Inc. provides application integrated circuit solutions. It offers prototyping, software and validation, virtual prototyping, design, analog ICS and production handoffs solutions. The company was founded by Satya Gupta, Naveed Sherwani and Scott Houghton in 2003 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Global Semiconductor Alliance provides information on and organizes events for the semiconductor industry in order to ensure growth and profitability of the industry. The private company is based in Dallas, TX. The company was founded by Jodi L. Shelton. Jodi L. Shelton has been the CEO since incorporation.

Rapid Silicon US, Inc. specializes in AI-enabled application-specific FPGAs for various target applications. The company is based in the United States, and it has a world-class team of industry veterans. The American company uses a combination of open-source software and proprietary AI technology to simplify the customer experience and improve design. Rapid Silicon is a leading company in the open-source FPGA space, providing innovative solutions with fast turn-around and reduced time-to-market. Naveed Sherwani has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Elastics.Cloud, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in smart interconnect technology. The company is based in San Jose, CA. The company focuses on creating flexible, scalable, and low latency composable systems to enable efficient and performant architectures. The company was founded by George Apostol, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

Rapid Silicon (HK) Ltd. is a company based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong that specializes in AI-enabled application-specific FPGAs for various target applications. The Chinese company uses a combination of open-source software and proprietary AI technology to improve design and simplify the customer experience. Rapid Silicon is one of the leading companies in the open-source FPGA space, providing innovative solutions with fast turn-around and reduced time-to-market. The CEO of the company is Naveed Sherwani.

PeerNova, Inc. engages in the provision of blockchain, big data, and financial infrastructure solutions. It offers Cuneiform platform which enables financial institutions to perpetually synchronize their data across multiple internal, and external systems guaranteeing data and process integrity. It also includes end-to-end digitization for financial firms; post-trade validation and positions management; intraday liquidity management; data monetization; and compliance and regulatory reporting. The company was founded by Benjamin Gorlick and Emmanuel Abiodun in 2013 and is headquartered in San, Jose, CA.

Touchstone Semiconductor, Inc. engages in the provision of analog integrated circuit solutions. The company was founded by Brett Fox in 2007 and is headquartered in DE.

Brite Semiconductor (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. provides integrated circuit design and manufacturing services. It offers application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design, system-on-chip (SoC), and turnkey services. The company was founded by Naveed Ahmed Sherwani and Chun Xing Zhi on July 17, 2008 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.

Children's Hospital Trust operates as a hospital trust. The private company is based in Boston, MA.

Power Launch Philanthropy, Inc. provides charity services. The non-profit company is based in Boston, MA. The company was founded by Todd A. Dagres.

Acies Acquisition Corp. II operates as a blank check company. The firm was formed for the purpose of effectuating a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or other similar business combination with one or more businesses. The company was founded on January 18, 2021 and is headquartered in Manhattan Beach, CA.

Liteboxer Technologies, Inc. operates fitness gaming hardware platform. The company was founded by Todd A. Dagres and Jeff Morin and is headquartered in Hampton, NH.

Accelera, Inc. develops and manages mobile broadband networks. The company was founded by Andrea Goldsmith and Bojan Likar in 2009 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Part of Truist Financial Corp., Suntrust Robinson Humphrey Capital Markets is a security brokerage services company. The company is based in Nashville, TN.

Atmosic Technologies, Inc. operates as a fabless semiconductor company that designs ultra-low power wireless solutions. Its products include M2 Series and M3 Series. The company is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

3com Megahertz Corp. provides voice and data networking products and services. The company was founded by Robert M. Metcalfe, Howard S. Charney and John P. Marshall in 1979 and is headquartered in Marlborough, MA.

Sensobi, Inc. provides an address book application for mobile phones. Its application enables business professionals to stay on their important calls and emails. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Timescale, Inc. extracts Insights from device data. Its time-series database and visualization tool designed for connected hardware. The company was founded by Ajay Kulkarni and Ajay Kulkarni and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Enfabrica Corp. is a silicon and software company that specializes in building foundational fabric technologies for the age of AI. The company is based in Mountain View, CA. The company's chips, software, and enabled systems are designed to solve critical I/O bottlenecks in accelerated computing infrastructure at any scale. Enfabrica is unleashing the revolution in next-gen computing with the world's most advanced, performant, and efficient solutions interconnecting compute, memory, and network. The company was founded in 2019 by Rochan Sankar and Shrijeet Mukherjee, with Rochan Sankar serving as CEO since then.

Sutter Hill Ventures LLC (Sutter Hill Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1962 by Paul M Wythes and Bill H Draper. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Lacework, Inc. provides cloud computing services. It offers workload security, container security and visibility and devops solutions. The firm also provides polygraph, threat insights, security automation and architecture products. The company was founded by Vikram Kapoor and Sanjay Karla in 2015 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

RF Pixels, Inc. provides next generations’ wireless solutions. The company was founded by Siva V. Thyagarajan and Sriramkumar Venugopalan and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Vera Security, Inc. develops data-centric security platform. It offers products for data security for files, mail, and business applications. The company was founded by Ajay K. Arora and Prakash Linga in 2010 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Menlo Security, Inc. provides cyber security services. It protects organizations from cyber attack by eliminating the threat of malware. The company was founded by Amir Ben-Afraim, Gautam Altekar, Poornima DeBolle and Gautam Altekar in 2013 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Skyport Systems, Inc. develops hyper-secured infrastructure that ensures the security of mission-critical IT and corporate assets with integration of compute, security, virtualization and policy management. Its products include SkySecure Compartments, SkySecure Systems, and SkySecure Center. The company was founded by Michael Beesley, William N. Eatherton and Rob Rodgers in 2013 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

ThousandEyes LLC develops software as a service tools for the networking community. Its offers network data, visual analysis, network insights, shared knowledge, network intelligence, and cloud based solutions. The company was founded by Mohit Lad and Ricardo Oliveira in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

OpenDNS, Inc. provides internet security services.It offer Umbrella, an enterprise security product The company was founded by David A. Ulevitch on July 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Juniper Networks is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Juniper Networks Inc founded in 2010 by Pradeep S. Sindhu. The firm is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.