De Ming Xiao

National Semiconductor Corp. develops and manufactures analog intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The firm’s product portfolio includes power management circuits, audio and operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog converters, communication interface circuits, lighting and display circuits, adaptive voltage scaling circuits, and radio frequency integrated circuits, as well as power references, regulators, and switches. The company was founded by Arie Brish on June 29, 1959 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Heartport, Inc. develops systems and procedures for heart surgery. The company's technologies allow surgeons to perform a wide range of less invasive open-chest and minimally invasive heart operations, including stopped heart and beating heart procedures. Heartport was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Elantec Semiconductor LLC designs, manufactures and markets high performance analog integrated circuits primarily for the video, optical storage, communications and power management markets. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Nexxt, Inc. operates an online career network to connect job seekers and employers through career channels. It offers candidate search, email marketing and human resources tools and services. The firm also provides international recruitment, agency solutions, strategic alliances, cooperates career site and applicant tracking systems solutions. The was founded by Richard P. Milgram on January 1, 1998 and is headquartered in King of Prussia, PA.

Tessera Technologies, Inc. develops and licenses innovative semiconductor, interconnect and imaging technologies. The company offers mobile computing and communications, memory and data storage and 3-D Integrated Circuit technologies. Tessera Technologies was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

NComputing, Inc. engages in the provision of desktop virtualization hardware and software technology services. The company was founded by Young Song in 2003 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Mustek Systems, Inc. engages in the manufacture and sale of digital imaging devices and data storage & processing equipment. Its products include WiFi scanners, docking scanners, portable series scanners, photo and documents series scanners, name card and documents series, automatic voltage regulator, and offline uninterruptible power supply and line-interactive UPS. The company was founded on October 15, 1988 and is headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

ATI Liquidating, Inc. designs, manufactures, sells and supports advanced semiconductor capital equipment and process technologies for the global semiconductor industry and related markets. The company was founded by Patrick C. O'Connor on September 18, 2003 and is headquartered in Scotts Valley, CA.

Cornice, Inc. provides health care staffing services. It offers nursing, rehabilitation and imaging professional employment services. The company was founded by Curt Bruner and Thomas Kevin Magenis in 2000 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Horizon Ventures LLC (Horizon Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Jack C, Carsten and John E. The firm is headquartered in Palo Altos, California.

Sonics, Inc. provides system Internet protocol services. It offers SonicsLX (SLX), a NoC that provides systems-on-chip designers with the connectivity needed for CPUs and other processing engines to memory. The firm provides system Internet protocol solutions, which include security, power, and memory subsystems; development tools; performance analysis solutions and topology structures for the network design. The company was founded by Drew E. Wingard, Grant A. Pierce, and Geert Rosseel in September 1996 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Industry Ventures LLC (Industry Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Johan Douwe Swildens and Tom Litle. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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.

Verimatrix, Inc. provides digital content protection solutions. It specializes in securing and enhancing revenue for network-connected devices and services. The firm offers pay-TV security which includes VCAS Ultra, VCAS for Broadcast Hybrid, VCAS for DVB Hybrid, MultiRights OTT Plus, Monitoring and Anti-Piracy, Watermarking Solutions, Verspective Analytics, and Verimatrix Vtegrity. The company was founded by R. Ross Cooper and Robert Kulakowski in 1999 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Auvitek Corp. manufactures semiconductor supplies for the digital television market. The firm's products are based on fully adaptive demodulation and equalization technology. It has offices in Silicon Valley, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The company was founded by Ping Dong and Victor Ren in March, 2004 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Shanghai Sihe Stainless Steel Products Ltd. is a Chinese company that manufactures and exports steel products.

Part of Mutto Optronics Corp., Honest Mount Investments Ltd. operates as an investment holding Taiwanese company. The company is based in Taipei, Taiwan.

HighGear Ventures Management LLC (HighGear Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Jim J Jones and Steve Taubman. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

vTradEx Information Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. was founded in 2001 and is based in Shanghai, China. The Chinese company provides intelligent cloud solutions for supply chain execution to over 1200 leading companies worldwide, including those in the CPG, retail, pharmaceuticals, apparel and fashion, automotive, high-tech, manufacturing, and logistics industries. The private company's mission is to empower the enterprise supply chain by using cloud technology for logistics digital transformation and enable them to make better, more responsive supply chain decisions. vTradEx offers a TMS platform to support the transportation ecosystem, a WMS for highly automated warehouses, and a rule engine's bill management system BMS. The company optimizes the optimization system cube-iq with feasible assembly solutions and provide comprehensive solutions for intelligent and mobile network supply chain leadership brands. The company's logistics financial control system LFCS, ROS, path optimization system, and packing optimization system are some of the other solutions they offer. By bringing this ecosystem of shippers, carriers, and logistics service providers to the cloud, vTradEx enables end-to-end visibility, connectivity, and efficiency to the trading partners, helping their customers to cut costs and gain an unparalleled advantage.

HighGear Ventures Secondary I LP seeks investment opportunities in the companies located in the United States. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of application security, including enterprise infrastructure, SaaS, cloud application and infrastructure and information technology sectors. It provides financing for later stage and secondary transactions with the investment size of minimum USD 0.25 million. It also makes investment in venture capital funds.

Tcera Co. Ltd. manufactures electrical and electronic equipment. The private company is based in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.