Doron Tal

BroadLight, Inc. delivers end-to-end passive optical network technology. The company was founded in June 2000 by Didi Ivancovsky, Raanan Ivry, Haim Ben-Amram and Tan Dror and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

STAR Ventures GmbH (STAR) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1991 by Meir Barel. The firm is headquartered in Gruenwald, Germany with additional offices in Herzliya Pituach and Texas.

Pomona College offers curriculum in the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. It was founded in 1887 and it is headquartered in Claremont, CA

Conexant Systems LLC provides semiconductor solutions for imaging, audio, embedded modem, and video surveillance applications. The company is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Exaware Ltd. engages in the provision of carrier-grade network operating systems for mobile and fixed telecom service providers. Its products include Peering/Edge/ Core and Access / CellSite Gateway. The company was founded by Itzik Zion, David Zelig, Michael Laor, and Michael Mesh in 2005 and is headquartered in Netanya, Israel.

Tel-Aviv University operates as a university in Israel. Its faculties include arts, engineering, science, humanities, law, life science, management, medicine, and social science. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Ramat Aviv, Israel.

Part of Koor Industries Ltd., Telrad Group provides telecommunications services.

Belmondo Capital, Inc. provides investment services. The private company is based in Munich, Germany.

Unisphere Networks, Inc. provides voice and data platforms for service providers. The company is headquartered in Chelmsford, MA.

Founded in 1999, Next47, Inc. is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The firm is the U.S. investment division of Siemens Venture Capital GmbH. Their ultimate parent is Siemens AG (NYSE: SI).

Mustang Investment Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. is a China-focused venture capital firm established in 2004 and based in Shanghai. Mustang has a strategic alliance with Trident Capital which is based in Palo Alto, California.

Part of Siemens AG, Siemens Information & Communication Networks, Inc. is a provider of integrated voice and data networks. The company is based in Boca Raton, FL.

ADVA International, Inc. is an American shell company.

Wavecom SA provides embedded wireless technology solutions for machine-to-machine communication. The company offers a range of GSM/GPRS, CDMA, EDGE, and 3G Wireless CPUs as well as programmable processors. Its solutions are used in automotive telematics, smart metering, fleet management, GSM/GPS/satellite tracking, wireless alarms, WLL, remote monitoring, and other machine-to-machine applications. The firm was founded on June 28, and is headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.

Xtellus is a leading supplier of ROADM technology and dynamic optical modules for Agile Optical Networking systems. Agile Optical Networks are reconfigurable DWDM networks that are used to provide rapid provisioning and efficient operation of triple-play high-speed Internet, video and telephone services. Xtellus is headquartered in Morris Plains, NJ, with manufacturing and development facilities in Israel and South Korea.

Siimpel Corporation has been in the business of innovation since its original founding in 2000 as SiWave. With a heritage from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a background in high-precision navigation grade MEMS sensors, the company has maintained a leadership in technology. In its short history, Siimpel Corporation created the smallest high port count optical switches in the world, packaged MEMS components for NASA's Mars rovers, developed the world's first MEMS horizon sensor, developed the highest precision laser ranging system, and created the world's smallest stages using MEMS technology. A recipient of the ATP (advanced technology program) award from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Siimpel is proud of its history of ground breaking innovation. Since 2004, Siimpel has been applying the high precision MEMS platform technology to enable the drastic reduction in size of high performance digital cameras. Siimpel's innovative products set new standards for the size and performance of digital cameras in mobile platforms.