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Sonic Innovations, Inc. provides digital hearing aids and hearing aid components. The company was founded by Douglas M. Chabries in may 1991 and is headquartered in Somerset, NJ.

Lumentum Technology UK Ltd. designs and manufactures optical components, modules, and subsystems for fiber optic communication. The firm offers transceivers, transmitters and network lasers, receivers, amplifiers, pumps, LED, and laser illumination products. It offers services to the telecommunications, aerospace, industrial, semiconductor, and defense markets. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Towcester, the United Kingdom.

Clear Shape Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures semiconductor. Its products transform ideal-GDSII design to true silicon-accurate design by quickly and accurately accounting for systematic manufacturing variations due to lithography, RET, OPC and Copper on both device and interconnect. The company was founded by Thomas Kailath in 2003 and is located in Santa Clara, CA.

Ponte Solutions, Inc. develops and markets unique model-based software products, that are used to predict and enable optimization of semiconductor yields at the design stage. It has offices in Mountain View-California, Grenoble-France, Tokyo-Japan and Yerevan-Armenia. The company was founded in 2002 and is located in Mountain View, CA.

kSARIA Corp. manufactures and installs fiber-optic cables, connectors, and cable assemblies. It offers shipboard, aerospace, tactical, RF and microwave assemblies, expanded beam fiber optic cable assemblies, electro-mechanical manufacturing, electrical cable assemblies and harnesses, and fiber optic kits and supplies. The firm also offers field, cable, research and development design services. The company was founded by Andre Sharon in 2000 and is headquartered in Methuen, MA.

Daylight Solutions develops molecular detection and imaging systems for use in industrial process controls, scientific research, medical diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and homeland security and defense applications. Its products and services include scientific instruments, life sciences, industrial solutions, and defense and security. The company was founded by Timothy Day, Salvatore F. Crivello, and Paul Larson in January 2005 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Active-Semi International, Inc. develops integrated circuit architects. Its products include power application controller, power management units, DC/DC converters, AC/DC converters and active direct drive led controllers. The company was founded by Steven Thu Huynh in 2004 and and is headquartered in Allen, TX.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

Siemens Corp. manufactures electrical hardware and software for the communication, power, medical and other industries. The company was founded in 1847 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

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.

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.

USVP Management Co. LLC (US Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1981 by Bill Bowes. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Photonic Materials Ltd. develops and manufactures single crystal components. Its products are used in fiber optic components, medical imaging scanners, and lasers. The company was founded by Dr. John Nicholls and Jean-Luc Lefaucheur in 1999 and is headquartered in Bellshill, UK.

Brion Technologies, Inc. develops computational lithography technologies. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Princeton Lightwave, Inc. specializes in detecting and processing photons digitally. It offers GeigerCruizer, Geiger-mode flash 3D LIDAR cameras, and Gm Detectors and Components. The company was founded by John C. Connolly, Pamela York, Raymond J. Menna, Nancy Morris, and Dmitri Garbuzov on February 7, 2000 and is headquartered in Cranbury, NJ.

Intact Medical Corp. develops and distributes minimally invasive devices for the excision of breast tissue for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. The company founded by Scott P. Huntley and Philip E. Eggers in 1998 and is headquartered in Naples, FL.

Media Lario Technologies SRL supplies cost effective reflective optical components and systems for a variety of applications in Semiconductor Lithography, Semiconductor Processing Capital Equipment, Space and Terrestrial Science and Medical and Life Science Devices, thereby serving the radiation spectrum from X-ray to millimeter waves. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Bosisio Parini, Italy.

The Optical Society of America provides publications, meetings, and membership programs in optics and photonics. The private company is based in Washington. The CEO of the American company is Elizabeth Rogan.

Morgenthaler Management Corp (Morgenthaler Management) is a venture capital and private equity firm founded in 1968 by David Morgenthaler. The firm is headquartered in Portola Valley, California.

Media Lario International SA manufactures and supplies reflective optical components and subsystems. The company was founded by Arnoldo Valenzuela and Jeffey Charles Lyons on December 12, 2003 and is headquartered in Luxembourg.

M Squared Lasers Ltd. develops and manufactures lasers and photonic instruments. The firm’s products include SolsTiS, Lasers, Firefly-IR, and -THz laser. The company was founded by Graeme Malcolm Peter Alexander and Gareth Maker Thomas on May 2, 2006 and is headquartered in Glasgow, the United Kingdom.

Cepton Technologies, Inc. engages in the manufacture and distribution of sensing and ranging systems for automotive, industrial and mapping industries. It offers AV and ADAS, intelligent traffic systems, security and safety, crowd analytics, infrastructure, and mapping and surveying. The company was founded by Jun Pei and Mark McCord in 2016 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.