Sheng Fan Yan

HVVi Semiconductors is a fabless semiconductor company located in Phoenix, Arizona that manufactures high performance silicon RF power transistors. The company’s patented HVVFET™ is an impressive transistor architecture that combines high current density with high voltage operation. The transistor structure greatly reduces device parasitics which results in frequency performance greater than 10 times that of other vertical transistors, and has superior gain, linearity and ruggedness over bipolar transistors. In 2008, HVVi launched its first product families for the pulsed RF transistor market. Pulsed RF transistors are used in a variety of applications such as military/avionics, medical, and industrial technologies. These markets have been historically served by bipolar transistor technology, and LDMOS has made little penetration due to reliability issues. HVVi is poised to disrupt bipolar’s hold on the market due to the HVVFET’s superior gain, linearity, and ruggedness performance improvement over bipolar.

Visage Mobile, Inc. provides technology services for mobile virtual network platform. Its products include MobilityCentral, VisagePulse, International Travel Roaming Alerts (ITRA) and Concur Travel Integration. The company was founded by David Fraze and Matthew Johnson in 2001 and is headquartered in Larkspur, CA.

Rive Technology, Inc. operates as a catalyst technology company for the petroleum refining industry. It develops materials-based solutions for catalytic and separations processes, such as those in the petroleum refining, chemicals, and biofuels industries. It offers RiveCat, a catalyst that focuses on the conversion process in the refinery-fluid catalytic cracking. The company was founded by Lawrence Evans, Javier García Martínez and Andrew Dougherty in 2006 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Silicor Materials, Inc. manufactures solar silicon and multi crystalline solar cells. It operates as a supplier to the solar photovoltaic industry as well as other industries who use aluminum-based products. The firm purifies silicon, casts the silicon into ingots, cuts the ingots into bricks using diamond saws, cuts the bricks into wafers using wire saws, and converts the wafers into solar cells through a series of steps to form the photovoltaic junction. The company was founded by Kamel Ounadjela, Fritz Kirscht, and Eicke Weber in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Wakonda Technologies, Inc. develops solar photovoltaic products. It offers solar cells and solar electric technology services. The firm serves the commercial and military sectors. The company was founded by Leslie G. Fritzemeier and Ryne P. Raffaelle in 2005 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

ATV Capital Management Inc. (ATV Capital Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1979. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

OASYS, Inc. provides document storage and management solutions. It offers printers, copiers, multifunction systems, fax machines and scanners along with a host of document management systems to organizations. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Burlington, WA.

CTIA-The Wireless Association attracts members in the wireless communications industry and represents their interests to the public. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Nextivity, Inc. develops wireless indoor coverage technology which optimizes the experience of wireless subscribers and increases radio frequency network capacity for mobile operators. The company offers cellular fidelity systems to eliminate indoor dead zones and work in harmony with a macro network, and IntelliBoost baseband processors that offer dynamic wireless broadband services to optimize the indoor transmission and reception of 3G wireless signals. The firm offers products to mobile network operators, subscribers, and operator-aligned retailers. The company was founded by Greg Mauro and Behzad B. Mohebb in 2006 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

The Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants operates as an accounting organization. The private company is based in Beijing, China.

Part of China Polypeptide Group, Inc., Wuhan Tallyho Biological Product Co., Ltd. manufactures and distributes polypeptide-based nutritional supplements and health foods. The company is based in Wuhan, China. Wuhan Tallyho Biological Product Co. was acquired by Moneyeasy Industries Ltd. on December 26, 2007 for $0.49 million. Ming Du has been the CEO of the Chinese company since 2006.

Aquion Energy, Inc. develops and manufactures sodium ion batteries and energy storage systems. The firm manufactures proprietary Aqueous Hybrid Ion (AHI) batteries and battery systems for stationary energy storage applications. Its battery system provides emissions-free capacity that optimizes existing generation assets and enables broad adoption of renewable energy technologies such as wind and solar. The company was founded by Jay F. Whitacre in 2007 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Wuhan Huali Environmental Technology Co. Ltd. manufactures biodegradable materials. It converts low cost feedstock into bio-based plastics. Its products include biodegradable plastic bags, packaging bags, hotel products, and medical packages. The company was founded by LiBin Zhang and XianBing Zhang in November 2000 and is headquartered in Wuhan, China.

G20 Capital Management LLC (G20 Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Bob C. Hower and William C. Wiberg. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Digital Alloys, Inc. engages in the development of metal additive manufacturing systems. Its Joule Printing machine is used to cut and design tool steel, titanium, and multi-metal parts. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.