Walter Hobbs

Genentech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for life-threatening medical conditions. It studies various areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmic diseases, microbial pathogenesis, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and opportunistic areas. The company was founded by Herb W. Boyer and Robert A. Swanson in 1976 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Firecomms Ltd. develops semiconductor related devices. It provides lasers and LEDs provide the groundwork that will revolutionize optical data communications for small area networks, such as in-car networks and home networks. It offers low power visible lasers unleash the potential for medical devices, barcode scanners and optical storage devices. The company was founded by John Lambkin and Thomas Moriarty in May 2001 and is headquartered in Cork, Ireland.

AGI Therapeutics Plc provides pharmaceutical services. The firm engages in development and commercialization of differentiated drug products to treat unmet medical needs, including conditions which qualify for orphan drug status. The company was founded by John Devane and Patrick Ashe in 2003 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

DecaWave Ltd. engages in the manufacture of integrated circuits for indoor location and communications. It offers semiconductors, software, modules, and reference designs. The company was founded by Ciaran Connell and Michael McLaughlin in 2004 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Part of Datatec Ltd., Logical Networks, Inc. distributes networking and data-communications hardware products. The company is based in Woodmead, South Africa.

Kainos Software Ltd. provides digital technology solutions. The firm offers software design, agile software development, third-party software integration and implementation, technology support and related ancillary services. The company was founded in April 1986 and is headquartered in Belfast, the United Kingdom.

Spectra Biomedical, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company that created to use a focused bit of genomic bioinformatics, centered on various neurological conditions. The company was founded by Stephen J. Peroutka on January 1, 1993 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Frontier Silicon Ltd. engages in the provision of technology solutions for digital radio and smart audio devices. Its products include chips, modules, platforms, and software. The company was founded by Anthony Ian Sethill in 2001 and is headquartered London, the United Kingdom.

Corvil Ltd. provides electronic trading and market data latency management services. It offers Corvil Appliances, a network data analytics appliance that passively taps into network data, and discovers, decodes, and reconstructs various details of application and business data flows; and Corvil Plug-ins that identify and track messages, transactions and performance in real-time across various trading, middleware and enterprise data protocols. The company was founded by Raymond Russell and Ferhgal Toomey in April 2000 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Fair Isaac (Adeptra) Ltd. has been in the business of automated, interactive customer communications since 1996. They focus on the needs of organizations engaged in consumer credit and risk management and this dedication has helped them to become the global market leader in their field. The firm operates headquarters and multiple data centers across North America, EMEA, and APAC. Its collections, fraud and marketing clients reflect this reach and include the majority of the world's consumer finance organizations.

Eblana Photonics Ltd. designs and manufactures laser diode products for the fiber-optic communications industry. It offers products for broadband, access, and enterprise markets, as well as wavelength division multiplexing, sensor, and medical applications. The company was founded by James O’Gorman and John Hegarty in 2001 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Lime Microsystems Ltd. develops mixed signal radio frequency integrated circuits. Its products include transceivers, software defined radio and limenet. It offers single-chip multi-band, multi-standard broadband transceiver integrated circuits. The firm specializes in field programmable RF transceivers, which support wireless communication networking equipment that can be set and reconfigured to run on any wireless communications frequency and mobile standard. The company was founded by Ebrahim Bushehri in March 2005 and is headquartered in Guildford, the United Kingdom.

Silicon & Software Systems Ltd. provides products, solutions and professional services to digital television, telehealth and semiconductor industries. It offers StormTest Development Center, a digital TV test automation platform for multiscreen platform end-to-end validation, QA during software development and integration, whitebox testing, multi-device testing, live audio/video quality analysis, live service monitoring and testing, stress testing applications; StormTest Decision Line, an industrial automated testing for screening digital TV devices; and technology consulting, system integration, testing and certification, and test services. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Leopardstown, Ireland.

Biosensia Ltd. develops multiplexing point of care in vitro diagnostics platform. It offers RapiPlex, a point-of-care diagnosis system based on a set of proprietary technologies capable of producing quantitative and qualitative laboratory quality test results. The company was founded by Gareth Redmond and Gabriel Crean in 2009 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Openjaw Technologies Ltd. provides travel distribution software solutions. Its OpenJaw t-Retail Platform gives travel companies to retail all travel products with world's reputed travel brands. The company was founded by John McQuillan, Sean MacRobeaird and John Lambe in 2002 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Part of Cobham Ltd., Vados Systems Ltd. is a British company that provides converged integrated communications solutions. The company is based in Ascot, UK. Vados Systems was acquired by AEP Networks, Inc., part of Cobham Ltd. from October 31, 2011 on November 04, 2008.

Beamax Ltd. operates as a sports social platform that allows sports teams to communicate and engage over the course of sports season. It offers online team management system creation and designing to take the hassle out of managing any sports team. The firm operates as a sports social platform across the web, email and mobile to let players, managers and coaches communicate and organize, taking the hassle out of sports team organization and management. The company was founded by Stephen Moulton, Niall McEvoy and Kenneth Moulton in 2008 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

The Irish Venture Capital Association is a representative organization for venture capital and private equity firms in Ireland. The Irish company invests in private, unlisted companies with high growth potential and work with the investee company management teams to support growth plans and make improvements to the business with the aim of increasing its value. The IVCA offers a range of services to its members and benefits of membership. The company's full members are venture capital and private equity firms that provide equity funding to growing unquoted companies. Associate members of the IVCA include firms that provide advisory services including corporate finance houses, commercial and intellectual property law firms, accountants and other advisers experienced in the venture capital field.

Changeover Technologies Ltd. engages in the process of converting waste to solid fuels. Its FuelForm system changes the economics of pelletising and briqueting fuels and biomass and the substantially lower overall costs of this unique system turns potential customers’ waste into raw materials and makes possible the commercial upgrading and blending of low rank, moisture coals. The company is headquartered in Belfast, the United Kingdom.