Zahid Rahim

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.

Read Rite Corp. is one of the three major independent suppliers of magnetic recording heads for the hard disk drive and tape drive markets. The Company designs, manufactures and markets magnetic recording heads as head gimbal assemblies and incorporate multiple head gimbal assemblies into head stack assemblies. The Company is a market leader in providing magnetoresistive and inductive tape heads to the entry level through mid-range tape drive markets. The Company operates in an industry with limited visibility. It is located in Fremont, CA.

Sotera Wireless Inc. develops medical devices. It develops, markets, and sells a vital signs monitoring solution. It offers ViSi Mobile System, a platform for vital signs monitoring solution that is designed to keep clinicians connected to their patients. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Quantance, Inc. manufactures ultra-fast, envelope tracking power supplies. The company was founded by Vikas Vinayak and Serge Francois Drogi in 2006 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Tigo Energy MergeCo, Inc. engages in the provision of smart module technology for the solar industries. It designs solar optimizers utilizing patented impedance matching technology to allow more modules on any roof, uneven string lengths, and different orientations. The firm?s products include solar optimizers, software, and communication systems. The company was founded by Shmuel Arditi and Ron Hadar in 2007 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is among the foremost of institutes of national importance in higher technological education and in basic and applied research. The Institute, with nearly 360 faculty, 4000 students, 1250 administrative and supporting staff, is a self-contained campus and is located in a beautiful, wooded land of about 250 hectares in South Madras

Khosla Ventures LLC (Khosla Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Global Semiconductor Alliance provides information on and organizes events for the semiconductor industry in order to ensure growth and profitability of the industry. The private company is based in Dallas, TX. The company was founded by Jodi L. Shelton. Jodi L. Shelton has been the CEO since incorporation.

Orca Systems, Inc. provides integrated radio frequency and modem technology solutions. It offers a wireless transceiver architecture that allows consumers to achieve new benchmarks in solution cost, power consumption, and solution integration and Silicon TV Tuner, integrated universal terrestrial and cable silicon tuner supporting worldwide analog and digital broadcast standards. The company was founded by Guruswami Sridharan and Karthik Sridharan and is headquartered in Poway, CA.

National Association of Corporate Directors provides online and print information services to directors of public companies. It offers in-boardroom education, evaluation, governance reviews, board composition and succession planning, board recruitment, ongoing advisory, insights, and analytics services. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Part of L3Harris Technologies, Inc., Jariet Technologies, Inc. is a company that specializes in packaged RF/microwave transceiver ICs. The company is based in Redondo Beach, CA. The company also provides die-level transceiver products with AIB or SerDes interfaces for use in customer-developed multi-chip modules (MCMs) or system in packages (SiPs). Jariet Technologies works closely with their customers to develop mixed-signal multi-chip modules, leveraging their expertise in advanced, heterogeneous packaging techniques for high-frequency devices. Founded in 2015, the company offers commercially available or customized packaged IC products with integrated ADC/DACs, clocking, calibration, and DSP transceiver chiplets.

Eta Compute, Inc. is engaged in revolutionizing low power consumption for the Internet of Things. The firm provides consulting and design services. It offers a range of licensing models. The company also offers Circuit design, Low voltage standard cell library development, SoC and ASIC design. Eta Compute was founded by Gopal Raghavan, Timothy D. Semones and Paul Washkewicz in 2015 and is headquartered in Westlake Village, CA.

Ather Energy Pvt Ltd. designs and manufactures smart electric two-wheeler. It offers e-scooter, a smart vehicle with a futuristic design and connected functionality that aims to redefine urban commute. The company was founded by Tarun Sanjay Mehta and Swapnil Babanlal Jain in 2013 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Silicon Catalyst LLC (Silicon Catalyst) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Michael Edward Noonen, Daniel Armbrust. The firm is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

TSI Semiconductors America LLC develops, manufactures, and sells semiconductor devices. The company is headquartered in Roseville, CA.

Touchstone Semiconductor, Inc. engages in the provision of analog integrated circuit solutions. The company was founded by Brett Fox in 2007 and is headquartered in DE.

Maxim Ventures (Maxim Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Maxim Integrated Products, Inc founded in 2012 by Christopher J. Neil and Shailendra Mahajan. The firm is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Spire, Inc. develops respiration tracker device. It offers Spire application that classifies breathing patterns based on dozens of laboratory studies correlating respiration patterns with cognitive and emotional state. The company was founded by Jonathan Palle, Diego Prats and Neema Moraveji on May 4, 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Sarvint Technologies, Inc. provides wearable technology research services. The company was founded by Sundaresan Jayaraman, Sungmee Park, Palaniswamy Rajan and Jay Yadav in 2014 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

UnaliWear, Inc. develops and manufactures medical alert products. It offers medication reminders, voice activated directions, fall detection, and emergency and guide me home assistance. The company was founded by Jean Anne Booth, Marc DeVinney, and Brian Kircher and is headquartered in Austin, TX.