Agility

Agility (acquired by JDSU) is a leading supplier of tunable transponders and optical components for telecom infrastructure.

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Steve Krausz and Paul Matteucci

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Akros Silicon

Provides integrated circuits for Power-over-Ethernet applications.

USVP Contact:

Chris Rust

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Astute Networks

Provides innovative storage processor IC's which significantly enhance storage systems' performance.

USVP Contact:

Irwin Federman

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Axiom Microdevices

Axiom Microdevices (acquired by Akyworks) was the first company to use commodity complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processes to produce fully integrated power amplifiers for the cellular telephone market.

USVP Contact:

David Liddle

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BeVocal

BeVocal (acquired by Nuance) is a leading supplier of voice-recognition software, and hosted services, for customer care applications, which significantly improve service levels and lower operating costs.

USVP Contact:

Irwin Federman

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Blue Coat Systems (BSCI)

Blue Coat (formerly CacheFlow) provides high-performance proxy appliances to deliver visibility and control of Web communications to address today's new business risks, including inappropriate Web surfing, spyware and viruses brought in through backchannels such as instant messaging.

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Centillium
Communications

Centillium Communications (acquired by TranSwitch) is one of the leading providers of ASDL and Voice-Over-IP ICs.

USVP Contact:

Irwin Federman

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Check Point Software (CHKP)

First-to-market with a network security "firewall" product, coined the term and is the market leader in perimeter security software.

USVP Contact:

Irwin Federman

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Crescendo Communications

Crescendo pioneered the first 100 Mbps LAN over UTP copper wire and was an early entry in the Ethernet switch marketplace. The company was Cisco's first major acquisition. At least four of Cisco's present senior management were members of Crescendo's executive team.

USVP Contact:

Irwin Federman

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Dilithium Networks

3G video telephony solutions for the world's mobile and broadband industries.

USVP Contact:

Chris Rust

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Dune Networks

Dune Networks (acquired by Broadcom) is a fabless semiconductor supplier of networking devices for Data Center, Enterprise and Carrier Ethernet switching platforms

USVP Contact:

Chris Rust and Jacques Benkoski

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Force10 Networks

The pioneer in resilient Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching and routing systems.

USVP Contact:

Steve Krausz

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Harmonic Lightwaves (HLIT)

Leading provider of digital video, broadband and optical networking and IP delivery systems to cable, satellite, telecom and broadcast network operators.

USVP Contact:

Steve Krausz

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Headway Technologies

Develops, manufactures and supplies magnetoresistive (mr) heads to the disk drive industry.

USVP Contact:

Irwin Federman

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IC Works

IC Works was a leading supplier of frequency generator ICs, and was acquired by Cypress Semiconductor, just prior to its intended Initial Public Offering.

USVP Contact:

Irwin Federman

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Intransa

Innovator of enterprise-class, intelligent IP storage products and software. Intransa's IP SAN solutions dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of deploying scalable network storage.

USVP Contact:

Paul Matteucci

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Kaiam Corporation

Innovative integration platform for high performance fiber optics that achieve high density and low cost.

USVP Contact:

Chris Rust

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LVL7

LVL7 (acquired by Broadcom) creates production-ready networking software that enables communication system manufacturers to reduce development costs and deliver IP/Ethernet products to market faster.

USVP Contact:

Chris Rust

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MMC Networks

MMC (subsidiary of AMCC) invented the Network Processor IC, and defined that market space. After going public, it was acquired by AMCC, where its CEO became President and Chief Operating Officer.

USVP Contact:

Irwin Federman

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MegaPath Networks

Delivers secure access and managed network solutions that enable businesses of all sizes to cost-effectively connect branch offices, mobile workers and home-based workers to centralized corporate resources through comprehensive managed access, VPN and security services.

USVP Contact:

Steve Krausz

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Mellanox Technologies (MLNX)

Leading supplier of Infiniband, high-performance connectivity IC's.

USVP Contact:

Irwin Federman and Chris Rust

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Minerva Networks

Provides a complete hardware/software product suite, enabling quality TV transmission over Internet Protocol.

USVP Contact:

Irwin Federman

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New Focus

New Focus (acquired by Bookham, Inc.) develops passive and active optical components and test equipment for communications applications.

USVP Contact:

Winston Fu and Steve Krausz

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Nuance Communications (NUAN)

Enhanced and commercialized speech recognition software technology developed at Stanford Research Institute and became the industry leader in speech engines. Now public, the company has recently announced an intended merger with ScanSoft.

USVP Contact:

Irwin Federman

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Occam Networks (OCNW)

Occam develops and markets innovative Broadband Loop Carrier networking equipment that enables telephone companies to deliver voice, data and video services based on Ethernet and Internet Protocol (IP) technologies through a single, all-packet access network.

USVP Contact:

Steve Krausz

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Optichron

Fabless semiconductor company developing a family of mixed-signal integrated circuits that target communications, scientific and industrial markets. The company's intellectual property is based on an advanced array of signal processing technologies that provide cost, power and performance advantages.

USVP Contact:

David Liddle

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Redline Communications (RDL)

Redline designs and manufactures standards-based broadband wireless access solutions. Using industry leading OFDM technologies, Redline's award-winning products provide unmatched high capacity and non-line-of-sight capabilities.

USVP Contact:

Steve Krausz

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Redwood Systems

Energy control systems for green buildings

USVP Contact:

Winston Fu and Rick Lewis

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SanDisk (SNDK)

The world's largest supplier of flash memory data storage cards and related end-user products for digital "film," MP3 music players, USB devices and other consumer applications.

USVP Contact:

Irwin Federman

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Stratacom/Cisco (CSCO)

ATM-based packet-switching system for wide-area networks. Company went public, and was then acquired by Cisco Systems.

USVP Contact:

Steve Krausz

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StrataLight

StartaLight (acquired by opnext) is a leader in the development of transport solutions that take advantage of spectrally efficient lightwave modulation. The company delivers 40 Gigabit per second fiber transmission subsystems sold as OEM products to carriers.

USVP Contact:

Steve Krausz and Chris Rust

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Sun Microsystems (JAVA)

Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle) develops workstations, software and services for a wide variety of markets, including scientific, engineering and as Internet infrastructure.

USVP Contact:

Bill Bowes

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Teknovus

Teknovus (acquired by Broadcom) develops and delivers the only proven, fourth-generation EPON chipset with the features and performance to enable fast, easy-to-deploy, low-cost triple-play (voice, data, video) via fiber to the home (FTTH) at 1000 times the bandwidth of DSL.

USVP Contact:

Winston Fu

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Xirrus

Has developed the world's first Gigabit-class enterprise Wi-Fi solution - the Wireless LAN Array.

USVP Contact:

Steve Krausz and Irwin Federman

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Xylan (ALU)

Xylan (acquired by Alcatel-Lucent) develops dynamically-reconfigurable LAN switches with WAN access.

USVP Contact:

Steve Krausz

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