3ware

3ware (acquired by AMCC then subsequently acquired by LSI) is the leader in high-capacity Serial ATA (SATA) and ATE RAID storage solutions. 3Ware controllers combine enterprise-level performance and reliability.

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Paul Matteucci

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Akros Silicon

Provides integrated circuits for Power-over-Ethernet applications.

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Chris Rust

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Asempra Technologies

Asempra Technologies (acquired by BakBone Software) real time backup and recovery protection.

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Steve Krausz

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Astute Networks

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

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Irwin Federman

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Box.net

Online file system that enables users to share, store, and access files of any type from anywhere.

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Winston Fu

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Centillium
Communications

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

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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.

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Irwin Federman

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CipherMax

Delivers storage security solutions

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David Liddle

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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.

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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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Electric Cloud

Provides enterprise-class infrastructure for the software build/release process.

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Steve Krausz

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Gear6

The leader in centralized storage caching solutions. The company's CACHEfx appliances transparently accelerate enterprise applications by serving data with ultra low latency and high throughput, boosting system performance across segments such as technical computing, database, web-scale, and video on download applications.

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David Liddle and Paul Matteucci

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Force10 Networks

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

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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.

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Steve Krausz

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Headway Technologies

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

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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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Jeda Networks

Developing solutions in the Software Defined Networks area

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Winston Fu

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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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Mellanox Technologies (MLNX)

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

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Irwin Federman and Chris Rust

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NeoMagic (NMGC)

Created a breakthrough by embedding RAM in a logic chip fabricated on a standard process and became the leading supplier of graphics accelerators to the laptop market.

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Irwin Federman

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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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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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Smartling

Provides Internet based businesses with affordable, real-time, crowdsourced and professional website translations

USVP Contact:

Steve Krausz

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Clustrix

Focused on development of a scalable infrastructure appliance, based on decades of experience in distributed processing, scalable file system appliances, supercomputing, and very large databases.

USVP Contact:

Chris Rust

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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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Teranetics

Developing complex mixed signal ICs capable of carrying 10Megabit data-rate signals 100 meters over copper wire.

USVP Contact:

Irwin Federman

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Zerto

The industry's first hypervisor-based, virtual-aware, storage-array-agnostic replication solution for tier-one applications, Zerto closes a critical gap in cloud and enterprise business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR). Zerto Virtual Replication delivers scalability and performance required for protecting federated production applications.

USVP Contact:

Jacques Benkoski, Paul Matteucci

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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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