John Valencia

Compass Technology Partners LP (Compass Tech Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1988 by David Arscott. The firm is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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.

Theta Microelectronics, Inc. provides radio frequency integrated circuits design services. It provides radio frequency integrated circuits for mobile and fixed wireless connectivity and video applications. The firm serves the mobile computing, imaging, multimedia, and communications markets. The company was founded by Yannis Tsividis and Yannis Papananos in 1994 and is headquartered in Coppell, TX.

Accelitas provides security and fraud prevention solutions. Its solutions include accelerated insight and mobile intercept. The company was founded by Gregory M. Cote and Gary M. Root in 2004 and is headquartered in Novato, CA.

Spectra Linear, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets timing circuits. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Practice XYZ, Inc. offers online platform which supports to share best practice videos. It offers corporate training, professional training, e-learning, online education, simulation training and video based training. The company was founded by Paul Tzen, Emily Foote and Karl S. Okamoto in 2011 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Sigma Partners (Sigma Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1984 by J. Burgess Jamieson and C. Bradford C. Jeffries. The firm is headquartered in Danville, California.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Academic Engine LLC develops custom knowledge processing software exclusively for higher education. The company is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Horizon Ventures LLC (Horizon Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Jack C, Carsten and John E. The firm is headquartered in Palo Altos, California.

Band of Angels LLC (Band of Angels) is an angel investment firm founded in 1994. The firm is headquartered in California.

Starvox, Inc. provides telephony network software. The private company is based in San Jose, CA.

Part of Glodyne Technoserve Ltd., Front Office Technologies, Inc. provides software development services. The company is based in New York, NY.

GainSpan Corp. designs and develops semiconductor solutions. It specializes in wireless connectivity products such as, Wi-Fi chips, software applications, and Wi-Fi modules. The company was founded by Lewis Adams and Vijay Parmar in September 2006 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Altius Education, Inc. provides online associate degree programs. It offers virtual learning systems, student services and educational pathways in order to provide students with a personalized university education. The company was founded by Paul Freedman and Cam Cruickshank in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Fidelis Education, Inc. provides digital learning solutions. It offers training, mentoring, community engagement, assessing, course authoring, tutoring and recruiting services. The company was founded by Erik Gunnar Counselman and Anoop Jayadevan in 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Jefferson Education Accelerator LLC provides education platform. The firm's network includes researchers, educators, entrepreneurs, and investors who are committed to discovering solutions that work and helping them scale. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.

ReUp Education, Inc. provides marketing services to education providers. It helps college students who drop out re-enroll in school and graduate. It provides coaches and a proprietary technological tool gives students the support they need to set goals, develop positive and effective habits, and reach the graduation finish line. The company was founded by Nitzan Pelman in July 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Entangled Ventures LLC (Entangled Ventures) is an venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Paul Freedman and Jason Sanders. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.