Kieran J. Harty

Wind River Systems, Inc. provides embedded and mobile software solutions. It offers operating systems, Wind River Helix Chassis, intelligent device platforms, network infrastructure, and Wind River Helix cloud. The company was founded by Jerry L. Fiddler in 1981 and is headquartered in Alameda, CA.

Chelsio Communications, Inc. provides high-speed protocol-acceleration products. It is a technology company focused on solving high performance networking and storage challenges for virtualized enterprise data centers, cloud service installations and cluster computing environments. The firm delivers hardware and software solutions including unified wire ethernet network adapter cards, unified storage software, high performance storage gateways, unified management software, bypass cards and other solutions focused on specialized applications. The company was founded by Kianoosh Naghshineh in 1997 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

SiBEAM is a privately-held fabless semiconductor company and founding member of the WirelessHD™ Consortium. A pioneer in developing intelligent millimeter wave technologies for wireless communications, SiBEAM is the first to build 60GHz chipsets using standard CMOS technology. The first applications for the company's innovative technology are based on the WirelessHD™ specification for home multimedia content delivery and A/V connectivity. SiBEAM is a global leader in driving the architecture and semiconductor implementation for the distribution and presentation of high-definition content in the consumer electronics and personal computing markets. Solutions for wireless personal area networks (WPAN) and WLAN automotive will follow. The company is actively involved in organizations leading the next-generation of digital home connectivity, including IEEE, CEA and MPAA The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in San Diego, Seoul and Tokyo.

Splashtop, Inc. provides instant-access computing solutions. Its products include Splashtop 2, which is the easiest way to access all of users content from any device from anywhere, and Splashtop for Business, which is a secure, high-performance solution for organizations to provide and manage access for their mobile users, and Splashtop OS, which is a platform that allows users to access e-mail and chat with friends, and Splashtop Remote, which provides access to watch movies, listen to music, access files and applications, and play PC, Mac, and flash games remotely. The company was founded in 2006 by Mark Ming Hsun Lee, Philip Felkal Sheu, Thomas Wel-Lun Deng, Alex Lu and Robert Ha and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Bandgap Engineering, Inc. develops renewable energy technologies. It provides photovoltaic and storage batteries. The firm engages in nano-structuring silicon and applying these technologies to photovoltaic systems and lithium ion batteries. It also provides nanotechnology based photovoltaic solar cells. The company was founded by Chris Hobson and Marcie R. Black in 2007 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

Graphite Systems, Inc. develops storage technology solutions. The company was founded by Frederic Roy and Mark Himelstein and is headquartered in Lehi, UT.

Kumu Networks, Inc. designs and manufactures wireless systems using full-duplex wireless design technology. Its wireless full-duplex allows a radio to transmit and receive signals at the same time using a single frequency channel. The company was founded by Jung-il Choi, Philip Levis, Sachin Katti, Steven Hong, Mayank Jain and Jeffrey A. Mehlman in 2012 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Lightspeed Management Co. LLC (Lightspeed Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1971. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It was formerly known as Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners.

New Enterprise Associates LLC (New Enterprise Associates) is a venture capital firm founded in 1977. The firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Viking Enterprise Solutions engages in designing, manufacture and sale of data center products. It offers storage expansion product platforms for performance, space efficiency, storage application platforms for server and storage integration. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

National Laboratory Partners LLC provides laboratory home care services. It provides services in clinical, cytological, surgical pathology, and anatomic pathology. The company operates a reference testing laboratory and patient service centers. National Laboratory Partners is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of The National Academies of Science, the National Academy of Engineering operates as a professional membership organization. The company is based in Washington.

Conviva, Inc. engages in the provision of online video optimization and online video analytics. The firm helps operators and broadcasters to meet audience expectations for video experience, across a multi-screen viewing environment. The company was founded by Hui Zhang and Ion Stoica in 2006 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

Solar Junction Corp. manufactures solar cells and receivers for the terrestrial concentrated photovoltaic market. Its products include triple junction solar cells, four junction solar cells. The firm engages in developing and manufacturing next-generation solar cells for space power applications. Solar Junction was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Alta Devices, Inc. develops and manufactures mobile power technology solutions. The firm specializes in the development of a technology that extends the energy source of a system, with focus on cell and module single junction conversion efficiency. It offers single and dual junction solar cells, bringing flexible and portable power that can be embedded into any other material. The company was founded by Eli Yablonovitch, Nasreen Chopra and Harry A. Atwater in 2007 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Terrajoule Corp. provides energy storage solutions. It distributes solar energy with proprietary power and storage technology. The firm develops applications in the industrial and agricultural sectors. The company was founded by Stephen James Bisset, Robert Charles Mierisch, and David Henkel-Wallace in 2009 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.