Michael E. Seifert

Southwall Technologies, Inc. operates as a global energy technology company which provides energy conservation and climate management thin-film glass solutions. The firm manufactures and develops films and glass products that improve energy efficiency in architectural and automotive glass applications. It manufactures windows & glass sun-proof, heat-proof & cold-proof - enabling their customers to fine-tune the insulating and solar control performance of glass, reducing the energy consumption for cooling and heating for a comfortable indoor climate. Southwall Technologies was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in St. Louisiana, MO.

SmartDB Corp. provides professional application data migration tools. It develops enterprise software that integrates applications for companies such as Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP and Siebel Systems. The company also manages tasks such as data conversion and data consolidation. SmartDB was founded in 1994 and is located in Newton, MA.

Applied Wave Research, Inc. provides electronic design automation software. It designs analog, radio-frequency and mixed-signal semiconductors, microwave printed circuit boards, wireless telecommunication equipment, high-speed computers and networking systems. The firm's products include Microwave Office, Visual System Simulator, The Analog Office, and Signal Integrity. The company was founded in 1994 by Joseph E. Pekarek and is headquartered in El Segundo, CA.

Xcieve Corp. operates as a venture-backed fabless semiconductor company. It develops RF silicon solutions for television signal reception which replace the bulky 'Can' tuner modules traditionally used inside television sets. The firm produces silicon tuner which provides performance surpassing that of tuner modules. The company was founded by Pierre Favrat on July 1, 2001 and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.

deCarta, Inc. provides geospatial software solutions. It provides specialized geospatial technologies for online mapping, routing, navigation, geocoding, local search and geo-data integration and processing. The firm's platform is used by LBS applications and services in the mobile, internet, enterprise-fleet and automotive markets where scalability, flexibility and reliability are vital. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

AWR Corp. provides electronic design automation and software solutions. It offers Microwave Office, a software solution for designers of radio frequency (RF) and microwave circuits ranging from integrated microwave assemblies to monolithic microwave integrated circuits. The company was founded by Joseph E. Pekarek in 1994 and is headquartered in El Segundo, CA.

Virage Logic Corp. is a technology and market provider in advanced embedded memory intellectual property (IP) for the design of complex integrated circuits. It work on semiconductor IP platforms comprising embedded memory, standard cells, and I/Os primarily for the consumer, communications and networking, handheld and portable, and computer and graphics markets. The company's quality efforts are validated in its Silicon Characterization lab which ensures quality, reliable IP across a range of foundries and process technologies. The company was founded on 1996 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Part of Asure Software, Inc., Compression Labs, Inc. develops and makes visual communications systems. The company is based in San Jose, CA. Compression Labs was acquired by Asure Software, Inc. on May 27, 1997 for $52.50 million.