Zohre Elahian

Centillium Communications, Inc. designs, develops and supplies integrated programmable system-on-a-chip solutions that enable high-speed broadband access. Its products include passive optical network chip solutions; mixed-signal integrated circuits, hardware and software applications. The firm also offers fiber to the premises products that include central office transceivers, protocol processors, customer premise equipment transceivers and protocol processors. The company was founded in 1997 by Faraj Aalaei and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Beceem Communications, Inc. manufactured semiconductors for the wireless broadband market. It specialized in the emerging 4G-WiMAX marketplace. The company was founded in October 2003 by Surendra Babu Mandava and Arogyaswami J. Paulraj and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

EnVerv, Inc. specializes in designing communications chips for metering infrastructure. The company was founded by Reza Mirkhani and Farrokh Farrokhi in 2009 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Apixio, Inc. operates as a data science company for healthcare. Its patented cognitive computing platform extracts and analyzes clinical data in electronic and PDF health records, generating deep insights into patient health. The firm feeds these insights into applications such as HCC Profiler which enables HCC coding review. The company was founded by Shahin Hedayat, Shawn Dastmalchi, Imran Chaudhri and Bob Rogers in 2009 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Movellus Circuits, Inc. develops process portable, and ultra-low power analog IPs. It offers clock generators and phased locked loop, programmable oscillators, pulse width modulators and near threshold analogs. The company was founded by Muhammad Faisal and Jeffrey Fredenburg in 2014 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Candou Ventures LLC (Candou Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Faraj Aalaei and Shahin Hedayat. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

ApplyBoard, Inc. provides online application for students to apply for universities and colleges. The company was founded by Martin Basiri, Meti Basiri and Sina Sadeghian in 2015 and is headquartered in Kitchener, Canada.