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ViVOtech is a market leader in contactless/NFC payment software, over the air (OTA) card provisioning, promotion, and transaction management infrastructure software, NFC smart posters, and contactless readers/writers. These innovative solutions allow consumers to make contactless payments with radio frequency-enabled credit cards, debit cards, key fobs, and NFC-enabled mobile phones. The company's products are used by some of the most prominent retailers in the United States. The company's products are in use at movie theaters, fast food restaurants (QSR), casual dining establishments, convenience stores, gas stations, drug stores, grocery stores, buses, taxicabs and vending machine locations, enabling a wide variety of businesses to accept contactless/NFC payments. Founded in 2001, it is privately held and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. Other offices are located in Asia and in Europe. Investors include strategic partners Citigroup, First Data Corporation, Motorola, NCR and Nokia as well as the venture capital companies Draper Fisher Juvertson and Alloy Ventures.

The NFC Forum operates as a wireless connectivity technology. Its products include NFC product showcase, NFC member products and NFC member products. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Wakefield, MA.

IXI Mobile, Inc. develops and sells innovative data-centric wireless mobile devices and services for mass market users. It markets the company's solutions to mobile operators, mobile virtual network operators and internet service provider in international market. The company offers an end-to-end mobile solution, which includes devices and hosted services that permits customers to deliver mobile data and Internet services to their subscribers. It was founded on February 22, 2005 and is headquartered in Belmont, CA.

Sequent Software, Inc. provides digital issuance and mobile wallet platform. Its products includes open wallet platform, digital issuance systems, IOT, and wearables which delivers mobile payments and value-added services to banks, mobile operators, merchants, and access control providers. The company was founded in 2010 by Drew Weinstein and David Brudnicki and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.