Ian Jenks

Crescendo Management LLC (Crescendo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1993 by David Spreng, Mitchell Dann and Jeff Tollefson. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Zolo Technologies, Inc. develops and manufactures optical gratings and its based systems. It specializes in laser-based tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) technology that measures combustion constituents in ultra-harsh environments from coal-fired power plants, jet-engine turbines, and industrial processes. The company was founded by Andrew Sappey and Ed Barbera in 1999 and headquartered in Louisville, CO.

Altitun AB provided tunable lasers that speed the flow of information on fiber-optic networks. It specialized in the designing and manufacturing of tunable lasers for telecommunication applications. It was founded in 1997 and is located in Kista, Sweden.

Transmode AB engages in the provision of metro packet optical applications. It offers complete network management suite, including TM-Series multi-reach transport platform for metro or regional networks; the TS-Series, which is a simpler platform which is ideal for network operators, enterprises, and private/public institutions; and TG-Series which supports point-to-point, mesh, bus, and ring-network architectures. The firm provides mobile backhaul, broadband backhaul, business Ethernet, cable television backhaul, and core networking solutions. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Demaray LLC develops and manufactures vacuum thin film depositions. The firm operates as an research and develeopment and IP development company which focuses on production vacuum thin film deposition for advanced applications such as dielectric barrier coatings, high k dielectrics, electrical conversion and storage devices, encapsulation and light extraction films for LEDs, laser diodes, and OLED's. The company was founded by Ernest Demaray in 1998 and is headquartered in Portola Valley, CA.

Founded in 2001, CoreOptics develops and manufactures 10G and 40G Distortion Tolerant MSA Modules and IC solutions for ultra high-speed optical networking applications in the telecommunications and information technology industries. CoreOptics provides advanced analog and digital signal processing remedies for the physical layer impairments. CoreOptics has received financing from leading venture capital firms, including T-com, GIMV, Crescendo Ventures, TVM, High Tech Private Equity, Atila Ventures, Quest for Growth and others. CoreOptics, with operations in Nuremberg and Stuttgart, Germany and San Jose, California, USA.

Aldwych 2011 Ltd. was develops and markets photovoltaic cells to the alternative power industries. Its world leading photovoltaic cell technology delivers not just greater conversion efficiency, but also better spectral performance and longer cell lifetimes than competing cells. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in High Wycombe, GB.

Institution of Mechanical Engineers operates as professional engineering institution. The firm offers engineering training solutions and mechanical engineering education services. The company was founded in 1847 and is headquartered in London, the United kingdom.

Ryvoan Ltd. developed and manufactured electric machines, drive systems and integrated power products. The firm provided generator sets for transportation and mobile power applications. The company was founded by Michael Ulrich Lampérthon and Malte Jaensch in August 2006 and was headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Nexeon Ltd. develops novel battery technology and silicon anodes. It is a battery materials and licensing company developing silicon anodes for the next generation of lithium-ion battery. The firm's silicon anodes enable significantly greater Li-ion battery capacity to be achieved, providing lighter batteries with more power and longer lifetime between charges. The company was founded by Mino Green and Paul David Atherton on February 22, 2006 and is headquartered in Abingdon, the United Kingdom.

Crystal Photonics, Inc. is a minority owned company that manufactures crystals for microelectronic and photonic industry applications. The company develops ultraviolet resonant cavity light-emitting diodes grown by molecular beam epitaxy on non-polar gallium nitride substrates. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Sanford, FL.

Paysafe Financial Services Ltd. develops an online platform which serves as an alternative to traditional payment methods. It allows users to add, withdraw, and transfer funds from NETELLER merchants and other NETELLER customers. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

SmartKem Ltd. engages in the design, development, industrialization, and technology transfer of solution-deposited organic semiconductors for transistor backplanes. The company was founded by Steve Paul Kelly in 2009 and is headquartered in St. Asaph, the United Kingdom.

Seren Photonics Ltd. develops and manufactures nitride-based white LEDs. Its focus is on the development and manufacture of semi-polar and non-polar gallium nitride templates designed to enhance the performance of GaN LEDs, lasers, VCSELs and power switches. The firm’s products are used in back lighting for laptops, computers, tvs, displays, domestic and architectural lighting. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Bridgend, the United Kingdom.

Paysafe Group Ltd. provides online payment processing and money transfer services. The firm offers an integrated suite of secure and e-commerce payment solutions. It operates through the following segments: Payment Processing, Digital Wallets and Prepaid. The Payment Processing segment generates fees through the Paysafe and Paysafe Asia processing platforms where customers send money directly to merchants, as well as payolution's online payment services, white label technology solutions and consulting services. The Digital Wallets segment generates fees by transactions between members and merchants using the NETELLER service and Net+prepaid cards, and the Skrill Wallet and Skrill prepaid cards. The Prepaid generates fee from merchants accepting payments made using paysafecard prepaid vouchers and charges to consumers. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Econic Technologies Ltd. develops new catalysts and processes for the manufacture of polymers from Carbon dioxide. Its catalysts enable polycarbonate polyols and polymers, and subsequently polyurethanes and polycarbonates to be produced using CO2 as one of the feedstocks. The company was founded by Charlotte Katherine Williams and Jonathan Adrien Edington on June 24, 2011 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Lumentum Ottawa, Inc. engages in the manufacture of fiber optic networking equipment. The company was founded on July 1, 2012 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Part of Brady Technologies Ltd., Brady Trading Ltd. provides computer related and consulting services. The private company is based in Histon, UK. Brady Trading was founded in 2011.

Zeetta Networks Ltd. develops marketing open platform networking solutions. Its flagship product, NetOS, a Network Operating System which offers a "USB-like", plug-n-play management of all connected network devices and enables the construction of virtual “network slices” for the deployment of B2B or B2C services such as Ultra-HD video distribution, City-wide Wi-Fi, Internet of Things (IoT) and M2M deployments. The company was founded by Reza Nejabati, Vassilis Seferidis, Mayur Channegowda and Dimitra Simeonidou and is headquartered in Bristol, the United Kingdom.