John S. Foster

Formed in 2000, Innovative Micro Technology (IMT) is a leading MEMS manufacturing partner with a diversified range of projects and products. IMT's overriding goal is to partner with companies to develop and manufacture products based on MEMS technology. The company was built for high-volume manufacturing and its 130,000 sq ft facility contains a 30,000 sq ft clean room/fab, the largest and best-equipped independent MEMS fab in the world. The management team has over 100 years of combined experience in high-technology manufacturing. IMT currently has 93 employees and 21 customers in diverse applications, including drug discovery, drug delivery, biomedical implants and cell purifiers, microfluidics, inertial navigation, optical telecommunications, printing, various sensors, night vision, IR emitters, telephone/DSL switching, RF devices, power management, and others.

National Technical Systems, Inc. provides technical, engineering and testing services. Its product life-cycle support, offers an advanced design engineering, compliance, testing, certification, quality registration, and program management. The company was founded by Jack Lin and Aaron Cohen in 1961 and is headquartered in Anaheim, CA.

Nanostar, Inc. engages in the chemicals preparations and nec business. The company was founded by Alexander L. Girau and Shiva Adireddy and is headquartered in New Orleans, LA.

Cbrite, Inc. develops and researches diode switches for display applications. Its technology includes amoled backplane challenges, transistor technology, flexible displays, hemispherical array and detector for imaging. It is a flat panel backplane technology and has developed a remarkable new transistor technology for driving high performance LCDs and amoled displays. The firm has locations in Goleta, Hsinchu and Santa Barbara. The company was founded by Gang Yu, Boo Jorgen-Lars Nilsson and Alan J. Heeger in 2000 and is headquartered in Goleta, CA.

Atomica Corp. engages in the provision of turn-key foundry services from design and development to prototyping and volume production. It offers technology platforms and technology modules to reduce the development cycle and to reach production in the shortest time. The company was founded by Peter T. Altavilla, Paul Rubel and Mike Shillinger in April, 2000 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

Owl Biomedical, Inc. develops microchip-based disposable cell sorting technology for the biomedical industry. It offers MACSQuant Tyto, a medical applications that can be use for adoptive immunotherapy for treatment of cancer, stem cell therapies for regenerative medicine and cell-based cancer diagnostics. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.