Jose F. Suarez

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.

eSilicon Corp. specializes in designing, productizing, and manufacturing of application specific integrated circuits. Its services include ASIC design services, custom three-dimensional packaging, high bandwidth memory solutions, semiconductor manufacturing services, multi-project wafer, and design and test services. The company was founded by Duy-Loan T. Le, John R. Harding, A. J. Sen, and Patrick Kwok in 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

AgJunction, Inc. engages in the provision of advanced guidance and auto steering solutions for precision agriculture applications. Its brands include Novariant, Wheelman and Whirl. The company was founded by Stephen A. Verhoeff on July 31, 1990 and is headquartered in Tempe, AZ.

ExaGrid Systems, Inc. provides disk based data protection solutions. Its products include product architecture, scalability, data deduplication, and supported backup applications. The firm combines SATA drives compression and byte-level data reduplication for reliable backups and restores. The company was founded by James Pownell and David James Therrien in 2002 and is headquartered in Westborough, MA.

Chelsio Communications, Inc. provides high-speed protocol-acceleration products. It is a technology company focused on solving high performance networking and storage challenges for virtualized enterprise data centers, cloud service installations and cluster computing environments. The firm delivers hardware and software solutions including unified wire ethernet network adapter cards, unified storage software, high performance storage gateways, unified management software, bypass cards and other solutions focused on specialized applications. The company was founded by Kianoosh Naghshineh in 1997 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Atrenta, Inc. provides system on chip realization solutions for the semiconductor and electronics industries. The company was founded by Ajoy Bose in 2001 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Novariant, Inc. provides pre-eminent precision steering solutions. It offers precision steering and controls, positioning and vision sensors, human machine interface, communications, software data services and vehicle interface. The company was founded by Glen Sapilewski, Clark E. Cohen, Avi Gross, Lars G. Leckie, Kurt Zimmerman, Dave Lawrence, Gregory Gutt, Michael Eglington, Stewart Cobb, Tom Bell, Paul Montgomery and Michael O'Connor in 1994 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Guavus, Inc. develops and designs data management applications and decision making solutions. It offers Guavus Reflex platform, provides customers the ability to collect, correlate and fuse network, business and any other operational or external data revealing previously undiscoverable insights in real time. The company was founded by Anukool Lakhina in February 2006 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Affibody Medical AB provides biopharmaceuticals services. It develops Affibody, an antibody mimetic and Albumod, a technology that enhances the efficacy of biopharmaceuticals by extending their circulatory half-life through a strong binding to albumin. The company was founded by Karin Nord and Carl Erik Mathias Uhlén in 1998 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.