Mark R. Kent

LSI Corp. designs, develops, and markets high-performance storage and networking semiconductors. Its products include custom and standard product integrated circuits that are used in disk drives, solid state drives, high-speed communications systems, computer servers, storage systems, and personal computers. The company was founded on November 6, 1980 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Sigma Designs, Inc. engages in the provision of media platforms for home entertainment. It develops, manufactures and sells media processors, smart televisions, power line and wired media connectivity. The firm's products include media processors, smart tv SoCS, Power line and wired media connectivity. The company was founded by Thinh Q. Tran in 1982 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Ramtron International Corp. designs, develops, manufactures, and sells specialty high performance semiconductor memory devices. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO.

Crossworlds Software, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets and implements e-business infrastructure software. The company's infrastructure software enables the integration and automation of business processes among the Internet customers. The products include pre-built connectivity solutions for common technology environments, e-business and enterprise applications and other integrated solutions, which allow the customers to customize their e-business requirements. The company has operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. The customers of the company include Applied Materials, Inc, Delphi Automotive Systems, Ingersoll-Rand Company, Nortel Networks Corporation, Siemens AG, Solar Turbines, Inc. and other. The joint marketing partners of the company are Clarify, Compaq, Deloitte Consulting, Ernst & Young, IBM, MetaSolv, Oracle, SAP, Siebel and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The company is headquartered in Burlingame, California, USA.

Transmeta Corp. develops and licenses innovative computing, microprocessor and semiconductor technologies and related intellectual property. Its advanced power management technologies control leakages and increase power efficiency in semiconductor devices. The company was founded in 1995 by Boris Abad Guerra and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Insitu, Inc. designs, develops, and produces unmanned aircraft systems. It offers miniature aircraft for offshore weather reconnaissance and unmanned aerial vehicles and tools for commercial and defense reconnaissance purposes. The firm's technologies can be applied to intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance efforts in the defense sector, as well as the civil and commercial industries, such as environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, search-and-rescue, disaster relief, and mining operations. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Bingen, WA.

Switchfly LLC operates an ecommerce platform that provides a one-stop travel solutions for airlines, financial services companies, hotels, and other travel brands. It offers Switchfly packaging and Switchfly loyalty products to help firms grow revenue and increase customer loyalty. The company was founded by Heidi Vavul and Tina Fitch in 1997 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

RPX Corp. provides new patent acquisition services. The firm offers patent risk solutions, defensive buying, acquisition syndication, patent intelligence, and advisory services. It operates through the RPX: Patent Risk Management and Inventus: Legal Discovery Management. The RPX: Patent Risk Management segment is involved in the solutions that rationalize and lower the costs of patent licensing by reducing the unnecessary legal costs associated with infringement litigation brought by NPEs. The Inventus: Legal Discovery Management segment focuses on intelligent document analysis, hosting and managed review to its clients for litigation and investigations. Inventus serves industries across the board from Financial Services, Energy, Healthcare, Retail, Aerospace and Defense, and Technology. The company was founded by John A. Amster, Geoffrey T. Barker, and Eran Zur on July 15, 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.