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Figure 8 Wireless, Inc. provides software and networking solutions for wireless communications. Its customers include OEMs and semiconductor companies. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

u-blox AG supplies positioning and wireless semiconductors and modules for the automotive, industrial, and consumer markets. It offers cellular and short range radio such as multiradio, wi-fi, bluetooth, and V2X. The company was founded Daniel Ammann, Jean-Pierre Wyss, Gerhard Troester, and Andreas Thiel in 1997 and is headquartered in Thalwil, Switzerland.

Social Bicycles, Inc. provides bike share technology services. It uses mobile technology and GPS to enable affordable, scalable, and intelligent bike-sharing networks. The company was founded by Ryan Rzepecki in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Greenfield Capital Partners BV is an independent private equity investment firm located in Naardent, the Netherlands. Founded in 1995, Greenfield specializes in providing capital for growth, MBO/MBI, buy-and-build opportunities or strategic re-positioning in mid- to later-stage firms active in the sectors of telecommunications, media and technology. Greenfield manages four active funds, namely Greenfield Capital Fund II, NEThave, Berghave, and NethCorp.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP provides legal services. Its areas of practices include corporate, litigation, banking and credit, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, private funds, intellectual property, restructuring and bankruptcy, and tax. The firm serves the energy, financial services, healthcare, insurance and reinsurance, technology, retail, defense, education and transportation industries. The company operates through its offices located in Beijing, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, São Paulo, Seoul, Tokyo and Washington, DC. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

IDENTEC SOLUTIONS AG manufactures radio frequency identification systems and develops related software and integration tools. It designs and develops wireless tracking and radio frequency identification products and solutions. The company provides intelligent long range RFID, object identification, web-based asset management, gate access and process management, and quality control systems. The firm caters to energy, construction, automotive, and marine sectors. IDENTEC SOLUTIONS was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Lustenau, Austria.

ZigBee Alliance creates, maintains and delivers open and global wireless standards. Its products include talkingplug 11202, safe plug 1202, 1313-11-SE-9942, safeplug 1313-01-SE-9935, safe plug 1203, YDF40, demo color light and demo color scene remote. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Davis, CA.

CVP Management, Inc (Converge Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1998 by Nilanjana Bhowmik and Maia Heymann. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Global Capacity Group, Inc. operates as a telecommunications virtual network operator. Its products include business Internet, Ethernet services & access, wavelengths, wide area networking and interconnect. The firm's solutions include cloud connectivity, application delivery, branch office connectivity, carrier off-net access, retail and healthcare networking solutions. The company was founded by Patrick C. Shutt in 2006 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

SET Management BV (SET Ventures) is the venture capital subsidiary of SET Holding Powered By Chrysalix & Robeco BV founded in 2007 by Rene Savelsberg, Wouter Jonk and Wal van Lierop. SET Management BV is headquartered in Amsterdam.

Ammann BauAusrüstung AG engages in the acquisition and holding of participations in companies. It also provides financing services to firms that develop technologies for the construction and maintenance of roads, manufacture machinery and equipment, as well as provide related systems and services. The company was founded on July 9, 2003 and is headquartered in Langenthal, Switzerland.

CTI Start-up provides business consulting and business management services.

Philips Healthcare engages in the manufacture of electromedical apparatus. It develops products that offer added value to the entire care cycle: from disease prevention to screening, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up care at home or in hospital. It also deals with cardiology, oncology, and women's health. It focuses on serious health problems, which people are confronted, such as heart problems, lung and breast disease. The company is headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Obviam DFI AG (Obviam) is the private equity subsidiary of Obviam Holding AG in Switzerland. Established in 2005 by Claude Barras as the Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets (SIFEM) to oversee The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) portfolio of private equity fund participations and direct financial institution investments in developing and transition economies, Obviam was spun-out of SIFEM in 2010. The firm is based in Bern and is the exclusively manages SIFEM and its portfolio, investing on behalf of public, institutional and private investors. Their name, which means 'in the direction of, towards“, in Latin, symbolizes their belief that capital should be used for the overall advancement and betterment of society by nourishing and supporting small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries. Obviam is committed to responsible investment, specifically integrating Environmental, Social and Governance matters in investment decision-making and ownership practices.

GreenCom Networks AG develops energy management software for the energy industry. The firm offers solutions for energy control and consumption control for end customers, as well as for the management of local energy production and electric cars. It provides solutions for electric vehicle management, distributed generation management, smart consumption, and energy monitoring for power and grid operators, utility retailers, and end customers. The company is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Neo Network Development, Inc. manages private and municipal real estate, poles and vertical infrastructure for lease to the wireless service providers. It also offers the full compliment of network services including professional consulting, project expediting, project and program management, RF, hardware and network engineering, planning, permitting, construction, turn up, test and optimization and are offered on a full turn-key or matrix based services model. The company was founded by Vince Aragona in 2013 and is headquartered in Lisle, IL.

Verdex Technologies, Inc. specializes in new product development using cutting-edge technologies to realize new ground-breaking ideas. The company is based in North Chesterfield, VA and was founded by Larry Marshall and Gary Huvard. The company has the ability to spin polymers such as PCL, PLA, PP, PET, PBT, nylon 66, and others if melt viscosity is low. Verdex owns an extensive trade secret portfolio for its process, along with numerous patents and pending for products. The CEOs are Bradford R. Higgins and Damien Deehan. Verdex is developing relationships with companies, industries, and markets that can benefit from their unique technology skill set. The company's scalable technology platform for mass production of nanofiber media makes it possible to spin nanofiber materials from many different natural and synthetic polymers and create multi-layered or blended fiber materials easily and cost-effectively on a commercial scale. Verdex specializes in fast-tracking new technologies to market and is currently seeking strategic partners in a multitude of industries.

MetGen Oy operates as a robust technology platform. The firm develops enzymatic products for pulp and paper and biofuel industries. The company was founded by Alex Michine and Alexey Azhayev in 2008 and is headquartered in Kaarina, Finland.

Luxexcel Group BV provides printoptical solutions for the LED lighting industry. It develops, manufactures, and markets optical solutions for the LED lighting industry. The firm offers Fresnel lenses, linear prism structures, micro optics, lens combinations, integrated-graphics, color lenses, and lens arrays. Its products are used in linear fixtures, LED arrays, recessed spotlights, recessed floor lights, table and floor lamps, and special applications. It also provides optics design, optical prototyping, small series production, and large-scale manufacturing services. The company was founded by Richard van de Vrie and Kurt Blessing in 2009 and is headquartered in Eindhoven, Netherlands.