W. Pete Buhl

Zmanda, Inc. provides open source backup and recovery solutions for small to medium businesses. Its innovations include technology to backup data from live applications and databases directly to a storage cloud. The company was founded by Chander Kant, K. K. George and Paddy Sreenivasan in 2005 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Zhongdao Photoelectric Equipment Co. Ltd. develops innovative process inspection technologies for the TFT-LCD industry. It also provides advanced Stand-Along and In-Line defect inspection equipment for TFT-LCD and other FPD manufacturers.

Vusion, Inc. provides end-to-end video distribution solutions. Its services include proprietary algorithms, protocols, and software. The company's customers include digital media providers and delivery networks. Vusion was founded by Aaron Crayford and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA

Avesair was a provider of mobile marketing technology and services for wireless operators and content providers. Through the delivery of mobile marketing media, Avesair enables mobile operators to: Significantly reduce subscriber churn through proven loyalty marketing programs Increase subscriber.

Digital Transit, Inc. develops software products for wireless carriers that enable over-the-air updates of firmware on mobile devices. The company is based in Dana Point, CA. Digital Transit was acquired by Bitfone Corp. on November 12, 2001.

PayPal, Inc. provides online payment services. It facilitates people to send money through PayPal account balances, bank accounts, PayPal Credit and credit cards. The company?s digital wallet assists to perform online transactions, in store and mobile devices. It?s a global payments platform, which offer withdraws funds and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in multiple currencies. The company was founded by Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, Yu Pan, Peter Andreas Thiel, Max R. Levchin and Elon Reeve Musk in December 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Sequoia Communications Corp. manufactures fabless RF semiconductors for the wireless handset markets. It develops FullSpectra common architecture, which enables communications in various wireless applications such as WCDMA, EDGE, GSM/GPRS, GPS, WiFi, and WiMAX. The company's clients include QUALCOMM, Nokia, Maxim, Skyworks, Texas Instruments, and Mitsubishi. Sequoia Communications was founded by John Groe in 2000 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Like.com operates an online search engine to shop for shoes, bags, accessories, jewelries and watches, health, beauty and home products. The company was founded by Burak Göktürk and Munjal M. Shah in August 2004 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

NexPlanar Corp. develops the next generation chemical mechanical planarization pads for the semiconductor device industry. It serves semiconductor fabrication operations around the world. The company was founded by Sudhanshu Misra and Pradip K. Roy in 2003 and is headquartered in Hillsboro, OR.

MagSil Corp. develops magnetic random access memory technology. Its patented innovative magnetic recording cell architecture combines magnetic technology with mainstream semiconductor manufacturing processes, enabling the development of a disruptive technology for stand-alone and embedded magnetic random access memory products. The company’s technology will be ideal for integrated device manufacturers, pure-play semiconductor foundries and OEMs to embed or use stand-alone magnetic random access memory devices in a system. MagSil was founded by Krishnakumar Mani in 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Beeline Bikes, Inc. provides bike repair services and parts. It provides its services to commuters, road racers, cross country and downhill mountain bikers, weekend warriors and family/recreational riders. The company was founded by Pete Buhl and Andy Jeffrey in 2013 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Mirrx Therapeutics A/S provides protein production technology. Its technology Blockmirs, is steric antisense blockers that bind to specific microRNA binding sites in target RNAs to thereby prevent microRNA binding to the same site. The company was founded by Hans Thorleif Møller on July 1, 2009 and is headquartered in Vejle, Denmark.