William L. Pappani

Genus LLC designs, manufactures and markets capital equipment and deposition processes for advanced semiconductor manufacturing. The firm makes the Lynx and StrataGem families of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and atomic layer deposition (ALD) systems, which semiconductor makers use in the production of integrated circuits. Its customers include Samsung Electronics, Infineon, and Seagate Technology. The company was founded by William W.R. Elder in 1981 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Oclaro Photonics, Inc. manufactures and markets fiber-optic products. The firm develops photonics solutions for commercial and research applications. Its products include optical posts and rods, linear translation stages, mirror mounts, motorized linear stages, rail systems, motorized actuators, high speed photo receivers, general purpose detectors, tunable diode lasers, specialty optical mounts, and beam position detectors. The company was founded by Milton Chang, Timothy Day, Robert Marsland and Frank Luecke in 1990 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Clear Shape Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures semiconductor. Its products transform ideal-GDSII design to true silicon-accurate design by quickly and accurately accounting for systematic manufacturing variations due to lithography, RET, OPC and Copper on both device and interconnect. The company was founded by Thomas Kailath in 2003 and is located in Santa Clara, CA.

Ponte Solutions, Inc. develops and markets unique model-based software products, that are used to predict and enable optimization of semiconductor yields at the design stage. It has offices in Mountain View-California, Grenoble-France, Tokyo-Japan and Yerevan-Armenia. The company was founded in 2002 and is located in Mountain View, CA.

Active-Semi International, Inc. develops integrated circuit architects. Its products include power application controller, power management units, DC/DC converters, AC/DC converters and active direct drive led controllers. The company was founded by Steven Thu Huynh in 2004 and and is headquartered in Allen, TX.

Alchemy Semiconductor, Inc. designs and develops microprocessors for personal connectivity devices. It also offers heating and cooling technologies. The company was founded by Greg Hoeppner, Phil E. Pompa, Rich Witek, Jim Montanaro, Richard Reis and Ray Stephany in 1999 and is headquartered in Wes Austin, TX.

USVP Management Co. LLC (US Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1981 by Bill Bowes. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Brion Technologies, Inc. develops computational lithography technologies. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Princeton Lightwave, Inc. specializes in detecting and processing photons digitally. It offers GeigerCruizer, Geiger-mode flash 3D LIDAR cameras, and Gm Detectors and Components. The company was founded by John C. Connolly, Pamela York, Raymond J. Menna, Nancy Morris, and Dmitri Garbuzov on February 7, 2000 and is headquartered in Cranbury, NJ.

Semiconductor Equipment & Materials International operates as association of companies that provide equipment, materials and services for the manufacture of semiconductors, photovoltaic panels, LED and flat panel displays, micro-electromechanical systems, printed and flexible electronics, and related micro and nano-technologies. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

AIXTRON, Inc. manufactures deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry. Its products include production-proven Genus StrataGem and LYNX thin film deposition equipment. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Active-Semi, Inc. develops integrated circuit architects. It is emerging power management IC and intelligent digital motor drive IC markets. The company's portfolio of analog and mixed signal SoCs (systems-on-chips) are scalable core platforms used in charging, powering and embedded digital control systems for end applications such as industrial, commercial and consumer equipment. The firm offers power application microcontrollers, DC/DC, AC/DC, and PMU that significantly reduces solution size and cost while improving system-level reliability. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Allen, TX.

Vidder, Inc. develops network security solutions based on the software defined perimeter standard. It offers software defined perimeter, software defined security, enterprise security, next generation network access control, network security, cloud migration, multifactor authentication, server vulnerability protection and credential theft protection. The company was founded in 2005 by by John S. McFarlane, Junaid Islam and Carl Williams and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Bookham Technology, Inc. designs and manufactures wire telephone and telegraph equipment. The American company was founded by Andrew George Rickman.

Qnovo, Inc. provides battery software management solutions. The company was founded by Nadim Maluf, Dania Ghantous and Fred Berkowitz in 2010 and is headquartered in Newark, CA.

LineStream Technologies, Inc. provides embedded software solutions. It develops control software solutions for the performance of automated systems for industrial processes and product developers. The company was founded by Zhiqiang Gao in 2006 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

LDVP Management LLC (LDV Partners) is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Winston Fu. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Cepton Technologies, Inc. engages in the manufacture and distribution of sensing and ranging systems for automotive, industrial and mapping industries. It offers AV and ADAS, intelligent traffic systems, security and safety, crowd analytics, infrastructure, and mapping and surveying. The company was founded by Jun Pei and Mark McCord in 2016 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Signet Solar GmbH develops, manufactures and markets thin film silicon PV modules. Signet Solar develops, manufacturers, and deploys an entire ecosystem supporting the world's largest thin-film silicon PV modules enabling the industries lowest installed system cost without the use of any toxic or rare materials. In the first year of production, Signet Solar has enabled over 50 installations (>10MW), varying in application from solar farms to commercial rooftops to parking structures to BIPV structures. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Mochau, Germany.

Xicato, Inc. engages in the manufacture and distribution of lighting modules. It offers LED light sources, smart lighting controls, and lighting controls software. The company was founded by Gerard Harbers, Mark Pugh and Menko Deroos in July 2007 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, CA.