VantagePoint Venture Partners

VantagePoint Venture Partners is one of the nation's largest venture capital firms that actively works with management teams and its strategic partners to build technology leaders. As an active multi-stage investor, the Firm provides funding and resources for all stages of a company's lifecycle from seed round through late stage and privately negotiated investments in public companies. Founded in 1996, VantagePoint has more than $2.5 billion in committed capital in four funds supported by 27 investment professionals. VantagePoint is based on a full-service Partner-Team approach that provides entrepreneurs with a blend of technology, venture capital, operations, marketing, and corporate-finance expertise. The company focuses on technology investments in the communications, semiconductor, and software sectors, as well as related growth industries including CleanTech, healthcare commerce and Internet 3.0.
www.vpvp.com

Elron Electronic Industries, Ltd.

Elron is a multinational technology group which takes an active role in the development and growth of its subsidiaries and affiliates. Since 1962, the company has been building technology leaders and creating shareholders' value through its corporate direction. Elrons activities over the years have been a major force in development of defense electronics, communications, semiconductors and medical imaging technologies. In recent years, the company has focused on defense electronics, information technology, software products, communication and medical devices.
www.elron.com

Wasserstein Venture Capital

Wasserstein Ventures is the VC affiliate of Wasserstein & Co., LP, a leading international private equity investment firm with over $1.5 billion in assets under management. Currently Wasserstein Ventures focuses on early-stage venture investment opportunities in networking and communications companies, specifically in the areas of semiconductors, optics, wireless, digital media and Internet infrastructure technologies. Wasserstein Ventures works to develop alliances between portfolio investments and a broad-based global network of strategic and financial relationship partners. To date, Wasserstein Ventures has invested over $110 million in more than 30 companies.
www.wasserco.com

UMC

UMC is a world-leading semiconductor foundry that manufactures advanced process ICs for applications spanning every major sector of the semiconductor industry. UMC delivers the cutting-edge foundry technologies that enable sophisticated system-on-chip (SOC) designs, including 0.13-micron copper/low k, embedded DRAM, and mixed signal/RFCMOS. In addition, UMC is a leader in 300mm manufacturing with three strategically located 300mm fabs to serve our global customer base: Fab 12A in Taiwan, UMCi in Singapore (completion in 2002), and AU Pte. Ltd., a joint venture facility with AMD also located in Singapore (production in 2005). In addition to wafer manufacturing, UMC customers benefit from services such as extensive silicon-verified IP resources, design libraries, and full front-end and backend support.
www.umc.com

Newlight Associates

The Newlight Associates family of funds is a group of venture capital partnerships that invests equity capital in early-stage information technology companies. We seek to form long term partnerships with talented management teams that are committed to building world-class technology companies. Founded in 1997, Newlight manages over $100 million in assets from its offices in New York City and Long Island. The company's investment professionals have over 70 years of venture capital investment experience and over 30 years of technology company operating experience. Collectively, the Newlight Associates investment team has provided venture capital to over 75 companies since the 1960s.
www.newlightassociates.com

Parker Price Venture Capital

Parker Price Venture Capital is a San Francisco-based private venture capital focusing on technology investments in semiconductors, software/internet infrastructure, telecommunications, and wireless and other electronic devices. The company’s investment strategy includes specific targets in the following areas: Industry; Stage of investment; Size of investment; Geographic location of investment; Management focus; and Co-investment.
www.parkerpricevc.com

Needham Capital Partners

Needham Capital Partners manages private partnerships that invest in the equities of private growth companies. Needham works closely with outstanding management teams to help build their companies and achieve their objectives. The firm's focus is entirely on long-term capital appreciation. Needham concentrates their investment activity on a small range of growth industries in which their Limited Partners, General Partners and their affiliate, Needham & Company, Inc., have experience and expertise.
www.needhamcapital.com