Ness Computing, Inc.

Ness Computing's mission is to make search personal. By applying its expertise in search, recommendations and social networking to human behavior, Ness helps people discover experiences they'll love.

www.likeness.com

Fab.com, Inc.

Fab is the leading social-commerce company focused on design. It's mission is to help people better live their lives with design. People use Fab to discover everyday design products across dozens of categories at great prices, to connect with the world's most exciting designers, and to share their favorite design inspirations.

www.fab.com

Cooliris, Inc.

Cooliris is the leader in immersive digital media experiences that increase user engagement and content discovery. Its current consumer product, LiveShare, is a freemium rich media communication service for mobile and web that combines the best of free messaging and photo sharing into one fast, beautiful app.

www.cooliris.com

HighlightCam, Inc.

HighlightCam's app automatically creates a pro-quality minimovie generated from unedited videos taken on a mobile phone. The company's technology fuses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence algorithms and face detection with consumer-friendly video editing applications. Easily shared on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter or sent by SMS or e-mail, HighlightCam minimovies reduce the complexities of video editing down to the simple push of a button through the software's advanced algorithms and easy-to-use interface.

highlightcam.com

Couchbase, Inc.

Couchbase is the NoSQL database market share leader with production deployments at hundreds of organizations worldwide. Couchbase products enable a more flexible, scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective approach to data management than relational database solutions and are particularly well suited for web applications deployed on virtualized or cloud infrastructures, and mobile applications requiring real-time data synchronization between devices and the cloud.

www.couchbase.com

SkyCross, Inc.

SkyCross provides the 4G MIMO antenna solutions that are powering the emergence of multiband, LTE, and HSPA+ wireless devices in the smartphone, home entertainment, and computing industries. SkyCross offers unique, high-performance antenna technology bundled with RF system-level expertise and responsive regional support from its full-service facilities in the United States, South Korea, China, and Taiwan. This convenient approach empowers device manufacturers to develop winning consumer electronics products and deliver them to market faster, easier, and with greater performance.

www.skycross.com

TuneWiki, Ltd.

TuneWiki, the internationally award-winning social media player, is revolutionizing the mobile music experience by combining subtitled lyrics with music and music videos, lyrics translations into over 40 languages, real-time mapping, geographical charting and social networking. TuneWiki's proprietary technology combines legally licensed lyrics with the music from your stored library or a streaming internet source and allows the community to contribute, translate or update lyrics.

www.tunewiki.com

Swype, Inc.

Swype's patented technology provides a faster and more intuitive way to input text on touch-screens. With one continuous motion across the soft keyboard, users can enter text at over 40 wpm. Swype was developed by experts in text input technologies (acquired by Nuance Communications:NUAN).

www.swype.com

Stoke, Inc.

Stoke develops breakthrough mobile broadband gateways specifically engineered to enable mobile and converged network operators to optimize the delivery of data services over 3G and LTE mobile networks. Stoke platforms deliver industry leading subscriber densities, line rate session encryption/decryption and packet processing capabilities, and superior data traffic throughput at a fraction of the cost of legacy solutions.

www.stoke.com

Evernote Corporation

Evernote is a multi-platform service that allows users to easily capture information in any environment, using whatever device or platform they find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere. From text to snapshots to web clips to audio notes, everything placed into Evernote is synchronized and made available across all computers and devices individuals use. Evernote is available for Windows, Mac, the Web, Windows Mobile, iPhone, BlackBerry, Palm Pre, and numerous others.

www.evernote.com

Tensilica, Inc.

Tensilica, Inc. - the leader in customizable dataplane processors - is a semiconductor IP licensor recognized by the Gartner Group as the fastest growing semiconductor IP supplier in 2008. Dataplane Processor Units (DPUs) combine the best capabilities of CPUs and DSPs while delivering 10-to-100-times the performance because they can be customized using Tensilica's automated design tools to meet specific dataplane performance targets. Tensilica's DPUs power SOC designs at system OEMs and five out of the top 10 semiconductor companies.

www.tensilica.com

Quantance, Inc.

Quantance is an analog/RF semiconductor startup based in Silicon Valley. Through proven innovations in RF transmit chain efficiency that result in more signal power using less battery power, Quantance technology enables wireless phones, data cards, and other mobile consumer devices to support 3G, 3.5G, and 4G services with greater power output, longer battery life, and without excessive heat buildup.

www.quantance.com

Fortemedia, Inc.

Fortemedia is at the forefront of enabling hands free communication with SAM (small array microphone) technology. Combined with our DSP-based voice processor ICs, SAM provides soaring advancements in voice quality and usability for the voice interface market. Fortemedia delivers industry-leading echo cancellation and noise suppression solutions to enable natural flowing full-duplex communication in mobile communication devices such as portable telematics, handhelds such as PDAs and smartphones, and Bluetooth accessories.

www.fortemedia.com

Arteris, Inc.

Arteris provides Network-on-Chip (NoC) interconnect IP and associated design tools to improve performance of System-on-Chip (SoC) architectures for multimedia, telecom, and mobile applications. Arteris' NoC solution allows chip developers to implement efficient and high-performance SoC designs, overcoming limitations of traditional layered or pipelined bus-based architectures. Results obtained by using Arteris NoC Solution include lower power, higher performance, lower risk of development and faster delivery of complex SoCs while increasing profits.

www.arteris.com

InvenSense, Inc.

InvenSense is the world leader in motion sensing solutions for mobile devices and is dedicated to bringing solutions to market that have best-in-class performance, size and cost. The company's efforts have resulted in the introduction of the world's first integrated dual-axis gyroscope to target applications which include: image stabilization in digital cameras and camera phones; gesture-based applications to navigate content using 3D mice and television remotes; user interface navigation and gaming for mobile handsets; and dead reckoning and location-based services for portable navigation devices (PNDs) and mobile phones.

www.invensense.com

Verient, Inc.

Verient develops technologies and products that enable financial institutions and merchants to customize payment choices for their customers, thereby offering more convenient and more secure transactions for both Internet and in store purchases. This capability results in the capture of additional customer payments, thus increasing revenue, while at the same time reducing fraud losses. The Verient platform is compatible with the existing merchant acquirers, card and EFT networks as well as legacy authorization and settlement systems. Verient's unique architectural approach (eight patents pending) provides a fast and easy path to offering payment options specifically tailored to customer needs.

www.verient.com

WiSpry, Inc.

As the pioneer in the field of tunable Radio Frequency (RF) technology, WiSpry develops revolutionary wireless architectures enabled by its cost-effective integration of tunable, software programmable RF front-end products for wireless applications.
Tunable RF silicon solutions will play a significant role in redefining the architecture of the rapidly evolving multi-mode and multi-standard handset market. WiSpry's unique integration of RF semiconductors with its revolutionary RF-MEMS technology enables RF product solutions with superior performance, lower power consumption, and smaller footprints, and that are more cost-effective than traditional RF front-end product solutions.

www.wispry.com

DAZ 3D

DAZ 3D is a leader in three dimensional (3D) digital content creation for both hobbyists and professional users. DAZ 3D has an active community with more than 1 million users and its robust software applications seamlessly support its content library. The company relies on crowd sourcing much of the content that becomes available on its web store. DAZ 3D's products have been used in many professional productions, television shows, and print publications. It is currently developing a web-based character and avatar creator. Users can create high-end animated, personalized talking characters (avatars) and share their characters across a wide variety of applications.

www.daz3d.com

Kyte

Kyte is the online and mobile video platform for media and entertainment. The Kyte Platform combines the real-time, interactive and community building capabilities of the social web with the analytics, control, and monetization features of professional video platforms, enabling companies to converge online and mobile audiences, build community, and monetize (acquired by Kit Digital Corporation:KITD).

www.kyte.com

GestureTek, Inc.

GestureTek is the world leader in computer vision for gesture-based control of information and entertainment systems and displays. GestureTek's gesture-recognition technology is employed in a wide array of applications including consumer applications on the home PC, console gaming, toys, and mobile devices.

www.gesturetek.com

GCT Semiconductor, Inc.

Founded in 1998, GCT Semiconductor is a leading fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets innovative integrated circuit solutions for the wireless communications industry. With its proven CMOS radio frequency (RF) and SOC expertise, GCT provides state-of-the-art CMOS RF transceivers and CMOS single-chip Mobile TV receivers and other SOC solutions serving 3G and 4G mobile handset manufacturers. GCT's highly integrated products with minimized footprint reduce overall system BOM cost, size and power consumption.

www.gctsemi.com

Beceem Communications, Inc.

Beceem is a Fabless semiconductor company specializing in the 4G-WiMAX and LTE (acquired by Broadcom Corporation:BRCM).

www.beceem.com

Nanosys, Inc.

Founded in 2001 by an experienced business team and world-renowned nanotechnology leaders, Nanosys is an industry-leading nanotechnology company developing, manufacturing and selling products based on a technology platform of high performance inorganic nanostructures.

www.nanosysinc.com