Bob P. Wiederhold

Imperas, Inc. designs multiple processor systems. Its products include Instruction set simulator, quantum leap, advanced multicore software development kit, controller, standard and multicore virtual platform developer. The firm’s solutions include accelerated embedded software development, failsafe reliability verification, cadence platform integration and utilizing virtual platforms for embedded software development. The company was founded by Simon Davidmann in 2005 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Part of Cadence Design Systems, Inc., High Level Design Systems, Inc. supplies integrated circuit design tools. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA. The company was founded by J. George Janac. High Level Design Systems was acquired by Cadence Design Systems, Inc. on December 18, 1996 for $94.11 million.

Certicom Corp. provides cryptographic technologies for computing and communications companies

Fanfare, the leader in system and device testing, provides solutions to help service providers and equipment manufacturers accelerate testing and improve product quality. Its solutions benefit all types of organizations, from the smallest startup with a single device to market leaders with large networks or hundreds of products, and all levels of testing, from an update to an existing product to a full rollout of next-generation technology such as 4G. Many companies have long realized that automated testing is key, but they also realize that building and maintaining test tools is not the best use of their QA and development talent. It experts created iTest, a powerful commercial tool that simplifies and automates system and device testing, for use by all team members throughout the quality workflow.

Transitive Corp. developed computer software. Its services included application functionality, complete end-user transparency, near-native computational performance and transparent graphics and interactive performance. The company was founded by Alasdair Rawsthorne in 2000 and was headquartered in Los Gatos, CA.

Part of Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Tality Corp. is an American company.

NorthScale, Inc. is the elastic data infrastructure software company, provides a new class of data management technology that scales out, enabling customers to dramatically lower data management costs while simultaneously improving the scalability and performance of their web applications. Based on the widely used memcached open source technology, the NorthScale server family of elastic data infrastructure software offers substantial cost, performance, and scalability advantages over relational database technology alone, for the vast majority of data associated with web applications. It is designed to enable customers to start where they are, with existing relational database technology and expertise, and incrementally evolve toward a scale-out data architecture for their web applications. Today, NorthScale is in production behind some of the world’s busiest web applications. It powers the popular FarmVille and Café World applications at Zynga and provides a shared data management platform for NHN, Korea’s largest web application operator with over 150 million unique users. Founded in 2009 by leaders of the open source memcached project and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. NorthScale is a privately held company funded by Accel Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners.