Brothers Ziv and Oded Kedem successfully sold their first company, Kashya, to EMC in 2006 after establishing the global standard for appliance-based business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) for enterprise infrastructure. After leaving EMC, the Kedem brothers started with a clean sheet of paper and went back to first principles, founding Zerto in 2010 to […]
Telera provided a software platform for advanced voice applications. The company’s flagship Voice Web Application Platform enabled both wireline and wireless service providers to deliver advanced, business-centric voice applications. […]
Syndesis was the market leader in the creation and activation of converged services over the Internet for the new public network. They provided operational support system software to manage the Internet. […]
Founded by the inventor of the L-band irbuim-doped optical amplifier Dr. Yan Sun, Onetta was the first vendor to build a dynamic optical amplifier for metro transport networks. Onetta ramped quickly to $15m in revenue in year two, then was acquired by Bookham Technology, since renamed to Oclaro. […]
A kite boarder and scuba diver with a master’s degree in electrical engineering, Eyal Waldman co-founded Galileo Technology with Avigdor Willenz after designing microprocessors at Intel for four years. Galileo was acquired by Marvell. Equipped with significant expertise in high peformance switching and microprocessor design, Eyal, Roni, and their friends Shai Cohen and Michael Kagen […]
In 2002, GoPro founder and CEO Nick Woodman took a surfing trip to Australia. An avid surfer and outdoor photographer, Nick was frustrated that there was no effective way to capture the experience of life’s most important and exciting moments “in situ”, when you were actually DOING the activity. His personal unmet need set him […]
In 1997, a brilliant engineer named Simon Cao had a unique insight. An expert at manipulating light, Simon conceived of a new way to cut the spacing between wavelengths in a dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) optical transmission system from the current state-of-the-art of 100 GHz to 50GHz. This doubled the information carrying capacity of […]
Based on the “Tiny Tera” project by Stanford EE Professor Dr. Nick McKeown, Abrizio was a fabless semiconductor company that built the first 32 port * 10Gbps per port packet switching fabric. PMC Sierra acquired Abrizio for $400m, and deployed the fabric to tier one OEMs around the globe. […]
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