Iris
iRiS Software Systems is a fast-growing, award-winning, multilingual, interactive hospitality applications provider whose innovative apps are at the forefront of hospitality technology and have been designed to improve the guest experience, generate additional revenue and reduce costs for hotels and restaurants. iRiS developed the iRiS Guest Xperience Platform™ (GXP™), a cloud-hosted solution that powers our whole range of guest service applications, delivering content, communication and interactive services. Thanks to this centralised community platform, hotels & restaurants can further develop their technology strategy and improve guest engagement by adding extra iRiS applications to their portfolio, without the need for additional content management systems. The iRiS suite of apps covers every guest touch-point in your hotel or restaurant, including In-Room, Lobby, Restaurant, Spa and Conferences; all powered by our GXP™. iRiS is headquartered in London, UK. Mr Arcelli and Mr. Lauro are members of the Advisory Board.
snakebyte
The snakebyte group is a global player in Consumer Electronics. With its Research & Development located in Hong Kong, it develops and distributes a wide selection of home entertainment products, accessories for Android and iOS smartphones and tablets, as well as huge lineup of peripherals for the computer and video games industry. The brand snakebyte has been established almost 20 years ago with a steady output of exciting new products. Further strong business areas of the group are the development of software solutions, the distribution of products from selected partners, as well as providing individual OEM solutions. With offices in Germany, Hong Kong and the USA, snakebyte has established a vast network and excellent contacts within the industry and takes care of the worldwide distribution for the entire range of products and services – Core markets are Europe and North America. Mr Arcelli is a member of the Board of Directors.
Incisively
Incisively is a leading provider of eCommerce optimisation solutions. TrueValue™, their disruptive SaaS offering based on machine learning, is using patent-pending algorithms to continuously deliver enhanced website optimisations, achieving 30% automatic margin uplifts for product merchandising and product pricing. Incisively’s customer base includes global eCommerce leaders such as Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts and Holiday Extras. Founded in 2014, Incisively is based in Southampton, United Kingdom. Mr Arcelli and Mr. Lauro are members of the Advisory Board.
Terria Mobile
Terria Mobile is a leading provider of innovative cloud-based enterprise mobilization solutions. The LaunchBase Mobile EXperience Platform (MEXP) allows companies to efficiently manage a rapidly expanding portfolio of public and internal apps (B2C, B2B, B2E) while delivering a unique app user experience. LaunchBase powers context-driven apps and lets enterprises master consumerization. Terria Mobile is founded and managed by former Day Software AG (acquired by Adobe) executives and based in Basel, Switzerland. Its customer base include more than 30 global leaders in various industries, such as Coca Cola, Credit Suisse, KPMG and Geberit. Mr. Arcelli is a member of the Board of Directors.
Sharper Shape
Sharper Shape is the world-leading supplier of UAV-based asset management solutions for utilities. Sharper Shape provides fully automated inspection and maintenance planning services for infrastructure asset owners. Our Next Eagle® solution is the world’s first automatic asset inspection solution utilizing UAVs, which drastically reduces inspection and maintenance costs for high value assets such as power lines, pipelines, railways and more. We provide actionable plans for both the financial decision-makers to help with budgeting and resource allocation, and for engineering in planning and placing work orders for asset maintenance and vegetation management. Mr. Arcelli is a member of the Board of Directors.
Lightwave Logic, Inc.
Lightwave Logic, Inc. is a development-stage, electro-optical device and organic nonlinear materials company. The Company is engaged in developing organic nonlinear materials to be used to make electro-optic polymers and non-linear all-optical polymers and photonic devices that utilize them. These polymer-based materials, when used in modulators or waveguide structures, can convert high-speed electronic signals into optical (light) signals for use in communications systems, high-speed data transfer or advanced high speed computing. The company is also developing electro-optical and all-optical devices utilizing the advanced capabilities of its materials for the application in the fields, such as telecommunication, data communications, high-speed computing and photovoltaic cells. Electro-optic devices convert data from electric signals into optical signals for use in communications systems and in optical interconnects for high-speed data transfer. Mr. Lauro is a member of the Board of Directors.
Corista
Corista is a supplier of Image-centric digital pathology solutions. Browser-based DP3 software platform enables physicians to manage and diagnose multi-GB digital pathology images. Content based image retrieval (CBIR) & analytics solutions discerns anomalies, disease markers and precursors in whole slide images that are beyond the limits of human interpretation and visual perception. Corista is developing algorithms to analyze historical patient outcomes across large tissue image repositories to correlate potentials between patient survivability and tissue image characteristics. Corista’s platform is now in use at major US teaching. Mr. Lauro is a member of the Board of Directors.
EUCLIDiq
EuclidIQ’s technology, EuclidVision is a next generation video processing and compression technology that provides processing improvements complementary to and extending beyond current standards-based techniques, like those in MPEG-2, H.264 and HEVC encoding specifications. Our compliant version, EuclidVision Compliant (EVC) provides compression gains while maintaining compliance with standard decoders. Mr. Lauro is a member of the Board of Directors.
Sensors in Motion
Sensors in Motion is a Caltech/Jet Propulsion Lab spinout developing inertial-grade, high-accuracy MEMS gyroscopes. SIM’s MEMS gyros are a disruptive innovation in the field of inertial systems and are the world’s most accurate MEMS gyros- unique MEMS structures fabricated using volume silicon wafer processing techniques. We are producing devices having .005 deg/hr bias stability and .002 deg/rt-hr angular random walk. This performance is far superior to any other MEMS gyro produced anywhere in the world and is comparable to performance of Ring Laser and FOG gyros that are 50X larger and much more expensive. Mr. Lauro is a member of the Board of Advisors.
HotRail
HotRail, acquired by Conexant for $550M, was a company developing scalable switch fabrics with integrated, multi-gigabit CMOS interconnections that enhance the development of networking switching systems. The switch fabrics operate at up to 256-Gbit/s.
Acquicor
Acquicor Technology Inc. was a company jointly founded by Gil Amelio, Steve Wozniak and Ellen Hancock, all of whom have worked for Apple Computer. Acquicor raised $150 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on the American Stock Exchange. Subsequently, Acquicor acquired Jazz Semiconductor Inc. for $260 million and the company merged 2 years after with Tower Semiconductor.
Drexel University
Over the past decade, Drexel University’s presence has grown in both stature and magnitude. Fueled by the addition of new colleges and schools, the University is making important contributions to more fields and sectors than ever before. This growth has added to Drexel’s reputation as a knowledge-intensive institution and assures the University a place in the top 100 research universities in the country.
The University of Manchester
We are the largest single-site university in the UK, with the biggest student community. In total, 25 Nobel Prize winners have worked or studied here. 83% of our research was ranked as ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ by the Research Excellence Framework in 2014. We are ranked 38th in the world, seventh in Europe and fifth in the UK in the 2014 Shanghai Jiao Tong World Ranking.
Spire
Since 1969, Spire has developed, manufactured and marketed highly engineered products and services for a wide range of commercial markets including energy manufacturing equipment, biomedical devices and optoelectronic components. Spire is the leading supplier in the design and manufacture of specialized equipment for producing photovoltaic solar modules. Spire also manufactures, designs and installs high quality photovoltaic systems and components. Spire’s value-added biomedical processing services offer surface treatments to enhance the durability or antimicrobial characteristics of orthopedic and other medical devices. In addition, Spire’s talented staff of researchers and scientists brings over 20 years of experience in III-V epitaxial wafer growth and device fabrication services. Spire’s diversified technology, products and services are the result of ongoing innovation, creativity and solid business leadership.
SMaL
SMaL Camera Technologies, acquired by Cypress for $42M, was a company developing digital imaging solutions for a variety of business and consumer markets, including ultra-slim digital still cameras, automotive vision systems, and camera-enabled mobile devices, such as cell phones.
Teac Aerospace Technologies
TEAC Aerospace Technologies, Inc., acquired by Goodrich Corporation, was a company designing and marketing airborne equipment and systems. It offered airborne mission data, video recording, and debrief products for the defense industry. The company provided in-flight entertainment systems, such as digital video and audio systems, and analogy video systems to the commercial airline industry. The company’s customers included the United States military, governments, defense contractors, and airlines internationally.
Triscend
Triscend, acquired by Xilinx, was the pioneer in configurable system-on-chip (CSoC) devices and customizable microcontrollers. Its software and silicon technology provided design engineers with an easy, low-risk way to create and modify highly customized embedded systems applications — from prototyping through manufacturing — and develop cost-effective derivatives to address changing market demands.
Megapulse
Megapulse, acquired by UrsaNav in 2013, was the worldwide sole source supplier of solid-state transmitters for the Loran and eLoran terrestrial radio-navigation system. Products include Loran transmitters (up to 2 Megawatt power), GPS/Loran receivers, H-field antennas, survey, timing and monitor receivers, navigation simulators and signal generators. The company provided turnkey Loran chain services including site survey, system engineering, design, installation, training, warranty, maintenance, depot repair and logistics. Products are used in air, sea, river, and harbor navigation and traffic management.
Inno360
Inno360 is a provider of SaaS-based innovation management software for large enterprises. The Inno360 platform accelerates an enterprise’s innovation by boosting R&D personnel efficiency. It provides a proprietary, unique and dynamic resource access, enabling R&D personnel to efficiently mine and connect with a nearly limitless network of resources from within and outside the enterprise: Users can build highly proprietary innovation ecosystems. These proprietary networks dynamically reconfigure based on the enterprise’s innovation directions and the evolution of internal resources and resources in the cloud. The Inno360 platform has already been adopted by several Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Lauro is a member of the Board of Directors.
Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation
Peregrine Semiconductor, acquired by Murata in 2014 for $471M, is the leading supplier of radio frequency components based on its proprietary silicon-on-sapphire semiconductor process technology. The sapphire insulating substrate of these ICs enables Peregrine to deliver RF components of extraordinary noise figure and linearity. Initial products are in RF switches and military components, but the company is ramping into high complexity components for cell phones and various RF and communications platforms. The Sapphire process, referred to as UltraThin Silicon (UtSi), enables dense mixed signal integration. It is also radiation hard and optically transmissive, enabling many innovative photonic applications.
5BARz
Based in Mission Viejo, California, 5BARz is a publicly traded (BARZ.OB) supplier of cellular network extenders. 5BARz™ units incorporate radio architecture, signal processing algorithms and wireless components to strengthen weak cellular signals. Its products capture cell signals, amplify and retransmit these signals within a device to provide clear voice and data cell service. It offers products for home and office, travel, marine and recreation, country living, trucking and sales fleet, and original equipment manufacturer markets. Mr. Amelio is the Chairman of the Board of 5BARz.
New Infrared Technologies
Madrid based New Infrared Technologies (NIT) is a supplier of uncooled midwave-IR detectors (1-5 microns) fabricated using Vapor Phase Deposition. Products include single-element detectors, linear arrays and imaging FPAs. NIT’s Matrix 1024 is the world’s first commercial uncooled MWIR imager based on PbSe. These MWIR sensors are demonstrating detection rate of 1,700 images per second, with a path to 20,000 fps in the near future. The detectors are Si-CMOS compatible and enable monolithic integration with CMOS circuitry. NIT’s PbSe detectors are 30% the cost, 8% the size and provide 10X the image frame rate of the most widely used MWIR detectors. Target applications include gas and explosion detection & characterization, muzzle flash detection, machine vision and control and munitions fuzing.
GTX Corp
GTX Corp (GTXO.OB) is a supplier of two-way global positioning system (GPS) technologies for personal and item location including hardware devices, software platform licensing, and smart phone applications. The company utilizes miniaturized GPS tracking and cellular location technology to create a GPS and cellular location platform enabling subscribers to track in real time the whereabouts of people, pets, or high valued assets through its transceiver module, wireless connectivity gateway, middleware, and viewing portal. The company also provides Code Amber News Service that focuses on the recovery of missing persons;. The company also offers GPS Smart Shoe, an application that can locates the wearer in real time; and geo specific and proximity alerting applications. GTX Corp was founded in 2002 and is based in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Lauro and Mr. Amelio are members of the Board of Advisors.
Adant
Adant is a fabless communication company that develops and markets a revolutionary class of antenna systems for next generation wireless communications. Adant technology provides superior performance in WiFi devices and RFid systems thanks to its patented adaptive antenna system that has no equal on the market. Company’s goal is to provide smart reconfigurable antenna solutions that leading WiFi wireless manufactures and consumer electronic industry leaders can easily integrate in mobile handsets, notebooks and access points in order to deliver unprecedented connectivity experience to final consumer.
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