Atlas Venture 

Atlas Venture is a leading international early-stage venture capital firm, investing in communications, information technology and life sciences companies in the U.S. and Europe. The company has investing offices in Boston, London, Munich, and Paris.

Founded in 1980, Atlas Venture has organized seven international funds and currently manages more than $2 billion in committed capital. The Atlas Venture investment team is comprised of seasoned operating executives and career venture capitalists that have been deeply involved in the formation and development of more than 300 companies worldwide.

Cisco Systems 

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, celebrates 20 years of commitment to technology innovation, industry leadership and corporate social responsibility. Information on Cisco can be found at www.cisco.com. For ongoing news, please go to newsroom.cisco.com.

DFJ Esprit  

DFJ Esprit is a top-tier, venture capital firm. DFJ Esprit invests in technology and healthcare businesses with exceptional management teams and growth prospects. The DFJ Esprit team has been behind many of Europe’s most successful venture exits of recent years with recent successes including KVS, Alphamosaic, Fillfactory, DRI, Blackspider, and NetEconomy. Its partners have a combined total of more than 100 years of venture capital investment experience and a first-class track record of successful exits.

With offices in London and Cambridge, and access to the DFJ Global Network of venture capital partnerships—including over 130 investment professionals in 32 cities worldwide, DFJ Esprit is uniquely positioned to help build globally successful companies.

Index Ventures  

Index Ventures is a leading venture capital firm active in technology venture investing since 1996. The firm is dedicated to helping top entrepreneurial teams in the Technology, Life Science and Clean Tech sectors build their companies into market defining global leaders. The firm has offices in Geneva, London and Jersey and focuses on investments from seed through growth stage companies. Current portfolio investments include Boku, Optier, Oanda, Rightscale and Telegent and recent exits of note include Playfish (Electronic Arts), MySQL (Sun) and Skype.

Intel Capital 

Intel Capital, Intel's venture capital organization, makes equity investments in innovative technology start-ups and companies worldwide. It invests in a broad range of companies offering hardware, software, and services targeting enterprise, home, mobility, health, consumer Internet, and semiconductor manufacturing.

Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested more than $7.5 billion in 1,000 companies in more than 45 countries. In that time, about 212 portfolio companies have been acquired by other companies and another 168 have gone public on various exchanges around the world. In 2008, Intel Capital invested about $1.59 billion in about 169 deals with approximately 62% of funds invested outside the United States.

Motorola  

Motorola is known around the world for innovation in communications and is focused on advancing the way the world connects. From broadband communications infrastructure, enterprise mobility and public safety solutions to high-definition video and mobile devices, Motorola is leading the next wave of innovations that enable people, enterprises and governments to be more connected and more mobile. Motorola (NYSE: MOT) had sales of US $30.1 billion in 2008. For more information, please visit www.motorola.com.

Progression Partners 

Progression Partners builds world-class, game-changing companies. The partnership takes a high-value-added, analytical and exclusive approach to building value.  The Progression team is made up by a hands-on team of individuals with management, investment, marketing and product experience, gained from having held senior leadership and board positions in companies, ranging from very large public companies to small, embryonic start-ups.

Texas Instruments 

Texas Instruments (TI) provides innovative DSP and analog technologies to help its customers deliver consumer and industrial electronics products with greater performance, increased power efficiency, higher precision, more mobility, and better quality.  TI, which was founded in 1930, first entered the semiconductor market with its 1954 introduction of the first commercial silicon transistor.

TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 30 countries.  It was recognized as one of Fortune magazine’s “Most Admired Companies” in 2009 for the sixth consecutive year.