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Board Observer
Jan 2021
At Ethernovia, we’re inventing the future of automobile’s communication . We are transforming automobiles’ communication network to enable the autonomous driving and electrical vehicle (EV) revolutions. Our breakthrough compute, communication, and software ushers in a new era of car connectivity and capabilities. We bring together, accelerate, and unify the car’s sensors, compute, and outside world to enable new advanced driver assistance features and services.
Board Observer
Feb 2020
UPMEM Processing In-Memory chips solve the dominant cost of data movement and the Memory wall, at marginal cost and energy consumption for Large Analytics and Generative AI applications.
UPMEM 1st generation solution readily integrates in app servers to offer the 1st efficient scalable programmable acceleration solution for data-intensive apps such as genomics, AI, anaytics, search...
UPMEM first chip and programmable solution is avalaible and shipping to top tier customers - application owners and cloud players - in US, Asia and Europe, or accessible from our PIM cloud services in France for customers or research partners.
UPMEM successfully released the first PIM on DRAM chip and server based solution with amazing programmability and scalability outlook.
UPMEM 2nd generation PIM chip delivers 20x cheaper LLM inference for Generative AI in the cloud and computes with 10x less energy on mobile, opening the path to massive on device GenAI usage.
UPMEM is maintaining a sustained effort en route to making PIM a dominant architecture in computing nodes, growing his team, customer base, memory, system, server, cloud and mobile partners worldwide.
Board Observer
Dec 2018
Pliops accelerates and amplifies the performance and scalability of global GenAI infrastructure, driving unparalleled efficiency and innovation.
Pliops was founded in 2017 by storage industry veterans from Samsung, M-Systems, and XtremIO. Pliops is pioneering a new category of product that enables cloud and enterprise data centers to access data up to 50 times faster with one-tenth of the computational load and power consumption. Its technology consolidates multiple inefficient layers into one ultra-fast device based on a groundbreaking approach. Pliops’ solution addresses the scalability challenges posed by the cloud data explosion and the increasing data demands of AI and ML applications.
Board Observer
Aug 2018
Excelero enables customers to build distributed, high-performance Server SAN with standard hardware for applications at any scale. NVMesh is a truly converged Software-Defined Block Storage solution designed to meet storage requirements for applications of any scale, without compromise. The solution features an intelligent management layer that abstracts underlying hardware with CPU offload, creates logical volumes with redundancy, and provides centralized management and monitoring. Customers benefit from the performance of local flash, with the convenience of centralized storage and the cost savings of standard hardware. The solution has been deployed for Industrial IoT services, machine learning applications and simulation visualization.
Board Observer
Jun 2018
Delivering unrivaled edge AI solutions to accelerate and optimize real-time decision-making by powering smart edge devices and gateways that demand responsive AI computing at high energy efficiency. Kinara is headquartered in Silicon Valley with development based in Hyderabad, India. Our name comes from the Hindi word for ‘edge’ and reflects our commitment to our customers to build extremely innovative edge devices for retail, smart cities, industry 4.0, and automotive.
Board Observer
Dec 2016
ScyllaDB is the database for data-intensive apps that require high performance and low latency. It enables teams to harness the ever-increasing computing power of modern infrastructures--eliminating barriers to scale as data grows. Unlike any other database, ScyllaDB is built with deep architectural advancements that enable exceptional end-user experiences at radically lower costs. Over 300 game-changing companies like Disney+ Hotstar, Expedia, FireEye, Discord, Crypto.com, Zillow, Starbucks, Comcast, and Samsung use ScyllaDB for their toughest database challenges. ScyllaDB is available as free open source software, a fully-supported enterprise product, and a fully managed service on multiple cloud providers. For more information: ScyllaDB.com
Board Observer
Dec 2015
Elastifile helps organizations adapt and accelerate their business in the cloud era. Powered by a dynamically scalable, enterprise-grade distributed file system with intelligent object tiering, Elastifile’s cross-cloud data fabric solves the data-centric compatibility, scalability, and mobility challenges inhibiting cloud adoption and expansion. With Elastifile, organizations can seamlessly leverage cloud resources to optimize critical workflows, with no application refactoring required...thereby modernizing their infrastructure and achieving their crucial IT agility and efficiency goals.
Elastifile is based in Santa Clara, California and Herzliya, Israel, with global Sales and Marketing offices in North America and Europe, and R&D in Israel. Founded in 2013, Elastifile is backed by Battery Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, CE Ventures, and seven strategic investors from the cloud, data center, and storage industries, including Dell EMC, Cisco, and Western Digital.
Board Observer
Jan 2015
Corephotonics is the pioneer and worldwide market leader of dual camera technologies for mobile devices.
Corephotonics’ primary mission is to perfect the mobile camera photography experience and to provide superior image quality by combining our novel optics, mechanics and computational photography technologies.
From design concept to mass production with Corephotonics:
Corephotonics’ comprehensive technologies excel in addressing some of the most challenging deficits of existing smartphone cameras. We develop and deliver end-to-end multi-aperture solutions supporting the most professional photography capabilities, such as optical zoom, superb low-light performance, Bokeh and depth features, and optical image stabilization, all in an incredibly slim form factor. We partner with manufacturers at early design stages, matching each manufacturers unique design and imaging requirements, and providing continuous support through commercialization and mass production.
Board Observer
Dec 2014
On February 22, 2016, Oracle signed an agreement to acquire Ravello Systems. Oracle Ravello Cloud Services allows you to seamlessly deploy your existing VMware or KVM based data center workloads on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, AWS, or Google Cloud as-is, without any modification to the VMs, network, or storage. Get on-demand and cost-effective scale for agile dev/test processes.
Please visit Oracle.com for information on Oracle Ravello Cloud Services.
Board Observer
Oct 2014
Now Sony Semiconductor IL.
Follow our new company page @SonySemiconIL
Altair Semiconductor, a Sony Group Company, is a leading provider of Cellular IoT chipsets, playing a pivotal role in realizing the vision of the Internet of Things (IoT).
As IoT expands to include all types of connected “things”, Altair’s ultra-low-power and ultra-small chipset solutions are turning Cellular IoT into reality.
Our vision has changed what is possible for device makers who rely on us to connect millions of devices. Altair chipsets can be found in wearables, vehicle telematics, smart utility meters, personal & logistics trackers, home appliances, consumer electronics, and many other IoT devices.
Our all-inclusive chipsets keep devices connected to today’s LTE networks and ready for 5G IoT.
Altair proudly ships millions of chipsets to customers around the world connecting to the world’s top tier-1 cellular networks.
In February 2016, Altair became part of Sony’s Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, combining its leadership in cellular IoT with Sony’s technology and market leadership.
Board Observer
Oct 2014
Stratoscale delivers AWS compatible infrastructure and services that can be deployed in any enterprise data center. Stratoscale’s solutions include EC2-compatible and Kubernetes applications, S3-compatible, EBS-compatible and EFS-compatible storage, RDS-compatible databases, ELB-compatible load balancers, and EMR-compatible Hadoop. Stratoscale enables multi-cloud and hybrid applications while maintaining a consistent management using AWS APIs.
Board Observer
Oct 2013
Magisto [Powered by Vimeo] is a one-of-a-kind, A.I. powered, video creation tool. Magisto makes it easy to drive growth to your business or blog with stunning, attention-grabbing videos. Whether you’re looking to generate leads and awareness, build relationships, or grow sales Magisto is the fastest and easiest way to get there.
Home to over 100+ million users globally
Apples Best of 2019: Discover The Storyteller Within
Gartner ‘Cool Vendor’ 2018
Consumer Reports 2017 #1 Video Editing app
No video skills required. 24 languages. Available on the web, or download the Magisto app for iPhone or Android and start creating!
Board Observer
Mar 2013
We are Pebbles Interfaces. We are here to revolutionize the way people interact with the digital world.
Our technology provides an entirely new meaning to simple and natural human gestures, by unifying the interfaces on any device or platform, be it a smartphone, PC, smart TV, or even a coffee table surface — from any distance.
Following our vision — to naturally interface with every object, real or virtual — Pebbles presents a technology that extends human behavior, enabling simple and intuitive interaction with any consumer electronic device.
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2025
Senior Director, Corporate Development and Capital Investment
Feb 2025
Dont Stop. Sandisk has been expanding the possibilities of data storage for more than 25 years—giving businesses and consumers the peace of mind that comes from knowing their data is readily available and reliable, even in the most challenging environments. Our products are used in the worlds leading-edge data centers, embedded in game-changing smartphones, tablets, and laptops, and entrusted by consumers around the world.
As a vertically-integrated storage solution company, we are able to quickly deliver innovative, high-quality solutions with less time from research to realization. From mobile devices to hyperscale data centers, Sandisk storage solutions make the incredible possible.
If you’re interested in joining our team of innovators and industry influencers and to help shape the future of digital technology with a leading provider of flash memory storage solutions, check out our current openings and connect with us today.
2021
Board Observer
Jan 2021
At Ethernovia, we’re inventing the future of automobile’s communication . We are transforming automobiles’ communication network to enable the autonomous driving and electrical vehicle (EV) revolutions. Our breakthrough compute, communication, and software ushers in a new era of car connectivity and capabilities. We bring together, accelerate, and unify the car’s sensors, compute, and outside world to enable new advanced driver assistance features and services.
2020
Board Observer
Feb 2020
UPMEM Processing In-Memory chips solve the dominant cost of data movement and the Memory wall, at marginal cost and energy consumption for Large Analytics and Generative AI applications.
UPMEM 1st generation solution readily integrates in app servers to offer the 1st efficient scalable programmable acceleration solution for data-intensive apps such as genomics, AI, anaytics, search...
UPMEM first chip and programmable solution is avalaible and shipping to top tier customers - application owners and cloud players - in US, Asia and Europe, or accessible from our PIM cloud services in France for customers or research partners.
UPMEM successfully released the first PIM on DRAM chip and server based solution with amazing programmability and scalability outlook.
UPMEM 2nd generation PIM chip delivers 20x cheaper LLM inference for Generative AI in the cloud and computes with 10x less energy on mobile, opening the path to massive on device GenAI usage.
UPMEM is maintaining a sustained effort en route to making PIM a dominant architecture in computing nodes, growing his team, customer base, memory, system, server, cloud and mobile partners worldwide.
2018
Board Observer
Dec 2018
Pliops accelerates and amplifies the performance and scalability of global GenAI infrastructure, driving unparalleled efficiency and innovation.
Pliops was founded in 2017 by storage industry veterans from Samsung, M-Systems, and XtremIO. Pliops is pioneering a new category of product that enables cloud and enterprise data centers to access data up to 50 times faster with one-tenth of the computational load and power consumption. Its technology consolidates multiple inefficient layers into one ultra-fast device based on a groundbreaking approach. Pliops’ solution addresses the scalability challenges posed by the cloud data explosion and the increasing data demands of AI and ML applications.
Board Observer
Aug 2018
Excelero enables customers to build distributed, high-performance Server SAN with standard hardware for applications at any scale. NVMesh is a truly converged Software-Defined Block Storage solution designed to meet storage requirements for applications of any scale, without compromise. The solution features an intelligent management layer that abstracts underlying hardware with CPU offload, creates logical volumes with redundancy, and provides centralized management and monitoring. Customers benefit from the performance of local flash, with the convenience of centralized storage and the cost savings of standard hardware. The solution has been deployed for Industrial IoT services, machine learning applications and simulation visualization.
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