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Board Observer
Jan 2020
Founded in January 2018, xMEMS Labs is reinventing sound with the world’s first solid-state True MEMS speakers for TWS and other personal audio devices. xMEMS has over 100 granted patents worldwide for its technology. The innovative, monolithic transduction architecture implements both actuation and diaphragm in silicon producing the world’s fastest and most precise micro speakers, eliminating spring and suspension recovery of coil speakers. This results in the most accurate time domain music reproduction, unmatched sound clarity, and an elevated sense of space. For more information, visit https://xmems.com.
Board Observer
Jun 2016
Ignition Design Labs is a veteran team of wireless networking engineers developing products for the next generation Internet-of-Things. Its flagship product, Portal, is an entirely new class of agile, smart-learning router designed for demanding urban lifestyles.
Learn more about our award-winning Portal products: https://portalwifi.com/
The Portal Smart WiFi system offers superior speed, reliability and coverage. It gives consumers the ultimate wireless Internet experience—eliminating dead spots and buffering—even in the most congested urban environments.
Portal was engineered for demanding urban users and tough crowded environments. Patented technologies enable Portal to access special protected fast channels not available to traditional consumer routers. In high-congestion settings such as city homes and multi-unit apartments, this can mean radically faster Internet speeds and improved coverage versus traditional routers—giving consumers lag-free gaming and smooth, fast 4K video streaming throughout the home.
Board Observer
Jun 2016
Rescale’s cloud platform for modeling & simulation and applied AI accelerates product development and discovery for any organization. Enterprises use Rescale’s compute, data, and AI solutions to accelerate discovery and engineering breakthroughs.
Rescale has been recognized globally as the industry leading platform providing cutting edge AI solutions, the broadest selection of over 1,000 R&D software applications, and the largest global infrastructure footprint of 100s of advanced computing architectures. Leveraged by a majority of Fortune 500 companies to accelerate time to market, Rescale has been recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor for Cloud Infrastructure, by Deloitte as a Technology Fast 500 company, and by the World Economic Forum as a Global Innovator Unicorn.
We are located in San Francisco and work with users in the aerospace, automotive, energy, life sciences, construction, marine, consumer products, and manufacturing industries. For more info sales@rescale.com
Board Observer
Dec 2015
Qeexo develops machine learning solutions for mobile devices, touch interfaces, and embedded systems. The company works with leading device OEMs and component manufacturers to power new and exciting user experiences on tens of millions of devices worldwide. In industries such as mobile, IoT, and automotive, there are billions of devices where computation and memory are highly constrained. Qeexo brings high-accuracy predictions to these platforms using its proprietary low-latency, low-power machine learning technologies.
Spun out of Carnegie Mellon University, Qeexo is venture-backed and headquartered in Mountain View, CA, with offices in Pittsburgh, Shanghai, and Beijing. To learn more, visit www.qeexo.com.
Board Observer
Apr 2015
Ilya Rosenberg and Aaron Zarraga founded Sensel to bring the next generation of touch, force, and haptics technologies to computing. Having grown to ~50 team members, thousands of customers, and several large-scale enterprise clients, Sensel is enabling exciting new experiences for touchpads, displays, mobile devices, automotive interfaces, and other products that involve human interaction.
Sensel’s first product, the Morph, won "Best in Show" at the SXSW 2017 Interactive Innovation Awards, was named the “Best MIDI Controller” at NAMM 2019 by MusicRadar, and has shipped to thousands of customers worldwide. The first commercially available product to incorporate Sensel’s technology, Lenovo’s ultra-thin ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga, was announced in January 2021. The company is currently located in Sunnyvale, California.
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2020
Board Observer
Jan 2020
Founded in January 2018, xMEMS Labs is reinventing sound with the world’s first solid-state True MEMS speakers for TWS and other personal audio devices. xMEMS has over 100 granted patents worldwide for its technology. The innovative, monolithic transduction architecture implements both actuation and diaphragm in silicon producing the world’s fastest and most precise micro speakers, eliminating spring and suspension recovery of coil speakers. This results in the most accurate time domain music reproduction, unmatched sound clarity, and an elevated sense of space. For more information, visit https://xmems.com.
2016
Board Observer
Jun 2016
Ignition Design Labs is a veteran team of wireless networking engineers developing products for the next generation Internet-of-Things. Its flagship product, Portal, is an entirely new class of agile, smart-learning router designed for demanding urban lifestyles.
Learn more about our award-winning Portal products: https://portalwifi.com/
The Portal Smart WiFi system offers superior speed, reliability and coverage. It gives consumers the ultimate wireless Internet experience—eliminating dead spots and buffering—even in the most congested urban environments.
Portal was engineered for demanding urban users and tough crowded environments. Patented technologies enable Portal to access special protected fast channels not available to traditional consumer routers. In high-congestion settings such as city homes and multi-unit apartments, this can mean radically faster Internet speeds and improved coverage versus traditional routers—giving consumers lag-free gaming and smooth, fast 4K video streaming throughout the home.
Board Observer
Jun 2016
Rescale’s cloud platform for modeling & simulation and applied AI accelerates product development and discovery for any organization. Enterprises use Rescale’s compute, data, and AI solutions to accelerate discovery and engineering breakthroughs.
Rescale has been recognized globally as the industry leading platform providing cutting edge AI solutions, the broadest selection of over 1,000 R&D software applications, and the largest global infrastructure footprint of 100s of advanced computing architectures. Leveraged by a majority of Fortune 500 companies to accelerate time to market, Rescale has been recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor for Cloud Infrastructure, by Deloitte as a Technology Fast 500 company, and by the World Economic Forum as a Global Innovator Unicorn.
We are located in San Francisco and work with users in the aerospace, automotive, energy, life sciences, construction, marine, consumer products, and manufacturing industries. For more info sales@rescale.com
2015
Board Observer
Dec 2015
Qeexo develops machine learning solutions for mobile devices, touch interfaces, and embedded systems. The company works with leading device OEMs and component manufacturers to power new and exciting user experiences on tens of millions of devices worldwide. In industries such as mobile, IoT, and automotive, there are billions of devices where computation and memory are highly constrained. Qeexo brings high-accuracy predictions to these platforms using its proprietary low-latency, low-power machine learning technologies.
Spun out of Carnegie Mellon University, Qeexo is venture-backed and headquartered in Mountain View, CA, with offices in Pittsburgh, Shanghai, and Beijing. To learn more, visit www.qeexo.com.
Board Observer
Apr 2015
Ilya Rosenberg and Aaron Zarraga founded Sensel to bring the next generation of touch, force, and haptics technologies to computing. Having grown to ~50 team members, thousands of customers, and several large-scale enterprise clients, Sensel is enabling exciting new experiences for touchpads, displays, mobile devices, automotive interfaces, and other products that involve human interaction.
Sensel’s first product, the Morph, won "Best in Show" at the SXSW 2017 Interactive Innovation Awards, was named the “Best MIDI Controller” at NAMM 2019 by MusicRadar, and has shipped to thousands of customers worldwide. The first commercially available product to incorporate Sensel’s technology, Lenovo’s ultra-thin ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga, was announced in January 2021. The company is currently located in Sunnyvale, California.
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