David Suh

Amperon is the leading energy forecasting company, positioned at the intersection of energy data and AI. Founded in 2018, Amperon has become a trusted partner to power and utility companies, delivering demand, renewable generation, and price forecasts. With cutting-edge predictive analytics, seamless data integrations, and premium customer support, Amperon enables customers to enhance grid reliability and optimize asset performance. Committed to grid modernization, Amperon is the forecasting company of the energy transition. Our mission is to forecast the energy transition and empower our customers to shape the future of Electrons on grids globally.

ChipAgents is an agentic AI company building AI-native chip design and verification workflows. Its platform transforms design intent and specifications into production-ready RTL, verification assets, and automated root-cause analysis, delivering 10-100× productivity gains across production semiconductor development workflows. The platform is proven by IC designers, verification engineers, architects, and embedded systems teams at more than 120 semiconductor companies worldwide. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, ChipAgents is at the forefront of AI innovation in semiconductor design.

DeepSig is a pioneer in AI native wireless communications. Its transformative technology pushes the boundaries of spectrum sensing, wireless performance and network capabilities. Drawing on a unique blend of expertise in deep learning, wireless systems and signal processing, DeepSig’s AI/ML powered software enhances security, efficiency and capacity for tactical and commercial wireless communications in licensed or shared radio spectrum, and in existing 5G Open RAN or AI native next generation networks.

To make AI inference commercially viable, d-Matrix has built a new computing platform from the ground up: Corsair™, the world’s most efficient compute solution for AI inference at datacenter scale. We are redefining Performance and Efficiency for AI Inference at scale.

Earable Neuroscience is a pioneering deep tech company at the forefront of applying cutting-edge neuroscience advancements to enhance everyday life. Our journey begins with a focus on sleep. We invented the revolutionary FRENZ Brainband - the worlds first AI-powered wearable capable of tracking and stimulating brain activities in real-time. Utilizing innovative bone-conduction speakers and a science-backed audio library, FRENZ Brainband is designed to elevate the quality of your sleep experience. Join us in our mission to redefine the future of sleep and wellness. #portfolio company of FoundersFund, SmileGate, 500 and Samsung Ventures #winner of CES Innovation Awards 2023 and Red Dot Design Awards 2023 #Earable #Neuroscience #SleepTech #Innovation

Inocras is a bioinformatics-led company redefining precision health through whole genome data and proprietary analytics. Our oncology and rare disease platforms integrate comprehensive whole genome data with advanced automation to deliver curated and actionable insights at scale. These capabilities deliver curated, actionable insights that accelerate discovery and diagnostics to improve patient care, bringing a real-world impact. We operate a CLIA/CAP-certified laboratory and partners with leading hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and research institutions worldwide.

NNAISENSE leverages the 25-year proven track record of one of the leading research teams in artificial intelligence to build large-scale neural network solutions for superhuman perception and intelligent automation, with the ultimate goal of marketing general-purpose AIs. The company is an outgrowth of the internationally renowned Swiss AI Lab, IDSIA, headed by Dr. Jürgen Schmidhuber, which has been at the forefront of scientific breakthroughs in artificial neural networks, deep learning, reinforcement learning, artificial evolution, and general purpose AI, since the early 90s. Over the last three years, NNAISENSE has successfully partnered with major players in diverse industries including steel production, finance, mobile devices, and autonomous vehicles in an effort to validate our proprietary technology, and significantly advance the state of the art beyond artificial perception toward intelligent automation and general AI. Career opportunities: https://nnaisense.com/careers.html

Bigstream provides hyperacceleration technology for popular big data processing engines like Apache Spark using both hardware and software accelerators. Hyperacceleration of big data, machine learning and AI workloads is achieved using advanced compiler techniques and transparent support for FPGAs, many-core CPUs and GPUs. Unlike other hardware- or platform-specific approaches, Bigstream delivers orders of magnitude performance acceleration instantly and with no application code changes or special APIs.

The heart of SiFive is RISC-V! SiFive creates the building blocks of RISC-V-based IP that are the inevitable innovative reimagining of every computing platform.

Lucata holds numerous patents and patents pending for it’s proprietary technologies designed specifically to address data intensive, real-time Big Data analytics. We combine finely grained parallelism with in-memory computing and migration of compute context to data. This architecture is perfectly suited for real-time analysis of massive sparse data and streaming data that cannot be addressed with any conventional computers. The result is greater scale, greater efficiency and lower energy consumption required to deliver real-time pattern matching and trend analysis that is essential in threat intelligence, personalized medicine, fraud detection and machine learning.

Our mission is to drive the future of edge computing with our FPGA silicon platforms. At the heart of our FPGAs is our disruptive Quantum™ fabric, which delivers a big Power-Performance-Area advantage over traditional FPGA technologies. Trion® FPGAs, offering 4K to 120K logic elements (LEs), have a small form factor, low power, are priced for high-volume production, and are available now in volume quantities. Taking it to the next level, Trion Titanium FPGAs have an enhanced Quantum compute fabric combined with a 16 nm process to give even lower power and higher speeds. With densities ranging from 25K LEs to 500K LEs, Titanium FPGAs are ready to meet your next design challenge. With their Power-Performance-Area advantage, Trion and Trion Titanium FPGAs address applications such as custom logic, compute acceleration, machine learning, and deep learning.

Wave Computing is a VC-backed company that is revolutionizing artificial intelligence. with its dataflow-based chips, systems and software that deliver orders of magnitude performance improvements over legacy architectures. The company’s vision is to bring deep learning to customers’ data wherever it may be—from the edge to the data center—helping accelerate time-to-insight. Based in Campbell, California, Wave Computing has been named Frost & Sullivan’s 2018 “Machine Learning Industry Technology Innovation Leader,” and recognized by CIO Application Magazine’s as one of the “Top 25 Artificial Intelligence Providers.” Combined with MIPS, Wave now has over 400 granted and pending patents and hundreds of customers worldwide.

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.

Yellowbrick Data Warehouse is a modern, elastic data warehouse with separate storage and compute that runs in the cloud. Yellowbrick enables large-scale enterprises to eliminate complexity, reduce risk, and predict and control costs by running all their data anywhere, across multi-cloud and on-premises instances. Yellowbrick allows enterprises to run complex queries on live data at petabyte scale in their own cloud account, while supporting high concurrency with fast, interactive query response to customers most challenging business questions.

StoreDot is the pioneer and leader of extreme fast charging (XFC) batteries that overcome the critical barriers to mainstream EV adoption – range and charging anxiety. The company has revolutionized the conventional Li-ion battery by designing and synthesizing proprietary organic and inorganic compounds, optimized by Artificial Intelligence algorithms, making it possible to charge an EV in as little as five minutes – the same time it takes to refuel a conventional combustion engine car. Through its 100inX product roadmap, StoreDots battery technology is designed for best driver experience, offering ‘Range On DemandTM’: 100 miles charged in 5 minutes (2024), 100 miles charged in 3 minutes by 2028, and extreme energy density solution enabling 100 miles to be charged in 2 minutes by 2032. StoreDots strategic investors and partners include Daimler, BP, VinFast, Volvo, Polestar, Ola Electric, Samsung, TDK and the manufacturing partner EVE Energy. In 2022, the company achieved a world first by demonstrating a live extreme fast charging of an EV battery cell. In April 2024 StoreDot and Polestar showcased the worlds first 10-minute electric car charge with si-dominant cells.

Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital and private equity firm in Korea and a wholly owned subsidiary of Korea Investment Holdings (KIH), one of the largest financial groups in the country. As the venture capital and private equity investment arm of KIH, KIP has built a strong track record across multiple market cycles. With over 39 years of investment experience, KIP currently manages approximately 69 funds with total assets under management of about US$4 billion. Since 2001, the firm has successfully liquidated 25 funds, achieving an average multiple of 2.0x and an IRR of 14.7%, demonstrating consistent and disciplined investment performance. KIP operates an extensive global network with offices in China (Beijing, Shanghai), Singapore, and San Francisco(USA). Leveraging its strong domestic foundation and global presence, KIP continues to expand as a globally active venture capital firm with deep local insights and cross-border investment capabilities.

Amperon is the leading energy forecasting company, positioned at the intersection of energy data and AI. Founded in 2018, Amperon has become a trusted partner to power and utility companies, delivering demand, renewable generation, and price forecasts. With cutting-edge predictive analytics, seamless data integrations, and premium customer support, Amperon enables customers to enhance grid reliability and optimize asset performance. Committed to grid modernization, Amperon is the forecasting company of the energy transition. Our mission is to forecast the energy transition and empower our customers to shape the future of Electrons on grids globally.

ChipAgents is an agentic AI company building AI-native chip design and verification workflows. Its platform transforms design intent and specifications into production-ready RTL, verification assets, and automated root-cause analysis, delivering 10-100× productivity gains across production semiconductor development workflows. The platform is proven by IC designers, verification engineers, architects, and embedded systems teams at more than 120 semiconductor companies worldwide. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, ChipAgents is at the forefront of AI innovation in semiconductor design.

DeepSig is a pioneer in AI native wireless communications. Its transformative technology pushes the boundaries of spectrum sensing, wireless performance and network capabilities. Drawing on a unique blend of expertise in deep learning, wireless systems and signal processing, DeepSig’s AI/ML powered software enhances security, efficiency and capacity for tactical and commercial wireless communications in licensed or shared radio spectrum, and in existing 5G Open RAN or AI native next generation networks.