Firsthand Capital Management
Firsthand Capital Management, Inc. is an employee-owned investment manager based in San Jose, California, founded in 1994. As a business development company, it serves institutional investors, high net-worth individuals, and fund sponsors by launching and managing equity mutual funds. The firm employs fundamental analysis and a combination of bottom-up and top-down stock picking to build its portfolio, focusing on investments in startups, late-stage companies, and entities undergoing bankruptcy or reorganization. Firsthand Capital primarily invests in private technology and cleantech sectors, targeting companies with defensible intellectual property rights, including those in renewable energy, telecommunications, and advanced materials. The firm typically invests between $1 million and $10 million in its portfolio companies, structuring its investments in various forms such as preferred stock, convertible debt, and high-yield bonds. Firsthand Capital aims to exert influence over its investee companies by seeking board representation and plans to exit investments through strategic acquisitions or public offerings.
SoloPower is a producer of thin-film photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules. The company's mission is to mass-produce PV modules for ubiquitous applications on a global scale at a cost that is lower than the traditional wafer-based solar technologies and at parity with that of the conventional power grid. SoloPower is manufacturing and commercializing a new generation of high-efficiency, low-cost Copper-Indium-Gallium-Selenide (CIGS) based devices to enable solar electricity generation at a cost that is competitive with traditional methods.
SoloPower is a producer of thin-film photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules. The company's mission is to mass-produce PV modules for ubiquitous applications on a global scale at a cost that is lower than the traditional wafer-based solar technologies and at parity with that of the conventional power grid. SoloPower is manufacturing and commercializing a new generation of high-efficiency, low-cost Copper-Indium-Gallium-Selenide (CIGS) based devices to enable solar electricity generation at a cost that is competitive with traditional methods.
Global Locate
Series E in 2006
Global Locate offers semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. It provides GPS chips, software, and network services. The company's semiconductor solutions bring GPS technology to the mobile wireless devices, including handsets, smartphones, PDAs, and other wireless devices. It offers IndoorGPS Driver Software that runs on the handset or mobile wireless device host processor to provide interfaces to the wireless network, handle assistance data, manage chip communications and control, and provide the location APIs for application development. Global Locate, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in San Jose, California with offices in New Jersey; Tokyo, Japan; and Madrid, Spain. As of July 12, 2007, Global Locate, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Broadcom Corp.
Silicon Optix is a fabless semiconductor company, supplier of warping integrated circuit (IC) technology – eWARP™. eWARP digital distortion correction allows manufacturers to complement optics with sophisticated electronics imaging in order to achieve superior system designs and add new compelling features to products while reducing cost and complexity of optical systems. Silicon Optix has the only mainstream geometry processing IC in volume production to date. Over seven years of research and development invested in IC design, system design and optics have given Silicon Optix the expertise to be the leader in this emerging technology with large market opportunities.
NanoMuscle is a privately held company that designs and manufactures advanced motion technologies for use in a wide range of consumer devices. With their low cost, small size and silent operation, NanoMuscle products displace conventional electromagnetic motors and solenoids and for the first time provide miniature, affordable motion.
Celox Networks, Inc. manufactures Internet protocol switches. The company’s SCx 192 is an Internet protocol service creation switch, which provides tools to create new revenue-generating services over existing access connections, such as traffic prioritization, traffic shaping and bandwidth management, and security across a shared Internet protocol infrastructure, as well as service level agreement performance verifications.
Luminous Networks
Series D in 2001
Luminous Networks, Inc. manufactures access network equipment for services providers to deliver shared Ethernet services.
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