ITU Ventures

Luxtera specializes in Silicon CMOS Photonics. It is the first company to overcome the complex technical obstacles involved with integrating high-performance optics directly with silicon electronics on a mainstream CMOS chip, bringing direct “fiber to the chip” connectivity to the market. Luxtera’s patented technology blends the long reach capabilities of single-mode fiber with the low cost of highly integrated optoelectronics to deliver compelling transceiver devices that have advanced the state of the high-speed optical communications industry. Headquartered in Carlsbad, California, Luxtera is a fabless semiconductor company that was founded in 2001 by a team of industry-renowned researchers and technology managers drawn from the communications and semiconductor industries. Luxtera has received funding from leading venture capitalists including August Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Sevin Rosen Funds, and Lux Capital. In December 2018, Luxtera was acquired by Cisco.

XAware is an opensource data integration vendor. XAware's tool set leverages a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and is built upon key technical standards (such as J2EE, XML, and Eclipse) and industry standards (such as ACORD, CSIO, EDI, HL7 and NIEM).

Holochip is a defense contracting and embedded electronics manufacturing company. Their adaptive polymer lenses are used in virtual reality and augmented reality headsets with dynamic accommodation, enabling users to get absolute control of the lens interface and behavior.

Comet Solutions provides software applications that enable manufacturers to develop product development process. Its mission is to deliver innovative technology that changes the landscape of how simulation can be used in the product development process. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Chip Estimate Corporation, an electronic design automation company, provides access to integrated chip (IC) project planning solutions. The company owns and operates ChipEstimate.com portal that provide chip planning capabilities to the electronics and semiconductor design communities. It develops and markets the InCyte chip estimation systems in which IP and manufacturing process models are integrated for accurate chip estimation. The company's InCyte chip estimation systems include InCyte Lite, an entry-level system that is used for project feasibility analysis at the early architectural stage of chip planning; and InCyte Enterprise system, which is used to generate refined chip specifications, accurate IC quotations, and to customize chip estimations to meet the corporation's internal requirements. It provides enterprise-level IP reuse management solutions. The company was formerly known as Giga Scale Integration Corporation and changed its name in 2006. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Cupertino, California. As of March 7, 2008, Chip Estimate Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

XAware is an opensource data integration vendor. XAware's tool set leverages a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and is built upon key technical standards (such as J2EE, XML, and Eclipse) and industry standards (such as ACORD, CSIO, EDI, HL7 and NIEM).

8Wave, a Boston-based provider of a technology platform for marketing through mobile phone networks.

Comet Solutions provides software applications that enable manufacturers to develop product development process. Its mission is to deliver innovative technology that changes the landscape of how simulation can be used in the product development process. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Authenticlick is a web analytics company specializing in web traffic quality intelligence solutions for online advertising optimization. Authenticlick aims to drive greater transparency in the search and display advertising market through a standardized quality scoring system and powerful web traffic quality reporting and analysis tools. Authenticlick's analysis platform and scoring methodologies enable advertisers to obtain a unique view of the quality of their web traffic and take actions to dramatically improve conversion and return on ad spend.

Pivotal Systems provides a gas flow monitoring and control technology platform for the global semiconductor industry. The company’s proprietary hardware and software utilizes advanced machine learning to enable preventative diagnostic capability resulting in an order of magnitude increase in fab productivity and capital efficiency for existing and future technology nodes.

Penthera is an international software company that makes video viewing friction-free, so audiences can watch when and where they want it. Its technology helps eliminate last-mile streaming issues, such as buffering and low quality, to reduce stream abandonment and churn.

Agility Design Solutions, Inc. develops software tools that shorten the time to design, verify, and implement signal processing algorithms. The company offers solutions for algorithm acceleration, prototyping, and implementation in software and hardware. Its products include RMS, which improves the execution speed of MATLAB programs; MCS, which automatically synthesizes MATLAB code to C code; MCS Function Library, which includes functions that are synthesized using MCS to generate ANSI-C source; DK Design Suite, a design environment for C-based algorithmic design entry, simulation, and synthesis; RC Series Platforms, a family of FPGA-based rapid prototyping/development boards; and PixelStreams Imaging Library, which includes IP cores for digital image and video processing. The company also offers training, support, and algorithm implementation consulting services. It serves customers in various fields, including video analysis, image recognition, and wireless and wired communications. The company markets and sells its products through direct sales channels and local distributors in North America, Asia, and Europe. Agility Design Solutions, Inc. was formerly known as Catalytic, Inc. and changed its name to Agility Design Solutions, Inc. in January, 2008. Agility Design Solutions, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Austin, Texas; Abingdon, England; and Yokohama, Japan.

COLED, a super energy conservation technology for display application. They currently have patents filed in USA, China, Japan, Korea and internationally. This is a game-changing technology that will correct the existing problems of OLED and other display technology. COLED technology provides the sunlight readable screens to users, who will no longer need to charge their cell phones on a daily basis. In addition, they provide simple structures that will enable display manufacturers to save 30 - 35% in manufacturing costs. This will ultimately pass the cost-saving benefits to consumers. COLED Display Technology Inc, formed a collaboration with SRI to co-develop this great technology and they anticipate to complete the single color prototypes in 12 months and the full color prototypes in 18 months. They are seeking financial and strategic partners to commercialize this game-changing technology with a global market growing to $160+ billion in 2017.

Dynamic Organic Light, Inc. develops novel organic materials for use in next generation flat panel displays, solar cells, and solid state lighting. Dynamic Organic Light, Inc. was formerly known as COLED Technologies Incorporated till 2006. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Longmont, Colorado.

XAware is an opensource data integration vendor. XAware's tool set leverages a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and is built upon key technical standards (such as J2EE, XML, and Eclipse) and industry standards (such as ACORD, CSIO, EDI, HL7 and NIEM).

A Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of software designed to increase DSP application productivity

PowerSicel, Inc. is a Boulder, Colorado based company that was spun off from the University of Colorado and Astralux, Inc. in 2001 with a mission to commercialize enabling SiC power electronics with significant performance and cost enhancements over both conventional and future technologies. PowerSicel was seed funded by ITU Ventures and subsequently raised additional capital from both ITU Ventures and Digital Power Capital.

Hier Design Inc. develops, markets, and supports hierarchical floor planning and analysis software for design of ultra deep sub-micron, multi-million gates, and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA).

XAware is an opensource data integration vendor. XAware's tool set leverages a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and is built upon key technical standards (such as J2EE, XML, and Eclipse) and industry standards (such as ACORD, CSIO, EDI, HL7 and NIEM).

Luxtera specializes in Silicon CMOS Photonics. It is the first company to overcome the complex technical obstacles involved with integrating high-performance optics directly with silicon electronics on a mainstream CMOS chip, bringing direct “fiber to the chip” connectivity to the market. Luxtera’s patented technology blends the long reach capabilities of single-mode fiber with the low cost of highly integrated optoelectronics to deliver compelling transceiver devices that have advanced the state of the high-speed optical communications industry. Headquartered in Carlsbad, California, Luxtera is a fabless semiconductor company that was founded in 2001 by a team of industry-renowned researchers and technology managers drawn from the communications and semiconductor industries. Luxtera has received funding from leading venture capitalists including August Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Sevin Rosen Funds, and Lux Capital. In December 2018, Luxtera was acquired by Cisco.

SkyFlow has developed and delivered a solution to automate self-service through speech-driven solutions. Their Mission is to deliver high customer satisfaction and empowerment via the contact center while saving cost for their clients. SkyFlow was founded in January 2000 and is located in Berkeley, CA. The company is privately held. While well-funded as a startup, the company has steadily added customers — first Bravanta, then Apple computer, Odimo (DeBeer Diamonds’ on line B2C arm), etc. In 2000, SkyFlow won the UC Berkeley 2000 Business Plan Competition, and received one of only ten worldwide Hewlett-Packard Garage e-scholarships. In May 2001, SkyFlow was selected by Fortune Small Business as one of 65 "Innovators" in the U.S. in its 4th Annual Big Ideas issue. As 2002 has progressed, the company has expanded commercial usage of its fully developed solutions. For information regarding partnership opportunities with SkyFlow, email partners@skyflow.com. Their integrated voice and data solutions automate interactive business processes for the enterprise. Users can speak requests for information or conduct transactions and hear and see responses via multiple output devices. From a technologically rich platform, SkyFlow delivers applications such as order management, fulfillment, and information look-up providing customers, suppliers, and employees flexible speech-driven information access and transaction options. Their Conversational Application Server enables the rapid deployment of scalable, reliable, and secure applications with easy expansion of business logic and content delivery using a variety of devices, platforms, and networks.

Isovia provides wireless applications that enable supply chain and customer relationship management in a mobile environment. Isovia has assembled a core team of experts in enterprise applications, wireless technologies and speech recognition to deliver a comprehensive set of m-business applications that maintain operability in today's market. Isovia's application suite, which leverages wireless connectivity and intelligent sync-based technologies, extends mobility to all devices, including smart phones, PDAs, two-way pagers and voice interfaces.