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Crossbar, Inc. is a Santa Clara semiconductor company founded in 2010 that develops resistive random-access memory (ReRAM), a non-volatile memory built on RRAM patents licensed from the University of Michigan.

IControl Networks was a smart-home and home-security platform company (OpenHome / Connect, Piper) backed by Kleiner Perkins. It was acquired by Comcast in 2017 (the platform underpinned Xfinity Home) with its residential SaaS business sold to Alarm.com; it no longer operates as an independent entity.

Ambiq Micro is a semiconductor company that designs ultra-low-power System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions for battery-powered and endpoint-AI devices. Its proprietary Subthreshold Power Optimized Technology (SPOT) platform lets its Apollo family of Arm Cortex-M microcontrollers and Artasie real-time clocks run at extremely low energy, powering wearables…

Diamond Lane was a hardtech networking-equipment company that built DSL broadband networking equipment, backed by Kleiner Perkins and listed on the firm's partnerships page with a status of acquired.

Crystal (Crystal Semiconductor) was a hardtech company that designed audio and mixed-signal semiconductor chips. Kleiner Perkins partnered with the company in 1986 at the early stage, and Crystal was subsequently acquired by Cirrus Logic. The company was surfaced from the Kleiner Perkins portfolio and added to the API Evangelist network as a lead.

Lara Networks, Inc. (founded as Lara Technology) was a fabless semiconductor company headquartered at 110 Nortech Parkway, San Jose, California, that architected, designed, and marketed silicon-based packet-processing solutions for high-speed Internet and networking infrastructure.

LuxVue Technology is a company surfaced as a portfolio company of kleiner-perkins and added to the API Evangelist network as a stub for enrichment. Sector: hardtech. This profile is a lead awaiting the enrichment pipeline.

Alif Semiconductor is a Silicon Valley fabless semiconductor company building secure, ultra-low-power 32-bit microcontrollers and fusion processors for edge AI/ML. Its Ensemble, Ensemble Gen AI, and Balletto product families pair Arm Cortex-M and Cortex-A cores with dedicated Ethos-U55 neural processing units, hardware AI acceleration, wireless…

Handspring is a company surfaced as a portfolio company of kleiner-perkins and added to the API Evangelist network as a stub for enrichment. Sector: hardtech. This profile is a lead awaiting the enrichment pipeline.

Bloom Energy Corporation (NYSE: BE) is a San Jose, California hardtech company that designs and manufactures solid-oxide fuel cell "Energy Server" platforms which generate electricity on-site from natural gas, biogas, or hydrogen through an electrochemical process rather than combustion.

General Radar Corp. (GenRad) is a Belmont, California hardtech company founded in 2016 that designs and manufactures fully solid-state, high-resolution active electronically scanned array (AESA) phased-array radar systems built largely on commercial off-the-shelf hardware.

Indigo is a company surfaced as a portfolio company of kleiner-perkins and added to the API Evangelist network as a stub for enrichment. Sector: hardtech. This profile is a lead awaiting the enrichment pipeline.

Linear Technology Corporation (listed as "Linear Technologies" in the Mayfield portfolio harvest) was an American analog semiconductor company founded in 1981 and headquartered in Milpitas, California, designing and manufacturing high-performance analog integrated circuits — power management, data converters, amplifiers, voltage references…

Eo Computer (EO, Inc.) was an early-1990s hardtech company, backed by Kleiner Perkins, that built the EO Personal Communicator - a pen-based tablet computer running GO Corporation's PenPoint operating system. AT&T became the principal backer and later shut the company down in 1994.

Equipe Communications — Équipe Communications Corporation was an Acton, Massachusetts telecommunications equipment startup established in 1999 by a group of telecom industry veterans.

CesiumAstro designs, manufactures, and tests full-stack communication systems and satellites for space, air, and ground missions. The Austin, Texas company, founded in 2017, builds active phased array payloads (Vireo), software-defined radios (SDR-1001/2051/2104/3104), reconfigurable processing units, SATCOM terminals (Skylark), tactical ISR/PNT…

Destineer was a networking-solutions provider for telecommunications carriers, and an early-stage Kleiner Perkins portfolio company partnered since 1995. Per Kleiner Perkins' own partnerships archive, the company was acquired by MCI WorldCom and no longer operates as an independent entity.

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American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC) is a Ayer, Massachusetts based power systems company that designs and deploys grid interconnection, power protection, and power supply solutions for the energy, renewables, industrial, utility, and military sectors.