TALLWOOD VENTURES

Tallwood Venture Capital, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, invests broadly in semiconductor and semiconductor-related technologies.

The firm seeks out early-stage investments, passionate entrepreneurs and focuses on hard to do, disruptive technologies and products that have the potential to create a significant market impact.

By offering deep semiconductor knowledge, direct operating experience and a high degree of availability, Tallwood builds close, active working relationships with their portfolio companies. Its portfolio companies include Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL) and SiRF (Nasdaq:SIRF).

 

INTEL CAPITAL

Intel Capital, Intel's venture capital organization, makes equity investments in innovative technology start-ups and companies worldwide, with invenstments in a broad range of companies offering hardware, software and services targeting enterprise, home, mobility, health, consumer Internet and semiconductor manufacturing.

Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested more than US$6 billion in nearly 1,000 companies in more than 40 countries. In that time, about 180 portfolio companies have been acquired by other companies and another 155 have gone public on various exchanges around the world. In 2005, Intel Capital invested about US$265 million in about 140 deals with approximately 60 percent of funds invested outside the United States.

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