Faraj Aalaei

Centillium Communications, Inc. designs, develops and supplies integrated programmable system-on-a-chip solutions that enable high-speed broadband access. Its products include passive optical network chip solutions; mixed-signal integrated circuits, hardware and software applications. The firm also offers fiber to the premises products that include central office transceivers, protocol processors, customer premise equipment transceivers and protocol processors. The company was founded in 1997 by Faraj Aalaei and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. engages in the design, development, and sale of integrated circuits. The company offers System-on-a-Chip devices, which leverages technology portfolio of intellectual property in the areas of analog, mixed-signal, digital signal processing, and embedded and standalone integrated circuits. It also develops integrated hardware platforms along with software that incorporates digital computing technologies designed and configured to provide an optimized computing solution. The company was founded by Sehat Sutardja, Weili Dai and Pantas Sutardja in January 1995 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Aquantia Corp. engages in design, development, and marketing of communications integrated circuits for ethernet connectivity in the data center, enterprise infrastructure, and access markets. Its products include Aquantia AQrate PHYs, Multi-Gig Phys, and AQtion AQC107. The company was founded by Ramin Shirani, Phillippe Delansay and Ramin Farjad-Rad on January 27, 2004 and is headquartered in San Jones, CA.

Bell Laboratories provides research and development services. It provides communications technologies including transistors, digital networking, signal processing, lasers and fiber-optic communications systems, communication satellites, cellular telephony, electronic switching of calls, touch-tone dialing and modems. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Murray Hill, NJ.

Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc. designs and manufactures telecommunications equipment. The firm offers connection-oriented ethernet and optical transport technologies, synchronous optical networking, wavelength-division multiplexing, and packet optical transport technologies. The company is headquartered in Richardson, TX.

Global Catalyst LLC (Global Catalyst Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Kamran Elahian, Koji Osawa and Arthur Schneiderman. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and an additional offices in Japan.

Candou Ventures LLC (Candou Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Faraj Aalaei and Shahin Hedayat. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.