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4Home is solving the problem consumers face with a myriad of products, technologies, and services in their home; namely complicated product set-up and usage, while also having to learn and know dozens of different product user-interfaces in their daily life.
4Home is developing a product for the consumer marketplace which offers a pleasant and highly intuitive user-interface integrating networked devices and services into a unified user-experience accessible both throughout the home and remotely via their mobile devices and the Internet. For simplicity for the home, think 4Home.
4Home was acquired by Motorola Mobility in December 2010
LiveRail provides innovative technologies for online video advertising. The company's video-centric strategy allows it to deliver superior solutions, empowering publishers and advertisers to make the most of the opportunities of online video.
LiveRail's core products are: AdServer, a video ad serving platform for managing the trafficking, serving, tracking and reporting of video ads; and Junction, a consolidation and optimization engine for publishers with multiple video ad sales partners, designed to maximize revenue and fill rates, and reduce the technical barriers to integration with multiple ad networks.
Broadway Networks, founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Jose, with a wholly owned subsidiary in Beijing, develops next-generation optical subsystems for access network applications.
Broadway Networks offers subsystems and software products to networking equipment vendors, and enables them to build systems with enhanced network manageability, network simplicity and lower deployment and maintenance costs for broad applications such as FTTx residential access and enterprise connectivity.
Broadway was acquired by Finisar in September 2010
Gigle Networks is a fabless semiconductor company, developing system-on-chip integrated circuits, firmware and reference designs that target the rapidly-evolving market for home multimedia networks. Such networks allow consumers to share movies and television broadcasts, music, information and enable online gaming between multiple devices within the home.
Using advanced design techniques and deep sub-micron CMOS technologies, Gigle is creating integrated circuits with clear-cut benefits for communicating information around the home. Gigles integrated circuits offer superior performance, coverage and quality of service than alternative communication technologies.
Multinational from day one, Gigle has offices in Barcelona and Edinburgh, with plans to establish a worldwide presence.
Gigle was acquired by Broadcom in December 2010.
LiveRail provides innovative technologies for online video advertising. The company's video-centric strategy allows it to deliver superior solutions, empowering publishers and advertisers to make the most of the opportunities of online video.
LiveRail's core products are: AdServer, a video ad serving platform for managing the trafficking, serving, tracking and reporting of video ads; and Junction, a consolidation and optimization engine for publishers with multiple video ad sales partners, designed to maximize revenue and fill rates, and reduce the technical barriers to integration with multiple ad networks.
Nanotech Semiconductor — Nanotech is a UK-based fabless chip company, focused on Analog and mixed-signal ICs for fiber-optics based communications.
Nanotech was acquired by Gennum Corporation in April 2011.
Microcosm Communications Limited — 'Microcosm' — was incorporated in the UK in 1995 as a 'Fabless Chip Company'. Microcosm designs and sells CMOS, BiCMOS and Bipolar Integrated Circuits (ICs). These ICs are aimed exclusively at transmission over fiber optics: one of the worlds fastest growing communications technologies.
Microcosm's mission is to offer the highest performance yet lowest cost ICs possible, on a worldwide basis. The key areas of concentration for the company include "Physical Layer" chips and chip sets for ATM, FDDI, ESCON, Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, SONET and Fibre-Array applications.
Microcosm was acquired by Conexant (NASDAQ: CNXT) in January 2000.
Transitive Corporation is a leader in providing solutions that allow the transportability of software applications across hardware platforms. Transitive's QuickTransit solution allows applications created for one processor and operating system to run on another without any source code or binary changes. QuickTransit allows data center managers to transport legacy enterprise applications quickly and easily from outdated, proprietary hardware to modern, industry-standard platforms without incurring the costs, delays or disruptions of porting projects. QuickTransit also facilitates computer makers' migrations to new hardware platforms, accelerates software developers' time-to-market in supporting multiple hardware platforms; and makes a broader range of software available for hardware platforms. QuickTransit technology provides the engine for Apple's Rosetta translation software and is currently shipping on all of Apple's Intel-based computers. Transitive Corporation is located in Los Gatos, California with a research and development team in Manchester, UK.
Transitive was acquired by IBM in December 2008. is a leader in providing solutions that allow the transportability of software applications across hardware platforms. Transitive's QuickTransit solution allows applications created for one processor and operating system to run on another without any source code or binary changes. QuickTransit allows data center managers to transport legacy enterprise applications quickly and easily from outdated, proprietary hardware to modern, industry-standard platforms without incurring the costs, delays or disruptions of porting projects. QuickTransit also facilitates computer makers' migrations to new hardware platforms, accelerates software developers' time-to-market in supporting multiple hardware platforms; and makes a broader range of software available for hardware platforms. QuickTransit technology provides the engine for Apple's Rosetta translation software and is currently shipping on all of Apple's Intel-based computers. Transitive Corporation is located in Los Gatos, California with a research and development team in Manchester, UK.
Transitive was acquired by IBM in December 2008.
PicoChip's uniquely flexible chip technology allows the development of base stations that mobile operators can cost effectively deploy and upgrade, without having to replace obsolete hardware each time. PicoChip's flexible technology is attractive because it is faster to develop, cheaper and less power hungry than today's solutions. Mobile operators are under intense competitive pressure to implement 3G infrastructures to capitalise on expensive license purchases, so maximising performance and minimising cost of deployment is a vital concern.
PicoChip was acquired by Mindspeed Technologies in January 2012.
ACCO is a fabless semiconductor company developing innovative CMOS solutions.
Mirics Semiconductor is a dynamic fabless semiconductor company developing innovative silicon and software solutions to address nomadic broadcast reception.
Mekanist is a Turkish start up providing a software platform for consumers to buy goods and services on the internet. The initial vertical market is dining and entertainment. As the core user group grows new vertical markets will be introduced. Mekanist addresses a growing Turkish economy with High mobile and internet usage particularly amongst an increasingly affluent young population.
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Swapit has since 2001 been the leading UK online swapping & trading community for young people. Members earn virtual currency swapits for every item they swap and they can also earn swapits from responsible brands and organisations for activities such as: visiting websites, product purchase, completing research surveys, eating healthy food at school and much more.
Emefcy was founded in 2007 with a vision of fundamentally changing the economics of wastewater treatment. The systems developed by Emefcy produce electricity or hydrogen directly from the treatment of different types of wastewater. We also provide a unique treatment solution for heavily loaded organic wastewater with high salinity, which existing treatment technologies fail to treat efficiently. This conversion is made possible by use of microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology.
Seasons Greetings from Pond and your portfolio company Emefcy. This is an amusing demo of electricity being generated from the process of cleaning waste water. More seriously, today wastewater treatment uses 2% of the world’s electricity, equivalent to 160 500 Megawatt power plants. Emefcy’s technology can eliminate the need for energy and instead produce it, for a broad segment of the industrial wastewater market. So be on the lookout for bigger scale demos in the year ahead.” www.youtube.com