LisleTech Investors: Adarsh Arora, President and CEO, led the efforts to raise LisleTech’s seed capital. He leveraged the power of his business associate network, which was developed over several years, and raised over $1 million in one hour. The investors are a prestigious group, and their collective financial support provides strong testimony to LisleTech’s long-term potential. The investors include:

Daniel Kwoh: Co-founder of Gemstar (GMST) and co-inventor of VCR Plus+ technology. His firm has licensed its technology to essentially every TV and VCR maker and reached a market capitalization of $29.8 Billion. Mr. Kwoh was named Best Entrepreneur of 1990 by Business Week magazine.

He is currently Managing Partner for angel investment firm Wellspring Fund and on the Board of Directors of LisleTech.

Milton Chang: Past President and CEO of Newport Corporation. He is also Chairman and Founder of NewFocus (NUFO) electro-optical products, a new IPO credited with helping turn around the technology related stock market downturn. The Company sells its products to over 50 customers including Agilent Technologies, Alcatel USA, Avanex Corporation, Corning Incorporated, Corvis Corporation, JDS Uniphase Corporation, Lucent Technologies, and Nortel Networks Corporation. Mr.Chang is currently on the Board of Directors of numerous start-up companies.

Sai-Wai Fu: Co-founder, President and CEO of YesVideo, Inc. He is recognized as a pioneer in digital video and compression technology. As VP at C-Cube Microsystems, he was a major contributor to the adoption of MPEG-2 technology. Sai-Wai Fu also helped C-Cube grow from a start-up to an industry leader in digital video technology, with a $2B market value and an Emmy-award in 1995. He led the team that designed Intel's first micro- processor with more than 1 million transistors. He is a limited partner in several venture capital firms.

David Hou: Merrill Lynch executive and founder of Beverly Hills Private Clients Group.

 Kwang-I Yu: President and CEO of Paracel (massively parallel computers for gene analysis). Paracel recently merged with Celera (CRA), a PE Corporation business with sales of $1.2 billion. A TRW Fellow, Dr. Yu founded and directed Coyoteworks, TRW's center for high-speed computing systems, overseeing joint R&D relationships with Sybase, Sony, Applied Biosystems and Caltech.

David Lee: Former President of Global Crossing, which reached a $24 billion+ market cap value.

The following is a partial list of other venture capital and angel funds in which some of our investors are involved:

Idealflow Angel Fund, Acorn Angels, Band of Angels, Charter Capital, Communication Ventures, Convoy Partners, Dynafund, First Analysis Corporation, Garage.com, Ignitio Partners, Matrix Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Onsett, Sequoia Capital, Sevin Rosen, Sutterhill Ventures, Technology Crossover Ventures, TiE, VantagePoint Venture, Walden International, Wellspring Angel Fund, Worldview Technology Partners.

 

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