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A hand me down that once belonged to Laird Hamilton - a 9.5 Naish AR5 - made its way to me in 2000 after a Baja wavesailing expedition. I've been hooked ever since. IKA Olympic Ambassador, venture capitalist and investor / director of disruptive technology companies. Along with Susi Mai one of the names behind the MaiTaiGlobal.

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        Previously Funded Startups

        8x8 is still a public company traded as NASD:EGHT

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        AURAVISION, later renamed Skytune, was acquired by Broadlogic Corp in a private to private transaction.

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        Award went public as NASD:AWRD and later merged with Pheonix Technologies (NASD:PTEC)

        Chemconnect was acquired by the Intercontinental Exchange (aka ICE) July 9,2007

        Creative is still a public company traded as NASD:CREAF

        Centrum was acquired by 3COM (NASD:COMS) to become their Wan Access product line

        CSWITCH was wound up in July 2009

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        iAsiaWorks (NASD:IAWK) went public with an amazing syndicate of Goldman, Morgan, and Solomon, but like many companies in the datacenter business, could not cover overhead in the dot.com 1.0 collapse and sold off its facilities.

        ICWorks was acquired by Cypress Semiconductor (nyse:CY) and became CY's silicon clock business.

        ImGo became a listed company on the HKSE, ticker 0067, and was ultimately taken over by a raider in 2002. Subsequently, he was arrested for fraudulently manipulating the stock price!

        IPinfusion was acquired by Access Corp of Japan (TSE:4813).

        ISSI (integrated silicon solutions inc., NASD:ISSI) is still a public company in the memory business

        Microchip (NASD:MCHP)is still a public company and has been a 40X as a public company from its IPO market cap.

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        NCompass Labs was acquired by Microsoft to help create .NET

        Network Peripherals went public as NASD:NPIX and was later acquired by FalconStor to create a networked storage product line

        Premisys went public as NASD:PRMS and was acquired by Zhone Technologies

        RLX was acquired by Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HPQ) to be it's Blade Computing product line

        Radcom went public as NASD:RDCMF

        RasterGraphics went public (NASD:RGFX), then was later acquired by Gretag Corp

        S3 went public(NASD:SIII) as a leader in graphics chips. It later acquired the assets of Diamond Multimedia to become Sonic Blue (NASD:SBLU), which no longer exists.

        Rosum's operations were wound up in Aug 2010; the IP was acquired by Intellectual ventures

        ShareVision was a videoconfrencing systems company acquired by Creative Labs - im still looking for a logo!!

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        SlimDevices was acquired by Logitech (NASD:LOGI)to become their streaming audio division

        Staccato has been relaunched as VEEBEAM, with a wireless HDMI solution vs. UWB silicon

        TRADEBEAM was acquired by publicly listed CSC Software

        Terayon went public under the symbol NASD:TERN

        TRANSMETA was acquired by NovaFora in a privatization transaction

        Vadem is now a private IP holding company with IP in three areas.

        Vitesse went public (NASD:VTSS) as a GaAs array company and later become a leader in comms ICs and is still a public company