Welcome to Silicom Ventures eNewsletter
For the week commencing December 17, 2001
I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all Happy Holidays and prosper New Year.
Gadi Behar
We are proud to announce Silicom
Ventures raised funds for three innovative start up companies last month,
Vsecure, AxessOne and eZula. We are
also still in the process of raising fund for Walden Israel Executive Side
Fund.
Silicom Ventures' Fund focused on value and growth We will keep you updated on
the progress.
The
Silicom Ventures Wireless Symposium Silicom ventures is proud to present
its Wireless Symposium which will take place on
February 20th, 2002. This event will provide a platform for Wireless
experts to debate the current status of the industry, its future, challenges,
infrastructure and leading technologies.
The event will start with a
buffet dinner followed by five speakers, panel and Q&A from the audience. A formal
invitations will be send out next month. Admission is free of charge for
Silicom Ventures' members.
New
Investments
VsecureInnovative Start up grows under Silicom's umbrella
Moshe Gelles has recently joined Silicom Ventures as EIR [entrepreneurs in residence). Moshe will focus his attention on networking and wireless fields and has specific interest in Unlicensed Spectrum architectures. For additional information please contact moshe at: [email protected]
Silicom Ventures reaches a mile stone
Thanks to you Silicom Ventures has grown 50% in the last quarter We are currently 100 members strong. Many of our members are VCs from the Silicon Valley and Israel, whose total managed asset is over $4 billion.
Advisory Board grows
We welcome Jacob Tanz, Isaac Applbaum, Moshe Gelles and Yoram Solomon which joined Silicom Ventures advisory board.
Jacob Tanz has nearly 20 years of executive and general management experience leading sales and marketing organizations. Most recent, Mr. Tanz was the CEO of Oren Semiconductor, Inc. Prior to his assignment at Oren Semiconductor, Mr. Tanz was Vice President, North American sales and marketing with Libit Signal Processing Inc. More about Mr. Tanz
Isaac Applbaum is a Venture Partner with Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Mr. Applbaum is a Venture Partner with Lightspeed Venture Partners, a Venture Capital firm with $2.3 billion under management. Prior to joining Lightspeed, Mr. Applbaum was the founder and CEO of Concorde Solutions Inc. (CSI). In 1998 Mr. Applbaum sold CSI to Bank of America. More about Mr. Applbaum
Moshe Gelles
was Director of
Technical Marketing at RealChip Corporation (Voice-over-IP and Voice-over-ATM). Prior,
he served as Director of Business Development for Lucent, in Ethernet and ATM
switches. In 1992, he co-founded NetWiz, a maker of Multiport Ethernet Switches,
and served as its CEO until 1998. More about Mr. Gelles
Yoram Solomon
is the Vice
President and General Manager of the Advanced Communications Business Unit,
focused on Wireless LAN. He joined PCTEL as a Director for the Broadband and
Wireless Product Line. In previous position, Mr. Solomon served as Vice
President, Marketing for Voyager Technologies, Inc. when Voyager was acquired by
PCTEL. Prior to that, Mr. Solomon founded Solram Electronics, a Voice over IP
Israeli hardware startup, and served as its President and CEO. More about Mr. Solomon
Articles send by Silicom Ventures’
members
By Yoram
Solomon
Second Generation, Multi-Mode Wireless LAN Clients By Yoram Solomon