Symwave has received financial backing from several leading venture capital firms.

Kodiak Venture Partners is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based venture capital firm focused on seed and early-stage investments in emerging communications/IT, semiconductor and software companies.  Kodiak Venture Partners builds relationships with entrepreneurs seeking accelerated market success. Kodiak's investment partners are successful high-technology business entrepreneurs who take a high-impact, hands-on approach to forming, operating, building and funding market leaders. For more information, visit www.kodiakvp.com


CMEA Ventures is a San Francisco based venture capital firm that was established in 1989 and specializes in high technology and life sciences investments. CMEA was originally formed as an affiliate of New Enterprise Associates (NEA) in 1989 and became independent in 1997. CMEA currently has 6 funds and manages $771 million of venture capital. CMEA was an early stage investor in leading Silicon Valley companies such as Flextronics (FLEX), Magma (LAVA), Silicon Spice (BRCM) and Symyx (SMMX). For more information, visit

www.cmeaventures.com


JAFCO Ventures is the U.S. venture capital operation of JAFCO Co, Ltd. and invests from JAFCO Technology Partners I, a $100 million venture capital fund. With a new team of highly experienced venture capital investors, the fund's charter is to invest in U.S. based early expansion-stage technology companies sponsored by top-tier venture capital firms. The goal is to invest in venture opportunities of true "breakout" potential where JAFCO Ventures can meaningfully add value with capital, the experience of seasoned venture capital investors, and the deployment of our Asia business development team. For more information, visit www.jafco.com

Revolution Ventures is a San Diego-based venture capital firm that concentrates on highly promising opportunities in the software, semiconductor, and consumer products arenas. All of Revolution's portfolio organizations share twin characteristics: they are led by outstanding individuals and they are capable of playing a disruptive role in emerging, high growth markets. Revolution typically invests at the earliest possible stage and provides strong guidance to its portfolio companies throughout the entire financing lifecycle. For more information, visit www.revolutionventures.com


RPM Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund focused on seed and early stage investments in semiconductor, software and advanced material sciences companies located in Southern California and the Midwestern United States. RPM is currently invested in 16 companies and is actively pursuing new investments in its target sectors. For more information visit, www.rpmvc.com

1394 Trade Association

3rd Quarterly Meeting 

Tokyo, Japan

July 27-30, 2008

1394 Q2 News Flash: Meeting Review-Shenzhen China

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Symwave Launches World's Most Highly Integrated FireWire-800 Physical Layer Solution

Symwave Appoints Yossi Cohen, a Senior Broadcom Veteran, as President and CEO