Corporate Profile for Alacritech, Inc., dated April 28, 2000.Business Editors --(BUSINESS WIRE) The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and online services, including all of the leading Internet-based services.
Published Date: April 28, 2000
Company Name: Alacritech, Inc.
Address: 234 East Gish Road, First Floor
San Jose, CA 95112
Main Telephone
Number: 408/287-9997
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) www.alacritech.com
Chief Executive
Officer: Larry Boucher
Chief Financial
Officer: Esther Lee
Public Relations
Contact: Jane Wang
Business number: 408/918-6339
E-mail address: jwang@alacritech.com
Industry: Networking and communications, computer/electronics
hardware, Internet
Company description: Alacritech provides high-performance networking products that significantly improve the performance of the Internet, corporate networks, and network-based applications. Alacritech's innovative Session Layer Interface Card (SLIC SLIC Subscriber Line Interface Circuit SLIC Scottish Library and Information Council SLIC System Licensed Internal Code SLIC Subscriber Line Interface Card SLIC Session Layer Interface Card (Alacritech, Inc. ) Technology is the first fully-compatible technology to offload network protocol processing from the central processing unit See CPU. (architecture, processor) central processing unit - (CPU, processor) The part of a computer which controls all the other parts. Designs vary widely but the CPU generally consists of the control unit, the arithmetic and logic unit (ALU), registers, temporary buffers (CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. ) to deliver Gigabit-level performance. Alacritech was founded in 1997 by Larry Boucher, the inventor of SCSI interface SCSI interface - SCSI adaptor and the founder of two successful companies -- Adaptec and Auspex aus·pex n. pl. aus·pi·ces An augur of ancient Rome, especially one who interpreted omens derived from the observation of birds. [Latin; see auspice.] Noun 1. Systems. Privately held, Alacritech has completed two rounds of funding totaling $22.38 million from premier venture capitalists: Benchmark Capital Benchmark Capital is a venture capital firm responsible for the early stage funding of some very successful startups, including eBay. In 1995, the firm invested $6.7 million in eBay, which became worth more than $5 billion by the spring of 1999 and resulted in one of Silicon Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, Alloy Ventures and Berkeley International (London Pacific). |
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