Corporate Profile for StarGen, Inc., dated Nov. 29, 2002.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: Nov. 29, 2002
Company Name: StarGen, Inc.
Address: 225 Cedar Hill Street, Suite 22
Marlborough, MA 01752
Main Telephone
Number: 508-786-9950
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) www.stargen.com
Chief Executive
Officer: Tracy Richardson
Investor Relations
Contact: Rebecca Hovey
Business number: 401-438-0614
E-mail address: rebecca@svmpr.com
Industry: High-tech
Company Description: StarGen (www.stargen.com) is a fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. that has developed a new switched interconnect technology, StarFabric, for the communication and embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. industries. The technology benefits vendors of carrier and enterprise communication platforms for next-generation voice, data, and video networks. In addition, many embedded applications An application that permanently resides in an industrial or consumer device. Providing some type of control function and/or user interface, the software is typically stored in a non-volatile memory such as ROM or flash memory. benefit from StarFabric's distributed multi-processing features. StarGen's technology provides a dramatic increase in equipment performance, reliability, and Quality of Service while providing for the retention of existing standards-based hardware and software investment. StarFabric, available today, also offers customers a seamless roadmap to PCI Express A high-speed peripheral interconnect from Intel introduced in 2002. Note that although sometimes abbreviated "PCX," PCI Express is not the same as "PCI-X" (see PCI-SIG and PCI-X for comparison). As a result of the confusion, "PCI-E" or "PCIe" is the accepted abbreviation. Advanced Switching, when it becomes available in the future. StarGen is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts Marlborough is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 36,255 at the 2000 census. The name of this town is sometimes spelled as Marlboro, rather than Marlborough, which is the official spelling. . Founded: February 1999 Financing: July 1999: $ 6 million in first round funding: St. Paul St. Paul as a missionary he fearlessly confronts the “perils of waters, of robbers, in the city, in the wilderness.” [N.T.: II Cor. 11:26] See : Bravery Venture Capital (www.stpaulvc.com), Commonwealth Capital Ventures (www.ccvlp.com) and Bessemer Venture Partners Bessemer Venture Partners is a private venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Massachusetts, China, and India. It has backed such companies as Ciena, Flarion, Parametric Technologies, Skype, Staples, VeriSign and Veritas. (www.bessemervp.com). July 2000: $20 million in second round funding: first round investors plus Morgenthaler Ventures (www.morgenthaler.com) and Boston University Boston University, at Boston, Mass.; coeducational; founded 1839, chartered 1869, first baccalaureate granted 1871. It is composed of 16 schools and colleges. Community Technology Fund (www.bu.edu/ctf). Board of Directors: Tracy Richardson, President Todd Comins, Chief Technology Officer Zenas Hutcheson, General Partner, St. Paul Venture Partners Steve McCormick, General Partner, Commonwealth Capital Ventures Paul Levine, Venture Partner, Morgenthaler Ventures Founders/Executive Team: Tracy Richardson, President Todd Comins, Chief Technology Officer Dave Mayhew, Chief Architect and Vice President of Software Engineering Lynne Brocco, Vice President of Engineering Tim Miller, Vice President of Marketing Norm Rasmussen, Principal Architect Number of Employees: 50 |
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