Nanopower provides semiconductors for microelectronics, enabling the large-scale and environmentally sustainable deployment of IoT devices and networks. Its semiconductor finds application in cold chain monitoring, predictive maintenance, smart power grids, smart cities, smart agriculture, health monitoring, and more. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Kristiansand, Norway.

Sand 9, a spin-out company from Boston University, is a venture funded company dedicated to the design of components that aims to improve the performance and increase the capabilities of wireless devices. The disruptive technology offers a magnitude of improvement over existing products. Size, cost and lack of integration severely limit the potential of wireless systems. Using the company's advanced nanomechanical device technology, Sand 9 is improving the current components of wireless transceivers that, until now, have been impossible to miniaturize or integrate into other systems.

SpiderCloud Wireless is a provider of in-building wireless solutions, and develops scalable small-cell network platforms that deliver coverage and capacity for wireless services inside buildings.

Renesas Electronics (TSE: 6723) offers semiconductor solutions including microcontrollers, system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions, and a range of analog and power devices. It operates through spanning research, development, design, and manufacturing for a range of applications. Renesas Electronics was formerly known as NEC Electronics Corporation. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB), aka Silicon Laboratories, is a Texas-based company that engages in the design and development of integrated circuits. Silicon Laboratories' products are used in a range of applications, including portable devices, satellite set top boxes, AM/FM radios and other consumer electronics, networking equipment, test and measurement equipment, industrial monitoring and control, central office telephone equipment, and customer premises equipment.

Quantance develops technology in RF transmit chain efficiency that aims to increase signal power while requiring less battery power. Quantance's qBoost Envelope Tracking technology improves data upload speeds, network capacity and service coverage for smart phones, tablets, WIFI hotspots, and other high speed mobile data devices. Ultra-fast qBoost Envelope Tracking technology enables power amplifiers (PAs) to operate at efficiencies reaching theoretical maximums, with less distortion, thus reducing heat, increasing battery life, and enabling PAs to support complex 3G and 4G/LTE signals. On May 22, 2015, Quantance was acquired by Skyworks Solutions at a valuation of $6.6M.