Venture Fund Member Profile
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Applied Ventures, LLC is the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc., (*Nasdaq: AMAT), the global leader in nanomanufacturing technology solutions with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, service and software products for the fabrication of semiconductor chips, flat panel displays, solar photovoltaic cells, flexible electronics and energy efficient glass. At Applied Materials, we apply nanomanufacturing technology to improve the way people live.
Applied Ventures invests in high-growth, early stage technology companies. We are driven by both financial and strategic objectives, and our mission is to profitably invest in companies that provide a window on technologies that advance the semiconductor and related industries. The fund focuses on companies pursuing technologies and markets that provide a natural extension to Applied Materials' core business in addition to innovations that stimulate the growth of applications for semiconductors, displays and related products and services.
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Annette Finsterbusch
Director
Applied Ventures, LLC |
Annette Finsterbusch is a director for Applied Ventures in the Corporate Business Development group of Applied Materials since 2004, responsible for identifying, recommending and managing venture capital investments. She is also a Kauffman Fellow.
Prior to joining Applied Materials, Ms. Finsterbusch was the CEO at MindShadow.com, a technology spin-out of DaimlerChrysler's Research and Technology Center. Prior to that position, Ms. Finsterbusch was an investment manager for DaimlerChrysler Venture Capital since 2001, responsible for enterprise software investments. Ms. Finsterbusch also had previously worked for Applied Materials, leading its business development efforts in Russia, Belarus and Armenia from 1996 through 2000, chartering the company's first office in Moscow.
Ms. Finsterbusch's philanthropic directorships include seats on both the Board of Directors for the Junior League of San Jose and the Exception Women Executives of San Jose State University.
Ms. Finsterbusch received a Bachelor of Science in economics and geology from the University of Houston and a Master's in Business Administration in Strategy and Finance from San Jose State University, where she was honored with the Graduate of the Last Decade (GOLD) Award in 2004.
Representative Investments
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Devicescape provides the only complete wireless software suite that empowers device manufacturers and organizations to deliver on the promise of life without wires to their end users. The Devicescape suite is the industry's first and only comprehensive set of software solutions that enable the creation of a broad range of wireless devices that can be easily connected and seamlessly managed on a home or office network. |
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Fat Spaniel Technologies, Inc. provides monitoring and reporting services for distributed, renewable energy systems - enabling more efficient diagnostics and maintenance, more compelling visualization, and more usable revenue-grade data for billing, REC trading and performance-based incentives. Fat Spaniel acts as an independent monitoring service provider and delivers information that is used by system owners, system installers, power purchase agreement (PPA) service providers, equipment manufacturers, project financing firms, renewable energy credit markets and energy utility regulatory agencies. Fat Spaniel products are presently deployed in over 1000 locations in 12 countries worldwide. |
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Glimmerglass manufactures automated fiber management solutions based on its family of intelligent optical switches. These solutions transform the way customers manage fiber-optic connections at the physical layer. Glimmerglass continues to grow because its customers achieve significant ROI in applications such as testing optical products and networks, monitoring fibers and RF signals, provisioning and protecting high-speed connections for grid computing and more. Glimmerglass sells its solutions to the defense, intelligence, super-computing, test & measurement, Internet infrastructure, video and telecommunications industries. |
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Takumi provides revolutionary DFM (Design for Manufacturing) tool chain that dramatically reduces the yield ramp up time and the mask cost for the state of the art LSI. |
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