Industry: Audio, broadcast, imaging and semiconductor packaging

Products and Services: Licensing IP portfolio

Headquarters: San Jose, CA

Website: Xperi.com

Xperi’s entire business model is developing, acquiring and licensing technology and IP to companies that need the latest advances in smart sight and sound. Through its Tessera subsidiary, a portfolio of over 5,500 patents and patent applications are licensed to companies that integrate Xperi’s audio, broadcast, computational imaging and semiconductor packaging technologies into their products and services.

Industry: Software

Products and Services: Financial management and human capital management software

Headquarters: Pleasanton, CA

Website: Workday.com

Six years after launching an integrated global HR and talent management platform that enables large organizations to manage everything in the cloud, Workday (NYSE: WDAY) went public at a $9.5B capitalization. Launched by PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield, Workday targets many of the same companies that previously bought PeopleSoft’s ERP software. Workday is modern software designed to help companies tackle 21st-century opportunities.

Industry: Automotive

Products and Services: Autonomous vehicles

Headquarters: Mountain View, CA

Website: Waymo.com

The world is moving to a self-driving future. When it finally arrives depends on the R&D success of companies like Waymo. Originated as Google's self-driving car project in 2009, Waymo was formally spun out from Google’s corporate research lab (X Moonshot Factory) in Q4 2016. Waymo’s investment in technologies like LIDAR and 3D mapping is focussed on autonomous cars, trucks and buses that can operate with zero human intervention.

Industry: Multiple industries

Products and Services: Invests, acquires and operates tech companies

Headquarters: Mississauga, ON, Canada

Website: Volarisgroup.com

Volaris Group acquires, invests in and grows technology companies with strong potential for accelerating their share of vertical markets. Smart and strategic IP planning and tactical execution are an integral part of its buy-and-hold operating philosophy. Volaris’ portfolio includes promising companies in verticals such as asset management and logistics, benefits administration, insurance, marine, rental management, justice and people transportation.

Industry: Life sciences

Products and Services: Solutions to prevent disease and improve quality of life

Headquarters: South San Francisco, CA

Website: Verily.com

Formerly known as Google Life Sciences, Verily is Alphabet Inc’s research organization created to address important health and medicine challenges. Verily’s multidisciplinary team of doctors, engineers, chemists, and data scientists are working on a wide variety of projects, ranging from wearable medical devices and miniature sensors to detect cancer and other ailments, to clinical research and medical software development.

Industry: Automotive and renewable energy

Products and Services: Electric cars, solar power, energy storage

Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA

Website: Tesla.com

The company that made electric cars cool, Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) became the biggest “green tech” brand by proving that instant torque, incredible power, and zero emissions will thrill and captivate consumers. No longer just an automaker, Tesla is building a fossil-fuel-free lifestyle brand that delivers solar-generated power and convenience while accelerating - and validating - the world’s inevitable transition to sustainable energy.

Industry: Oil and gas

Products and Services: Systems and services for well completion and optimization

Headquarters: Aberdeen, Scotland

Website: Tendeka.com

Tendeka provides the upstream oil and gas industry with a diverse range of completion systems, services, and production optimization technologies. Service expertise and technology, such as sand and inflow control, fracturing, zonal Isolation, wireless technologies and data interpretation solutions, help producers around the world manage and optimize reservoir performance. By enhancing production, and increasing overall recovery from complex reservoirs, Tendeka ensures that as little oil and gas remains in the ground as possible.

Industry: Oil and gas

Products and Services: Marine engineering, construction and services

Headquarters: London

Website: Subsea7.com

As the global search for oil and gas reserves expands into ever deeper waters, exploration companies look to Subsea 7 S.A. for seabed-to-surface engineering and construction expertise. Headquartered in London, Subsea 7 S.A. is a $6.5B presence across the globe. A strong IP portfolio provides the backbone of a diverse service menu that helps energy companies develop oil and gas reserves in increasingly challenging marine environments.

Industry: Cycling

Products and Services: Bicycles, parts, accessories and apparel

Headquarters: Morgan Hill, CA

Website: Specialized.com

“Innovate or Die” has been the official motto of the world's third-largest bike company since 1981. Now in its fifth decade of industry leadership, Specialized’s enthusiasm for R&D has made it a prominent brand in professional cycling. The choice of Tour de France winners and world champions, Specialized’s innovations in textiles, metals and carbon fiber continue to deliver better comfort and performance for all riders of all abilities.

Industry: Housewares

Products and Services: Premium kitchen and bath products

Headquarters: Torrance, CA

Website: Simplehuman.com

Simplehuman founder Frank Yang is his industry’s version of James Dyson, confidently investing in R&D to transform a sleepy product category. Yang combined the concept of touch-free operation and patented sensor technology to create the high-end garbage can market. Since then, Simplehuman’s “Tools for Efficient Living” brand has expanded to include a wide range of consumer products that provide elegant simplicity to customers worldwide.

Industry: Energy

Products and Services: Power generation solutions

Headquarters: Glastonbury, CT

Website: Pwps.com

Leveraging Pratt & Whitney’s advanced aircraft engine technology, Pratt & Whitney Power Systems (PWPS) builds gas turbine and geothermal power systems that power everything from small businesses to small cities. Its aero-derivative turbines generate electrical power, as well as provide mechanical drive for shipping, gas compression, and liquid pumping. WIth installations in over 40 countries, PWPS’ investment in R&D is improving quality of life for hundreds of millions of people.

Industry: Telecommunications

Products and Services: Connectivity solutions

Headquarters: East Syracuse, NY

Website: Ppc-online.com

With more connector technology patents than any other company worldwide, PPC Broadband, Inc. is a leading developer and manufacturer of connectivity solutions. From its early days manufacturing telephone cables in the 1940s, it now designs and manufactures cable, connectivity and networking products for a global customer base of telecommunications and satellite service providers.

Industry: Electronics

Products and Services: Wireless charging products for consumer and industrial applications

Headquarters: Auckland, New Zealand

Website: Powerbyproxi.com

Spun out of the University of Auckland, PowerbyProxi is leading a revolution to deliver unplugged power to billions of mobile phones, and other battery-powered devices. Offering solutions ranging from less than 1 Watt to Kilowatts, PowerByProxi enables its customers to wirelessly transfer reliable, efficient power to miniaturised receivers inside phones and wearable devices, as well as mission critical industrial applications such as wind turbine control systems.

Industry: Healthcare, health and fitness

Products and Services: Data analytics system for health and wellness

Headquarters: Naperville, IL

Website: Physiq.com

A winner of the 2015 Market R&D Pilot Challenge (Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Washington), PhysIQ is using data analytics to develop a personalized physiology platform for the healthcare, consumer health and fitness markets. Leveraging technology first used to monitor complex industrial systems, PhysIQ interprets wearable sensor data to personalize individual baselines, then monitors and detects changes that can trigger timely intervention. Big Data and the body’s “signals” are a match that could save lives.

Industry: Power generation

Products and Services: Modular nuclear power generators

Headquarters: Tigard, OR

Website: Nuscalepower.com

The benefits of carbon-free nuclear power without the risks. This is the objective and engineering challenge NuScale Power is pursuing with the assistance of private industry, academia, and government. A promising public-private partnership whose investors include Fluor Corporation and the U.S. Department of Energy, NuScale Power is developing economical and safe pressurized water reactor technology, and expects to unveil its first modularized facility in 2024.

Industry: Metrology, the science of measurement

Products and Services: Metrology solutions for inspection and measurement

Headquarters: Leuven, Belgium

Website: Nikonmetrology.com

X-rays, lasers, CNC video, microscopes, and 3D scanning technologies are an increasingly important part of modern manufacturing in consumer goods, automotive, aerospace, electronics and medical device industries. Nikon Metrology’s product portfolio delivers state-of-the-art vision measuring, optical inspection and mechanical 3D metrology to inspect, measure and confirm production precision and quality.

Industry: Software

Products and Services: Handwriting recognition and digital ink

Headquarters: Nantes, France

Website: Myscript.com

Although written language dates beyond 3,000 BCE, MyScript is working to ensure it remains a viable human machine interface in our digital world. Since 1998, it has been developing and combining artificial intelligence, pattern recognition and digital ink management technology to make tablets and mobile devices writing-friendly. MyScript’s core technology powers handwriting recognition engines used in popular forms processing and note taking applications that offer the convenience of handwriting and the capabilities of word processing.

Industry: Semiconductors

Products and Services: Storage, network infrastructure and wireless connectivity

Headquarters: Santa Clara, CA

Website: Marvell.com

With a portfolio of more than 9,000 patents, R&D and IP are baked into the corporate DNA of Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL). Founded in 1995, it has become one of most successful fabless semiconductor companies, shipping over a billion chips annually. Design centers in Canada, Europe, Israel, India, Singapore and China produce the breakthroughs that Marvell commercializes to its global customer base.

Industry: Remote connectivity services

Products and Services: BoldChat, Citrix Online, join.me and Xively, etc.

Headquarters: Boston, MA

Website: Logmein.com

LogMeIn (NASDAQ: LOGM) provides a variety of SaaS and cloud-based remote connectivity services that help customers collaborate, manage IT, provide exceptional customer support and remain highly visible within the IoT vanguard. Delivered to customers worldwide, the company’s well-known brands also include the “GoTo” family of services and LastPass.

Industry: Industrial imaging

Products and Services: Microscopy and imaging

Headquarters: Wetzlar, Germany

Website: Leica-microsystems.com

A Danaher company since 2005, Leica Microsystems develops and manufactures microscopy and imaging products and software so neurosurgeons can be confident, manufacturers can guarantee quality and crime labs can be sure. The product line is available in over 100 countries where macro-, micro- and nanostructures await the attention of a Leica-branded innovation manufactured in one of its eight factories.

Industry: Materials, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, etc.

Products and Services: Wide range of products and services

Headquarters: Atlanta, GA

Website: Huber.com

One of the largest privately held companies in the USA, J.M. Huber Corporation is also one of the most diverse, operating almost 20 subsidiaries in a range of industries; from agrochemicals, cosmetics and flame retardants, to paints and pharmaceuticals. By leveraging an extensive R&D program, J.M. Huber has been able to create technology and product leadership in growth markets, such as hydrocolloids, specialty chemicals and minerals, and engineered woods.

Industry: Financial software and services

Products and Services: QuickBooks®, TurboTax®, Mint.com, etc.

Headquarters: Mountain View, CA

Website: Intuit.com

With a portfolio of famous brands and properties that include QuickBooks, TurboTax, PayCycle and Mint.com, Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ: INTU) is one of the world’s largest providers of financial, accounting and tax preparation software and services. Intuit helps its 42 million customers - small businesses, accountants and individuals - make smart choices about their money, especially saving more of it at tax time.

Industry: Semiconductors

Products and Services: Communications, computing, and power management

Headquarters: San Jose, CA

Website: Idt.com

IDT (NASDAQ: IDTI) focuses its R&D program in three principal areas: communications infrastructure (wireless and wired), high-performance computing, and advanced power management. Innovations born in its Ottawa, Munich and Malaysia design centers have helped win new customers in communications, computing, consumer, automotive and industrial sectors, while driving strong year-over-year (2016: 21.7% and 2015: 18.1%) sales growth.

Industry: Renewable energy

Products and Services: Thin film solar cells

Headquarters: Dübendorf, Switzerland

Website: Flisom.ch

A 2005 spinoff of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Flisom is one of Switzerland’s most promising green tech innovators. It’s developing innovative technologies for manufacturing flexible thin film solar cells that combine low-cost and extremely high power generation efficiency. Flisom’s partner in this CIGS (copper-indium-gallium-(di)selenide)-based research is Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology.

Industry: Food and beverage

Products and Services: Milk, yogurt, juices, etc.

Headquarters: Dallas, TX

Website: Deanfoods.com

Dean Foods (NYSE: DF) is the largest dairy company in the United States. The product portfolio, consisting of ice cream, juices, teas, bottled water and other consumable products, is processed in over 70 domestic plants. Deans’ brand portfolio includes more than 50 local and regional dairy brands, including Berkeley Farms, Land o’ Lakes, Lehigh Valley and Swiss Premium.

Industry: Hardware and software

Products and Services: Motion systems for entertainment and industrial applications

Headquarters: Longueuil, QC, Canada

Website: D-box.com

D-BOX Technologies (TSX: DBO) creates realistic and immersive motion systems and experiences for global entertainment, industrial and military customers. Its patented technology connects on-screen content with movement systems integrated into platforms, seats and other products to make training sessions more realistic, simulations more challenging, and movie watching far more dynamic. D-Box seating is installed in movie theaters in more than 30 countries.

Industry: Life sciences

Products and Services: Genomics sequencing hardware, software and services

Headquarters: Mountain View, CA

Website: Completegenomics.com

By combining genome sequencing hardware, chemistry, and software, Complete Genomics is helping researchers and clinicians understand, prevent, diagnose, and fight disease. Heavy investment in R&D, and the ability to leverage its IP to create proprietary sequencing instruments caught the attention of the life sciences industry, and the world’s largest genomics services company. Acquired by BGI-Shenzen in 2013, Complete Genomics continues to unravel the mysteries of human health from its offices and labs in California.

Industry: Machine control systems

Products and Services: Guidance systems for construction, mining and waste industries

Headquarters: Dayton, OH

Website: Trimble.com

A joint venture of Caterpillar and Trimble Navigation, Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies (CTCT) ensures earth moving machines are in the right place at the right time. Sold to construction, mining and waste industry customers, CTCT’s 3D and electronic guidance and control systems combine construction site mapping data with positioning technology to automatically control bulldozer blades and other machine tools.

Industry: IT security

Products and Services: Security, networking and storage products

Headquarters: Campbell, CA

Website: Barracuda.com

With 150,000 customers in more than 100 countries, Barracuda Networks (NYSE: CUDA) is a Silicon Valley IT security powerhouse and category leader. Its powerful security and storage solutions help companies address security threats, improve network performance, and protect and store data. Barracuda has demonstrated a keen ability to develop IP internally, as well as acquire and successfully integrate promising startups.

Industry: Database marketing

Products and Services: Marketing intelligence and operations

Headquarters: Conway, AR

Website: Acxiom.com

The world's largest processor of consumer data, Axciom (NASDAQ: ACXM) collects and analyzes petabytes of consumer and company information, transforming it into business intelligence that enables sophisticated customer acquisition targeting and engagement. Half of the Fortune 100 and 12 of the top 15 credit card issuers use Axciom to help target ten of billions of dollars in advertising and marketing campaigns.

Industry: Renewable energy

Products and Services: Biomass conversion to biofuel

Headquarters: Surrey, UK

Website: Antaco.co.uk

A multi-award winning cleantech innovator, Antaco is commercializing its Hydrothermal Carbonization technology to convert biomass into biocoal, a carbon neutral replacement for fossil coal used in power stations and individual boilers. By cost-effectively diverting organic waste from landfills and decreasing CO2 emissions, Antaco expects to play a critical and sustainable role in power generation and sustainable resource management in the 21st century.

Industry: Biomedicine

Products and Services: Research Institute

Headquarters: Seattle, WA

Website: Altius.org

GlaxoSmithKline launched the Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences as the leading edge of modern biomedicine, an independent, non-profit institute conducting research that produces medical breakthroughs. Altius combines automated functional genomics, genome engineering, imaging, and integrative computation to decode how genes are controlled and cells operate. The discoveries are expected to improve how drug targets are selected and validated while accelerating development of new drugs.

Industry: Engineered composites and machine clothing

Products and Services: Aircraft components, industrial fabrics and belts

Headquarters: Rochester, NH

Website: Albint.com

Albany (NYSE: AIN) designs and manufactures products that help make paper smoother, tissue softer and aircraft engines and structures stronger and lighter. The Machine Clothing business is the world’s leading producer of custom-designed fabrics and belts used in paper and nonwoven products manufacturing, while Albany Engineered Composites is a rapidly growing supplier of highly engineered composite parts to the aerospace industry.

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