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Kamran
Elahian
Global Catalyst Partners
Venture Capitalist, Managing Principal
Kamran
Elahian is a veteran entrepreneur with over
27 years of experience in the high-tech industry.
He is currently Chairman of Global Catalyst
Partners, a global venture capital fund for
investments in communication product companies,
which he co-founded in 1999. He also serves
as Chairman of ten other companies.
Kamran co-founded ten companies: CAE Systems
('81) a software company; acquired by Tektronix
for $75M, Cirrus Logic ('84) a fabless semiconductor
company; IPO at $150M valuation, Momenta ('89)
a pen-based computer company; failed within
3 years, NeoMagic ('93) a mobile multimedia
IC company; IPO at $300M valuation, PlanetWeb
('96) a communication software company for Internet
appliances, Centillium Communications ('97)
a telecommunication IC company; IPO at $700M
valuation, Actelis Networks ('99) a broadband
telecommunications systems company, Informative
('99) a customer feedback solutions software
company, Entopia ('99) a knowledge management
software company, and Greenfield Networks ('01)
a telecommunication IC company.
Kamran also founded Schools Online ('96) a non-profit
pubic charity organization with the goal to
bring the Internet to every school in the world,
and co-founded Global Catalyst Foundation ('00).
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