Nitronex is an emerging leader in the global wireless communications market. Driving the companys successes are its premier financial backers and experienced senior management team. When combined with unparalleled technology and a market that requires fundamental change, Nitronex is attracting worldwide attention and helping make North Carolina and the Research Triangle Park area an international epicenter for gallium nitride and wireless efforts. Since licensing initial technology from North Carolina State University, a world leader in wide bandgap and compound semiconductor research, Nitronex has received more than $56 million in funding from preeminent leaders in semiconductors and RF communications. In 2001, Nitronex was one of the best-funded private companies in the state of North Carolina, receiving the North Carolina Electronics and Information Technologies Associations Top Venture Capital Invested Company of the Year award (www.nceita.org). Key investors include TPG Ventures, the venture capital arm of Texas Pacific Group; Vantage Point Venture Partners, ranked among the top VC firms in the nation; and Alliance Technology Ventures, an early investor in some of the industrys most successful RF companies. All three firms are actively involved in contributing to Nitronexs success.
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