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DBH’s $3,000 lesson in the real world
At San Jose State, Dwight Bentel & Hall Communications puts students in charge of real client campaigns. A Chevrolet brief, a theatre production and a campus sustainability program reveal what that education looks like when it leaves the classroom.
NINICO knows who needs to hear the story
A county briefing, a construction-site tour, a conversation with an editor: NINICO’s work reveals how much public relations happens before the headline.
Sterling Communications invites the critic inside
A water utility’s unhappy customers offer a useful way to understand this technology PR agency: sometimes the most persuasive story is a look behind the scenes.
PRxDigital and the people who never buy your product
A chip-equipment maker with just 25 customers still needed a public reputation. PRxDigital’s work across Silicon Valley shows why the audience that matters is often bigger than the customer list.
Asqot sells the ad. And the machinery behind it.
The advertising agency pairs campaign work with websites, commerce systems, and dedicated client teams. Its most useful lesson is about what happens after somebody clicks.
Ha Design Studio and the case for hot-pink tea
A tea website, a healthcare award, and a deceptively ordinary business card reveal how Thuy Ha’s studio turns a company’s identity into something people can actually use.
Signs Unlimited knows the small print matters
A San Jose sign maker finds the real work in the details: color-matched brackets, replaceable menu prices, and the last few feet between a brand and its building.
Voler Strategic Advisors and the business of being understood
A school district, a jobs program, a water utility: each has something useful to say. This San Jose communications firm builds the bridge between an institution’s good intentions and the people it needs to reach.
Caterman sells lunch. The real order is peace of mind.
From office lunches to wedding buffets, the San Jose caterer sells a practical promise: food shaped around the guests, and someone else watching the clock.
Design in Mind makes brands work outside the logo
From a 14-foot mirrored installation to concert posters volunteers can reuse, the San Jose agency treats branding as a job that continues after approval.
The Blinking Box in Your Closet Is Quietly Becoming a Software Company
NETGEAR has spent 30 years making the box that blinks in your closet. Now it is trying to turn that hardware into recurring revenue - and in 2025, for the first time in five years, the bet moved the numbers.
Western Digital
The 55-year-old hard-drive maker bet its whole future on the spinning platter - right as the AI boom made cheap, bottomless storage the most valuable thing in the data center.
Adobe
The company that turned Photoshop into a verb now wants to own the age of generative creativity - here is how a 1982 printing startup became the operating system of visual work.
Whatfix
The company nobody notices - because if Whatfix is doing its job, you never read the manual. Inside the Bengaluru-and-San Jose startup teaching a billion-dollar software stack to explain itself.
Cisco
The company that quietly wired the internet is now betting its next chapter on securing and connecting the machines that run artificial intelligence.
Nile
Nile is a San Jose-based Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) company founded in 2018 by former Cisco leaders Pankaj Patel and John Chambers, along with Suresh Katukam and Sri Hosakote. It replaces the traditional buy-and-manage model for enterprise wired and wireless LANs with a cloud-delivered subscription that bundles hardware, software, zero-trust security, AI-driven automation, and performance guarantees. Nile designs, deploys, monitors, and continuously optimizes campus networks so IT teams no longer have to, targeting the roughly $75B enterprises spend each year running networks.
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems is an American multinational technology company and the world's largest maker of networking hardware. Founded in 1984 by two Stanford computer scientists, it builds the routers, switches, silicon, security, and software that route much of the world's internet traffic. Today Cisco is repositioning around AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and observability - anchored by its 2024 acquisition of Splunk - while remaining the default backbone for enterprise, service-provider, and government networks.
Complete Genomics
Complete Genomics is a San Jose-based life-science technology company and the Americas arm of MGI. Founded in 2005 as a pioneer of affordable whole-human-genome sequencing, it develops and sells next-generation sequencing instruments, reagents, and analysis software built on its proprietary PCR-free DNBSEQ (DNA nanoball) technology. The company aims to drive down the cost of sequencing - from the landmark $5,000 genome to sub-$100 - and supplies researchers, clinical labs, and biotech companies with a full workflow spanning sample prep, library construction, sequencing, and data analysis.
ComputerLand of Silicon Valley
ComputerLand of Silicon Valley (legally CCT Technologies Inc.) is a San Jose-based technology solutions provider and value-added reseller founded in 1991. Over three decades it grew from a storefront computer sales-and-service shop into a full-service IT partner delivering cloud, cybersecurity, managed services, network infrastructure, virtualization, unified communications and IT logistics to government agencies, K-12 and higher-education institutions, and commercial businesses across California and beyond. A longtime approved E-Rate and NASPO ValuePoint reseller and Microsoft authorized education reseller, the company was acquired by cloud and cybersecurity firm ISSQUARED Inc. on May 1, 2024.
DataCare
DataCare is a San Jose, California software company that builds cloud-based tools for the workers' compensation and managed care industry. Its Ahshay platform unifies medical case management, utilization review, and document workflows in one HIPAA-compliant, SOC 2 certified system, helping insurers, third-party administrators, self-insured employers, and nurse case managers process medical claims faster while keeping evidence-based, defensible documentation.
DTEN
DTEN is a San Jose-based hardware company that builds all-in-one video conferencing and collaboration devices for hybrid workplaces, schools, and healthcare. Founded in 2015 by Wei Liu and closely tied to Zoom, DTEN pioneered the all-in-one touchscreen meeting appliance with its D5 and D7 lines and today ships AI-enhanced systems certified for both Zoom Rooms and Microsoft Teams Rooms, combining 4K cameras, microphone arrays, touch whiteboarding, and cloud device management in a plug-and-play package.
Innominds
Innominds is an AI-first, platform-led digital transformation and full-cycle product engineering services company founded in 1998 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It helps global enterprises, software product companies (ISVs) and device makers design, build, test and modernize digital products across embedded devices, applications, data and AI, quality engineering, and cloud and DevOps - combining engineering services with in-house accelerators such as iFusion, Harmony and the connected-worker subsidiary Nymi.
IntelliVision
IntelliVision is a San Jose-based developer of AI and deep-learning video and audio analytics software for smart cameras. Founded in 2002, its software runs on the edge, on-server and in the cloud to power face detection and recognition, license plate recognition, object detection and classification, intrusion detection, and driver-assistance (ADAS/DMS) systems. Sold primarily to camera makers (ODMs), chipset vendors, security integrators and OEMs, its analytics have shipped in millions of cameras across smart home, smart city, retail, banking/ATM, transportation and automotive markets. The company was acquired by Nortek Security & Control in 2018 and now operates as part of Nice.
Minerva Networks
Minerva Networks is a San Jose-based software company that builds carrier-grade service management and video delivery platforms for pay-TV and broadband operators. Founded in 1992, its platform lets telcos, cable and satellite providers offer IPTV, OTT and hybrid television - with live TV, VOD, network DVR, catch-up and FAST channels - across set-top boxes, smart TVs, mobile and web. More than 300 operators worldwide run Minerva, and the company now layers AI-driven content discovery through its Minnie AI Companion and its FAST+ streaming service.
ESS Technology, Inc.
ESS Technology is a privately held fabless semiconductor company in San Jose, California that designs high-performance analog and audio chips. It is best known for its SABRE line of digital-to-analog converters (DACs) and analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), built on the patented HyperStream modulation architecture, which are widely regarded among audiophiles as some of the best-sounding audio silicon on the market. ESS parts power everything from LG flagship smartphones and Sennheiser's flagship headphones to home-theater receivers, professional studio gear, soundbars, and automotive audio systems.
eTopus Technology
eTopus Technology is a San Jose-based semiconductor IP company that designs ultra-high-speed, ADC/DSP-based SerDes and die-to-die interconnect IP for data centers, high-performance computing, AI, 5G and storage. Founded in 2012 by Harry Chan and Peter Kou, the company licenses silicon-proven PHY IP - spanning 112G on advanced 6/7nm nodes down to 22nm - plus chiplet interfaces supporting UCIe, Bunch of Wires, PCIe Gen 5/6 and CXL. eTopus positions itself on low latency and low power, and has built collaborative chiplet platforms with partners including QuickLogic, OpenFive and CoMira.
Frore Systems
Frore Systems is a Silicon Valley thermal-technology company that builds AirJet, the world's first solid-state active cooling chip, and LiquidJet, a direct-liquid coldplate for AI data centers. Founded in 2018 by two former Qualcomm engineers, Frore uses ultrasonic membranes to move air at over 100 mph with no visible moving parts, letting thin fanless devices and dense AI servers run cooler, quieter, and faster. In March 2026 it raised a $143M Series D at a $1.64B valuation, positioning its 'Thermal Stack' as foundational infrastructure for the AI era.
Point2 Technology
Point2 Technology is a San Jose-based fabless semiconductor company building ultra-low-power, low-latency interconnect chips and cables for AI/ML data centers. Its e-Tube platform sends data as radio-frequency signals through plastic waveguides - a third path between copper and optics - and its smart-retimer SoCs power 800G and 1.6T active electrical cables. Founded in 2016 by a KAIST professor and veterans of Marvell, Finisar and Samsung, the company has drawn investment from NVIDIA's NVentures, Bosch Ventures, Molex and UMC.
VisualOn, Inc.
VisualOn is a Silicon Valley video software company that helps streaming services and device makers deliver and play back video across every screen. Founded in 2003, its multi-platform media player SDKs power more than 200 million devices, and its AI-driven Optimizer for content-adaptive encoding cuts streaming bitrates by up to 40% on average while preserving picture quality. The company sits in the plumbing of online video - the codecs, players, DRM, and analytics that most viewers never see but rely on every time they press play.
Zumigo
Zumigo is a San Jose-based digital identity company that turns real-time mobile signals into fraud-fighting intelligence. By tapping data from 800+ mobile network operators, credit bureaus, and financial institutions, its Assure platform verifies who is on the other end of a transaction - catching synthetic identities, SIM swaps, and account takeovers while enabling passwordless sign-in. It counts top-10 global banks, fintechs, and e-commerce platforms among 250+ enterprise clients.