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Seyed Tabatabaei
Seyed A. Tabatabaei is the founder, chairman and CEO of mmTron, a Redwood City fabless semiconductor company building high-linearity millimeter-wave MMICs for 5G, 6G, SATCOM, instrumentation and defense. A PhD engineer who has worked in mmWave since 1986, he spent decades at M/A-COM, Hewlett Packard, and Endwave before starting the design house Teramics and then founding mmTron in 2020. In April 2026 the company closed a $45M Series A led by Maverick Silicon.
James Kubik
James Kubik is the co-founder and CEO of Somewear Labs, a San Francisco company building satellite-and-mesh communications hardware and software for teams that operate where cell towers end. A Northwestern product-design engineer and former Intuit product leader, he launched Somewear in 2017 after a childhood friend drowned in a Lake Michigan sailing accident with no way to call for help. Somewear's pocket-sized devices - Relay and the hybrid mesh/satcom Node - now serve every U.S. Department of Defense service, federal agencies, wildland firefighters, and backcountry explorers. The company raised a $13.7M Series A in 2022 backed by a roster of Fortune 500 CEOs.